Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File Wt 230-400-Rev., William Brown, Continental Md.
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SERVICE [star] NUMBER
Continental Brown,William N 230-400-Rev.
MD.
No papers.
CONTENTS
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Record Division. [ ]
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July 29, 1911.
Major Horace P. Williams,
P. O. Box 3613,
Boston, Mass.
Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 35 and received the 38 instant,
you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that a Warrant
numbered 330 for 400 acres of land issued to William Brown for service
as a Major of Maryland Continental Artillery, but the date of issue is
not shown and there are no papers on file. The records of bounty land
issued prior to 1814 are incomplete, the same having been twice destroyed that
year by the British. by the burning of the War Office
in Nov 1800 + Very respectfully,
when the
British burned
Washington in 1814 Commisioner.
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P.O.Box3613 Boston June . 25 1911
Hon. The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
The records show that Wm Brown of M'd
was commissioned Apr, 22, 1777, and served  as a
Captain in a Company of M'd Artillery, assigned
to Col. Charles Harrison's Regt. Continental [ ],
and that he was subsequently a Major of Artly
and served as such to the close of the War.
I have been trying to find his further record
and I have been advised that after the
War he settled in S. Car or Georgia _ that on,
or about 1783 he left home + went to Baltimore
on business, and was then taken sick with
"Small Pox" and then died - Can this be confirmed
from the records in your office.? and
the correct date.
I am very respectfully
Horace P. Williams
Major US. VOL