Jeremiah Andrews was born 6 April 1757 at Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, a son of Jeremiah Andrews and Lucy Rust.  He married Elizabeth Sawtelle of Groton, 13 January 1784.  Elizabeth was born 22 January 1765 at Shirley, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.¹

After Jeremiah and Elizabeth were married, they moved to the Bethel area, near the south side of the Androscoggin River, of Rumford.  He had been hired with others, to build mills in the Bethel area.  He would serve as Selectman, Surveyor of Highways, Treasurer, and a member of the Committee for building the Alder River Bridge and School District Committee at Bethel.  Although he worked in constructing mills, he was also a farmer.   In the History of Bethel, his name appears as one of the early settlers, and present during the 1781 Census.^{8, 9}

Jeremiah and Elizabeth had the following children: Hezekiah, born 4 October 1784; Jeremiah, born 28 May 1786; William, born 8 April 1788; Elizabeth, born 1 February 1790; Salome, born 8 April 1792; Sarah, born 20 February 1794; Elsie, born 12 March 1796; Amos, born 15 January 1798; Huldah, born 21 February 1801; Mary, born 22 January 1804; Eliza, born 27 July 1806; Julia, born 18 June 1809; and Hannah, born 20 July 1812.²

Jeremiah enlisted 14 October 1776 as a Private in Captain Joseph Seavey’s Company of Colonel Benjamin Foster’s Regiment.  He was also in Lieutenant John Scott’s Company.  He appears on a list of Rolls of men who marched on the Alarm, from Temple to Cambridge, 19 April 1775.  After reaching Cambridge, he enlisted for eight months and fought at Bunker Hill.  In 1775, he was a member of Captain Ezra Towne’s Company and received four dollars in lieu of a regimental coat, which was never received.   Jeremiah is on the 18 July 1776 Muster Roll of Captain Joseph Parker’s Company, under the command of Colonel Enoch Hales at Ticonderoga, and was paid one month bounty.  Fort Ticonderoga, on the western shores of Lake Champlain, is most noted for its 1776 surprise capture from the British, by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold.  Cannons taken from the fort were transported to Boston to force the British out of the city.  The Americans held the fort until June 1777, when British forces under General John Burgoyne, with a superior army, caused the Continental Army to relocate their forces.³

In August 1775, Jeremiah appears on the pay roll of Captain Ezra Towne’s Company in Colonel James Reed’s Regiment.⁴  He is listed under Captain Gershom Drury’s Company under the command of Colonel Daniel Moore, as a member who marched from Temple, New Hampshire, to Saratoga, New York, 29 September 1777.⁵   In 1778, Jeremiah Andrews is a member of Colonel Daniel Moore’s Regiment, of the New Hampshire Militia.⁶   He received a Revolutionary War Pension for his services at *S36893.⁷

Jeremiah Andrews died 25 February 1827 at Bethel, Maine.  He was buried at Bartlett Cemetery, at grave number two.¹⁰   Elizabeth Sawtelle Andrews died in 1812.

References

1.  Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918.

2.  William B. Lapham, History of Bethel, Oxford, Maine, 1768-1890 (1891),  Pg. 59, 61, 64, 161, 162, 163, 462.

3.  Isaac W. Hammond, The State of New Hampshire, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775-May 1777, Vol. 15, (Cogswell, Concord: 1885), Pg. 35, 90, 201, 334, 712.

4.  Hammond, The State of New Hampshire, Pg. 334.

5.  Fold3, Card# 37224939.

6.  Fold3.

7.  Fold3, Revolutionary War Pension *S363893.

8.  Ruth Gray, Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 4, (Picton Press, Rockport: 2002), Pg. 68.

9.  Lapham, History of Bethel, Oxford, Maine, Pg. 161,162,163.

10.  Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918.