MILITARY: Samuel Brewster, War of 1812 Pension; Orange Co., NY

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BREWSTER, SAMUEL
Pension File: SC-12175 (on file at the National Archives)
WAR OF 1812 DECLARATION OF SOLDIER FOR PENSION
State of New York, County of Orange, 13-MAY-1871, personally appeared before 
WILLIAM E. MAPES, Clerk of the Orange County Court, SAMUEL BREWSTER, age 75 
years, a resident of Monroe, County of Orange, State of New York, who being duly 
sworn according to law, declares that he is married; that his wife's name was 
MARTHA GIBSON to whom he was married at Monroe, NY, on the 28th day of February, 
1826; that he served the full period of sixty days in the Militia service of the 
United States in the war of 1812; that he is the identical SAMUEL BREWSTER, 
private in Captain BENJAMIN HORTON company; Mustered in at Staten Island, NY, on 
the 30th day of September 1814 and was honorably discharged at Staten Island, 
NY, on the 8th day of December 1814; that he went as a substitute for GERSHAM 
CLARK and answered to said CLARK's name on the Muster Roll. At company roll call 
he answered to his own name; was discharged with the whole company at Staten 
Island, NY, at which place he performed camp duty for more than sixty days; that 
he, at no time during the late rebellion against the authority of the United 
States, adhered to the cause of the enemies of the Government, giving them aid 
or comfort, or exercised the functions of any office whatever under any 
authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States; and that 
he will support the Constitution of the United States; that he is not in receipt 
of a pension under any previous act; that he makes this declaration for the 
purpose of being placed on the pension roll of the United States, under the 
provision of the act approved February 14, 1871, and he hereby constitutes and 
appoints, with full power of substitution and revocation, F. A. HOYT of Goshen, 
NY, his true and lawful attorney to prosecute his claim and obtain a pension 
certificate that may be issued; that his post office is at Monroe, County of 
Orange, State of New YUork, that his domicile or place of abode is Monroe, NY.
Applicant SAMUEL (X) BREWSTER (his mark)
Attest: DANIEL VAIL; GEO. W. MILLSPAUGH
Also, personally appeared ISAAC TAYLOR, residing in Monroe, NY, and DANIEL VAIL, 
residing in Monroe, NY, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to 
credit, and who being by me duly sworn, say: They were present and saw SAMUEL 
BREWSTER, the claimant, sign his name (or make his mark) to the foregoing 
declaration; that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of said 
claimant and their acquaintance with him, that he is the identical person he 
represents himself to be; that at no time during the late rebellion against the 
authority of the United States did he adhere to the cause of the enemies of the 
Government, giving them aid or comfort; and that they have no interest in the 
prosection of this claim.
/L.S./ ISAAC TAYLOR
/L.S./ DANIEL VAIL
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 13th day of May A.D. 1871, and I hereby 
certify that the contents of the above declaration, &c., were fully made known 
and explained to the applicant and witness before swearing, including the words 
Cornwall, erased, and the words Mustered in at Staten Island, NY, added; and 
that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosection of this claim.
/L.S./ W. E. MAPES, Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE
Washington, D.C., Febr 7th, 1872
Sir
You are hereby notified that your claim for pension, No. 12175, under act of 
February 14, 1871, has been allowed at eight dollars per month, commencing 
February 14, 1871, payable at the Pension Agency in New York.
Your pension certifiate has been issued and sent to the Pension Agent at New 
York, who will forward to you, upon receipt thereof, and quarterly thereafter, 
proper vouchers for payment thereupon. The note indorsed upon said vouchers will 
explain when and how they shall be executed by you, and how the payment 
thereupon will be made.
The fee to be paid your attorney for the prosection of your claim is $10.00.
Very respectfully,
J. A. Baker, Commissioner.
To.
SAMUEL BREWSTER
Monroe
Orange Co. New York