Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,146, Seba Brainard, Conn.
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Conn. Brainard, Seba  Anna  Number 1,146
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13.193
Anna Brainard N.Y.
Act.1.July '38
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State of New York
Genesee County
Be it known that on this twenty third day of December 1846 before the Surrogate, court holden in & for said county at Batavia personally appeared Anna Brainard & upon her oath to be duly administered according to law makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 183. That she is a widow of Seba Brainerd who was a private in the American Revolutionary army & resided at the date of his services in the town of Chatham in the state of Connecticut. That he husband belonged to the company of Capt. Cook & service according to her best recollection about one year. That she was married to the said Seba Brainerd at U uisted? in the county of Litchfield in the sate of Connecticut by Rev. Joseph Rockwell in the month of December in the year 1787. That she has no documentary evidence of her husbands service or record of her marriage to him. That the said Seba Brainerd died at Alexander in the state of New York on the thirteenth day of December 1844. That she has not intermarried since bis death but to remain his widow. That no part of her said husbands services were rendered after their marriage.
Subscribed & sworn to in open court the day & year first above written.
Anna Brainerd
Witness by hand & seal of office at Batavia this 23 day of December 1846
Samuel Willett Surrogate
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Act of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873- crossed out
1146
REJECTED
P.O. Anna Brainard
Service:
Rejected Pensions-
Enlisted: page 175, 18,
Reason for suspension- Act of July 7, 1838
Discharged:
For Further proof & specification.
Application filed:_______________, 18.
Alleges:
Re-enlished:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized
Contract
Cert of Dis.
Searched for . 18.
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V   13193
Anna Brainard
M Gork
Let to Hon. A. Smith
Jany.
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Warsaw N.Y.
22 April 1847
J.L. Edwards Esq

Enclosed I send an affidavit in the case of Mrs. Anna Brainerd widow of Sebi Brainerd. I would request that the affidavit may be filed & the rolls of Capt. Johnson searched for proof of the service of Mr. Brainerd.
Very Respectfully yours,
A.L. Lynde
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'Hon' L P. Waldo
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Warsaw New York
January 17, 1854
Hon Loren P Waldo

Dear Sir
I have here to fore presented the claims of Charles Knight and Anna Brainerd widow of Seba Brainerd for pension for team service
Mr. Erving Tainton of Harford New York is hereby authorized by me as my assistant to file evidence in support of these claims and to procure the allowance of the saved? You will please do me the favor to permit him to examine the papers on file in these cases
Respectfully
A L Lynde
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Hon A. Smith 
Washington D.C.
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Warsaw New York
1846 29 Dec.
Hon. Albert Smith
Dr. Sir
Enclosed issued the declaration of the widow of the late Seba Brainerd of Alexander Genesee County New York.
Mr. Brainerd served in 1780 four months under Capt Elijah Cook of Chatham Connecticut commencing about the first of August & ending about the first of December. In 1781 he again enlisted early in the spring & served until nearly or quite December & as is supposed under the same officers. 
While in the service & bound to military duty he was by his superior officers set at driving a team & for many years after the passage of the act of 1832 he supposed that as he drove a team he was not entitled to the benefits of that act since years before her death an agent of Mr. Arad Joy called on him and apprized him of his rights & engaged the prosecution of his claim & it was in his hand at the date of Mr. Brainerd's death. I am informed by Mrs. Joy that he sent to the Comptrollers office in Hartford & freeding no June?? of Mr. Brainerds service never did anything further in regard to it
Since? years since Mr. James Goff a pensioner  residing in Georgia County, Ohio attained the affidavit of Mr. Brainerd to aid here in establishing his own claim to a pension.
Will you please send the enclosed declaration to the Pension Office with a request that the rolls & records of service of Connecticut two years for 1780 & 1781 in the Pension Office may he searched for Mr. Brainerds service also please make reference to the affidavit above mentioned
Very Respectfully Yours
A.L. Lynde
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State of 
Connecticut
13.193
Anna Brainard
Widow of Seba
N.Y.
July 7, 1838
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State of Connecticut Middlesex County
Chatham March 13th -1840
I James Goff of Chatham in the county of Middlesex and state of Connecticut aged seventy nine years do depose and say that, I have always presided in the town of Chatham and Capt. John Johnson and Sebe Brainard both resided in the same vacinity at the time of the Revolutionary War- Capt. John Johnson enlisted in the spring of 1781 one of those that enlisted under Capt. Johnson at that time was Sebe Brainard a neighbor of mine, at that time he enlisted, I should say as near as I can recollect the first of April or near that, time I knew nothing more of him untill I joined the French Army under Capt. Johnson at White Planes where I found him the said Brainard in the team service under discharged at Williamsburg after the surrender of Cornwallis at York Town I should say that we were discharged on or about the 7th day of November 1781.- The deponant further sayth that they were under marshal law that they were subject to the same punishment as a soldier for disobeying the officers and has been a witness of punishment & inflicted for disobeying and further the deponant sayth was-
James Goff
Middlesex County of Chatham March 13th 1840
Personally appeared James Goff signes of the above deposition and made oath to the truth of the facts therein contained I certify that he is a credible person and of sound mind.
Nath..C. Smith Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut.
I, CHARLES W. BRADLEY, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and
Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or
may concern, That Nath C. Smith, Esq was, on the 13th day of March, 1840,
Justice of the Peace
within and for the County of Middlesex,
in said State, duly appointed
and commissioned, having full power and authority by the laws of said State to
take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer
Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of court and to give certificates
thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his
official acts and attestations
and further certify, that I believe the foregoing signature of the said
Nathl C. Smith
to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seat of said State
, Hartford
March
this ninth day of
in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty seven
Charles W Bradley
Secretary of State