Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23445., Moses Andrews, Vt.
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Service |    |Number
Vt.  |Andrews, Moses | W.23445.
    |  Lydia   |
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I, Ebenezer Andrews of Mount Holly in the county of Rutland and State of Vermont do testify and sat that I am eighty two years of age and that I am a revolutionary pensioner of the United States and I further say that previous to and during the revolutionary war I personally acquainted with Moses Andrews then of Rutland in the State of Vermont and that said Moses Andrews entered the army intended for the conquest of Quebec in Lower Canada, under Gen Montgomery and that, according to the best of my knowledge & belief the said Moses Andrews did accompany said army into Canada & when said army retreated from Canada, the said Moses Andrews was left in said Province sick, and returned home about one year from the time he started & I further say that the said Moses Andrews afterwards enlisted into the service for three years and that in the fore part of said term I served with the said Moses Andrews in Capt Lee's company of Rangers & that I was personally knowing to the services of Moses Andrews in said company in the battle of Bennington & else where & that according to the best of my knowledge & belief the said Moses Andrews did serve in Capt Lee's Company of Rangers for the aforesaid term of three years & that I have no doubt of the fact from my knowledge of his absence from home & from frequent subsequent conversations with him on the subject & I further sat that I was married in the State of Connecticut on the fifteenth day of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and eight and that about one month afterwards during my
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absence the said Moses Andrews, according to report and the best of my belief was married to Lydia Andrews a sister of mine and according to the best of my knowledge the said Moses & Lydia Andrews did live together as husband & wife till the said Moses Andrews' decease and further say not

Ebenezer Andrews

State of Vermont } at Mount Holly this 4th
Rutland County   } day of Janry 1839
Personally appeared Ebenezer Andrews after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth.
Before Mr. John Crowley Jr. Just Peace

State of Vermont }
Rutland County   } I John Crowley Jr. one of the justices of the peace for the said county of Rutland hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Ebenezer Andrews who named that his reputed age is about eighty two that he is a revolutionary pensioner & a man of truth and veracity and is in possession of all the mental faculties usual with people of his years.  
Mount Holly Janry 4th 1839  John Crowley Jr. Just Peace
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State of Vermont  }
Orleans District [illegible] } at a Probate Court holden at Derby, within and for said district of Orleans on this 23rd day of January AD. 1839 Personally appeared before said court Lydia Andrews a resident of Dudswell in the Province of Lower Canada aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according Law oath on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 granting pensions to certain widows--she states that she is the widow of Moses Andrews who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and served as follows--
That as she has been informed he entered the American army under command of Gen Montgomery went to Quebec was there at the defeat had the small pox and suffered much but how long he served she cannot state--she has often heard him speak of other services of which she cannot state particularly but supposed he served some part of the time as a sergeant as she has often seen his sergeant's warrant which has been lost many years--
She further declares that she was married to the said Moses Andrews her said husband on the 30th day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty at Clarendon (a town adjoining Rutland in Vermont) by the Rev W. Carey--she further states that her said husband died on the 15th day of January eighteen hundred and nine  She further declares that she was married to the said Moses Andrews previous to the last period of her said husband's service--she further declares that the said Moses Andrews her said husband was out on some short tours of service after marriage and she has [I have (crossed out)] heard it said he was under Capt Lee and I believe he was a short time with Capt Lyon of a few days each--
She further declares that she and her said husband were from
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both from Wallingford Connecticut but at the time of the War and of their marriage they both lived in Rutland Vermont where they continued to reside until 1803 when they removed to Dudswell before written where they continued to reside until the 15th day of January 1809 as been written and where the said Lydia Andrews has ever since resided and continued as a widow--
The words "they continued to reside" underlined before signing
Joseph Wiggins  Judge of Probate

       her
Lydia X Andrews
      Mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Joseph Wiggins Judge of Probate
And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting sundary interrogatories. That the above named applicant is the Lawful Widow of Moses Andrews and that she was married to him and that he served in the War of the Revolution as she has in her declaration stated and that he died on the fifteenth day of January 1809 and the Court further certify that Naphtali Bishop, Lyman Andrews and Amos Bishop whose affidavits are hereto annexed are all credible witnesses and their statements entitled to full credit 
Joseph Wiggins Judge of Probate
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I Naphtali Bishop of Dudswell in the Province of Lower Canada aged sixty eight years depose and say that I was well acquainted with Moses Andrews late of said Dudswell deceased and well remember that in the month of June (I believe the last of the month) after the defeat of Gen. Montgomery I well remember the said Moses calling at my Father's house in Monkton on his return from Quebec he then being in a feeble state of health said he had been two days in getting eighteen miles--the said Andrews stopped at my Father's two nights and then set out for his home then at Rutland Vt.  I further state that in the summer of 1779 I was drummer and stationed at Rutland picket and the said Andrews came there and said he was stationed there the year previous 1779 (crossed out) being 1778--I further state that I was knowing to his being in the war at other times of later date--I further state that late in the fall of the year 1780 I was at the house of Jahiel Andrews in Rutland where I saw him the said Moses & his wife Lydia Andrews (daughter of the said Jahiel Andrews) and it was said they had been married on that day by Rev. W Carey which no doubt was true and have been knowing that the said Moses & Lydia lived together as husband and wife until his death which was about thirty years ago since which the said Lydia his said wife has ever continued as widow. 

Naphtali Bishop

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written 

Joseph Wiggins Judge of Probate
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I Lyman Andrews of Dudswell in the Province of Lower Canada aged fifty five years depose and say that I am a son of Moses Bishop (crossed out) Andrews late of of said Dudswell deceased that I have often heard my Father state his going to Quebec with Montgomery and being present at his defeat.  I don't know how long he served at that time but I have often heard him sat that he joined the army previous to wheat harvest and lost all his wheat that year as he was in the army and depending on other persons to harvest his wheat  (which they failed to do) he lost the whole of it--but by what he said they could not have entered Canada until late in the fall of the year as he said they were obliged as they made an attack upon St. Johns to wade through water back of the town where the ice was nearly strong enough to bare them which they had to brake as they marched and he was left sick at Quebec and supposed to have been dead by his companions--but he was so fortunate as get among the French who were friendly to him by which means he evaded the British and worked his way home but what time he got home I do not recollect to have heard him say.  (But I have [illegible] heard him say that it was in May when he left Quebec he says he left Quebec on) (what is enclosed in the parenthesis he says is not as he understand but should be as follows).  After having had the small pox he learned that the British were about to take possession he left the hospital on the 5th of May and found means to cross the river above Quebec where he found French people that were friendly to him who did assist him in his distress and although he could not travel over two miles a day at first yet he found his way home after being absent eleven months.  His companions who reached home before him supposed him to have been dead--I further say that I have heard my Father state his being in several other skirmishes at Hubbervstown at Crownpoint at Rutland Picket one summer and at other
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places and in the Ranging service--some part of his service was as a sergeant and I have often seen his sergeant's warrant which has been destroyed many years ago--I further state that my Father the said Moses Andrews died on the 15 day of January 1809 since which my mother the said Lydia has remained and still remains his widow and has never been married since the death of my Father.
Lyman Andrews

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written

Joseph Wiggins Judge of Probate
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Repeated
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8832  M.
Vermont

Lydia Andrews decd
Widow of Moses Andrews
Who was a Priv & Sergeant 
in the Revolution

Inscribed in the Roll at the rate 
of 41 Dollars 50
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th Day of March 1843.
and end 8 May 1844, when she died

Certificate of Pension issued
the 4th day of June 1850
and sent to 
Hon. James Meacham
House of Reps

[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 60
Payable to only surviving children
Edwin Andrews & Angeline Bishop
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Lydia Andrews,
Decd wid of Moses A.

Power of attorney from 
Edwin Andrews, son

WmWestin, prob.
Dec 1, 1846
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Know all men by these presents that I, Edwin Andrews, of Essex in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, son of Lydia Andrews, late of Doddsville in the county of Sherbrooke, Canada East, now deceased on the 8th day of May, 1844, and was the widow of Moses Andrews, who died about thirty eight years since, and was a sergeant in the revolutionary war, (the said Lydia Andrews, at the time of her death, being an applicant for a pension on account of the revolutionary services of my late father, the said Moses Andrews, decd), do hereby constitute and appoint William Weston, of Burlington, in the state of Vermont, my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name, and for my benefit and the benefit of my only surviving sister, Angelina Bishop, to obtain from the United States the balance of pension due the said Lydia Andrews, deceased, at the time of her death, with power to appoint an attorney or attorneys for that purpose, and to do any act or thing in relation thereto that I might myself lawfully do were I personally present.

Witness my hand and seal this 12th day of October, 1946.

Edwin Andrews

Sealed and delivered}
in presence of          }

Samuel Ellit
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O.W. and N. Division   |  3-525.
M.B.H. |   DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
SWed 7.23,445   |  Bureau of Pension,
RW War  |  Washington, D.C. , April 27, 1906

Madam,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Moses Andrews, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or  (crossed out) his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  

Dates of Enlistment | Length of Service  | Rank | Officers under whom services was rendered  |  State
Captain  | Colonel

Soldier enlisted, date not given, and served as a sergeant under Gen. Montgomery at Quebec, was absent from home about a year; also as a private 3 years in Capt Thomas Lee's Independent Co of Vermont troops; also as a private from July 31, 1781 to Aug 3, 1781 in Capt Malthen Lyons Co. Col Ira Allens Vermont Reg.

Battles engaged in, Crown Point, Hubbardton, Bennington
Residence of soldier at enlistement, Rutland, Vt.
Date of widow's application for pension, Jan 23, 1839, her claim was allowed
Widow's residence at date of application, Dudswell, Lower Canada
Widow's age at date of application, 75 years
Remarks: Soldier died Jan 15, 1809, He married Lydia daughter of Jehiel Andrews, Nov 30, 1780 at Clarenden, Vt.  Her claim was allowed. (crossed out)  She died May 8, 1844.  Children: Lyman, Edwin and Angelina Bishop

Very respectfully,
Mrs. Michel Moracin LeBrun
8 Mountain Ave.
Montclair, NJ

20581b3m110-05   |  Commissioner
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Michael Moracin      1906 Apr 27 - History to Mrs
247 Moses Andrews    Le Brun Letter in S.7.30
MBR

Rev
Widow, &c.
File No. 23445
Lydia Andrews Wid of Moses Andrews
Sergt Rev War

Act Mar 3rd 1843
June 17th 1844
Index: Vol. a, Page 15

[Arrangement of 1870.}
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10917   M
Vermont
Lydia Andrews decd
widow of Moses Andrews
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 15 January 1809 of Chittendon in the State of Vermont who was a pr srgt in the company commanded by Captain William of the Regt commanded by Col Lee in the Vermont line for 1 year 28 days Pr 4 days srgt

Inscribed on the roll of Montpelier at the rate of 41 dollars 50 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.  

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of June 1850 and sent to Hon James Meacham H.R.

Total amount  $

[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J.P. Chase, clerk, Book [illegible], page 123
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M
Lydia Andrews Dec
Widow of Moses Andrews
Vermont
Dist of Chittenden
h.d. 15 January 1809
Col Lee Vermont Rangers, admitted

Pr & Serg - $41.50
Pr 1 yr, 8 day
Serg 4 day

Cov 4 March 1836 to 4 March 1841, from 4 March 1843 to 8th May 1844, payable to Edwin Andrews and Angelina Bishop

[illegible] 4 July 38, 4 March 43 [illegible] June 44,
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | | NUMBER
Vt. | Andrews, Moses | W. 23445.
| Lydia | 
CONTENTS
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Vt.
Andrews, Moses
Lydia
W. 23445.
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Whereas, the Hon. Gen. Assembly of the State of Vermont in their session in Feb. 7 A.D. 1781, did pass a resolve that the officers & soldiers belonging to Capt Thomas Lee's company, in the continental service shall be made good the depreciation of money which is due to them, as pay for their services during the time of their several enlistments, we, the subscribers, officers and soldiers of said company, empower Col. Thomas Lee to act for us, and in our behalf on said subject to receive the money due to us, or if he thinks proper, to procure a good right of land, for each of us, entering our names in the Charter of some good Township, and be accountable to us, the subscribers.

Witness our hands, March 7th, 1781.

Ephraim Loomis | Clement Clark | Ruben Post
Thomas Tuttle | Joseph Williams | Archippus Blogget
Philemon Johnson | Gideon Cooley | Gersham Olds 
Benjamin Andrews | Brittain Simmons | Curtis Smith
Elijah Goodwin | Moses Andrews | Isa Hale
Michael Coffin | John May | James Ewing

Recd Windsor, 14th April 1781, of the Treasurer, nine pounds for each of the within named persons or subscribers, except Archippus Blogget, amounting to one hundred and fifty three pounds, lawful
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money, being the sum ordered to be paid or allowed to them, towards their depreciation at present.  
Recd per me, Thomas Lee


State of Vermont  }
Secretary of States office  }
Burlington  Feb 26, 1848  }

I, Elliot E Kellogg, Deputy Secretary of State, hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an original paper on file in this office, authorizing Capt. Thomas Lee to act for the persons whose names are thereunto subscribed and to receive the pay due them, and of the said Thomas Lee's receipt endorsed thereon.  

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and annexed the seal of this office on the day and year above written.  

Elliot E Kellogg, Dep. Sec.
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A Pay Roll for a part of a militia company belonging to Rutland under the command of Ensn. Isaac Cushman to Fort Vengeance the first of June last past by order of Lieut Spencer at that time commandant at said Fort.  

Names & Rank | No Days | No Miles | Wages
   |    |   | Pound (Li)  Shilling (s) Pence (d)
Isaac Cushman Ensn. | 7 | 12 | 1.13.4
Nathan Pratt Sergt. | 7 | 12 | 15.4 1/2
Chapn. Hawley | 7 | 12 | 13.4
Jared Post | 7 | 12 | 13.4
Frederic Cushman | 7 | 12 | 13.4
Wm. Barr | 7 | 12 | 13.4
Amos Hines | 7 | 12 | 13.4
Moses Andrews | 7 | 12 | 13.4
Elias Post | 7 | 12 | 13.4
Edward Waters | 7 | 12 | 13.4
John Hinman | 7 | 12 | 13.4
Josiah Hale | 2 | 12 | 6.8
Phineas Kingsley | 2 | 12 | 6.8
James Bentley | 2 | 12 | 6.8
Dennis Burgess | 2 | 12 | 6.8
Joseph Keeler | 2 | 12 | 6.8
John Andrews | 6 | 12 | 12.0
Nathl. Whitney | 2 | 12 | 6.8
Li 11.0.8
Attest, Isaac Cushman, Engisn
Rutland May 31st, 1781, Personally appeared Ensign Isaac Cushman signer of the above pay roll and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, before me,  Jonathan Brace, Justice Peace.
Rutland June 8th 1781
To His Excellency Thos. Chittenden Esqr.
Please to deliver the sum of the written roll to the bearer Silvanus Brown, and you will oblige your humble servant.
Isaac Cushman
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Pay Table Office 12th June 1781.  The within Roll being examined is approved and the Treasurer is dyrected to pay the same to Isaac Cushman or order, which is eleven pounds and eight pence. 
Li 11.0.8  Thos. Chittenden}
               Timo. Brownson  } Committee
Date above, received the contents of the above order
Per me  Silvanus Brown
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State of Vermont }
Secretary of State's office }

Burlington Sept. 16.1848.

I, Elliot E Kellogg, deputy Secretary of State for the State of Vermont, do certify, that it appears from the Revolutionary papers in this office that there was allowed by the committee of the pay table office viz Timothy Brownson and John Strong, to the following named "officers and soldiers of Capt Thos Lee's Independent Company" for the depreciation of their pay respectively, under date of April 25, 1783, the sums annexed to their respective names.

To Gideon Cooley, corporal  L 37.3.6
Benja Andrews- private  37.3.6
Clemen Clark - " 37.3.6
Curtis Smith  " 37.3.6
Joseph Williams " 37.3.6
John Mays " 37.3.6
Gersham Olds " 37.3.6
Reuben Post " 37.3.6
Michael Coffin " 37.3.6

I further certify that there is no paper nor record showing a final settlement of the depreciation of the pay of Moses Andrews.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said office and subscribe my name on the day and year above written.

Elliot E. Kellogg, Dep. Secy. of State of Vt.
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I Thomas D. Lasell the undersigned of this instrument being a legal practitioner of Physick and surgery in the Township of Dudswell County of Sherbrook and Province of Canada East, and also being of lawfull age do depose and say that I was called upon in the line of my profession to visit and attend the Widw Lydia Andrews, whom also resided in the said Township of Dudswell and was voilent (violent) seized with a morbid malignant, complaint on the lungs and ended in death.  And as the said Lasell was her only phycian (physician) in her last sickness, do testify and sat that the Widw Lydia Andrews expired and died on the eighth day of May 1844--Further the despondant saith not. 
June 29th, 1848  Thomas D. Lasell
Sworn at Sherbrooke, County aforesaid District of Saint Francis date above written before me
John Felton Justice of the Peace in and for the said district

Province of Canada }
District of Saint Francis } 
I William Bell Clerk of the Peace for the District of Saint Francis do certify that John Felton, Esquire is a Magistrate duly qualified and sworn to act for the District of Saint Francis.
Sherbrooke 29th June 1848
Wm Bell Clerk Peace
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(Seal showing a shield with a person on each side of it)
By his Excellency the Right Honorable James, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c. &c. 

To all of whom these Presets shall come--Greeting.
These are to certify that John Felton Esquire whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit is one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace
Duly appointed in and for the District of St. Francis and that William Bell Esquire whose name is subscribed to the annexed Certificate is Clerk of the Peace duly appointed in and for the aforesaid District of Saint Francis in that part of the Province of Canada heretofore Lower Canada, and that full faith and credence are due and ought to be given to their signatures and acts, in such capacities in all places. 
Given under my hand and Office Seal, at Montreal, in Canada, this fifteenth day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine and of Her Majesty's Reign the twelfth
Elgin Munardine

By Commmand, 
J.D. Harington
Recdn of Fees
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier, July 24, 1839

1. I, Chauncey L. Knapp, Secretary of said state, do hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt. Samuel Williams' Company of Militia in Col. Thomas Lee's Regiment, commenced the 21st of October last, ending the second of November following." I further certify that the name of Moses Andrews appears upon said pay roll, as Sargeant, under the head "Alarm List" with an allowance of four days' service annexed.  
2.  I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting to be "A Pay Roll of a part of a Militia Company belonging to Rutland under the command of Ensign Isaac Cushman to Fort Vengeance the first of June last past, by order of Lieut. Spencer, at that time Commandant of said Fort."  I further certify that the name of Moses Andrews appears upon said pay roll as a private, with an allowance of seven days' service annexed.  
3. I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt. Matthew Lyon's Company , Col. Ira Allen's Regiment for service done on the Alarm from the 31s of July, 1781, to the 3d day of August, inclusive." I further certify that the name of - "Andrews" a private, appears upon said pay roll, with an allowance of one days' service annexed.  
I further certify that the said payrolls appear to have been examined and ordered to be paid, by a committee appointed for the
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purpose, - (the first mentioned roll on the 10th January, A.D. 1782, the second, June 12, A.D. 1781, the third, February 26, 1782)-and that they were duly paid by the Treasurer of this state.  

(Seal with Secretary of State Vermont embossed on it)

Give under my hand and seal of office, at Montpelier this 24th July, A.D. 1839.

Chauncey L. Knapp, Secretary of State
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4348   4348
Lydia Andrews

Widow of Moses

Vt.

[illegible] 4 July '36

M. 30 Nov 1780
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I Amos Bishop of Dudswell of the Province of Lower Canada aged fifty one years depose ad sat that I have been acquainted with Moses Andrews ever since I was a boy that I have often heard him and others speak of his being a soldier in the  war of the War of the Revolution and he was always called Sergeant Andrews as was said on account of his being such in the Army--I further state that I am knowing to his decease on or about the 15th of January 1809 but cannot be certain as to the day as I was absent on a journey at the time of his decease but well remember that it was said he died on the 15 of January of 1809 and I have no doubt of that being the case--
I further state that his widow Lydia Andrews now resides in said Dudswell and ever her still continues his widow.  
Amos Bishop
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Joseph Wiggins Judge of Probate
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State of Vermont }
Orleans District  }
Probate Office January 23d AD 1839
I Geo Nye Register of the Probate Court in and for the District of Orleans aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original procedings had in the Probate Court of [illegible] (paper torn) in the matter of the application of Lydia (paper torn) for a pension

(Seal with ribbon, Probate rest illegible)

In testimony whereof I have here(paper torn) official signature and seal (paper torn) Probate Office in said District (paper torn) and year last above written
Geo Nye
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I, Asa Hale, of Rutland in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 79 years and upwards, do depose, testify and say, that during the American Revolutionary War, I was personally acquainted with Moses Andrews, now deceased, who was then, and for several years afterwards, an inhabitant of said town.  M. Andrews was reputed to be, and I verily believe he was a soldier in the service of the country; as every person who was able to bear arms, was obliged to turn out, when called for.  I cannot, however state, how long he served, nor how many times he turned out.  But, I do remember to have seen him, once or twice, in the service--altho I cannot at this late day recollect either the places, or the exact times--It was during said war. 
And I further depose, that (crossed out) I was well acquainted with his wife.  She was reputed to be a sister of Lt. Ebenezer Andrews, now of Mountholley in this county; and from the strong family resemblance, I never doubted the fact.  I do not recollect her christian name.  They lived together, for several years before the close of the war, in the relation of man & wife; and ever, as I presume, lawfully married; but what year they were married I do not recollect.  
Asa Hale

State of Vermont }
Rutland County   }
Be it know, that on this 7n day of January 1838, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared the above named Asa Hale, to me well known to be a person of truth, and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed in my presence are true.  
A.L. Brown Justice Peace
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Lydia Andrews wid of Moses Andrews
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State of Vermont }
District of Chittenden [illegible] }

I, William Weston, Register of the Probate court for said District of Chittenden, do hereby certify that it has been this day satisfactorily proved to said court that Lydia Andrews, late of Doddsville, Canada East, died on the eighth day of May, 1844, that she was the widow of Moses Andrews, deceased, and at the time of her death, was an applicant for a pension on account of the revolutionary services of her said husband, the said Moses Andrews, and that she left two children, viz, Angelina Bishop, of said Doddsville and Edwin Andrews, of Essex, in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, both of full age, who were, at the time of her death, her only surviving children.  

In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said court and subscribe my name at Burlington in said district this twelfth day of October, A.D. 1846.

Wm Weston, Register.
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James H Phelps (Circle)
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Jan 4 1847

copy of
Lydia Adams' Declaration

Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. (vertically)
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Lowell Mass Dec 30, 1846

Dr Sir
Will you have the kindness to enclose to me at this place a copy of Lydia Andrews declaration filed with her application for a pension.  On a former occasion I addressed a letter to the com who replied to me by enclosing under date of Feby 1, 1845 a copy of a former letter addressed by him to John Kimball Esq. of Banon.  In that letter it is stated that further proof of the marriage will be required.  I wish to know what proof of the marriage is now before the Com in order that I may know what further proof is wanting.  I desire to know what service and where it was performed is now proven.  

Your very respectfully
B.W. Poor

Hon J.L. Edwards  }
Comm of Pensions }
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Town Clerk's Office
Rutland [illegible] Jany 1839

I Ambrose L Brown Town Clerk of Rutland [torn paper] certify that I have carefully examined the records [torn paper] in my office, and that I cannot find [torn paper] of the marriage of Moses Andrews and [torn paper] Andrews.
A.L. Brown Town Clerk

State of Vermont  }
Rutland County  }
Be it known that on this 7th day of January, 1839, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared the above named Ambrose L. Brown, to me well known to be Town Clerk of the said Town of Rutland in said County of Rutland, who hath subscribed the proceeding affidavit in my presence, and made solemn oath, that the same contains the truth and nothing by the truth.  And I do hereby certify that the said official is a credible witness.  

F.W. Hopkins Justice Peace

State of Vermont }
Rutland County  }

[Seal with ribbon, illegible writing]

I, Robert Pierpoint, Clerk of the County Court in and for said county do hereby certify, that Frederic W. Hopkins, Ambrose L. Brown, and John Crowley Junior, are, severally, Justice of the Peace in and for said county; and that their several signatures affixed to the preceeding affidavits are respectively genuine.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said county at Rutland in said said county this 7th day of Jay, 1839. 
R. Pierpoint
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J. L. Edwards
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Johnson Lamoille County Vermont
January 17 1843

J.L. Edwards Esq
Sir Please inform me whether any application has ever been made at your office for a pension for Lydia Andrews the widow of Moses Andrews a soldier of the Revolution, and if so what has been done and the reason why the application failed & when I can find the evidence of his services in the Revolutionary Army.
Yours very respectfully
B.W. Poor
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Lydia Andrews

(diagonally) Secretary of State
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier, July 24, 1839

1. I, Chauncey L. Knapp, Secretary of said state, do hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt. Samuel Williams' Company of Militia in Col. Thomas Lee's Regiment, commenced the 21st of October last, ending the second of November following." I further certify that the name of Moses Andrews appears upon said 4 (circled) S. pay roll, as Sargeant, under the head "Alarm List" with an allowance of four days' service annexed.
2. I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting to be "A Pay Roll of a part of a Militia Company belonging to Rutland under the command of Ensign Isaac Cushman to Fort Vengeance the first of June last past, by order of Lieut. Spencer, at that time Commandant of said Fort." I further certify that the name of Moses Andrews appears upon said pay roll as a private, with an  7 (circled) p. allowance of seven days' service annexed.
3. I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt. Matthew Lyon's Company , Col. Ira Allen's Regiment for service done on the Alarm from the 31s of July, 1781, to the 3d day of August, inclusive." I further certify that the name of - "Andrews" a private, appears upon said pay roll, with an allowance of one days' service annexed.
I further certify that the said payrolls appear to have been examined and ordered to be paid, by a committee appointed for the
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Services after marriage
First period after marriage from 31st July 1781 to 3d day of August
2d from 21 October 1789 to 2d November following


(Upside down)
Hon. John Kimball, Barton, Vert.
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Montpelier, Jan. 18, 1839

Hon. John Kimball.
Dear Sir:
I send you, annexed, the result of my examination of the Revolutionary Pay Rolls, in compliance with your request of the 16th.  If the names of Bishop, Ide or Baxter are on any of the rolls, they have escaped a careful search.   
There is some four or five papers of persons imprisoned, in the form of memorials to the Legislature for remuneration for loss of time, endurance of hardship etc. etc. but I believe neither of the names you mention are to be found on papers of this character, where remuneration was granted (last four words underlined); but it is not unlikely that petitions or memorials of this kind may be among the files of the Legislature of 1779, '80, etc. which I have not time to examine  in season for this letter.  

Very respectfully 
Your ob. serv't
C.L. Knapp

July 1839 paid to C.L. Knapp $2.00 paid postage on letter to Albany  - 12 1/2
on letter from Albany - 12 1/2

Hon John Kimball to C. L. Knapp
1839 Jan 8 } to Examination of pay rolls in case of Moses Andrews,  $1.50
Certificate of Same     .50
                                $2.00
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War Department pension Office July 1, 1839

Sir,
In the case of Mrs. Lydia Andrews, widow of Moses Andrews, decd, under the date of 4. July 1836, the specification of the first tour under General Montgomery is defective in not stating the time of enlistment, names of company and field officers, etc.; and the second term of 3 years, under Capt. Lee, of the Rangers, should be established by the certificate of the Secretary of New York.
The certificate of the Secretary of Vermont is herewith returned that the date to the 1 & 2 roll may be added, and that he may state whether the name of claimant's late husband is found on the 3r roll in his certificate.  Her claim under the date of 4t July 1836, depends upon the date of this service.  
The marriage should be established by that grade of evidence so universally afforded by the register and other papers of town, churches, and families, as will in relation to births and baptisms as to marriage.  
Very respectfully, 
[illegible]
J.L. Edwards

John Kimball, Espr.
Barton, Vermont
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House of Rep March 8 48
Sir
I enclose herewith certain papers in support of the application of the representative of Moses Andrews for a pension.  The decision may be communicated [illegible]
Yours respectfully,
Geo P March

[illegible] J.L. Edwards
Com Pen.
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Barton Vt.
Feb 8  Free

Hon James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War department Washington

(vertical on side)
Feb. 15. 1839

4348
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Barton Vt. February 1839

James Edwards Espr.
Sir enclosed is the papers of Lydia Andrews for a pension - she is very poor and in great need of a pension - I hope sir to have a return as soon as conveniently may be [illegible] to "John Kimball Barton Orleans County Vermont."

Respectfully yours - John Kimball
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Burlington Sept. 16, 1848
Dear Sir.
Col Edwards, in his letter to you of March 25th. '48, which you sent to me, relating to the claim of Lydia Andrews, decsd, widow of Moses Andrews, requires further testimony, showing the time of her death.  I have procured the affidavit of Thos D. Lusell, M.D. who attended her during her last sickness, which I think will be satisfactory.  

I forwarded to you last winter a copy of an order, drawn by Moses Andrews, and some twelve of fifteen others, soldiers in Capt Lee's company, on the Treasurer of Vermont, requesting the depreciation of their pay to be paid to Col Thomas Lee, with a copy of Col Lee's receipt annexed, dated April 14, 1781, of nine pounds for each man. "being the same ( as expressed in the receipt) ordered to be paid or allowed, towards (underlined) their depreciation XXX (mark out) at present." 

In relation to these papers, Col Edwards says that "the amount of services rendered is no where shown, "and we should not feel willing to allow more "than six months service, in addition to that already "admitted," making 12 mos & 8 days as a private, and four days as a sergeant.  

The amount of Moses Andrews' service, though not shown by the record (last 3 words underlined), is shown by an affidavit of a witness, now on file with the papers in the pension office to have been three years (last two words underlined) in Capt Lee's company.  Capt Lee's company was raised in the early part of the war, and was attached to Col Seth Warner's regiment, a regiment raised under the authority of Congress.  Hence the service was not of the character of our militia service, as who (marked out) our militia were called out for limited periods.
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I have caused the revolutionary papers and rolls in the Secretary of State's office to be re examined and the result is that nine of the persons who drew the order for their depreciation money in favor of Capt Lee, in 1781, were afterwards settled with and each allowed the sum of L 37.3.6 for their depreciation money.  But no paper or record shows any settlement with Andrews.

I herein enclose the Secretary's certificate of these facts. 

It must be well known to Col Edwards that a large portion of our revolutionary papers were destroyed by mice, many years ago, as this has been shown to him on former occasions.  

From these facts I content that the affidavit showing three years service, is so far corroborated by the record that a full pension, which requires but two years service, ought to be allowed.  

1st. The certificate, showing the payment of L 9.00 to each man "towards their depreciation" clearly implies that more was then due.

2nd. Nine of the men who thus received each L 9.00 - two years afterwards were severally allowed L 37.3.6. The men probably did not call for their pay all at the same time.  Some might have been paid at one time, and other at another.  And, as many of the papers have been destroyed, the fact that there is no record of a final settlement with Andrews, does not do away the testimony that  more was due him when he received the L 9.0.0.

The record thus far sustaining the affidavit, the presumption is that the witness is correct as to the time of his (marked out) Andrews' service, and that he was finally
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paid as the other were L 37.3.6, and that the vouchers are destroyed.  

I trust that this view of the testimony will satisfy Mr. Edwards that a full pension ought to be allowed, inasmuch as two years service entitles the soldier to a full pension.

Assuming that L 37.3.6 is full pay for three years depreciation, nine pounds would be equivalent to about nine months service.  

But I submit that, taking the whole testimony in the case, there is sufficient to warrant a full pension. 

Please present the case to Col Edwards at your earliest convenience, and inform me of the result. 

I am, very respectfully your ob Servt.
Wm Weston

Hon Geo P Marsh,
M.C.
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James L Edwards Esq
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In the case of Lydia Andrews nothing more can be done than what is shown by the enclosed papers--

John Kimball
June 24th 1840
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Burlington Sept 18. 48

Sir
I enclose herewith additional testimony in the case of Lydia Andrews, widow of Moses Andrews, a revolutionary soldier, which I trust will be deemed sufficient, together with a letter from Wm Weston, reflecting the case.  Be good enough to communicate the decision to-
Yours respectfully,
Geo P Marsh

Col J. L. Edwards
Com. Pension
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Lydia Andrews


Wm Weston
Prob
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Washington Dec 1. 1846

Sir.
In your note of the 25th inst, in answer to my enquiry relating to the application of Lydia Andrews, widow of Moses Andrews for a pension you inform me "that the date of the marriage is considered as satisfactory and six months service on a tour to Quebec, and eight days as a private and four days as sergeant when called out on several alarms, will be allowed" - and that "three years service as a ranger under Capt Lee was claimed, but was never proven as required by the Secretary of the State of New York"

As I have been but recently employed in this case, and am wholly ignorant of what papers have already been filed, will you do me the favor to permit me to look at the papers.  The case was presented by Judge Kimball and was pending when he died.  

I am very respectfully your obt. servt
Wm Weston

James L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
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May 7 / 50

Lydia, wid of 
Moses Andrews
Additional testimony

[illegible]
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Washington May 6. 1850.

Sir, 
I enclose the affidavit of The. D. Sazell, ell D, showing the time of the death of Lydia Andrews, widow of Moses Andrews, viz, May 8.  1844, certified in due form by the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine [?] , Governor in Chief of Canada. 
In this case, I am confident the evidence shows more than two years service.  The affidavit of Andrews, on file shows a three years service in Lee's Company of Rangers, attached to Warner's Reg't, which Regiment was "Continental" and served during the war.  The [illegible] evidence is corroborative of the affidavit.  Please isue a certificate. 
I am very respectfully
Your officiant
[illegible] Neston