Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 17.364, Bridgham Brown, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn.

Brown, Bridgham
Mary
NUMBER
W. 17364
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Rec Dec 4
3156    Connecticut     Mary Brown widow of Bridgham Brown who was a Private in the Conn line Conn for 12 months    
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.     
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Dec. 1843 and sent to Jeremiah Brown Hartford Conn.      
(Act of March 3, 1843.)     
Recorded in Book A 1 Vol. Page 63
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State of Connecticut County of Litchfield } ss   Sept 10th 1838     
On this 10th day of September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Court of Probate for district of Litchfield Mary Brown a resident of the Town of Torrington in the County of Litchfield aged seventy eight 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 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Bridgham Brown who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution.      
She further declares that she was married to the said Bridgham Brown on the eleventh day of Sept in the year Seventeen hundred eighty one and that her husband the aforesaid Brigham died in May eighteen hundred & twenty Nine that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of Jany 4 seventeen hundred & Ninety four viz at the time stated      
Sworn to and Subscribed on the said year above written before me     
Mary Brown her mark & Phinehas Minor Judge of Probate for the District of Litchfield
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I Geo Woodruff Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for the District of Litchfield Conn hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of Mary Brown for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 10th day of Sept 1838
Geo. C. Woodruff
Clerk
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I, William Brown of the Town and County of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged seventy five years and upwards do depose and say that I was born in the Town of Lyme in New London County and State aforesaid and that I have resided in this Town for fifty years last past and that I am a brother of Bridgham Brown who also was born in Lyme that
foresaid and that I distinctly recollect of my Brother the said Bridgham enlisting
under Ensign John Griswold in Capt Nathan Palmers company and Col. Ely. Regt. and serving in Guard on the coast for a year or more 
in the war of the Revolution

I further depose and say that my Brother the said Bridgham removed to the Town of Granvill in the State of Massachusetts and then
married Mary Latham the daughter of John Latham Esqr and resided in that Town ten or fifteen years as near as I can recollect. He afterwards removed to the Town of Southwick in the aforesaid State and resided there a number of years and from thence he removed to the Town of Canton in Hartford County and
State of Connecticut where he there died.  I have no records of the Marriage and death of my Brother but state from recollection and
cannot state the particulars

I further depose that Mary Brown, the widow
of my Brother the said Bridgham Brown has for a number of years last past resided with her daughter in the Town of Torrington in Litchfield County and State aforesaid and that she still resides there and has remained a widow ever since the death of my Brother

William Brown
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State of Connecticut}
County of Hartford
Sept 3rd 1838

Personally appeared before me William Brown with whom I am well acquainted and subscribed to the within and made oath the to the truth of the same and I further certify that he is reputable and credible witness

I further certify that the within erasure was made before the signing of the same & the name Mary Brown written thereon

Isaac Perkins Justice of the Peace
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I Jeremiah Brown of the Town & County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, aged Fifty Six years & upward, do depose and say that I am the Oldest of my father's Children, Bridgeham Brown, who died in the town of Canton in the County & State aforesaid in May 1824 and I have in my possession his family record in his own hand writing of which the following is a true copy. Viz 
“Bridgham Brown, was born in Lyme, State of Connecticut January 10th 1757     
Mary Brown (my wife) was born in Hopkinton R I. in the year 1760     
We were married in Granville Mass: Sept 11th 1781       
Jeremiah Our first child, was born June 10th 1782      
William, Our Second child was born July 2nd 1785     
Anne, Our third child was born Novr 17. 1787.     
Mary Our fourth child was born Dec 5, 1789.      
Eliza “ Our fifth child was born Apr 17, 1796     
Marcia " Our Sixth child was born July 24th 1805      
Julia “ our seventh child was born June 29th 1804      
Caroline " Our Eighth child was born Feby 19th 1806      
The death of two of them, viz: Wm & Marcia, are also recorded. -      
I further depose and say, that my Mother, Mary Brown, resides in Torrington, Litchfield County & State aforesaid, with my sister Caroline, and has remained a widow ever since the death of my father      Jeremiah Brown     
Hartford County} Aug 6. 1838
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State of Connecticut}
County of Hartford

Hartford Sept 7th 1828


Personally appeared before me Jeremiah Brown 
Esqr late Treasurer of this State with whom I well acquainted and subscribed to the foregoing and made solemn oath to the truth of the same and I further certify that that he is a credible witness

Isaac Perkins Justice of the Peace
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
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File No.17364
Mary Brown
Wid of
Bridgham Brown
Priv. Rev War

Act: March 3, 1843
Index: --Vol.1 - , Page 89
(Arrangement of 1870.)

(3 months increases ; proof sigd)
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Connecticut. 468
Mary Brown
widow of Bridgham Brown, deceased and who    died in the May 1829
of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut
who was a Priv.  - in the Compy  commanded by Captain Putman of the Regt commanded
by Col Ely in the Connecticut line for 12 months


Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 40 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836


Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Sept
'38 sent to Hon. to S. M. Niles Hartford, said.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. $100 as Semi-annual allowance ending
20.00

$120.00

{Act July 7 1838}

Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk

Book A Vol; 1 Page 166
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Let to Hon. J. Toucey,
(3 mos. increase) Decr 17. 1838
SGO-SGO   2: March 1839
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In at CT
March 1
Brown

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 


Hon. J. Toucey
H.R.
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Hos. of Rep. Feb 28th 1839

Sir

I send you additional proof in the case of the widow Mary Brown, in pursuance of your
letter 17" Dec last the object of which proof is to shew that she is entitled to an increase of pension

Very respectfully
your obed serv

J Toucey

J.L. Edwards Esq }
Comm of Pensions
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Hartford Sept 17. '39

Sir

I forward to you the papers to sustain the claim of Mrs Mary Brown to a Pension under the act
of the last season of Congress and request
your attention to it as soon as convenient ┃


I am your &c.

J.A.Niles

J L Edwards
Coms &
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Comptrollers Office     
Hartford Feb 25 1839      
I Certify that on application for evidence of the services of Bridgham Brown in the War of the Revolution under Capt Dan Marvin in 1776 - that no Pay Roll of Capt Marvin can be found in this Office - that on Pay Table Book is the following Account - Cap Dan Marviar Dy 1777 Feby 28 To Cash advanced Oliver Elsworth Esq for your Company Militia to West Chester Sep 12 1776 £17.0.0 Henry Kilbourn Compt
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Dan Marvin of Lyme in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged seventy three years being duly sworn on oath depose and say that my Father Dan Marvin formerly of said Lyme was Captain of a company of militia in the Regiment of Col. John Ely at one time during the Revolutionary War. In the year 1776, as I believe, early in the month of September, my Father went with his company in the service of the United States to the White Plains in the State of New York on a tour of three months. He returned home some time in the month of December of the same year sick, and died on the 30th of that month. I went as far as Saybrook with a horse to meet him, and further the Deponent saith not     
Lyme January 22d 1839        Dan Marvin    
State of Connecticut New London County & Lyme January 22d 1835 Personally appeared Dan Marvin signer of the foregoing deposition whom I hereby certify to be a responsible & creditable person & made oath to the truth of the same before me Charles J McCurdy Justice of Peace
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I, ROYAL R.HINMAN,  Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, THAT Charles J. McCurdy and Stephen J. Lord Esqrs, are and for more than six months last past, have been Justices of the Peace within and for the County of New London in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said McCurdy and Lord in Court and Country. In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the of26th day of February  in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine And I certify that the signatures of said McCurdy & Lord hereunto annexed are genuine  Royal R  Hinman Secretary
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I John Lay of Lyme in the County of New London in the State of Connecticut a Revolutionary Pentioner in the Seventy Fifth year of my age Being duly sworn on oath depose and say that I well knew Capt Dan Marvin of said Lyme. That he marched with his Company in Col John Elys Regiment for the White Plains and West Chester in the month of Septr 1776 and returned home in December the same year sick and died the 30 Day of the same month as I find on his Grave Stone in the yard.

John Lay

State of Connecticut New London County Lyme Feby 23 1839. Personally appeared John Lay signer of the foregoing deposition whom I hereby certify to be a reputable and credible persons and made oath to the truth of the same.

Before me
Stephen J Lord Justice Peace
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Wm. Browns Depo
Pens Office
cb
Hon
J Toucey
HR
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I, William Brown of Hartford in the County of Hartford, State of Connecticut being now in the seventy Sixth year of my Age, do depose and say, that my brother Brigham Brown then of the Town of Lyme, New London County this
State, served in Col. Ely's Regiment Capt Dan Marvin Lt Abel Hall & Ensign Wm Lay's  Company in the year 1776.

I believe it was in the fall of that year, he went a tour to the west of Lyme, I think at or near Westchester, New York & was absent more that three months of this. I am certain. I well remember that when he returned home that he travelled from New Haven to Lyme in one day
a distance of more than forty miles & was much fatigued

William Brown
State of Connecticut
Hartford County
Hartford December 1st 1838

Personally appeared William Brown, signer of the foregoing Deposition, and made Oath to the truth of the same. And I further certify
that the said deponent is and has been for many years personally known to me & is a creditable witness

Jeremiah Brown Jus: of Peace
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I , ROYAL R. HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof
do hereby Certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern 
THAT Jeremiah Brown Esq is and for more than four months this last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Jeremiah Brown in Court and Country.


In testimony whereof, I have in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affix the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the fourth of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.

And I certify that the signature of said Jeremiah Brown hereunto annexed is genuine.

Royal R. Hinman
Secretary.
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3175

Mary Brown

$40 per an

Jeremiah Brown
Hartford
Con.
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Declaration
State of Connecticut   County of Litchfield
August 7th" 1843


On this 7th day of August A.D. 1843. Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mary Brown a resident of the town of Torrington in the County
and State aforesaid, Aged Eighty three years, who being first 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
day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Bridgham Brown, who served in the War of the Revolution, & the Amount of the pension which she received under the Act of July 7th 1838 was at the rate of Sixty Dollars per annum, she further declares that she still is a Widow


Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written

Mary Brown her mark
Before me
Abijah Catlin Justice Peace

I Abijah Catlin the Magistrate before whom the foregoing declaration was executed hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the declarant, and know that she continues the Widow of Bridgham Brown

Abijah Catlin 
Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Office of Secretary of State


I do herby certify that Abijah Catlin Esq is & on
the 7th day of August inst. was a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Litchfield in said State, duly appointed & commissioned, as appears of and in this office and that the within signature purporting to be his, is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said State this 11th day of August 1843.

Noah A. Phelps
Secretary of State
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Connecticut
Secretary  Office Hartford August 11th" 1843

Sir 

Enclosed is my mother's declaration (Mary Brown) with the view of obtaining a pension.


Respectfully, furnished & here sent
Jeremiah Brown


Hon. J L Edwards
Comm of Pensions
1843
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I Silas Champlin of Lyme in the County of New London and State of Connecticut being now 80 years of age on oath depose and say that on the first day of January 1777 I enlisted into Captain Nathan Palmer's Company in Col. John Ely's Regiment for one year and served until the first of January following. The Company served as a guard on Long Island Sound for six months. Nathan Palmer was Captain one Chapman First Lieutenant and as I think one Shipman 2" Lieutenant. John Griswold Son of Governor Griswold was Ensign and we served under him the principal part of the time. About the middle of this service we were marched to Norwalk under Col Ely as Colonel and Col Prentiss of Groton or Stonington as Major. Col. Webb was with the Regiment. General Parsons had command of the two Regiments. We embarked to go to Long Island to take a fort, in possession of the Refugees, but the vessels in crossing the Sound were separated and a part of the men were taken, among whom were Colonels Ely & Webb. We then returned to Lyme and served in the Guard until the end of the year when we first enlisted the company could not be carried out of the State of Connecticut but afterwards a bounty of Twenty dollars was offered and we enlisted over again Bridgham Brown of said Lyme enlisted into the same Company at the same time and served with us until the end of the
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Year. and was a private in the Company.
Mr. Brown afterwards moved out of Lyme as I think into Granby County of Hartford.
Silas Champlin

State of Connecticut New London County } ss Lyme Aug 1 1838      
Personally appeared Silas Champlin signer of the foregoing deposition and before me made oath to the truth of the same. And I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Silas Champlin and that he is a creditable witness.      
Henry M. Waite a Judge of the Superior Court.    

State of Connecticut SS. Secretary's Office Sept. 5.1838 }    I hereby certify that Henry M. Waite is a Judge of the Superior Court in and for the State of Connecticut and that the signature above of the said Waite is genuine - I further certify that Isaac Perkins is and has been for more than one month last past a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed & qualified to officiate as such. and that his signature hereto annexed is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed the seal of said State at Hartford on the date last aforesaid Royal R. Hinman Secretary of State
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Comptrollers Office 
Hartford Connt    
Sept 3d 1838       
I certify from Haskells Receipts in this office headed "Expences of Court Guard,”  the following entries appear      
1777 Apl. 16 Capt Nathan Palmer exp: Fort at Stonington £15.S17.a5      
1777 July 10 Capt Nathan Palmer exp: Guard at Stonington £485.S4.a11       
1778 Jan 19 Capt Nathan Palmer exp: Guard at Stonington £329. S10.a4       
Henry Kilbourn Compt
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1406
Mary Brown
widow of Bridgham
Con.
Act 7. July '38
5 years

admin.
12 mo. pri
4

no deduction
Hon. J. M. Niles
Hartford
Con.
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I Joseph Latham of Lyme in the County of New London and State of Connecticut a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States being now 80 years of age on oath depose and say that in the year 1777 and in the month of January I enlisted into Captain Nathan Palmer's Company and Col. John Ely's Regiment for a period of twelve months. The company was principally employed as a guard on Long Island Sound, but part of it we marched to Rhode Island and Norwalk. I was however left behind as a Guard, Richard Chapman was First Lieutenant and John Shipman Second Lieut. and John Griswold son of Gov. Matthew Griswold Ensign. That portion of the company in which I served was principally under the immediate command of Ensign Griswold.     
Bridgham Brown then of said Lyme was in the same company as a private during the whole year. Mr. Brown sometime after the service moved from Lyme to Granby in Hartford County as I have understood.      Joseph Latham        
State of Connecticut. New London Co. ss Lyme Aug 1st 1838     
Personally appeared Joseph Latham signer of the foregoing deposition and before me made oath to the truth of the same. And I further certify that the said Joseph Latham is personally known to me and that he is a credible witness. Henry M. Waite a Judge of the Superior Court
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I John Lay of Lyme in the County of
New London in the State of Connecticut
a Revolutionary Pensioner about 74 years of
age depose and say That I well knew Bridgham Brown of said Lyme and that in the year 1776 in the Month of Sept. In the same year the Militia was called for the to go To WestChester Bridgham Brown served in Capt Dan Marvins Company in Col Elys Regiment as private soldier for three months as I think and in the year 1777 he served in the State Troops The whole year soon after that he moved from Lyme Into Granby in Hartford County
John Lay


State of Connecticut }
New London County

Lyme November 22d AD 1739



Personally appeared John Lay signer of the 
foregoing Deposition and before
Me Made oath to the truth of the same and
I further Certify that the said Deponant is
previously known to me and that he is a creditable witness.
Henry M. Waite a Judge of the Superior Court
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Lyme Conn. Nov: 24th 1838


(to my knowledge)

I hereby certify that their is but two men now living who were with my self and Bridgham Brown, during the three months service mentioned above. Viz-

Sewett who is now more than Eighty years of age, is in the Alms house and is derange. The other is Joseph Gillett is who is also More than Eighty years of age, is much broken down, memory much impaired, eye sight gone, and cannot remember said Gillett is now a pensioner

John Lay