Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,097, Jacob Brown, Penn.
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Service                                      Number

Penn.        Brown, Jacob            S.2097
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contents
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2097
INVALID.
Rev. War

File No. 2097
Jacob Brown

Privt.  Rev  War

Act: June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 42

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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1841.
see letter to Same Dale
Oct. 29, 1832
April 11, 12, & 13.
Lancaster, Penna.


(Page) 11

Admitted
Private 31 months
$80.00

L. Dale Esqr.
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BRIEF in the case of Jacob Brown of Manheim of Lancaster Co. in the State of Pennsylvania.
(Act 7 June 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court of Judge?    Judge
2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  It was not shown any disability.
3. How old is he?  74
4 State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period/Duration of Service/Rank/Names of General and Field Officers under whom he Served.

Augt. in 1776 to 1781/5 years/Soldier/Capt Heister & Col. Haller, Capt Brown & Col. Baker, Capt. Craig & Col. Chambers, & discharged by Genrl Sinclair.

5. In what battles was he engaged? Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown & in the attack on the Block House in New Jersey.

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Reading, Bucks Co. Pennsylvania.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Living Incidental Proof

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
                                          //s//
                                Jas. C. Wilson
                                        Examining Clerk.
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Jacob Brown 
No. 1841
of Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania
Lancaster County

    On this twenty first day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Walter Franklin Esq. President and his associate Judges of said county of Lancaster Jacob Brown a resident of the town of Manheim in said county aged 74 since October last 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 7th, 1832.  That he first enlisted in the service of the United States in the latter end of July or beginning of August 1776 with Capt. Joseph Heister in Reading Bucks County Pennsylvania for six months and served in the regiment of commanded by Col. Henry Haller Pennsylvania line called the Flying Camp and in his term of enlistment mentioned before, properly discharged (that his time of service being expired). He (then) enlisted under Capt Jacob Brown at Correl's Ferry on the Delaware for 18 months (but was continued longer) in the 6th Regiment of Pennsylvania line commanded by Col. Henry Baker, was during his first six months enlistment, in the Battles of Long Island, White Plains and at Trenton on the memorable 26th of December 1776 - and in his second enlistment at the Battles of Brandywine & Germantown and in several skirmished - after which he returned home to Reading and again enlisted for seven months under Capt. Samuel Craig in the First Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by (next page)
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by Col. Chambers was in the attack on the Block House in the Jersey North River and was discharged by the 14th of January 1781 at Bottle Hill in the Jerseys by Genl. Sinclair, that the successful discharge was obtained by him through his carelessness of same, were lost and he hereby declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of any agency in any state, only on that of the agency of the State of Pennsylvania being forty dollars yearly as annuity granted by Act of Assembly. 
                                               //s//
                                        Jacob Brown
Sworn to & subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
in open court. attest
             //s//
       Chris Bachman Prothy.

    We Henry Miller and John Thorn of the village of Manheim, in Lancaster County ten miles distant from :Lancaster City in the said county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Brown, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he reside, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in the opinion. 
                                       //s//
                               Henry Miller 
                                John Thorn
Attested & subscribed
in open court August 21st, 1832
    Attest   //s//
              Chris Bachman Prothy.


    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 was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he stats, And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Henry Miller and John Thorne Esqr. who has also signed the preceding certificate are residents in the village of Manheim that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

                                           //s//
                                   Walter Franklin
                                    Saml. Dale
                                    John  Lightner
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   I Christian Bachman Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County do hereby certify that the foregoing is (illegible) the original proceedings of the said court in the matter if the application of Jacob Brown for a pension.

    On testimony thereof I have set my hand and the seal of office this twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord 1832.
                                         
                                                 //s//
                                          Christ. Bachman
                                                         Prothony.

    I Henry B. Shaffner a clergyman residing in the Borough of Marietta hereby certify that Samuel acquainted with Jacob Brown who has sworn and subscribed to the above declaration, that I believe him in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in the opinion.
                                            //s//
                                  Henry B. Shaffner

Sworn & subscribed before me one
of the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas of Lancaster County Dec, 29th 1832,
                                           //s//
                                       Sam. Dale

   I certify that Henry B. Shaffner who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Borough of Marietta and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.  Also that he was sworn before me, no court being in session at that time and he stating that it would be inconvenient for him to come again he living thirteen miles from the City of Lancaster. 
                                                  //s//
                                           Sam. Dale

State of Pennsylvania
Lancaster County} ss  

    I Christian Bachman Prothonotary f the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Samuel Dale Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Henry B. Shaffner was made and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate and at the time, and now is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, duly commissioned, and qualified; and that the signatures annexed is his genuine signature.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at Lancaster this second day of January Anno Domoni 1833.
                                                  //s//
                                          Christ. Bachman
                                                         Prothon.
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4247
Pennsylvania
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Jacob Brown
of the state of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hiester of the Regt. commanded by Col. Haller in the Pennsylvania line for private 31 months - $80.00.
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Inscribed on the Rolls of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 dollars -- cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of January 1833 and sent to S. Dale Esqr. Lancaster, Penna.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832                $120.00
Seni-anl allowance ending 4 Mar 1833    40.00
                                                              $160.00

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

Recorded by Verial Luce Clerk,
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