Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1302, Humphrey Brown, Conn.
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SERVICE      NUMBER
Conn   Brown, Humphrey        R. 1302

Situated at Wyalusing Twp Bradford Co. Pa
In 1832 aged nearly 69 yrs & res of Wyalusing Twp Bradford Co. Pa.
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133,114 [unreadable] of [unreadable]
Humphrey Brown
Pennsylvania
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of 7 June 1832      
State of Pennsylvania Bradford County Ss.      
On this 13th day of May 1835 Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas being a Court of Record now Siting & holden in and for the said County of Bradford Humphrey Brown resident of the Township of Wyalusing in the said County aged sixty nine years nearly who being first sworn in due [unreadable] of law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that he having with his fathers family after the Indian Massacre at Wyoming the first day of October 1778 he was by the Military Officers at that place Compelled to assist in Erecting the Garrison and for the safety of the Country to do Military duty which he performed as a private Soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Simon Spalding an Officer in the regular service of the United States and Colonel Zebulon Butler a Colonel in one of the Regiments of the Connecticut line in the regular service of the United States that he continued to perform the duty of a private Soldier untill the first day of October 1779 in the said Company after which time the garrison being occupied by a sufficient force of United States, that for the defence of the place his services ceased to be required having served a term of one year.    In support of his claims he herewith encloses the Depositions of William Huyck and Stephen Wilcox. He made an application for the same purpose as near as he can recollect two years ago with the Clerk of the Court for the purpose of procuring to it the required authenticity, but has never been able to learn what became of it, he has resided in the same County which is now Bradford County ever since the time above Stated. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity Except the present, and Declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency of any State    H. Brown      
Sworn and Subscribed in open Court the 13th day of May 1835     
J P Bull Proty    
Pr  Marvin Hulett 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier as he states and served as above.    
I James P Bull Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the Original procedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Humphrey Brown for a Pension  In testimony Whereof I set my hand and seal of Office this 13th day of May AD 1835   
J P Bull Proty  
Pr M Hulett
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State of Pennsylvania Bradford County Pa. On the 26th day of May 1835 before the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Bradford personally came William Huyck of the said County aged Seventy one years. Who being sworn before me in due form of law doth depose and Say he was acquainted with Humphrey Brown at Wyoming in the year of 1778 and 1779 and ever since that time to the present that Humphrey Brown although young at that time was required by the agent among the Officers at that place to do and perform Military duty and obliged him to Assist in building or erecting the Garrison at that place and to guard and keep the same from the first day of October 1778 to the first day of May 1779 and he does not know but longer that he served in a company commanded by Captain Simon Spalding a Continental Officer who was sent to defend and keep the place and Spalding at that time was under the Command of Colonel Zebulon Butler a Colonel of one of the Regiments in the Connecticut line, he thinks the 4th Regiment in the Summer of 1779 this deponent Went with the troops on Sullivan's Expedition and does not whether the said Still served or was dismissed     
William Huyck 
Sworn and subscribed before me the second year aforesaid 
Jonathan Stevens Associate Judge 
And Jonathan Stevens aforesaid do hereby certify that the said William Huyck to me Well know sustains the reputation of Truth & veracity and is entitled to belief       
Jonathan Stevens Associate Judge
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State of Pennsylvania Bradford County Ss      
On this 13th day of May 1835 before the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the said County of Bradford personally appeared Stephen Wilcox aged Sixty Eight years who being Sworn before me in due form of law doth depose and say that he knew Humphrey Brown at Wyoming in the year of Jany 8 1779 and has known him ever since that the said Humphrey Brown though at that time was required by the Military officers at Wyoming to do Military duty in keeping and building the Garrison at that place & he served in a Company Commanded by Captain Simon Spalding & under the command of Colonel Zebulon Butler an Officer belonging to the regular Service of the Infantry of the United States as Colonel in the 4th Regt Connecticut line that the said Brown Continued to serve from the first day of October 1779 until the first of May 1779 a term of Seven month whether he served longer or when he was discharged this Deponent does not know        Stephen Wilcox       
Sworn and Subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid      
Jonathan Stevens Associate Judge    
And I Jonathan Stevens aforesaid do hereby certify that I am and have been for more than forty years well acquainted with Stephen Wilcox the Deponent above named & know that he has always sustained a reputation for truth and is Entitled & entitled to belief       
Jonathan Stevens Associate Judge       
I James P. Bull Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Prothonotary of the said County of Bradford do hereby certify and make known that Jonathan Stevens Before whom the forgoing depositions of William Huyck and Stephen Willcox were sworn and Subscribed is and was at the time of taking them an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County and that full faith and credit are due to all official acts Such he having been Duly commissioned and Sworn into the said office In Testimony whereof I the said James P Bull have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 28th day of May 1835 J P Bull Prot     
By S. Noble Dept
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Humphrey Brown
or heirs
Wyalusing
Bradford, co.
Pa
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.

STATE of Pennsylvania
SS:                               }
COUNTY of Bradford

Be it known, that before me, a
Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly authorised by law to administer oaths, personally appeared
* Oliver Brown a resident of Wyalusing in the county
of Bradford in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, states that
he is † a son of Humphrey Brown in the county of
Bradford and State of Pennsylvania who was a revolutionary ‡ soldier
and that he believes the United States are still indebted, under existing laws for the pension that was due under the
application heretofore made, and that he is directly interested as a claimant in the pension for which application was
heretofore made as aforesaid, and constitutes and appoints WILLIS G. WADE, of Washington, D. C.,
and lawful attorney, with irrevocable power to examine into, investigate, and establish the claim for said pension, and
do all acts necessary thereto.
In Witness Whereof, Oliver Brown has on this seventeenth
day of November 1852, hereunto signed his name, and affixed his seal.
Witness E Allen Oliver Brown
[L. S.]
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me on this 17th day of Nov 1852
D. W. Brown J. P.
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*Here, if the soldier or officer is living, insert his name; if he is dead, and the widow is living, insert her name; if both
dead, insert one of the living children's names; if the children are all dead, and either of them survived the former unsuccessful
applicant, insert the name of the administrator of that former applicant.
†Here, if the soldier or officer is living, insert his name again; if the widow is living, insert the words "widow of" and the
name of her husband; if both dead insert the words, “son or daughter of, and the name of the former unsuccessful applicant.
‡Here insert the word "soldier," or "officer," whichever he was
NOTE -- When a female is the person who executes this paper, please put the letter s before the word he in every
place where it occurs.
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February15, 1934.
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Mrs. W. T. Binks
913 North George Street
Rome, New York

Humphrey Brown, W.18648
and Humphrey Brown,R1312.
BA-J/ady

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Revolutionary War soldiers with the name Humphrey Brown.

The Revolutionary War records of this office show only two soldiers with the name Humphrey Brown, all spellings of the names searched. Their records are furnished you herewith, as found in the respective claims for pension, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

Humphrey Brown
W. 18648

Humphrey Brown was born December 25, 1767 in Groton,
Connecticut.

While a resident of Groton, New London County, Connecticut, he enlisted in June 1780 and served three months as a fifer in Captain Isaac Geer's Company, Colonel Ely's Connecticut Regiment. He enlisted March 1, 1781, served as private and fifer in Captain William Latham's Company, Colonel William Ledyard's Connecticut Regiment and was taken prisoner in the attack on Fort Griswold but exchanged in November 1781; length of service ten months. He enlisted June 1, 1782 and served two months as a private in  aptain
Palmer's Connecticut Company.

In 1816 he moved from Groton, Connecticut to Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832 while a resident of Greenfield, New York.

He died February 23, 1843 or 1842 in Greenfield, New York.

Soldier married December 23, 1792 Mrs. Olive Mallarson "
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as shown by the record of the Justice of the Peace of Groton, Connecticut, by whom they were married; she stated also, in 1843, that she was married December 24, 1792 and that her name before her marriage to Humphrey
Brown was Olive Malason, but in 1855 he stated that her name before her marriage was Olive Chapman. At the time of their marriage they were both residents of Groton, Connecticut.

Soldier's widow, Olive Brown, was allowed pension on her application executed April 11, 1843 while a resident of Greenfield, New York, aged seventy-one years.

In 1855 he was still living in Greenfield, New York.

In 1830 one Gersham Brown was a resident of Northington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, relationship to soldier not stated. There are no further family data.

Humphrey Brown
P. 1302

At the time of the Wyoming massacre, Humphrey Brown, with his father's family was a resident of Wyoming, Pennsylvania. The date of his birth and names of parents are
not shown.

On October 1, 1778, Humphrey Brown, though quite young, was required to assist in erecting a garrison at Wyoming for the safety of that country and in guarding and keeping
the garrison until October 1, 1779; he served under Captain Simon Spalding and Zebulon Butler of the Connecticut troops.

Humphrey Brown applied for pension on May 13, 1835, at which time he was nearly sixty-nine years of age, and a resident of Wyalusing Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
His claim was not allowed as the service rendered was not in a military capacity as required by the pension law.

The date of death of Humphrey Brown is not stated.

His son, Oliver Brown, was a resident of Wyalusing, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in 1852. Date and place of marriage and name of wife of Humphrey Brown are not shown.

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One D. W. Brown, was Justice of the Peace in Bradford
County, Pennsylvania, in 1852, no relationship to the
family stated.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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January 26, 1933.
BA-J/ADY
Mrs. W.F. Binks,
913 North George Street,
Rome, New York.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the record of Humphrey Brown, Revolutionary War soldier, B. 1308, in the effort to obtain the name of the father of Humphrey Brown who married Olive Mallison, W.18648.
The papers in the Revolutionary War pension
claim, R.1302, have been examined. It is shown that in May 1835 he was aged nearly sixty-nine years, therefore, he could not have been the father of the last named Humphrey Brown as that soldier was born in 1767.
Very truly yours,
A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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Jan 14 1933 
Veterans Administration     
A genealogist I have employed asked me to send into the Pension Office for a record of Humphrey Brown whose war record in Groton Mass is recorded R-1302.   as there were four Humphrey Browns at Groton and Stonington, records of those places show.   Trying to find the name of Father Humphrey Brown who married Olive Mallison whose number he sent was W-18648 but I went in D.A.R. on Nat. No. 86099     
From Mrs W F Binks 913 N. George St. Rome N.Y.
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13112
P.O. Humphrey Brown
Service: __
Enlisted: __, 18__
Discharged: __, 18__
Application filed: __, 18__
The printed list of 1852
gives cause of rejection as:
"He did not serve
in a military capacity"
Attorney: ___
P.O. ___
__Recognized. __Contract
___Cert. of Dis.   Searched for ___, 18__

1933 Jan 26 Mrs W.T. Binks adv he could not  have been the father of Humphrey Brown 
W18648 A.D.Y.
1934 Feb 15 dist to Mrs. W.T. Binks see her letter
in Humphrey Brown W18648 A.D.Y.
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33,114
Humphrey Brown
Pa -
1302
1302
acts 7 June 32

Rejected
did not serve
in a military capacity
cannot find this letter
See letter 12 June 1835
to Jonathan Stevens,
Standing Stone.