Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,077, David Brown, Mass.
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Massachusetts
David Brown
S. 34,077
Contents
Born: May 1, 1758 in Sherburne, Massachusetts
resided in 1820 West Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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Notification sent to Abraham Bigelow Esq 22 Sept 1820
Cambridge Massachusetts
Died 21 July 1828

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6. 444
Massachusetts
David Brown
Captain Oliver Corporal 2 years
Massachusetts Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
┃ at the rate of -8- Dollars per month, to commence on
the 3rd of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 29th of January 1819
and sent to John Davis
Boston Massachusetts

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Mar 1819
$40”53
$48-
$88”53
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
3 years to end of war
Continental
Examined
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154
Number 154
David Brown Corporal
Greytown Massachusetts Regiment
Served 3 years
Correct
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United States
Massachusetts District
David Brown of West Cambridge in the County
of Middlesex and District of Massachusetts, a resident citizen
of the United States, applicant for a pension from the United 
States under 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 maketh
oath that he served both as a private soldier and sergeant in the war of the Revolution for upwards of six years
in manner following-- Viz [namely]— In April 1777 he enlisted in
the company commanded by Captain Robert Oliver as a
soldier in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by
Colonel Greighton and served in said corps as a private
January 1780. when he was appointed Sergeant in the said
company and served as Sergeant in said Company
until the eighth of June Seventeen hundred and eighty three
he was honorably discharged and is in such reduced circumstances as to require and and support from his country-
And several years ago delivered his discharge to the person to whom he sold the land.
David Brown
Massachusetts District Sc
Boston 3. April 1818
Sworn before me 
M. Davis
District Judge
Massachusetts District
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[illegible] and [illegible]
January 1780. when he was appointed Sergeant in the said
company and served as Sergeant in said Company
until the eighth of June Seventeen hundred and eighty three
he was honorably discharged and is in such reduced circumstances as to require and and support from his country-
And several years ago delivered his discharge to the person to whom he sold the land.
David Brown
Massachusetts District Sc
Boston 3. April 1818
Sworn before me 
M. Davis
District Judge
Massachusetts District
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, SS.
Boston June 6 A.D.1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that David Brown
subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war
against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony
the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of
war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war the testimony and [illegible] 
in the premises being the declaration aforesaid,
Together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the District Court of the United States for this District
to be hereunto affixed.
M. Davis
Judge of the District Court U.S.
Massachusetts District.
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Massachusetts District Sc
Boston 3. April 1868
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, SS.
Boston June 9 A.D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that David Brown
subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war
against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony
in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of
war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary
war the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid,
within accompanying documents marked
together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the District Court of the United States for this District
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, SS.
Boston 18 January 1819
I AM satisfied that the above named, David Brown by reason
of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M. Davis
District Judge U.S.
Massachusetts District
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
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47
David Brown
6444
Con[tinental]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun
and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on
the second Monday of June
A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices
STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires,} of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according
to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in
point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power
of fine and imprisonment, David Brown
resident
in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 6444
now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of
18th March 1818 David Brown late a Corporal
in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the
Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight
dollars per month, to commence on the third day of 
April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth
day of January one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen.
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
[stamp] L.S.

SCHEDULE,
Containing his whole estate and income his necessary clothing and bedding excepted to wit,

Personal estate, 1 old pine chest $0.90
1 tin trunk 0.50 1 pair old saddle bags 50 1.00
1 old calico 20 1 old drill priming wire and worm 30  ditto 50 
1 old stone hammer 25 1 [illegible] stand 20… ditto 45
1 old Norfolk gun barrel [illegible] [illegible] 75..  ditto  75
1pair Spectacles 050 1 walking cane 20 …ditto70
1 pair sheer bodkins and chisel 3. 1 clothes brush 20   ditto 50
1 Jack and penknife 30 1 pocket Bible 100. 1.30 
1 of Watts psalms and hymns 75…ditto 75
1 copy of of Bunyans Holy war an old book. ditto 50
1 copy of pilgrims progress….1.00
1 masons pocket companion…ditto 40
1 [illegible] pocket dictionary old…ditto 25
1 Baptist magazine new series 1st volume 2.00
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1 note dated Sept & 1819 versus Jonas Paneton….1.50
1 note dated November 22 1819 versus Joel M Brown…30.
3 silver wateley bot [bought] at auction in Boston 10 each…30.
2 case bottles 20 1 junk bottle 8
1 pint and  ½ pint bottle and jug  ditto 22
$74.00

Real Estate none
David Brown
I the said David Brown now resident in West Cambridge was born in Sherburne Massachusetts May 1 1758
family none-occupation a Taylor inability
is such as to health. I am not able to follow my
trade.
Sworn to and declared before William Wetmore Judge sc
I the said David Brown enlisted the 7th day April
1777 under Captain Robert Oliver in the third Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel John Greaton, a private soldier afterwards was promoted to a Corporal and
1780 promoted to a Sergeant and served the first
[illegible] in said company and Regiment untill[sic] the 8th day of
June 1783 then honorably discharged for serving six years and two months faithful service
David Brown
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following oath, taken
and subscribed by him, before the Hon. William Wetmore
a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I David Brown
do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the
United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and
that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any
person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I
any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
So help me GOD.
David Brown
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P.
June Term A.D. 1820
Then the above named David Brown
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
William Wetmore Judge of said Court
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the
foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are 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 is
seventy four dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed
the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of
Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820
Attestor Abraham Biglow Esquire
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34077
Revolutionary Invalid
File number 34,077
David Brown
Corporal Revolutionary War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index__
Volume:2
Page: 55
{arrangement of 1870}

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September 20/97 [September 20, 1897] Mrs. Colt Brown, Baltimore
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2104 Charles Street North
September 6, 1897.
U.S. Pension Office
Will you kindly let me know when David Brown of Narraguagus, Maine died. He died in Bangor Maine after 1733 and I think he was a pensioner of the war of the revolution. He enlisted August 31, 1777 as sergeant in Captain
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Samuel Libby's Company Colonel Benjamin Foster's Regiment.
He enlisted December 17, 1778 as Lieutenant of John Bohannan's company, colonel foster's regiment called out by Lieutenant Colonel Campbell to defend the state stores on board the Merry Sheet from Boston bound to Machias.
2 Lieutenant in the 4th company of the 6th company regiment commissioned February 1, 1779. Lieutenant in Benjamin Foster's regiment. Lincoln company marched on expedition to major Bagaduce by order of General Scovell. Service from August 7 to September 7, 1779. Dated Boston Massachusetts.
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Enclose please find $1.00.
Yours truly
Mrs. C. H. Brown
2104 North Charles Street
Baltimore Maryland
[stamp]
Chief's desk\US Bureau of Pensions
Mail
September 8, 1897

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Chief Finance dIvision
Bureau of Pensions
September 8, 1897

September 9, 1897-$1.00 in currency received with this letter returned to writer with proper letter.
J.A. Cole
Finance Division
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Old war and navy files
September 10, 1897
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We the subscribers do certify that David Brown, a resident of West Cambridge for a number of years past-A revolutionary soldier, has nothing but his hands to help himself with, and through indisposition is unable to do but very little towards his support-
Thomas Russell
Walter Russell
West Cambridge
January 6th, 1819