Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19,525, Nathan Andrus, Conn R.I.
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Service
Conn
R.I.
Andrus, Nathan
Number S. 19,525
Carded
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30,003
Vermont
Nathan Andrus
[UNK] in the town of [illegible] who was a [illegible] in the [illegible] commanded by the Captain [illegible] of the regiment commanded by Elliot in the line for 1 year [illegible] [illegible] of infantry conn + R.I.
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33,164
Nathan Andrus
Declaration
1 year Elliot
1 year Tofleen
$90
WM Bridges 
Lt Albany
[illegible]
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Probate Court District of Georgia JS
[Illegible] Probate Court holden at [illegible] in said district on this 25th day of March AD 1835 Present the Hon. Joel Barber Judge. The Hon. WM Bridges appeared before said Court and made the following representation to wit that one Nathan Andrus now residing in Sturbridge in the providence of Lower Canada is desirous of making his declaration in open Court relative to his services in the war of the revolution for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 And the said Bridges further represents that the said Nathan Andrus by reason of age +/and bodily infirmity in unable to appear in Court at the proper office of said Court in Fairfield in said district wherefore the said Bridges prays that a special session of said Court may be holden at Franklin in said district for the purpose of receiving the declaration of the said Nathan Andrus and taking the [illegible] testimony for the benefit of the said Andrus. Whereupon after duly considering the request of the said Bridges it is ordered by the Court that this be a special session of said Court holden at the dwelling house of Elisha Bascomb in Franklin in said district on the 27th day of March 1835 at the dwelling house of Elisha Bascomb in Franklin in said district the court being open The Hon. Joel Barber [illegible] Judge of said Court being present when and where the following proceedings were had.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th, 1832.

State of Vermont
Georgia District

On this 27th day of March AD 1835 Personally appeared in open Court before me Joel Barber [illegible] Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the district aforesaid Nathan Andrus a resident of Sturbridge in the Providence of Lower Canada aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832

That he entered the service of the United States and served as hereinafter stated

That at Gloucester in the State of Rhode Island on the 16th day of December 1776, he enlisted for three months and served as a provate under Capt. Payne Converce, Lieut. Roberts and Cosign childs in the Reg. commanded by Col. Eli, Lieut Col McClaney and Maj. Clark in the Connecticut line. Mustered at Thompson Connecticut where they draw their blankets to guns marched from thence to Providence and was stationed in the college as a place of general quarter and there served until the [?] of March 1777 and was then dismissed but did not receive any written discharge having served three months.
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That again in the month of March or April 1777 He enlisted at Providence as a private for one year and served under Capt Benjamin Hoping Lieut Gabriel Allen and Cosign Wescout, in the Ret commanded by Col Topham Lieut Col William Barton Maj Williams and Adjutant Duval or Dival. Said adjutant served a part of the time during the campaign [illegible] and a person by the name of Charles HAndy served as adjutant to the close of the campaign. Marched from Providence to Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island, and was stationed near Howlands Ferry during the whole time and was employed a part of the time in building Fort Barton. That during the time he was stationed at Tiverton Gen Prescott was taken prisoner by Col Barton and that he applicant was one of the forty who volunteered and served in that expedition. He further states that they learned the situation of Gen Prescott by a deserter. The applicant further says that in the month of May or June 1778, he again enlisted for one year as a [illegible] and served in a company of artillery commanded by Capt Joshua Sawyer, Lieut Price [illegible] and Cosign Johnson in the REg. commanded by Cols John Tofham Elliot and Maj Josiah Flagg, was first stationed at Providence from thence to Howland Ferry and from (about the first of August) to Butts Hill Fort and from thence on to the lines so called near Newport, R.I. was in the engagement on the Island retreated from thence to Bristol, where he lay [illegible] his time expired.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE                                         NUMBER

Conn          Andrus, Nathan.         S.19525
R.I.
Carded

CONTENTS
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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 his agency of any state. Nathan Andrus [[annotation]] his [[/annotation]] [[annonation]] Mark [[/annotation]] Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid  In the present of Before me Joel Barber Judge of Probate.
 In presence of Honza R Harris 
We Aaron Martindale Justice of the Peace & Lindol Corey  residing in Stanbridge Lordes Canada hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathan Andrus who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbor-where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn and subscribed 
the day and year of 
Before me Joel Berber Jr Judge of Probate  
Lindol Corey
Aaron Martindale  J.C.
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 names applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. 
And the said court further certifies that it appears to them that Aaron Martindale who signed the preceding certificate has for many years past officiated and do now officiate as one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace in Stanbridge and is resident there and that Landol Corey who also signed the same is a resident of said Town & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to Credit
 Joel Barber Jr  Judge of Probate
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I Joel Allen Barber Register of the Court of Probate for the district of Georgia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathan Andrus for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 27th day of March 1835 
J Allen Barber Regr
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19525
INVALID.
NJ
File No. 19.525
Nathan Andrus
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7" 32
Index :- Vol. 2, Page 9

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Nathan Andrus enlist 7 April 1778
1 year from 16 March 1778
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The afft of Bishop and Sweet in support of the claim of Nathan Andrus to a Pension
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I Jeremiah Sweet of Glocester in the County of Providence State of Rhode Island aged 77" being sworn according to law, on oath do testify & say that I was a soldier of the war of the revolution & am now a pensioner of the United States under the act of June 1832. I further say that I well know Nathan Andrus, formerly of said Glouster now of Stanbridge L. C. He was born in said Glouster I lived in my neighborhood During the revolution he enlisted as a soldier & some time in 1777 while I was stationed at Bristol RI or on the island I saw the said Nathan doing duty as a Soldier at that time. I cannot distinctly recollect in what regiment he was then doing duty. & further saith not 
Jeremiah Sweet his mark +
State of Rhode Island &c Providence Ss. In Glocester this twelfth day of July 1834 before me Samuel Y Atwell a Notary Public duly Commissioned & sworn, personally appeared Jeremian Sweet who being first duly sworn on oath saith that the above deposition by him signed in my presence is just & true in all its parts, I further certify that the said Sweet is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office in said Glouceter the day & year first written 
Sam Y Atwell Pub. Noty.
For taking & [illegible] $2.00
Witness .50
$2.50
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I Ezekiel Bishop of Scituate in the County of Providece State of Rhode Island aged 72 years being first duly sworn on oath do testify & say that I was a Soldier of the revolution & am now a pensioner of the United States under the act of June 1832 I further say that I served during said war as a private in Capt [illegible] Company Col Crarys regiment General Cornells brigade R.I. State troops. I further say that I was well acquainted with Nathan Andrus (pronounced Andrews) a citizen of Gloucester in said State, he was a private in Col Tophams regiment - same brigade, In 1778 when we were at Bristol at Tiverton R I frequently saw the said Andrus doing duty as a private in said regiment which day along side of him. Said Andrus enlisted as I understood for one year, & further said not 
Ezkiel Bishop
State of Rhode Island &c Providence Sc. In Scituate this 13th day of July 1834 before me Samuel Y Atwell a public Notary in & for said County duly Commissioned & sworn personally appeared the above named Ezekiel Bishop who being first duly Sworn on oath saith that the above deposition by him signed in my presence is just & true in all its parts. I further certify that the said Ezekiel is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office at Glocester in said County the day & year first written 
Sam Y Atwell Pub Noty

Sur taking & [illegible] $2.50
Witness .40
2.40
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State of Rhode Island &c
Providence. Sc I Dexter Randall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Providence being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Samuel Y Atwell Esqr before whom the aforegoing affidavits were sworn, is a Public Notary within and for said County and is by said authorised to administer oaths and take depositions and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates purporting to be his are the proper signatures of the said Samuel Y Atwell 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Providence this twelfth day of August AD 1834
Dexter Randall Clk
50 [cents symbol]
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Jonathan Mahurin of Franklin in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont, aged seventy three years, Testify and say, That in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight, at Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island, I became acquainted with Nathan Andrus, then of Gloucester R. I. now of Stanbridge Lower Canada. while I was stationed at Tiverton aforesaid I saw the sd Andrus almost every day, and often conversed with him before and after the troops moved on to the Island. He was a private in a company of Artillery. I understood at the time, and have since learned from said Andrus that he had previously been in the army, and that he enlisted in the campaign aforesaid for one year, and I verily ^believe he served his time out for which he engaged. I have been acquainted with Andrus since the Revolutionary war more the twenty years, have [crossed out: had] frequently conversed with him respecting his revolutionary services, But cannot say at what time he enlisted or at what time he was dismissed, for I do not recollect of seeing sd Andrus after the retreat from Rhode Island, during the campaign 
Jonathan Mehurin 
State of Vermont Franklin County ss} St. Albans March 5th 1835. Then personally appeared the above named Johnathan Mahurin who made oath that the above deposition by him subscribe in my presents is just and true
I further certify that the sd Mahurin is a credible person and entitled to credit. 
Before me William Bridges Justice Peace
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State of Vermont Franklin County ss} I. Joseph H. Brainerd, Clerk of Franklin County Court, do hereby certify that William Bridges, who has signed the within certificate is a Magistrate, duly qualified agreeably to the laws of this State, and that his named affixed as aforesaid is his genuine Signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at St. Albans in said County, this 1st day AD 1835
Joseph H. Brainerd Clerk
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Jonathan Mahurin Deposition in support of Nathan Andrus claim for a Pension