submitted by Mary Brewer

                                  Annapolis

Another of the patriots of seventy-six, another of the heroes of the days that truly tried men’s souls has been honorably discharged from service below, and mustered at headquarters to receive the rewards of a well fought field.

 

Thomas Brewer

 

Departed this life on Tuesday last the *23rd of April 1823.  If a revolution such as ours was, produced men devoted to their county, the deceased was one of them; a man of statue, the constitution, the stamina and feelings which emphatically belonged to the days to which we look with reverence and wonder.

 

Had he through a life of three score years and ten, one ruling or predominating passion: that was love of county. Though without the favors of fortune or of education, no man trod the ground with a more sterling independence of mind or decision of character. A plain downright honest spoken man.

 

The same Wig from the days that a Stamp Act was proposed for our fathers to the day of his death – One who was not only to speak his mind to any man and in any circumstances, but would maintain by no common share of nerve and energy the position he thought right. Hence when war was commenced he became a soldier to sustain the principles he advocated he was one of the Maryland Line which fought with such distinction and suffered so severely at the battle of Long Island – and afterwards was under Washington in each of the engagements at white plains at Monmouth, at Brandywine at Germantown and in the war at the capture of the Hessians at Princetown having been one of those who literally crossed the Delaware upon the ice without a shoe or stocking to his feet! To turn the fortunes of his Country by that eventfull enterprise. He was one of Gen. Wayne’s soldiers when he so gallantly stormed Stoney point and he partook in the heavy fought battles that resulted in the capture of Burgoyne at Saratoga. Few soldiers saw more real service, few lived to enjoy more proudly the feelings, his services had contributed to procure for his country. To live over again in story the eventfull period which a strong and accurate memory served him with, was one of the enjoyments of his age! The well earned reward a grateful county had extended to him and his fellow soldiers, was one of the principle means of his precuniary dependence for his infirm age! In his intercourse with men few honester men lived – it had been his maxim of life to square his accounts by his means, and owe no man a cent.

 

Expecting with composure a release from duty here he has been long in every worldly concern "ready to gather up his feet and die.

 

 

Thomas Brewer died April 23rd 1823

Susanna Brewer died October 31st 1856

Eliza Bendy is the widowed daughter of Thomas and Susanna

Brewer, and the widow of Joseph Bendy, the deceased, July 16th

1823.

 

                                Eliza Bendy

 

 

* Military records from the Revolutionary Patriots lists his death date as April 1, 1823

 

 

picture:  Carol Sherod & Jean Knapp

4th great granddaughters

 

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