Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,932, John Brown, Continental Mass.
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Service: Continental Mass.
*Brown, John
Number: S. 36,932

born in Charlestown, Mass.
In 1820 aged 61 yrs and a resident of Leeds, Kennebec Co. Me.
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36,932
Revy.
INVALID.
File No. 36,923
John Brown
Priv. Rev War
Act: 18th March 18"
Index:-Vol. Q [2?], Page 480
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Left side, crosswise:
Notification sent July 12th 1820 to
R.C. Vose Esqr.
Augusta Maine
died Oct. 22, 1822
from A.B.

Right side:
5880 
Maine 
John Brown 
private
Capt Ballard 
Massachusetts line-  3 yrs
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine 
at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 20th of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of January 1819 
and deld. [delivered] R.C. Vose, Augusta Maine 

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818. 4mo 5/30 - 36.00 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819  48.00 
[=] $84.00 

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Leeds
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS 
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, July 6 1818 
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department that John Brown served as a Soldier in the sixth Company, and Col. Brooks Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from Jany 1 1777 to Dec. 31 1779, being three years.
[Signed] Alden Bradford 
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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382
John Brown
5.880 8 Jan 1819
Mar 1819

Robert C. Vose, Augusta
Maine
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382
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 Forty six dollars and fifty cents; 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 sixteen dollars and fifty cents. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
[SEAL]
[Signed] John Davis 
Clerk of said Court for the 
County of Kennebec
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Copy
382
State of Maine. 
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss. 
On this thirteenth day of June, 1820, personally appeared in open Court before 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, John Brown aged Sixty one years, resident in Leeds 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 Allen and Regiment commanded by Colonel Alden of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years, having previously served eight months in the Company Commanded by Captain Bullard & Col. Brewer's Regiment, of Massachusetts troops. 
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the twentieth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 5880. And I, the said John Brown 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. 
[Signed] John Brown 

The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
One house or hut upon the land of another person of the value of twenty dollars. one cow of the value of fifteen dollars. one swine of the value of four dollars. Old furniture, besides necessary beding of the value of five dollars, one old axe, hoe, shovel & sythe of the value of two dollars and fifty cents. I have no debts due to me that can be collected, and I owe as much as thirty dollars. The income of the above does not exceed four dollars a year. My occupation is that of a farmer; but from infirmity, having a slow nervous fever I am totally unable to labor. My family at home consists of myself and wife only aged Sixty seven years who is intirely unable to labor, and has been for five years past.
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Except the foregoing property and necessary beding and clothing, I have no estate or income whatever.
[Signed] John Brown
Subscribed, sworn to, and declared, both the oath and schedule, on the thirteenth day of June 1820 before me
[Signed] Nathan Weston Jr
C.J. C C C Pleas.
 
A true copy
Attest. John Davis Clerk
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John Brown. Leeds.
pr. Col. Brooks Mass Reg.
1777 to 1780.
April 20th 1818.
Admitted

Crosswise: John Brown
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John Brown. Leeds.
pr. Col. Brooks Mass Reg.
1777 to 1780.
April 20th 1818.
Admitted

Crosswise: John Brown
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
[SEAL] To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that John Brown, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Leeds, in the said County of Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the twentieth day of April, A.D. 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 had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably 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 18, A.D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed. 
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful 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 caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty second day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
[Signed] Nathan Weston Jun.  C. Just C. C. C. Pleas 2d E. Circuit
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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 NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides. 

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 and eighteen. 
[Signed] John Davis
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
I John Brown, aged fifty eight years, a Citizen of the United States, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, but now a resident in Leeds in the District of Maine, upon Oath testify and declare that I enlisted into the United States Army during the revolutionary [war] upon the continental establishment against the common enemy in the month of May 1775. for the period of Eight months, in the first eight months Service, in the company commanded by Cap. Bullard, and regiment commanded by Col. Brewer of the Massachusetts troops or line. I fully served out the period of my Enlistment and was verbally discharged by my officers at Cambridge Jany 1776. 
I again enlisted into the same Continental Service, against the common enemy the 1st January 1777. for the period of three years into the first three years Service, into the company commanded by Capt Robert Allen, and regiment commanded by Col. Ichabod Alden, of the Massachusetts line - I fully served out the period of my last Enlistment and took my honorable and final Discharge from the army at West Point first of January 1780. My discharge I kept a number of years, but is now worn out, and not in existance to my knowledge - I was discharged in a poor and feeble State of health, which has continued to this day - not knowing where the officers I was under or the Soldiers who lived with me, now reside, or whether they are living at the present day, this is all the evidence in my power at this time to furnish - I was in both of the battle at the taking of Burgoyne, & at the battle at Cherry Valley were [where] my Col. Alden, was killed - and I was in the whole of the Expedition against the Indians, under General Sullivan. From my reduced circumstance in life, I am in need of assistance from my Country for support and 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 list whatever. I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine 
[Signed] John Brown 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Kennebec ss.
On the twentieth day of April A.D. 1811 John Brown, above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above declaration, by him subscribed. Before me 
[Signed] Nathan Weston Jun C. Just C. Court C. Pleas 2d Eastern Circuit.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Joseph Brown of Hallowell, Maine, upon oath testify and declare that I am acquainted with the within named John Brown From his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for Support - he retains [?] the character of man of truth. 
[Signed] Joseph Brown 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Kennebec ss.
On the twentieth day of April A.D. 1818 Joseph Brown above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above deposition, by him subscribed Before me, 
[Signed] Nathan Weston Jun C. Just 
C. Court C Pleas 2d Eastern Circuit.