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He was a private in the company commanded by Col. Fellows, begi nning in 1775 when about 16 years of age. He was one of the Green Mounta in Boys in the Revolutionary War.

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Commonwealth of Massachasetts, County of Berkshire, Town of Great Barringt on

Andrew Loomis of Egremont in said County of Berkshire by trade, a maso n, aged seventy-three years on the fourteenth day of May, 1832 who being f irst duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following de claration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed Ju ne 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the mili tia under the following named officers & served as herein stated.

My father Capt. Michael Loomis, late of Egremont aforesaid now deceased, e ntered into the service of his country in April 1775, immediately after t he battle of Lexington, in a company of militia from said county of Berksh ire, commanded by Capt. William Bacon, late of Sheffield in said coun ty of Berkshire now deceased.

My said father marched in the same company as soon as the express arriv ed with the news of said battle of Lexington & he was the first lieutena nt of said Company under said Capt. William Bacon, & the company was stati oned at Roxbury and Dorcester near Boston in the service of the United Sta tes & belonged to a regiment commanded by Col. John Fellows. In the mon th of August in the same year my father, being in the service, as aforesai d, sent home directions to have me take the wagon & horses from the fa rm & take a load of flour from the public stores in Great Barrington in sa id county of Berkshire & bring same to the army at Roxbury?my said fath er also sent word that I must come to Roxbury with a
calculation to stay with the army till the end of the campaign, or wh en my said father's time should be out, which would be on the first of Jan uary next following. I accordingly prepared myself & took my father's wag on & horses, went to Great Barrington & procured a load of wheat flo ur at the public stores there & carried the same through Springfield & Wor cester to Roxbury & delivered the same to the Quartermaster or Commissa ry there?I started from home the latter part of August 1775, arrived at Ro xbury in about five days & from the time I delivered my load there, I w as told by my said father that I must remain in the service till the campa ign would be out on the first of January next. I accordingly remained & w as constantly on duty carrying loads of provisions, liquors, etc. from Wat ertown & Cambridge to Roxbury & Dorcester to supply the army?I was particu larly under the orders of my said
father, who was an officer as aforesaid, I being under age, only sixteen y ears old, I made no contract in the army for myself but I supposed at t he time I belonged to the army as I constantly quartered with the troops b elonging to my father's company drew my rations with them & cooked & mess ed with them & in every respect considered myself as one of the militia su bject to the orders of the Officers. My forage also was regularly furnish ed me by the government during my service & I have always supposed & veri ly believe that, my said father considered me as belonging to the milit ia & that he had my name inserted on the roll of Capt. Bacon's company acc ordingly to which my father belonged. During the time I was in the servi ce as aforesaid, I was wounded in the ankle & foot, by being accidental ly caught in my wagon wheel, when loaded, between Cambridge & Roxbu ry by I was much injured & suffered great pain. For a number of weeks I w as under the care of the surgeon of the army this injury was received in t he month of October 1775 & I was not able to be removed home till about fo ur weeks after the injury, say the latter part of of the month of Novemb er of said year? was absent from home about three months, but consider t he time ought to be allowed me (considering I was wounded & disabled in t he army while on duty) till the end of the campaign on the first of Janua ry 3, 1776, which would make four months.

I also testify that my next service in the army of the revolution & in t he militia as I now suppose was in the year 1776, when having recovered fr om the injuries I received in the service the year before, I engag ed in a company of volunteers or militia, commanded by Isaac Vosburgh of S heffield in said county to oppose the British at the northward. I enlist ed in December, the latter part, & marched in January 1776 under the comma nd of said Capt. Vosburg, to Montreal & Quebec. Our company was annex ed to a regiment commanded by Col. Warner, whose Christian name I belie ve was Seth?I continued in that service, under said officers on that stati on, till the sixth of May in the year 1776 when we were marched under t he command of our said Captain on our return homeward?we arrived at said
Egremont the fore part of June in the same year We had no hard fighti ng on this campaign but we had a skirmish with the enemy at point Chambs ( so called) on the river St. Lawrence & we suffered greatly by fatigue, co ld & hunger. I was absent on this campaign at least six months.

I also testify that within a few davs after my return from Quebec there be ing a call, in said Egremont, for recruits to join the army on the North r iver, I enlisted again, or volunteered & joined a company of militia in sa id Egremont under the command of Capt. Ephraim Fitch, of said Egremont & i mmediately marched under the command of said Fitch to join the army the re at Peekskill?I continued with the army as a soldier there in that vicin ity about one month under the command of Capt. Fitch & then afterwards und er the command of Capt. Enoch Noble in Connecticut & near New York till De cember in the year 1776, During the campaign under Capt. Fitch we made a f ortification at Peekskill. During the campaign under
Capt. Noble, we were at several stations?Fairfield, Norwalk, Horseneck, Ki ngsbridge at Volentines hill where we erected a fort?it was there for t he first time I saw Genl. Washington After I was with the troops at Whi te Plains & fought the enemy at that place in October 1776 Col. Simonds, a ccording to my belief commanded our regiment & Genl. Washington was ther e. After the battle our said company remained in service at several plac es till we were discharged at a place called North Castle in the mon th of December 1776. The campaign under Capt. Fitch at Peekskill & on t he north river & the campaign
under Capt. Noble through Connecticut & near New York & at the White Plai ns contained a period of six months, at least, as I verily believe.

I also testify that in April 1777 I was called out with the militia of Egr emont aforesaid under the command of Capt. Ephraim Fitch, & marched und er his command to Livingston's Manor in the state of New York to subd ue & disperse a party of British & Tories assembled there?we were out t wo or three weeks the commander of the British, called Capt. Hooper (I thi nk) was killed, several wounded, some taken prisoners & the rest effectual ly dispersed.

I also testify that about the middle of August in the year 1777, I again v olunteered under the command of Capt. John Spooer of Sheffield, to ser ve in the militia, in the campaign on the North river ? I marched to Still water & joined the army?I was in the battle of Stillwater & the battl es at the taking of Burgoine, at Saratoga?our company belonged to Col. Jo hn Ashley's regiment & Genl. John Fellows brigade after the surrender of B urgoine, I returned home with the militia, where we arrived & were dischar ged about the last of October or first of November 1777. This last campai gn was about two months & a half.

The said Loomis says that he believes he had written discharges at the e nd of the different campaigns, but they were lost or destroyed as of no va lue. I have no documentary evidence, but refer for proof of my servic e, to the depositions of Doct. Baldwin & James Baldwin, Esquire & Capt. Da niel Bush hereto annexed. At this late period, nearly all the witness es of my services are dead.

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except t he present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agen cy of any state.

Sworn to & subscribed this fourteenth day of September A.D. 183
(signed) Andrew Loomis

[Note: The "depositions" for "proof of my service," which were attach ed to the above record, were submitted by (1) Dr. Samuel Baldwin, age 74 y ears in 1832, who was born in Egremont, Berkshire Co., Mass. and was livi ng at Oxford, Chenango Co., New York in 1832; (2) James Baldwin, aged 74 y ears in 1832, who was born in Egremont and was living there in 1832; and ( 3) Daniel Bush aged 78 years and upwards, who was living at Sheffield, Ber kshire Co., Mass. in 1832.]