Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,290, Sewall Brown, Mass. N.H.
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to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy-eight 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.
Josiah Shannon
John Lane

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

And the within named court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department.  That the within named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Josiah Shannon and John Lane who signed the preceding certificate are residents in said [illegible] and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the State of New Hampshire within and for the County of Rockingham in said state do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the court in the matter of the application of Sewall Brown for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the eighth day of August A.D. 1832.

P, Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County