Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5,910, David Brook, Mass.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                                NUMBER

Mass.
Brook, David                         W. 5,910
or Brooks,
Waity

CONTENTS
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Ohio Pittsburgh. 22.406
David Brook
of Trumbull in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Co. commanded 
by Captain King of the Regt. commanded 
by Col Ashley in the Mass. 
line for 1 year an 11 month 5 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburg
at the rate of 77 dollars 22 cents per annum,
to commence of the 4th day of March 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of October 1833 and sent to Alexdr. McConnell, Warren Trumbull Co. Ohio.


Arrears to the 4th of September 1883 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 84
193.05
38.61
$231.66


{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm B Palmer Clerk,
Book E.  Vol. 8 Page 106.
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Pittsburg 
Ohio 8027
Waity Brook,
widow of David Brook
who was a Private
in the Mass. Line
Husb. died 5th Mar. 1841
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
42 Dollars 20
cents per annum to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843, ending 18th June 1844, when she died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Nov. 1846 and sent to
Jno. F. Curtis, esq.
[illegible]
N.Y.
[Acts of March 3, 1843.]
and June 17, 1846.
Recorded in Book A. 
Vol. 2. Page 201.
[illegible] able to Zilpha Clark, Srah Croy, Laura Crippins, Malona Wittier, Mary Depew, Waity Russell and Samantha Wilcox, only children
Rep.
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David Brooks was born
Oct 22nd, 1755
Waty Blanchard was born
Jany 30th 1760
They were married 2nd March 1781
John Brooks was born April 7th 1781
on Saturday
Benjamin Brooks born Monday
Oct 22nd 1782
Phebe Brooks born Monday
Feby 7th 1785
Zilpha Brooks born Sunday
March 11th 1787
Sarah Brooks born Tuesday
22nd April 1789
Mona Brooks born Sunday
January 27th 1793
Laura Brooks born Monday
August 11th 1794
Ruby Brooks born Saturday
Sept 22nd 1796
Melona Brooks born Friday
Sept 7th 1798
Waty Brooks born Tuesday
[illegible] 6th 1800
Mary Brooks born Friday
Feby 4th 1803
Samantha Brooks born Saturday
March 31st 1805
David Brooks born Saturday 
March 31st 1805
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THE NEW TESTAMENT 
OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOR
JESUS CHRIST
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE 
ORIGINAL TONGUES:
AND WITH THE 
FORMER TRANSLATIONS
DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED,
BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND
APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCH
EDINBURGH
Printed by MARK and CHARLES KERR, His Majesty's Printers
MDCCXCVI
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David Brooks
Application for a pension
1703
Filed August 24 1832
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
On this 23rd day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Supreme Court of said State of Ohio now sitting at Warren within and for said country of Trumbull David Brooks of Braceville in said county aged seventy eight years next October, who using first duly sworn according to Law, doth make the following  declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passing June 7th 1832 -
That he [illegible] the service of the United Stated under the following named officers, and served as herin stated -
In the fall of the year 1776 at the Town of New Marlborough County of Berkshire state of Massachusetts, I enlisted under command of Captain George King of Barrington in the same county, King was my Lieutenant, we were marched to Ticonderoga, we were employed at Mount [illegible] in building a Block House, I got my leg broke and was fifty days unable to do duty. This was a town of three months but I was in the service until Gen. Burgage was taken, which was about ten months from the time I enlisted. I was discharged at Albany, Col. John Ashly gave me the discharge; in the year 1778 I enlisted under command of Capt. Adam Corson, for three months I served out this town & continued for another town of three months, I served out this town; I then the town of Chemmorthorough in the year of 1780 enlisted for a town of [illegible] months, in the continental army I served under Lieutenant Marble, we were sent to West Point on the Hudson River I stayed my time out& was discharged thereon the ninth day of December 1780. I was for days at that place about this time without a mouthful to eat. I was present at the execution of Major Ancker, who was hanged at British ally -
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1. Where and in what year were you born?
Ans. I was born in the town of Killinsly Connecticut in the year 1754.

2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Ans. I have none.

3. Where were you living when called into the service, where have you lived since and where do you now live?
Ans. I was living in New Marlborough, Massachusetts when called into the service. I have lived where I was born, after the war, about thirty years, and have lived in Brauville Trumbull County Ohio where I now live twenty one years next October.

4. How were you called into the Revolution? 
Ans. I was enlisted.

5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops, when you served.
Ans. Gen. How was our Brigadier Gen. he commanded the 15th Regiment. Petras was my Col., Ballad was my Major, I cannot recollect the christian names of the officers.
Joseph Allen and Harvey Allen are two of my neighbors who can witness as to my veracity for truth.
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 State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
                                                       his
                                           David    X   Brooks
                                                      mark
Before me  George Parsons Clerk S. C.

We Joseph Allen and Joshua Bradford residing in the County of Trumbull and State of Ohio, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Brooks who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age or there about, that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood[neighborhood] where he resides to be a man of veracity and to have been a
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#soldier in the revolution and that in some in that opinion sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written.
                                    Joseph Allen
George Parsons Clerk S.C.
                                    Joshua Bradford

And the said Court do hereby declare the 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 solider, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Joseph Allen, George Parsons, and Joshua Bradford resident in the County of Trumbull aforesaid are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.

I, George Parsons Clerk of the supreme court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of David Brooks for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 29th day of August 1832. 
George Parsons, Clerk

  I George Parsons have been acquainted with David Brooks who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and do hereby certify that I believe him to be a man of veracity.
Sworn in open court          George Parsons Clerk

L. Collett [illegible]
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Acts of Congress of March 3d 1843 and the 17th of June 1844

State of Ohio}
Trumbull County SS} On this 16th day of June, 1846 in open court, [illegible] in, and for the County aforesaid, at Warren in said County,  personally appeared before the Court, Sarah Croy of Brauville in said County, aged fifty six years the 22nd day of April, 1840, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Acts of Congress passed March 3d 1843 and June 17th 1844 Providing Pensions to certain Widows. That she is a daughter of the late widow of David Brooks, [illegible] Waty Brooks, whose husband was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, and died on the 5th day of March, 1841 (eighteen hundred and forty one) leaving a widow Waty Brooks to whom he was married prior to 1794, [illegible] as early as March 2nd 1781.(seventeen hundred and eighty one)and who died on the 18th day of June 1844, (eighteen hundred and forty four). That as one of the children and in behalf of all the surviving children of the aforesaid late widow Waty Brooks, who  was the widow of the aforesaid David Brooks late a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, this deponent makes the aforesaid Declaration and application for the pension due to her said late mother Waty Brooks, being the widow as her death of the said David Brooks, who was a soldier in the War of the revolution and a pensioner of the United States. That the attached Family Record was copied forty years since and upwards from an old original Record [reported] by this deponents aforesaid parents. That she believes it to be a true record, showing the time her said parents were born, the time they were married, and the ages of their children.
                        Sarah Croy
Subscribed and sworn before the Court} 
in open Court on the day}
and date last above written}

Eben Newton
Presiding Officer
of the Court
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The Court certify that the within named Sarah Croy is a respectable person, and that it appeared to the satisfaction of the Court that David Brooks who is reputed to have been a soldier in the War of the Revolution, died on the 5th day of March 1841, having his widow Waty Brooks, who died his widow on the 18th day of June 1844, having the following named children, being her only children, her surviving to wit[ness]. Zilpha, who is the wife of James H. Clark of Wisconsin Territory. Sarah, wife of John Croy of Brauville, Trumbull County, Ohio. Laura, wife of Samuel Crippins of Kuox, Kuox Co. Ohio. Malona, wife of Septamus Witter of Akron Summit Co., Ohio. Mary, wife of Martial Depew of Illinois. Waty, wife of Elsabzaman Russell of Wisconsin Territory, and Samantha, wife of Bennett B. Wilcox, and that each is of the age of twenty one years and upwards. Thus it appears to the satisfaction of the Courty from the annexed testimony of Melona Witter; Johnathan Allen, Asa Forks, and Lydia Allen whose affidavit was duly executed and examined.
Eban Newton
Presiding Officer of the Court

State of Ohio}
Summit County} ss Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Melona Whitter of Akron in said County aged forty seven years last September.After being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that the within named David Brooks, who was a solider in the War of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States, was this deponents father. And that the within named Waty Brooks, late widow of the said David Brooks deceased, was this deponents mother. That the said parties lived together as husband and wife from the earliest period of this deponents recollection until the death of her said father which took place on the 5th day of March, 1841. (Eighteen hundred and forty one). That he left her said mother, him surviving, who died his widow on the 18th day of June 1844. (Eighteen hundred and forty four.) That her aforesaid parents had eight children older than this deponent, all own
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brother and sister of this deponent. That the attached Family Record has always from her earliest recollection been in the family and has been regarded as a true Record, showing the time her said parents Mr [illegible].
the time of their marriage and the ages of their children. That this deponent has understood that said Record was copied from and olde[old] original Record which had become worn, and is 
[illegible] now Record to be in existence. That her said late mother Waty Brooks less the following named children, being the only children, her surviving [illegible]- Zilpha, who is the wife of James H. Clark of Wisconsin Territory. Sarah, wife of John Croy of Brauville, Trumbull Co. Ohio.
Laura, wife of Samuel Crippins of Kuox, Kuox Co. Ohio. Melona (this deponent) wife of Septamus Wittier of Akron Summit Co. Ohio. Mary, wife of Martial Depew of Illinios. Waty, wife of Eralzaman Russell Wisconsin Territory and Samantha, wife of Bennett B. Wilcox of [illegible]. And that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards.
Sworn and subscribed before me}         her
this third day of June 1846}       Melona    Witter
George Babcock                                   mark
Justice of the Peace  }               Sarah Rolph
                         {Witness Geo Babcock}
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Melona Witter. That she is a respectable person and worthy of credit.
George Babcock Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio}
Trumbull County} ss  Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Oliver Allen of Newton in said County, aged seventy three years. After being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that from his earliest recollection, he has been personally acquainted with the within named David Brooks who was a pensioner of the United States. And also with his late widow, Waty Brooks, and with their family. That at that time the said David and Waty Brooks were living together as husband and wife and had the reputation of being such, and continued thus to
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I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Lydia Allen, that she is a person of respectability for one her age, possesses a sound mind, and her recollection of many of the events that took place in her early life appears to be clear and distinct. 
George Lyman, Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio, Summit County SS:
I Lucien Swift Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that George Babcock Esquire is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit and due and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine as I believe.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Athens this 3rd day of June AD 1846.
Lucien Swift Clerk
By N. B. Steven Deputy

The State of Ohio,}
Trumbull County, ss.}
I, Warren Young, Clerk of the court of common Pleas of said county of Trumbull, Certify that M. D. Kellogg
and George Lyman Esq'rs by whom the annexed and foregoing affidavits were taken, was at the dates thereof, acting Justices of the Peace, within and for said county, duly qualified, and as such duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justices, and believe the signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the seal of [illegible] Darren,
the sixteenth day of June A. D. 1846.
Warren Young

Warren Young Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Trumbull do hereby certify that Eben Newton, whose name appears to the [illegible] hereto attached, is and was at the time of subscribing the same President Judge of the 3rd Judicial Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas in the State of Ohio, composed in part of said Trumbull County, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his official acts. 
Witness my hand and seal of office this 16th day of June A.D. 1846.
Warren Young Clerk
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I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Lydia Allen, that she is a person of respectability for one of her age, possesses a sound mind, and her recollection of many of the events that took place in her early life appears to be clear and distinct.  
                     George Lyman Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio Summit county SS:
I Lucien Swift clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that George Babcock Esquire is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit are due and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine as I believe.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Athens this 3rd day of June AD 1846.
 Lucian Swift, Clerk
By N. B. Stevens Deputy

Answer to R. G. Murray, Hanson Wayne Co. N.Y.

The State of Ohio}
Trumbull County ss}I Warren Young Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of said County of Trumbull do hereby certify that Eben Newton, whose name appears to the [illegible] hereto
attached, is and was at the time of subscribing the same President Judge of the 3rd Judicial Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas in the State of Ohio, [illegible] in part of said Trumbull County, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his official acts.
Witness my hand and seal of office this 16th day of June A.D. 1846.
Warren Young Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
26th June 1833.


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 David Brook.
Trumbull Co, Ohio.

Period when the service was rendered.

Duration of the claimant's service.
Years.  Months.  Days.

Rank of the claimant.

Names and rank of Field officers under whom he served.

Age at present, and place of abode when  he entered the service.

Proof by which the declaration is supported.

Enlisted-1776, 11 m., priv., Cap. King/Col Ashley
78, Berkshire Mass., Traditionary

Enlisted-1778, 3 m., priv., Cap Caroon,78, Berkshire Mass., Traditionary

Enlisted-1778, 3 m., priv., Cap Caroon, 78, Berkshire Mass., Traditionary

Enlisted-1780, 6 m., priv., Lieut. Marbee, 78, Berkshire Mass., Traditionary


I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant, 

J. L. Edwards, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
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2
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 } ss
On this    
day of 
A. B. personally appeared (a) before 
a resident (b) of
in the county of 
and State, Territory or District of 
aged (c)     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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)     , with       and served in the         (e) regiment of the         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 country and State in which he resided when he entered 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 

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
         
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              of the Court of            do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of             for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and seal of the office (i) this day of     &c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of the 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        and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with        , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be      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 days 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. The Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the       and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I,        Clerk of the Court of        do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of         for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this         day of        &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
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June 15, 1939
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                                                   BA-J/MCS
Captain L. Worrick McFee  David Brooks, W.5910 
St. John's Military Academy
Delafield, Wisconsin

Dear Sir:

The data which follow were taken from papers on file in pension claim, W.5910, based on the Revolutionary War service of David Brooks
who was pensioned as Brook.

David Brooks was born October 22, 1754 or 1755, in Killingly, Connecticut. The name of his parents are not shown.

While living in New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, David Brooks enlisted and served as private with the Massachusetts troops as follows:  from the fall of 1776, he served about eleven months under Captain George King and Colonel John Ashley; in 1779 served two tours of three months each, under Captain Adam Kasson; in 1780 served six months and five days under Lieutenant Marble and was discharged December 9, 1780.

After the close of the Revolution, David Brooks lived in Killingly, Connecticut, for about thirty years, moving to Braceville, Trumbull County, Ohio, in October, 1811.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 23, 1832, at which time he was living in Braceville, Ohio.

David Brooks died March 5, 1841.
He married March 2, 1781, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Waty or Waity Blanchard who was born January 30, 1760.

She died June 18, 1844.
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David and Waity or Waty Brooks had the following children:

John         born  April          7,  1781.
Benjamin     "     October   22,  1782.
Phebe          "     February    7,  1785.
Zipha           "     March      11,  1787.
Sarah           "     April         22,  1789.
Mina            "     Januray    27,  1793.
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Answer to John F. Curtis
Huron

Brook, David
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
WIDOW'S PENSION.

I certify that in conformity with the acts of March 3, 1848, and
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5.20 private from October 18 to November 21, 1779, including allowance of 3 days travel.
1.8 1 month and 8 days Apr, Pay
5.12 Roll of the men raised in the town of 
New Marlborough as a privated from 
July 2 to December 9 1780 including
allowance of 92 miles travel, 5 months and
12 days   Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Simon Adams
Company, in Col John Ashley's Reg, as a private
10 from July 13 to 18, 1781 including allowance 12.20  of 4 days travel, 10 days.
The preceding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name shown by the Military Records in the Office.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

John G Palfrey,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Brook, David
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Application for Certificate of Revolutionary 
Service by an heir

State of Ohio}
Trumbull County}  The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby
requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his Office of the Revolutionary service of my late Father David Brooks, who lived during the war in New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and send as follows [illegible],
in 1776 and 1777 under Capt. King, Col. Ashley, in 1778 under Capt Cordan, and in 1780 under Lieutenant Marber.
My said Father was married to Waity Blanchard in the town of Pittsfield, Mass. March 2nd 1781 and died [March] 5th 1841, and my said Mother died June 18, 1844. I am now 57 years old and I do hereby empower John F. Curtis of Henan Wayne Co. N. Y., to act in the proceedings as my attorney.
Witness my hand this 30th day of Sept   1846
Signed in my presence by}
the said Sarah Croy}             Sarah Croy

George Austin

answer to J F Curtis Henan Wayne Co. NY
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Warren Oct. 4th 1833

J. L. Edwards Esquire

Dear Sir,

Mr. David Brooks, wishes
to inform the department that he knows of
no persons living by whom he can prove his
service in the war of the Revolution, he states
that in addition to the service he rendered under
Colonel Ashly (whose name he mentioned in his
original application) he now recollects that he
served some part of the time under Col.
Peters, that in some part of the service he
was under command of Gen. How, he thinks
his christian name was Robert, he would
further state that he has written to Massachusetts in hopes to find some of his old
fellow soldiers living, by whom to prove his
service, but as of yet without success. He says that he has served faithfully rising of twenty three months as he has stated in his application that if any soldier of the Revolution is entitled to a pension it is him, and for the purpose of shewing to the deportment that he is entitled, is willing to make any correct statement in relation
to the territory of his marches
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and services in the Revolution, that his frail
memory will enable him to make;
He would respectfully shew[show] and state that
he has given in his amended declaration as particular a statement with regard to the length of his service as he can.
And he hopes that if his claim can be allowed
without putting him to further expence[expense]
that it will.

I am your obt. Servt.
For David Brooks
Alexander McConnell

Please write to Alexander McConnell if further proof is required.


Warren. Trumbull Co.
Ohio
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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June 30, 1846

Be
Waity Brooks, [illegible]
March 5, 1843.

Hoquin NY
June 5


J. L. Edwards
Washington, D. C. 

20
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[illegible] Jun 25, 1846

Hon. J. L. Edwards

Sir, 
The residence of David Brooks [illegible], when he received his pension certificate and at the time of his death was in the State of Ohio.

Your Obedient Servant,

R. G. Murray
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Payment to be made
at Pitsburgh
by T. M. Howe
Agent for paying pensioners,
in the Agency of
Pennsylvania



Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A, 
Volume 2, Page 201, by
D. A. Moody Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the laws of the United States, of the 3d March 1843 and 17th June 1844, Waity Brook, decd.[deceased] late of Ohio, who was the widow of David Brook, a Private in the Massachusetts Line and died 5th March 1841, was entitled to a pension at the rate of Forty Two dollars and Twenty cents per annum, commencing 4th March 1843, and ending 18th June eighteen hundred and forty four, when she died; and the amount is payable to Zilpha Clark, Sarah Croy, Laura Crippins, Melona Wittier, Mary Depew, Waity Russell, and Samantha Wilcox, only surviving children.

Given at the War Office of the United States,
this 30th day of November 
one thousand eight hundred and forty six.

Examined
Count[ersigned]
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David Brook,  Ohio (Pitts G9) Roll. Act 1832,
$77.22 per annum. To when last paid?

Pension office,}
Nov. 27, '46.}

Paid to 5th March 1841}
The day of his death}
A. B. J.
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9015.

Waity Brook, dec?
M. G.
[illegible] to R. G. Murray Augt 15
1846


act 3rd Mrch 1843.
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9013 
1288
Waity Brook
decd[deceased] Ohio.
Act 3 March '43
in before 94 d 5 March '44

admitted
12 mo. 20 ds. private
$42.20 per annum
from 4th March, 1843
to 18th June, 1844, when
she died. payable to
Zilpha Clark, Sarah 
Croy, Laura Crippins,
Malona Wittier, Mary
Depew, Waty Russell, and
Samantha Wilcox, only
surviving children.

 John F. Curtis, Esq.
Huron, 
Wayne Co. N. J.
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June 15, 1939. 


Captain L. Worrick McFee         BA-J/ILL
St. John's Military Academy      David Brook
Delafield, Wisconsin.                 W. 5910



Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War record of Rufus Allen who served from Berkshire County, Massachusetts, moved later to Trumbull County, Ohio, where he died in 1829, also, the record of David Brooks who was born in Killingly, Connecticut, moved to Braceville, Ohio, where he died.

A search of the Revolutionary War records of this
office has been made and no claim for pension or bounty land found based upon service of a Rufus Allen, under any spelling of that surname. The record of David Brook is furnished you herewith, from pension claim, W. 5910.

Very truly yours, 

A. D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
WIDOW'S PENSION.


I certify that in conformity with the acts of March 3, 1848, and 7th June 1844, Waity Brook, dec, late of Ohio,
widow of David Brook,
who was a Private in the Massachusetts Line
and died on the 5th day of March 1861
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Forty Two dollars and Twenty cents per annum, commencing on the 4th March 1843, and terminating on the 18th June 1844, when she died, payable to Zilpha Clark, Sarah Croy, Laura Criffins, Malona Mittier, Mary Depew, Waity Russell, and Samantah Wilcox, only children.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 30th day of Nov. one thousand eight hundred and 46.

                                             Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.

                    Commissioner of Pensions.


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Children of David and Waity Brooks:

John  born April [illegible], 1781
Benjamin " October 22, 1782
Phebe    "   February  7, 1785
Zilpha    "   March    11, 1787, 
married James H. Clarke.
Sarah     "   April       22, 1789,
married John Croy.
Mina      "    January  27, 1793
Laura       "  August   11, 1794,
married Samuel Crippins
Ruby       "   September  22, 1795
Melona   "   September    7, 1789,
married Septamus Whittier
Waty       "    October       6, 1800,
married Eralsamus Russell
Mary      "     February     4, 1803,
married Martial Depew
Samantha  "  March        31, 1805,
married Bennett B. Wilcox
David        "   March        31, 1805.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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June 27, 1927

Mrs. Jay E. Brewer
6600 Third Ave.
Kenosha, Wisconsin

Madam:

I have to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 5910, that DAVID BROOKS (pensioned as
Brook) was born October 22, 1754 or 1755, in Killingly, Connecticut.

While a resident of New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, he enlisted and served as a private with the Massachusetts Troops as
follows:

From the fall of 1776 served about eleven months under Captain George King and Colonel John Ashley.

In 1779 served two tours of three months each under Captain Adam Kasson. See report from Mass. state records.

In 1780 served six months and five days under Lieutenant Marble and was discharged December 9, 1780.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 23, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Braceville, Trumbull County, Ohio. He died March 5, 1841.

He married March 2, 1781, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Waty or Waity Blanchard who was born January 30, 1760. She died June 18, 1844.
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Children of David and Waity Brooks:

John      born                in 1781.
Benjamin  "   October 22, 1782.
Phebe      "     February 7, 1785.
Zilpha      "     March   11, 1787, 
married James H. Clarke.
Sarah       "     April       22, 1789,
married John Croy.
Mina        "      January  27, 1793.
Laura       "     August    11, 1794, 
married Samuel Crippins.
Ruby        "    September 22, 1796.
Melona   "     September   7, 1798,
married Septamus Whittier.
Waty       "       October       6, 1800,
married Eralsamus Russell.
Mary      "        February     4, 1803,
married Martial Depew.
Samantha    "       March  31, 1805,
married Bennett B. Wilcox.
David           "       March   31, 1805.


Respectfully,

Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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St. John's Military Academy
Delafield, Wis.

May twenty-second, 1939

Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

Sirs:

I am anxious to have a copy of the data contained in the pension application papers of Mrs. Lydia Allen, widow of Rufus Allen who served in the Revolutionary war from Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and later moved to Braceville, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he died.
This veteran, Rufus Allen, was born Feb. 6, 1762, and died Aug. 17, 1829. I assume that his widow Lydia drew a pension after his death.

Also, I should like the data from the pension papers of David Brooks, born Nov. 22, 1754 in Killingly, Conn., lived for a time at New Marloboro[Marlboro], Mass., served in the Revolution, moved about 1810 to Braceville, Trumbull county, Ohio, where he died. I know that this David Brooks did draw a pension while a resident of Braceville.

I shall greatly appreciate whatever information you can send me from these pension application papers.

Yours truly, 
L. Worrick McFee
L. Worrick McFee
(Capt.)

Recieved
May 29 1939
Mail Sub-Div.
Vets. Adm. 36
[illegible]
Page 40

OFFICE OF
THE COMMISSIONER

APR 5 1927

U.S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Page 41

Owned and Operated by
Los Angeles Investment Company

Hotel Trinity
Grand Avenue at Ninth
Los Angeles

Hon Winfred Scott.
Dear Sir,
In looking up my dates
for D. A. R. I have been referred
to you to ask for the copy of
pension of my g.g. grandfather
David Brooks who was a 
pensioned soldier in the war
1777. I think he was from
Conn, his wife's name was 
Waitie Blauchard, and they
had a daughter Zelpha who
married James Harvey Clark.
Please reply to Mrs. Jay E Brewer
6600-3rd Ave. Kenosha Wisconsin.
Are greatly obliged,
Mrs Brewer.
Apr 1st 1927.
Page 42

1927 June 27 hist. [illegible]
[illegible] Jay E. Brewer [illegible]

1931 Oct. 5 hist. to Virs
Frederick H. Benton, Se
correspondence in Rev. c
Jabey Brooks. w. 15601. [illegible]

1939. June 15, hist to Ca
L. Worrick McFee. MC

Revy WIDOW, 7c.

File No. 5910
Waity Brook 
Wid.
David Brook
Pvt. Mass line

Act: Mch[March]3d, "43, June 17th "44

Index:-Vol. A, Page 83

[Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 43

David Brooks
Annexed declaration
for a pension
Page 44

The State of Ohio}
Trumbull County ss.}
personally appeared before me the
undersigned a Justice of the peace
within and for said County of Trumbull
David Brooks 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 Eleven months, enlisted a private in 1776 and 1777.
For three months enlisted in the year 1778.
For three months enlisted the same year 1778.
For six months enlisted in the year 1780.
For five days in the year 1780.
And for the above twenty three months and five days I claim a pension                      his
attent}  William Bard              David   X   Brooks
                                                        mark

Sworn to and subscribe before me this 6th day
of June AD. 1833, and I certify that I am well 
acquainted with the said David Brooks, that I 
believe him to be a credable[credible] person and that his statements are entitled to full credit.
Alexander McConnell
Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio}
Trumbull County Ss.} I George Parsons Clerk of the Count of Common pleas within and for said county do certify that Alexander McConnell Esq. whose name in his own proper hand writing is affixed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same as acting Justice of the peace duly elected commissioned and sworn agreeably to the laws of said State.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand and seal of office at Marien this sixth day of June AD 1832.

George Parsons Clerk
By Syman Potter dep[deputy]
Page 45

Payment to be made at
Pittsburgh by
T. M. Howe
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the
Agency of
Penn
Payable on the 4th September and 4th
March

Recorded in the Pension Office, in
Book a, Vol. 2, Page

D. A. Moody, Clerk


Duplicate
Page 46

WAR DEPARTMENT,
WIDOW'S PENSION.

I certify that in conformity with the acts of March 3, 1843, and 17th June 1844, Waity Brook, dec[deceased], late of Ohio, widow of David Brook, who was a Private in the Massachusetts Line and died on the 5th day of March 1861 is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Forty Two dollars and Twenty cents per annum, commencing on the 4th March 1843, and terminating on the 18th June 1844, when she died, payable to Zilpha Clark, Sarah Croy, Laura Crippins, Malona Millier, Mary Depew, WAity Russell, and Samantha Wilcox, only children.

Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 30th day of Nov., one thousand eight hundred and 46.


                                                 Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
            
                        Commissioner of Pensions.

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