Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.29,670, Joshua Brewster, Mass

SERVICE
Mass.
Brewster, Joshua
NUMBER
S. 29,670
CONTENTS

10.684 Massachusetts
Isaac Brewster
of Wadsworth in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Captain Haskell of the Regt. commanded by Col Bradford in the Mass time for Dupon
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 50 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of April 1833 and Locust Hill Lord  Stymore  Miss
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $160.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept .. 40.00 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Alb. Adkins Clerk Book 6 Vol. 2a Page 5
95 Physick 96 Compt 10 1817

Joshua Brewster
1791

REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, ss.
ON this twenty first day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting at Duxbury within and for said County of Plymouth, Joshua Brewster a resident of Duxbury in said County of Plymouth, and Common- wealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty one 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 act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquish- es 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. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he enlisted at Duxbury in April 1777, in the company commanded by Calvin Partridge and went to Roxbury and Dorchester, where he served three months.
Enlisted again the same year in the same Company and same officers and went to Rhode Island and was stationed at Bristol Garrison and served three months there and in the vicinity. Enlisted again under Capt. Barty in year 1778. and Col. Jacob's regiment and served six months near New Port on Rhode Island. Enlisted again in the Continental Service in June 1780 in Col. Gannalil Bradford's regiment and served nine months at Westpoint, and  Enlisted again in the

Spring of 1781. for three years and went to West Point six months & then had a furlough and then returned to duty. For the period of service under this enlistment he submitted his evidence under an application for a Pension under Act March 18. 1818. He was placed on the Pension Role & was stricken therefrom on account of property He served until the close of the War. He refers to the evidence submitted by him on his former application which was his written discharge. His pension certificate dated June 10. 1819 No 11. 749.
He was born & always lived in said town of Duxbury. Is well known to Rev. Benj. Kent & Jedah Dyer Esq. & all the good people of said town. Joshua Gummer
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Attest Jacob H. Lord Register

We, Benjamin Kent a clergyman, residing in the town of Duxbury and Judah Alden Esq. residing in the same town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Joshua Brewster who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Benjamin Kent Judah Alden
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Benjamin Kent who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Duxbury and that Judah Alden Esq. who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
I, Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Brewster for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Jacob H. Lord

Joshua Brewster,
11.749
Oct 1819
W
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SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this eighteenth day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Joshua Brewster aged fifty nine years, resident in Duxbury - in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in
the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of 2 years & 8 months in Scituate or 3 years & was discharged 4 months before the term of enlistment expired, peace having taken place the service was in Col. Jones Reg't & Col. Sheppard's Reg't my service and that he has received a pension certificate dated June 10 1819 and numbered 11749 - in pursuance of his original Declaration made April 4th 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 28th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
That I am by occupation a mariner that I have not pursued for many years past I am not able to do more than one half the labour of an able bodied man and am greatly afflicted occasionally with the rheumatism. The number of my family is four besides my self viz my wife Sarah aged 56 years her health is very feeble for seven years past she has about once a month had fits which Physicians say are of the nervous kind one son Joshua aged 20 years he can do no more than support himself & in consequence of his sickness has been unable to contribute to my support my daughter Ruth aged 17 years in feeble health & has been an invalid some her in

That I am by occupation a mariner that I have not pursued for many years past I am not able to do more than one half the labour of an able bodied man and am greatly afflicted occasionally with the rheumatism. The number of my family is four beside my self viz my wife Sarah aged 56 years her health is very feeble for seven years past she has about once a month had fits which Physicians say are of the nervous kind one son Joshua aged 20 years he can do no more than support himself & in consequence of his sickness has been unable to contribute to my support my daughter Ruth aged 17 years in feeble health & has been an invalid from her infancy & my Grand daughter Rosalana Weston 6 years of age an orphan child. And I further say that I am indebted to sundry persons about 400 dollars I have due me about 375 dollars - 300 dollars of which I consider as good as cash in hand. Excepting wearing apparel & bedding I have no other property than what is stated below viz
Real Estate as appraised by the assessors of Duxbury $ 1502.- Stock 146. Farming tools 38.25. Library 20 - house furniture 17.75 Chaise. Sleigh etc 60 -
Joshua Brewster
Sworn to, and declared, on the 18 th day of July A.D. 1820
before Nathan Mitchell Justice of the court
I, John B Thomas, clerk of said court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Eighteen hundred forty seven dollars and cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty ninth day of December 1820
John B Thomas Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth

7791
Joshua Brewster
Mah Dyans
was on the Pension roll, and dropped on acct. of property - his Certificate is numbered 11.749 - dated 10 June 1879
a long time favor denied receiving, in this case DR
I Island Plymouth Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Joshua Prevoiter  of  Deerbury  in the State of  Mass!  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Seventy one years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     enlisted In 1777 apl 3 As a Gen. Capt C. Partridge,   " 3 same   1778 6 Capt Curty, col Jacobs.   1780 June 9 col Bradford   1781 Spring for 3 mos  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Deerbury  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? A Cluettman & J Alden certify to traditional evidence. Refers to his discharge filed with his application for a pension under act of 1818. - was on the Pension roll and dropped on acct. of property. Entry is dated 10 June 1819. No 11.749.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D. Arub Examining Clerk.

Accy Out
May 5, 1928.
Mrs. Clayton L. Reynolds, 28 Couch Street, Taunton, Massachusetts.
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 29670, it appears that Joshua Brewster was born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, date not stated.
While a resident of said Duxbury, he enlisted and served as a private with the Massachusetts Troops as follows:
From in April, 1777, six months in Captain Partridge's Company; in 1778, six months in Captain Curtis' Company, Colonel Jacob's Regiment; from in 1779, nine months in Captain Haskell's Company, Colonel Gamaliel Bradford's Regiment; and from the spring of 1781 in Colonels Vose's and Shepard's Regiments, until discharged December 31, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 4, 1818, while a resident of Duxbury, Massachusetts.
In 1820, soldier stated that he was fifty-nine years old and referred to his wife Sarah, aged fifty-six years; son, Joshua, aged twenty years; daughter, Ruth, aged seventeen years; and granddaughter, Roxalana Weston (an orphan) aged six years.
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Rest of this letter in Joshua Brewster S. 24071

Dec. 7. 1789 Payment received by him in the first Recd
J. Brewster
BREWSTER, JOSHUA (MASS.) S 29670

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL K N O X,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Joshua Brughes Soldier in the Seventh Massachusetts Regiment, being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the thirty first Day of December
1783
By the General's Command,
Wm. Knox
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
N. Howe Adj! P.S.

No Discharge found in claims, when written by me May 5, 1928 Acc- J.

11. 749
Massachusetts.
Joshua Brewster,
of Duxbury, in the state of Massach ts . who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shepherd, of the Massach ts . line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10. of June, 1819. and sent to Nahum Mitchell, Judge, East Bridgewater, Atty.
Arrears to 4th of March, 1819. - 88.23.
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Sept: 48 "
10 mo. 27 1819. $136.23.
4 4 31
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued.
Received of the Hon. John D. Sleeper, Esq. Secretary of the Commonwealth, the sum of One Hundred and Thirty Six Dollars and 23 Cents for Pension of Joshua Brewster, late of Duxbury, Mass. this 10th day of June, 1819.

29670 Recy INVALID.
File No. 29,670
Joanna Brewster Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 58
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1922 May 5: Hask. to Mrs. Dayton & Reynolds

Joshua Brewster Duxbury.
1875
Joshua Brewster

I Joshua Brewster of Duxbury in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a citizen of the United States depose set forth and declare that I was a private soldier in the land service in the war of the revolution with great Britain against the common enemy and on the Continental establishment - and entered the service in 1779 and was in it most of the time till the close of the war. I served in the whole nearly four years and a half. I was in the last three years service and was honorably discharged at the close of the war, viz. on the thirty first day of December 1783. In the last three years service I served in the 4 th Massachusetts Regiment. The Captain's name I cannot recollect. In 1779 and 1780 I also served nine months at Westpoint in Capt. Haskell's company and the 14 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Gamaliel Bradford - I am reduced in my circumstances and stand in need of assistance from my country for support; and I do hereby relinquish all my claim to any allowance or pension from the United States heretofore granted me by any law of Congress. My discharge under the hand of Genl. Knox dated 31. Dec. 1783 and Registered by R t Howe Adjt P.T. I herewith exhibit. —
Joshua Brewster
Deared & sworn to April 4. 1818.

Joshua Brewster Duxbury. Private Lt Massachusett, Reg't 3 years
Indorse Adm. as claimant circumstances warbled

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
On this 88.  Fourth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Joshua Brewster of Duxbury aged  years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, 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," viz.
That he served nearly four years in said war and until the close of it - That the last 3 years he served in the 4 th Massachusetts Regiment -
/See his said declaration & discharge enclosed/

And I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Brewster needs the assistance of his country for support —
also And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Joshua Brewster did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com- mon enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; 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.
Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above cer- tificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

28 Couch St. Campton, Mass.
Feb. 25, 1928.
Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C. Gentlemen:
I am looking up my Revolutionary ancestor, Joshua Brewster the son of Nathan Brewster. Will you kindly give me that data you can as to Birth, Death, Pension number and War Record of same.
I am enclosing a self addressed stamped envelope and would appreciate your attention in the matter.
Yours truly, Mrs. Clayton L. Reynolds.