Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,684, Jesse Brown, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE   NUMBER
Mass
Brown, Jesse
W. 23,684
Elcey
CONTENTS
In 1818 aged 53 yrs and res. of Raymond, Cumberland Co. Me.
d. Dec 10. 1831.
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Br. Be &C. 5644
Maine
Jesse Brown
of Portland in the State of Maine
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Fox
of the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Jackson in the Massachusetts
line, for the term of three years.
from -
1781 to
1783
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of eight
Dollars per month.
commence on the 15 day of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of January
1819 and sent to Judge James
Paris Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818
32.02
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48
$80.02
Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1829.
Restored 23 May 1829 & notification
sent to Mussey Esq Portland Me
Pension commencing 13 February 1829.
amt due 4 Sept. 1829 $53,60
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Rept Sept 11
Maine
1924
Elcey Brown
widow of Jesse Brown
who was a Private
in the Mass line
for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
the 11th day of Sept. 1843
and sent to
day of Sept. 1843
Joseph Pope
Portland
Maine
Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 2
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I, Jesse Brown, a resident citizen of the United States of A
merica an inhabitant of Raymond in the County of
Cumberland and State of Massachusetts, on oath declare
that some time in the month of January AD 1781,
at Gorhom(??) in said state, I enlisted into the army of
said United States on the continental establishment
for the term of three years, as a private soldier in Cap
Max's company, Col Henry Jackson's regiment, and Gen
John Patterson's brigade. I think, in the attachment
line; and continued to serve as aforesaid, chiefly in
State of New York on North River, until the month
December AD. 1783, when, I received, at West Point
an honorable discharge from Gen Henry Knox, which
I have since had the misfortune to lose.
I further testify that I am fifty three years of age, am not
borne on any pension list of the United States, and that by
reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my country for support. Wherefore I the said Jesse Brown pray that this declaration may be transmitted to the Secretary of War to the end that I may be placed on the pension list of the United States agreeably to the provisions of on set of Congress penned March 18, 1818 entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war."
                                 (signed) Jesse Brown
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I, Daniel Small, of Raymond aforesaid on oath declare
that I was in the continental service in the Revolution
war with the above named Jesse Brown, and was a
part of his term of service abovesaid, in the same regi
ment
and saw said Brown
very often in said ser-
vice, and I have not the least doubt said Brown served
the whole term as he has above stated
Daniel Small
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N247. Jesse Brown
Copy
No 5644
not entitled
22 Jany 1819
not entitled
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
DISTRICT OF MAINE, SS.
this
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at
Portland, within and for the District of Maine, on the
first Tuesday, being the Sixth day of June
and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty ninth
day of June
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS,
Judge of said Court.
On this twenty ninth day of June
in the year above written, personally
appeared in open Court, the same having the power of fine and imprisonment, and being a
Court of Record for said Maine District, Jesse Brown aged
fifty five years, resident in Raymond in said District
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary
War as follows, viz. as a private
in the company commanded by Capt. Fox
in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson
in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is
more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 5th
day of May A.D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension
, numbered 5644 was granted. And 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 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 18th day of March, 1818: 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; that
my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my
family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Jesse Brown
Sworn to and declared on the twenty ninth
day of June, A.D. 1820.
Before
Albion K. Parris
U. S. District Judge for the
District of Maine.
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SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging
to me the subscriber, viz.
Real estate - Fifty acres of new land in a remote
and obscure part of the town of Raymond
Personal estate one yoke of oxen two cows three sheep
two swine I have no income- I am
justly owing sixty five dollars for necessary articles
and family supplies
Jesse Brown
Sworn to
June 29, 1820 
Before Albion K Parris
U.S. District Judge
Schedule of the family residing with me Jesse Brown , who by occupation am a farmer which
I am not able to pursue by reason of
great weakness, being in a decline
NAMES AGES capacity of each to contribute to their support
Wife Elcy 49 very infirm
Samuel 16, Elcy 13, Peggy 11 Children living with me but not able to support themselves
Jesse Brown
Sworn to Before
Albion K. Parris
U.S. Dist:
Judge
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MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do
hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 one hundred forty eight
dollars and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court, on this twenty ninth day of June.
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$148.
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2169
V519
Elcey Brown's
Application for a pension
Act July 7. 1838
Maine
Married 1796
Deed 1831
Allow $80 per anm
J. Pope
Portland
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STATE OF MAINE.
District of Maine
County of Cumberland, ss.
On this sixteenth day of August 1838
personally appeared Hon. Arthur Ware -
Judge of the
United States District Court Elcey Brown
a resident of Raymond in the County of Cumberland and State or
District of Maine, aged Sixty seven years, who being first duly sworn,
according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain
the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled
"An Act granting half pay, and pensions to certain widows."" That she is the widow of
Jesse Brown who was a Private in the
army of the Revolution, and served about
three years as she believes in Capt. Fox
and Col Jackson's Regiment in the Massachu-
setts line that he made a declaration of
his service and he obtained a pension
thereon and his name was placed on the
pension list roll of the Maine Agency at
the rate of Eight Dollars per month
under the act of March 18. 1818 and
continued in said Roll by act of May 1
1820. That she has not married since
the death of said Jesse Brown but still
continues his widow. She would refer to
the declaration of said Jesse Brown on which
his pension was granted for the particulars of
his service, which she is not able to state.
SHE FURTHER DECLARES, that she was married to the said Jesse Brown on
the fourteenth day of December in the
year seventeen hundred and eighty six and that her husband, the aforesaid
Jesse Brown
died on the tenth day of
December 1831 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving
the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen
hundred and ninety-four, viz. at the time above stated.
Witness - Nathaniel Brown
Joseph Pope
Elcey X
Brown
her mark -
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
BEFORE
Arthur Ware
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United States
Maine District
District Court August 16th 1838
SAID AT
I hereby certify that the within proceedings
were had in Open Court before the Honorable
Arthur Ware Judge of the United States District as therein set forth,
have hereunto set
my seal of said
District Court the day and year above
written
John Mussey Clerk U.S. Courts
Mowed
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State of Maine
Cumberland fs
I Charles Fox Clerk of the Judicial Courts
within and for the County of Cumberland; do
certify; that in the record of marriages by Revd
Caleb Jewett. late minister of the Gospel in the
town of Gorham in said county as recorded in
the Book of Record of Marriages; in this County
Volume 2d. Page 11 now in this office, the
Marriage of Jefse (Jesse) Brown and Elcey Strout
is recorded as follows
"Jefse Brown & Elcey Strout, December fourteenth Seventeen hundred eighty Six"
And I further certify that the above is a true
extract from the records of said County; with
the exception of the date; which is exprefsed
in the records in fair legible figures as
follows.    "Dec 14 1786"
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the Court this Sixth
day of August AD. 1838
Charles Fox Clerk of
the Judicial Courts within &
for the County of Cumberland
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at
Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the thirteenth 
day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty nine before the Honorable ABBOTT
Arthur Ware Judge of said Court
On this thirteenth day of February in the year above written, personally
appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a
Court of Record for said Maine District, Jesse Brown aged
sixty five
years, resident in Raymond -- in said District,
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the evemake
the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts
of Congress, of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st May, 1820; that he, the said
Jesse Brown - enlisted for the term of three years
on or about the fifteenth day of January in the year 1781
in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Captain Fox
in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson
---
in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental
establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until
about
November 1783
when he was discharged from the service, in
Westpoint
in the state of New York that his name has
been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of
his property. That since the exhibition of his first schedule no
other changes have been made in his property except that the
land mentioned then and which I now possess is of
less value then it was, because I have not been able to cultivate it, and a few creatures I then owned have been disposed
of or consumed in my necessary support.
District of Maine.

Sidebar: No of certificate 5644
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MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do
hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 two hundred fifty
dollars and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court, on this thirteenth day of February
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
John Musse yClerk of the U. States District
Court for Maine District.
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
-
File No. 23684
Elcey Brown
Wid of
Jesse Brown
Priv Mass Line
Act Mar 3rd 1843
Index:- Vol. A, Page 91
Arrangement of 1870.
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Maine 2119
ref
Elcey Brown widow
of Jesse Brown, dec'd
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 Mar 1818
and who died on the - -
1831-
of Cumberland in the State of Maine
who was a private in the compy commanded
by Captain Fox
by
of the regt commanded
Col Jackson in the Massts line for
2 years-
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland, Me.
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1839.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Mar 1839
and sent to Jos Pope
Portland, Maine
-
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep 39 40.00
=
$280.00
Act July 7,
1838.
Recorded by
D.M. Curdy, Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 1 Page 2
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Elcey Brown
Wid of
Jesse
Maine
Let J. P. Pope
Sept 21 1838
Admitted
Act 7 July 38
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died Dec. 10, 1831
from A.B.
5644.
Maine
Jesse Brown
private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 5 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Jany 1819
and sent to Judge Parrish Paris
Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818. 3 mos 27/30 + 4/30 32.02
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 March 1819. 48.
$80.02
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
-
Discontinued
Notification sent to John
Mussey Jr Esq 14 July
1890. Portland me
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Jesse
Brown
Private
Jacksons Regt
Mass Line
3 years
May 5. 1818.
Admitted
Jesse Brown
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fifth day of May
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, personally came
Jesse Brown the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed,
and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the
several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my
presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the affidavit of
Daniel Small made and signed in
my presence, and the Deposition of
Levi Morse, taken before Daniel
W. Green a respectable magistrate.
appointed by [unintelligible] for this
purpose; both fellow soldiers with
the applicant in the revolutionary war
all which are hereunto annexed 
together with the certificate of Joseph
Wight and Saml Leach municipal
officers of the corporation to which said
applicant belongs relative to his circumstances in life.
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible
witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory
proof to me that the said
Jesse Brown
the applicant, served as a
private soldier
in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy,
for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further
certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear
that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support
; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to
the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my
Official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Albion K. Parris
Judge of the United States in and
for the District of Maine.
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STATE OF MAINE.
Cumberland County.
On this twenty first day of June -- 1843 Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Cumberland Elcy Brown -- a resident of Raymond -- in the County of Cumberland aged Seventy two years--who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d of March, 1843, granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War--That she is the Widow of Jesse Brown--who was a Private in the army of the 
 revolution, and a pensioner under the act of Congress passed on the 18th of March 1818--and that she received a pension under the act of July 7th 1838 -- at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum. she further declares that she is still a widow. 
Elcy [her mark] Brown
Witness. Margaret Brown
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
Before me: and I further certify that the said Elcy Brown is personally known to me to be the identical person she has declared herself to be.
John Sawyer Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
Cumberland S.S. Clerks Office Judicial Courts Portland Jun 23 1843
I Charles Cobb Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County certify that John Sawyer is a magistrate as appears within, that he is duly qualified to act as such that his Commision is dated February 16 a.D.1838 and will expire February 16th a.S.1845 and that the signature within purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State the day and year fixed above written.
Charles Cobb Clerk
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J. L. Edwards Esqr
Count of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Poittance Aug. 16.1838
J. L. Edwards Esqi Council of Pensions
Sir
I forward herewith the applications of Sarah Dyer, and Elcey Brown for pensions under the Act July 7. 1838--When examines, if satisfactory, please forward to me certificate of pension in their behalf over oblige
Yours very respectfully Joseph Pope