Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5232, Jesse Brown, R.I.
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RI  Brown, Jesse,  W.5232
                  Mary    RI  26326-160-8-8

Contents
B. Dec. 26, 1760 in Cumberland, Providence C., R.I & there always up to 1822
D. Apr 6, 1834
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Rhode Island
Jesse Brown of Providence in the State of R. Island who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Wetherall of the Rgt. Commanded by Col Brown in the R Island line for 20 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 76 Dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of May 1833 and sent Benjn Cowell Providence R.I.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $153.34 semi-anl. Allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 38.33
$191.67
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book E Vol. 2d page 103
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2467
[illegible]
Mary Brown
Widow of Jesse Brown
Who served in the Revolutionary War, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 76 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of Oct. 1853 and sent to 
Benjn. Cowell
Providence R.I. 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1833, Page 89 Vol. a
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SERVICE                         NUMBER
R.I. Brown, Jesse,      W. 5243       
              Mary   RI W 26,326 - 160-55

CONTENTS
B Dec 26, 1760 in Cumberland, Providence Co, R. I. & here always info to 1832
d. Apr. 6, 1837
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Jesse Brown  85
[ilegible]

17026
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United States of America
Rhode-Island District, sc. August Term 1832
County of Providence
On this 17th day of September A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, being a special District Court of the United States within and for said District, now in session - Jesse Brown a resident of Cumberland in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island aged 71 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 Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832, viz. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
He was born December 26th 1760 in Cumberland as by the records of that town will appear and in the family bible and has always resided in  P. Cumberland [ilegible] before & since the War
[ilegible] applicant further states that in July 1777 he joined a company of minute men commanded by Cap Geo Pelek. This company was chartered by Legislature of Rhode Island & the Cap had the rank of  Colonel we were independent of the Militia & were under the immediate orders of the Governor. we were always to be ready at a minutes warning armed & equiped according to law. And this applicant says that he belonged to this company until the end of the War & always went with the company when called into service. He joined this company we served one month at Warwick & in March following one month at Providence - In October was in Sullivans expedition - early in the year 1778 we were at Bristol one month - In August 1778 was in Sullivans expedition one month & was in the Battle on the 28th of that month - But he cannot at this instant period remember all the times he was called out or all the places to which he was called, but according to the best of his recollection he has no doubt he was in actual service one half the time from the time of his joining this company in July 1777 until the British evacuated Rhode Island which was over three years - This applicant further states that in June 1777 he had permission from the company to serve & did serve three months as a substitute f& private in Cap Enoch Wetherheads company & Col Chad Browns Regiment of Rhode Island Militia then next following further service was preformed for his elder brothers who had been drafted for one [ilegible] months each - they had families and I had none

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any [ilegible]
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Jesse Brown
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever t oa pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
Jesse Brown
I Amaziah Weatherhead of Cumberland in the said State of Rhode Island on oaths do certify & say that I have known Jesse Brown of said Cumberland for the last sixty years - I am also knowing to the fact that said Jesse was a member of Col George Perks company of minute men during the Revolutionary War - From the obligations of that company, they were always to be ready at a moments coming & from Jany 1777 to the year 1780 it was in actual service more than one half of the time, and I also remember well of seeing said Jesse Brown in the company - I belonged to another Compy but I had frequent opportunities to see him - 
Amaziah Weatherhead
Sworn to before me
Benyer Cowell Sept 10 1832
Commsp Dist Court R I Dist
I William Ballow of Cumberland of Rhode Island & aged 76 years and sworn according to law depose and say that I was well acquainted with Jesse Brown now an applicant for a pension for services rendered in the revolutionary War during said war and lived a neighbor to him at the time I am well knowing to his belonging to a company commanded by Capt. George Peck and that he did duty as a [writing cut off] soldier in said company I know [writing cutoff] called out
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according to law depose and say that I am well acquainted with Jesse Brown now an applicant for a pension for service rendered in the revolutionary War during said was and live a neighbor to him at the time I am well knowing his belong to a company commanded by Capt. George Peck and that he did duty as a revolutionary soldier in said company I know that said company was frequently called out to as duty as minute men in the years 1777,1778, 1779 upon alarms. 
William Ballow
August 20 1832 sworn to in open Court 
B. Cowell clk
I Will Ballow of Cumberland in the County of Providence on oath do certify and say that I have known Jesse Brown of said Cumberland who is now present before me for the last sixty years. And I further testify that said Jess was a member of Col George Pecks company of minute men during all the time the British were in possession of Rhode Island & to the end of the War that is from January 177 to the year 1781 I was a member of said company during that time & know that the said Jesse always performed the duty that he was required to perform as a member of that company - We were in Spencers expedition & in Sullivans Expedition & from the nature of an obligations I have no doubt we must have been in [writing cut off]  actually employed over
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easy https://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pnghe  to perform {cut off] of vital  [ unknown] We  in MCinery expeditions and the Sullivan Expedition and from the nature of an obiglation I have no doubt we must have been in the [illigible] actually employed saw one half of the time .    blowell
Sept 17 Sworn in open court 1832 
I James Harrington of Cumberland in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island  being 72 years of age do depose? and say that Jesse Brown of Cumberland [illegible] derived as a substitute in captain Enoch [illegible] stationed in providence [illegible]of the years 1777 as a private soldier. I don not know the length of time he served in what part of the year.
The said Jesse Brown is [illegible] before and I am positive as to his identity.
James Harrington

Providence
As Cumberland September 12 AD 1882 
These personally appeared the above named James Harrington and subscribed and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing depositions.Before 
alex allows justice of the law
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Clerks office of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State September 17 1832

I the undersigned clerk of said court for the county of Providence do hereby certify that Alex Ballows Esq above named man is a Justice of the Peace for the town of Cumberland and was on the 12 day of this month ^ a father of the Peace for law duly elected by the general assembly and otherwise qualified to act as such and that full faith and credit re due to his official attributes  in law capacity. with the seal of said court he is to affixed by me W Smith clerk of court
and the said court do herby 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 Alex Ballow Amayiah Weatherhead William BAllow, James Harrington have for the said applicants are resident as they state and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Benjamin Cowell, clerk of said District Court, do herby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jesse Brown for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 7th day of November 1832 Benjamin cowell
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State of New York
County of Niagara
On this 11th day of June AD 1853 personally
appeared before the Court of Special time of the Supreme Court
within said County & State Mary Benson
resident in Lockport in said County aged 77
years who being duly sworn according to Law
doth on her oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefits of the act of
Congress passed February 3d 1853 granting
pensions to widows of officers & soldiers of
the army of the Revolution married since
the year Eighteen hundred, viz. that she is
the widow of Jesse Brown late of Cumberland
the County of Providence & State of Rhode
and deceased, who was a soldier in the
was of the Revolution & served as such in
said war and when the act of Congress of
June 7th 1832 was passed granting pensions
to officers & soldiers who had served six months 
& upwards in said war the said Jesse Brown
applied for & obtained a pension under 
the provisions of said act at the rate $76.67
per annum payable at the agency for paying
pensioners of the United States in the City of
of Providence which pension he continued
to receive up to the time of his death
and she refers to her said husband
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declaration which he made to obtain said pension now on file in the departments at Washington for the proof of his services & his right to same pension
and she further declares that she was married to the said Jesse Brown on the Eighth say of June Mo 1834 as will appear by the original certificate of marriage unto annexed, She was married in Thompson in the State of Connecticut by the Rev Daniel Dow - and she further declares that her husband the said Jesse Brown departed this life on the fourth day of April Mth 1838 and since that period she has remained a widow.  She was not married to him prior to second of January Eighteen hundred but at the time above stated she further declares that she is now a widow.
Mary Brown
Niagara County
Supreme Court
Illegible
Subscribed & Sworn before me in Open Court this 11th day of June 1853.
Given under my hand & the Seal of said Court & County on Lockport in said County this 11th day of June 1853
J.I.A. Cook Dep Clerk
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State of New Yord SS
County of Niagara
On this 12th day is April
A.D. 1855 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mary Brown aged 79 years a resident of Lockport in the State of New York, who being duly Sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, on order to obtain the Bounty land to which she is entitled under the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1855.
That she is the widow of Jesse Brown who was a private in the Revolutionary War, that on account of  the services of her husband the aforesaid Jesse Brown in said war, she now receives a Pension at the rate of Seventy six Dollars per annum under the act of Congress of February 3, 1853 as will more fully appear by reference to the evidence now on file in the Pension Office at Washington.  She further declares that she is now widow, that she has never before applied for nor recovered any Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress, And that she constitutes James F Baldwin her attorney in the matter and desires all correspondence relative thereto mailed to her said attorney at Lockport New York
Mary Brown
We Eliot W Cook and Ransellear S Wilkinson residents of Lockport in the State of New York, upon our oath declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Brown in our presence, and that we know her to be the identical person she represented herself to be and for themselves for they say that they have been well acquainted with
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said Mary Brown for more than 35 years that she received a Pension of Sixty six Dollars per annum as the widow of Jesse Brown under the act dated February 3, 1853 and that said Jesse Brown died at Cumberland in the State of Rhode Island on the Sixth day of April A.D. 1837 and said Mary Brown is still a widow and lived as the wife of Jesse Brown aforesaid until his death and that the following is a true copy of a certificate now in possession of Mary Brown and that she is the person therein described.
R.S. Wilkinson
E.W. Cook
Department of the Interior
Widows Pension
I certify that in conformity with the 2nd section of the act of February 3, 1853, Mary Brown widow of Jesse Brown who was a private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Seventy six Dollars per annum, commencing on the 3rd of February, 1853, and continuing for life unless she should again marry, in which case, the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior, 
this fifteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
R.McClelland Secretary of the Interior
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17026
Jesse Brown
Rhode Island
Private 23 Months
4.5.1606
May 3, 1853
P. 372
Benja Cowell
Pros RI
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2. If before a Judge, does it appear that eh applicant is disabled by bodily infirmalty?
 3. How old is he? 71 yrs
4 State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.   Duration of service Rank Names of general and field officers under who he served.

In 1777  years months days as a  genl Sullivan
                         1                               Capts peck
                          1
                          1
                           3                Capt.Wetherall Brown

5. in what battles was he engaged? 1  Battle
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Cumberland RI
7. Is his statement supoorted by living witnesses, by documentary proof by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence or by the rolls?  living witness
8. Are papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so in what respect? not correctly attached
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence int he case above mentioned JM Calggett clerk
the applicant states that he was called into service from 1777-& continued till the end of the war and was in service for that time
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Town Clerks Office
Cumberland June 25th 1853.
I Lewis B. Arnold Town Clerk of said town do certify that I have, by virtue of my said office, the Custody of the records of Marriage and Birth which have taken place in said town and from an examination of said records it appears that Jesse Brown was married to Mary Cook on the Eighth day of June in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty four- The record as it stands in the Book is as follows,
"Thompson Com. June 8th 1834, This will certify all concerned, that on this day of date Mr. Jesse Brown and Mrs. Mary Cook both of Cumberland R.I. were lawfully joined in Marriage. By 
Daniel Dow
Pastor of the Church in Thompson."

Recorded August 23rd 1834.
Attest Pardon Sayles Town Clerk

all which I certify.
Lewis B. Arnold Town Clerk
Providence State In Cumberland June 25th 1833
Personally appeared before me the above married Lewis B. Arnold known to me as the town clerk of said tow and made oath to the back of the above certificate by him signed.
[different handwriting] Jemes Brown

Justice of the Peace
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And not on this 10th day of May AD 1833 Jesse Brown of Cumberland maketh further oath in explanation & addition to his declaration made Sept 17th, 1832 in Court [illegible] - said Jesse declares that in Janry 1777 he joined the company of minute men commanded by Col. Geo Peck as a private & he continued to serve as a private therein untill the end of the war except the three months he served as a substitute & private in Capt Weatherheads Company & Col Chad Browns regiment of R. I. militia [smudge illegible] in June 1777 & ending in September of that year as mentioned in his former declaration and he further states, that between Janry 1777 & March 1780, the time according to his best recollection the British evacuated Rhode Island, he was in actual service as a private & the companies aforesaid one half of the time at least. to wit, nineteen months at least for which he now claims a pension - . And he further maketh oath that after March 1780 [words crossed out] of the war he [words darkened out] a private in said company
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& did duty therein & between said March 1780& June 1782, he was in actual service according to his best recollection [illegible] months art least as a private for which he claims a pension - making in all twenty three months he served as a private during the Revolutionary war - Here now produces the certificate of the Revd David Benedict & Amos Cook who are well acquainted with him who can testify in his behalf [illegible smudge]the living witnesses except those mentioned in his declaration made Sept 17th as aforesaid - .
Jesse Brown [signature]
Benja Cowell Commiss of Dist Court R. I Dist

We David Benedict a Clergyman residing in Pawtucket and Amos Cook residing in the town of Cumberland hereby certify and say that we are well acquainted with Jesse Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration that we believe him to be seventy one 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

David Benedict
Amos Cook
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Rhode Island District
In Providence May 10, 1833

Personally appeared before me the above named   David Benedict and Amos Cook and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit and further certify that said David is a Clergyman residing in said Pawtucket and that he and the said Amos residing in said Cumberland are credible witnesses and their Statement entitled to credit

Benja Cowell
Commissr of Dist Court
R I Dist
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Office of
The Orange Blossom
O.L. FRISBEE, A.M., Editor.
Issued every Saturday by the Plant System.
[stamp]
U.S.P.S.
OLD WAR & NAVY
JAN 19 1898
FILES.

BCM
Tampa Bay Hotel, Tampa, Florida Jan 14, 1898.
Pensions Department
Washington D.C.-
Sir: Please send me the pension record of Jesse Brown of R. I. [illegible] Seth Capron of N. Y, and Mass and [illegible] Bezaliel Mann of Mass. All the above were in the Rev. War were my ancestors and it is said received a pension from U. S. government.
Yours truly
Nellie Capron Plant
address 76 - E 56 St.
New York City
[stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE B JAN 17 1898
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To Miss Nellie C-
56th St. New York City

Ray WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5232
Mary Brown
Widow
Jefse Brown
Pvt. Rev. Wa
Act: Feby. 3253
Index:- Vol. A, Page 83
[Arrangement of 1870]

Jan. 26/98.
Plant. 76. &
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[illegible] 2444

Mary Brown
wid: of 
Jesse _____________________

Set to B Cowell, 13"ls [slash] lt:1853

Act 3. Feby, 1853.
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SERVICE
R.I.
Brown, Jesse,
Mary

NUMBER
W. 5232
B.L.Wt. 26326-160-55

CONTENTS
b. Dec. 26, 1760 in Cumberland, Providence Co. R.I. & there always up to 1832.
d. Apr. 6, 1837
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26.326-160 Mary Brown
36105=160 Peter Arnold
33596 160 Sm Wirtman
43485=160 Chas S Pierce
43742-160 Wm H Mudre
19607-160  [illegible] Simmons
45726-160 ComFoot
42210-80 Francis Brown

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LOCKPORT
JAN
FREE
N. Y. 

[addressee]
George C Whiting
Comm of Pensions
Washington
D.C
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Pension Office,
9"Sept, 1853,

Sir: Please certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid on the date of his death.
Very Respectfully,
J. Cole
For the Commissioner
Jesse Brown, Act 1832 $76.67 per an . - Died 6th April 1837, paid to his death.
F. Burt
Auditor.
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Francis Burt. Esq.
[illegible] Auditor, Leasing}
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( —1776)

SERVICE
R. I.  Brown, Jesse, Mary

NUMBER 
W. 5232
B. L. Wt. 26,326-160-55

CONTENTS
B. Dec. 26, 1760 in Cumberland, Providence Co. R.I. & there always [illegible] to 1832.
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Rec. Sv. & Pa Pr. Ma: 6 Apl 37
B Gynton
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[date? illegible]

Appl. of Mary
Brown, widow
of Jesse Brown,
Niagara Co.
[underlines]
N. York.
$76.67 R.I. 
Act. 3d Feby. 1853.
15050

Rev.
$76.00 per an -
Com - Feby, 3, 1853

Benj. Cowell,
Providence,
R. Island. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSI 
Comm
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Lockport April 21st 1853
Hon L P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions Please direct all correspondence relative to the enclosed application of Mary Brown for Bounty Land under Act of March 3d 1855 to me at Lockport N.Y.
Very Respectfully & C
J.F. Baldwin
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(Endorsed) [in left column]
Mary Brown Payment to be made at Albany by 
Thos. W. Olcott Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of New York Payable on the 4th September 4th March 

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d 1853, Page 88 Vol. A
G. T. Getty Clerk

The foregoing declaration and affadavitts were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the identical person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim and I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a certificate in possession of Mary Brown and that she is the person therein described.
A Clark
Justice of the Peace

State of New York Ss
County of Niagara }  I Wilson Robinson Clerk of the aforesaid county do hereby certify that A. Clark whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand and seal of office at [seal] Lockport this fourteenth day of April AD. 1855
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Providence Oct 10, 1853
Sir
I received [?] your letter of 13 Oct [?] reporting [?] the claim of Mary Brown widow of Jesse Brown for a pension. The mistake she made as to the time her husband died is corrected by the enclosed supplemental declaration & [illegible]
I am Respectfully
Your obt sevt
Benja Cowell

Hon L P Waldo
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State of New York
County of Niagara Ss
On this fifth day of October AD 1853
personally appeared before me a Justice
of the Peace in said County Mary
Brown of Lockport in said County who
being duly sworn makes the following
declaration in order to correct a mistake
she made in her recent application
for a pension, she alleged her husband
Jesse Brown late of Cumberland in
the State of Rhode Island died on
the 4th of April AD 1838. This was a
mistake he died on the sixth day
of April AD 1837, other than this
her declaration now in the Pension
office was correct in all the allegations
Mary Brown
Subscribed and Sworn
to this 5th day of October
1853 Before me
D Donnelly
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York,
NIAGARA COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. } ss. I Certify that D. Donnelly
before whom the annexed Instrument in writing was proved or acknowledged,
was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well
acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature to said certificate
is genuine; and that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged
according to the laws of this State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official
seal, at Lockport in said County, this fifth day of October 1853.
L. S. Payne
Clerk of Niagara County.
By H. A. Cook deputy
[seal]
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State of New York
County of Niagara Ss
Elliot W. Cook being duly sworn says that he
Is Thirty five years of age, that he was
Well acquainted with Jesse Brown of
Cumberland, State of Rhode Island, that
he was present at the time of his Death
that he died on the Sixth day of April
1837, that he is acquainted with his Widow
Mary Brown & has lived in the same
Village with her for the last fifteen
years that she still remains a Widow
E. W. Cook
Subscribed & Sworn to this
4th day of October 1853
D. Donnelly
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York,
NIAGARA COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE} ss. 
I certify that D Donelly
before whom the annexed Instrument in writing has proved or acknowledged
was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well
acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature to said certificate
is genuine; and that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged
according to the laws of this State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official seal, at Lockport in said
County this fifth day of October 1853.
L S Payne
Clerk of Niagara County
By H. A. Cook deputy
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THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
PROVIDENCE, SC.
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CLERK'S OFFICE, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,
PROVIDENCE, October 11th A.D. 1853.
I, Levi Salisbury
Clerk of the COURT OF COMMON PLEAS of said State, within
and for the County of Providence:
DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Pardon Sayles Esq is and at the
date of the annexed certificate was a Justice of the Peace
in & for the town of Smithfield in said County
duly appointed, and qualified to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment 
of deeds and other instrument, and that the signature to the annexed Certificate, purporting to be his,
is genuine.
IN ATTESTATION WHEREOF, I hereby subscribe my name, and affix the Seal
of said Court, the day and year above written.
Levi Salisbury Clerk
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Providence June 28 1853
Sir
I herewith enclose the claim of
Mary Brown of Lockport N Y widow 
of John Brown late of Cumberland
R. I. for a pension under the act
of Feb 3d 1853. Her declaration
was drawn up with a view to have
the original certificate of Marriage
“annexed”. But as the Rule has been
changed  & a copy of the record required,
that was withdrawn & a copy from
the records of Cumberland
substituted
I am very respectfully
Your Obt Sert
Benja Cowell
Hon L P Waldo
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Brief in the case of Mary Brown, widow of Jesse,
Niagara County and state of New York,
Act 3d Feby: 1853
Claim (" original,"
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of
7" June 1832
Record evidence & provide proof of Marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?
Benj. Cowell Esqr
Providence, R. I.
Name and residence of Agent
J. C. Boynton
Examining Clerk.
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Office of L. H. Nicholls,
Lockport, N.Y. Jany 7 1857
Hon Geo C Whitney
Com’r of Pensions
Dear Sir
On the 22nd Nov I sent
by mail to Weiser, Filbert & Edwards Chatfield Minnesota
Land warrant No 26 326 issued to Mary Brown 160
Do 36105 Peter Arnold “ 160
Nov 29 “ “ 33596 Jno Westman 160
Dec 6 “ “ 43485 Charles S Pierce 160
Dec 10 “ “ 43742 Wm H. Mudge 160
“ “ “ 19607 Susan Simmons 160
“ “ “ 45726 William Foote 160
“ “ “ 42210 Francis Brown 80
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1200.[illegible]
none of which have reached Chatfield & I 
suppose have been stolen from the mail. What
course can I take to get Duplicates of these
warrants? I have no experience in such cases
will be much obliged if you will instruct 
me on the subject. These warrants
being in 5 different letters precludes the hope
that they may have miscarried
Yours very Respectfully
L. H. Nicholls
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I Stephen Farnum of Cumberland in the county of Providence State of Rhode Island aged sixty- three do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jesse Brown late of said Cumberland, deceased, the husband of Mary Brown now his widow and residing at Lockport in the State of New York. The said Jesse was a pensioner at the time of his death for his service in the war of the Revolution as I have always understood and he died in the month of April A. D. 1857 since that time the said Mary has remained a widow.
Stephen Farnum

Providence [?] In Cumberland June 20th 1853.
Personally appeared before me the above mentioned Stephen Farnum and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed. And I certify that the said Stephen Farnum is an audible witness. I also certify I have no interest in the [provisiontions] of said claims for a pension. 
Fenner Brown
Justice of the Peace
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I Fenner Brown of Cumberland in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island aged 61 years do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jesse Brown lates of said Cumberland deceased and the husband of Mary Brown now his widow and resident in Lookout in the State of New York. Said Jesse was a pensioner of the United States when he died.
And I further testify that he departed this life on the sixth day of April 1857, as appears on his grave stone erected to his memory in said Cumberland recently seen by one. Her name before her marriage was Mary Cook. Since his death the said Mary has remained his widow and is an applicant for a pension.
Fenner Brown

Providence [?] In Cumberland this twenty- eight day of September eighteen-hundred fifty- three.
Personally appeared before the above named Fenner Brown personally known to me and made oaths to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed. And I further certify his statements are entitled to the furthest credit and belief.
[Pardon Jayley] Justice of the Peace
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The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence SC.
Clerk's Office, Court of Common Pleas
Providence, June 28th A. D. 1855
I Levi Salisbury Clerk of Court of Common Pleas of said State, within and for the County of Providence: Do Hereby Certify, that Fenner Brown Bege. in a Justice of the Peace in and for the town of Cumberland in said County duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments, and that the signature to the annexed Certificate, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In attention whereof, I hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, the day and year above written.
Levi Salisbury Clerk