Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,432, Jedidiah Brown, Conn. Continental
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(S-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
continental

Brown, Jedidiah or Jedediah

NUMBER
S.36432

Contents
In 1820 aged 66 yrs, res. Canterbury, Windham Co., Conn & wife Lydia
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SERVICE
Conn.
Continental

Brown, Jedidiah
or 
Jedediah

NUMBER
S. 36,432

CONTENTS
In 1820 aged 66 yrs, res. Canterbury, Windham Co. Conn. & wife Lydia
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Jedediah Brown's Petition

Jabez Clarke, Esq;
Judge,
Woodstock, Windham
County, Connecticut

Jedediah Brown,
Connecticut line,
Revolutionary claim.

found on the rolls of 
Colo Durkee's regiment
adm.

For testimony relative
to the applicant's
reduced circumstances
See endorsement in the
case of Samuel
Cleveland
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To the Honorable Jabez Clark Esquire, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham, Court of Record in the State of Connecticut:
The memorial and application of Jedediah Brown of Canterbury in the County of Windham aforesaid to be placed on the pension List of the United States, to receive the benefits of an act of Congress passed the present session entitled an act to provide for certain persons in the land Naval service of the United State in the Revolutionary War.
Whereupon the said Jedediah Brown pray, your Honor to receive this his application together with his affidavit and other testimony and transmit the same to the Secy of the Department of War, and your memorial as in duty bound will ever [unk]. Dated at Windham this 26th day of March 1818.
Jedediah Brown

State of Connecticut ss. Windham County, Windham March 20, 1818
Then came before me Jabez Clark Esquire, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, a Court of Record in said State and made oath to the following affidavit- viz- I Jedediah Brown of Canterbury in the County aforesaid depose and say that on the 10th day of Feby 1776 I enlisted as private soldier, in the Company commanded by Capt. John M. McGreggor in the Regt of Col John Durkee, in the
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Connecticut Line where I did the duty and held a non commissioned officers warrant: which enlistment was during the war. And that in the month of February 1778 I was selected for, and joined General Washington's Life Guard under the command of Capt. Colfax in which I continued to service, in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy until the end of the war; when I was honorably discharged by the Commander in Chief; and that during said service I received several wounds from the enemy on account of which I have been allowed and until this time enjoyed a pension from the United States which i have this day relinquished, and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my Country for support. 
Jedediah Brown

Sworn the 26th day of March AD 1813
before me Jabez Clark Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Windham County
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I Andrew T Judson of Canterbury in the County of Windham depose and say that I am well acquainted with Jedediah Brown the before named applicant and know him to be a resident citizen of said Canterbury, lame, infirm, poor and indigent and by the Providence of God his wife is deprived of right and that he need assistance from his Country for support.
Andrew T. Judson

[unk] March 26th 1818
Before me Jabez Clarke Judge of the County of Common Pleas for Windham County

I Jabez Clarke Judge of the Common Pleas for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jedediah Brown did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration and I now transmit the proceedings of testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War.
In testimony of the matters aforesd I have hereunto caused the Seal of the County Common Pleas for the County of Windham to be affixed.
Attest Jabez Clarke Judge of sd Court
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Jedediah Brown
exd
3875
Canterbury
March 
1819
not entitled

Sworn to and declared on the twenty seventh day of June anno domini 1820 before the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham in the District of Connecticut.
attest Dave C. Bolles Clerk
I, David C. Bowles Clerk of the Court of Common Please for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby
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District of Connecticut, ss. At a Special Court of Common Pleas holden at Windham within and for the County of Windham in said District.
On this twenty seventh day of June AD 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, for the County aforesaid. I having the power of fine and imprisonment, Jedediah Brown of the Town of Canterbury in the County of Windham and District aforesaid, aged sixty six years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the 1st May, 1820, that he the said Jedeiah Brown enlisted for the term of "During the War" on the last day of December in the year 1776 in the State of New York in the company commanded by Captain John McGreggor in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Durkee in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment: that he continued to serve in the said corps until January 1780- when he was transferred to Genl Washington's life guard in which he performed duty until the end of the War, under the command of Captain Colfax when he was discharged from the said service in New York in the State of New York. That he made application to the War Department many years ago & obtained an "invalid pension" of $20, a year which was afterwards increased  by Congress to the sum of $30- which he continued to enjoy until the 26th day of March 1818, when he relinquished the same and made application to the War Department for a pension under the Law of March 18, 1818 & received a pension certificate from said Department numbered 3875. That his wife is now 79 years old and is blind, helpless & wholly unable to contribute any thing to her own support. That he was in numerous actions during the Revolutionary War at Schealkill, & at Kingsbridge he was wounded in both arms & one leg when engaged in action against the common enemy, both of which are now in a fractured & injured condition. That by occupation he is a farmer but by reason of his aforesaid wounds can render but little towards is his own or families support, which consist of himself & wife whose name is Lydia.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May, 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war, passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eighteen 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.
Jedediah Brown

A Schedule of the Whole estate of Jedediah Brown
made out & signed this 27th day of June 1820
1 high case of draws  $5.00
1 meat barrel & tub  .50
1 pewter platter        .50
3 pewter plates         .25
Tin ware                    .50
1 tea kettle                .25
1 scythe & hoe & axe    1.00
4 chairs 1.67           $6.67
1 pair shovel & tongs   1.35
2 pewter basons .50      1.00
crockery 1.00              1.25
3 silver spoons 75        1.25
1 pot 25                    .50
                         ----------------
 amount carried over 13.00
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Amount of property bro' over    $13.00
Lydia Brown wife of the applicant, late a widow of Ebenezer Johnson, at the time of our intermarriage was possessed of a right of dower in a farm of Land in said Canterbury, all of which serve 1/2 the house was conveyed in 1812, by lease to Joseph R. Willoughby & in consideration thereof, he engaged to pay the Selectmen of said Town 45 dollars a year during the life of said Lydia for the use of said Lydia who is now alive, and that the Selectmen aforesaid is overseers of the poor of said Town now have the said Lydia under their care and apply said 45 dollars towards her yearly support & make up the residue from the Town treasury.
The use of 1/2 the house aforesaid subject to the same condition per year           20.00
                                               ----------------
                                                  $78.00
Jedediah Brown

Sworn to and declared on the twenty seventh day of June anno domini 1820 before the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham in the District of Connecticut.
attest David C Bolles Clerk

I David C Bolles Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration & oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 thirteen dollars personal property and 65 dollars income in manner above stated, in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this thirteenth day of July AD 1820.
David C Bolles
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Windham County 


Jedediah Brown
exd
3875
Canterbury
March
1819
not entitled
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36432
Revy INVALID
Life Guard
File No. 36432
Jedediah Brown
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:- Vol. 2,  Page 479

[Arrangement of 1870]
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applicant 66 years old
served 6 years- His wife is
79 years old, blind, wholly 
unable to contribute anything to her
support. She has a dower
in a tract of land, worth $45
a year, which is expended on
her by the selectmen, who have
charge of her. He has the use
of one half of a house worth $20
a year, and belonging to the dower
of his wife. The remainder of
his property is worth $13
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Reinstated July 21
1821 and sent to
D. C. Bolles

Jedediah Brown
ecd reinstated July
21, 1821 and sent to
D. C. Bolles
For
re-consideration

from the Clerk
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District of Connecticut, ss. At a Court of Common Pleas holden at Brooklynn within & for the County of Windham in said District.
On this eighteenth day of August AD 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, (having the power of fine & imprisonment) Jedediah Brown of the Town of Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut aged sixty six years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820, that he the said Jedediah Brown enlisted for the term of During the war on the last day December in the year 1776 in the State of New York in the company commanded in Captain John McGregor in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Durkee in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental establishment: that he continued to serve in the said corps until January 1780, when he was transported to Gen Washington Life Guards in which he performed duty until the end of the War, under the command of Captain Colfax when he was discharged from the sad service in Newburgh, in the Stat of New York.
That he made application to the War Department many years ago & obtained an "invalid Pension" of $20.00 a year, which was afterwards increased by Congress to the sum of $30, which he continued to enjoy until the 26th day of March 1818, when he relinquished the same & made application to the War Department for a Pension under the Law of the 18th March 1818, & received a pension certificate from sd department numbered 3875. That his wife is now 79 years of age and totally blind and helpless. That he was in numerous actions during the Revolutionary War, especially at Schuylkill & Kingsbridge where he was wounded in both arms & one leg of which he still languishes & is unable to do anything towards his support. The name of wife is Lydia.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May, 1820, I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the united States, on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 being myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitlted "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, one thousand eighteen hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has nay 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.
Jedediah Brown

A Schedule of the whole estates & income of Jedediah Brown made out & signed this 18th day of August 1820.
1 high case drawers       5.50
1 meat barrel & tub         .50
1 pewter platter              .50
3 pewter plate                .25
tin ware                           .50
1 tea kettle                      .25
1 scythe & how& axe       1    
4 chairs  1.67               $6.67
1 pair shovel & tongs .83         1.33
2 pewter basins         .50   
crockery   1.00                        1.25
3 silver spoons  .75            1.25
1 pot              .25    .50
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Sworn to and declared on the eighteenth day of August Anno Domini 1820 before the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham in the District of Connecticut.
attest David C. Bolles Clerk

I, David C. Bolles Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration & oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is thirteen dollars and --- cents, in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this 28th day of September AD 1820.
David C Bolles
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Windham County
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Jedediah Brown's
Relinquishment                  March AD 1818

Whereas by the laws of Congress there has heretofore been granted and allowed, unto Jedediah Brown of Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut a Pension of twenty dollars a year, for and on account of sundry wounds received while in the Continental army as a soldier which was afterwards by law enereared to the sum of thirty dollars a year which hath been enjoyed to the great relief of his necessities & wants.
Now therefore in consideration of a Law passed the present session of the Congress of the United State of America, I Jedediah Brown of Canterbury do by there presents remove, release, quit claim and forever relinquishes said Pension unto the said United States, so that I will not hereafter have any right or claim in or unto said Pension or any benefit there from. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 26th day of March 1818.
Jedediah Brown

Signed, sealed, delivered in presents [unk]
[unk]
Andes S t Judson
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To the Hon. Secretary of Wat
The petition of Jedediah Brown of Canterbury Cont. respectfully represents that he has recently received notice from the War Department No. 3876, that his name is stricken from the Pension list, on account of the amount of property contained in his Schedule of 27th June 1820, sent to the War Office. In consiquence of which notice he the said Brown prays your Honor to review his case, and he confidently believes his name will again be restored to its former standing on the Pension list, for all the property the sd Brown is the owner or possessor, or was the owner or possessor on said 27th day of June 1820, was a few articles of household goods as mentioned in sd Schedule amounting to $13. The residence of the property mentioned in sd Schedule which grew out of a life belonging to my wife Lydia Brown, & which will cease & come to an end at her decease; was apart of an old house & garden, which we formerly occupied together, the residue of said life estate was leased by my wife Lydia & myself in 1812 to Joseph R Willowby during the natural life of sd Lydia who ingaged to pay to the Selectmen of sd Town of Canterbury & their Sucession in sd Office Forty Five Dollars a year so long as the said Lydia should live, & the sd Brown has not at this time nor at any time since 1812, any more controll over any part of sd $45 pr year, then over the rents and profits of his neighbors land. The part of an old house and garden before mentioned was taken & leased out last spring by the Selectmen of sd Town for the one year for $19 & the said Lydia billeted out by sd Selectmen to be furnished with suitable attendance & food at the rate of $1.25 per week while in her present state of health; and the whole of sd rents  ad profits aforesaid are applied by sd Selectmen for the support of my wife Lydia & what they fall short of supplying are furnished from the Town Treasury. The said Lydia has been blind a number of years & is completely helpless, and ever must continue so during life & there is no probability that she ever can be at by expense that at the present time, I have not lived with my wife Lydia for about nine months; I have no place of resident, nothing left
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to support me, but my feeble exertion duly my health so impaired by age & the wounds I recevd in the Revolutionary War in defence of my Country; right grown more painfull by increase of years, & which at this time has rendered me incapable to support my self without the aid of public or private charity, which are duly administered to me. For the Truth of the foregoing Facts as stated, he would refer your Honor to the following certificates, all which is humbly submitted by your Honors most obedient & humble servant
Canterbury August 11th 1820
Jedediah Brown

We the Civil Authority & Selectmen of the Town of Canterbury having perused the foregoing petition of Jedediah Brown, do certify that the facts stated in said petition as it relates to property and the situation of Brown & his wife Lydia are true; and in all human probability sd Lydia will never be at less expence than at the present time & which now exceeds all the rents and profits of her sd Dower.
Justices of the Peace} Andrew T Judson
Daniel Frist Jr
John Francis
Asael Bacon
Selectmen exoficio over Laws of the Poor of sd Town} Luther Paine
James Cary
Joseph Farnham
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I David C Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut, do certify that Andrew T Judson, Daniel Frost Junr, John Francis & Asael Bacon Esquires whose names are subscribed to the foregoing certificate, are duly enrolled as Justices of the Peace within & for said Windham County.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the Public Seal of said Court at Brooklynn in said County this 26 day of September anno domini 1820.
David C Bolles
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I Andrew T Judson of Canterbury in Windham County and State of Connecticut, being of lawful age testify and say that Jedediah Brown of said Canterbury is poor, indigent, unable to support himself and family & so reduced in circumstances that he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
Windham Sept 18, 1818
Andrew Thompson Judson

I Joseph Eaton of Plainfield in Windham County, State of Connecticut, being of lawful age testify and say that Jedediah Brown of Canterbury in said County is poor, indigent, unable to support himself and se reduced in circumstances that he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
Windham Sept 18, 1818
Joseph Eaton

State of Connecticut Windham County ss
Windham Sept 18th 1818 Personally appeared Joseph Eaton and Andrew T Judson the above named deponents, both credible persons, and before me mad solemn oath that depositions by them above subscribed contain the truth. Whereupon I David Bolls Esq Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
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within and for the County of Windham certify that Jedediah Brown of Canterbury in said County is poor and so reduced in his circumstances that he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
David Bolls

State of Cnnecticut, Windham County ss. Windham Sept 18th 1818
I Samuel Gray Esquire Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, certify and make known that David Bolls Esquire is Judge of said Court the current year, and that the above is his signature. In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court.
Sam Gray
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Joseph Eaton &
Andrew T Judson Deps
to Jedediah Brown
Reduced circumstances
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I Andrew T Judson of Canterbury in Windham County, Connecticut, being of lawful age testify that Jedediah Brown of the same Canterbury is poor and indigent, unable to support himself and family and so reduced in his circumstances that he needs the assistance of his Country for support. Windham Sept 18, 1818
Andrew Thompson Judson

I Joseph Eaton of Plainfield in said County of lawful age testify that Jedediah Brown of Canterbury aforesaid is poor, indigent, unable to support himself and is so reduced in circumstances that he needs the assistance of his Country for support. Windham Sept 18th 1818
Joseph Eaton
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State of Connecticut
County of Windham ss. Windham Sept 19, 1818
Then Joseph Eaton and Andrew T Judson Esqs the signer of the within depositions, came personally before me Jabez Clarke Esq Justice of the Peace for said County and solemn oath to the truth of the facts stated in the within depositions by them severally subscribed, and I do further certify that the deponents are both known to me to be Gentlemen of respectable characters and credit and their testimony to be relied on.
attest Jabez Clarke Justice of the Peace for sd County

I Samuel Gray Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Windham, and State of Connecticut do certify that Jabez Clarke Esq before whom the above affidavit has been taken is duly enrolled as one of Justice of the Peace in and for sd County, that the signature is his hand writing and full faith & credit ought to be given to his acts & deeds as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the public seal of sd Court in Windham this 19 day of September AD 1818.
Sam Gray