Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,664, Patrick Brown, Penn.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
NUMBER
S. 34,664

Brown, Patrick
[star stamped above Brown]

CONTENTS
In 1818 res. of Cecil C., Md.
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THIS is to certify that the Bearer Patrick Brown Corporal having served the Third Regiment of Pennsylvania during the Term of his Enlistment is now discharged the Service of the United States of America. Given at [illegible] this fifteenth day of February 1781.

[signature] [illegible] M. Nicholson
[stamped with an official seal, but is illegible]
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34664
Revy 
INVALID
File No. 34,664
Patrick Brown
Corp. Rev. War

Act 18th March 1818
Index: --Vol. D, Page 479

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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318
Maryland R. W. [large number 4 written over top]
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Patrick Brown
Capt. Bayard [written to the side]
Corporal
Pennsylvania Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17th of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of April 1818 and sent to Henry D. Miller, Esquire. Elkton, Maryland
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Arrearages to 4th Sept. 1818
4 months 19/31 $36.90
[in brackets] Revolutionary, claims, Act 18th March, 1818,

[Handwritten on bottom] 71, Five years 
[illegible] 7 Sept. 1819
Cecil Co.
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To the Honorable, the Secretary of War of the United States of America.

The petition of Patrick Brown most humbly prayeth. That he may be entitled to, and receive the pension allowed by the Act of Congress approved March 18, 1818. Entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War."

And your petitioner relinquishes all claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the Laws of the United States.--

And your petitioner with every [illegible] present

Patrick Brown X his mark
[signed] Henry D. Miller
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Patrick Brown, a Citizen of Cecil Couty, in the State of Maryland, doth depose and do declare, that he enlisted on the first day of January Seventeen hundred and seventy five, in Captain Stephen Bayard's Company of Infantry composing a part of the Third Pennsylvania Regiment, that he served in the said Regiment until the eighteenth day of January Seventeen hundred and eighty one, when the Term for which he had enlisted having expired, he was furnished with a Discharge from General Anthony Wayne, which is herewith enclosed, and the said Deponent further declares that from his reduced and indigent circumstances he needs the assistance of this Country for support, possessing no property of any kind whatsoever, except his Wearing Apparel, having been for the last four years a Pauper in the Poor House of the County aforesaid--
State of Maryland, Cecil County April ninth 1818
Then appeared in Open Court Patrick Brown and made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that the foregoing facts and circumstances are true.
Sworn to in Open Court
[signed] James Sewall, Clk
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It appears to the Satisfaction of Cecil County Court that the within named Patrick Brown served in the Revolutionary War: and the Members thereof hereby certify and transmit to the War Department of the United States the Testimony laid before them by the said Patrick Brown in support of his intended application for a pension under the Act of Congress- April 9, 1818.

[signed] R. T. Earle
[signed] Lemuel Purnell
[signed] Tho Worrell

Maryland Cecil County
In testimony that Richard Earl, Lemuel Purnell and Thomas Worrell, esqrs. who have signed the above certificate were at that time and still are Judges of the Second Judicial District of Maryland.

I have hereunto left my hand the seal of my office this 17th day of April 1818.
[signed] James Sewall
[illegible]

[written in the bottom righthand corner] Patrick Brown