Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 221, [BLANK] [BLANK], Conn.

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State of New York
Cortland County ss

On the 2d day of September eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before
the Court of Common Pleas now sitting in Cortland ville in & for the County of Cortland Ebenezer Andrews a resident of Cortlandville aforesaid aged eighty two years the 19th day of May AD 1832 & who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832--
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated--
On the first day of July 1776 the Deponent belonged to a militia company in the town of Woodbridge County of New Haven & State of Connecticut under the Command of Captain Titus Smith of which Barnabas Baldwin was Lieutenant and Titus Peck was Ensign & on the said 1st day of July the said Militia Company were called to go to New York City by General [illegible] in the service of the United States. And that this deponent then started with the said Militia Company in said service together with the whole Militia Company belonged under the Command of Colonel Jabeth Thompson. That the deponent went to NEw York and continued there in the army in the said service to the forepart of September following a little over the term of two months. We arrived at New York a little after the battle of Long Island. 
In 1777 the deponent in and with the same

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Militia Company, then under the command of Captai Samuel Osborne was called into the service of the United States for the defense of New Haven in Connecticut who was then and there the Commandant and officers of the American troops at New Haven the deponent cannot remember, but the Deponent thinks that the Honourable James Hellhoun then Commanded a company from New Haven. That this Deponent was at said New Haven in said service the period of four days that the British army embarked from New Haven to Fairfield in the State of Connecticut & the deponent with the said Militia Company followed the British there. And was on the expeditions to Fairfield three days. The army had burnt Fairfield before our arrival there and just departing aboard their shipping.
In the year 1780 a soldier in the same company then under the Command of Captain Osborne the Deponent did duty as a guard on the Coast of West Haven during the months of May June July and August three days in each week and the months of September and October of the same year the deponent was called from his service of guarding the Coast and was employed in the said service by butchering for the army of the United States, engaged and employed by Captain Timothy Bradley a commissary for the army as the Deponent believes--
The Deponent further declares that then a solider in the same Company he was engaged in the said service during the months of May June July & August

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of the year 1781. and
The Deponent was employed as a solider aforesaid to guard the said Coast of West Haven three days in said week of said month. and the months of September & October of this year also he was taken from his said duty as a guard to butcher for the army in the employ of the said Captain Timothy Bradley in lieu of other service.
In the year 1777 and 1778 the deponent in the same company was called into actual service and employed substitutes--one substitute was Asa Anderson of New Haven who was in actual service three months & two others one for one and the other for two months, but when and under whom the deponent cannot state--& further there is no clergyman in the vicinity with which I am acquanted
And the deponent further declares that he has no documentary evidence of his said services and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his said service--He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of Any State--

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Ebenezer Andrews
X his mark
Samuel Hotchkiss Clerk

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[Crossed out: who had signed the preceding Certificate that they are resident of this County that they are credible persons and their statements entitled to credt]

The following questions were propounded by the Court to the applicant
Question. Where & in what year were you born
Answer. In Farmingtown in the State of Connecticut
Question. Have you any record of your age & if no where is it?
Answer--I have a Record of my age at home in Cortland ville
Question. Where were you living when called into service? & where have you lived since the revolutionary war & where do you now live?
Answer--I lived in the present town of Woodbridge in the State of Connecticut when called into service--now the town of New Haven. left Farmington for New Haven when I was almost twenty years old & left Woodbridge twenty six years ago for Cortland ville in Courtland County where I have resided until this time.
Question. How were you called into service where were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute.
Answer. I was not a substitute but a drafted militia man and was called out as I suppose by the orders of General George Washington while I resided at Woodbridge as stated in my declaration.
Question. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served. Such Continental & militia regiments as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your service. 
Answer--I cannot state the names of the officers or regiments any farther than above stated in my declaration. My place of residence was about ten

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miles from New Haven on the sea port which was much exposed to the visitation of the enemy & was subject to be called into service for its defense & protection all the while during the war & was called upon as before stated in my declaration and never received any pay for such service but a small sum to bear my charges to New York
Question. did you ever receive a discharge from the service & if so by whom was it given & what has become of it?
Answer -- I received no discharge but by mouth
Question. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood & who can testify to your character for veracity & their belief of your services as a solder of the revolution
Answer Eleazer W Edgecomb & Adin Webb
Mr. Eleazer W. Edgecomb and Adin Webb--residing in the town of Cortland ville in the County of Courtland & State of New York hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Andress who subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and we believe him to be eighty one years of age & that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Eleazer W. Edgecomb
Adin Webb

Samuel Hotchkiss Clerk

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And the said court de hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he stated--and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Eleazer W. Edgecomb & Adin Webb--who have signed the preceding certificate are resident of the said town of Courtland ville and are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.
William Malling
Andrew Deckson
Aaron Brown
Joseph Reynolds
Oliver Kingman
Judges of Cortland Common Pleas

I Samuel Hotchkiss Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Cortland County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Andrews for a Pension
Witness my hand and seal of office this 3d day of October AD 1832
[SEAL]
Samuel Hotchkiss Clerk

Ebenezer Andruss
5/

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Cortland County s.s. 
On this Sixth day of June in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three
personally appeared before me Samuel Hotchkiss Jr Clerk
of said County also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
of said County Ebenezer Andrews who being duly sworn says
his age is Eighty three in May last. That in consequence of
old age bodily infirmity and consequnct trickory of memory
he is unable to State with precision the length of time
of his service, but hesitates not in saying that it is not
less than the time mentioned in his original application
for a Pension on the 2d day of September last hereto [illegible]

And this deponent would further state that the substitutes
by him employed as stated in his said Original declaration
were actually payed by him this deponent for their Services
as such substitutes, and this deponent would further
State in addition to his original declaration that he
was actually engaged in said service at one time in
removing the military stores from New Haven to Walterbury
in Connecticut with his team three days and that he
was also engaged as aforesaid in driving cattle for the
use of the army three days that during the month of May
June July & August & this deponent not only served
three days in each week exclusive of the time of going to and
returning from the said Army but this deponent Stood
as a minute man during the whole of the time from the
first of May to the first of September aforesaid and the
months of September & October was actually engaged
in butchering for the said Army at New Haven And further this
deponent saith not
Sworn & Subscribed before me
the day & year aforesaid
Samuel Hotchkiss Jr. Clerk
Ebenezer Andrews
his mark

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19672
Ebenezer Andrews
Cortland Co
New York

J. L. Edwards
Com. & C of War Dept
Washington
?

Cortland Village
June 6
N.Y.

Samuel Hotchkiss Jr. Clerk
Cortland Co
New York

Rejected

June 12

env let

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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office
23 May 1833

Sir:  

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the followingnotes and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus:  }).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

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A Statement, shewing the Service of Ebinezer Andress Cortland Co New York.

[Headers of table]
Period when the service was entered.
Duration of the claimant's service:  Years. | Months.  |  Days.
Rank of the claimant.
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.
Battles in which the applicant was engaged,
Country through which he marched.
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.
Evidence by shich the declaration is supported.

[line 1]
1776 
[illegible]
2
"
Pri
Capt. Titus Smith, Lieu Baldivere
Col. Jab J Thompson
None
To N York
82 years, N. Haven, Co.
Traditionary

[Line 2]
1777
"
"
7
"
Cap Sam Osborne
[?] Thinker Horable Hillhouse
"
N. Haven, Connect[superscript]t
Connecticut

[Line 3]
178- About
3
6
"
Ditto & T. Bradley --- 
None stated
"
Ditto

[Line 4]
1781 
about
3
18
"
Osbourn & Bradly
"
"
N. Haven


I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARS
Commissioner of Pensions

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance
, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
of
DECLARATION,


In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss.
County of
On this day of    personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of  in the county of    
aged (c)  years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the 
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provion [provision]  made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) with  and
served in the     (e) regiment of the   line, under the following named officers:
(Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he enered [entered]  the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.   A. B.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
I     of the Court of     do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of    for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of    &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the   and C. D. residing in (the same)  hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
  who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be  years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,   Clerk of the Court of     do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation [application]  of  for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this    day of   & c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

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State of New York

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State of New York
County of Cortland
}ss
Be it Known, that on this 19th day of January
A. D. 1853 before me, the underdersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Ebenezer Andrews resident of Cortland Ville in said County, and made oath according to that he is the son & legal heir of Ebenezer Andrews who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of
the Pension Act of
that he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint 
Ebenezer W Edgecomb of Cortland Ville aforesaid, my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Ebenezer Andrews
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive
 the certificate which may be issued for said claim, ; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.
Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Ebenezer Andrews
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said
Ebenezer Andrews
to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party
therein alleged.
Edwin F. Gould Justice of the Peace

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State at New- York,
Cortland County Clerk's Office.
I, Rufus A. Reed, Clerk of said County, Do Certify, That Edwin F. Gould Esq. before whom the annexed Affidavit was taken, 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 further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said JUSTICE, and verily believe the signature to the Jurat thereof, is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this 19th day of January 1853. Rufus A. Reid CLERK.

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No. 921
Crossed out (Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1873)
REJECTED
Ebenezer Andruss
P.O.
Service:
Enlisted:___,18
Discharged: ___, 18
Application filed:____, 18
Alleges:_____
Re-enlisted:______
Attorney:____
P.O._____

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New York
22
Revol
Ebenezer Andruss
Rejected
letter to
Samuel Hotchkiss
8 October 1833
Lett 24 Decemr 1884 to
Hon L G Hathaway
Act 7. June 1832