Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1329, Thomas Brown, S.C.
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SERVICE  SC
Brown, Thomas
Mary Ann
NUMBER R.1329
CONTENTS
died in May 1829
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State of Tennessee Washington County
On the 15th day of January 1846, personally appeared before the subscriber an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mary Ann Brown a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of
Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled an "Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
That she is the widow of Thomas Brown who was a private Soldier in the War of the Revolution, and that she does not now recollect the services performed by her husband the said Thomas Brown, but has often heard him say in his lifetime that he served three tours before the
close of the Revolutionary War in the State of South Carolina, and she further states that she does
not remember the names of the Officers under whom he served, but very respectfully refers the
Department to the annexed Certificate of the Comptroller of South Carolina for proof of his
services. She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Brown in Washington County Virginia by James Keele a Baptist preacher in the __ day of July 1786, for the reason she alleges her eldest son was born 1st June 1789, which was about two years after her marriage, and
which appears from the record of her son’s Family Register, and that she has no family record herself. And she further states that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Brown died on the __day of May 1829, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794, to wit, at the time above stated,
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and still remains his widow.
Mary Ann Brown X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me an acting Justice of the Peace
for said County the day and year first above written
s/ Thos M McAdams Justice of the Peace
State of Tennessee Washington County ⎬ I Thomas M. McAdams a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, do certify that I am personally acquainted with the applicant for a pension (Mrs Brown) and that she is a respectable person and a citizen of said County whose veracity is not doubled, and that from old age and infirmity
the not able to attend Court.
Given under my hand and seal this 15th day of January 1846.
s/ Thomas M. McAdams Justice of the Peace
State of Tennessee Washington County ⎬ Personally appeared before me George Reed a Justice of the Peace for and in said County, Elizabeth Brown and made oath in due form of law that she has
been well acquainted with Thomas Brown and Mary Ann Brown (formerly Mary Ann Clark) and remember well to have been present and saw them married, being one of the attendants
at the marriage, and she further states that she believes it took place some time in the year 1786, for the reason it being only a few month after until she was married herself, and she
further states that she believes it was about twelve months after she was married that her eldest child was born, which the family Register shows to have been on the 15th Oct. 1787,
and being a near neighbor, she knows the said Mary Ann has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband the said Thomas Brown who died some time in the year 1829.
s/ Elizabeth Brown
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 16th day of January 1846
s/ George Reed
Justice of the Peace
for Washington County
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State of Tennessee
I George Reed an acting Justice of
the Peace in and for the County of Washington and State aforesaid
do hereby certify that Elizabeth Brown, whose name appears to
and believes the the foregoing affidavit, is a respectable citizen of said County and a lady of undoubted veracity. Given under my hand and seal this 16th day of January 1846.
s/ George Reed

State of Tennessee Washington County ⎬ February Term 1846 County Court 
The declaration of Mary Ann Brown certified on the 15th day of January 1846, by Thos M McAdams a Justice of the Peace for said County being submitted to the Court the said
Court doth approve his proceedings and acts in said case and hereby direct the Clerk to endorse the approval on the papers
s/ Saml Brown ES Strother A Boreing

State of Tennessee
Washington County ⎬ I W H Smith
Clerk of the County Court of Washington County, do hereby that the foregoing proceedings are the original proceedings had and approved of by the County Court of Washington County at its February
Term 1846 relative to the declaration of Mary Ann Brown to obtain the benefit of the acts of Congress relative to Revolutionary
pensions. And I further certify that the aforesaid Thomas M. McAdams is and was a Justice of the Peace for said County, and also George Reed, another Justice of Peace both
Commissioned and quallified according to law, and that the
signatures purporting to to be theirs are genuine
In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Office in Jonesborough this 2nd Feby 1846
s/ WH Smith Clk
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State of Tennessee
I W. H. Smith Clerk of Washington
County Court for said County do hereby certify that after having made diligent search for the marriage
Bond pertaining to the marriage of Thomas Brown to Mary Ann Clark, cannot be found in my Office
The Court House at this place having been heretofore consumed by fire, and is therefore very probable
that many papers belonging to this office were scattered and perhaps entirely lost.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal of
Office at Office in Jonesborough
this 2nd day of February 1846
s/ WH Smith  Clk
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Pen. Off.
Feby 20 46
Sir
I have the honor
to inform you that the claim
of Mary Ann Brown has been examined & disallowed
As she was married after the
war she could not be expected
to furnish the details of her husbands
services but having obtained
from the Comptr of SC evidence of the amount paid to one bearing the
common name of Thomas Brown for
militia service she declares for three
terms of service upon the force of this certificate waiving any objection to the difficiency of proof to identify her husband with that militia man in that certificate their serve credited to his very common name in two, not 3 tours was less than 3 months - This is not sufficient to entitle her even if she
was allowed the full benefit of
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that certificate
as this ground is fatal it is unnecessary
to point out the deficiency of proof 
regarding the date of the marriage & what is necessary to supply the defects -
Hon W. M. Cocke HR
Feb 20 46
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Washington City
Feb. 11th 1846
Sir
Herewith I send you the papers in the case of Mrs Brown which you will please examine at as
early a day as convenient, and advise me of the
result of your examinations
Very Respectfully
your obt sevt
Wm M Cocke
Col. J. L. Edwards
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are of Thomas Brown
12525
Rd Feb. 12, 1846
mail
Richard Lanning Esq.
care of Thomas Brown
Sevierville
Tennessee
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Comptroller Genls Office
Columbia So. Ca. Jany 30/45
Your communication of the 21st inst was recd this morning
Subjoined, is the evidence furnished from the records in this office
in the case of Mr Thos Browns
There are several names of Longs recorded: but Reuben Long and Wm Childrss are not noticed
Very Respectfully
for Comptroller Genl
Laval

Comptroller Genls Office
Columbia So. Ca. Jany 30 /45
Book W. Indent 103 Issued the 4th of Augt 1785 to Mr Thomas Brown for Five pounds eight shillings and six pence three farthings sterling for Thirty Eight Days Militia Duty as Horseman in 1782, Pr acct audited, No. 62- Princl £5.8.6 3/4 Int £0:7.7

Book X Indent 2451 Issued the 20 April 1786 to Mr Thomas Brown for four pounds, five shillings and eight pence half penny Sterlg for duty done in Col Waters Regt as pr act aud N110 Princl £4.5.8 1/2 Int £0:5:11
Acct 110
Thomas Brown, His acct for Militia Duty since the fall of Charleston, in Waters Regt Pr Anderson's return Cury £30. Sterlg £4.5.81/2
I certify the above to be a true copy from the Records in this office
For Comptroller Genl
Laval
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12525
Mary Ann Brown

Ten:

Act 7 July 38


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Sevierville Ten  1846-

Col Cocke,
Enclosed you have Mrs Browns pension dec-
laration for a pension on her husbands services_ annexed
is the certificate of the Controller of South Carolina, showing
three tours of duty for which he recd -
1st   £ 5. 8.   6 3/4  Sterling
Int             7.   7
2nd      4. 5.   8  ½
Int              5. 11
3rd       4.  5.   8  ½
              __________
            14. 12.   7
Currency £30.00.0

There is an act of Congress saying one pound Sterling shall be
equal to $4.50-- It is presumed that the Officers of the war
Department will understand how to make the calculation
South Carolina Currency 4-8- to the Dollars - The latest Arth
meticks counts $4.44 to one pound Sterling___

I would thank you to hand in this claim to
Mr. Edwards, and if he will act on it immediately, be pleased
to inform me -
Yours with Respect
R. Lanning
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Ex'r.  INVALID

REJECTED
1329
Mary Ann Brown
List of rejected Claims
printed in 1852 shows
cause of rejection as follows

Married after the war - did not
serve six months.