Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 15,825, Alexander Brush, Continental Vt.
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Service 
Continental Vt.  

Brush, Alexander  
Ruth  

Number  W 15,825
 B.L.Wt. 19,606-160-55
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1363
Albany, New York
Ruth Brush
widow of Alexander Brush
who died on the 15th July 1815
of Franklin Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Sergt. Ensign Adjutant in the      commanded by Captain      of the regt commanded by Col. Warner in the Vermont
line for 6 mos. $5 days Sergt 30.83
12 mos 28 days Ensign 129.33
6 mos 27[?] days Adjt 98.
$258.16
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 258.16 Dollars 16 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Increased from $225.50
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of July 184[?]3 and sent to Wm Weston Esq Burlington Vermont
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending
Former payments to be deducted
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836
Section the
Recorded by D Brown  Clerk,
Book C.  Vol. 1.  Page 107.

Reported to Agent
see letter
Increased from $225.50
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State of New York
Franklin County

On this first day of March A.D. 1837 -- personally appeared before me Horatio Powell, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Franklin and State of New York personally appeared [crossed out] Ruth Brush of Malone in the said County of Franklin, aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn, according to law doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836. That she is the widow of Alexander Brush, who was a Sergeant and Ensign in Warner's Regiment, and subsequently a Lieutenant and Captain with in that regiment or in the State of Vermont troops. That the said Alexander Brush enlisted as she believes into Seth Warner Regiment in the service of the United States (and a regiment backed by Congress) in the 
year 1776 and served in said regiment in different capacities until the [crossed out] sometime in the year 1779 - at which time he was an Ensign and resigned. 

That afterward, as she believes, in the year 1781 or 1782, he received a Lieutenant's commission and in the spring of that [crossed out] the year when he received said commission he entered the service and served a campaign in the capacity of Lieut - how long that campaign continued she cannot recollect, but thinks that he was absent from home in that service six months, at least, and believes that it was longer than six months. Soon after his return from this last campaign he received a Captain's
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Commission but resigned it shortly afterwards from the lapse of time that has intervened since those services were rendered, she cannot specify the exact duration of them but knows that they were rendered in the United States service. She relies for proof of the services upon the records in the was department and the accompanying depositions.
She further declares that she was married to the said Alexander Brush on the 20th of April A.D. 1780 by the Rev Mr. Avery in Bennington Vermont, that her husband the aforesaid Alexander Brush died on the fifteenth day of July A.D. 1815 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
On the first page the following words were erased as "personally appeared" "the" and "that" and the following were interlined vis "the" & "when he received said commission" and on the second page front of the word "fifteenth" written on an erasure and "1814" erased, all before signing.
Ruth Brush
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I hereby certify that I am, and have been for sixteen years past acquainted with said Ruth and know her to be a person of strict truth and veracity, and there being no court in session. I attended personally to take her testimony.
Horatio Powell
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
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I, Mary Meigs of Malone in the County of Franklin and State of New York do hereby testify and say that I am the daughter of Ruth Brush who has made the above declaration, that my father Alexander Brush, the husband of said Ruth, died at Madrid New York - in July A.D. 1815 - I was present when he died and attended his funeral - my mother the said Ruth Brush has ever since that time remained the widow of said Alexander Brush my late father - and still is his lawful widow.  The word "testify" written partly on an erasure or blob before signing
Mary Meigs
Sworn to and subscribed on the first day of March A.D. 1837 before me and I certify that the said Mary Meigs is and has been an acquaintance of mine for sixteen years past and is a person of strict truth and veracity.

Horatio Powell
Judge of Franklin County Court of Common Pleas
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Vol. B2. - 64. -
149597 Act 3 Mch
May 28/58
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Ruth Brush
Widow
Alexander Brush, 
Sergt - Ensign - Lieut. 
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Pensioned New York
Vt. State troops,
Revolutionary War
AD: 160 Acres Mch 22d 56
[NS?] July 36-1343
Boynton
-----
S. Raymond
Potsdam
St. Lawrence C
N. Y.
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[Revolutionary Widows.]
DECLARATION.
State of New York         }
County of St. Lawrence }  ss.

On this Twenty first day of May A.D. 1855 before me, Milton Brown a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared Ruth Brush aged Ninety two years, a resident of Pottsdam in the State of New York who, being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the Act of Congress approved March 3d, 1855.

That she is the widow of Alexander Brush who was a Sergt. Ensign & Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War; that on account of the services of her husband, the aforesaid Alexander Brush in said war, she now receives a Pension at the rate of $308 32/100 per annum, under the act of the 4th July, 1836 as will more fully appear by reference to the evidence now on file in the Pension Office of Washington.

She further declares that she is now a widow; that she has never before applied for nor received any Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress.

Claimant's Signature.  Ruth Brush  her X mark

We, Sewall Raymond and George W. Smith residents of the town of Pottsdam in the State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Ruth Brush in our presence, and that we know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be, and that she is now a widow.

Signature of 2 witnesses.
Sewall Raymond
George W. Smith

The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. and further I certify that by reason of age and infirmity the said Ruth Brush is unable to write her name and that she signed the above declaration by making her cross or mark to the same.

Milton Brown
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York      }
St. Lawrence County, }  ss.
Clerk's Office,            }

I, GEORGE S. WINSLOW, Clerk of said County of St. Lawrence, and also clerk of the Courts of Record, directed by law to be held therein, do hereby certify, that Milton Brown before whom the annexed affidavits were made, was, at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same; and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice, and verily believe his signature to the jurat of the annexed affidavits is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County and Courts, this 22nd day of May 1853.
George S. Winslow, Clerk.
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In the matter
of Ruth Brush widow
of Alex. Brush
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Ebenr Brush aft.
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State of New York
Franklin County Ss: Ebenezer Brush of Potsdam
in the county St. Lawrence state aforesaid 
being duly sworn says that he is the son of
Alexander and Ruth Brush that this 
deponent was born according to a family record and kept by his father on the 19th day of November in the year 1780 and as this deponent is informed and believed in the town of Bennington and state of Vermont. That when this deponent was about two years of age  his father and mother moved to Vergennes in the state last aforesaid and ten or fifteen years thereafter moved to the town of Madrid in the county of St Lawrence. 
And this deponent further says that he was
married according to 
the best of his recollection the 18th day of
August in the year 1805 being then twenty
five years of age. That soon after his marriage
he copied from a record in the handwriting 
of his father in the family Bible the
following date of his this deponents birth
which is these words "Ebenr Brush son of 
Alexander and Ruth Brush was born in the year 
1780 the 19th of November"
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And this deponent further says that about four years after his marriage he moved to the town of Potsdam aforesaid where he now resides &   that about two or three years  after his settlement at Potsdam, this deponent
[bamed?] and while on a visit at his father's at Madrid aforesaid that the Bible containing said original record was destroyed by a dog while the family were absent at church. This deponent ^ say that said record made any mention of the marriage of his father & mother but his impression is that it did not.
And this deponent further says he is the
oldest child of the said Alexander & Ruth
Brush. And further this deponent saith not-

The words "at Madrid aforesaid, erased on 1st page and the "Brush" interlined on same page & also the word "say" in the last page interlined before signing.                                     Ebenr Brush

Sworn this 15th day of July 1837 before me Horatio Powell
A Judge of Franklin County Courts

State of New York ss}
I Uriah Mecker, Reg. Clerk
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Franklin County of Franklin County Court
do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Horatio Powell Esquire whose name is above written that he is a Judge of Franklin County Court duly commissioned and sworn that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and that I
verily believe his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my name and the seal of said County this 17th day of July 1837

M.D. Mecker,  Clk
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I Susanna Fay of Burlngton in the County of
Chittenden and State of Vermont aged Sixty six years and Eight months depose and say that I am the daughter of Doct Jonas Fay deceased and the sister of Ruth Brush, widow of Alexander Brush, an applicant for a pension; and that I remember my said sisters
wedding, I was so young at the time that I cannot remember the particulars so as to state who were present at the wedding, nor the name of the minister who solemnized the marriage. I was with other members of my fathers family present at the marriage
 I well remember that soon after the marriage, my sister and her husband moved away from my father's house to a house about a mile distant from my father' s where they resided one year and that during their residence in that house my sisters first child was born ^ Immediately after that years residence in the house above mentioned my sister & husband removed to another residence in the same town (Bennington Vermont where they were married) and at the time of their removal their family consisted of themselves and their child which was born during the first year after their marriage-
 I cannot state the year when they were married and do not know of any living witnesses who were at the wedding. My father kept a family record but I do not know that it is now in existence and believe that it is either lost or destroyed. "Immediately" interlined, and "said ""above " and "after" written on blots or erasures before signing.               Susanna Fay

Sworn to and subscribed this 21st day of June
A.D. 1837 before me and I certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Susanna Fay- and know her to be a person of truth and credibility
Wm Weston Justice Peace
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State of Vermont}
Chittenden County ss}
I Phineas Lyman of Burlington in the County of Chittenden aged sixty years do depose and say that I have been acquainted with Ebenezer Brush who has made and subscribed the foregoing deposition; for nine years past and know ^him to be a person of truth and veracity "been" and "him" interlined before signing      
               P. Lyman

Sworn to and subscribed this 21st day of July
A.D. 1837 before me and I certify that I am personally acquainted with Thomas Lyman, the affiant, and know him to be a man of credibility and truth.                     Wm Weston Just. Peace


"Before me" interlined before signing"}
W. Weston J. Peace}
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State of Vermont}
County of Chittenden ss}

I William Weston, Register of the Probate Court within and for the District of Chittenden and State of Vermont, do hereby certify that William Weston, before whom the foregoing deposition of Phineas Lyman was taken was the time of taking the same and still is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Chittenden, duly commissioned and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto
affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my
name this 22nd day of July A.D. 1837 at Burlington in said County of Chittenden.
                                        Wm Weston Register
Sir
I noticed that Judge Powell had omitted to certify that the witness Ebenr Brush was a credible witness, as it would cause considerable delay to send the deposition back to him that he might supply the omission. I have taken the testimony of Mr Lyman a credible witness (which I trust will be satisfactory) to cure the defect. The deposition of Mrs Fay and Mr. Brush taken together I think must be satisfactory to show that the widow Brush was married at the time she states in her declaration viz April 1780. Yours respectfully Wm. Weston

J. L. Edwards Esq
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Statement of the military of Alexander Brush,
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR,
you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  [Ind?] F 15825 Mar. 14, 1916
_________________________________________
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.         LENGTH OF SERVICE
1776 to 1779
Spring of 1781                6 mos

RANK
Sgt.  
Lieut. 
Adjt


|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED|
CAPTAIN                                    COLONEL
Andson Bronson                           Seth Warner
John Stark                                 Samuel Fletcher

STATE
VT
VT


Bro. of Col. Nathaniel Brush-
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Battles engaged in,....None stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment,..None stated
Date of widow's application for pension,....Mar 1,1837-her claim was allowed
Her Residence at date of application,...Malone, Franklin Co, N. Y.
Age at date of application, 73 years


Remarks:  Soldier died July 15, 1815 at Madrid, N.Y. He married Ruth Fay, April 20, 1780 at Bennington, VT, children: Ebenezer, born Nov. 19, 1780, Sarah Fay Lyndon born in 1783 and Mary [?]                       & dau Dr. Jonas Fay
Very respectfully,
Mrs. E. S.  Miller
1125-[? St Springfield, ILL]

200820111-05

Commissioner
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War Department
Pension Office
December 8 1837

Sir,

I have received the letter of Mr. Weston, and the proof in support of the claim of Ruth Brush for an increase of pension and in reply have the honor to state, that from the payroll of Captain John Stark's company, it appears that Mr. Brush was paid as Lieutenant, £1.18:3 for services "from the beginning of the Company in 1781 to the 30th of June."  It also appears that he was paid as Lieut. from the 1st of July to the 22 of November 1781, 142 days.

It further appears from the payroll of Col. Fletcher's regiment for the Field and Staff Officers that Alexander Brush was paid as an Adjutant from the 25th day of June to the 2st day of November, 1781, £0.1.4 extra per day.

From these several payrolls, is seems that Mr. Brush served in the capacity of Lieutenant and Adjutant from the 25 June to the 22 November 1781, a period of 4 months and 27 days.  By adding this service to that for which the widow is already allowed for her husband's services in Warner's regiment to make up the two years, the result will be as follows;  4 months 27 days, as Adjutant and Lieutenant;
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10 months and 16 days, as Ensign, and 8 months 17 days as a Sergeant; which will amount to $213.46 per annum, being $40.83 more than she was originally allowed.  The difference is produced by the difference between the pay of Lieutenant and Sergeant and the addition of 4 months 27 days as Lieutenant at $13.33 per month, renders it necessary to deduct the same time, as Sergeant, at the rate of $5 per month.  The one amounting to $65.33 and the other to $24.50.  I am this particular because I perceive that Mr. Weston has fallen into an error in his manner of computation; by which he makes the amount $320 per annum.  This has probably arisen by his including in his amount the pay which Mr. Brush received both as Lieutenant and Adjutant, which will amount to nearly two months; whereas it will be perceived that all the service was rendered as Lieutenant and Adjutant, in the year 1781, and between the 25 June and the 22 of November.

There is no difference in the pay of a Lieutenant and Adjutant, in computing the amount of pension under the act of June 7, 1832.  A certificate will be issued, as above, for $213.46, if you shall so direct.
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I have the honor to be very respectfully,
your obt servt
J.L. Edwards
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Hist. to Mrs. E.S. Waller
Mar. 14, 1906
______________________________
1906 Oct. 4 History to
Mrs. Leigh Gross Day

Rev. Widow, &c.
File No. 15823
Ruth Brush
Wid of 
Alexander Brush
Ensign Rev. War
Act July 4th 36
Index: Vol. M, Page 88
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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New York. 1343 - Sept: 26th '43 - Repd by letter
                                                      to Agent

Ruth Brush
Widow of Alexander Brush
who died on the 15th July, 1815
of Franklin (in the State of N. York
who was an Ensign in the __________ commanded 
by  Captain Vt. of the Regt. commanded by
Col. Warner in the 
Sergeant 20 ays
Ensign 12 months & 28 days
line for Lieutenant 4 months 27 days
Adjutant 5 months 15 days
Increased from 24 months
$258.16

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 308 dollars 32 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
_________________________________________________

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of September, 1843 and sent to Wm. Weston Burlington, Vermont.
_________________________________________________

Arrears to the 4th of Sept: '43, $ 3854
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar 154.16
$4008.16

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836,       }
{Section the 3d -       }

Recorded by Uell Stewart, Clerk,
Illegible - Vol. 3d - Page 107

Vertical:  Req SMSS - 149497
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New York-134
________________________________________
Ruth Brush widow of Alexander Brush,
who died on the 15 July 1815 - of Franklin in the State of N. York who was a Sgt. Ens. Pr.  in the __ commanded by Captain __ of the Regt commanded by Col Warren in the Vermont
line for 2 years

Increased from $172.63
---------------------------------------------
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 225 Dollars 50 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
===================================
Certificate of Pension issued the
6 day of Mar. 1838 and sent to Hon. Howard
Allen, H.  of Reps
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Arrears to the 4th inst                  $1.578.50
Semi-annual allowance ending 4, Sep. 112.75
                                                             $1,691.25
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836,
{Section the 3}

Recorded by R. Burdine,  Clerk
Book A.       Vol. 2-   Page 104
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New York ....1343.
Ruth Brush, widow of Alexander Brush, dec'd
who died on the 15 July, 1815; of Franklin Co in the State of N. York who was a Sergt & Engisn in the - commanded by Captain __ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Warner of the Vermont St. [tr?] [line crossed out]
for 4 mos, 27  days Adjt $65.39
12 mos 28 days ensign             $12.98
6 mos.          Sergeant        $30.83
Increase to $225.50         $225.50
===================================
Inscribed in the Roll of New York (Alby)
at the rate of 172 Dollars 63 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
-----------------------------------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of
August, 1837, and sent to Wm. Weston
Burlington, Vermont
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Arrears to the 4th of March 37-            $1035.78
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.           86.31
$1122.09                                                                  =======
Hon. H. Allen                                        
H.R.

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836,}
{Section the 3rd}

Recorded by S. A. Elliot, Clerk
Book: A Vol. 2.    Page 104

Let. Hon H. Allen  [?] 8 '37
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State Office,}
Montpelier, July 4, 1843}

I certify that there is on file in this office a paper, purporting to be a "return of the commissioned, non commissioned officers and privates in Col Seth Warner's Regiment, who belong to the State of Vermont, and who are entitled to be made good the depreciation of their wages, agreeable to a Resolve of the General Assembly of said State. "I further certify that it appears by said pay roll that
Alexander Brush was in service, as sergeant, from March 10, 1777 to August 18, 1778"; that it also appears from the same roll or return that the said Alexander Brush was in service as Ensign from August 18, 1778 to Sept. 16, 1779 - the said roll being certified by Seth Warner, Colonel.
  I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting to be a Pay Roll of Capt John Starks Company in the Battalion commanded by Col Samuel Fletcher in the service "of the State of Vermont- 1781." I further certify that the name of Alexander Brush, as Lieutenant, appears upon said pay roll, with an allowance for one hundred and forty two days service annexed.
I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting to be a Pay Roll of Col. Ebenr Walbridge's Regiment of Field and Staff Officers, on an expedition to the Westward by the Captain Generals order, Dec. 1781." I further certify that
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the name of "Lt. Alex. Brush, Adjt "appears upon said payroll, with an allowance for three days service and I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting to be "A Pay Roll of the field and Staff officers of Col Samuel Herrick's Regiment of Militia while in 
actual service on alarm in the month of October, 1780, for the defence of the State  of Vermont." I further certify that the name of Alexander Brush, Adjutant, appears upon said payroll, with an allowance for thirteen days service annexed.
I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting to be ""A Pay Roll of the Field and Staff Officers of Col. Fletcher's Regiment from the 30th of June, 1781 to the 25th November 1781." I further certify that the name of Alexander Brush, Adjt., appears upon said payroll with an allowance for one hundred and forty nine days service annexed designated "extra pay."
I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper purporting to be a "True List of (the names and sums of) Capt. John Stark's Company's Pay Roll of service in the State of Vermont, from the beginning of the Campaign, 1781, to the 30th of June in said year, inclusive, taken from the original in the Paymaster's Office." I further certify that the name of "Lt Alexander Brush" appears upon said Pay Roll, with an allowance of "£1.18.3" annexed and that said pay rolls appear to have been examined, allowed and ordered to be paid, by a committee acting under the authority of this State, and that they were duly paid by the Treasurer.
Given under my hand and the seal of this office,
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at Montpelier, this fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty -three.

Ferrand F. Merrill
Acting Secretary of State
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Burlington Vermont
August 8th 1837

Sir,
Yours of the 3rd inst is received relating to the
application of Mrs Ruth Brush for a pension
You say that the evidence with respect to the date "of the claimants marriage is not satisfactory. Some record evidence, or the testimony of a credible witness to that effect should be produced."
 If the deposition of Ebenezer Brush the oldest son of the applicant is not regarded as proof in consequence of the Judge before whom it was taken having omitted to certify that he was a credible witness, my request is that the additional testimony may be returned to me that I may procure his certificate and thus cure the defect.
 If on the other hand full faith is given to that
deposition, and the depositions of Mrs Fay and Anna Webster, the objection must be that two of the witnesses were not present at the marriage and that the other does not state the month or year when the marriage was 
solemnized.
There are cases where marriages of old people cannot be directly proved-- yet by connecting one fact with another they may be satisfactorily established. Some cases have come within my own knowledge where widows have obtained pensions without producing either a record of the marriage or the testimony of any witness who was present at the ceremony - The testimony upon that point has been the record of the children's
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births with evidence showing that during the time the husband was in the army the widow and her husband lived together as man and wife-- The record in those cases showed that the children or some of them were born prior to the time when the parents lived together as man and wife. A decision against such claims would be virtually declaring the children illegitimate -
I cannot see any distinction between some cases that have been allowed and Mrs Brush's case Mrs Brush's oldest son gives a copy of the record of his own age as made by his father in his lifetime, which shows that he was born in November 1780. Mrs Webster whose deposition accompanied Mrs Brush's declaration testifies that Mrs Brush was married the spring before she (Mrs W -) was married, and says that her (Mrs  W's) father and mother attended Mrs Brush's wedding, and she relates the conversation had between herself and Mr. Avery the minister who married Mr & Mrs B. Soon after the marriage, wherein Mr Avery stated that he had married Ruth Fay to Alexr Brush. Mrs Brush testifies in her declaration that she was married in April 1780 and Gov- Tichenor testifies to the same effect tho it does not appear from the deposition that he attended the wedding.
 Either the testimony is all false or the witnesses all mistaken (which I cannot believe) or else Mrs Brush was married in April 1780 and if I remember right Gov. Tichenor, and another man whose name I do not recollect states that Alexr Brush was in the service of the U. States in 1781- which was the year after Ebenr Brush was born.
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I have endeavored to furnish satisfactory proof to establish Mrs Brush's claim, and have spared no pains to find a record of her marriage or some living witness who attended the wedding and could recollect distinctly the time when it took place. The result of my labors has been the procuring of the testimony already forwarded, and
I fear that testimony more satisfactory cannot be found. I can send the testimony of a daughter of Mrs Brush, showing the reputed age of her elder brother whose testimony you already have.
 From my knowledge of Mrs Brush, and from the letter she wrote me in which she stated the time when she was married to be the same as stated in her declaration which letter was written before she knew anything about the provisions of the act of July 4th 1836 further than that act contained a provision for the widows of Revolutionary soldiers and officers, and without any knowledge of the necessary proofs to be made in order to establish her claim, I am as fully satisfied that she states the
true time in her declaration as I am [words crossed out] of any fact whatever that did not come within my own personal knowledge.
The presentations in the case are all in her favor
First, because her father's family (Doct Jonas Fay's) and her husband and his connexions were among the most respectable people of their time, so say their contemporaries
Secondly-- because Mrs Brush herself has from her youth sustained a high character for purity and Christian piety. Her mind is strong and in her old age
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her christian faith and character shines brighter and brighter.
You may deem me tedious and overzealous
in thus stating her case, but I cannot do less in
justice to the old lady.
I am aware that great frauds have been
practised upon the government in obtaining pensions, but having been for the last five or six years employed as pension Clerk under the agents for paying pensions in Vermont, I trust that I am able to discriminate between a just and an unjust claim where I have personally heard the testimony of the principal witnesses

That I remarked in the commencement the
claim is disallowed in consequence of the Judges mission to certify that Ebenr Brush is a credible witness please return the deposition that I may procure the certificate -- If on the other hand the witness [placed?] another same footing that he would have been had the Judge certified in due form. I would respectfully ask that the testimony may be re-examined and the depositions last forwarded compared with the testimony forwarded in the first instance-

I am very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Wm.  Weston
Jas L. Edwards Esq
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Ruth Brush
NY
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Whereas I Ruth Brush of New York and the widow of Alexander Brush  ^ Deceased who was a Sergeant and Ensign, Lieutenant and an allowed an pension on account of his services at the rate of Two hundred and Eight Dollars and thirty two cents per annum and am advised that I am entitled to a larger, or increased amount pension. Now therefore I do hereby constitute and appoint Henry C. Sylvester of the City of Washington my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and behalf to present, and [prose]cute my claim for such increased amount of pension as I may be by law entitled to.  Witness my hand and seal at Potsdam this 10th day of June A.D. 1851-

Executed in presence of Jesse Davison}
Ebenr Brush





State of New York
County of St Lawrence ss}

On this 10th day of June A.D. 1851 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County. personally appeared Ruth Brush above named, and to me known and acknowledged the forgoing power of attorney to be her act and deed.  
Jesse Davison Justice Peace

State of New York}
Lawrence of County Ss.}

Ruth Brush of of Potsdam in said County being
duly sworn according to law, doth depose that she is the Widow of Alexander Brush of New York, named in the foregoing power of attorney and that she is directly interested in the claim
and application about to be made for an increase in her pension allowed her by virtue of the services of the said Alexander Brush deceased.    Ruth Brush
Sworn and subscribed on this
day of June A.D. 1851, before Mr
Jesse Davison  J.P.
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STATE OF NEW YORK.
COUNTY OF ST LAWRENCE
I, Israel R. Tapper, Deputy Clerk of the County of St. Lawrence, and also Deputy Clerk
of the Courts of Record directed by law to be held therein, Do hereby certify that
Jesse Davison before whom the annexed affidavit [of (strikethrough)] and acknowledgment of Ruth Brush were
taken, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, elected, sworn, and duly authorised according to law to take the same; And I
further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and
verily believe that the signature to the Certificate and the Jurat of the annexed affidavit is genuine.
-
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County and Courts, the 12 day of June 1851
Israel R. Tapper Dep CLERK
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State of New York
Lawrence County
I, Ruth Brush of Potsdam in the County of
St Lawrence and State of New York aged Eighty
_____ years, do hereby declare and make oath
that I am the widow of Alexander Brush, deceased who was an Ensign in Col. Seth Warner's regiment during the Revolutionary war, and was afterward during said war a Lieutenant Adjutant in the Vermont State troops; that I am advised that I am entitled to receive pay for the Staff office
which my said husband held as above stated in addition to the pension which I have received under the act of July 4, 1836, to obtain which I
now surrender the pension certificate heretofore issued to me under the last mentioned act and ask that a new certificate may be issued to me at the increased rate to which I am entitled.
Ruth Brush
Witness
"Eighty" written over an erasure
I. R. Hopkins
Zenas Clark
Sworn to and subscribed before me a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this Eleventh day of May 1843
Isaac R. Hopkins Judge
of S Law. Co. Courts
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State of New York}
St. Lawrence County ss}
I Alvin C. Low clerk of St. Lawrence County was at the time of taking the same and still is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in said County - I further certify that I am acquainted with his handwriting, and that the signature purporting to be his at the bottom of said declaration, I believe to be genuine.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto
affix the seal of said County and subscribe my name at Canton in said County of St Lawrence this 12th day of May A.D. 1843
A C. Low, Clerk
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Issue New Certificate
5 mos 15 ds adjt
4. 27. Lieut
12 - 28 Ensign
        20 Sergt                                3.33
 302.32-                                        3.66
________________                       7.00  

Deduct what has or been paid-
Wm Weston
Burlington, VT                       24.10.
                                                     70
                                                     20

Payment to be made at Albany by T.W. Olcott, agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of Albany

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book C, Vol 1 Page 107
 D. Brown, Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY  CLAIM

I certify that in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th of July, 1836, Ruth Brush of the State of New York
widow of Alexander Brush
who was a Sergeant Ensign and Adjutant of the Revolution is entitled to receive Two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixteen cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 6th of March 1831- and payable semiannually on the 4th of March and 4th of September. This certificate issued in lieu of one for $225.50 per annum dated 6th May 1838 canceled, Former payments to be deducted.
Given at the War Office of the United States
this fifteenth day of July one thousand eight
hundred and forty three.
J.M. Porter
Secretary of War

J L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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3083.20
   616.64
_________
3699.84
   154.16
__________
3854.00


308.32
        14
________
3699.84
   154.16
________
3854.00
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480
---
122
4933
-
83
28 12
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[Burlington] January 17, 1838

Dear sir, 
     I have examined Mr. Edwards letter to you relating to the claim of Mrs. Brush for an increase of pension, and on making a record of the amount to which she is entitled per annum, I find I made a mistake in my former east[estimate].  My last computation however differs from that made at the pension office, and the difference arises from two causes - first the amt. allowed for her husband services as adjutant and secondly the time or duration of his services as Ensign.  The amt allowed for his services as adjutant Mr Edwards computes at the rate of $13.33 1/3 per month which is the sum a Lieut. is entitled to receive under the act of June 7, 1832 - I have not that act before me, but the substance of its provisions are that a soldier or officer of the revolution who served two years- is entitled to the same amt of pension per annum that he was entitled to receive while in the army as pay for his services.  If he served one year half the amt, if only six months - one fourth of the amt of his pay per annum while in the service - and in that proportion for whatever time he served [stricken word] greater than six months and less than two years.
  By a resolution of Congress of May 27, 1778 - see Journals of Congress - vol 2. p. 567 - the pay of a Lieut is fixed at $26.662/3 per month - pay masters, Adjutant, and Quartermaster are to be taken from the line, and paid as follows pay master $20 - Adjutant $13 - Qr master $13 - each per month "in addition to their pay as officers in the line"
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hence, it appeared - that the pay of an adjutant by that resolution was $36.66 2/3 per month.  The evidence shows in the case of Mrs Brush, that her ^husband was a Lieut. in Capt Starks company and at the same time an adjutant in Col Fletcher's regiment he was paid (as appears by the pay rolls) as a Lieut in Starks [regiment - crossed out] company - and the difference between a Lieut's and Adjutants pay was paid him as adjutant: the latter fact appears from the pay roll of Fletchers regiment.  The evidence brings him within not only the spirit but the letter of the resolution above referred to.
   In relation to his services as Ensign Mr Edwards allowed for 10 months and 16 days. 
   If Mr. Edwards will refer to the papers of Lucretia Kellogg widow of Amos Kellogg - who 
was Sergt in Warners Regt forwarded to the pension office some months since by Jesse
Gove Esq - of Rutland, he will find a certified copy of the roll of Warner's regiment or a part of it, ^and [an - crossed out] will find that Alexr Brush was a Sergt from March 1st 1777 to August 18. 1778 - Ensign from Augt 18, 1778 to Sept 16, 1779, Mr Gove has furnished me with these facts, from a memorandum still in his possession. 
   If I am correct in my facts and computation- the pension should be granted for $257.35 per annum sir

   for 4 mos- 27 days as Adjt - at $19.83 1/3 per mo -                                                                             $97.18 1/3
        12  "      28 - "     "  Ens  -       10 - 
129.33 1/3
         11  "       5    "        Sgt  -         5 - 
   30.83 1/3
-------------
$257.35

   Please submit the case once more to Mr Edwards
He will perceive that he has not allowed enough for the services as Ensign, and I know not why the pension to an Adjt. should not be equal to his pay while in the service - it seems to me that the act of June 7. 1832 entitles him
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to such an allowance.

   I am very respectfully
        Your obt Servt.
            Wm Weston

Hon Heman Allan

15.33 1/3
129. 3731/2
30.33 1/3         | Aug 18 lo  Sept 16 En.   12 Mo 28 ds
___________                                      79
225.50
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State of Vermont }
Chittenden County ss }

I, William Weston of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, testify and say that in the summer of 1836, or early in the fall of that year, I wrote to Thomas Tolman, then of Greensboro Vt. now deceased, who was a paymaster during the revolutionary war, to obtain his testimony, touching the revolutionary services of Alexander Brush, deceased, whose widow was entitled to a pension under the act of July 4 1836.  Mr Tolman answered my letter, saying that he recollected that said Brush was an adjutant in the Vermont troops, but could not state the duration of his services, and remarked that if the papers of Isa Allen, the first Treasurer of Vermont, had been preserved in Treasurer's office.  I should find the service of said Brush stated upon the pay rolls deposited with said Allen by said Tolman.  I immediately wrote to 
Augustine Clark, Esq., then Treasurer of Vermont, asking him to examine in his office for revolutionary pay rolls, &c.   I soon received a letter from him, stating that on receiving my letter, he examined his office and found therein a large box, quite old, which he opened, and found that it contained revolutionary papers and pay rolls: but they were very much mutilated and large portions of them destroyed by mice.  Soon afterward, I saw him personally, and he told me that he had sorted the pay rolls and saved all that could be read, and he further remarked, to use his own words, that "there was a two bushel basket full of mice chaulkings in the box
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which were wholly unreadable, and he burnt them up."
Said Clerk is now dead.
Wm Weston

Sworn to and subscribed this sixth day of September 1845 and I certify that the affiant is a person of truth and credibility, before me
Charles Russell Judge of Probate


State of Vermont } 
District & County of }
Chittendon ss }
I Wiliam Weston, Register of the Probate Court in and for said district of Chittendon do hereby certify that Charles Russell, Esq. before whom the above affidavit was taken and sworn to, was, at the time of taking the same and Hill is Judge of said Probate Court, duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature to the certificate thereto, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said court and subscribe my name at Burlington in said district this 6th day of September, 1845,
Wm Weston, Register
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Burlington Vt. July 22, 1837

Sir -
   I enclose additional testimony to prove the marriage of Ruth Brush an applicant for a pension-
   In behalf of this widow I would again request that her name may be inscribed on the roll of the Burlington Agency -altho at present she resides in the State of N York - yet she is one hundred and fifty miles nearer Burlington than Albany -

I am very respectfully
Your Obt. Serv.
Wm Weston


J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm. of Pensions
PS.  If the claim should be allowed, please inform me if any thing and what term is allowed for services in the militia - W. W.
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[envelope or card handwritten in multiple directions]

[top center as printed image]
Feb 23
[illegible]
Vt

[90-degree notations]
Mrs. Brush
Jas. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions

56.66
     77
______
57.43

[bottom center as printed image]
Hn. H. Allen
[KR.]
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Washington Feby 21. 3[6?]

 JL Edwards Esq

Sir, I am requested to
ask for a certificate of pension for Ruth Brush according to the rate of [illegible] as informed by your letter of Jany 31.

The old certificate is already with you. It was returned when the application was made for a reexamination of the case. -

I am, respectfully your  &
Heman Allen
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[blank]
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Burlington Vermont
Nov. 18, 1837

Sir,
I forward you herewith by the Hon H. Allen
the original pension certificate of Ruth Brush with evidence of additional services of her husband rendered in the Revolutionary War.  The pension already granted was for services rendered in Warner's regiment in the
continental line - The additional evidence forwarded herewith shows the service of Alexr Brush in the Vermont militia.
 The abstract, numbered 1 & 2 show his service as a Lieut in Capt John Starks company in all 151 days- The copy no 3 shows 149 days service in Col. Fletchers regiment as an adjutant.  It [stricken word] appears from Capt Stark rolls that he was paid as a Lieut in his company and from Col. Fletchers roll that he was paid "extra pay" meaning I suppose the difference between a Lieuts. pay and an Adjt pay.
   The Treasurer (of this State) is unwilling to send you the original rolls.  I therefore took copies so far as thought necessary to show the service of Alexr Brush, and having examined the originals with care I assure you that the abstracts contain all that relates to his services-
   There are many old pay rolls in the Treasurers office - and I noticed in looking them over, the names of many persons who are receiving pensions in the
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Vermont agencies.
[I am] pleased to examine this case and if it proves satisfactory grant a certificate for a pension at such rate per annum as the evidence will allow of - I have made a computation and if correct in my data &c the sum varies a fraction only from $320 pr anm,

 I am very respectfully
Your obt. Servt.
Wm Weston

Jas L. Edwards Esq

P. S. The Treasurer of this State resides at
Madison Vermont - The old rolls above alluded to, and in his office at Montpelier. He would probably permit me to make copies of them and I could procure the Secretary of State to Examine and compare them with the originals and certify them to be correct under his official seal,
Yours &c &c
Wm Weston
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Payment to be made
at Albany by T. W. Olcott, Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of
Albany, N. York
Issue Certificate for
5 mos 5 ds Sergt
12. 28. Ensign
   4. 27. Adjt
_____________
   24.00
_____________
$225.50
______________
Hon. Heman Allen

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A Vol. 2
Page 104 by
S. A. Elliot Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

I certify that in conformity with the 3rd section of the law of the United States of the 4th July, 1836, Ruth Brush of of New York, widow of  Alexander Brush, deceased who was a Sergeant & ensign in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive
one hundred & seventy dollars and sixty three
cents per annum, during the time she may
remain unmarried commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September
Given at the War Office of the United States , this twenty fourth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven

J R. Poinsett
Secretary of War

Examined and
Countersigned.}

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
[written across the page] Cancelled
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Payment to be made at Albany, by the Pres. of  of the Mechanics & Farmers Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of
Albany NY


Issue new certificate
6 Mo. 5ds. Sergt 30.83-
12. 28. Ensign     129.33
4.27. Adjt               98.00
                           $258.16
258.16
Deduct what has been paid-

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A. Vol. 2.
Page 104 

by
Wm. Weston Esqr
Burlington, R Burdine Clerk.
VT
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War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the 3rd section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Ruth Brush of New York widow of Alexander Brush deceased who was a Sergeant, Ensign and Adjutant during the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive two hundred & twenty five dollars and fifty cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and  4th of September. Issued in lieu of the rates, 24 August 1827, for $172.63, which has been returned and cancelled.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
[illegible]R.P.
Examined and
Countersigned.
JL Edw
Con
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Sergt  6 mo 5 days
Ensign 12 "  28 "
Adjt     4 "   27"

March 1 77 to 18 Aug 78  Sergt 17. 18.
18 Aug 78 to 16 Sept 79  Ensn? 12. 28

142
----
4.22 Lt.
     5
-----
4.27
  

3 adjt[?]
13--
149--
-------
/165
------
5.15 dy[?] adjt

adjt 5. 15
Lt     4. 27
Ensign 12.18
--------------
24.0

24
10.12
------
13.18
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Burlington Vt. July 29, 1843
Sir, 
On the 4th inst I was at Montpelier and found that the Secretary of State, under a resolution of our Legislature, had made an index to all the pay rolls in his office. This enabled me to find additional evidence of services rendered by Alexander Brush during the Revolutionary War.
I took a certificate from the acting secretary of all the services of said Brush, appearing upon the rolls in his office, and I believe this certificate shows sixteen or twenty days services as adjutant in Vermont in addition to the services stated in the copies which you have on file in your office. Whether it also shows more services as Ensign &c in Warner's regiment than Mrs. Brush has already been allowed for, I am not advised.
I enclose the secretary's certificate and also the certificate issued to Mrs. Brush, by you, on the 15th inst and request that a new certificate may issue at increased rate which the additional services entitle her to receive.
If the evidence is satisfactory, please enclose me the certificate.
I am very respectfully
Your obt servt
Wm Weston
P.S. Of the above 16 or 20 days service as Adjt, nothing has heretofore been allowed, either as Lieut or Adjt.
J.L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
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Pri: Act 36, NY
 D.D. Upton
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of the [illegible] asking that the bounty land claim of Nathan Clark be made special, has been referred to this Office.
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19606

[illegible]
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Public Business           FREE

POTSDAM
MAY 23
N.Y.
Commissioner of Pension
Pension Office
Washington City
D. C

149597
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149597
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Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, N.Y.
May 23, 1855
Sir:
Mrs. Ruth Brush wishes me to forward the inclosed declaration &c. of hers to the U.S. Pension Office. If she is entitled to the Bounty Land she claims you will please send her the Warrant for the same.
As she is some distance from our village Post Office you may if you please direct her to my care. 
Respectfully yours &c.
S Raymond
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A Payroll of Captain John Stark's Company in the Battalion commanded by Col Samuel Fletcher in the service of the State of Vermont 1781.

Name and Rank   Commencement of Pay 1781 Ending of Pay 1781 No. of Days in Service Pay per day with officer subsistence No. of miles travelled  Travel per mile Remarks  Total amount 

John Stark Capt July 1st  Nov 22 142 6/8  20 /2D 47.10.0
Alex Brush St. do  do 142 4/3 60 30.13.6
Simon Prentice do 142 4/3 50 30.11.10
Elisha Nolds Sergt. 142 1/7 20 11.8.2
Jos Lawrence do Dec 15 165 13.1.3
Marshal Smith do Sept 4 Nov 22 78 20 6.6.10
David Roberts do Aug 1 112 14 8.19.8

Then follow the names of thirty four others with the number of days which they served the amount due and the footing of the money column in 445.18.9 

Signed "Attest John Stark Capt"
Pay Table office Arlington Jan 9th 1782 
No The Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the within Roll being the sum of four hundred & forty five pounds eighteen shilling and nine pence. L:Mr to the pay master of the state, taking his receipt, for which he, the said Pay master is accountable. 
£445.18.9 Isaac Tichenor
Tim Brownson Committee 

Received of the Treasurer the contents of the above warrant.
Thos Tolman P. Masr. 
No 1. True List (the names and sums of) Capt John Stark's company's Pay Roll of services in the State of Vermont from the beginning of the campaign 1781 to the 30th of June in said year inclusive, taken from the original in the pay must office
Names                             Sums
Capt John Stark              34 13 4
Lt. Alex Brush                    118 3
Lt Sim Prentice               13   0 3
Sergt Elisha Nolds             6 19 4
Sergt Jos Lawrence            7  5 8
Sergt Jacob Wheeler          4  3 11
Sergt Samson Marble         4 15 0
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Then follows the name of the thirty four others with the number of days which they served the amount due.  And the footing of the money column is £445.18.9 
Signed "Attest John Stark Capt"
Pay Table office Arlington Jan 9th 1782
No- The Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the within Roll, being the sum of Four hundred and forty five pounds, eighteen shillings and nine pence. L: M[?] to the Pay master of the State taking his receipt, for which he, the said Pay Master is accountable. 
 
Isaac Tichenor
Tim Brownson Committee
Received of the Treasurer the contents of  the above warrant 
Tho Tolman P. Mastr. 

No. 1. 
True List (the names  and sums of) Capt John Stark's company's Pay Roll of services in the State of Vermont from the beginning of the campaign 1781 to the 30th of June in sd. year. inclusive, taken from the original in the Pay Mast. Office 
Names                    Sum
Capt John Stark       34 13 4
Lt Alexr Brush            1 18 3
Lt Simon Prentice     13 0 3
Sergt Elisha Nolds      6 19 4
Sergt Jos Lawrence     7 5 8
Sergt Jacob Wheeler   4 3 11
Sergt Samson Marble  4 15 0
Then Follow the names of thirty one other with the amount days annexed to their names and the footing of the money column is "£216. 3. 9 1/2"
Pay Table office Sunderland Aug 18 1783. The foregoing having been examined, compared with the original & approved of, the Treasurer is directed to pay the contents of the same to Thos. Tolman  Esq, P. Masr. being the sum of Two Hundred sixteen pounds three shillings & nine pence.
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"half Penny. Lawt Money taking his Receipt
"£21/1.3.9 1/2 
"Tim Brownson
"Saml Bartlet} Committee"
"Received of the Treasurer the contents of the above warrant
"Octr 2nd 1784 Tho. Tolman P. Masr."
No. 3,
"State of Vermont 25th, of November 1781. A Pay Roll for the Field & Staff officers of
"Col Fletcher's Regiment from the 30th of June 1781 to the date hereof.

"Names & Ranks | Commencement of pay | Ending of Pay - | No. of days in Service | Remarks | Pay pr Day | Subsistence per day | amount of Pay & subsistence pr day
[blank] | [blank] | [blank] | [blank] | [blank] | s. d | s. d. | L. s. d.
"Samuel Fletcher Lt. Col. | July 1st | Novem 25th | 148 | [blank] | 10. 0 | 3. 4 | 98.13. 4
"Gideon Ormsby Major | July 1st | Novem 22 | 145 | [blank] | 6. 8 | 2. | 62.16. 8
"Alexander Brush Adjt | June 25th | Novem 21th | 149 | Extra Pay | 1. 4 | [blank] | 9.18. 8
"Isaac Lyman Q. Master | July 1st. | Sept 16th | 78 | Discharged from doing Quartermasters duty by General Enos 16th, of September | 1. 4 | [blank] | 5.4. 0
"Phinehas Heath Sergt Maj | July 1st. | Novem 21th | 144 | [blank] | 2. 0 | [blank] | 14. 8. 0
"Asa Dagert Q M. Sargent | July 1st | Septem 16th | 78 | [blank] | 2. 0 | [blank] | 7.16. 0
Asa Dagert Q. Master | Septem 17 | Novem 25 | 70 | appointed Q.M. by Genel. Enos 16th of Septemb in Lew of Lt. Lyman whol wages made up in this Role for sd Dagert | 3. 4 | [blank] | 11. 13. 4
"John Hazeltine Surgeon Mate | July 1st | Novem. 28th | 150 | [blank] | 5. 4 | 0. 8 | 45. 0. 0
"Saml Fletcher Lt. Col: " £ 255.10. 0"
"Pay table office
"Bennington 27th. Feby 1782} The within pay roll being approved of, the Treasurer is hereby directed
"to pay Thos. Tolman Esq pay master the sum of two hundred and fifty five
"pounds ten shillings and take his rect., for which he is to be accountable.
"Nathl. Brush
"Timo. Brownson } Committee"
"Received of the Treasurer the contents of the above warrant
"Oct 2nd, 1784 Tho Tolman P. Masr."
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State of Vermont
Washington County ss}
I, Allen Wardner Treasurer
of the State of Vermont do hereby
certify that the foregoing abstracts numbered one and two
are true abstracts from the pay rolls of Capt John Starks
company and that the copy no 3, is a true copy of
the original pay roll of the field and staff officers
of Col. Flethers regiment, now remaining in the Treasury
office - Given under my hand at Montpelier
this second day of November A.D. 1837.
Allen Wardner

State of Vermont
Washington County ss}
I, Chauncey L. Knapp
Secretary of State, do hereby certify that
Allen Wardner, who has subscribed the
foregoing certificate is Treasurer of the State
of Vermont, and that his signature thereto
is genuine -
Given under my hand and seal of
office at Montpelier this second day of
November A.D. 1837
Chauncey L. Knapp,
Secretary of State
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I Silas Walbridge of Bennington in the
County of Bennington and State of Vermont, aged
77 years, do testify & say, That I was well acquainted
with Alexander Brush before the period of the revolution, and was acquainted with him a great deal
during the war of the revolution. While in service I
was frequently at the same station with Warner's
Regiment to which he belonged, and in which he
acted as a sergeant, and as I understood he
remained in the Regiment until disbanded.
In 1781 I was with him at Castleton in Vermont,
and Alexander Brush acted as Adjutant
of the Fort.
I knew Ruth Fay who married Alexander
Brush-- I was not in town when their marriage
was consummated-- but I was often at their house
as a friend and visitant afterwards, and knew
they lived together as husband and wife, and
were in good standing & repute, and had children.
And further saith not-
Silas Walbridge

State of Vermont
Bennington County ss} Bennington, January 27, A.D. 1837.
Then personally appeared Silas Walbridge, to me
well known, and after being duly cautioned & examined,
subscribed his name to the above deposition in my presence
and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein
contained, in due form of law. I certify that said deponent
is a credible person.
Before & by me-
O. C. Merrill, Justice of the Peace.
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I Anna Webster, of Bennington, in the County
of Bennington, and State of Vermont, aged
Seventy Seven years, testify and say that I was
well acquainted with Alexander Brush and
Ruth Fay before the War of the Revolution,
I was not present at their marriage, but know
that they were said to have been married about two months previous to my marriage to Isaac Webster which was on the 6th day of July
A.D. 1780, and that they lived together for
many years as husband and wife. I well recollect that early in the summer of 1780, the
Rev. Mr. Avery asked me if he was not to be
present at my wedding, and that this was
after his having solemnized the marriage
of Alexander Brush & Ruth Fay. I have
frequently heard my husband speak about
his being in service with the said Brush in
Warner's Regiment, and further saith not
  Anna Webster  her X mark
Witness
Wm Haswell

State of Vermont
Bennington County Ss. ⎬ Bennington, February 10, 1837
Personally appeared Anna Webster, the
signer of the foregoing deposition and made
oath that the facts therein set forth, are true.
Before me
O. C. Merrill Justice of Peace
I certify that Anna Webster is a credible
person
O. C. Merrill, Justice of Peace
I Henry Robinson, Clerk of the Court of Bennington
County, certify that O. C. Merrill is a Magistrate
in and for said County, and that the above & written signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said
County this 13th day of February, A.D. 1837.
Henry Robinson
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I, Benjamin Harwood of Bennington, in the
County of Bennington and State of Vermont,
aged Seventy Five years, testify and say that
I was living with my father in Bennington, in the year 1780, and I recollect that in the spring of that year, Doctor Jonas Fay came to our house and invited my Father & the family to attend the wedding of his daughter, who was to be married to Alexander Brush; I was not at the wedding. - Dr Fay lived near my father's, and the families were very intimate. I was well acquainted with Alexander Brush & Ruth Fay, before and after their marriage. I know that Brush served in the war of the Revolution, but in what capacity, or for what length of time I am not able to state. And further saith not
Benj Harwood

State of Vermont
Bennington County Ss} Bennington, Feb. 10, 1837
Personally appeared Benjamin Harwood
the signer of the foregoing deposition
and made oath that the facts therein
set forth are true, Before me,
Hiram Harwood - Justice of Peace
I certify that Benjamin Harwood
is a credible person.
Hiram Harwood - Justice of Peace
I, Henry Robinson Clerk of the Court of
Bennington County, certify that Hiram Harwood is a Magistrate in and for said County & that the above signature purporting to be his, is genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of said County, this 13th day of February, A.D. 1837.
Henry Robinson
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I, William Haswell of Bennington, Vermont do
depose and say that the deposition of Anna Webster in the second page of this sheet was written out by me and that the figures in the tenth line "1780" were made on an erasure before the deposition was signed and sworn to by her. having first written 1836 by mistake
Wm Haswell

State of Vermont
Chittenden County Ss ⎬ Sworn to and subscribed this sixteenth day of March 1836 before me
Wm Weston Justice Peace
and I certify that I am personally acquainted with
the said Wm Haswell and know him to be a person of truth and veracity
 Wm Weston Just Peace
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I, William Haswell, Town Clerk for the
Town of Bennington, testify and say, that
I have carefully examined the Records of
said town, and can find no record of the
marriage of Alexander Brush. I further
testify that the record of marriages from the
first settlement of the town to the close of the
Revolutionary War is very imperfect-
Wm. Haswell
-
Sworn to and subscribed at Bennington, this 13th day of February, A.D. 1837, before me,
Henry Robinson Justice of the Peace.
I Henry Robinson, Clerk of the Court of Bennington County certify, that William Haswell is Town Clerk for the Town of Bennington, and that the above signature purporting to be his, is genuine. - I further certify that Henry Robinson
is a Magistrate, as above, and that the above
signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County, at Bennington, this 13th day of February, A.D. 1837.
Henry Robinson
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V1625
Ruth Brush
Widow of Alexander
N.Y.
Entd Col Warners regt 6 Dec 1776 Capt Brownson Company 3 years
Promoted Ensign 18 Aug 1778 in Cap Wolarts Company
4th July 1779 abr out on Furlough
admd as
Ensign 10 mo & 16 days 105.30
Sergeant 13 & 14 -67.33
[illegible] 2 years $172.63
commencing 4 March 1831
do State troops
Col Warner

Wm Weston Esq
Burlington
Vt
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I Isaac Tichenor of Bennington County of Bennington & State of Vermont aged eighty three years depose & say that during the revolutionary war I was well acquainted with Alexander Brush & his Brother Oren Nathaniel Brush of this village the latter commanded the Bennington Regt of Militia &, at the time of the celebrated action of the 16th August in 1777 near this place he was the officer detached by General Stark to the command of the forces, which by a circuitous route, were to attack a breast work erected by the British Col to protect the rear of his encampment - In consequence of my intimacy with the Col (Brush) - I afterwards became acquainted with his younger Brother Alexander Brush who I understood & am confident, was a soldier in Col Seth Warners Regt & belonged either to Capt Hopkins Company or the Compy commanded by Gideon Brownson but at what time he enlisted or how long he continued in said Regt before it was disbanded, I cannot say. I know that in the spring of 1780 he married Mis Ruth Fay, Daughter of the Honorable Jonas Fay. I cannot now recollect of any incident that brought his situation to my recollection from the time of his marriage untill about the 16th of October 1781 - a short time previous to this our state troops were formed into a Brigade of Roger Enos their commander I had the appointment of Maj Brigade - we were then (Oct 1781) attending the Legislature at Charleston fifty miles east of our main Fort at Castleton when an express arrived from S. Fletcher to Gen. Enos & the Govr with information that a large reinforcement of troops had arrived at Ticonderoga & wished the attendance of the General - we instantly set out for Castleton - I well recollect on our arrival within the fort of noticing a number of soldiers on the parade then under the excursion & discipline of Alexander Brush as adjutant - the next day after our arrival at the fort, an express arrived from Genl Stark stationed at Saratoga, stating the he was well assured the Brisith had collected a large force at Oswego, their object was to press down the Mohawk Country - destroy Schenectady & make an attack upon his fort - that the reinforcement
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which had arrived at Ty-a under St Ledger was designed to afford protection to this party - he entreated Genl Enos to send an armed force to Fort Ann to intercept them, in case of their failure or otherwise in their attack on him - by the same express Genl Enos assured him that on the next day or the day after he would be at Fort Ann with all the force he could spare - in the afternoon of that day he informed me that he would leave the command of the Fort to Col. Fletcher & that he would go in person at the head of five hundred men to Fort Ann - he wished the force to be composed of the best of our troops - not detached, but as volunteers - adjutant Alexander Brush was the person on whom I relied for this selection - it was readily obtained & the next day we marched for Fort Ann & on the evening of that day arrived - on the morning of the 2 or 3 day we heard the firing of cannon at Saratoga - & fully believed it was an attack on Storkes - but in the afternoon an express arrived from Storkes that the firing was a few - dejoy - on the news of the Capture of Cornwallis - we immediately returned to Castleton - & was informed that St Ledger had returned to Montreal with his reinforcement of troops. - Our State troops, which had been collected in this emergency, from the different stockade forts, east of the Lake at a distance of fifty miles & who had been stationed in different towns for the protection of the inhabitants as the incursion of the British, who had command of the Lake were ordered to repair to their former parts. In this distribution of the different Corps, whether adjutant Brush remained at our main Fort at Castleton or was stationed at other different parts I cannot say. I know that the muster & pay-rolls of the Brigade were regularly made out - but for the want of proper persons to take the charge of our fiscal concerns at that day, these papers cannot now be found.
I have been very prolix in the above statement in order to show that I cannot be mistaken in respect to the facts. That Alexander Brush served in Col.Warner Regt - & that in October 1781 he was an acting Adjutant in this States service - with respect to the duration of his service whether for a year or to the close of the war - it is not for me to decide - & further I do not depose. Isaac Tichenor
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State of Vermont
Bennington County Ss}

Bennington, March 8, A.D. 1837.

Personally appeared this day the above named Isaac Tichenor who signed the foregoing deposition, and made oath to the truth of the facts therein stated before me.

I hereby certify that the deponent is a man of undoubted truth and veracity, and a credible witness.

O. C. Merrill, Justice of the Peace

See the Clerk's certificate that O. C. Merrill is  Justice of the Peace at the foot of Anna Webster's deposition.
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I, Sarah F. Lyman of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont aged fifty four years, depose and say that I am the daughter of Ruth Brush, the widow of Alexander Brush, an applicant for a pension under the law of the United States of July 4th 1836; that my late father Alexander Brush, the husband of said Ruth, died as I believe in July 1815.  I was not present when he died, but know the fact as well as a child can know of the death of a parent by being informed of it by members of the family who saw him die and attended his funeral.  My mother the said Ruth Brush has ever since the death of my father remained and still is his widow.  "Ruth" written on an erasure before signing, and also a part of  the word "widow."

Sarah Fay Lyman

Sworn to and subscribed this eleventh day of March A.D. 1837 before me, and I certify that the said Sarah F. Lyman is a person of truth and veracity.

Wm Weston Justice Peace

State of Vermont
County of Chittenden}

I, William Weston, Register of the Probate Court for the District of Chittenden and State of Vermont, before whom the above deposition was sworn to, and also the deposition of William Haswell, was
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[the beginning of each of the first five lines is covered]
the time of taking the same and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Chittenden, duly commissioned, and that his signatures thereto are genuine.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said court and subscribe my name this 17th day of March A.D. 1837 at Burlington in said County of Chittenden.

Wm Weston, Register
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To The Pension Department
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir

Please send me the military record of Alexander Brush.  during the Revolutionary War he drew a pension.  Born Jan.21st 1755.  Died July 16th 1815 in New York State.  His wife was Ruth Fay.

Very truly yours,

Mrs. Leigh Gross Day
845 South 4th St.
Springfield Ill.

Sept. 22nd 1906

[Stamped] O.W. & N. DIV FILES SEP 25 1906
[Stamped] U. S. PENSION OFFICE SEP 24 1906
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Illinois Daughters of the American Revolution

Mrs. Benjamin A. Fessenden,
State Regent,
Highland Park

Mrs. William P. Dickie,
State Treasurer,
Hunker Hill

Mrs. Edwin W.  Walker,
State Vice President,
Springfield

Mrs. L. D. Dunn
State Historian,
Moline

Mrs. R. W. Colville
State Recording Secretary
Galesburg

My dear Sir:

Will you please send me the Revolutionary War record of Alexander Brush.  His wife drew a pension in 1836 & _____ from St. Lawrence Co. New York
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He was called a Colonel

Yours Truly

Mrs. E. S. Walker

1125 South 5th St.
Springfield
Illinois

[stamped] U. S. PENSION OFFICE
MAR 7 1906