Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3084, William Drew, Vt.
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Vt.|Drew, William|R.3084|
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CONTENTS
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State of New York
Greene County } ss On the ninth day of February 1836 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Greene State of New York now sitting the same being a Court of Record William Drew a Resident of the Town of New Baltimore in the said County of Greene and State aforesaid aged seventy two years in March last 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 7th 1832. 
that he was born in the Town of Redding in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticutt in the year 1763 - according to his Family Record which he believes to be true - 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated
[margin note: 14 years] That in the spring of the year 1778 at the Town of Manchester in the State of Vermont where he then resided he enlisted in a Company of Infantry of which Gideon Bronson was Captain and in a Regiment commanded by Col'o Eathen (Ethan) Allen. That after his said enlistment as aforesaid and after he had joined the said company hereby order of the said Col Allen put to work in a Black smith Shop in the said Town of Manchester which shop also his Father worked & who also was an Enlisted Soldier in the said Company & performed solely for the United States & Received his pay & rations and enlisted Soldier & no other pay & That his Father is now Deceased - 
That at the time he this Deponent was by order of the said Col'o Allen put to work in the Black smiths shop as aforesaid Col'o Allen told him he should receive his regular pay and rations - That he was at all times liable and ready to go out on regular duty as a Soldier but was never called but continued in the said Shop working solely for the United States Service untill the Termination of the  Revolutionary War - That often the close of said War he continued to reside in the said Town of Manchester
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untill the year 1786 when he removed to Peckskill  (Pecksville) county of Dutchess from thence to the City of Albany from thence to Kingston Ulster County and from thence to the town of New Baltimore aforesaid where he now resides - 
That he never received or had any written discharge to his knowledge or belief and that he has no Documentary Record in his possession or which he is able to procure in relation to his enlistment and service as above stated - That Francis Oconnor of Gilbert Bedell the First a Magistrate & the other Supervisor of the said Town of New Baltimore are ready & willing to vouch for him this Deponent's character for veracity and their belief of his Services as above stated - 
That 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 State That he was never in any Battle or under any other Officers than as above stated and that the reason for his delay in making application is that he has been informed that he could not obtain a pension unless he had been in some battle during said War 
That he while he worked as aforesaid received his rations regularly as an enlisted Soldier but never received any pay
/s/William Drew
N.B. the words (told him) Interlined before Sworn to 
Subscribed & sworn in open court
/s/William V. B. Heermance Clerk }
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3084 [initials: own]
P.O. William Drew
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: REJECTED, 18[blank]
Discharged: [blank], 18[blank]
Application filed: [blank], 18[blank]
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
[blank] Recognized. [blank] Contract
[blank]Cert. of Dis. Searched for [blank], 18[blank]
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New York
Revo. - 33,435
William Drew 
Rejected 
See Letter to Hon A Vanderpoel - March 2d 1836 - 
Let to same - May 27. '36
  "  "  Same July 6, 36
3084
act of 7th June 1832
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July 5. Hon A. Vanderpoel
In - at. 
James Edwards Esq
Pension office
Washington City.
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[handwritten letter]
Washington H.R.
2 July 1836

My friend Judge Kirtland has again written me respecting his old pensioner 
It would indeed seem from the within letter, that the same justice has not been done to him, that has been extended to another. I would very glad if and you would review the ['matter' crossed out] case and direct to me at Kinderhook. I often to leave Washington for my home at 2 oclock to morrow morning .
I would be glad to receive an early answer from you. - 
Yours very truly
/s/A. Vanderpoel
James Edwards Esq
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[addressed envelope]
May 27 Free
A. Vanderpoel MC
James L. Edwards Esq
Comm'rs of Pensions
Washington City - 
[margin notes: In at: - 26 March Hon. A. Vanderpoel HR]
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[handwritten letter]
Washington H.R. 
26 May 1836

My dear Sir
I enclose you another communication from my friend and constituent Judge Kirtland respecting a pensioner - I know Judge Kirtland to be a gentleman of high character & am pretty sure that he would not intervert himself for himself for an applicant for a pension, without being well satisfied that he is entitled to one - Please to address me on the subject.
Yours very truly
/s/A. Vanderpoel
James L. Edwards Esq.
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James L Edwards Esqr
Comm'r Pensions
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
May 18th 1836 Town Coxsackie Greene Co State NY - 
Dear Sir
I Rec'd through Mr Vanderpoel our Representative in C - Your answer to the application of Wm Drew for Pension transmitted to you on Feby 7 last - by which it appears that the application is rejected - 
I have taken his farther affidavit which will perhaps satisfactorily account for the name of the said Drew not being on the Regular Rolls of Capt Bronson's Co'y - 
The Service can be further proved as Stated in his Declaration - if however there be insuperable objection - I wish all the papers returned in order to make application to Congress for his relief
The applicant is aged & infirm & poor & has in all probability to received the Reward for his Services
Yours with much Respect
/s/Dorrance Kirtland
Jas L Edwards Esq
Com'r Pensions
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Hon'o James L Edwards
Comm'r Pensions
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Town Coxsackie - Greene County N York - 

Sir
I herein inclose you the application of Wm Drew for Pension - I have never transmitted an application unless I considered it meritorious - and all I have as yet had the agency of have been accredited & allowed - This therefore is the last I shall be induced to transmit but persuaded to have of the Justice of the applicant's claim & his indigent circumstances I could hardly forbear to assist him on this 
The applicant altho not a regular enlisted artificer was a regular enlisted Soldier and an artificer in fact & Served as such by order of his Superior Officer - He has strong claims upon the Justice of his Country & stronger than thousands who have received the bounty of the government - Please to Send me an answer as soon as convenient - 
Respectfully yours &c
/s/Dorrance Kirtland
Hon'a Jas L Edwards Com'r Pensions
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[addressed envelope]
Free
[postmark: COXSACKIE NY JUNE 17]
[postmark: COXSACKIE NY JUNE 17]
Hon'a Aaron Vanderpool (Vanderpoel)
In Congress
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Coxsackie June 16th 1836

Dear Sir 
You may recollect I transmitted to you the papers &c in behalf of Wm Drew a Revolutionary Pensioner for the purpose of being placed on the pension roll and the application rejected - A Brother of the applicant by the name of Ezra Drew who inlisted about the same time in the same company & regiment & performed the same service - & discharged at the same time at the conclusion of the War and who now resides in the Town of Pumpton (Pompton) Bergen County & State of New Jersey has lately obtained his pension - 
The applicant made a mistake in his first Declaration of the name of the Col of the Regiment which he afterwards corrected by Substituting Col Allen for Col Warner - Col Allen at that time acting as a Prince among the Vermonters (Brigaders) whose word was Law
It is of great importance to Mr Drew who is old, poor & almost blind to obtain the little pittance he so justly asks of his Country - 
Will you be so good to call personally on ['The' crossed out] Mr Edwards & ascertain the reason of the application being granted in the our Case & ['not' crossed out] withheld to prove the other - And you greatly oblidge one of your constituents 
Sincerely yours &c
/s/Dorrance Kirtland
Hon A Vanderpool (Vanderpoel)
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State of New York
Greene County } ss William Drew of the Town of New Baltimore in the County of Greene being sworn Maketh Oath and saith that the time he enlisted in Captain Gideon Bronson's Company as stated in his Declaration for a pension he was under the impression that Col'o Allen was the Colonel of the Regiment to which said company was attached - he might have mistaken the year of his enlistment as he has the time only from memory but the Deponent well recollects that Colonel Allen was present at the time & place when & where he enlisted & gave the directions & orders for this Deponent then went into the blacksmith's shop as stated in his declaration - This Deponent further saith that he was never mustered in Capt Bronson's Company nor answered to his name on any call of Said Company because on his enlistment he was immediately put into the blacksmith shop in the services of the United States and for this reason his name would not be on the Roll  of the Said Company - This Deponent further says that he well remembers that Colonel Warner had the Command of the Regiment at the same place - This Deponent further saith that his said Enlistment took place soon after Col Allen Returned from his Captivity as Prisoner of War - he had unbound in Influence that his word was law - and this Deponent did firmly believe that Col Allen was the Col of the Regiment instead of Col Warner to which Capt Bronson's Company belonged that companies were sometimes shifted from one command to another 
/s/William Drew
Sworn & Subscribed 21st March 1836
/s/Dorrance Kirtland First Judge of Greene County Courts in State of New York
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State of New York
Greene County ss } 
I William V.B. Heermance Clerk of the said county do certify that Dorrance Kirtland Esq. before whom the written affidavit was sworn was at the date of the same First Judge of the County Courts of the said county and that his signature to said affidavit is genuine - 
[court seal affixed] Witness & official seal this 12th day of April 1836. 
/s/William V. B. Heermance Clerk
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County }ss Personally appeared before me Wm Colfax one of the Judges of the Court of Com:  Pleas County afs'd Ezra Drew of the Town of Pompton County of Bergen and State of New Jersey aged seventy three years being duly sworn maketh oath & saith that he is Brother to William  Drew who is named & described in the annexed Declaration & knows him to be the same Person as therein described - That the said William Drew now resides in the Town of New Baltimore County of Greene & State of New York - That he well knows that the said William in the year 1778 enlisted in a Company of Infantry commanded by Capt Gideon Bronson in Col'o Eathen (Ethan) Allens Regiment & was present at such enlistment at the Town of Manchester in the State of Vermont where as well This Deponent as the said William Drew then resided - That after the said William had enlisted as aforesaid he was by order of Col'o Allen put in a Blacksmith Shop Kept by his Father who was also a regular enlisted soldier - That his Father was in the employ & Service of the United States & received his pay and rations as such untill the Close of the revolutionary war. This Deponent further says said William Drew continued in the Service of the United States under his said enlistment untill the Termination of the said war & received his rations as a regular enlisted Soldier 
/s/Ezra Drew
NB The Words (And was present at Such Enlistment) Interlined before sworn
Sworn & Subscribed this 1st day of September 1835 before me
/s/Wm. Colfax
And I certify that the said Ezra Drew is a person of veracity & a credible witness known to me as such many years 
/s/Wm Colfax
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County - ss: I Abraham Westervill Clerk of the County of Bergen and Clerk of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Do hereby Certify that William Colfax Esquire before whom the within Deposition of Ezra Drew was taken is one of the Judges of the said Court duly authorized and commissioned; and that his signature to the Jurat of said Deposition as well as to the certificate thereunder written is genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of my office at Hackensack this first day of September A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty five. 
/s/Abr: Westervill, 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 being duly sworn maketh oath and saith that he was well acquainted with William Drew who is named & described in the annexed Declaration during the Revolutionary war & lived in the same Town to wit the Town of Manchester in the State of Vermont that he was present when the said William Drew enlisted in a Company of Infantry commanded by Capt Gideon Bronson in Col. Eathen (Ethan) Allen's Regiment at the said Town of Manchester in the year 1778 That he this Deponent enlisted & served in the same company - This deponent further saith that after the said William Drew continued in the Service of the United States under his said Enlistment untill the Termination of the said War and Received his rations as a regular enlisted soldier 
/s/Wm Hinman
NB The words kept by his Father and the words and served were Interlined before sworn/also the words & figures - (in the year 1778) interlined before Sworn to - 
Sworn & Subscribed the 12th day of September 1835 before me
/s/Dorrance Kirtland First Judge of the Court of Com'n Pleas of the County of Greene & State New York
And I the said Judge do certify that the said William Hinman is a credible witness and entitled to full credit as such 
/s/Dorrance Kirtland
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State of New York
Greene County ss } I William V.B. Heermance Clerk of the said county do  certify that Dorrance Kirtland Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the date of the same First Judge of the court of common pleas of said county  and that signature to said affidavit is genuine 
[court seal affixed] Witness my hand and seal of office this ninth day of February 1836
/s/William V.B. Heermance Clerk
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We the Subscribers John W Dodge & James Covey residing in the Town of New Baltimore County of Greene & State of New York who hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Drew who has has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing and annexed 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 and served as he has stated in his declaration & we concur in that opinion. 
/s/John W. Dodge
/s/X his mark James Covey 
Subscribed & sworn in open court (the said James Covey not being able to write) 
/s/William V.B. Heermance Clerk
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 - and the court further certifies, that it appears to them that John W. Dodge and James Covey who have signed the preceding certificate, are residents of the town of New Baltimore and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. and that the said court had satisfactory evidence that there was no clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the applicant aforesaid for a pension
/s/Dorrance Kirtland Presiding Judge of Said Court
I William V.B. Heermance Clerk of the court of common pleas held in and for the County of Greene do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original procee-
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dings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Drew for a Pension
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this ninth day of February 1836
/s/William V.B. Heermance Clerk
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No 33455
William Drew
Hon. A Vanderpoel HR