Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,661, Samuel Brown, R.I.
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(3-1776)                               
SERVICE
R. I.         
Brown, Samuel or Browne, 
Amie
NUMBER
W. 24,661
CONTENTS
b. June 8, 1753 At. Stonington, Conn.
res at ent.  Westerly, Washington Co. R. I. 
there in 1832
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21946
Rhode Island

Samuel Brown
of Westerly in the State of R.I.
who was a private in the Co. commanded by Captain Thorney of the regt commanded by Col. Varnum in the [illegible] line for 22 months
Reduced from 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of 73 Dollars 33 Cents{crossed out} per annum, is commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Reduced from $80.

Certificates of Pension issued the 2nd day of Augt 1839, I sent to J.W Knight
Westerly, R. Island

Arrears to the 4th of March $586.64
Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Sep 39 36.66

Deduct former payment $623..30

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

Recorded by D McCurdy Clerk, 
Book 6. Vol 2. Page 138
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2 Certs 1838 & 1843 _ Repo

6372 Rhode Island Anie Brown widow of Samuel Brown R I who was a Private in the Revo War

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 73 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Nov. 1844 and sent to Jed W. Knight Westerly R. Island

[Act of March 3, 1843.] June 17, 1844 Recorded in Book a Vol. 2 Page 42
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DECLARATION. IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE THE BENEFIT OF ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832. STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND, COUNTY OF Washington SS. On this fourteenth day of August 1873 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges or Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Samuel Brown a resident of Westerly in the County of Washington and State of Rhode-Island, aged Eighty 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. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say: In the month of April 1775, at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, then being a member of the first Company of militia in said town of Westerly, of which Thomas Thompson was the Captain & Joseph Pendleton Lieutenant he then volunteered as a private soldier in a company of Infantry under the command of Capt. Samuel Ward & Elijah Lewis Lieut. & Ebenezar Adams Ensign, in Col. Varnums Regt. James Babcock Lieut Col & [illegible] major and was marched by Providence to Propect Hill near Boston in the state of Massachusetts where he served a period of three 3 months at the end of which time, he was discharged & returned home to said Westerly. But he does not now know any one by whom he can prove the above mentioned three months service. Early in Dec. 1776 at the time the enemy took possession of the Island of Rhode Island he then still being a private in the first company of militia in said town of Westerly, of which Joseph Pendleton was then Captain, Joshua Pendleton Lieutenant & Ephraim Pendleton Ensign, was in said [illegible] in the town of South Kingstown in said county of Washington where he was stationed with said company & guarded that part of the 4 country against the enemy to the pore part of April 1777, a period of four months; when with a part of the same company he was ordered from this station of Boston Neck a short distance to a station at Point Judith in the town of South Kingstown; at which latter place he served under the officers of said company guarding Point Judith against the in cursions of the enemy till into 5 August 1777 a period of five months more. The aforemntioned service at Point Judith was under Col. Joseph Noyes & that at Boston Neck was either under Col. Noyed or Col. Charles Dyer, but which this declarant does not now remember. At the end of his said service in Point Judith, he was discharged & returned to Westerly. In the fore part of November 1777, he enlisted as a private into Capt. Rosswell Smith's company of Chareston in said County whose Lieut was, he thinks, one Cottrell from that [illegible] for a period of five months & was marched to Tivertown in the State of Rhode Island where a s aprivate he served near Howlands Ferry against the enemy to the 5 end of this term of enlistment when he was discharged; And immediately after his discharge, he then enlisted into Capt Brownell's company as a
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private for another period of five months & was in this company marched to Seconet Point in Little Compton R. Island where he served and this latter period of service in guarding the shores there against the enemy at the end of this service was then discharged. He thinks that General Shearer & General Cornell each a part of the time during his services 5 at Tiverton had the command there & and also at Seconet Point while he served there. 
In August 1778 he then still being a private in said first company of militia in said Westerly was then from drafted or detached for a period of [illegible] days under capt. Pendleton, whose Lieut. was then Ephraim Pendleton & Ensign Simon Pendleton & marched on to the Island of R. Island where he served & in Sullivan's expedition said thirty days, when he was then discharged 1 returned to said Westerly. This 30 days service was in Col. Noyes' Regt. 
Between the last of Septr. 1778 and the first of June 1779, he was ordered & in said first company of militiea marched to the shores of said town of Westerly many times on alarms of the approaches of the enemy where he served diverse periods of from three to fifteen days each time & although he cannot now specity particularly those periods of service yet he feels safe in declaring that all of them together amount 2 to no less than sixty days. In June 1779 at said Westerly he was drafted from said first company of militia for a term of three months & marched to the station at [illegible] Hill in said South Kingstown where he served and this tree 3 months term as a private guarding against the enemy in said company; whose captain during that time was Joseph Pendleton, Lieut. Samuel Brand, & Ensign Oliver Lewis, in Col. Joseph Noyes' Regt at the end of this latter term of service he was discharged & returned to Westerly where he remained a private of said company to the close of the Revolution, subject to the public service & was very frequently from September 1779 to the end of the year 1781 ordered into the service to guard the shores of said Westerlywhen during said period he performed under the different officers of said company [illegible] terms of service against the enemy, of from one to fifteen days; which thos he is not now able to verify he is willing to declarant in the aggregate to at the least three months in Col. Joseph Noye's Regt. And the said Brown declares that he faithfully performed all the aforenamed periods of service in defense of his country and he further declares that he was born as he has always been informed & believes, in the town of Stonnington & State of Connecticut on the eighth day of
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June 1753, where he lived till 1770 when he removed to said Westerly, where he lived from that latter period (save when he was abroad in the service of his country as before stated) till 1824, when he removed to & lived in said Stonnington till 1827 when he removed back to said Westerly where he has ever since lived; that he has no record of his age or birth: That he does not recollect ever to have received any written discharge from any of his said services; but that [illegible] he was verbally discharged by his commanding officers; that he has no documentary evidence of any of his said services. That he is not acquainted with any clergyman serving in his vicinity, but that he refers to Nathan F. Dixon & Jedediah W. Knight Esquire who are citizens of said town of Westerly. and his neighbours, who testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution & also to the accompanying depositions. 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. Samel Brown Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, in open Court Witn Saml Helme Clk.

We, Nathan F. Dixon residing in said Westerly and Jedidiah W. Knight residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty years years of age; that he is reported and believe, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Nathan F. Dixon. Jed. W. Knight Sworn to and subscribed the day aforesaid. in Open Court Witn Saml Helme Clk. 

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. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Nathan F. Dixon and Jedidiah W. Knight who signed the preceeding certificate, are residents in the Town of Westerly and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

I Samuel Helme Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Samuel Brown for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty ninth day of August 1833. Saml Helme Clk.
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11.383
Wid. Jan 22nd '40
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," and the several acts and resolutions explanatory and in amendment thereof.

State of Rhode Island County of Washington Ss. On this twenty eighth day of August 1844 personally appeared before me the subscriber, on of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Washington, Amie Brown, who before her marriage was Amie Clark, now a resident of Westerly in the County aforesaid, aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" and the several acts and resolutions explanatory and in amendment thereof. 
That she is the widow of Samuel Brown; who was a private soldier of the revolution, in the military service of the United States, and as he frequently informed declarant in his life time, was in the service of his Country at various times and places which she cannot now recollect particulary, but she well remembers he returned shortly before their marriage from an absence of several months of military service; and in the summer after their marriage he was absent from home in service a number of months, but the precise periods, or places at which he serviced or the officers under whom he served, declarant cannot now state, but would refer the department to the evidence of service made by her said husband by which he received a pension, as declarant believes of seventy three dollars and thirty three cents per annum during his life. She further declares, that she was married to the said Samuel Brown
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by Elder Joshua Clark, on the first day of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, that they have eight children  viz: Polly, Samuel Benjamin, Stanton, Phebe, Nancy, Abigail, and Elnathan Clark; that he husband, the aforesaid Samuel Brown, died at said Westerly on the twenty second day of January eighteen hundred and forty, and that she has remained a widow since that period; as will appear by the proof hereto annexed. Amie Browne

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before me, by the aforesaid Amie Brown. And I certify that she is a person of veracity, and that her testimony is entitled to credit. I also further certify that the said Amie Brown, by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to attend Court at the usual place of holding the same; and that I have taken this, her declaration, at her residence in Westerly. George D. Cross Justice C. C. Pleas

The State of Rhode Island & providence plantations Washington Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas August 28 AD 1844 I hereby certify that George D. Cross Esq. is one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid and that he is duly comissioned by the Governor of this state and otherwise Legally Qualified to Act as Such and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is Genuine In testimony whereof I have here unto Set my Hand & affixed the Seal of the Court the Day & Year above written. Witness Matthin Mente Clk.
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This may Certify all persons whom it may Concern that Mr. Samuel Brown of Westerly in the State of Rhode Island and Wife Amie Clarke of Stonnington in the State of Connecticut appeared this first day of March AD one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Eight and were joined together in that honorable Estate of Marriage By me Joshua Clarke Elder
Entered April 15th AD 1791 per Saml Blevin Town Clerk"
State of Rhode Island Washington County Ss. Westerly August 12th AD 1844. I Jesse Manson Clerk of the Town of Westerly in the County of Washington aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is a true Coppy of the Record with the Exception of the date, which are expressed in fair Legible figures as follows (viz.) ("this first day of March AD 1778.")
Certified by Jesse Maxson Town Clerk
I Jesse Manson above named depose and say that I hold this office of Town Clerk of Westerly above mentioned and that the above is a true Extract from the Records of said town as certified by me. I further certify that I find the following entried in the Records (Viz.) Names and ages of the Children born to Samuel Brown and Amy his wife in Westerly (to wit) Polly daughter of sd Samuel and Amy Born February the Eighthy day AD 1779 Samuel their Son Born March 2nd day AD 1782 Benjamin their Son born September 23d day AD 1786 Entered January 30th 1789 pr Joseph Crandal Town Clerk. Stanton their Son Born April the 11th AD 1789. Phebe their daughter Born January the 14th AD 1791 Entered April 26th AD 1791. pr Saml Biben T. Clerk. Nancy their daughter Bown in Westerly July the 24th AD 1793 Abigail their daughter Born in Westerly August 3rd AD 1795 Entered February 7th AD 1794 pr Saml Blevins Town Clerk. Elnathan Clarke Brown their son Born in Westerly April the 4th AD 1797. Entered October 26th AD 1797. pr Saml Blevins Town Clerk." Attest Jesse Maxson Town Clerk. Sworn before me Jed. W. Knight, Justice of the Peace.
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Codington [Coddington] Bliven of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, of lawfull age, and engaged according to law, testifies and says, that Samuel Brown Esq. late of said Westerly deceased, resided in deponents family at the time of his death, which hapned [happened] on the twenty second day of January eighteen hundred and forty.-
Deponent further says he is acquainted with Amie Brown, widow of said Samuel Brown, that she resides in [in crossed out] said Westerly; that she has not married since the death of her said husband, but now remains the widow of said Samuel Brown
Coddington Bliven
State of Rhode Island}
Washington County} ss.
On the 22nd day of August 1844 personally appeared Coddington Bliven who gave and subscribed the preceeding deposition, and made solem [solemn] oath to the truth of the same.
I certify the said Codington [Coddington] Bliven is a credible person person [sic] and that his testimony is entitled to to [sic] credit.
Jed. W. Knight
Justice of the Peace
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Bradford Bliven of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, of lawfull age, and engaged according to law testifies and says, that he was acquainted with Samuel Brown Esq. late of Westerly; that he the Deponent was present at the time of said Brown's death, which occurred on the twenty second day of January eighteen hundred and forty.
Deponent further says, that he is acquainted with Amie Brown, widow of said Samuel Brown, that she resides in Westerly, that she has not married since the death of her said husband; but now is the widow of said Samuel Brown
Bradford Bliven
State of Rhode Island}
County of Washington} ss.
On the 22nd day of August 1844 personally appeared Bradford Bliven who gave and subscribed the preceeding deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
I certify that the said Bradford Bliven is a ceditable [creditable] person and that his testimony is entitled to credit.
Jed. W. Knight
Justice of the Peace
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The State of Rhode Island 
& Providence Plantation
Washington ss Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas  August 28th AD 1844
I Hereby Certify that Jedediah W W Knight Esqr is one of the Justices of the Peace for the Town of Westerly In the County & State aforesaid that he is duly Commissioned by the Govinor [Governor] of this State and otherwise Leagally Qualified to act as such and that the foregoing Signatures purporting to be his is Genuine, In Testimony Whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court the Day & Year above written-
Witness  Matthew Waite  Clk
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24,661
Annie Brown wid. of Samuel Brown
Pri  Rev. war
Act Mrh. 3rd 1843
June 17th 1844
Index:  Vol A, Page 92
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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8854
Rhode Island.
Amie Brown widow of Samuel Brown who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 22 Jany. 1840 of Washington in the State of R. I. who was a Pri in the Co commanded by Captain Thomas of the reg commanded by Col. Varnum in the Revo line for 22 mos
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Nov. 1844 and Sent to Jed. W. Knight, Westerly, R. I.
Total amount,  $____________
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F S Swann Clerk,
Book D.  Vol. 1  Page 103
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21,946
Rhode Island
Samuel Brown of Westerly [Washington crossed out] in the State of Rho. Island who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Thomas of the Regt. commanded by Col. Varnum in the Mass'tts line for 2 years.
one new certificate for 22 mos. $73.33 
Swann
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Nov. 1833 and sent to W. P. Newell Kingston
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33  $200
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch 34  40
$240
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Go C Stiles Clerk,
Book E.  Vol  2.  Page 126.
Let Pen. Agt. July 2d 1838 and R Babcock same day
Let to Pen Agt 31 July '39 a Report.
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11,303
Amie Brown
R. I.
Act July 7th 38
Add
22 months private
$73.33 per an.
to commence 22d Jany '40
also
Act March 3d 43 - no 6667
June 17th 44 - no 242
Jed. W. Knight Esq
Westerly
R. I.
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Hon.l J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
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Westerly R. I.  July 22nd 1839.
Sir,  Herewith is forwarded the Declaration of Samuel Brown Esqr. for renewal of his Pension, which has been some time suspended, under the view the Department that his services did not entitle him to the amount of the annuity he was receiving.  His case is submitted, and shall be glad to hear from you on the subject as soon as convenient.
Respectfully Your
obt. servt.
Jed. W. Knight
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Westerly R.I. Aug 30 1844 Sir, Herewith are submitted the declaration & evidence of Mrs. Amie Brown and Henriette Champlin for pensions; hope they will be satisfactory to the Department; and shall be glad to have the result, as soon as conveinent. Very Respectfully Your Obt. Sert. Hon James L. Edwards. Jed. W. Knight
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Saml Brown Payments to be made Providence [illegible] 
Agent for paying Pension = in the Agency of Rhode Island
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol. 2. Page 126 by Go C. Stiles Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Samuel Brown of the State of Rhode Island who was a private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and [cents crossed out] per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States this
25 day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Lew Cass
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.}
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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State of Rhode Island County of Washington SS. On the tenth day of July 1839 personally appeared before George D. Cross Esq Cheif Justice of Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid being a Court of Record and having a Clerk and seal, Samuel Brown a resident of Westerly in said County of Washington late a Revolutionary Pensioner the payment of whose Pension has been for some time suspended, aged eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain a restoration of his name to the Pension list of the United States, viz. That in the spring of 1775 he volunteered as a private Soldier, and joined Capt. Samuel Ward's Company at Prospect Hill near Boston, in Col. James M Varnum's Regiment, where he 3! served three months, and was wounded in the arm by a musket Ball in the battle on Bunker's Hill in June following, and was carried to the Hospital, and after he sufficiently recovered returned to said Westerly. He was next ordered to march to Boston Neck in South Kingstown County of Washington, in the Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Joseph Pendleton of said Westerly, to which Company he belonged in the Regiment of Col. Joseph Noyes, 3. where he served three months commencing the last of November or first of December 1776; and immediately after the expiration of said term of service, he was ordered in said Company to Point Judith in said County, where he served another tour of 3 three months and was discharged and returned to said Westerly. He next enlisted for six months, in the Fall of 1777 and marched to Tiverton in said State under command of Capt. 2 or 3 Roswell Smith, where he served between two and three 6 months, and was there ordered in Capt Brownell's Company to Little Compton, and Seaconnett Point, where he served out his term of enlistment, was discharged & returned to Westerly. 18 During his service at Seaconnett Point they had a sharp skirmish with a detachment of the British Troops, who had (turn over)
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landed and were taking beef cattle from the shore; we retook the cattle and compelled the Enemy to abandon their enterprise. Declarant believes Genl Spencer was commander during this latter 1 service. He next served one month in Capt. Joshua Pendleton's Company of Militia, Col. Noyes' Regiment on the Island of Rhode Island in August and September 1778 in Genl. Sullivan's expedition. He was next drafted in said Capt. Joshua Pendleton's Company 3 for three months, which he served at Green Hill in South Kingstown, stationed as a guard on the Shore, and at the expiration of said term of service he returned to Westerly and joined said Pendleton's Company stationed as a guard on shore, and continued service in said Company untill the year 1780, altho' not constantly as detachments from said Company principally composed the Guard, and their service was alternate, but the whole of the Company were frequently engaged at the same time. I cannot state precisely what portion of time I was actually in service in said Company, other than those performed above, but do state it not to have been less than three months, making in the whole amount of time to which I am fully entitled, according to the present views of the Department to be twenty two months. My original Certificate is forwarded herewith, and have not deemed it necessary to accompany the present statement with any new proof as reference may be had to my former Declaration Samuel Brown Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written before me George D. Cross Chief Justice Court Common Pleas

I also certify that the above named declarant Samuel Brown Esq. is known to me, that he is a person of veracity, and in my opinion his testimony and his preceeding Declaration are entitled to credit; and that I have taken the preceeding declaration of said Samuel Brown Esqr at his residence in Westerly because by reason of his infirm health he is unable to go abroad to attend a a Court of record. George D Cross Chief Justice Court Common Pleas
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The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Washington ss Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas July 13th AD 1839
I hereby Certify that George D Cross is the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid duly commissioned by the Acting Govinor [Governor] of this State and otherwise fully Qualified as such and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his and Certifying to the Declaration of Samuel Brown for a renewal of pension is Genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and the Seal of the Court the Day and Year aforesaid
Matther Waite Clerk
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William Rhodes of Westerly in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island on oath depoesth and saith that he is seventy nine  years of age; that during the Revolutionary War he was a member of a Company of Militia belonging to said Westerly commanded by Capt. Joseph Pendleton of which said Company Samuel Brown, then and now of said Westerly was also a member. This Deponent was ordered in said Company under Capt. Pendleton to Boston Neck in said County, in the Revolution, where he served, duarding against the Enemy, he thinks a period of two months, and he well remembers the said Brown served there during the same period, in said company, and that when this Deponent was discharged from said service the said Brown still continued in said Service, but how long said Brown continued in said Service after this Deponent was discharged he cannot now say. This Deponent does not remember the date of the aforementioned service. Wm. Rhodes.

State of Rhode Island Washington Sc. Westerly, July 24th 1833. Personally came William Rhodes, the above deponent who gave and subscribed the foregoing Deposition and was by me duly sworn thereto according to to Law. I also certify that the said William Rhodes is, and has been personally known to me for many years, that he is a person of veracity and that his preceeding Deposition is entitled to credit. Jed. W. Knight Justice of the Peace
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Paul Babcock of Westerly in the County of 
of Washington and State of Rhode Island, on Oath
says, that he is Seventy three years of age, that from his early youth he has always been acquainted with Samuel Brown of said Westerly, who he understands is about to apply for Pension, under the Law of the United States; 
that the last of November or early December 1776, at the time the British Fleet arrived into Narragansett Bay and took possession of the Island of Rhode Island this deponent then being a Member of Captain George Stillman's Company of Militia, and the said Samuel Brown was a member of Capt. Joseph Pendleton's Company of Militia of said Westerly; were ordered to in their respective Companies to which they belonged and marched to Boston Neck is said County, where this deponent and the said Brown, served against the Enemy from that time a period of three months at the end of which period this deponent enlisted at Boston Neck under then Lieutenant, but afterward Capt. John Pierce in the State Troops, for another period of three months and was in his Company marched to Point Judith where he served out his time of enlistment; and he distinctly remembers the said Brown was also at said Point Judith in the Company of said Capt. Joseph Pendleton in service at the same time with the deponent, and when the term of this deponents enlistment was ended and he discharged the said Brown remained on duty in his said Company but how long  he so remained, this deponent does not know.
This deponent afterwards served a period, he thinks of three months, in guarding against the Enemy at Green Hill in said County, and remembers the said Brown served there at the same time in said Pendletons' Company but the length of the said Browns' Service at this latter station he now recollect the state of this service 
This deponent further says, that he and said Brown performed eleven periods of Military service in the
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Militia against the Enemy on the shores of the Town of Westerly in the Revolutionary War, other than those aforementioned; but the particular times when, or how long.  those different periods of service were this deponent does not now remember.

Paul Babcock

State of Rhode Island
Washington Sc. Westerly August 9th 1833. Personally came Paul Babcock the above named deponent and was by me duly sworn, before giving the foregoing Deposition to the truth of the same according to Law. 
I also certify that the said Paul Babcock is personally well known to me; that is is a person of truth and veracity, and that his Deposition is entitled to credit.
Jed. W. Knight Justice of the Peace
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[Word crossed out illegible] Jed Austin maybe

27.506
Samuel Brown
R. I

Private 2 years
[Wm Newell?]

WM. J. Newell
Kingston
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Jedediah Austin of Westerly in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island on Oath deposeth and sayeth that he is seventy one years of age; and this deposent says that he is well acquainted with Samuel Brown of said Westerly, that this deposent was a volunteer in Capt Babcock Company Militia of South Kingstown in the service of his Country in the Revolutionary War, three months at Boston Neck [at Boston Neck written twice and crossed out] in said County in the Winter of 1777, and that the said Brown served there during the same time under Capt. Joseph Pendleton, who commanded a Company of Militia from the town of Westerly. This deposent also remembers the said Brown afterwards in the service at Point Judith in said county in the said Joseph Pendletons Company  he thinks in 1777, where this deposent served at the same time three months in Capt. John Gavitts Company of Militia from said Westerly then under the command of Lieut Stephen Saunders; whether the said Brown served longer than this deposent did, at the aforementioned times and stations, this deposent cannot now remember.
This deposent further says that he well remembers, that he and said Brown served together against the Enemy. he should judge five months in Capt. Roswell Smiths Company of Militia at Tiverton in Rhode Island, the latter part of the year 1777 and for part of the year 1778; that the said Brown whose term of service there expired before that of this deposent was then discharged and joined other Troops, and was marched and served as this deposent was then informed and understood at a place called [illegible] where this deposent understood and believed the said Brown served a number of months longer, but how long this deposent cannot say as he [illegible] did not serve at [illegible]. this deposent further says that he frequently saw the said Brown doing other service against the Enemy ensuing the Revolution on the shores of Westerly and Charlestown under Col
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Previous Page Last word was Colonel

[unknow] but is not now able to specify particularly those services

his 
Jedediah + Austin
mark

State of Rhode Island
Washington SC. Westerly July 27th 1833 Personally came
Jedediah Austin the above named deposent, who gave and subscribed the preceding Deposition and was by me certify sworn thereto according to Law. I also certify that the same Jedediah Austin is personally known to me that he is a person of veracity and that his said Deposition is entitled to credit.   

Jed W. Knight Justice of the Peace

State of Rhode Island & Providence 
Plantations
Washington SC } Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas
August 29, 1833
I hereby certify that Jedediah W. Knight S\Esq. whose Signature in his own proper hand writing is affixed to his foregoing attestations of the proceeding Depositions of William Rhodes
Paul Babcock and Jedediah Austin was at the time [of is crossed out]
thereof & now is a Justice of the Peace for said Town of Westerly 
duly commissioned under the Seal of said State & otherwise duly qualified as such

In Testimony where of I have hereto set my hand & the Seal of said Court. The day & year aforesaid

Sam Helme Clk.