Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,923, Ichabod Brownell, Mass. R.I.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE: Mass. R. I.

Brownell, Ichabod
NUMBER:  S. 36923

Contents:  [Blank]
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17798
Maine R
Ichabod Brownell
Belgrade in the State of Maine
[wh]o was a Private in the regiment commanded by colonel Brewer of the [Mass 13]th
[letters cut off]e, for the term of 10 months
scribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2d of October
1820 & sent to R. C. Vose
Augusta, Maine
arrears to 4th of Sept 1820 $225.33
[s]emi-anl. all'ce ending [4] March 1821 48.00
28 [mos] 5/30   $273.33
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
May 1, 1820
& 
May 1, 1820
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Date of death not on A.B.
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Ichabod Brownell,
Belgrade, Ken. 6d
& Bartons
Pr. Col. Toppan's R.I. line, April 1778 to May '81
3 years-
April 30 1818
No Colonel named Toppan--Topham, it is presumed, is the name intended. His regiment was not in service in 1781.. after Col Topham's death the claimant served under Col Barton, or will appear by this declaration.
Nov. 10. 1819
Proof John Sherman
Jacob Leighton,
Jabez Gold
R. C. Vose atty

Not on Continental establishment
Rejected
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Ichabod Brownell
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I Jabez Gold aged Seventy five years, now of Belgrade in the County of Kennebec, do hereby upon oath testify and declare that I well knew
Ichabod Brownell, a continental solder in the war of the revolution, to my knowledge he served in Cap Thomas Company & Col Topham's Rhode Island
Regiment [on] the Rhode Island expedition under General Sullivan, he served the first period of one year to my knowledge, and I have no doubt he
served the other time by him stated. 
Jabez Gold his X mark
Kennebec County [ss] Oct 2d 1819
Subscribed & sworn to
Before me Robert C. Vose, Justice of the Peace

Evidence of R. C. Vose, being a magistrate for the said County of Kennebec, is filed in the case of Simon Doe, and many other cases in the said Maine Roll-taken before Judge Wiston--I further certify that Jabez Gold above named is to me well known to me as credible witness
R.C. Vose
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Ichabod Brownell, aged Seventy one years, a citizen of the United States born in Dartmouth now Wesport Massachusetts--but now resident in Belgrade, in the District of Maine Upon oath testify and declare that
I enlisted in the State of Rhode Island, in the war of the revolution against the common enemy upon the continental establishments the last of April 1778 for the period of these years into the company command by Cap. Alexander Thomas, and regiment commanded by Col. John Toppam in General Cornwalls Brigade of the Rhode Island line. I fully served out the period of my enlistment, and took my
final and honorable discharge from the army at New Windsor the first or second day of May 1781, my discharge I have not preserved, and it is not now in existance to my knowledge. I was at the battle on Rhode Island under General Sullivan, where I was wounded by a musket ball paping thro my left arm. I was afterwards ordered to the State of New York
were I served and received a severe injury in my body, while on duty on board a boat passing from Newburgh to New Windsor, by reason of this wound I have suffered much bodily pain, and at times have
been at much expence for surgical aid-- I have never before applied for a pension, though I have always considered myself justly entitled to one, the disabity incurred by my last wound. I am fully satisfied will remain as long as I live. From my reduced circumstances I am in need of assistance from my country for support. I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension lists whatever,
I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine

Ichabod of Brownell (his X mark)
Commonwealth of Masschusetts.

Kennebec [ss]
On this thirtieth day of April Anno Domini 1818. the above named Ichabod Brownell, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed
Before me
S.S. Wilde
Jus Sup. Jud Court
for 5d [Com]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

I Moses Pollard, of Augusta Maine, of lawful age upon oath testify and declare that I am & have been for some time well acquainted with the above named Ichabod Brownell for many years, from circumstances which he has related to me many years since. I fully believe he has served in the
revolutionary War, as he has above stated. From his reduced circumstances in life he needs the assistance of his country for support-- he [sustains] the character of a man of truth
Moses Pollard
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec [ss]
On this thirtieth day of April Anno Domini 1818. the within named Moses Pollard, after having been carefully examined made oath to the truth of the within deposition by him subscribed
Before me
S.S. Wilde
Jus. Sup. Jud Court
for [5d Com th]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Robert C. Vose, of Augusta District of Maine, of lawful age upon oath testify and declare that I am well acquainted with Ichabod Brownell, within named. From circumstances which he has related to me many years time I fully believe he was a continental soldier and that he served as he has within stated-- he [sustains] the character of a man of truth.
Robert C. Vose
Kennebec Ss [Com th] of Massachusetts
On this eighth day of June A.D. 1818 the
above named oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
before me. S.S. Wilde
J. S. J. Court
for [5d Com th]
I Ichabod Brownell aforesaid doth further testify & say that the within named Col John Toppin, or Topham, for I cannot be positive as to his named died at New London in June AD. 1779, after which his Regiment was commanded by Col. Barton, & I marched with the Regiment to West Point under his command - towards the fall of the same year AD 1779. I was with sundry other soldiers of said Regiment [dated] & we were detached from said Regiment under the command ┃
of Lieut. Col. Norris, under whom I march to New Windsor where I remained under said Norris' command until I was discharged as stated in my former deposition
Ichabod Brownell (his X mark)
Kennebeec [Ss Com th] of Massachusetts

On this twenty ninth day of July AD 1819 the
above named Ichabod Brownell after having been by me carefully examined touching the premises made solemn to the truth of the above additional affidavit by him subscribed & at the same time produced the Depositions hereunto annexed. S.S. Wide J. L.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of
War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify to your honor, that Ichabod Brownell, a citizen of the United States, now resident in the District of Maine, within said Commonwealth, on the thirtieth day of April AD 1818, made application to me to [receive] his declaration under oath and such other evidence as was in his power to produce and to transmit the same, and the proceedings to be had thereon, to your Honor, that
he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeable to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed March 18th AD 1818, which declaration and the other evidence produced by the said applicant is hereunto annexed.
And I further certify to your Honor that after a careful examination of the said applicant and a full consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me, that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and have caused the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court to be hereunto affixed, this eighth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen -
S.S. Wilde
J. S. J. Court
for [5d Com th]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Kennebec [Ss]
The Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable Samuel S. Wilde Esq, before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth, and that by direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto His Certificate, bearing his signature, the Seal of said Supreme Judicial Court.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand: [Dated at] Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & eighteen.
John Davis

[J] Court for [5d Com th]
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259
Ichabod Brownell
Con
R. C. Vose  
Augusta
Maine.
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State of Maine.
I John Davis Clerk, for the County of Kennebec of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec
and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open 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, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is ninety five dollars; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is nothing.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of Kennebec
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259
State of Maine
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
On this First day of June 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Junior Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ichabod Brownell aged seventy three years, resident in Vienna in the County of Kennebec
within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he
served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Edgell and Regiment commanded by Colonel Brewer
of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of ten months.

that his original declaration was made before Judge Wilde on the twenty eighth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered [blank].  And I, the said Ichabod Brownell do further 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.
Ichabod Brownell (his X mark)

Witness A. Nichols

The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
One cow of the value of fifteen dollars & two sheep of the value of four dollars, two pigs of the value of eight dollars - Old Household furniture, not exceeding, eight dollars in value, Debts due to me that may be collected, to the amount of sixty dollars, and [have] as much as one hundred & twenty eight dollars-- The income derived from the above property does not exceed two dollars a year, besides the interest I pay.  My occupation is that of a taylor, but from age and infirmity, and having been wounded in the revolutionary service, am able to labor very little & I have no family, and live with one of my sons upon [sufferance ]. Except the foregoing and my necessary clothing and bedding I have no estate or income whatever.
Ichabod Brownell (his X mark)
Witness A. Nichols
Subscribed sworn to and declared both the oath and the Schedule on the first day of June 1820 - Before me Nathan Weston Jr. C.J.C.C.C. Pleas
A true Copy
Attest John Davis
Clerk
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July 27, 1931
REv & 1812 Wars Section
AWF [Om]

Mrs. John Madsen
765 Hamilton Avenue
Palo Alto, California.
Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 36923, that Ichabod Brownell was born in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, date not given.

He enlisted in Sherburne, Massachusetts in March 1776 and served ten month in Captain Edgel's Company in Colonel Brewer's Massachusetts Regiment. He served in 1777
in the Rhode Island Militia, no details of this service given. He enlisted May 1, 1778 and served in Captain Alexander Thomas' Company, Colonels John Topham's and Barton's Rhode Island Regiment, was in General Sullivan's Expedition to Rhode Island, and the battle of Rhode Island, where he was wounded through his left arm by a musket ball, and in the spring of 1779 was detached to serve under Lieutenant Colonel Norris, and while in the boat service, was injured in the body by a broken oar, and was discharged in May 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 30, 1818 at which time he was living in Belgrade, District of Maine and was aged seventy one years.

In 1820 he was living in Vienna, Kennebec County, Maine, with one of his sons, whose name is not given.

The name of soldier's wife is not stated and there is no further reference to children.

The above noted is the history of the only soldier named Ichabod Brownell that is found on the Revolutionary
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War records of this office, and said records fail to
afford any information in regard to Aaron Brownell.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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File No.
36923
INVALID.
Revy
File No.  36923
Ichabod Brownell
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 480
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1931-July 27 Hist to Mrs. John Madsen [illegible]
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John Sherman,
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Ichabod Brownell enlisted a continental soldier in
the year of our Lord 1778 May the first under Alexander Thomas in Col Toppin's Regiment belonging to General Cornell's brigade and was stationed at Howland' s Ferry in August went on upon Rhode Island in Sullivan's expedition where said Brownell had a musket ball shot through his arm standing at left hand. Late in the fall we moved to New London and from there to West Point the next Spring Commanded by General Heath soon after that Ichabod Brownell and myself was drafted out and two or three hundred others and was sent up to New Windsor on the west side of North River two or three months after we arrived there said Brownell was wounded again in his belly with an [oar] and could not perform duty for five months And was discharged in May 1781.
John Shearman

May 12th 1819 Then the abovenamed John Shearman personally appeared & made Solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him signed before
me.
Fred A Allen
Jus t Peace

Frederic Allen Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kennebec; and I am of opinion that the above deponent is a credible witness
Nathan Weston in C. Just.
C.C.C. [Pans]
2d E Circuit
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Jacob Leighton
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I Jacob Leighton late of Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island do testify and say, that Ichabod Brownell enlisted in the Continental service in May 1778 in Capt Thomas' company Col Toppan, Regiment and General Cornal Brigade, and was stationed at Howlands Ferry, and in the month of August following went to Rhode Island in Sullivans expedition, when said Brownell got wounded with a bullet through his arm he Brownell and myself
were together in the continental service at that time more than one year, and I was afterwards discharged by reason of having the Rheumatism, and when to discharged left the said Brownell in the service and I saw no more of said Brownell untill he came home in
the year 1781. This my deposition is given now at the request of the above named Brownell - Dated at [Gardiner] this 12th of May A.D. 1819
Jacob Leighton (his X mark)

Witness Edward Swan
Samuel Silby
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Kennebec [Ct] May 12th 1819 Then the within [deponent]
Jacob Leighton personally appeared and made oath to
the truth of the within deposition by him subscribed
Before me Edward Swan Justin of the Peace

Edward Swan Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kennebec; and the within deponent is in my opinion a credible and disinterested witness
Nathan Weston [Jun] C. Just
C. C. C. Pleas
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Ichabod Brownell
priv. Col. Brewers Mass
Reg. March 1776
10 months
April 30, 1818

Admitted
Amended declaration

Subscribed and sworn to July 31, 1820 Before me, Nathan Weston [Jun] Just S.J.C.

Schedule
within

Proof
Jacob Sharowk
Jabez Gould
28mos 5/30
$225.33

R. C. Vose
Augusta Maine

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Augusta Maine
I Ichabod Brownell, aged Seventy two years a Citizen of the United States, born in Dartmouth now Westport Masachusetts, but now resident in Belgrade, Kennebec County, Maine. do upon oath testify and declare that I enlisted in March 1776 in the war of the revolution against the common enemy upon the continental Establishment for the remainder of the year, service, into the company commanded by Cap
Edgell, and in Col. Brewer's Masachusetts regiment. I enlisted at Sherburn Mass
and soon afterwards joined at Ticonderoga and was stationed at Mount hope where I served out the full term of my enlistment and was honorably
discharged at Mount Hope the last of December 1776 after serving ten months in continuation. I was discharged verbally, there was at that time no written discharge given to my knowledge-- I made my declaration before Judge Wilde,
on the 13th day of April 1818--Stating my services in Col Tophams regiment believing at that time the same to have been on the continental establishment, and believing for them that my service in the three years service would fully establish my claim but it having been determined by the War Department otherwise; I
now make the above declaration of my service in 1776-
Ichabod Brownell (his X mark)
Attests R.C. Vose

subscribed and sworn to Dec 7 1819 Before me,
Nathan Weston [Jun] C.J. C.C.C. Pleas
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, Jacob Sharrowk aged sixty six years, now resident in Augusta in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare, that being a soldier in the war of the revolution, I well knew Ichabod Brownell before named; I am personally knowing to the said Brownell having enlisted at the time by him stated in Capt Edgell's company and Col Brewers regiment of the Massachusetts troops, and that he served therein until the last of December 1776, and was then honorably discharged as he has above declared. I was a soldier in the same regiment during the same time.
Jacob Sharrowk

subscribed and sworn to Dec 7 1819 the deponent being a credible witness.  Before me, Nathan Weston [Jun] C.J. C.C.C. Pleas.

I Jabez Gould, aged seventy five years, a pensioner under the in late law of Congress do hereby upon oath testify and declare that I well knew Ichabod Brownell above named, being myself a soldier at the
time I well knew of his serving in Col Brewers regiment as he has above stated
Kennebec County [Ss] December 17th 1829
Jabez Gould (his X mark)
Subscribed and sworn to the same being first read to him
Before me Robert Van Dustin of the Peace
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Subscribed and sworn to [illegible] very [illegible]
Before me R.C. Vose

Robert C. Vose Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kennebec; and the within named Jabez Gould is in my opinion a credible witness.
Nathan Weston [Jun] C.J. C.C.C. Pleas

Ichabod Brownell within named do upon oath further declare that when I first made my declaration before Judge Wilde on the 30th April 1818. I mentioned the whole of my Services in the revolutionary war, to the Judge, and to R.C. Vose, my agent, [viz.] that I served in Col Brewer's Regiment 10 months in 17776; and in 1777, during the whole of the year in the Rhode Island Militia; and also in April 1778 I enlisted for three years Cap Thomas Company & Col Tophams R.I. Regiment and served out the full term of three years and was discharged at West Point in May 1781. It was stated to me by the Judge Wilde or by R.C. Vose which of them I do not now recollect- that my service of three years would fully entitled me to a pension, and being myself an illiterate man and not able to write, and unable to read writing but a very little, I did not know but my service in Brewers Regiment was stated untill my application was returned. I served nearly four years in what I understood to be the continental services, and was severely wounded while in the service as I have declared in my [first] declaration
Ichabod Brownell (his X mark)
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I Robert C. Vose, of August Kennebec County Maine, of lawful age do upon oath declare that Ichabod Brownell within named
applied to me to assist him in establishing his claim to a pension, that accordingly on the 30th of April 1828. said Brownell, & myself went before Judge Wilde, where the said Brownell, stated his services in the war of the Revolution-- to wit that he served in 1776 in Brewer's Regt in 1779 in the R.I. Militia & in 1778 he enlisted and served three years in the Rhode Island line-- this last service was considered by the Judge
as fully [sufficient] to entitle him to his pension; this service in Col Brewer's regiment were for the above reasons omitted in his
first declaration.
Robert C. Vose
subscribed and sworn to July 31, 1820
Before me, Nathan Weston S Just
S.J.C.

Ichabod Brownell
Priv Col. Brewer's [Mass]
Reg.  March 1776
10 months
April 30, 1818

Admitted
Amended declaration
Schedule [within]

Proof
Jacob Sharrowk
Jabez Gould
28 mos 5/30
$225.33

R.C. Vose
Augusta Maine
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Surgeon's Certificate
in the case of
Ichabod Brownell

Before me Nathan Weston [Jun]
Just. S.J. Court
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The undersigned Physicians & Surgeons practicing in Augusta hereby certify, that we have examined the case of Ichabod Brownell who alleges to have been wounded in the Revolutionary War, in the month of August 1778 at the battle of Rhode Island in the left arm by a musket ball; & in the year 1779 in the month of June at New Windsor, State of New York while in the boat service of the United States, he was wounded by a broken oar in the abdomen. This occasioned violent contusion in the part struck by the oar, which was followed by inflammation extending along the spermatic chord &
ended in supperation in the scrotum. To discharge the matter an incision was made into the scrotum the scar of which is still visible. And the undersigned are of opinion that the said Brownell is totally disabled from procuring subsistance by manual labor.
E. Sawyer Tappan
Joel R. Ellis
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State of Maine
Kennebec [Ss] On the thirty first day of July 1820 E. Sawyer Tappan M.D. within named and on the fifth of August 1820 or Joel R Ellis within named, both respectable physicians and both fellows of the Massachusetts Medical Society, being also credible and disinterested made oath to the truth of the within deposition, by them subscribed
Before me, Nathan Weston [Jun]
[Just.] S.J. Court
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[date stamped Revolutionary  & 1812 Wars Bureau of Pensions Jul 9 1931]

MRS. JOHN MADSEN
76S HAMILTON AVENUE
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
July 1, 1931.

U. S. Pension Bureau,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.
REVOLUTIONARY PENSION DEPT.
Gentlemen:
Please be kind enough to advise me if the following names are on the Revolutionary Pension Roll:

Ichabod Brownell, discharged from the 9th Company, Litchfield Co., Conn., Nov. 20, 1775.

Aaron Brownell, enlisted at Cornwall, Conn., and discharged at North Castle, Conn., at end of the campaign.

If either of these men ever applied for or were granted a pension, kindly send me all information on record regarding them, giving names of wives, date of marriage, date of death and where they died, also their place of residence at time of applying for pension, and names of children, if same is on record.

Thanking you for an early reply, 
I remain
Yours very truly,
Jessie Brownell Madsen
(Mrs. JM.)