Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,688, Amos Brand, Mass.
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Form No.  (3--1776)

SERVICE
   Mass.
   Brand,  Amos

NUMBER
    S. 44,688

CONTENTS
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(government form)

18,510
New  York
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Amos Brand

of ..Ulster Co... in the State of ..New York... who was a ...private...in the Regiment commanded by Colonel ...Preston...of the Massachussetts  line, for the term of ...4 years...
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Inscribed on the Roll of .....New York...at the rate of ..8...Dollars per month, to commence on the ...3rd..of...May 1818
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Arrears to 4th of ...Mar: 1829.............$368.51
Semi-anl all'ce ending ..4 Sept '22.......48.00

3 years  4 months...1/31..........................$416.51

{Revolutionary claim,}
Act 18th March, 1818 & 1 May 1820
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Amos Brand Private
Third MaPa Regent
23 May 1818

Wanted the judges certificate
of the deceased circumstances
of the claimant

rejected

A hears by the Rolls to
have inlisted in May 17(?)
& only for six months
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State of New York
Ulster County ss

 On this twenty third day of May 1818 before
me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County  personally appears Amos Brand aged 58 years resident in the town that in the County of Ulster who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"   That he the said Amos Brand enlisted in the year 1779 according to the best of his remembrance for during the war at Westpoint in the State of New York in the company commanded by Captain Prichet third Massachusetts Regiment that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the close of the war when
he was discharged from service at westpoint in
the state of New York that he was in the Battles
of Kingsbridge & at the taking of Cornwallis
and that he is in reduced circumstances and stand in need of the assistance of his County for
support and that he has no other evidence  now
in his power of his said services

Amos (his X mark) Brand

Sworn to and declared
before me the day & year aforesaid

Abm Hoffman

I Abraham Hoffman Judge &c. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Amos Brand did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of war pursuant to the directions of afore
mentioned act of Congress. May 23, 1818

Abm Hoffman
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Ulster Clerks Office, ss

The within named Abraham Hoffman is duly qualified a Judge as within described & his name, within signed in his own hand writing Witness the
Seal of the Court within mentioned which I am clerk dated 23d May 1818

Chs. Tappen   Jr.
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State of New York 
Ulster County       }

On this day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred twenty before  a Court of 
 Common Pleas held at the Court House in Kingston in the County of Ulster and State of New York before the Judges of the said Court being a Court of Record according to
common law having a Clerk and seal personally
appeared were then in open Court, Amos Brand now a resident of the Town of Marlboroug in the said Court ty and State aged about 60 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare  in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the first of May 1820  That he the said Amos Brand some time in the year 1779 according to the best of his recollection was drafted as a soldier in the service of the United States at the Town of Shoolsberry in the State of Massachusetts **..**  for six month service in a Company  commanded by Capt Pricket Third Massachusetts Regt and accordingly repaired
with said Company to West point in this State
thus served therein untill (until) the expiration of the said six months when he enlisted of a new for 5(?) in the place of a Mr Wheeler who retired from the said service and in said Company of Captain Pricket and continued therein and in the service of the United States for three years and upwards and untill the general peace in 1783 when

(note *..* word(s) crossed out)
(continued)
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(cont'd deposition of Amos Brand)

General Washington gave this Deponent and
Honorable discharge from the said service dated at West Point aforesaid which said Discharge has been worn out in this Deponents Pocket, and finally lost And this Deponent further saith that he was experienced  much hardship in the said service   That he has been engaged in three several Battles with the common enemy in one at Kingsbridge and
one at Pine Bridge in Westchester County in this
State and another at Pound Ridge in the State of
Connecticut and was in the service of the United States as a soldier on the Capture of Cornwallis and that he has no other evidence of his said services now in his power and thereupon the said Amos Band upon service of the act of the of May 1820 doth now here .make the following oath. I Amos Brand do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other
manner disposed of my property or any part
thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or Debts due to me

(continued)
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(cont'd declaration Almos Brand)

nor have I any other income other than what is
contained in the schedule hereunder contained and
by me subscribed
●
1
1
Amos Brand
mark
I have no real estate my personal property consists
of the following to wit one old Just and old should
You despair one Iron pot one Kettle
old pine table cup and saucers one
year foot seven plates and two dishes two broken
Colt one old Cupboard and a One Nov. 2 Hens
a Woster & 19 chickers
two Peck Baskets 2 Barrell
and wash tub 3 old chairs I owe about $30 and have
not a cent due me
My family consists of myself and wife
she is about 10 years of age and in tolerable good
health yet able to the House work - am say
labourer and by many of wound I received while
in the public service from a spear or harpoon and
same what cripple and not able to do what is
called a mans days work In short myself and
wife are both old and in indigent circumstances
and we the assistance of my Country
Sworn and Declared on
Amos Brand
the 6th day of July 1820
at
in open Court before
Lucas Elmendorf first Judge
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i Christopher Tappen  Junr Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County in the
State of New York do certify the foregoing oath
and with the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from  the originals on file in the office of said Clerk And that it is the opinion of the said
Court that Amos Brand is dependent of the
aid "of his country for support"  and that the
Total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Seven Dollars 
twenty three cents witness my hand
and the seal of said Court July 6th 1820

Ch Tappan Junr(junior)

(goverment  ticket placed across bottom of above as follows)


17,462
Amos Brand
Ulster County, N.Y.
Mgrl Corp(?) NY
5th July 1820
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Ch Toppan Jr. Esq
Clk co.
Ulster co. NY
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Recd 5 Oct 1820
Col.
3rd Massachusetts
Regim.  3 years,
Not found on rolls
on original sett date
over--
Adn & Co.
J.S.E

With 7.23.
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Christr. Toppan,
Kingston, NY
5th Oct. 1820

(second side of page)

The testimony on oath of
two or more disinterested 
and credible persons, certified
as such, by the Judge, proving mo's
service, in continuance
on continental establ
designating the Cols name and line
is required.

--- one  note for 6 mo's

Further proof is required.

Christopher Toppan, Esqr
Kingston, N. York

Charles H. Ruggles of the 
House of Reps.
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AW (initials left corner)
Rev. War Section.

August 23, 1919

Honorable Frank M. Brand,
House of Delegates,
Charleston, W. Va.

Sir:

In reply to your letter of the twenty-second instant, I have the honor to advise you that there are only three Revolutionary War pension claims on file for soldiers named Brand, as follows;

Amos Brand, Massachusetts Troops, a resident of New York when he applied for pension.

Jeremiah Brand, Massachusetts Troops, a resident of Maine when he applied for pension.

William Brand, North Carolina Troops, a resident of Georgia when he applied for pension.

If you desire the history of any or all of the above noted claims the Bureau will furnish it with pleasure.

Very respectfully,

GM Saltzgaber (his signature)

Commissioner.
Earlarl
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(government ticket)

44,688

REVY  INVALID
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File No. 44,688\
Amos Brand
Pri. Rev. War
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Act: 18" March 1818 &
1st May 1820

Index:--Vol. ...3..., Page.....61...

(Arrangement of 1870)

(;notes to left side)

1919 Aug 23 H:on Frank M Brand give names & residences of Brands ..au
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Marborough September 14 1821
Chenango County

To whom it may concern this may certify that
Capt Nehemiah Dunbar Came before me and
testified that he the said Dunbar new that Amos
Brand lived in the Town of Pelham in the
late of Massachusetts and went from their to west Point  and their listed under General Nickson ^^there it brigade^^ in the third Massachusetts  Regiment Colonel Graton Capt
Prichard in the year 1780 and served until June
1783 and was honorably Discharged with his
Gun and accouterments and badge of merit and
Returned with said Dunbar from Newburg to Pelham third brigade Signing

Nehemiah Durban

Sworn before me this 16 day of September 1821and I Deliver his testimony to be relied on

James Sowle J/c


Chenango County
Clerk Office

I hereby certify that the above named James Sowle was at the time of taking the above affidavit a Justice of the peace in & for Chenango county duly commissioned
and sworn as such

Witness my name and the seal of said County this fifteenth day of September 1821

Peter Randall    Clk

(^^..^^ indicates word(s) added)
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(letterhead)


STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
HOUSE OF DELEGATES
CHARLESTON

F.M. BRAND
MORGANTOWN

(note on right corner - Rev Sec 6 ep)

Morgantown, W. Va., August 22, 1919.

Director of the Pension Department,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I should like to have a statement from your department showing the number of BRANDS on the pension roll by virtue of services in the Revolutionary War, if this can be had. I should
also like to have the record to show what section of the country they lived in when they drew pensions.

Very truly yours,

Frank Brand (his signature)

RECEIPT STAMP BOTTOM RIGHt

PENSION OFFICE U.S.
K AUG 23 1919