Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1344, Zebulon Brown, New Jersey
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New Jersey

Brown, Zebulon
     Sarah

R. 1344



Contents:
    (written VERY faintly)
res at -?- Windsor, Middlesex Co NJ and died there
Feb. 23, 1811
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Zebulon Brown sun of
Zebulon Brown and Sarah his wife
was born March ye 20th 17883

Sarah Brown daughter of
Zebulon Brown and Sarah his wife 
was born October ye 29th 1785

Edward Brown son of
Zebulon Brown and Sarah his
wife was born July ye 29th 1787
-?- may correction
  ** July written above another word


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Brown, Zebulon (N.J.) R1344
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Application for a pension
Act of July 4, 1836

State of New Jersey
Mercer County

     On this twenty fifth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and fifty six, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now holden at the city of Trenton. Zebulon Brown a resident of East Windsor in the county and state aforesaid aged seventy three years past. 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 "July 4, 1836".   That he is the son of Zebulon Brown and Sarah Brown deceased:  that declarant and Edward Brown are the only surviving children of the said Zebulon and Sarah Brown, deceased.
     That he makes this application with the consent of his brother for such amount of pension as may have been due her at the time of her death, death under the foregoing act for the services her husband the said Zebulon Brown in the New Jersey line in the Revolutionary......
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...War; that he has heard his father say that he enlisted early in the Revolution and belonged to a Captain Bowmans company in the "2d Jersey" (Regiment) and that he served to the end of the Revolution, and as a reward of Merit, received an Honorable Discharge for faithful service  It was the pride of his life to talk about the Revolution, its incidents and hardships.  The battles he was engaged in and at times their great sufferings.  Declarants father when he enlisted resided in Windsor in Middlesex county.  After the Revolutionary War Windsor was divided into East Windsor and West Windsor, these townships remained  in Middlesex County til 1838 when they were included in Mercer Co, his father when he returned from the army continued to reside at the same place till he died - and where deponent resides.  Declarant's father used to talk with this fellow soldiers about the war - Jacob Hall belonged to the same Regiment was a pensioner of the United States and lived and died in the same neighborhood they were constantly talking about their service in the Revolution  also head Nathan Davis and John Lipes talk with declarant's father on the subject they were in the Continental Line at the same time and drew pensions from the General Government they.....
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.....were acquainted before they enlisted and after the the Revolution they lived and died in the same place.  Declarants father Zebulon Brown was the only person of that name he ever knew older than declarant-  his father left many old papers which were destroyed many years ago as useless, declarant was twenty eight years old when he father died and from childhood up the the time of his father died he heard him repeat incidents of the Revolution their marches and battles.   He further declares that his father and mother, the said Zebulon Brown and Sarah Brown were married in the summer of seventeen hundred and eighty one, while his father was in the service, he said he had courted her before the Revolution.
     Declarant is unable to find any other record, as proof of marriage, except the Bible record of the births of their children which is hereto attached that he believes the record to be in the handwriting of his father, written before declarants recollection and the "Zebulon Brown Sun of Zebulon Brown and Sarah, his wife,  born March 20th 1783", is this declarant, which record be believes to be strictly true.  that his father the aforesaid Zebulon Brown died on the twenty third day February AD eighteen hundred and eleven (1811) and that Sarah.....
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.....Brown his widow died the sixth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty three - having received information of her death by letter from this Amy Richardson dated as above ( March 6, 1843).  Declarant some years ago spoke to a person to draw the necessary papers to make application for the amount of pension due his mother at the time of her death, she belonging to the Society of Friends, did not apply in her life time but the matter was deferred.
Declarant refers to proof annexed to prove and corroborate the foregoing facts.
  Zebulon Brown

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before Israel Pearce
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Extracts from the Minutes of Friends monthly Meeting of Burlington 

   -Extract from minutes of Women's Meeting -
"At our monthly meeting held the 1st of 4th month 1782- 
    "The following case was brought from the Preparative Meeting of Mansfield viz; Sarah Brown (late Bolton) hath gone out in marriage with a man not in membership with us, for which she hath been spoken to, but making no satisfaction, Mary Woodman and Mary Folwell were appointed to visit her"

     -Extract from minutes of Men's Meeting-
"At a monthly meeting held in Burlington 2nd of 12th month 1782"
    "Some of the committee in the case of Sarah Brown, report that they had a conference with her this morning, and found her disposed to make an acknowledgement for her misconduct, in going out in marriage with a person not a member of our society, which acknowledgement now came, through the Women's Meeting, and was read, and, after some consideration, accepted"-

State of New Jersey
Burlington County
     On this ninth day of March AD 1857m before me a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Thomas Dugdale, a resident of the city of Burlington, tome well known, who being duly affirmed according to law, saith that he is Clerk of Friends monthly meeting at Burlington  in said County, that he hath in his possession, the Records and Minutes of said Friend's Monthly Meeting, that the foregoing are true and correct.....
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.....extracts, as taken from, and compared with the original records in his possession.
Thos. Dugdale

Affirmed and subscribed the day and year above written before me JL Powell Justice
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State of New Jersey
     I Thomas S. Allison Secretary of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that William C. Howell Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Zebulon Brown was taken, was at the doing thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Mercer in said State, and that Joseph L. Powell Esq. before whom the affirmation of Thomas Dugdale was taken was at the doing thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Burlington in said State, both of whom are duly commissioned and sworn that full faith and credit are due to their official acts and that there signatures thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said William C. Howell and Joseph L. Powell Esqrs.
   In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this twelfth day of March A.D. 1857
   Thos. S. Allison
            Sec. of State
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State of New Jersey
     On the tenth day of December A.D. 1856 before me a Master in the Court of Chancery of said State personally appeared Jonathon Brown a resident of East Windsor in the County of Mercer (formerly Middlesex) and State aforesaid, in the seventy first year of his age to me well known for the past twenty five years, as a person of credibility and truth - who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he was well acquainted with Zebulon Brown who served in the army of the Revolution and who lived and died a near neighbor to this deponent  and he was a brother to deponents father.  The said Zebulon Brown talked much and very often about his services in the War of the Revolution, the Battles in which was engaged and particularly the Battle of Monmouth, he was in the habit of visiting deponents fathers house, and deponent  was often at his house at which times he was always relating something of the Revolutionary War, how often heard Nathan Davis and John Lipes who were in the same army with deponents uncle  talk about the incidents that occurred while they were in the Jersey line in the Revolution; they lived in the same neighborhood before they enlisted and continued to live there after the Revolution till they died, within two miles of each other - the two above named viz: Nathan Davis and John Lipes lived to a late period and received pensions from the United States. whenever they met they the said Zebulon Brown, John Lipes and.....
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.....Nathan Davis, they were always talking about the Revolution - Zebulon Brown and his son Zebulon Brown are the only ones of that name deponent ever knew. Deponent had an uncle David Brown, who was also in the army and after the Revolution he moved to the state of Kentucky, afterwards removed to Ohio, where he died; was well acquainted with his Aunt Sarah Brown, widow of the said Zebulon Brown, who continued to reside on the same place till a few years before her death - she removed into the County of Burlington and died in the spring of eighteen hundred and forty three.  Deponent was present at the bedside of his Uncle Zebulon Brown, when he died; which was early in the year eighteen hundred and eleven (1811).
     Deponet has heard the Declaration of Zebulon Brown read which he believes true in every particular.  He further declares there are but two children of the said Zebulon and Sarah Brown living viz: Zebulon and Edward Brown.
Johnathon Brown

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written 
Charles G. McChesney
M.C.C.
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... of Zebulon Brown a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his son's application for pension of file in this Bureau.  
Ref. F. 1344
Mar. 13, 1906

1777 - to end of war - Bowman - 2nd Reg't- NJ

Battles: Monmouth and Short Hills
Residence: Windsor, Middlesex Co. N.J.
Date: April 25, 1856 by sons
Residence of son Zebulon: East Windsor,                              Mercer Co., N.J.
Age: ------
Remarks:  Soldier died Feb. 23, 1811 at Windsor, N.J.  he married Sarah Bolton summer of 1781.  She died March 6, 1843 in Burlington Co., N.J. Children Zebulon born March 20, 1783, Sarah  b. Oct. 29, 1785, Edward b. Buy 29, 17878.  Sons claim rejected, children not entitled.  the records of this Bureau fail to show a claim filed on account of the Revolutionary Service of Joseph Ingersoll.

Mrs J.W. Turner
706 15th St.
Des Moines, Iowa
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Hon. G.R. Robbins
Dec 19 / 36
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Pension Office
Dec 19 1856

Sir,
       I have the honor to inform you that the application of the surviving children of Sarah Brown dec'd widow of Zebulon  of New Jersey
has been examined and filed under the Act of July 4, 1836.
     A Zebulon Brown did enlist in 1779 for 3 years in the New Jersey Line - but before it can be admitted that the soldier was the father of the applicant - the extraordinary delay in the presentation of this claim must be clearly explained - A more particular description of the service must be given and the claimant must shew under oath, that he was not (word crossed out) indebted to the records for his knowledge of his fathers services -
    If the service were admitted the proof as to the date (underlined) of the marriage issue to sufficient to justify an allowance under the Act of 1836 -
Hon. GR Robbins
     H of R
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  No. 8180

Sarah Brown dec'd
Widow of Zebulon
         N. Jersey
Hon. G.R. Robbins -------
19, 1856 - Same  -------
16, 1857 - Same M-------
20, 1857 -



      1344
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COPY.
L.M.H. June 16, 1906.
Mrs. J. W. Turner,
No. 706 15th Street,
Des Moines, Iowa.
Madame---
In reply to your letter dated the 7th instant, received the 11th, relative to claim, Rejected File, No. 1, 344, you are advised that neither the date of birth nor age of Zebulon Brown is mentioned, and the portion of the family record on file contains only the dates of birth of the children of said Zebulon and Sarah (Bolton) Brown.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Partial ink stamp:  12 1906.   Niles

766 - 15th St.
Des Moines, Ia., June 7 '06

Bureau of Pensions, Wash. D.C.

Dear Sir,
     I have a communication from you dated March 13, 1906, (A.E.P. - Ref. file 1344 - Rev. War) the contents of which I have used in my application for membership in the national Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and have just been informed that I.....
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.....need the date and place of birth of my Revolutionary ancestry Zebulon Brown, to complete his record.
     Do you think it will be possible for you to get this information from your records?  If so I shall be greatly obliged to you.
    Thanking you in advance for a reply I am...
                           Yours respectfully,
                           Mrs. J.W. Turner
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Ink stamp O.W.&N. Div Feb 28 1906 Files

Des Moines, Iowa Feb 25, 1906

The Pension Recording office
Washington D.C.

       I am trying to look up my ancestry, preparitory to getting in the D.A.R.'s, and I understand  that my great great grandparents  were soldiers in the revolutionary war.  Their names were Joseph Ingersoll and Zebulon Brown.
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.....My grandparents of the same name were born in New Jersey and I have found their names as soldiers in the revolutionary war - found ti in the historical building here, but the information on New Jersey is very limited. I sha ll appreciate any information you can give me on this subject.
    Yours respectfully
     Mrs. J.W. Turner


ink stamp: Pension Office US Feb 27 1906
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(left side)

Hist to Mrs J.W. Turner
March 13 1906
1906 June 15 - letter to above

(right side)

   1344.  REJECTED

Sarah Brown


Claim filed too late to be entered on -----ed list of rejected claims
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Pension Office
March 16, 1857

Sir,
    The evidence transmitted by you in support of the claim [illegible] a report of Sarah Brown deceased who was the widow of Zebulon is deemed satisfactory to show that the parties were married prior to 1782-.  But in a further examination of the case it appears that there were two soldiers named Zebulon Brown, who served in the Line of New Jersey. One who entered Captain Bowman's company and Colonel Shreeve's Regiment in June 1778 for nine months. The other was a [illegible] man who served in Captain Kinney's of Colonel  Martin's Regiment on the 1st of January 1777,  -completed the term of enlistment, and was at his discharge a sergeant .  He was entitled to the gratuity of $80 and to land and on the 16th of March 1799
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warrant number 8,124 for 100 Acres was paid to Abraham Bell, his assignee .  If Sarah's husband was the party who was thus entitled, there should be no difficulty in establishing his identity- and certify he [illegible] the claim under the Act of July 4, 1836 cannot be sustained.
   If the required proof is presented, a Certificate of Record should certify that the said Sarah died and state the names and number of her children now living.
I am, etc

Honorable G.R. Robbins
Hamilton Square
New Jersey
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Pension Office
May 20, 1857

Sir,
    The additional evidence forwarded by you in the case of Sarah Brown deceased of New Jersey, has been received and filed.
    A question has arisen in relation to the legality of paying pensions to the children of revolutionary soldiers, which makes it necessary  that this case, and all similar ones, should remain upon our suspended files until that point shall be definitely settled.

Honorable GR Robbins
Hamilton Square
New Jersey
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Zebulon Brown dec'd

Sarah Brown died 6 March 
1843

Married 1782

Zebulon 1 & Edwd. Brown 2
children

80
  x12

960.22/100
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Pension Office
March 16, 1857

Sir,
    The evidence transmitted to you in support of the claim asserted in right of Sarah Brown, dec'd who was the widow of Zebulon, is deemed satisfactory to show that the parties were married prior to 1782.  But, on a further examination of the case, it appears that there were two soldiers named Zebulon Brown who served in the Line of New Jersey; one who enlisted in Capt. Bowman's company of Col. Shreeve's Regiment in June 1779, for nine months; the other a war's man who served in Capt. Kinsey's Co. of Col. Martin's Regt in the 1st of Jany 1777 - completed the term of his enlistment, and was at his discharge a Sergeant.  He was enlisted to the gratuity of $80 ad to land - and on the 16th of March, 1799, Warrant No. 8124 for 100 acres was issued to Abraham Bell his assignee.  If Sarah's husband was the party who was thus entitled, there should be no difficulty in establishing his identity - and unless he was, the claim under the Act of July 4, 1836, cannot be sustained.
    If required proof is presented, a Court of Record should certify when the said Sarah  died and state the names and number of her children now living.
      Very respectfully,
            Geo. C. Whiting (?)
             Commissioner

Hon. G.R. Robbins
Hamilton Sq., N.J.
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Hamilton Square, New Jersey
April 24th 1857

Sir,
   I have the honor to enclose the additional evidence required by your letter of the 16th ultimo, in regard to the claim of the heirs of Zebulon and Sarah Brown deceased - I have long been acquainted with the witnesses and applicants and have full belief in the Justice of their application and fully believe that said Zebulon Brown dec'd was a soldier who served to the end of the Revolution as represented by the witnesses and applicant - having known them well a my life - being brought up in the same neighborhood from my infancy.
      Very respectfully
          your Obt. Servt.
        Geo. R. Robbins

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Comm. of Pensions
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Pension Office
December 19th 1856

Sir,
    I have the honor to inform you that the application of the surviving children of Sarah Brown Dec'd widow of Zebulon Brown of New Jersey has been examined and filed under the Act of July 4th 1836.
     A Zebulon Brown did enlist in 1779 for 5 years in the New Jersey Lines - but before it can be admitted that the soldier was a father of the applicants the extraordinary delay in the presentation of the claim must be clearly explained.  A more particular description of the service must be given and the claimant must show, under oath, that he was not indebted to the records for his knowledge of his father's services
      If the service were admitted the proof as to the date (underlined) of the marriage is not sufficient to justify an allowance under the act of 1836.
    I am respectfully
    Your Obt. Servt.
    Geo. C. Whiting
        Commissioner


(written in very faintly:  The characters of the family Record erase all doubt as to the question of the claim.    Geo. R. Robbins)

Hon. G. R.Robbins
House of Rep.
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Burlington March 9th 1857

Dear Doctor,
     Thine of the 6th was duly received, and I have made the extracts; and obtained the affidavits as thee requested; and I have done this with much pleasure, for my old friend and hope it may prove satisfactory - the marriage must have taken place before All Fool's Day 1782, and, very probably, in the latter part of 1781 (sentence underlined) - So much in Friends style - Now.....

[next entire paragraph crossed out]

   ( Excuse the political Quaker)

 Thine  truly,
     Sam R. Gammon
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State of New Jersey
     Be it known that on the 23rd day of April A.D. 1857 before the subscriber a Master of the Court of Chancery of said State personally appeared Sarah Lipes of East Windsor in the County of Mercer and State aforesaid, aged eighty five years, to me personally well known for upwards of thirty years past, who being duly sworn according to law on her oath saith that she is the widow of John Lipes who was a soldier of the Revolution and pensioner of the United States that since his death deponent received a pension of eighty dollars per annum from the United States,  that she was well acquainted with Zebulon Brown and Sarah his wife, he died many years ago, his widow is also deceased, deponent lived in the same neighborhood before, during, and after the Revolution, was intimately acquainted with Zebulon Brown, Jacob J. Hall, Samuel Turney and Nathan Davis, they were in the habit of visiting declarant and her husband (John Lipes) have heard them repeatedly talk about their service in the Revolution, have heard them say there was but a few months difference in the length of time they were in the service, deponent recollects the Zebulon Brown was absent in the army many years, about the same length of time the others were, they all received pensions except Zebulon Brown who died too early.  Deponent is well acquainted with Zebulon and Edward Brown their only children from infancy, deponent is living within a mile of where the old Zebulon Brown lived and died and further saith not.
Sarah Lipes her X mark

Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written.
Charles G. McChesney
M.C.C.
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County
     On this third day of April A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty seven, before me a Master of the Court of Chancery in and for said State, personally appeared Nancy Tindall a resident of East Windsor in the County and State aforesaid, to me personally well known for the last thirty years - aged seventy nine years - who being duly sworn according to law on her oath saith that she has resided all her life in the said township, and adjoining farms with Zebulon Brown and Sarah Brown now deceased, on which said farm their son Zebulon now resides, were in the habit of visiting each other almost daily.  When Rich'd Tindall deponents father-in-law visited her house  Zebulon Brown, Nathan Davis, John Lipes, and Jacob Hall who resided near neighbors would call to see him, they all being acquainted before the Revolution  and having served throughout the Revolutionary War together they would talk almost continually about the Battles and hardships they suffered - heard Zebulon say that he was in the Battle of Monmouth and that it was on Sunday, and that it was the hottest day he ever experienced in all his life, that he was also in the battle of Springfield and others which deponent does not recollect.  Depenent often spoke to him how he came to marry a Quaker - he said he was at work for the Boltons in Burlington County when he enlisted which county line joined Middlesex now Mercer County, within a mile of her residence.  that he was engaged to his wife before he enlisted, that after three or four years absence in the army he got a written permission to come home for some time during which absense from the army they were married -......
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.....Deponent well recollects William Tindall Esq. who was a relative to deponents husband who often told her that he was present at the marriage - that Zebulon Brown was then a soldier in the army and left soon after his marriage and joined the army. Deponent and Sarah Brown often talked about her marriage to Zebulon Brown and that was in the army when they now married and continued in the army till the war closed that she wished him to leave the army but he could not.  She died in the spring of 1843.  Saw Zebulon Brown's carriage and our mother go to the funeral - she recollects it on account of living that spring with her son-in-law.  There are only two children surviving them viz Zebulon who resides on the homestead and Edward who resides in Somerset County.
Nancy Tindall her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
  Charles G. McChesney
           M.C.C.
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State of New Jersey
 
I, Thomas S. Allison, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that Charles G. McChesney Esquire, before whom 
the within affidavits were taken,
was, at the time of the doing thereof a Master in Chancery duly authorized to administer oaths
in and for the [county of] State of New Jersey [in said state,] duly commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that that signatures thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said Charles G. McChesney Esq.

in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said state, this twenty fifth day of April
A.D, one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven.

Tho. S. Allison
Secretary of State
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State of New Jersey
     I Thomas S. Allison Register of the Prerogative Court of the State of New Jersey now holden at Trenton in and for said State do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited in said Court, that Sarah Brown, late widow of Zebulon Brown deceased, was a resident of the County of Burlington in the State of New Jersey, and died in the county of Burlington in the State of New Jersey in the year eighteen hundred and forty three on the sixth day of March, that she left only two children surviving her, whose names are Zebulon Brown and Edward Brown.
      In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixed the ear of said Court at Trenton this eighth day of April AD eighteen hundred and fifty seven.
        Thos. S. Allison. Register
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State of new Jersey
Mercer County
     On the 25th day of April AD 1856 before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now holden at Trenton in and for said County personally appeared Hetty Brown a resident of East Windsor  in the County and State aforesaid to me well known as a highly credible person who being duly sworn according to law on her oath saith, that she is in the seventieth year of her age, was married to Zebulon Brown in the year 1806 and resided in the same place with her father-in-law Zebulon Brown and had two children when he, her said father-in-law, died on the twenty third day of February AD eighteen hundred and eleven as she recollects and as is inscribed on his headstone in the Church Yard deponent heard him tell of his services very often in the Revolution - heard him and Jacob Hall Nathan David and John Lipes frequently talk about their service - were acquainted with each other before the Revolution, while they were in service, and after the Revolution, they all resided in the same neighborhood.  Deponent was at his funeral.....
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.....was also present at the funeral of the widow of the said Zebulon Brown deceased - she died on the sixth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty three - she never remarried after the death of her husband the said Zebulon Brown. The said Shah Brown deponents mother-in-law leaving only two children viz deponents husband and Edward Brown.  Deponent often heard her mother-in-law speak of loosing her first child when about 5 months in pregnancy - her second when she had been pregnant about seven months and then this deponents husband was the first living child.
Hetty Brown

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written in open Court before -
    Israel Pearce
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State of New Jersey 
  On the 10th day of December AD 1856 before me a Master in the Court of Chancery of said State personally appeared Charles Reed a resident of East Windsor in the County of Mercer and State aforesaid, to me well known for twenty five years past, now within a month of seventy four years of age who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he was well acquainted with old Zebulon Brown who joined farms with deponent, he was reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War and talked much of his service.  The said Zebulon Brown died about the year eighteen hundred and eleven, was at his funeral, he left a widow named Sarah Brown who continued to reside on her late husband's farm till a few years before her death when she moved into the County of Burlington where she died about the year eighteen hundred and forty three - Zebulon Brown, son of Zebulon Brown dec'd, resides on the same place, next farm to this deponent's - he the said Zebulon and Edward Brown are the only children living of the said Zebulon Brown and Sarah Brown deceased.
Charles Reed

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
    Charles G. McChesney
    M.C.C.
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State of New Jersey
Treasurer's Office

Trenton  Dec. 11 1856

   I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Zebulon Brown and Hetty Brown his wife, Eli Brown, Jonathon Brown, and Jesee Brown, the persons who have subscribed their names to the foregoing declaration and affidavits.  I have resided in the same neighborhood with said persons, since the year 1825, and know them to be persons of credibility and truth and that their statements are entitled to belief.
            Very Respectfully 
                  R.M. Smith

   I concur in the above certificate.
         Geo. R. Robbins
          House of Reps.

To the Hon
  Commissioner of Pensions
           Washington City
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Anderson


Please to report to
Hon. Geo. R. Robbins
House of Reps.
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State of New Jersey
    I Thomas S. Allison Secretary of State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Israel Pearce Esq. before whom the declaration of Zebulon Brown and affidavit of Hetty Brown was made and taken (in Open Court) was at the time of the doing thereof one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Mercer in said State, and that Charles G. McChesney Esq. before whom the affidavit of Eli Brown, Charles Reed, Jonathon Brown, and Jesse Brown were made and taken, was at the time of the doing thereof a Master in Chancery duly authored by the laws of said State to administer oaths; both duly commissioned and sworn that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signatures thereto are in the proper hand writing of the said Israel Pearce and Charles G. McChesney Esq. and I do further certify  that R. M. Smith Esq. is Treasurer of the State of New Jersey duly appointed commissioned and sworn, and that the signature to the annexed certificate is in the proper hand writing of the said R.M. Smith Esq.

    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Trenton this seventh day of December eighteen hundred and fifty six. 
        Thos. S. Allison
         Secretary of State
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State of New Jersey
Mercer County
     On this eighth day of January AD eighteen hundred and fifty seven before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Zebulon Brown a resident of said County to me well known as a person of credibility and truth who being duly sworn according to law on the oath declares that he will be seventy four years of age on the twentieth day of March next (1857) that heirs are son of Zebulon and Sarah Brown, deceased, that he heard his father say that he enlisted in the Service of the United States after the Battle of Trenton and Princeton in the year 1777 and understood him to say that he remained in the New Jersey line until the close of the Revolution and such was the belief of his family,  deponents mother the said Sarah Brown, was told that she was entitled to a pension, a number years before her death, But that she, belonging to the Society of Friends, would not apply for one "because it was the price of Blood", and she "was opposed to war".  further delay took place, on account of dependents depending on his Brother Edward to make the application who resides on the eastern shore of New Jersey, and he depended on this deponent to make the application.  Deponent spoke once or twice to an agent to draw up the necessary papers but it was deferred on various accounts, until about a year ago - this deponents wife urged that an application be made at once which said application was made in due form of Law in Open Court at Trenton.
      Deponent cannot more clearly specify his Father's services except what he has heard his say, that he was in the Battle of Monmouth, Short Hills, and other places, that he endured many hardships in the service, and that he heard Jacob Hall, John Lipes, Nathan Davis, and others who were pensioners, talk about their services with and in the presence of his Father.....
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..... as having served with deponents father and that he understood and believes his father served to the close of the Revolution.
     He further declares that he has never sought or asked any person nor consulted any Record or Records, of the Revolution for his father's services, nor authorized any one to do so for him, nor has he ever informed himself of any such service, except what he has heard from his said father and from those who served with him, knowing that his father would not misrepresent the truth.  He further declares that the original Record of his father and mothers Family Bible is attached to deponents declaration at Washington, and that the same is in his father's hand writing and which he believes to be strictly true.  That he is the Zebulon Brown therein named as being born on the twentieth of March seventeen hundred and eighty three.  He further declares that he has heard his mother say that she miscarried with her two first children, and that deponent was the first living child which they had.  Deponent does not know of any other evidence of his parents marriage except the one at Washington and one which this deponent has, which agrees therewith, and further saith not.
Zebulon Brown

Sworn and subscribed this day and year above written before me - Wm. C. Howell J. Peace
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State of New Jersey
     I Thomas S. Allison Secretary of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that I have on file in my office the Revolutionary War Records of New Jersey; and I do further certify that no person has applied for or obtained any information whatever from this office or evidence of the Revolutionary Services of Zebulon Brown of the New Jersey Line.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Trenton this twelfth  day of March AD 1857.

        Thos. S. Allison
         Sec. of State
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State of New Jersey 
     On this 10th day of September A.D. 1856 before the subscriber a Master of the Court of Chancery of said State personally appeared Eli Brown of East Windsor in the County Mercer and state aforesaid in the thirty second year of his age to me well known who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that he has visited the Church Yard of the Baptist Church at Hamilton Square and finds there on the head Stone of Grandfather Zebulon Brown dec'd the following inscription: "Sacred to the Memory of Zebulon Brown who departed this life on the 23rd February A.D. 1811".
       That the Bible Record attached to the declaration of his father Zebulon Brown has been in the family since his earliest recollection and that he believes the same to be strictly true.  And further saith not.
Eli Brown

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
       Charles G. McChesney
              M.C.C.
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State of New Jersey
     On this 11 day of December A.D. 1856 before meeting a Master of the Court of Chancery of said State personally appeared Jesse Brown of the township of East Windsor in the County of Mercer and State aforesaid aged seventy nine (79) years on the 18th day of November past to me well known for nearly thirty years who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith the Zebulon Brown deceased of the Revolution was a brother to deponents mother and deponent always resided within a few miles of said Zebulon Brown till his death - was well acquainted with the said Zebulon Brown, he was frequently visiting at my mother's house, and deponent was a very often at the house of his uncle the said Zebulon Brown, and has often heard him repeat and tell his feats and incidents while he was in the New Jersey Continental line in the Revolution, has heard his uncle talk with Nathan David and John Lipes who were also in the N. Jersey Continental line of their services in the Revolution, they all lived and died in the same neighborhood, the said Davis and Lipes drew pensions from the United States - but deponents Uncle died before the law for pensions now passed to which he might have been entitled.  Deponent was at his funeral some time in the winter of 1811 - he died leaving a widow Sarah Brown.....
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.....who remained on the place of her late husband till within a year or two of her death when she moved into the County of Burlington in said State, where she died, sometime in the spring of eighteen hundred and forty three (1843) - she was before her marriage named Sarah Bolton, and belonged to the Society of Friends.  Deponent knows that there are only two children now living viz Zebulon Brown and Edward Brown - children of the said Zebulon Brown and Sarah Brown dec'd.
Jesse Brown

Sworn and subscribed the day and yer above written.
     Chalres G. McChesney
         M.C.C.