Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,367, Caleb Brewster, Continental New York

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Service 
Continental 
New York

Brewster, Caleb

Number
S28367

B.L.W 172_200. Capt. Lieut.
of Col Lamb's Regt. Army
Issued Dec. 15, 1790
No papers

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28367
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 28,367
Caleb Brewster
Lieut. Res Y [illegible]

Act:
Index: --Vol. 2, Page 52
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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The List of pensioners printed in 1835 shows On list of invalid pensioners of New York County.

Caleb Brewster, Lieut. U.S. Army, placed on pension roll Nov. 3, 1783 under Act Aug. 11, 1790, annual allowance $200 increased to $204 from Apr. 28, 1820 under Act of Apr. 24, 1820, and died Feb. 13, 1827.

See Heitman page 119-
also
see pension claim of Joshua Davis, N.Y. W. 17698, there are his affidavits in it made by Capt. Caleb Brewster.

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New York June 13/55
Hon. LP Waldo
Sir,
Please let Mr. B. B. Chapman look at the papers relation to my Father's paper [crossed out] pension, the late Capt. Caleb Brewster an officer of the Revolutionary War.
Respectfully
Sturges Brewster
N. York

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New York June 13/55
Hon. LP Waldo
Sir,
Please let Mr. B. B. Chapman look at the papers relation to my Father's paper [crossed out] pension, the late Capt. Caleb Brewster an officer of the Revolutionary War.
Respectfully
Sturges Brewster
N. York

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Freen
J. C. Calhoun Esquire
Secretary of War
Washington

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Fairfield, Conn. March 24, 1820

Mr. Calhoun

Sir,

I am informed that instructions from the treasury department of the U. States make it necessary for a pension certificate from the Secretary of War. This document I have never had and payment is now for the first time refused for the want of it. I am instructed from the proper offices in N York that I must apply to you for the certificate mentioned & it will be immediately obtained. If so, you will confer a favor by transmitting the same as soon as your convenience will permit. 

Sir, you can see (if necessary) that I was placed on the pension list of the United States by a special act of Congress of the 11th Aug 1790. If any further information be required regarding me or explanatory of my claim a reference is made to the Hon. G. Tomlinson a member of the House of Rep. with whom I have a personal acquaintance arising from long residence of the same town and neighborhood.

I am sir very respectfully,

Your Obt. Servt.

Caleb Brewster

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New York
Caleb Brewster, 
Lieutenant
In the army U. States

Inscribed on the roll of New York at $16 [illegible] increased to $17 by Law of the 24th of April 1820.

Certificate issued 26th April, 1820 & sent to the Hon. Gideon Tomlinson House of Representatives

N.Y. ad Invalid

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House Rep. April 25th, 1870

Sir, 
Your note of yesterday has been handed in this morning.
I presume you do not [illegible] apprehend the object of Capt. Caleb Brewster.  He is now on the pension role as an invalid, and, as I understand, never had a certificate and now asks that a certificate may issue to him, on the evidence that his disability-- [illegible] henceforth sent

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him to [illegible] [illegible] & delay.

I am, Sir, very respectfully
Your obedient Servt.
Gideon Tomlinson