Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,141, Isaac Brown, N.H.
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SERVICE
N. H.
Brown, Isaac
NUMBER
S.22,141
CONTENTS
[BLANK]
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Let to A. J. Turrell 11 July 1851
25,702
Pennsylvania
Isaac Brown.
Susquehanna in the State of Penn.a
who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt. commanded by Col. Read in the New Hamp.e line for nine mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of Penn.a at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Dec. 1833 and sent to W. Jessup, Montrose, Penn.a
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1833. 75. -
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Ma. 34 15.
[total] $90.
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recored by Wm. R. Palmer Clerk
Book E. Vol. five Page four.
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Sept Third 1832
Isaac Brown
Pension application
recd. 26 Sept.
16631
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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss.
On this third day of September A. D. Eighteen hundred & thirty two personally appeared in open Court of Common pleas in and for said County of Susquehanna, Isaac Brown, a resident of Brooklyn township in said County in the State of Pennsylvania, aged Seventy Eight years last, November, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he resided at Wilton in New Hampshire, that he was a minute man and was under agreement to meet at Wilton in case of alarm on the firing of three guns. That one evening the news of an alarm came, three guns were fired. The minute men met and marched for Cambridge (the British had been at Concord a few days before.) After he arrived at Cambridge enlisting orders came and he listed in the militia of the State of New Hampshire in April 1775 into Captain William Walkers company in Col. Reads Regiment (of which Stephen Peabody was adjutant and Isaac Fry quarter master) in General Sullivans Brigade for nine months and was stationed at Cambridge until a short time before Bunker Hill battle when he marched to Charleston. He was in the battle of Bunker hill and from the battle went to winter hill where he encamped & remained until the term of his enlistment expired. At that time he again enlisted or volunteered for one month longer untill new recruits came in. That General Sullivan did not arrive to take command of the Brigade untill after the Battle of Bunker Hill. That he saw General Warren after he was shot. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the roll of any agency in any State.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court.
[signature] X his mark Isaac Brown
[signature] Asa Dimock Jr. Prot.
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And the Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named Isaac Brown was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
By the Court
[signature] Asa Dimock Jr. Prothonotary

State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss.
I Asa Dimock Jr. Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the application of Isaac Brown for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Montrose the tenth day of September A. D. 1832.
Asa Dimock Jr. Prot.
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2576
Isaac Brown
Susquehanna Co.
Pennsylvania
Proper

Adm 9: months
$30.

W. Jessup Esq
Montrose Penn
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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Pension Office,
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, shewing the service of Isaac Brown Susquehanna Co. Penn
| Period when the service was rendered. | Duration of the Claimant's service. | Years. | months. | Days. | Rank of the claimant. | Names and rank of the Field officer under whom he served. | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. | Proof by which the declaration is supported. |
| enlist April 1775 | 9 Months. | Priv. | Col. Reads. Gen Sullivan | Age 78 | Wilton N. Hampshire | No Proof |
l Vol 1775 | 1 Month. | Priv. | [blank] | [blank] | [ blank] |

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District  of 
County of [blank] ss.
On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A.B. a resident (b) of[blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the prov[s]ion made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers, the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he en[t]ered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. ->This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank].
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. [blank] A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] & c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.                                                                                                                                                                                             
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. [blank] who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the [blank] and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] day of [blank] & c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if 
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be his case.
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
6. To an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For [blank] year [blank] months, and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase 'about three or four months,' is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must fix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
(j) In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
-> The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration. 

The Department derived all proof the applicant could obtain. It well knew the nature of his service.
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sion on file in this Bureau: Isaac Brown S 22141

| DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE. |
| Apl 75 | 10 mos | Pvt | Wm. Walker | Read | N. H. |

Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wilton, N. H.
Date of application for pension, Sept 3, 1832 Claim allowed
Residence at date of application, Brooklyn Twp, Susquehanna Co. Pa.
Age at date of application, b. Nov 1753 date of death not stated
Remarks, No data as to family, For date of last payment of pen., probable date of death ap to etc.
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SWR

WM. M. STIEREN
OPTICIAN
544 SMITHFIELD ST.
PITTSBURGH. PA.
Pittsburg, Oct. 15th 1907
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir,
I am desiring information in regard to one of my ancestors, Isaac Brown. The Secretary of War in Washington, referred us to you for additional information, since the records in that department in regard to him close Jan. 1st 1781. He was a Revolutionary soldier and drew a pension until he died at the age of ninety-eight years. The pension was collected
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through someone at Montrose, Susquehanna Co. Pa. I would like to know as to the time of his service in the War and the regiment to which he belonged for the purpose of inscribing a monument and also to make me elegible for membership in the society of the D. A. R.
We will appreciate your attention to this.
Yours Truly
Clara J. Stieren
#518 Emerson St
E. E.Pitts
[stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE. H OCT 17 1907
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Revolution
22141
INVALID.
File No. 22,141
Isaac Brown Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 30

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1907 Oct. 25. Hist to Clara J. Stieren 
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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss.
The said Isaac Brown the within named applicant for a pension being duly sworn doth further depose & say that he has not his original discharge and cannot obtain it. That he has made inquiry and can not procure any knowledge of the persons who
served with him. That he removed from the place of his nativity & from his friends many years ago and most of his acquaintances & friends are either dead or their place of residence unknown to him. That he can not find or procure the direct evidence of any witness of his services in said Revolutionary war. That he has no recollection of the time when he lost his original discharge but thinks he once had one. [signature] X his mark Isaac Brown
Sworn to & subscribed before me a Justice of the peace in & for said County this Eighteenth day of October A. D. 1833.
Witness my hand & seal
Abel Hewett J. Peace

State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss.
I Asa Dimock Jr. Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of said County do Certify that Abel Hewitt Esquire is a Magistrate as above and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Montrose, the tenth day of November A. D. 1833.
Asa Dimock Jr. Prot.
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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss.
Joshua Jackson aged Seventy one years resident of Brooklyn township in said County, being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say that he has been acquainted with Isaac Brown for Twenty two years past, that during that time and previous to the year 1818 he has very frequently conversed with him in relation to his serving in the revolutionary war and has [illegible] understood that he was a soldier of the Revolution. That he enlisted at Cambridge and served nine months. That this deponent during the said twenty two years acquaintance has always known the said Isaac Brown to sustain a fair unblemished moral & Christian character. and further saith not. 
Joshua Jackson.
Sworn & Subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace of said County this 26th day of October A. D. 1833.
Witness my hand & seal.
Abel Hewett (seal)

State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss.
Cyril Giddings aged fifty two years, resident of Brooklyn township in said County being duly sworn doth on his oath depose & say that he has known Isaac Brown an applicant for a pension for about seventeen years past and that during that time he has frequently heard of his having been a soldier of the revolution and that such is the reputation he sustain in the neighbourhood where
he resides. That the said Isaac Brown is a man of fair moral & Christian character and this deponent never heard it doubted but that said Isaac Brown was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
Cyril Giddings
Sworn & Subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace in & for said County this 21st day of October A. D. 1833.
Witness my hand & seal.
Abel Hewett (seal)
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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss.
William Squires of Brooklyn township in said County aged forty seven years being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say that he has known Isaac Brown an applicant for a pension about twenty six years past, that during that time the said Isaac Brown has sustained the reputation of having served in the revolutionary war as a soldier. That he has frequently heard said Isaac Brown speak of having been in the battle of Bunker hill, and of his escape from there & other circumstances connected with his service and that too long previous to any pension law that deponent ever heard of and previous to 1818. That Deponent lives a near neighbour to said Brown and that said Brown is believed to have served in the Revolutionary war as he States and Deponent believes he did so to serve & has never heard it doubted.
Sworn to & subscribed before me a Justice of the peace in & for said the said County this 18th day of October A. D. 1833.
Abel Hewett Clerk
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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss.
We Sylvester Cook a Clergyman residing in the township of Brooklyn in said County and Jeremiah Gere resident in the same place Do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy Eight years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn Subscribed before me a Justice of the peace in & for said County this 23d day of October A. D. 1833
Witness my hand & seal
Abel Hewett Clerk

State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss.
I Asa Dimock Jr. Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of Susquehanna County, do hereby Certify that Abel Hewett Esquire is a Magistrate as above, and that the four foregoing
signatures purporting to be his are genuine. I further certify that I am personally acquainted with Jeremiah Gere (& with Sylvester Cook, by reputation) that they are credible persons whose Testimony is entitled to credit.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, at Montrose the twelfth  day of November A. D. 1833.
Asa Dimock Jr. Prot.