Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,763, Jedediah Brown, Conn.
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SERVICE 
Conn. 

Brown, Jedediah
Mary 

NUMBER 
W. 20,763 

CONTENTS 
res. of Norwalk, Fairfield Co. Conn. 
d. Sept 8, 1814
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Dead 
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 to 1 of the 5 children of Mary Brown dec.  from 4th March 1837 to 11. June 1837 the day of her death. - Agt note-filed 24 Jany 1840. 

Connecticut 498 
Mary Brown 
of Fairfield in the State of Ct 
who was a Conn. in the [blank] commanded 
by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the widow of Jedediah Brown died late a Corporal Sgt. in the Revolution 

Inscribed of the Roll of Ct 
at the rate of 95 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Feb 1837 and sent [illegible] 
Isaacs Norwalk Ct
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $542.68 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '57 49.33 
$592.01

Act 4 July 
1836 5 Section 

Revolutionary Claim, 

Recorded by D W Addison Clerk 
Book A Vol. 1 Page 75 
4 July 36
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735  3 sec.
Mary Brown
widow of Jedediah
Cont.
on Seymors rol
1 mo corpl 76
79- when wounded 1 mo
77. 78. 79 9 mos each Sergt
admd
1 mo Corpl 3.67
19 - Sergt 95.00
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20             98.67
no deduction

Benj Isaacs
Norwalk
Connt
Dec 5th
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State of Connecticut 
County of Fairfield 

On this thirtieth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty six personally appeared before this Court of Probate within and for this District of Norwalk in said County and State being a Court of Record Mary Brown a resident of Norwalk in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged eight nine years who being just duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make this following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by this Act of Congress passed July 4. 1836- That she is the widow of Jedediah Brown who was a Sergeant in the War of the Revolution and according to her best knowledge and belief he entered the service of the United States in the summer of the year 1776 in said Norwalk as a Sergeant in Capt Seth Seymour company under CS John Meed was marched to the City of New York and was in said service two months that in the spring of the year 1777 entered the service of the United States in said Norwalk as a sergeant in Capt Unich Raymond company of coast guard under Col. John Mead and was on guard at said Norwalk and on the lines at home much nine months. 
That in March 1778 said Brown entered the service of the United Sates in said Norwalk as a sergeant in Capt Unich Raymond company of coast guards under Col. Stephen St. John  + Mead and was on guard at said Norwalk and on the line at home need nine months. 
That on the first of March 1779 said Brown entered the service of the United States in said Norwalk as a sergeant in Capt Unich Raymond company of coast guards under Col. St. John + Meed and which in the service of the United States on this last part of the month of April following was in commission of his gun bunting wounded in his left hand taking off part of his thumb and other injuring his hand.
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which disabled him for a long time and from which his hand non recovered being a Cooper by trade and left handed. That soon after peace took place said Brown was by Congress placed on the pension sect as an invalid[illegible] of the United States which pension was continued to him until his death he had some paper containing his pension concerning his pension which was lost has no documentary evidence of him serving except what may be at Washington City. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Jedidiah Brown on the thirteenth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and sixty eight that her said husband the aforesaid Jedediah Brown died on the eighth day of September Eighteen hundred and fourteen and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reperement to the proof hereunto annexed. 

Sworn to and subscribed on 
the day and year above written 
before said Court of Probate 
Mary Brown
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I George Taylor Clark of the foresaid Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Brown for a Pension

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of said Probate Court this 2nd day of December 1836

G Taylor
Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County} ss    Norwalk November 1836
Personally appeared before the [illegible] Benj Isaacs a Justice of the Peace within and for said Fairfield County Daniel Hoyt of said Norwalk who being first duly sworn according to Law depose and says that he is seventy seven years of age was well acquainted with Jedediah Brown formerly of said Norwalk decd and known that said Jedediah Brown entered the service of the United States in Capt. Seth Seymour Company under Col. John Mead in the year 1776 as a Sergeant of said Company was marched to the City of New York and was in said service two months.

That in the Spring of 1777 entered the service of the United States in Capt. Uriah Raymond Company in said Norwalk under Col. Mead as a Sergeant and said Jedidiah Brown was a Guard at said Norwalk and on the line of Horn Neck nine months

That in March 1778 said Brown entered the services of the United States as a sergeant in Capt. Uriah Raymond Company under Col. S. John Mead and in the month of April following after coming off guard went to clean his musket and in firing it off it burnt and wounded his left hand taking off part of his thumb.  Said Brown was left handed

The deponent was in the same service with the said Brown during the whole of the [illegible] services and said Brown was placed on the [illegible] Pension list by Congress in consequence of said wound which Pension was continued to him until his death in the year 1814.  The deponent also well remembers that said Jedidiah Brown was married to Mary Lockwood some time in the year
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1768 cannot at this time tell the month.   always lived in the same neighborhood with said Jedediah Brown and his widow and knows that said Mary Brown has remained his Widow since his [illegible]

Daniel Hoyt

Sworn and submitted on the day and year aforesaid that I am well acquainted with said Daniel Hoyt and that he is a respectable and Credible Witness. 

Benj Isaacs Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County}  ss      Norwalk Nov. 1836 Personally appeared before the [illegible] Benj. Isaacs a Justice of the Peace within and for said Fairfield County.  Seth Seymour of said Norwalk who being first duly sworn according to Law depose and says that he is Seventy to years of age.  That he was well acquainted with Jedediah Brown late of Norwalk decd and well remembers that said Brown [illegible] the services of the United States under his Father Capt. Seth Seymour in the year 1776 and was marched to New York.  That he well remembers seeing him in the [illegible] in the year 1777.  The length of his service is [illegible] two years cannot now state

That in the Spring of the year 1778 he entered the service of the United as a Sergeant in Capt. Uriah Raymond Company under Col. St. John and was in the service Nine months the deponent belonged to the same company at the same time. 

That in the Spring of the Year in March 1779 entered the  service of the United States as a Sergeant in Capt. Uriah Raymond Company under Col. St. John & Mead and in April was wounded by the [illegible] of his gun while in the service [illegible] in the left hand [illegible] away part of his thumb 

The deponent saw him in a few minutes after he was
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wounded, and saw the Doctor [unk] his wound which was any service from which his hand never recovered. Also know that said Brown was placed on the Invalid Pension Roll of Congress, in consequence of said wound which Pension continued until his death in the year 1814, that he is well acquainted with the widow of said Jedediah Brown, and has always lived a night neighbor and know that his widow Mary Brown has continued his widow since his decease.
Seth Seymoure
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid that I am well acquainted with said Seth Seymour, that he is a credible & respectable witness.
Benj Isaacs Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} ss.
I George Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Norwalk in said County, being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Benj. Isaacs whose name is subscribed to the certificate of Proof to the foregoing deposition was on the day and date them of and for more than one year before a Justice of the Peace within and for said Fairfield County, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to administer oaths and to take depositions and am well acquainted with his hand writing of said Benj Isaacs and know the same to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court this 2d day of December 1836.
G Taylor
Clerk
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This may certify that the following is a true copy of the Records of the town of Norwalk in the County of Fairfield
State of Connecticut viz
Jedediah Brown was married to Mary Lockwood November 13th 1768
Serkey Brown daughter of sd Jedediah & Mary born July 4, 1769
Samuel Brown son of sd Jedediah & Mary born June 26, 1771
Sally Brown daughter of sd Jedediah & Mary born Jany 15, 1774
Viellette Brown daughter of sd Jedediah & Mary born March 2, 1776
Jedediah Brown son of sd Jedediah & Mary born July 31, 1778
Polly Brown daughter of sd Jedediah & Mary born April 1, 1781
Katharine Brown daughter of sd Jedediah & Mary born June 5, 1783
The said Katharine died Feby 19th 1785
Katharine Brown 2d daughter of sd Jedediah & Mary born Feb 15, 1787
Mary Brown daughter of sd Jedediah & Mary born May 22, 1789
The said Samuel Brown died April 22, 1791
Samuel Brown son of sd Jedediah & Mary born Dec 1, 1791
attest Benj Isaacs Town Clerk
Norwalk Dec 2, 1836  of sd Norwalk
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64 Bahnforth Avenue
Danbury Conn.
May 13/96
Pension Bureau
Washington D. C.
Will you kindly sir me information, with all detail as from command of a Revolutionary soldier (corporal I think) whose widow drew a pension between the year 1837 & 1840 probably prior to 1837. Her name was Mary Brown, widow of Jedediah Brown, of Norwalk Conn.; Jedediah Brown family tradition says was slightly wounded in the Revolutionary war, (?) every information you can give me of him will be appreciated by yours.
Respectfully
Caroline Brown White

P.S. If Jedediah Brown, himself drew a pension, I should like to know if his widow died about the year 1840, he died many years before.
C
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May 1896
[unk] wid pensioned
Miss C B White
Danbury Conn
FMB

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20763
Mary Brown
wid of
Jedediah Brown
Corpl Rev War
ACt July 4th /36
Index:- Vol. A,  Page 90
[Arrangement of 1870]
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493.35
  49.33
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542.68

Bolelen & Donn
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Jedediah Brown
summer 76 Capt. Seymour Mead N. York (on Roll corpl 1 mo) 2m
spring 77 " Raymond C Guards Norwalk Sergt 9
March 78 " " Col. St John     "  "  9
" 79 "  "  "  " to last of Apl  "  
married 30 Nov. 1768
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Treasure Department
Second Comptroller's Office
January 8th, 1840

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, "Anthony P. Sandord, Adm estate of
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Nov. 1906                    Conn.
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Brown, Jedediah
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Feby 21, 1795 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 153

Rank: Sergeant
Regt: 9th Connecticut militia
Disability: Has, in a great measure, lost the use of his right hand, by the bursting of his musket
when and where disabled: Feb '79, while marching to Greenwich
Residence: Norwalk
To what pension entitled: One fourth
Remarks: militia
Evidence complete, expecting that the deposition of the examining physicians is not upon oath and that the other evidences are taken before two commissioners, instead of three as required by law
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AW
July 31, 1906
NJF
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Brown, Jedediah
His name appears on a list of claimants to be placed on the pension list returned by the District Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 112

Rank: Sergeant
Company: Capt. U. Raymond's militia
Disability: Wounded, in his left hand, by the bursting of his musket
When disabled: February 19, 1779
Residence: Norwalk
Monthly allowance: $3.56
Arrearages: $160.00
Remarks: There are no militia rolls in this office
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Mar. 26, 1906
AW NJF
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Brown, Jedediah
His name appears on a list of invalid pensioners returned by the Circuit Court for the district of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War, on Dec. 14, 1792, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 61

Rank: Sergeant
Regt: Captain U. Raymond, militia
Disability: Wounded in his left hand by the bursting of his musket; 19th February 1779
Date of commencement: May 2, 1792
Monthly allowance: $3.56
Arrearages: $160.00