New Windsor is in Orange County, and the "New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site" is there on "Temple Hill Road, State Route 300, Vails Gate. As the final encampment of Washington's Army, it was here that 7500 soldiers and camp followers lived during the final months of the Rev War. The site features a visitor's center, exhibits and blacksmithing and musket demonstrations". This info is from an Orange county phone book ;-) Check also the following Orange County site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyorange/ Regina Haring, Nanuet, NY ----- Original Message ----- From: <JKillickbr@aol.com> To: <NYORANGE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:05 AM Subject: [NYORANGE] Where was Camp New Windsor? > Was "Camp New Windsor" mentioned below in Orange County, NY? > > What is "a Matross"? > > Can anyone help me place this JOHN BREWSTER (BRUSTER) who was born 1754-1755? > > SOURCE-Military Service > >From "Massachusetts Soldiers & Sailors in the War of the Revolution" Vol 2, > p. 720: > "BRUSTER, JOHN, Palmer (Hampden Co., MA). Return of men enlisted into > Continental Army from Capt. David Spear's Co., Col. Pyncheon's regt., dated > Feb. 9, 1778; residence, Palmer; enlisted for town of Palmer; joined Capt. > Steward's Co., Col. Crane's regt.; enlistment, during war; also, Matross, > Capt. Thomas Seward's Co., Col. John Crane's (Artillery) regt.,; Continental > Army pay accounts for service from March 20, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; also, > descriptive list of enlisted men dated Camp New Windsor, Jan. 12, 1780; age, > 25 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 4 in.; complexion, light; enlisted March 20, 1777, by > Lieut. Parsons; joined Capt. Seward's Co., 3d Artillery regt.; enlistment, > during war." > > SOURCE-Bounty Land > >From "Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files", p. 377: > "Brewster (Bruster), John, BLW #3820-100-25 Oct 1792, srv as a Matross in > Crane's Cont Arty (MA). > > >