There are at least two men by the name of Benjamin Andrews/Andrus living in Vermont during and after the Revolutionary War.

The first one is Benjamin Andrus, a resident of Whiting, Addison County, Vermont. According to Whiting's death record, he was born in 1735.

He filed for a Military Pension in 1818 from Whiting. In this pension, he states his service as: 1777-1779, Private in the company of Captain Thomas Lee, commanded by Colonel Seth Warner of the Continental Establishment. A pension was granted but discontinued from the rolls under a change in pension law in 1820. The Vermont Secretary of State states he enlisted on 21 December 1776 from Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont, for a three-year commitment. Most of the men serving under Captain Lee were residents of Rutland, Vermont. The state also says he served nine months and 20 days in Captain Parmales Allen’s company in 1780. In his Pension application, Benjamin doesn’t list service under Allen. However, looking at the residences of some of the other men of this company are from Addison County. 

In the application of Jacob Smith [R 9748], he states that Benjamin hired him in 1779 to finish out Benjamin’s last few months of his three-year commitment under Captain Lee.

A resolution in the General Assembly of Vermont on 7 February 1781 stated that the soldiers and officers of Captain Thomas Lee’s company should be paid the money due [depreciation pay]. It was signed by a list of members of the company, including Benjamin Andrews and Moses Andrews. Another roll of men shows a man named John Andrews serving with Moses Andrews. It’s unclear how or if Benjamin is related to Moses. Moses was married to his cousin Lydia, the sister of Ebenezer Andrews. Moses was originally from Wallingford, Connecticut, but moved to the area of Rutland, Vermont at the time of the Revolution.

Records in Whiting place him in the 1790 census in a household of 1 male over 16 and 1 female over 16. The 1800 census lists Benjamin Andrews in Leicester, Addison, Vermont [the next village east of Whiting]. This census shows 1 male over 45 and 1 female between 25-44. No other household members. He next appears in the 1810 census for Whiting, 1 male over 45, 1 female over 45, 1 male under 10.

The 1820 census for Whiting lists 1 male over 45 and 1 female over 45. No other household members.
In 1796, Benjamin sold 75 acres of land in the town of Whiting for £86 to Benoni Cobin of Whiting. Later that year, Benjamin purchased 100 acres of land from John Andrews (relationship not stated) for £140 in Whiting.
In 1799, Benjamin again sells some land, slightly over 100 acres for $416 to David Clark of Whiting.

Town records of Whiting state Benjamin Andrews died on 3 October 1825 in Whiting, age 90 [suggesting a birth year of 1735].

On 7 June 1826, Esther Andrus grants her brother Moses Munger, “the whole of her estate, both real and personal, at the close of the settlement of the estate of my late husband Benjamin Andrews, consisting of land in Whiting containing about 54 acres, being the same farm on which I have lived for many years past together with the livestock, household furniture,…”

Moses Munger was born in 1737 in Brimfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. His sister Esther was born on 17 May 1759. They were the children of Jehiel and Alice Munger. On 12 March 1786, she married Zechariah Smalledge, a native of Holland. On 19 June 1796, he committed suicide in Springfield, Connecticut. 

On 19 March 1795 or 1797, she married Benjamin Andrews in Whiting. Since Benjamin was nearly 60 at the time of the marriage, this may well have been a second marriage for him. However, there is no proof as to his place of birth or any children.

The second Benjamin, or Benjm Andrus, was living in Cabot, Caledonia County, Vermont.

In the book Genealogical History of John and Mary Andrews Who Settled in Farmington, Conn., 1840… by Alfred Andrews, [1872], page 109:
“Benjamin Andrews, sixth son of Charles and Elizabeth, born 16th Aug., 1750, married 23rd Jan, 1778, Abigail, daughter of James Covell; settled in Cabot, Vermont; he was a farmer; he died June 1820, at Cabot, aged 69 years, ten months; his widow, Abigail, died 25th Nov. 1832. They had one daughter, whose name was Temperance, that died young, besides those named below: He also had $10 distributed to him in 1805, from the estate of his mother, by will.
Their children.

• Finley, born 30th Nov., 1778
• Jared F., born ____, married Polly Covell, of Cabot, Vermont.
• Rhoda, born 1780, married 1800, Aaron Gould, of Guilford.
• Hannah, born _____, married Moses Buck.
• Polly, born _____, married Rev. Nickerson Warner.
• Abigail, born 27th Feb., 1780, never married.”

The book also has a biography of the parents, Charles and Elizabeth (Strickland) Andrews.This states the family lived in Glastonbury and East Glastonbury, Connecticut.

His Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Andrus was written on 3 June 1822 in Cabot, Caledonia, Vermont, and his wife Abigail Andrus was named as an heir. He also mentions his children as Jaren Andrus, and Abigail Andrus. The Will was proven in court on 8 August 1822.

Center Cemetery in Cabot has a vintage Veterans Administration upright stone that states he served in the Massachusetts Militia during the Revolutionary War. The series Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors books list several Benjamin Andrews. If he was living in Glastonbury during the war years, and that’s not certain, why would he serve from Massachusetts? A Glastonbury historical site lists a man named Benjamin Andrews as serving from that town, but it doesn’t list the source of the data. There were at least two other men of that name in Glastonbury during the Revolution.