Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15762, John Brake, Va.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Va.

Brake, John

NUMBER
S. 15762
carded

CONTENTS
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[Declaration page 1]

John Brake draws $40-

This Pensioner states on this 8th day of July 1824 that was born in 1754- born on the South Branch [region near Potomac River now West Virginia] near Morefield [Moorefield] at the commencement of the R War- was drafted can't say in what year , for six months. 

Rendezvoused at Romney [West Virginia], marched from then under Capt. John Harris, Major Reddle [John Redd], Col. Vanmetre [Garret Van Meter] to the mouth of Big Beaver [Creek on the Ohio River in Pennsylvania] & then to Fort McIntosh [Beaver, Pennsylvania].

Genl. [Lachlan] McIntosh had about 2000 men. Staid [stayed] there a while & then marched to Tuscarawas [River in Ohio] aided in building a fort at that place. & returned to McIntosh Fort and was discharged. 

Cant say how long he was gone -previous 
to his being in [Lachlan] McIntosh's Campaign  He done another tour of duty at Buckhannon Fort in Lewis county- cant recollect the year in which this tour of duty was done. it was however about the time Cornwallis [General Charles Lord Cornwallis] was captured at York town [Surrender of Cornwallis, Yorktown, Va Oct. 1781] 

He visited [Fort] Buckhannon [West Virginia] and while there he volunteered under Capt. Geo. Jackson and forted at Jackson Fort and scouted and followed  the Indians when they came into the Settlement Volunteered about the first of September and continued in service until the Middle of February this comprises all his services.

J Copeland & Col. Johnson wrote his Declaration to whom he gave the same statement in Substance he now gives
Copeland contracted to do the business for nothing but retained $40.75

the foregoing was read to Brake and acknowledged by him to be correctly taken down.

Col. Giden C. Camden sais [says] that Brake applied to him to writ [write] his declaration,  upon examination of Brake it resulted in his having done no service. 
Brake stated to Camden that he had been compelled to hire a substitute and therefore he considered himself entitled to a pension 

Christopher Nalter a man of character has known Brake for many years,- and sais [says] he Brake was always by general consent, [illegible], & reputation