Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,587, Samuel Andrews, Mass.

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Mass. Andrews, Samuel. S. 29587

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4062
Maine
Samuel Andrews of Bridgton in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Tubbs of the Regt commanded by Col French in the Massachusetts line for state troops for 12 mo.  

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine 
at the rate of 40 dollars~ Cents per annum,
 to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Jan'y 1833 and Sent to Hon J
 Anderson House of Reps

Appears to 4th of Sept 1832 $-60 
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833-20
 [Far left of document] $80
[Stamp that Reads] {Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832} 

[Stamp that reads] Recorded by ED. Bullock (handwritten) Clerk, 
Book D Vol. 15 Page 46-
(D, 15 and 46 handwritten)

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[Bottom Center of Page]
John Anderson
House of Reps.

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Maine District SS.

At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the Eighth day of November A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.

On this Eight day of November aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Samuel Andrews a resident of Bridgton in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged Seventy Seven 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he was a soldier in the army of the Revolution enlisted in Barkley in the County of Bristol
[written in left margin: "May 2"] dispachments in February 1776 under our Capt Tubbs as he [illegible] in Col French, right for two months  was marched to  [illegible] Hill near Boston & [illegible] spent the two months there & at Dorchester & was verbally dismissed. That he again enlisted in Col Francis [illegible] for 
[written in left margin: "May 4"] four months as he believes & served out the time at Dorchester & was verbally dismissed. Jacob French was one of his Lieutenants [illegible] his Captain's name he has forgotten.
     That he again enlisted in a [illegible] company in said Barclay was marched to Rhode Island the year he has forgotten & his officers except Lt Burke. his [illegible] [written in left margin: "May 2"] name [illegible] [illegible] he then served [illegible] months he was marched to Providence - then to Bristol - then Trenton & then to Dartmouth in Massachusetts & then was sent to guard the cargoes of two prized ships consisting of sugar [illegible] at the [written in left margin: "May 4"] end of the time was dismissed - He also served four months in 1775 in Capt [illegible] as [illegible] company in Roxbury in [illegible] it [illegible] in the first eight months [word crossed out]^service after the battle of Lexington. The Col's name he has forgotten  - he served half of the eight months for which said Regt was raised & his other half was served the other four months-.  He was born in said Barclay 29th of Sept 1755 & resided there until he served [illegible]  [illegible] & he has resided in Bridgton [illegible] three years - His [illegible]  is [illegible] [[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Barclay -  He does not know [illegible] officer [illegible] who served with him & has no [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] the memory of his [illegible] should [illegible] [illegible] 

he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or an annuity, except the present, [text crossed out] and he declares that his name is no on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of [end of text crossed out]

[signed] Samuel Andrews

Sworn to ans subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before [handwritten] Ashur Ware [end handwritten] [bracket with text to the right of it] U. S. Judge for the District of Maine. 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary [handwritten] Soldier = [end handwritten] {"pensioner" crossed out], and served as he states

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, [handwritten] John Mussey [end handwritten] Clerk of said District Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this [handwritten] tenth - [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] December [end handwritten] A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two ["two" was handwritten]

[signed] John Mussey  [bracket with text to the right of it] Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

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We Nathan Church, aged eighty years, a clergy man residing in Bridgton in the County of Cumberland and Nathanial S. Littlefield, Asa Ingalls & George W Cushman statesmen of said Bridgton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Andrews Esq. who has [illegible] & sworn to the above declaration that we [illegible] him to be upwards of seventy years old. that he is reputed & believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion - we further state that said Andrews has [illegible] sustained a most excellent character & his statements are entitled to full credit - His memory is much impaired by age but we believe he has stated nothing but what is true & may be relied on - 
Nathan Church

Asa Ingalls [illegible]
George W. Cushman 
[A bracket is hand drawn to the right of the above two names with "Statesmen of Bridgton" handwritten next to it]]


Cumberland ss      Nov 10th 1832
Then the above names Nathan Church - Littlefield [names crossed out] & Ingalls & Cushman [illegible] & made oath to the above before me
Joel Whitmore [hand drawn bracket] Jus of Peace

Cumberland ss- December 12, 1832     I David Burbank of Portland, County of Cumberland, herby certify that I am well acquainted with Nathan Church who subscribed the foregoing deposition, and that he is a reputable clergyman settled at Bridgton - that I am also well acquainted with Asa Ingalls [illegible] 7 Geo W Cushman of [illegible] town, that they are all of them known to me to be men of truth & veracity. & their statement entititled to full belief, having been acquainted with them about thirteen years & having resided in [illegible] Bridgton myself, & that the omission of the magistrate, Joel Whitman Esq to certify to their credibility was owning to his not being informed that the same was [illegible], & that his residence from this plan is about forty miles distant in the interior.   David Burbank, Justice Peace.

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Maine Districts

District Clerk's Office Dec. 12th 1832
In testimony that Joel Whitmore and David Burbank Esquire whose genuine signatures are to the within certificates, are Justices of the Peace duly [illegible] & that their official attestation are entitled to full faith & credit I have hereto set my hand & seal of office the day & year last above written

John Mussey Clerk U.S. Courts

[[Text handwritten perpendicular to above which also written over other text below the above.]]

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Hon J Anderson
H of R

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Portland City, State of Maine. I hereby certify for a number of years I have been well acquainted with the within named Samuel Andrews. have ever found him constant for truth and Veracity. his Statements are entitled to full confidence
Mark Harris

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[added by hand "29587"]
INVALID.
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File No. [handwritten] 29,587
Samuel Andrews
Pen Rev War  [end handwritten]

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Act: [handwritten] June 7th 32" [end handwritten]

Index :[emdash]Vol. [handwritten] 2 [end handwritten], Page [handwritten] 9 [end handwritten]

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]

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Deposition in 
Saml Andrews
application for 
pension under
act of June 7th 1832

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I Ephraim Andrews of Guilford in the county of Penobscot [illegible] state of Maine of the age of seventy five years do testify and say that near the first of July Ad 1775 Mark Andrews enlisted himself as a soldier ^for six months in a regiment which I think (but am not positive) was commanded by Col. Brewer. The company officers I cannot now recollect. He served four months and then Samuel Andrews took his place [illegible] served two months; during which time I saw him in the company several times. In February and March next following Samuel Andrews aforesaid enlisted and served those two months in Captain Samuel Tubbs company in Col. French's Regiment, ^during this time I was with him. In the summer of AD 1776 he again enlisted and served three of four months, but the names of the officers of company or Regiment are now gone from me. I well recollect his writing home once which in this campaign all the service here mentioned was done in the neighborhood of Boston, in the state of Massachusetts. Note the residence of Samuel Andrew was during this service in the town of Berkley in Massachusetts, he now resides in Bridgton in the state of Maine, and is now [undlerline] seventy seven years old [end underline]. Further the deponent saith not. 
Ephraim Andrews. 

Penobscot [illegible] December 21st 1832. On this day the aforesaid deponent was examined cautioned and sworn, agreeable to the Law of Maine, to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed, taken at the request Samuel Andrews of Parkman acting for the above named Samuel Andrews of Bridgeton.
Taken and sealed up.  By and before me Robert Low, {Justice of the Peace for said county

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New Index

Saml Andrews

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Hon J Anderson

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
[handwritten] Samuel Andrews [end handwritten] which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides ?

[left blank - no response]

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

[left blank - no response]

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

[left blank - no response]

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

[added by hand "[illegible]"]

V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled ?

[added by hand "sufficient details are not given"]

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

[added by hand "not fully"]

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

[left blank - no response]

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

[left blank - no response]

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?

[left blank - no response]

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed ? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

[left blank - no response]

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service ?

[added by hand "No"]  [2 words - illegible]

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been. produced; is there any reason assigned for not obtain-
ing it ?

[added by hand "No"] 

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

[added by hand "[illegible] appear whether there are survivors [illegible] the services may be proved. The [illegible] eviden is required"]


XIV. [dagger symbol] If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?

[left blank - no response]

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service ?

[left blank - no response]

XVI. [double dagger symbol] Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct ?

[left blank - no response]

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily ? And, if not which of them is not so answered ?

[added by hand "4th Subsequent" with line drawn under text] 

EXPLANATORY NOTES.

[symbol] QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades : For [em dash] year [em dash] months and [em dash] days, I served as a [em dash].  For [em dash] months and [em dash] days, I served as a [em dash]; and for such service I claim a pension."

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period of which the applicant served; and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, an all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

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General Accounting Office (Mrs. Hewson) furnished the following information in regard to Samuel Andrews, Ctf. No. 4062; that the original certificate of pension was submitted by his widow, Prudence, in order to obtain the accrued pension, that this Samuel Andrew, 2", died, (as proven before the court in Portland, Maine) on Sept. 16, 1836 (This is the date of death on our (the Vet. Ad.) Agency Book for Samuel Andrews with Pen. Ctf. No. 3735, which is an error.) Prudence was then, a resident of Cumberland Co., Maine. 

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Oct. 28, 1938