Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16605, Ammi Andrews, N.H.
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SERVICE: N.H.
Andrews, Ammi
NUMBER: S. 16,605
carded
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Left side:
Also on Invalid roll
Hon. Jefferson Davis
Secretary of War.
8th June 1854.
[Stamp] The National Archives of the United States

Right side:
4655.
New Hampshire
Ammi Andrews 
of Hillsboro in the State of NH 
who was a Lieut in the Company commanded
by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded 
by Col Stark in the NH 
line for 20 mos. Lieut.
1 " P [?]
Inscribed on the Roll of N H 
at the rate of 269 Dollars 99 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of Jany 1833 
and Sent Hon. [missing] Hubbard 
H of Reps 
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $404.98 
Semi-anl.allowance ending 4 Mar 33 134.99 
[=] $539.97 

{Revolutionary Claim,} 
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J. Hesse [?] Blair Clerk,
[Book - missing] Vol. 1st Page 139
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Hillsborough New Hampshire 
July 7 1832

Hon Lewis Cass 
Secy of War

Sir,
Being at this time in the receipt of small pension as an invalid I take the liberty to address you by letter for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7, 1832 and for that [illegible] make the following statement of my services. I am now ninety seven years old. In the month of April 1775 I was a resident of Hillsborough now in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire. In the month last aforesaid according to the best of my recollection I entered the service of the United States as a Sergeant in a Company from said Town of Hillsborough commanded by Capt Isaac Baldwin. I marched in the first instance to Cambridge soon after I was ordered to the North of Boston on Chelsea [?] shore for the purpose of defending the American troops, who were directed to take cattle &c from Hog Island, in a skirmish which insued [sic] I received a wound. My left arm was broken by a grape shot from the enemys shipping. I repaired soon after to the residence of my father in Concord Mass where I remained till my wound had partially recovered, in the mean time the battle of Bunker Hill was fought and in that Engagement Capt Baldwin under whose command I had acted was killed. When my wound Enabled me
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to rejoin the service I received the Commission of an Ensign in Capt Henry Dearborn's Company and Colonel John Starks Regt. Having acted a Short time under my Ensigns commission a corps was organised to go thro' the woods to Canada under the command of Colonel Arnold in said Expedition I received a commission of second Lieutenant in Capt Henry Dearborn's Company. I performed said Expedition and before the walls of Quebeck in the Early part of winter in an Engagement. (Colo. Arnold commanding the American Troops) I was taken prisoner and remained in durance [?] till the third day of August 1776 as appears from a copy of my parole of honor herewith inclosed. Immediately upon being released I repaired to Hillsborough the place of my residence during the Revolution and my home now, with a full Expectation that I should be exchanged as soon as circumstances would permit. I could not relieve myself from my imprisonment without first giving my parole and having given to that my signature. I could not as a man of honour again enter the service till my Exchange was affected. The consequence was that there was a new organisation in the early part of 1777 of three years men At that time I could have entered the service as I most ardently desired to do under circumstances but I considered myself Still a second Lieutenant in the United States Service. And for more than a year I was constantly Expecting some
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Exchange that would relieve me from the obligations imposed by my Wards. I do not now know that their is a single individual living who performed with me the Expedition to Quebeck -- Perhaps General Dearborns affidavit touching my services and rank may be found on the files of your department. I think it is there. I herewith inclose a letter from William Johnson who was a corporal in Capt Dearborns Company written in 1796, A letter from Genl Dearborn dated 1812 ,and a part of each of my old commissions which were recently found among the papers belonging to the Estate of a deceased son. If the Evidence in my favor now on file in the department, the statement which I have here made and the papers which I send in corroboration of it are not sufficient to Establish my claim to the benefit of the act above refered [sic] to as a Surviving Lieutenant I should like to be advised as soon as convenient what further steps it is necessary for me to take. Any communication you may make to me upon the subject you will please to address to "Hon Franklin Pierce Hillsborough N.H." 
I am with high consideration 
your Obdt Servt 
Ammi Andrews 

To the Honorable Cass 
Secy of War- 
Dear Sir, I saw Ammi Andrews affix his signature to the foregoing Letter, said Andrews has resided twelve or thirteen years within one mile of my residence. I know him to be the identical Ammi Andrews
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named in a Certificate placing him or the invalid pension roll, dated March 9th 1820 I have frequently conversed with my late friend Genl Henry Dearborn with regard to the march through the woods to Canada & incidentally of the above named Ammi Andrews who Served as a Lieut in his Corps, he allways spoke of Lieut Andrews as a brave and Excellent officer there can be no doubt that the Statement made in the above letter is strictly correct. William Johnson  & James Taggart Late of this Town served with Andrews in the Expedition to Canada they are both dead and I do not know an Individual now Living who was attached to that Corps except the applicant
I am with high Consideration
your obdt Servt
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce
Hillsborough N.H. July 7 1832
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I, Issachar Andrews do testify & say that after Ammi Andrews was relieved from being a Prisoner with the British he went from Hillsboro to Littleton Massachusetts where he worked at farming about one year, from thence he went to a Place now called Lovel where he worked at farming about a year from there to Buxton in the State of Maine he there remained four or five years at farming & Lumbering from thence he went [to] Montpelier in the State of Vermont at work at farming five years, from thence he went to Berlin a Town Joining Montpelier & brought to a Lot of Land and remaing [sic] there five or six years after which he married a Woman in Cavendish in the State of Vermont & lived in Cavendish untill within four or five years since which time he has lived in Hillsborough State of New Hampshire. He has always been an industrious Man and of good Habbits.
[Signed] Issachar Andrews
Hillsborough ss. Sept 7th 1825 
Sworn to and subscribed before me. Benjamin Pierce Commissioner
I hereby certify that Issachar Andrews the subscriber to the above affidavit is a man of undoubted veracity
[Signed] B. Pierce Comr.
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December 24, 1935
Ammi Andrews - S.16605
BA-J/AWF

Miss Charlotte Hobbs
Lovell
Maine

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Abraham Andrews, born September 6, 1747, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, died July 13, 1823 in Lovell, Maine, and Ammi Andrews, born April 13, 1737, died Hillsboro, New Hampshire, aged ninety-one years, soldiers in the French and Indian War and War of the Revolution. 

This office has no record of service rendered in the colonies prior to the War of the Revolution. 

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States, based upon service in that war. A search of the records fails to show claims on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of an Abraham Andrews who died July 13, 1823 in Lovell, Maine. 

The Revolutionary War record of Ammi Andrews which follows was obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 16605, based upon his service in that war. 

The date and place of birth of this soldier are not given, nor are the names of his parents stated. 

Ammi Andrews, while a resident of Hillsboro, New Hampshire, enlisted sometime in April, 1775 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, served as sergeant in Captain Isaac Baldwin's company, Colonel John Stark's
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New Hampshire Regiment, and in May, 1775, while assisting in burning a British vessel near Chelsea, Massachusetts, he received a gun shot wound in his left arm, and went to the home of his father in Concord, Massachusetts, where he remained until his wound had healed. He was commissioned sometime in June, 1775, ensign in Captain Henry Dearborn's Company, and was commissioned sometime in September, 1775, 2nd lieutenant in same company, Colonel Benedict Arnold Regiment, marched through the wilderness to Quebec, and in the attack on Quebec, he was taken prisoner, was paroled August 3, 1776 and exchanged in February, 1777. 

The soldier, Ammi Andrews, was eighty years of age in 1818, then living in Cavendish, Vermont. He was allowed pension from December 1, 1825, on account of disability resulting from the wound referred to herein, at which time he was living in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. 

It is stated that the soldier, after he left the service, lived in Littleton, Massachusetts, Lovel and Buxton, Maine, Montpelier, Vermont, Berlin, Vermont, Cavendish, Vermont, where he married about the year 1795; in 1819 has "aged wife" was referred to. There is no further reference to his wife. His son, "Captain" Issachar Andrews in 1819 was living in Windsor, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire. 

Isaac Andrews of Hillsboro, New Hampshire in 1825, stated that he was well acquainted with the soldier during the Revolution, it is not shown that he was related to him. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Center:
16,605
INVALID.
File No. 16,605
Ammi Andrews
Lieut Rev War
Act: June 7" 39
Index:- Vol. 1, Page 430 [?]
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Left & Right are split, but together read:
Jany 29-1902 Hist to A.E. Smith - Daleven Wis. 
July-26 -1902 same to same 
Oct. 15-1902 - To same. No further data.
1908 Mch. 9. Hist. to G.L. Andrews 
1908 Nov. 16. "   " Rev. Homer A. Flint 
1909 July 27 "   " N.W. Quinby 
1914 Mch. 12 "   " Mrs Chas H. Spooner 
1914 Mch. "   " Mrs Chas. Baird. 
1915 July 15. To Mrs. Mattie A. Robertson 
1918 Dec. 4 Hist to H.F. Andrews
1920 Jan 16. History to Mrs. R.M. Packard
1921, Apl 19 - Negative saying he had hist in 1920
1928- Nov. 24 - Hist. to Mrs. Leo F. Robert - See letter 
[illegible] Bartholomew Poud S.23847
[illegible] 24 - hist to Miss Charlotte Hobbs
[illegible] Aug 24 - Hist to Mrs. Marcus [?]ingham
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1178
New Hampshire
Ammi Andrews, 
Sergeant 
in Captain Baldwin's company of the Regt 
Commanded by Col Stark 

Ratio of disability, one half 
Date of discharge, [blank]
Time of closing testimony, 1st December 182[?] 

Inscribed on the Roll of N Hampshire 
at four dollars per month, to commence on the 
1st December 1825

[C]ertificate of pension issued the 9 of March '26 
and sent to Benj Pierce Esqr 
Hillsborough N. H

Arrears to 4th March 1826   $12.51 1/2
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1826. 24 
[=] $26.51 1/2
Act of the 10 April 1806.
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N. Hampshire 
Ammi Andrews 
(of Cavendish, Vt.) 

Rejected. See letter to Hon. W. A. Palmer 
Senate U.S. 22d Jan. 1820 

Mr Andrews has Since applied as an 
Invalid from New Hamshire  [sic]
Dec. 7. 1825
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BLANK
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Genl. Pierce
to Claggett
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Genl. Benjamin Pierce to Wm. Claggett [illegible- Sir?]
1825 Feby 16 To commission to take Depositions
in case of Ammi Andrews, at his request $2:00
[illegible]
Recd. payment
W. Claggett
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Mr Cole will oblige me by giving such information 
to the Secretary as he property can in order to 
answer the enclosed [illegible]
Very Respy
[Signed] A Campbell
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S. File 16,605
Ammi Andrews
N.H.
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To Ammi Andrews Gent
By virtue of the Power & Authority to me Granted by his Excellency Genrl Washington I hereby Constitute & Appoint you Second Lieutennant [sic] in Capt Henry Dearborn's Company in the Service of the United Colonies of North America, to Hold & Exercise said Office of Second Lieutennant & to Execute All Matters Which to your said Ollice doth or May Belong, until further Orders shall Be given herein By his Excellency Genrl Washington, or any other future Commander in Chief, or my Self, Willing & Commanding all Officers & Soldiers to the Assisting

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SF# 16,605
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Hillsboro N.H. Jany 8 1833 
My Dear Sire 
The session closed on Saturday and I am happy in being able to say that I believe nothing has been done calculated to weaken the democratic party -- We have remodeled the Judiciary System in a manner which I hope may prove acceptable to the publick. Harris has lost his place by address which I am sure will be well received. Jock Parker of Keen [?] & N.G. Upham go on to the Superior Ct Bench. You will receive in the course of a few days a resolution, which I presume will be less welcome to Mr Bell than the other Gentlemen from N Hampshire
I hope you will be able so to reduce the [illegible] as to satisfy the South generally and then of South Carolina Shall chose to give as a practical illustration of his strange doctrines it cannot be alarming, however unpleasant
I take the liberty to inclose to you the declaration of Joshua Atwood, with an amendment, with a request that you will present the same to the Department You will perceive by the
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letter from Edwards also inclosed what is required of the old man, it is impossible for him to remember dates, and it strikes me the requirement is most unreasonable. The amendment is as specific as the deponent was able to make it, he is an honest man but his recollection like that of most men of his age is dim & indistinct. I have not sent the amendment to the Clerk for his Certificate -- it seems to me that it will not be Esteemed necessary as My Signature of Justice of peaceship is already certified among the papers. And now while you are in the office allow me to solicit your attention to one or two other cases. 
In July last I forwarded to the Department of War such evidence as I supposed would place Lieut. Ammi Andrews of this Town on the pension list as an officer of the revolution under the act of June 7, 1832. He had been on the invalid pension for several years at four dollars per month. At the time above named I inclosed his statement of rank, services &c as required - My fathers affidavit, certain letters from Genl Dearborn who was Andrews Captain - Copy of his parole of honour signed I think at Quebeck  - portions of his commission as Lieutenant (the other parts having been lost) and also his invalid certificate. As yet I have not heard a word from the Depart. on the subject. The consequence is the old man who is nearly one hundred years of age
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and miserably poor, failed to obtain in Sept the little pittance usually dis[erved?] from his invalid certificate. 
I forwarded to the Department at the time above refered to or about that time a letter from Abijah Barker of Antrim who was a quarterMaster Sergeant in the 18th Mass Regt. -- but whose certificate set forth that he was a private [underlined] He supposed that under the Act of June 1832 he was Entitled to pay "according to his rank" and that there must have been some misapprehension or mistake in making out his certificate. I feel extremely anxious that all these men should obtain their right considering the the situation and services of Messrs Andrews and Barker and the length of time that their papers have been in the Department it would seem that they should by this time be noticed. It is hard I know that with your other engagements you should be troubled by the Veterans for whom you have already done so much but by calling the attention of the department to these cases you will very much oblige me- Shall I not hear from you?
Your friend & Servant 
Frank Pierce
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Crosswise:
Ammi Andrews
N.H. S.16605

F. Pierce E
$269.99
Hillsboro NH
Jan 8, 1833
A. Andrews
20 mo: Lieut
1 mo. Private
Admd

free [postage]
Hon Henry Hubbard
Member of Congress
Washington City D.C.

Hon H Hubbard
HR

Drop his name from the Roll of Invalid Pensioners
upside down: Andrew Pierce
Honl. H Hubbard
HR
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United States of America, Massachusetts District ss.
At Boston on the twenty first day of December A.D. 1825, personally appeared the said Henry Dearborn a credible witness and made solemn oath to the truth of the aforegoing Affidavit by him subscribed, according to his best recollection and belief.
Before me
[Signed] Jno Davis 
Judge Dist Court US
Mass Dist
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I John Watson Davis, Clerk of the District Court of the United States, within and for the Massachusetts District, Do hereby Certify that John Davis before whom the aforegoing Affidavit was sworn to, is Judge of said District Court and that the signature to the preceding Certificate is the proper signature of said Judge. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said District Court at Boston this twenty first day of December AD. 1825, in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United Sates of America.
[SEAL]
[Signed] Jno W Davis
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I Henry Dearborn of Boston in this Commonwealth of Massachusetts do certify that I was present when Lieut Amen Andrews was wounded while seting [sic] fire to a British Armed Schooner at Winnesimet Ferry in Boston Bay in May 1775, and that he joined my company as Ensign in Sept 1775 and [illegible] with me in a Detachment commanded by Col Benedt Arnold to Quebeck and continued to serve faithfully untill we were captured on the thirty first of Decemr or first day of January and that he returned home on parole in October 1776, and received his Lieuy [Lieutenantcy?] from the United States after the time he returned home. 
[Signed] Henry Dearborn 

Suffolk ss.
Boston May 27, 1825 
Then personally appeared the above deponent, Maj. Gen. Henry Dearborn, and made oath, that the facts as stated are true according to his best knowledge and belief 
Before me
[Signed] John Temple Winthrop, Justice of Peace
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I Isaac Andrews of Hillsborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, do testify & say, that I was a soldier in Col John Starks Regiment and Captain Isaac Baldwin's company enlisted for the term of eight months in the year 1775. Ammi Andrews now living in Hillsborough was a sergeant in the same company with me; and sometime I think in the month of May of the same year; a detachment was ordered to Hog Island to remove the cattle &c Captain Baldwin, Ammi Andrews & myself were in that detachment & others belonging to Capt Baldwins Company. 
While removing the cattle, a British armed vessel came near us and played upon our troops; we succeded [sic] however in removing the cattle and while said vessel was returning to Boston she run aground near Winnasimet Ferry. Gen Putnam, who commanded the detachment, ordered the troops to burn that vessel, while on that duty I stood verry near Ammi Andrews. the enemy kept up an incessant fire from their boats, he observed to me, that he had received a wound & that his arm was broken. I found that his left arm was broken between the elbow & shoulder appearantly [sic] by a Grape or canister shot and immediately went with him to the surgeon & saw his arm dressed & set. 
[Signed] Isaac Andrews 

Hillsborough ss. Feby 22 1825 
Sworn to before me -- Benjamin Pierce Commissr & I hereby certify that Isaac Andrews the subscriber to the above Affidavit is a man of good moral character & undoubted veracity 
[Signed] Benjn. Pierce Commissioner
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S. File 16,605
Ammi Andrews
N.H.
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S. F.#16,605 

IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the United Colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Suffex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, to Ammi Andrews Gentleman 
WE reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, valour, conduct and fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Ensign in Captain Dearborn's Company, in the 7th Regiment commanded by Col. Stark
in the army of the United Colonies, raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. You are therefore c[cut off] 
by doing and performing all m[cut off]
charge and require all officers and soldiers und[cut off] 
Ensign [illegible] And y[cut off]
time to time as you shall receive from this or [cut off] 
Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Com[cut off] 
Colonies, or any other your superior officer, [cut off]
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Ens. Ammi Andrews
Deposition
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I Ammi Andrews now of Cavendish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont do testify and say that on the twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord 1818 I made application to Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor in the State of Vermont to obtain a pension under the late act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" -- that the declaration which I made to the said Uriel C. Hatch as I understood and verily believed lay in his office until after the month of June 1819 and I believing that my application would not be forwarded to the Secretary of War by the said Uriel C. Hatch did go into the town of Windsor in the State of Newhampshire intending to reside there and on the 28th day of June 1819 made a declaration before the Hon Joshua Darling one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hillsborough in said State - that at the time this declaration was made I did suppose and verily believe that my former application and declaration would not be forwarded by the said Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate as aforesaid - that at the time of making application to said Hatch in April 1818 I did suppose my commissions were lost - that upon removing to Windsor in Newhampshire in looking over some old papers which I left at Hillsborough many years previous I found an a commission which was given appointing me an Ensign
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in the service of the United States signed by John Hancock President of the Continental Congress and which commission I delivered to the said Judge Darling to be forwarded to the Secretary of War - And I further testify and say that at the time of making application to Judge Darling to obtain my pension I had no intention of procuring two pensions nor have I ever wished or expected to obtain more than one pension.
[Signed] Ammi Andrews
County of Windsor ss. State of Vermont 
I Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Windsor do certify that on this twenty fourth day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and nineteen personally appeared before me Ammi Andrews and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth and I do further certify that said Andrews is well known to me and that he is a man of truth & veracity 
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Cavendish in the County of Windsor this 24th day of December in the year of our Lord 1819 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor
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State of New Hampshire} 
Hillsborough ss.} Decr 28. 1819 
I hereby certify that at the time of taking the within Ammi Andrews declaration, to wit June 28th 1819 - he gave me no intimation of his former application to Judge Hatch of Vermont nor had I the least information of it until Decr 22 Instant when I dispatched, Capt Isachar Andrews, his son of Windsor in this State, to Cavendish, who has procured me this affidavit. I thought it due to my own character & to the War Department that there should be an explanation. The account given me by Capt Isachar Andrews confirms the statement in this Deposition. I have the most entire confidence in their statements but regret the occurrence of the double application, but entirely disclaim any knowledge of the circumstance until the 22d of Decr. 1819.
[Signed] Joshua Darling
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Ammi Andrwes
New Hampshire
claims as a Lieutenant
under Capt. Henry Dearborn - 
march'd to Quebec
Septemr 1775
in the Regiment
commanded by Arnold
Proof of Service
Required -
Capt (now Genl Dearborn) lives in Boston 
whose certificates of the services
of the applicant will entitle him to a
Pension
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State of Vermont 
County of Windsor, ss. 
On this twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor in the State of Vermont, personally appears Ammi Andrews, aged eighty years, resident in Cavendish in said District of Windsor, who being first duly Sworn in according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," that he the said Ammi Andrews in the month of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five in Cambridge in the [missing] of Massachusetts enlisted for the term of eight months in the Company Commanded by Captain Isaac Baldwin in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Stark in the New Hampshire Line, and that in May following he was appointed and Commissioned a Lieutenant in the Same Company by the Governor of the State of New Hampshire, that he continued to Serve in the said Corps, or in the Service of the United States, until the fore part of September following, that then he was
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appointed and Commissioned under the Authority of the United States, a Lieutenant in the Company, commanded by Captain Henry Dearborn, in one of the Regiments commanded by Benedict Arnold Colonel Commandant, and that on the thirteenth day of the same September, that he marched for Quebec, and that on the first day of January in the year seventeen hundred and Seventy Six, in the Attack on Quebec, he was taken prisoner by the enemy and that he continued a prisoner until the month of February in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven, when he was exchanged, and immediately after resigned his Commission, in the State of New Hampshire, and left the Service; but has since lost his commissions; that in the month of April in the year 1775, while engaged in burning a vessel belonging to the emeny [sic], which had run a ground at Winnesimet Ferry in Chelsea, Massachusetts, had an Arm broken by a grape Shot discharged from a Sloop of the Enemy lying off at Anchor. And that he is in reduced circumstances, and Stands in need of the assistance of his Country for Support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Services.
[Signed] Ammi Andrews
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Crosswise:
Ammi Andrews

Subscribed, Sworn to, and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid 
[Signed] Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor 

I Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ammi Andrews did Serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy and that he is in insolvent and indigent circumstances and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand, and have affixed the Seal of said Court of Probate at Cavendish in said County of Windsor this twenty seventh day of April in year year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
[SEAL]
[Signed] Uriel C. Hatch} Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor
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Petition of
Ammi Andrews
for a pension

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Hillsborough Decr 27th 1824
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To The Honourable Senate and House Representatives in Congress assembled 
Your Petitioner respectfully shows that he was a Seargent in Col John Starks Regiment and Captain Isaac Baldwins Company engaged in the eight months service. Sometime in the month of May 1775 a detachment under the command of Gen Putnam was ordered to take the cattle &c from Hog Island near Boston I was in that detachment and after we had taken the cattle from the Island A small Armed Vessel, which played upon us while we were getting off the cattle, as it was attempting to return to Boston run aground near Winisimet [sic] Ferry. Gen Putnam ordered a detachment to burn the Vessel of that detachment and while we were engaged in setting fire to the Vessel the enemy kept up a brisk fire from small craft that were in the
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Bay while the Vessel was in flames I received from them a grape shot in my left arm which fractured and broke it. I in consequence of the wounds I underwent great pain; my arm has always been weak and frequently prevented me from performing that manual labour I might otherwise have done. I am now eighty nine years old; I am poor and in need of assistance and ask my country to make such provision for me as they may think my services demand. 
[Signed] Ammi Andrews 
Hillsborough Dec 27th 1824

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Petition of
Ammi Andrews
for a pension
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J McNeil
Pension Office
Avit [Affidavit]
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I John McNeil of Hillsborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, do testify and say, that I was a soldier in Col John Starks Regiment and captain Isaac Baldwins Company inlisted for the term of eight months in the year 1775. Ammi Andrews now living in Hillsborough was a Sergeant in the same Company with me. He was ordered on a detachment to take the cattle &c from Hog Island, when the detachment returned from performing that duty, Ammi Andrew's arm was broken & it was reported by him and his companions, that it was broken by a Grape shot while engaged in burning a British armed vessel, that had run aground in the Bay near Boston. [Signed] John McNeil 
Hillsborough ss. Feby 22d 1825 
Sworn to before me, 
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce Commissioner 

I hereby certify that John McNeil the subscriber to the above Affidavit is a man of a good morral character and of undoubted Veracity 
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce Commissioner
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I Ami Andrews of Hillsborough in the Province of New Hampshire hereby pledge my Faith and Word of Honor to General Carlton, that I shall not say or do any thing contrary to the Interest of his Majesty or his Government, and that whenever required so to do, I shall repair to whatever Place his Excellency, or any other His Majesty's Commander in Chief in America, should judge expedient to order me. 
Given under my hand at Quebec this 3d day of Aug, 1776 
[Signed] Ami Andrews

A True Copy
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Lieut. Ammi Andrews
Affidavit
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I Ammi Andrews now of Cavendish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont do testify and say that on the twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord 1818 I made application to Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Windsor in the State of Vermont to obtain a pension under the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United Stated in the Revolutionary War," that the declaration which I made before the sd. Uriel C. Hatch as I understood and verily believed lay in his office until after the month of June 1819 and believing that my application would not be forwarded to the Secretary of War by the said Uriel C. Hatch did go into the town of Windsor in the State of New Hampshire intending to reside there and on the 28th day of June 1819 made a declaration before the Hon Joshua Darling one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hillsborough in said State of Newhampshire - that at the time this declaration was made I did suppose & verily believed that my former application and declaration would not be forwarded by the said Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate as aforesaid. That at the time of making application to said Hatch in April 1818 I did suppose my commissions were
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lost - that upon removing to Windsor in New Hampshire in looking over some old papers which I had left at Hillsborough many years previous I found a commission which was given appointing me an Ensign in the service of the United States signed by John Hancock President of the Continental Congress and which commission I delivered to the said Judge Darling to be forwarded to the Secretary of War. And I further testify and say that at the time of making application to Judge Darling to obtain my pension, I had no intention of procuring two pension certificates nor have I ever wished or expected to obtain more than one pension.
[Signed] Ammi Andrews 

State of Vermont}
County of Windsor ss.} I Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor do certify that on this twenty fourth day of December A.D. 1819 personally appeared before me Ammi Andrews subscriber to the foregoing affidavit and made solemn oath that the same contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And I further certify that said Andrews is well known to me and is a man of truth and veracity.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and have affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Cavendish in the District of Windsor this twenty fourth day of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and nineteen 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Windsor
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I hereby certify that the testimony in the case of Ammi Andrews claim was closed on the 5th day of May 1825
before me
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce Comr.

NB The deponents, who testify to the fact of Mr Andrews receiving a wound are unable to ascertain the day of the month in which it was received. Should there be any omission of duty on my part, please have the goodness to inform me.
Respectfully
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce

I hereby certify that the additional testimony in the case of Ammi Andrews claim was closed on the 2d day of November 1825
before me
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce Commr.
[illegible in the margin]
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United States of America 
District of Newhampshire ss:
I John Samuel Sherburne Judge of the District Court of the United States of America for the Newhampshire District; by Authority of an act of Congress, passed the fourth day of February AD 1822, entitled "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War, and for other purposes;" do hereby especially authorize and commission Benjamin Pierce of the county of Hillsborough and district of Newhampshire Esquire, to take all evidence pursuant to the rules and regulations of the said act, for substantiating the claim of Ammi Andrews of Hillsborough in said county of Hillsborough, and District aforesaid, to be placed on the Pension list of the United States, by
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reason of known wounds received in said war or since, (as prescribed in the fourth section of "An act concerning invalid pensioners," passed the 25th of April, 1800) while in the actual service of the United States, and in the line of his duty; And when the same shall be completed, to return the evidence, affidavits, certificates, and proceedings had hereupon, together with this commission, to the Secretary for the Department of War. 
Given under my hand and seal at Portsmouth the 16th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and Twenty five. 
[Signed] Jno. S. Sherburne [SEAL]

United States of America 
District of Newhampshire ss. 
Feby 16. 1825. I hereby certify that John S. Sherburne, who subscribed the above, is Judge of the District Court of the United States for said District. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of said Court. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] William Claggett, Clerk
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I William Johnston testify and say that I was in Col Starks regiment in the eight months service, 1775; & that Ammi Andrews of Hillsborough was in the same regiment. When Gen Arnold detachment of volunteers was formed in the fall of the same year to go to Canada Ammi Andrews and myself were detached to Captain Henry Dearbourn's Company. We marched through the wilderness to Canada and I was with said Andrews until the first day of January, 1776; on that day the term of service for which we were engaged expired and on that day Andrews was taken prisoner in attempting to storm the walls of Quebeck. 
[Signed] William Johnston 

Hillsborough Oct 27th 1825 
Sworn to & subscribed before me [Signed] Benjamin Pierce Commissioner 
I hereby certify that [H?] Johnson the subscriber to the above affidavit is a man of undoubted veracity 
[Signed] B. Pierce Commr.
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Nehe. Jones
Affidavit in
Ens. Ammi Andrews
Case
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I Nehemiah Jones of Windsor in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, testify and say that: 
I am well acquainted with Ens. Ammi Andrews formerly of the Town of Hillsborough and now resident in the Town of Windsor aforesaid and have not Known of his possessing any real estate for some years and consider him by reason of his old age and infirmity, to be in reduced circumstances in life and stands in need of aid and assistance from his Country for Support. 
Henniker June 28, 1819. 
[Signed] Nehemiah Jones 

State of New Hampshire}
Hillsborough ss.}  June 28, 1819 
Then personally appeared the above named Nehemiah Jones who is a credible and disinterested Witness and made Solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him Subscribed is Just and true.
Before me [Signed] Joshua Darling Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum within and for County of Hillsborough New Hamp
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I Issachar Andrews of Windsor, in the County of Hillsborough, testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Ens. Ammi Andrews Circumstances and Know that he is in a reduced situation as to property - has no real estate, and very little personal property and stands in great need of aid from his Country for support.
June 28, 1819.
[Signed] Issachar Andrews

Hillsborough SS. June 28, 1819.
Sworn to before me
[Signed] Joshua Darling } Justice of the Peace & of the Quorum within & for Said County
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I Ammi Andrews of Hillsborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire do testify and say that I was a Sergeant in Col John Starks Regiment and Captain Isaac Baldwins Company enlisted for the term of eight months in the year 1775 Some time in the month of May of the same year a detachment under the command of Gen Putnam was ordered to take the cattle &c from Hog Island near Boston I was in that detachment and after we had taken the Cattle from the Island a small armed vessel which had played upon us while we were getting off the cattle as it was attempting to return to Boston run aground near Winnisemet Ferry. Gen. Putnam ordered a detachment to burn the vessel I was also one of that detachment while we were engaged in setting fire to her the enemy kept up a brisk fire from the small craft that lay in the Bay. While the vessel was in flames I received from them a grape shot in my left arm which fractured and broke it.
I enlisted about the first of May 1775 for eight months. In the Month of September of the same year I received an Ensigns commission and had so far recovered from my wound that was detached to Captain Henry Dearbourns company and went with him through the woods to Canada. At the storming of Quebeck on the first of January this being the day on which the term for which I was enlisted expired I was taken prisoner and remained a prisoner thirteen months, when I was exchanged 
[Signed] Ammi Andrews

Hillsborough ss Novr 2d 1825 
Sworn to & subscribed before me [Signed] Benjamin Pierce Commissioner 
I hereby certify that A. Andrews the subscriber to this affidavit is a man of undoubted veracity 
[Signed] B Pierce Commr
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I Ammi Andrews of Hillsborough N.H. testify and say that I was taken prisoner on the first day of January 1776 while attempting to storm Quebeck and remained a prisoner until Febuary 1777, when I was exchanged, immediately after which, I resided a few years in Massachusetts I then went to Vermont where I have resided ever since till within four or five years during my residence there I was in comfortable circumstances and did not need the aid of Government nor did I know that any pensions were allowed for wounds received in that service These are my reasons for not making earlier application.
[Signed] Ammi Andrews

Hillsborough ss Novr 2d 1825 
Sworn & subscribed before me [Signed] Benjamin Pierce Commissioner 
I hereby certify that Ammi Andrews the subscriber to the above affidavit is a man of good moral character and undoubted veracity 
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce Commr
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I William Claggett, late Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the Newhampshire District testify and say that on or about the 16th day of February 1825 I made out a commission as Clerk of said Court by the order of the District Judge, which I think was directed to the Hon Benjamin Pierce, a Justice of the Peace of the county of Hillsborough in said state, to take Depositions in the case of Ammi Andrews, in order to obtain a pension -- that I forwarded said commission to said Pierce -- that it was not recorded in the office of said District Clerk, and that I think it has not been the practice in this District to record such commissions, as I have no recollection of any such practice, and that about a year since I resigned said office of District Clerk 
[Signed] William Claggett  

State of Newhampshire 
Rockingham ss. March 10, 1826 
Then the above named William Claggett, personally appearing, made oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true before me 
[Signed] Edw. Cutts Jus.of the Peace
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Hillsborough 5th May 1825 (Date. ) 
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, That Ammi Andrew a sergent in the Company of Capt Isaac Baldwin in a New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col John Stark is rendered incapable of performing the duty of a Soldier, by reason of wounds or other injuries inflicted while he was actually in the service aforesaid, and in the line of his duty, viz: 
By satisfactory evidence and accurate examination, it appears that on in the month of May in the year 1775 being engaged in burning a British armed vessel at or near a place called Winnisimet Ferry in the district, or territory, of Massachusetts he received a wound in his left arm about half way from his elbow joint to the shoulder, from a grape or cannister shot: in consequence of which the muscular part of his arm is much emaciated and the joints are much stiffened 
and he is thereby not only incapacitated for Military duty, but, in the opinion of the undersigned, is one half disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor. 
[Signed] Reuben Hatch Surgeon.
[Signed] Elisha Hatch  Surgeon.

Sworn & Subscribed before me this Fifth day of May 1895 
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce Comr. 

N. B. The blank in the last line but one is to be filled up with the proportional degree of disability; for example: "three-fourths" - "one-half" - "one-third," &c. &c. or, "totally," as the case may be. 

I certify that the above named Reuben & Elisha Hatch, are Creditable persons and reputable in there [sic] profession 
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce Comr.
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Ammi Andrews 

Payable semi-annually, on the 
4th of March and 4th of September, 
at Portsmouth 
by the Prest U.S. Br Bank 

No payment can be made on an 
original certificate, until the arrival 
of one or the other of the above dates 
after issuing the certificate. 

Registered in Book C. Vol. 1. page 118  by
[illegible] L. Bealle Clerk.
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War Department.
INVALID PENSION. 

I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 10th April 1806, Ammi Andrews late a Sergeant of Col. Starks Regiment of the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Hampshire Agency, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty five 
Given at the War Office of the United States, 
this ninth day of March one thousand eight 
hundred and twenty-Six 
[SEAL]
[SIGNED] James Barbour 
Secretary of War.

Examined and countersigned,
[Signed] J.L. Edwards
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Further particulars of
Ammi Andrews whose
claims are refered [sic] to in
my letter.

Invalid
Papers
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Further particulars with regard to Ammi Andrews

The wound for which he was placed on the invalid pension was received at the commencement of the Revolution, while a Sergeant in a Company commanded by Capt Baldwin who fell on Bunker Hill. As soon as his wound had so far recovered as to enable him again to take the field he received an Ensigns commission in the same compy. In the fall he Received a Lieutenants commission in Capt H. Dearborns Company Arnolds Regt wint thro [sic] the woods to Canada was taken prisoner and permitted after a long confinement in prison to come home upon his parole of honour. All these facts I think are set forth in his statement now in the department. This case is so strong, the claims of the applicant so rightious, that I do most earnestly hope that attention will be given to it.
F.P.
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Lieut Ammi Andrews
State of Vermont

fwdrd by Capt Taggart
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Hillborough August the 22d 1796 
Lt. Andrews Sir 
you may remember I was With you at Quebeck -- a Corpril in Capt Dearburn Company I was Retiurned Dead [?] but I got out of the town after the action when they Come in to take us and Want of up the River St Charls and so Come to our men and taread [tarried] with them till the 6th of June Following in the Servis for which I have Recived no pay and I am agoing to appley to Congress for my pay and I must have a Certiffect Signed by Some of my officers Seting forth that I was their &c Should be obliged to you if you would Signe the Certiffect I have sent by Capt Taggart as I want to appley at the Next Sesson of Congress your Compliance will such oblige me your 
Huml. Sarvent [Signed] William Johnson 

Lt Andrews
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Lieut. Ammi Andrews
Cavendish

fwdd by}
Mr Dodge}
[illegible]
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Greenbush October 21t 1812 

Dear Sir,
Your letter of the 12th inst. by Mr Dodge has been received and it afforded me great pleasure to receive a letter from an old fellow soldier and former companion in arms, many years have passed away since we were associated together in defence of our rights, I have been induced once more to take the field in defence of our rights, [illegible] & Independence. I find but few of my former companions in arms remaining on the stage of life, accept my best wishes for your prosperity & happiness. 
Yours with esteem
H. Dearborn

Lt. Ammi Andrews
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left side:
Affidavit 
McNeil & Andrews
for
Ammi Andrews 

Right side:
Ammi Andrews N.H.
adl proof
Adol. proof
Ammi Andrews
N.H.

Crosswise:
Revolutionary Claims
Hillsborough NH
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secy of War
Washington City D.C.

Bottom:
P.O.
Aug 25
Witness
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Mr John McNeil and Isaac Andrews both of Hillsborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire depose and testify that in April 1775 we enlisted into the Army of the Revolution in the Regt Commanded by Colo. John Stark & Captain Baldwins Company Ammi Andrews Now of Hillsborough in the County of Hillsborough & State aforesaid was an orderly Sergeant in said Company at the commencement of the service. Captain Baldwin was killed in battle of Bunker Hill and the said Ammi Andrews then received the commission of Ensign. In the Autumn following the battle of Bunker Hill We think he received a commission of Lieutenant in Captain Henry Dearborn's Company and Col Arnolds Regt. He left our Company and as was understood he went with Arnold thro the woods to Canada. 
[Signed] John McNeil 
[Signed] Isaac Andrews 

State of New Hampshire 
County of Hillsborough SS. Augst 9 1832 
Sworn & subscribed the day & the year last above written 
Before me 
Franklin Pierce Justice of the Peace
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Hon. L. Cass
Secy of War 
Sir
While making out declarations for John McNeil & Isaac Andrews who are applicants for pensions under the late act of Congress the foregoing evidence in favor of Ammi Andrews was disclosed, And I think proper to forward it as the commissions of Ensign & Lieut. which were forwarded to the Department were very imperfect some parts having been lost Entirely. 
I am with high consideration
Yr Obdt. Servt.
[Signed] Franklin Pierce
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Left side, upside down:
OA
2 Decr
See letter 6 Oct 1819 to U.C. Hatch

Right side:
Ammi Andrews
Letter relative to his Pension
See record

Crosswise:
Cavendish
27th Septr
Free [postage]
Honl J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
City of Washington
District of Columbia
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Cavendish Vt Sept 27 1819 

Sir
I now return the application of Lieut Ammi Andrews for a pension with a certificate of his services signed by Capt (now General) Dearborn agrably [sic] to the requisition of the War Department and have to request that his certificate may be enclosed and directed to me at Montpelier in the County of Washington Vermont as I shall be attending the Legislature of this State at that place the greater part of the month of October and a part of November next
I am Sir verry respectfully 
your obt. servant 
[Signed] Uriel C. Hatch
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25 [postage]
Uriel C. Hatch Esqr
Cavendish
Vermont
[Postmark] Boston, MA SEP 28
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Boston Sept 21st 1819 

Sir
On my return after absence of two months I found your letter of the 30th of July. If any things within my knowledge will enable me to be usefull to my old friend & fellow Soldier Lieut. Andrews it will afford me pleasure. 
I certify that Lieut. Ammi Andrews was in the service of the United States in the Spring of the year 1775, that he was attached to my Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. B. Arnold, and marched to Quebec and was captured on the last day of Decr 1775 and remained [?} remained a prisoner until Octobr. 1776. when he was, with the other prisoners released on parole, he was a brave faithfull officer, he was wounded in action near Boston previous to his Joining my Company. 
[Signed] Henry Dearborn
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Senate Chamber 19. Jan. 1820 

Sir,
I enclose to you herewith the affidavit of Ammi Andrews explanetary of some points in relation to his declaration now under consideration in your office 
I have the honour 
to be yr. obt Servt.
[Signed] W. A. Palmer

The Secy of War
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[illegible] these with the original papers. No answer is required
Ammi Andrews
Recd March 22. 1826 
Genl Benjn Pierce 
Hillsboro N.H.

Crosswise:
Hillsborough March 15 1826
50 [postage]
J.L. Edwards Esqr
War Department 
Washington City D.C.
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Hillsborough March 15th 1826 

Sir
I have made application agreeable to your direction for a copy of my commission. I have inclosed the District Clerks affidavit. The inclosed note being what you may require I have thought proper to send my own Affidavit together with the receipt which I received from the Clerk at the time I received my commission. This is all I can do unless I obtain a new commission and take the evidence again -- and before that can be done the old Soldier will probably be in his grave since he is now about ninety years old & very feeble. 
I am respectfully yr 
Obt Servt. 
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce 

I Benjamin Pierce of Hillsborough New Hampshire do testify & say that some time in the Month of February 1825 I received a commission from J. S. Shurbourne Judge of the District of New Hampshire authorizing me to take the evidence of the claims of Ammi Andrews of Hillsborough to support his petition to the War Department for a pension for a wound received in the Revolutionary War I did on that authority take the evidence of his claims and sent the evidence and the commission to the War Department by Mail and it has never been returned to me since I last sent it.
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce 

Hillsboro ss. State of New Hampshire March 15 1826 - then personally appeared the above named Benjn. Pierce & made solemn oath that the above affidavit is Just & true before me 
[Signed] John Burnand Justice of Peace
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Rec'd. Jany 4, 1826.

Crosswise:
Pension Office
To the Honble [illegible- Philip?] Barbour
Secretary of War
Washington City
Hillsboro
Decr 26th
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Hillsborough Decr 26 1825 

Dr Sir
I inclose General Dearbourns affidavit. My commission that I received from the Hon J. S. Shurbourne Judge of the District of N. Hampshire to take the evidence of A. Andrews claims, I sent to the Department of War & it has not been returned to me. 
I am Sir with sentiments of 
much respect your
Humbl. Servt. 
[Signed] Benjamin Pierce
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Free [postage]
Honl. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
City of Washington
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Montpelier Vt Oct 16[?] 1819 

Sir
I this evening received a line [?] signed "J.L. Edwards" stating that "Ammi Andrews has made two declarations for the purpose no doubt of obtaining two pensions." I am so well acquainted with the character of this old man that I cannot for a moment he had such an intention. When he first made his declaration before me I was not sufficiently acquainted with his circumstances to forward his claim with a certificate of his reduced circumstances and therefore laid it aside for a long time, expecting that he would furnish me such evidence that I could forward the necessary certificate -- he furnished me with with no such evidence and I learned from one of his friends that he was much dissatisfied that I had not forwarded his claim and intended making his declaration before some other authority. I therefore made such enquiry as convinced me he was worth little or no property and that his age and infirmities were such that by his personal labor he could not support himself and an aged wife and immediately forwarded his claim. If Lieut. Andrews has made a claim before any other authority for a pension it must have been that
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he supposed I should not forward the one which was taken before me and I am sure he did not know until a short time past that I had forwarded the claim -- should any other evidence of these facts be necessary at the War Department they can be furnished and well prove that Mr Andrews is an honest man and cannot be guilty of wishing to obtain two pensions. If you should see fit to forward the pension certificate and his second claim for a pension I request it may be directed to me at Cavendish Vt and I will do as you may direct with the claim returned -- if the certificate cannot be forwarded upon this statement it would be doing an act of charity to inform whether any and if any other evidence will be received
I am Sir Respectfully 
your Obedient Servant 
[Signed] Uriel C. Hatch
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Boston Septr 28th 1819 

Sir
Your note enclosing the declaration of Ammi Andrews of the 20th was rec'd yesterday. I certify that Ammi Andrews served in my Company in Arnold's Detachment as Ensign, & as 2d. Lieut that he was captured on the 1st of January 1776 in an assault on Quebec and was held a prisoner until released on parole near New York in Septemr or Octobr 1776, he was a brave faithfull officer. 
[Signed] H. Dearborn 

J.L. Edwards Esqr
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Hillsboro N.H. June 7, 1832 

Hon Lewis Cass 
Secy of War

Sir
I herewith inclose a letter from Lieut. Andrews of this place setting forth his services during the Revolutionary war. Also the certificate of said Andrews granted in 1826 with the statement of Governor Pierce as to Andrews identity. I have also inclosed copy of Andrews' parole parts of two commissions and letters from Gen. Dearborn and William Johnson. Other evidence of Andrews services is now on file in the Department 
I am with much respect 
your Obt Servt 
[Signed] Franklin Pierce
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Revolutionary Claims
Hon Lewis Cass
Secy of War
Washington City D.C.

S. File 16,605
Ammi Andrews
N.H.

Upside down:
July 14 1832
Pension Office
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Lovell, Maine, Oxford County, 
Dec. 13, 1935 
[Receipt stamp} Received DEC 16 1935

Veterans' Administration 
Washington D.C. 

Will you kindly inform in Abraham Andrews b. Ipswich, Mass. Sept. 6, 1747, married (1) Esther Stearies (2) Mrs Abigal Carter, died Lovell Maine, July 13, 1823, was a Revolutionary War pensioner? 
Also Ammi Andrews, b. prob. Ipswich, Mass. Apr. 13, 1737, died Hillsboro, N.H. aged 91?
I particularly wish all the evidence there is that these two men were in Benedict Arnold's Canadian Expedition; also any other date your office can furnish regarding their Revolutionary service, or service in any French and Indian wars. 
Does your office have any records of French and Indian Wars? 
Very truly 
(Miss) Charlotte E. Hobbs
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A City of Homes. 
A Complete System of Waterworks. 
Pure Spring Water Supply. 
Electric Lights. 
Fine Schools. 
Delavan Lake, the Summer Home of Thousands. 
Delavan Lake Summer Assembly. 

A. E. SMITH, Mayor. 
H. C. JOHNSON, Treasurer.
KENNETH HOLLISTER, Clerk. 
E. G. HOLLAND, Marshal.

The City of Delavan. 
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK.  

To Hon Commsr of Pensions 
Washington DC 
Delavan, Wis., July 19th 1902 

Sir, 
On the 7th of last April I wrote your Dept. for information in regard to Ammi Andrews who served under Capt Henry Dearborn Col B. Arnolds Detachment for Canida [sic] 
In reply your Dept. furnished me a blank to fill out and return, which was done April 21st, 1902, since which time I have had no word from the communication 
Can your Dept. furnish the information desired?
Very Respectfully 
Your Obdt. Servt.
[Signed] A. E. Smith
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A City of Homes. 
A Complete System of Waterworks. 
Pure Spring Water Supply. 
Electric Lights. 
Fine Schools. 
Delavan Lake, the Summer Home of Thousands. 
Delavan Lake Summer Assembly. 

A. E. SMITH, Mayor. 
H. C. JOHNSON, Treasurer.
KENNETH HOLLISTER, Clerk. 
E. G. HOLLAND, Marshal.

The City of Delavan. 
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK.  

Hon Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington 
Delavan, Wis., Aug 4 1902 

Sir, 
In the Matter of Ammi Andrews Rev. War. Soldier. On the 21st last I returned to your office a blank form filled out to the best of my Knowledge
I want if Possible to have verified The date and place of birth - the date and place of death, date & place of Marriage to Mollie Brown, and if his wife survived him. This from The Rev. War Pension Rolls. You have heretofore Kindly furnished his Military history 
I wish The dates requested for Genealogical purposes, As Ammi Andrews was my Great Grandfather
Very Respectfully 
Your Obdt. Servt.
[Signed] A. E. Smith

No data
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A City of Homes. 
A Complete System of Waterworks. 
Pure Spring Water Supply. 
Electric Lights. 
Fine Schools. 
Delavan Lake, the Summer Home of Thousands. 
Delavan Lake Summer Assembly. 

A. E. SMITH, Mayor. 
H. C. JOHNSON, Treasurer.
KENNETH HOLLISTER, Clerk. 
E. G. HOLLAND, Marshal.

The City of Delavan. 
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK.  

To Hon Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
Delavan, Wis., Jany 2nd 1902 

Dear Sir, 
Can you cite me vol. and Page of The Revolutionary war records which bear the record of Stephen Andrews service, who Enlisted at Hillsborough New Hampshire under Capt. Haledon [?], Col Scammells [?] Regt. he was allowed Pension for two years Actual service
Also Volume and Page of record of Ami Andrews who served as Ensign and Sergt in Capt Henry Dearborns Co and who Afterwards served as 2d Lieut in 5 Regt Foot Gen Sullivans Brigade
Also vol. and Page of Ami Andrews who Enlisted at Hillsborough New Hampshire for 3 years or during the war in Col. Thomas Stickneys Regt New Hampshire Militia Rev. War.
Together with all the dates available
Very Respectfully 
[Signed] A. E. Smith
Delavan Wisconsin

[Receipt stamp] U.S. Pension Office Jan 6 1902
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Pasadena, California, Feb. 27' 1908. 
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. 
[Postmark] MAR 2 1908

Sir:-
I am seeking information, which is of great importance to the family, relative to my great grandfather, who was supposed to have served in the Revolutionary War, and to have died about the year 1730 in the 103' year of his age, receiving a few days before his demise, five hundred ($500.) dollars as back pension. I am told by his only living grand daughter that he died in Cavendish, Vermont. I was in Cavendish last summer, but was unable to locate his burial place as many of the inscriptions on the Revolutionary soldiers tombstones have been obliterated by time and the action of the elements. I did find however, the name of one Ammi (this, by the way, is a family name) Andrews associated with the name of Capt. Coffin who was a very prominent man of Revolutionary fame from that town. 
Will you kindly look this matter up, and if you do not find a pensioner by that name on the pension rolls, will you note if there was a pensioner by the name of Andrews from Vermont or New Hampshire whose death occurred near the date given above, and whose age was near as stated. Thanking you in advance for your trouble, I am 
Yours very truly. 
[Signed] G. L. Andrews
Box 1101

[Receipt stamp] U.S. Pension Office MAR 3 1908
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Rev
CHRIST CHURCH. 
MONTPELIER, VT. 
Nov. 4th, 1908. 

The Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 
[Receipt stamp] Record Division NOV 7 1908

Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly furnish me at your earliest convenience an official copy of the military record of one Ammi Andrews, soldier and Officer in the Revolutionary War. I have the data needed, which I add below, but for the purpose of application for membership in the Vt. Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, I need the record in official form. I have also some information from the Record Office, but not as complete as I should like. 
On the data I have are the signs "A.S.C. Sur. File 16. 605 Rev. War", which may help you to identify it. 
Ammi Andrews enlisted from Hillsborough, N.H.; was made Sergeant in April 1775 (Capt. Isaac Baldwin, Col. John Stark); wounded May 1775; appointed Ensign, June 1775; transferred to company of Capt Henry Deirborn [sic]. Promoted to 2nd Lieut, same company, Regiment of Col. Benedict Arnold. Was in the "wilderness march" to Canada and took part in the siege of Quebec, where he was captured the last day of 1775, paroled the next year, and was exchanged in Feb. 1777. Applied for Pension April 27, 1818 from Cavendish Vt., Claim allowed 1832 Hillsborough, N.H. Certificate issued Jan. 25, 1833, and last payment made March 4th, 1833. Number of Certificate 4655. 
If you can furnish me an "original copy" of the above together with such other information as may be on record, I shall be greatly obliged, and shall gladly forward whatever fees may be required. 
Very truly yours, 
[Signed] Homer A Flint
Rector Christ Church. 
Address, 8 Baldwin Street, Montpelier, Vt.

[in margin] S 16605
[Receipt stamp] U.S. Pension Office NOV 6 1908
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N. W. QUINBY, 
Agent for VACUUM OIL COMPANY. 
BOX [?] PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
Prov. R.I. July 19 1909 

Dept of The Interior 
Bureau of Pensions 

Gentlemen:
Will you please give me a statement of the military history of Ammi Andrews a soldier of the Revolutionary War, he enlisted at Hillsborough NH 
Yours very respectfully 
[Signed] N.W. Quinby 
32 Corinth St
Prov RI
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[Receipt mark] U.S. Pension Office JAN 5 1920 
229 Austin St 
West Newton Mass.  (Rev War overwritten) 

U.S Pension Office,
Will you please inform me if Jesse Colburn is a pensioner of 1812 ["send W.Bty 25365" noted] pensioner & what facts in regard to him your records show, particularly the State from which he enlisted, and his various addresses in later life? 
Also information of the same kind in regard to
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Nathaniel Colburn soldier of 1776 & 1812 both ["none for this" noted]
Similar data in regard to Ammi Andrews Sr and Jr. soldiers of 1776. ["send S 16605 the only one" noted]
This information is desired for genealogical purposes.
Yours truly
L.P. Packard
(Mrs ?)
229 Austen St
W Newton Mass
Jan 5 1920
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Dear Sir:- 
I should like to get the copy of service of Ammi Andrews, enlisted 1775 under Capt. Isaac Baldwin and Colonel John Stark - wounded May 1775 - near Chelsea, Mass. In June 1775 appointed Ensign; after death of Capt. Baldwin at Bunker Hill, transferred to Capt. Henry Dearborn's Co. Sept. 1775 promoted to 2nd Lieut in Col. Benedict Arnold's
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A reply will be appreciated
by-- Mrs. Charles H. Spooner
Organizing Regent D.A.R.
Hatfield, N.H.
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Regt.; marched through the wilderness to Canada, was captured before Quebec Dec. 31st 1775, paroled Aug. 3d 1776 and exchanged in Feb. 1777. He enlisted from Hillsboro N.H.; put in his claim for a pension when he was 80 years old in 1818, then residing in Cavendish, Vt. where he lived for twelve [?] years, died in Hillsboro, N.H. in the spring 1833. His last pension of $269.99 paid Mch. 4th [?] 1833.
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2.
[Monogram CRB]
Mar. 9, 1914 

Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sirs;-  
Will you kindly give me the military record of one Ammi Andrews who lived in Hillsboro, N. H. His wife's name was Mary Brown. After his death (in Hillsboro) his wife and daughters went to live in Enfield, New Hampshire.

[Receipt stamp] U.S. Pension Office MAR 12 1914
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I thought it possible that Ammi's father, Solomon, might have fought in the Revolutionary War. This branch of the Andrews family (descendants of Lieut. John Andrews who fought in the Pequot Indian war) settled in the part of Ipswich called Chebacco, now Essex. Mass. His wife was Elizabeth Ingalls.

Can you find any record of the military service of Solomon Andrews of Chebacco, Mass.
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I shall expect to pay any reasonable charge for this information! I hope to receive an answer to this request - I was delighted to receive the military records of two ancestors. I am,
Most sincerely,
Georgia Robertson Baird (Mrs Charles)
814 West 52nd St.
K.C., Mo.
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[illegible - initials?]
Rev Sec

Groton Mass. 
July 7th, 1915 

Commissioner of Pensions.

Dear Sir: 
Can you give me any information in regard to Ammy, Ammi or Ami Andrews who enlisted from Hillsboro N.H.? 
Was said to have been in the Battle of Bunker Hill and went on Arnolds terrible
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expedition through Maine and Canada to Quebec.
He lived to be ninety six years. If he received a pension or his widow, would be very much obliged for a copy as he was my great great grand father.
Yours respectfully
(Mrs) Mattie Andrews Robertson
Groton Mass.

Regent of Groton Chap. D.R.
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[Receipt stamp]Received  AUG 11 1936 

Litchfield Road 
Watertown, Conn. 
August 10, 1936. 

Veterans' Administration 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir,
Kindly send me the military service records of a Revolutionary soldier, one Ammi (or Ammy) Andrews, who Pension number is S 16605.
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Also send me please the military records of his son, Samuel E. Andrews, whose Pension number is W. 23447. All records you have, I will be glad to have, and shall be grateful for your service.
Sincerely,
Mary B. Cunningham
(Mrs. Marcus E.)
Kindly send to above address.
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S16605
Ammi Andrews, born Chebacco, Mass., April 13, 1737; married 1st Mary Brown. Possibly they were divorced; if so, no record of it has been discovered. She and her daughters went to live with the Shakers at Enfield, N. H., where it is supposed she died Mar. 31, 1820. She is supposed to have been mother of his 12 children. It has been claimed that he had a second wife, of whom no record has been found, and who died about March 1821. He was a shoemaker by trade, probably a farmer; moved from Chebacco to that part of Concord, Mass. which became Carlisle. On Mar. 7, 1760 he and wife Mary, with brother Isaac and wife made deed to land in Concord. Farmer, Chelmsford, Mass. 1761. He and brother Isaac with families settled in Hillsboro, N. H. 1765. He was a brave, corageous [sic] soldier in the Revolution: Sergeant, Capt. Isaac Baldwin's company; Col. John Stark's 7 N. H. Regt.; enlisted April, 1775; sustained gun shot wound left arm while engaged in burning a British ship near Chelsea, Mass., May, 1775. Traditional that he was suffering from his wound at his father's home at Carlisle during battle of Bunker Hill. That he extracted the bullet which caused the death of his Captain- Baldwin, wounded at Bunker Hill. In August, 1775 Capt. Henry Dearborn of Col. Stark's 7 N. H. Regt, enlisted a company of 77 picked men from the American troops about Boston, who went with the expedition of Col. Benedict Arnold to Quebec, 1775. After the death of Capt. Baldwin, Andrews was appointed Ensign and transferred to Capt. Dearborn's 8th company, same Regt, June, 1775; promoted 2d Lieut. Sept. 1775. His name appears as Ensign Capt. Dearborn's company Sept. 18, 1775. Another record mentions him as member of the company 4 months and 5 days, 2 months as Sergeant to Sept. 1, 1775. It is traditional that while at Quebec Col. Arnold expressed a desire to capture a British soldier to learn the status of their army, etc. Lieut. Andrews volunteered for the service. It was suggested that he should have the best gun in the army for the purpose; when he inquired-: "Is it a dead or living soldier you desire me to capture?" If a live one, I don't wish to be bothered with a gun." He proceeded to the fort, scaled the wall in the darkness and at a favorable moment siezed [sic] a British sentry on his beat by the throat and warned him that he would be a dead man if he made an alarm; took him down the mountain side and marched his prisoner three miles through the snow to the American camp. He was captured at Quebec Dec. 31, 1775; but erroneously reported as Lieut. Amos Andrews. There was no soldier of that name in the Expedition. He was paroled the next summer and afterwards exchanged. 
It is not known that he moved from Hillsboro after settlement there. *He died Hillsboro Mar. 30, 1833. It is mentioned on his monument at Hillsboro that he served with Arnold at Quebec. 
Children, so far as discovered: 
Ammi, b. 
Stephen, b.  Concord?
Mary, b. 1762, "
Samuel Engalls, b. 1763.
Abel, b. June 3, 1765.
Betta, b. 1767; d. Sept. 26, 1841, unm.
Issachar, b. Jan. 31, 1869, Hillsboro.
Sarah, b. Oct. 28, 1770.
John, b. Nov. 16, 1772.
Eunice, b. 1781; d. Oct. 5, 1818, unm.
Jabez, Probably d. young.
Ira, Probably d. young.

The sons, Ammi (0), Stephen (W8228) and Samuel (W23447) were Revolutionary soldiers. 

It is specially desired to learn if Lieut. Ammi, senior, was pensioned and if so, to give the facts. If he had a second wife, her name, date of marriage and date of her death.

[Receipt mark] U.S. Pension Office NOV 30 1918
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Ammi Andrews, son of Ammi. (None for this)
Private, Capt. Isaac Baldwin's company, Col. John Stark's 7 N. H. Reg, Aug. 1, 1775. Capt. John Hale of N. H. signed Oct. 17, 1775 for Regimental Coats for 9 men including Ammi Andrews. 
Ammi Andrews in List of Continental soldiers; enlisted 1777 for 3 years or during the war, from Col. Stickney's N. H. Regiment, into Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Stickney of Concord, N. H. 
Ammi Andrews of Henniker, N.H. mustered as a soldier May 5, 1775, Bounty 20. 
Ami Andrews in Roll of Non-Commissioned Officers 1 N. H. Regt., ending Dec. 31, 1782. Most of this Regiment commenced service Jan. 1, 1782 and served through the year 1783 in 1st and 3d N. H. Regts.; a reorganization of them was formed Jan. 1, (1781? ) These records quoted as found in N. H. Revolutionary Records.
Ammi Andrews of Montpelier, Vermont, bought land, probably at Berlin, Vermont Dec. 1, 1791. He and his brother Abel owned a farm near Bethel Corner, Vermont. Ammi sold his share of the farm to Abel Jan. 6, 1809, and had previously moved to Cavendish, Vermont. The farm owned by Ammi and Abel at Berlin Corner was sold by Abel to their brother Issachar of Hillsboro, N. H., 1812. 
It is supposed that Ammi Andrews, Jr. lived at Hillsboro, Nottingham, Henniker and Merrimack, N. H., and at Montpelier, Berlin and Cavendish, Vermont at different periods. 
Ammi Andrews of Cavendish was married there May 20, 1798, by Asaph Fletcher, Justice Peace, to widow Abigail Baldwin. Was this Ammi Junior? 
Ammi Andrews made application for pension at Cavendish Apr. 27, 1818. Pension Certificate #4655, dated Jan. 25, 1833. Was this Ammi Junior? 9no, the father) 
Please give full record of his military service, and all facts about him and his family, and date and place of his death. 

Stephen Andrews, son of Ammi, Senior. (W 8228)
On Depreciation Roll 9th Company, Col. Alexander Scammel's 3 N. H. Regt., 1777 - 9. Also, enlisted Hillsboro, N. H. July 23, 1779 for one year in Col. Stickney's Regt. He was living 1815. 
Please give record of his family, if any; and places of residence, and any other information about him. Was he a Pensioner? 

Samuel Engalls Andrews, Son of Ammi, Senior. (W23447) 
born 1763, Probably in Mass. Married Buxton, Maine, May 5, 1788, Hannah E. Elden; settled in Lovell, Maine soon after marriage, and lived there the remainder of his life. 
Private, Capt. Frye's Company, Col. Henry Dearborn's Regt.; Enlisted Hillsboro, N. H. Sept. 1782; discharged June, 1784. Captain, 4th Regt. 3d Brigade, 6th Division, Maine Militia, Discharged Dec. 9, 1815. 
He served at Brownville, N. Y., 1815, in 1812 war, as Captain. He died Lovell, Maine, Jan. 1, 1822. 
Full record of his services desired.
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Exira, Iowa, Nov. 25, 1918 
Rev. Sec
4 [H?]
JMD

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir:- 
The undersigned respectfully requests from the Pension Office or War Department records such information as there appears concerning the several persons named in the accompanying application. 
The writer has been engaged more than 50 years compiling records of the descendants of Lieut. John Andrews, of Chebacco, now Essex, Mass., 1637. It is a typical Puritan, New England family, 40.000 descendants have been traced; probably there are as many more not identified; located mostly in the northern, eastern and western portions of the United States, many on the Pacific coast, some in Canada and in other places; a few south of Mason and Dixon Line. They have been honest, industrious, loyal, patriotic people; embracing all grades of society, made up of the intellect, bone and muscle of America. They have served in every war of this country from the Indian Pequot war of 1637 to the present war in Europe. 170 served in the Revolution; 475 in the civil war, with but 6 rebels; and many in the present war. 
In the writer's branch of the family four brothers - Lieut. Ammi, Edmund (0), Issachar (0) and Capt. Abraham, - were Revolutionary soldiers from Mass. And Lieut. Ammi had also three sons in the Revolution. Sketches of whom follow: 
The writer served three years in Co. D. 16th Maine Infantry Vols. 
It is suggested that by reason of the services of the Andrews Family in the wars of this country we are entitled to the desired information to assist in compiling the histories of these members of the family. 
Very respectfully
[Signed] H.F. Andrews
[Receipt mark] U.S. Pension Office NOV 30 1918
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[Left margin] AW Jan 16, 1920
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Ammi Andrews a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. File 16.605 

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT | LENGTH OF SERVICE | RANK | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED (CAPTAIN/COLONEL) | STATE
Apl.1775 | [blank] | Sergeant | Capt. Isaac Baldwin/Col. John Stark | N.H.
[May 1775 - not on enlistment] & in May while burning British vessel near Chelsea, Mass., he received gun shot wound of left arm [halfway between elbow & shoulder]
June 1775 | [blank] | Ensign | Capt. Henry Dearborn/Col. John Stark | [NH]
Sept. 1775 | [blank] | 2n Lieutenant | Henry Dearborn/ Col. Benedict Arnold's detachment marched through the wilderness to Canada, was captured at Quebec Dec. 31, 1775, paroled Aug. 3, 1776 & exchanged in Feby 1777.

Battles engaged in, Quebec. 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Hillsborough, New Hampshire  & also in 1832. 
Date of application for pension, Apl 27, 1818. His claim was allowed.
 Residence at date of application, Cavendish, Windsor Co., Vt.
Age at date of application, eighty years. 
Remarks: [A lot is crossed out] his father (name not stated) lived in Concord, Mass. in 1775 he married (wifes name not stated) in Cavendish, Vt. 
The above noted is the only Ammi etc.
I have read thro twice & cannot find any statement as to Issachar being soldiers [illegible] AW Jan 16, 1920

Over
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In 1819 soldiers son Issachar Andrews of Wndsor, N.H. is referred to as Captain - no expla for this title given
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August 24, 1938
Ammi Andrews-S.16605
Samuel E. Andrews- W.23447
BA/J-AWF

Mrs. Marcus E. Cunningham 
Litchfield Road 
Watertown, Connecticut 

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Ammi Andrews, pension number S. 16605, and record of Samuel E. Andrews, pension number W. 23447. 
The data concerning these soldiers furnished herein were obtained [missing] on file in pension claims noted above [missing] Revolution. 

Ammi Andrews- S.16605
The date and place of birth of Ammi Andrews are not shown in the claim, nor are the names of his parents stated. 
Ammi Andrews, while a resident of Hillsboro, New Hampshire, enlisted sometime in April, 1775 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, served as a sergeant in Captain Isaac Baldwin's Company, Colonel Stark's New Hampshire regiment, and in May, 1775, while assisting in burning a British vessel near Chelsea, Massachusetts, he received a gun shot wound in his left arm, and went to the home of his father in Concord, Massachusetts, where he remained until his wound had healed. He was commissioned sometime in June, 1775, ensign in Captain Henry Dearborn's company, and was commissioned sometime in September 1775, 2nd lieutenant in same company, Colonel Benedict Arnold's regiment, marched 

Her letter in this claim 
Ammi Andrews S. 16605
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through the wilderness to Quebec, and in the attack on Quebec, he was taken prisoner, paroled August 3, 1776, and exchanged in February, 1777. 
Ammi Andrews was eighty years of age in 1818, then living in Cavendish, Vermont. He was allowed pension from December 1, 1825, on account of disability resulting from the wound referred to herein, at which time he was living in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. 
It is stated that Ammi Andrews after he left the service lived in Littleton, Massachusetts, Lovell and Buxton, Maine, Montpelier, Vermont, Berlin, Vermont, and Cavendish, Vermont, where he married about the year 1795; in 1819 his "aged wife" was referred to; there is no further reference to his wife. His son, "Captain" Issachar Andrews in 1819 was living in Windsor, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire. 
Isaac Andrews of Hillsboro, New Hampshire in 1825, stated that he was well acquainted with Ammi Andrews during the Revolution, no relationship to the family shown.
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Samuel E. Andrews-W. 23447 
The date and place of birth of Samuel E. Andrews are not shown in the claim, nor are the names of his parents stated.
Samuel E. Andrews enlisted in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, sometime in September, 1782, served as a private in Captain Frye's Company, Colonel Scammell's and Colonel Dearborn's 1st New Hampshire regiment, and was discharged from the American Regiment on June 30, 1784. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed
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July 8, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-five years and living in Lovell, Oxford County, Massachusetts (District of Maine). 
Samuel E. Andrews married May 5, 1788 in Buxton, York County, District of Maine, Hannah Elden; they were both then of said Buxton. He died January 1, 1822 in Lovell, Maine.
The widow, Hannah Adrews, was allowed pension on her application executed August 7, 1838, then aged sixty-nine years and living in Lovell, Maine, where she continued to live in 1855.
Reference was made in 1820 to their children as follows - 
Stephen, sixteen years of age 
Nathan, fourteen years of age 
Abel, thirteen years of age 
Moses, twelve years of age. 

Nathan Andrews in 1850 was of Oxford County, Maine, and Stephen Andrews was living in 1855 in Lovell, Maine.
Hannah E. Andrews was of Oxford County, Maine in 1848; it is not shown that she was [the same] as the widow referred to above. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Reev. & 1812 Wars Section 
AW/eel 
November 24, 1928

Mrs. Leon F. Roberts 
Pawhuska 
Oklahoma 

Madam: 
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 16605, it appears that Ammi Andrews, while residing in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, enlisted in April, 1775 and served as a sergeant in Captain Isaac Baldwin's Company, Colonel John Stark's New Hampshire Regiment, and in May, while burning a British vessel near Chelsea, Massachusetts, he received a gun shot wound in the left arm; in June, 1775, he was commissioned ensign in Captain Henry Dearborn's Company, Colonel John Stark's Regiment and in September, 1775, was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the same company in Colonel Benedict Arnold's Detachment, marched through the wilderness to Canada, was in the battle of Quebec, where taken prisoner, was paroled August 3, 1776 and exchanged in February, 1777. 
[He was allowed pension on his application executed April 27, 1818, at which time he was living in Cavendish - all stricken & replaced with:] 
al[lowed] pen[sion] on ac[count] of dis[ability] frm Dec 1-1825
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Windsor County, Vermont, aged eighty years. 
It is stated that soldier's father, his name not given, lived in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1775. 
The soldier married in Cavendish, Vermont, the name of his wife, or any details of his marriage not given. A son, Isachar Andrews, was living in 1825, and is the only child referred to. 
The above noted Ammi Andrews is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau. 
Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT 
Commissioner.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAN-51 
12 - 5 - 41 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME: Andrews, Amos,  GRADE: Private , LINE: Connecticut 
WARRANT NUMBER: 5374, ACREAGE: 100, ISSUED: Sept. 9, 1790 to James F. Sebor

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.