Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,096, George Brooke, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.
Brooke, George
NUMBER
S.2096
carded

CONTENTS
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1837 Pen Agents
Wm Milnor
272.      5272
Pennsylvania
George Brooke
   his.  X.  mark
the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company Commanded by Captain Brooke of the Reg Commanded by Col Moders in the Penna regiment of  [illegible] 7 mo 27 days - $26.36

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania  at the rate of 26 dollars 36 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Feb. 1833 and sent to Hon Wm Evans House Reps.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832.                 $39.34
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar 1833.  13.18
                                                     Total:     $52.72

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832.     }
Recorded by Vinal Luce Clerk 
Book D Vol. 6 Page 48

Letter 27. April
ditto --   ditto
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Geo. Brooke
[faded] days
7.27 Private
$26.36
Hon Wm. Evans Pa.
HR
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Delaware County       }
State of Pennsylvania } SS

On this fifth day of January Anno Domini 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable John Pierce and Joseph Engle, judges of the Orphans Court of said county now sitting, George Brooke a resident of Radnor in the county of Delaware and state of Pennsylvania, aged seventy-four years, who being duly affirmed according to law, doth on his affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served so herein stated to wit. 

He entered said service about the middle of August in the year 1776 as a volunteer in Captain Abraham Prutomans company of volunteers of which company Benjamin Brooke was first lieutenant; said company composed a part of Colonel Thomas Potts' battalion, of which Frederick Antiers was lieutenant colonel said volunteer company was raised and organized in Limerick Township in Philadelphia County in the state aforesaid.  He marched in said company from said township to Philadelphia and from thence to North Amboy in the state of New Jersey where he remained in said service until the middle of October, a period of two months when he with the rest of said company were discharged by their officers and returned to his home.  Daniel Roberdeau was the general in command at that time at North Amboy.

He again entered the service as aforesaid about the twentieth day of July, 1777.  He was drafted in Captain Benjamin Brookes' company of Pennsylvania militia which formed a part of Colonel John Moore's battalion and marched in said company from said township to Limerick to Philadelphia and from thence to Fort Mifflin.
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on the Delaware River where said company joined a brigade under the command of Brigadier General Potter.  He marched in said brigade from thence to Wilmington in the state of Delaware and from thence to Newport where the continental army at that time was encamped.  After remaining at Newport a few days he returned to said brigade to Wilmington and immediately marched up the Brandywine to Gibonsford ford about a mile and a half below Chaddsford, where the brigade arrived the day before the battle of Brandywine and where it remained stationed during the battle after which he returned with the retreating army to Chester, and from thence he marched into the upper part of Chester County where he was in a skirmish with a body of British troops.  He remained in said militia company in the vicinity of the British army which lay at Philadelphia until a day or two previous to the Battle of Germantown to wit about the second day of October in said year when his term of service expired and he was discharged by his officers and returned to his home

He served again as follows; about the twentieth day of October 1778 he was drafted in Captain Benjamin's company of militia which composed a part of Colonel John Moore's battalion and marched from said township of Limerick when he receded to Sherads ferry on the River Delaware above Trenton where the battalion took charge of and guarded a division of the prisoners of Burgoins army from thence to Tauny Route in the state of Maryland where they arrived about the twenty-fifth of December following from thence he returned in said company to said township of Limerick and was then discharged.  He was in said service at this time about two months.  

About the middle of August 1779 he was drafted in Captain John Missemer's company of militia and marched in said
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company from said township of Limerick to Newtown in Bucks County in Pennsylvania, at which place the commanding officer was Colonel Anthony Pitting.  He remained there in the service about six weeks and was then marched back to said township of Limerick and discharged by his officers.  He resided in said township of Limerick which now formed a part of Montgomery County in said state

When he entered the service each time as aforesaid he had no documentary evidence of the said service and knows of but one person to wit: Benjamin Brooke, never before mentioned, whose testimony he can procure to a part of his said service.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state.  
Signed: John Gordon

Affirmed to and subscribed }
the day and year aforesaid.  }
Signed: Jno K. Teilin Clerk

We, Owen Brooke and Hugh Jones, residing in the county of Delaware and state of Pennsylvania, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with George Brooke who has subscribed and affirmed to the above and foregoing declaration;  that we believe him to be seventy-four years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.  
Signed:  Owen Brooke, Hugh Jones

Affirmed and subscribed the day}
and year aforesaid.                      }
Signed:  Jno K. Teilin, Clerk
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and the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed the War Department, that the within mentioned and named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and serviced as he stated.  And the court further certified that it appears to them that there is no clergyman who lives in the vicinity of said applicant who can testify from his acquaintance with him to his age and to his having been a soldier of the Revolution; 

that he is reputed in the neighborhood where he resides and the court further certified that Owen Brooke and Hugh Jones, who have signed the preceding certificate, are residents in the county of Delaware aforesaid and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit;

and the court further certified that Benjamin Brooke, whose certificate is herewith annexed, is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit; and that from the evidence before us it appears that from age and bodily infirmities he cannot without very great inconvenience appear before this court; 

and that said Daniel Abraham before whom said Benjamin Brooke affirmed to said certificate is an acting justice of the peace in said county of Delaware, and legally authorized and empowered to administer oaths and affirmations according to law.

I, John K. Teilin, clerk of the orphans court of Delaware County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of George Brooke for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fifth day of January Anni Domini 1833
Signed:  Jno K. Teilin, clerk
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Delaware County       }
State of Pennsylvania } SS

Personally appeared before me, Daniel Abrahams Esquire, one of the justices of the peace in and for said county on this third day of January A.D. 1833 Benjamin Brook, aged eight-years, a resident of the township of Upper Merion in the county of Montgomery in said state, who upon his solemn affirmation doth say that he is well acquainted with George Brooke of the township of Radnor in the county of Delaware and state aforesaid who is about to apply for a pension under the provisions of the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832;

that he was well acquainted with him previous to the Revolution.  This deponent says that he was the first lieutenant of a company of volunteers commanded by Captain Adam Prutsman, which went into the service of the United States about the middle of August, 1776 and remained in said service for two months; that said George Brooke was one of the volunteers in said company and marched in said company from Limerick Township in the county of Philadelphia and state aforesaid to Perth Amboy in the state of New Jersey; and that said George Brook was in the service of the United States at that time about two months. 

Said deponent further says that said George Brooke was drafted about the first day of August 1777 in a company of Pennsylvania militia of which this deponent was captain and that said George Brooke was in the service of the United States from that time until about the second day of October following in said company;

that during that time he marched from said township of Limerick to Philadelphia from thence to Fort Mifflin from thence went down the Delaware River to Wilmington in the state of Delaware from thence marched to Newport and back from thence to Wilmington and from there
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Brandywine to Gibsons Ford about one mile below Chaddsford, and that said George Brooke was in said company there stationed on the day of the battle of Brandywine.  We were at that time commanded by Colonel Moore, Brigadier General Potter and Major General Armstrong.  Said George Brooke was in the said service at that time about two months.

Said deponent further says that he was the captain of a company drafted into the service of the United States about the twentieth day of October 1778; that said George Brooke was drafted in said company and marched in it from said township of Limerick to Sherads ferry on the Delaware River where said company assisted in guarding a body of Hessions captured in Burgoine's army, from said ferry to Tawney Town in the state of Maryland and that the said George Brooke remained in said service in said company until about the twenty-fifth day of December following a period of a little more than two months.

This deponent further says that a company of militia was drafted into the service of the United States in the fall of the year 1779 and that he has always understood and believed that said George Brooke was drafted in said company and marched in it to Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  He does not know how long said company was in the service nor the name of the captain that commanded it.  

Said deponent further says that said George Brooke was in the service of the United States to his certain knowledge six months and more and that during two months of said time deponent was first lieutenant of the company in which said George Brooke served, and that for four months and more of said time deponent was captain of the companies which said George Brooke served.  

Said deponent further says that he believes there is not an officer or private of the company aforesaid now living except himself and said George Brooke.
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Said deponent further says that he is too feeble by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in court for the purpose of submitting the foregoing examination.
Signed:  Benj. Brooke

Affirmed and subscribed before me the said justice of the peace the day and year aforesaid. 

I, the above named justice of the peace, do certify that the foregoing contains a correct and true statement as made by the said Benjamin Brooke in his examination (illegible) the matters contained in said deposition.
Signed:  Dan. Abraham


The (illegible) relating to this case was sent to me by the Hon. Edward Darlington, member Congress club, from the district composed of the counties of Lancaster, Chester and Delaware.
Signed:  Joshua Evans
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George Brooke
25 Jany 1823
Obj. 16
Hon J Evens
Hon Rep
7 mo 27 days $26.36
P-217
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Brief in the case of George Brooke, County of Delaware in the State of Pennsylvania
Act 7th June, 1832.
1. Was the declaration made before a Court o a Judge. [illegible]
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 74 years
4.  Stat his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period: in 1776 about the middle of August; 2 mo; Private volunteer; Penn Militia under Capt. Priestman, Col Potts, Gen D. Roberdeau.
Period: about 1777 July 20 til 3 Oct; 2 mo 10 days; drafted; Capt. Brooks, Col John Moores.
Period: 1778 20 Oct about middle Aug 1779; 1 1/2 mo. and 71/2 mo.; drafted; Capt. Brooks. Capt. Misserman; Col Anthony Piting.
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he ebntered the service: Limerick, Penns.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?   Traditionary evidence. one living witness
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Papers not attached.
Certify that the forgoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Vinal Luce Examining Clerk.
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Feby 20-1900.
R. S. Thompson
Springfield Ohio
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Dec 4-1900
To above - name of wife
not shown
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Rev War
2096
INVALID.
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File No. 2096

George Brooke
Privt Rev War
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Act: June 7. 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 42

[Arrangement of 1870.}
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US PENSION OFFICE
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FEB 8 1900

Pension Department,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
I am anxious to look up the records concerning my wife's great grandfather, General George Brooke, who is reported to be a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania and to have served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war.
Any information you can give me concerning him such as his place, birth and death and the dates and the fact of his service in the army at that time will be thankfully received.

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Geo. Brooke Apl 17
Parole
No 5272

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PHILADE PA
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[Illegible]
JL Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington
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Philadelphia April 15th, 1837
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
By the request of the Pensioner in the enclosed papers Mr Brooke I enclose them to you in consequence of his having let the pension remain for twelve months undrawn, with a request that you will please examine the papers and if found correct direct the pension Agent of this State to pay the amount due him.
I am respectfully
William Milnor
Aldr
P.S. Please enclose the papers to my care
W.M.