Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,651, James Brown, N.H.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N. H.
Brown James

NUMBER
S. 44, 6651
CONTENTS
b. June 1, 1760.
enl. at Winham W. H.
In 1820 res. of Homer Cortland Co. N.Y.  wife Phebe
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Dead
Letter to Pension Agent S.L.B.
Certificate 30th Nov 1840

Notification sent Nov 7 1820 to Joshua Ballard Cortland Village N.Yk.

7587
New York
7587 James Brown 3
of Scott in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded 
Colonel Cilley of the New Hampshire line, for the term of three years in 1777

Inscribed on the Roll of New York.
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 4th of May 1818:

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of Mar 1819 and sent to the postmaster at Cortland Village New York

Arrears to 4th Mar: 1819 $80.28
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819 48
$120.28
died
July 17-1840
Continued
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Cortland County
File Sept '19
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James Brown
Pension Papers

Service admitted Judges certificate [illegible]

to Keep 1 keep

James Brown
Admd
(see cert: on file)
The Postmaster
Cortland Village
N.Y.
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for the department of War pursuant to the directions
of the aforementioned act of Congress
Dated this 4th day of May
1818
John Keep first
Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas in
and for the County of 
Cortland
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Clerks Office
Cortland County to wit
I hereby certify that John Keep Esq. whose 
Signature appears to the within affidavit
is now & has been for Eight years anterior
to this time first Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas for said County
his wits therefore or that
[illegible] are to be Recorded as such
& I further certify that his name which 
appears to the within is his hand writing
Given under my hand
and the seal of said Court this
13 May 1818 [Signature] Saml Hotchkiss Jr. Depy Clerk
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James Brown 3d
Pension application
7587
Sept 1819
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Schedule of the income or property belonging to James Brown 3d
on the
12th of September 1820 necessary clothing & bedding excepted
1 Pr Steers 1 sow 3 pigs 1 Cow 2 rakes 1 Pitchfork 1 desket
the cracked I shall cracked pot
1 tea Kettle 4 plates
1tea pot 1 shovel a small quantity of corn & potators - 20 hens
chickens young & old-
[Signature]James Brown
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State of New York
Cortland County I Joshua Ballard Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas of the County of Cortland do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the 
schedule thereto annexed an truly copied
from the Record of the said Court and
I do further certify that it is the opinion
of the said Court that the total amount in
value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule
forty eight dollars & eighty seven cents. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of
the said Court on this twenty third day of September 1820
[Signature] Joshua Ballard
Clerk of the Court for the County of Cortland
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
ADY

June 20, 1929.

M. Louise Schouten
12 Halbert Street,
Cortland, New York.

Madam;

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolution-
ary War pension claim, S. 44651, it appears that James
Brown was born June 1, 1760, place not stated.
He enlisted April 1, 1777 in Wenham, New Hampshire,
served as a private in Captain Ebenezer Frye's Company,
Colonel Joseph Cilley's New Hampshire Regiment, was in
the battles of Hubbardton and Monmouth and was discharged
March 25, 1780. During the above service he was captured
by the British and held about three months, date not given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
May 4, 1818, while a resident of Scott, Cortland County,
New York.
He died July 17, 1840.
His wife Phebe was born November 7, 1759, his daughter
Polly was born February 3, 1794, and a grandchild
George Thomas Arnold was born November 10, 1815. There
from A B
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are no further family data. Marriage date not given.
Respectfully,
EARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner.
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12 Halbert St., Cortland, N.Y
Feb. 4, 1929
The Pension Department
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-- James Brown was a
soldier in the Revolutionary War
. He enlisted at Wenhen, N.H.
He was a private in Ebenezer Fay's
company, First Battalion, command
by
Col. Joseph Cilley.
I understand
that he was a pensioner will
you send me the information
you have about him. I especially
want the date of his death in
Scott, N.Y.
Thank you.
Yours truly,
M. Louise Schouten

[Stamp] U.S.PENSION OFFICE 0 FEB 6 1929
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James Brown was my great grandfather born in Wenham
N.H. Edmiston N.Y. afterwards
 Scoll, N.Y. out had to
drive to Homer N. Y. to get
his pension, died 1841, I am
shure he received pension
I think it was the war of 1812
Mr F.J. Douth day
44 Carl Walson
Corland
N.UY

[Stamp] U.S.PENSION OFFICE G JUN 20 1920
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[stamp] OLD WAR & NAVY JUN 23 1902 FILES.

Mrs. F.J. Doubleday
33 Port Watson St.
Cortland N.Y.

Died - In Scott, on the 11 th inst, Mr.
James Brown, a soldier of the American
Revolution, aged 82 years. He joined the
army at the commencement of the war, being
encampment at Morristown. He was taken
prisoner by Burgoyne's troops during the
to annoy
then in his seventeenth year. He was in the
retreat of St. Clair, escaped from the
British before the battle of Saratoga, where
he saw those who had heaped their cowardly
insults upon him taken prisoners of war.
He passed through all the severe
hardships of the winter of 1777 at the
famishing encampment at Valley Forge, fought
in the heated engagement of Monmouth, after
which he marched under Sullivan through
the then dreary wilds of Susquehanna.
The wife of James Brown, Phebe Wyman

This James Brown received a
pension but was in the war
also
of 1812 was discharged 1813
I do not know whether the
received the pension for service
in the Rev war of the war of 1812
please write what fore find
about him & oblidge

Pension sent to Homer N.Y.
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James Brown was my great grandfather born in Wenham
N.H. Edmeston N.Y. afterwards
Seth Scoll, N.Y. but had to
drive to Homer N.Y. to get
his pension. died 1841, I am
shure he received pension
I think it was the war of 1812
Mrs F.J. Doubleday
44 Port Walson
Cortland N.Y.

[Stamp] U.S.PENSION OFFICE G JUN 20 1902
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Cortland

Revy

44651
INVALID.
File No. 44651
James Brown,
Priv. Rev. War.
Act:
18th March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3 Page 1
Arrangement of 1870.]

July 2, 1902
Mrs. F. J. Doubleday
1929 June 20. Hist to
M. Louise Schauten
A.D. Y.