Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,277, Peter Brown, N.H.
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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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
R. E. Newcomb Judge of Probate

We, Samuel Bardwell (?) residing in Montague Peter Brown [2 illegible words] and Erl Albee residing in  [symbol or initial] Ervings Grant hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy [twenty?] nine year 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.  Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
R. E. Newcomb Judge of Probate
Sam"- Bardwell  Earl Albee
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 Samuel Bardwell who has signed the preceding certificate is a credible person and that Earl Albee who has also signed the same is a resident in said Ervings Grant an unincorporated place and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit-Also that there is clergyman resident either in said Montague or Ervings Grant.
R. E. Newcomb Judge of Probate
I, ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application Peter Brown for a pension.
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this 24th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
E. Alvord Clerk
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MECHANICS' & FARMERS' BANK
(1832) Albany, February 12th, 1844
RECEIVED of the President of said Bank, Agent for paying Pensioners, 3 months 6 days Pension, due to the Administration of Peter Brown from the 4 day of Sept 1843, to the 10th day of Dec. 1843 for which I have signed duplicate receipts.
[bleed thru from back FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER]
$13.67
[illegible signature]
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1932, Peter Brown of the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Fifty One dollars and Thirty Two cents 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 United States, this Sixteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
[illegible name] Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned. [parenthesis]
J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
Witne 5 years previous in Montague Massachusetts
Sept 4. 1841