Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,886, Jeremiah Brown, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
CONTENTS
Brown, Jeremiah
Born in 1760 in New Ipswich, N.H.
res at enl Winthrop, Kennebec Co. ME
NUMBER
S.30,886
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30886
Revy
INVALID.
File No. 30,886
Jeremiah Brown
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index: Vol. 2 Page 54
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Maine
11.378
Jeremiah Brown
of Kennebec Co. in the State of Maine
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Lemont of the Regt commanded by Col. McColls in the Massachusetts ___ for Troops
___ Private $30
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 30 Dollars - cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of April 1833
and sent to
R C Vose, Augusta, ME
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - 60
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 - 15
$75 
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J.T. Sprague Clerk
Book E Vol. 1 Page 3
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Augusta ME April 8th 1833.
Sir
I herewith transmit you the applications of the following
named persons to be placed on the pension list under the
act of Congress of June 7th 1832. viz
Stephen Austin
Jerh [Jeremiah] Brown
Saml [Samuel] Colbath
James Colby
Benja [Benjamin] Cole
Jerh [Jeremiah] Dummer
J. L. Filleab..[illegible][crossed out ?]
Thos [Thomas] Holmes
Jno [Jonathon] Jackson
Obadiah Pettingill
Asa Redington
James Rollings
James Stevens
Joel Thompson
Saml [Samuel] Veazey
James Putney
attention,
which applications will I trust receive an early attention.
Very respectfully your obt [obedient] svt [servant]
Robert C. Vose by Wm [illegible]
Col. J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
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State of Maine.
We David Thurston a Clergyman, residing in the town of
Winthrop in the County of Kennebec and Samuel
Wood residing in the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jeremiah Brown who has subscribed 
and sworn to the annexed declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy two
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.
David Thurston
Saml [Samuel] Wood
State of Maine.
Kennebec, ss. Sworn and subscribed this nineteenth day of July
 A. D. 1832.
Before me, Seth May Justice of the Peace. 
Seth May Esq is a Justice of the Peace and the Rev 
David Thurston is a clergyman residing in the town of Winthrop and Samuel Wood Esq is a credible person, and their statement entitled to credit
Nathan Weston Jnr
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I Calvin Hall of Monmouth in the
County of Kennebec and State of Maine
Yeoman, in the Seventy fourth year
of my Age, on oath testify, and say 
that I was well knowing that Jeremiah 
Brown of Winthrop was a Soldier in the 
War of the Revolution in the year 1781 
under Col James McCobb. Benjamin 
Lamont Capt at Cops Head, at the 
mouth of Kennebec River in this State. 
That the enlistment was for nine months.
that said Brown served during said time 
June 28, 1832. 
Calvin Hall

[illegible] is June 28, 1832
The Calvin Hall above named being 
as is believed a man of truth and veracity.
Personally appeared before me, and swore 
to the truth of the Deposition above said 
by him subscribed
Saml [Samuel] Wood Justice of the Peace

Samuel Wood Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the county of 
Kennebec and the deponent a credible witness.
Nathan Winter Junr
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Jerh Brown 248[?]
Private - Mass troops
Lemont's Co. McCobb's regt
9 months

Applicant infirm Certified by
Judge in open Court 1833
Adm
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R. C. Vose,
Augustas Me

State of Maine
[I Elisha Shaw], aged seventy four years, an officer of the
on oath testify and declare that being myself
at the time in the same regiment, I know that
[Jeremiah] Brown of Winthrop served as a private in [???]
Lemont's Company, and Col. Samuel McCobb.
Elisha Shaw

[Subscri]bed and sworn to July 16 1832, the deponent being
[credi]ble witness
Before Nathan Weston Jnr
Just S.J.C.
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Declaration
In obtain the benefitof the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

STATE OF MAINE,
KENNEBEC COUNTY, SS

On this sixteenth day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared
before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said
State, Jeremiah Brown a resident of Winthrop
in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Seventy two
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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed
June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1781 with
Captain Benjamin Lemont and served in Col. Samuel McCobb's regiment of
the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: Lemont Captain
McCobb Colonel, that in April 1781 he enlisted as a private
in that company and regiment, that under this enlistment
he continued to serve until the last of December 1781, when
he was discharged at Coxes head, at the mouth of
the Kennebec river.

And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:
That he was born at New Ipswich, New Hampshire in
1760, where his age is recorded, that in 1769 be removed
with his father to Winthrop Maine, where he lived at the
time of his revolutionary service, and where he now lives.
That he enlisted, was not drafted, or received as a substitute.
That he took no written discharge. That he was employed
at the time of his service in building forth and barracks,
and in guarding and defending Kinnebec river. That
Arthur Lithgow was his Lieutenant. That any of
his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity,
and belief of his service and he names Rev
David Thurston and Samuel Wood Esq

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present,
and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Jeremiah Brown

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before
Nathan Weston Jnr Just S.J.C.

And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion at the above named applicant was
a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jnr Just S.J.C.

State of Maine
April 4, 1833
It has been made to appear to my satisfaction that the above named
applicant by reason of age & infirmity, cannot without prejudice to his health
appear in open Court to to renew his declartion & again to make oath to the same.
Nathan Weston
Just S.J.C.
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R. C. Vose,
Augusta Me

State of Maine
I Elisha Shaw, aged seventy four years, an officer of the
revolution, upon oath testify and declare that bring myself
an Ensign at the time in the same regiment, I know that
Jeremiah Brown of Winthrope served as a private in 1781
in Capt Lemonts company, and Col. Samuel McCobb,
regiment.
Elisha Shaw

Subscribed and sworn to July 16 1832, the deponent being
a creditable witness.
Before Nathan Weston Jnr
Just S.J.C.

State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, SS. 
I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within
and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before
whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said
State. I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the
matter of the application of Jeremiah Brown for a pension.
In testimore, whereof, I have hereunto set my hand 
and the seal of the said Court, this 16th
day of July
A. D. 1889
J. A. Chandler