Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10406, William Brown, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn.

Brown, William

NUMBER
S. 10406

carded

CONTENTS
In 1829 april 70 yrs & res of Albany [las?] NY
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New York 10 [10 was circled]
Albany Agency 
William Brown
of Albany Co. in the State of New York
who was a Fife Major in the Company commanded
by Captain Eldridge of the Regiment commanded 
by Colonel Starr & Prentice in the Connecticut
line, for the term of three years
from January 1777 to January 1780.
Inscribed on the roll of The Albany Agency
       at the rate of 108 Dollars per annual [note month 
       crossed out replaced with annual?], to 
       commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of [Pension crossed out] issued the 2nd of 
July 1832   and sent to Wm
Brown Knox, New York
Arrears to 4th of March 1832             $108:00
Semi-anu'l all'ce ending 4 Sept 1832     54 -
                                                            $162.00

                                           {Revolutionary Claim,}
                                             Acts [March 1818, 
                                             and May 1, 1820. 
                                             crossed out]
                                             7 June 1832
Recorded? Book D
Vol 5 pages 141? [ZlB? initials]
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Original Claim
Declaration in order to be placed on the pension 
List under the act of the18 March 1818 
State of New York 
Albany County,  Js
City & County of Albany Js.  On this 4th day August 1824 personally 
appeared in open Court being a Court of record 
in & for the city of Albany the called the Major Court 
William Brown resident in said County aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that he the said William Brown Enlisted for the term of three years on the 7 day of January in the year 1777 in the State of
Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain James Eldridge in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Prentice in the line of the State of Connecticut on the
continental establishment that he continued
to serve in the said Corps until 7th January 1780
when he was discharged from the service in Morristown in the State of New Jersey that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present that his
name is not on the roll of any state and that the following are the reason of not making earlier application for a pension
an inquiry was informed believed that no provision was made by law that would imbrace any cash   And in pursuance
of the act of the first of May 1820 I 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 manner disposed of my property
or any part there of 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 Navel 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
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or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I
any income other than what is contained in the schedule
hereunto annexed and by me subscribed that since
the 18th March 1818 the following changes have been made
in my property no change of property or situation
except an accumulation of debts which I have not
been able be discharge without selling my land
Sworn to and declared on the fourth day of August
AD 1829 before James McKown Esquire Recorder of said
city and the presiding Judge of said county signed William Brown
James McKown Recorder of Albany -
I Conrad, A Ten Eyck Clerk of the said Mayors Court
do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction
of the Court that the said William Brown did serve
in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding
declaration against the common enemy for the term
of nine months under one engagement on the continental
establishment I do certify that the foregoing oath (or 
affirmation) and the Schedule there unto annexed are
truly copied from the records of 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 said schedule is seven hundred
and twenty eight dollars and eighty seven cents
In testimony whereof I have hereon to set my
hand and affixed the seal of the said Court
on this fourth day August AD. 1829.
C A Ten Eyck Clerk of the
Mayors Court of the City of
Albany
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Schedule of all the real and personal property (property is crossed out in document)
estate (necessary clothing and bedding excepted)
and all the lawful debts and credits of William
Brown of the town of Knox in the County of Albany
and State of New York taken by him the 3rd day
of August 1829

54 Acres of land subject to the annual
rent of 12 bushels merchantable winter}  $540.00
wheat at $10 per acre -

1 Yoke oxen -                                                  45
2 Cows -                                                          20
2 yearling steers -                                              7 
1 [old Spanish?] mask -                                        25
1 our horse slay                                                10
1 our horse Waggon & harness                       40
1 Block shed & two chains                                 5
6 Old Cider Carks                                               2
1 Old writing desk & stand                                2
2 Old Sythes and saw                                         2
1 Old Saddle & bridle                                         1.50
2 Iron Kettles 1 iron tea kettle                              .75
1 plow 1 set [arg?] teeth                                       5
3 Hay forks                                                            .62
1 Wooden Clock $8.00 1 old stove $2.00           10
1 old table 6 old chairs                                         2
2 Hogs 5 pigs                                                       11
                                                                           728.87
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 a change of property [or situation crossed out]
since the 18th March 1818 but an accumulation
of debts which my income has not enabled we
to pay without selling my land as my personal
property would be insufficient to pay them
Debts due by me as follows
Our note of hand dated May 29th 1824 for       $110 00
Interest 5 years & two months -                             39 78
Back rent use on land -                                           31 07
Physician bills -                                                       36 37
In Sundry Mechanics -                                            14 24
                                                                            $231 46
.
Whole amount of accounts are true}  b,w
to the best of my knowledge & belief

By occupation a farmer but unable to labor
by reason of infirmity by age and under the
necessity of letting my land to be worked
on shares  my family consists of my wife
aged 67 years who has been very infirmed for more
than 15 years past  three daughter Lydia
aged 35 years Prscilla aged 26 years
& Hannah aged 24 years all of them unhealthy
Dated August 4th AD. 1829. William Brown
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                                                                                                                         AWF

Rev. and 1812
War Section.

                                                                                               October 8, 1924

Mrs. M. H. Brownlee,
156 Central Ave.,
San Francisco, Cal.

Madam;

I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 10406, it appears
that William Brown enlisted January 7, 1777 and served
in Captain James Eldridge's Company, Colonel Josiah
Starr's Connecticut Regiment, he was promoted to Fife
Major November 1, 1778 and served until January 7, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
August 4, 1829, while a resident of Knox, Albany County,
New York, aged seventy years.
In 1829, he referred to his wife, name not stated,
aged sixty seven years; and three daughter Lydia, aged
thirty five years, Precilla [Priscilla], aged twenty six years and
Hannah, aged twenty four years.
There is no further data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,

Alt by Miss Wilson
used Col. Josiah Starr.                                                   Commissioner.
See Conn book.
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To   William Brown  of the First Connecticut
       Regiment in the Service of the United States of America.

       Greeting.

REPOSING especial Trust and Confidence in your Prudence and good Conduct, I do,
by these Presents, appoint you Fife Major to the said Regiment
in the Service of the United States;---you are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge
the Duty of a Fife Major by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging:
And I do strictly charge and require all Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers, under your
Command, to be obedient to your Orders, as their Fife Major And you are to observe and
follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from me, or any
of your superior Officers, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in pursuance of the
Trust reposed in you; for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant.

        Given under my Hand, at Danbury
         The first day of November 1778          Josiah Starr Col.

Mr Brown requests the return of the Warrant and
[his?] charge after the Secretary shall have done with it
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HONORARY PRESIDENT
MR. FRANK HERVEY PETTINGELL

PRESIDENT                                                                                                      
CHARLES FRANCIS GRIFFIN, M. D.                                       
                                                                                                                                                
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT                                                                                                                           
MR. THEDORE GRAY

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THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT
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MISS SARAH LOUISE KIMBALL                                                                                                  
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TREASURER                                                                                                                               
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SAN FRANCISCO CALIF.

HISTORIAN
MRS. MILNE HUME BROWNLEE

LIBRARIAN
(none listed)

ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN
MR. JOHN GILSON HOWELL
328 POST STREET, SAN FRANCISCO

COUNCILLORS
CHARLES FRANCIS GRIFFIN. M. D.
MR. GEORGE HENRY ANDRUSS
MR. HENRY BYRON PHILLIPS 
MR. CHARLES BEEBE TURRILL
ALLEN HAINES VANCE. M. D.
MRS. ROBERT E. LEE JEWETT
MRS. MILNE HUME BROWNLEE
MISS SARAH LOUISE KIMBALL

                                         INCORPORATED JANUARY 19, 1921
                              "Though all thy walls shine with thy pedigree,
                                               Yet virture only makes nobility."

                                              SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA.
                                                        September 13, 1924
Commissioner of Pensions
Department of the Interior
Washington 
D. C.

Dear Sir: -

                   Will you kindly advise me if
the records of your office contain anything on the
following Revolutionary soldier:

                   WILLIAM BROWN, Fifer in Capt. Christopher
Ely's Co., also designated as Lieut, Col. David D. Sill's
Co., First Connecticut Regiment. William Brown enlisted
January 10, 1777 for three years, was promoted Fife Major
July 1, 1778, was transferred successively to Capt. Ithamar
Harvey's Co., Capt. Lieut. Reed's Co., and Col. Josiah
Starr's Co. and was discharged January 10, 1780.

                                   Very truly yours
                                           Mrs Y Brownlee

                                 Mrs. Milne Hume Brownlee
                                      156 Central Avenue
                                            San Francisco
                                                  California.
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Reohan

1924 Oct 8 Hist to Mrs. M.H.
Brownlee AWF

10406
INVALID.

File No.     10406
William Brown
Fife Major Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:- Vol. A, Page 46

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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June 14 1832
Pension
Office
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Knox Albany Co NY June 9 1832

Sir   I see by the public papers that a
       law has been passed lately for the benefit
       of Revolutionary Officers & soldiers I
       again present my claim you will see
       by the enclosed that my papers are
       now on file in your department

                                          Yours [AC or Truly?]
                                          William Brown
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Knox June 27 1832
Sir I Received your Letter of the 16th instant
agreeable to your advice I send my Warrant for Fife Major
I am Respectably Your Humble Servant

William Brown

Mr J L Edwards
Washington City

War Department
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[Honorably?]
[37 1/2?]
June 27th
J L Edwards
Washington City
War Department Pension Office
[$108 upside down]
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[stamp "City of Washington Jun 16"]
War Department [written over stamp]

Pension Office
J L. Edwards

[TL Folly a/?]

Mr. William Brown
Knox
Albany County
New York
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31,038
William Brown
Act18 March 1818.
---
New York,

---
[Rejected. See letter
claimant 15 Aug
1829. As? the following was crossed out ] 16 June
1832
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Copy

War Department
Pension Office
Aug. 15, 1829

Mr. Wm. Brown,

c/o Erastus Williams Esq
Post Master Knox, N.Y.

Sir:-- Your claim to a pension on account
of Revolutionary services has been rejected
The amount of your property, which is estimated at $497, 41, exclusive of debts, being
sufficient to disqualify you from obtaining
an inscription of your name on the Pension
List.  The regulations of Dec. 28, 1828, which
allowed persons possessed of property to the
amount of $900 and upwards to receive pensions have been suspended-- Your Warrant as Fife Major and discharge are herewith returned agreeably to your request.
Your declaration will remain on the
files of this office

                          J.L.E.
Copied Oct-8-'24
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Sir
William Brown the applicant
for a pension is a old an highly respected
among us I have been acquainted with
him and his circumstances for more than
twenty five years and know that it is
with difficulty that he supports his
family he has more or less help given him
yearly by his neighbours the one horse
sleiy named in the Schedule was a donation from his neighbours I have assisted a
number of Old Soldiers in obtaining their
pension and none of them I should judge
were more justly entitled than him his
land is unproductive composed of a cold
clay soil the heavy annual rent upon
it renders it but of little value to him
it is the opinion of many farmers who
are good judges that taking
into consideration the annual rent it ought not
to be prized higher than Eight dollars
per acre    Sir I believe in the opinion
of all who are acquainted with him
and his circumstances that he is
justly entitled to a pension
I here written this without his
solicitation or knowledge
Erastus Williams
Post Master at Knox
Please direct your communication to
Mr Brown to this Post Office