Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,098, John Brannon, Penn.
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SERVICE  Penn.
Brannon, John
NUMBER  S. 42,098
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Ohio 
18.115 
John Brannon of Cadiz in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonels  Irvin, S. Hays &c  in the Pennsylvania line, for the term of the war 
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8  Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of May 1818. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of April 1821 and sent to A. Andrews Cadiz Ohio 
Arrears to 4th of March 1821   270.43
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1821  48 
$318.45
33 25/31 mos. 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
1 May 1820
Vol 11
31
21
28
31
24
33
8
264.20
6.45
270.45
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State of Ohio
Harrison County} Ss  On the eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Matthew Simpson, one of the associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas of Harrison County in the State of Ohio personally appeared John Bannon, a citizen of said County, aged Seventy four years and one month who being duly sworn made the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress passed March 1818, entitled “an act to provide for certain persons gaged in the land and naval service of the United State in the revolutionary war.”   That he enlisted at the town of Shippensburg in the State of Pennsylvania, in April seventeen hundred and seventy six in Captain Smith’s company in the sixth Battallion, and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Irvin of the Pennsylvania line that shortly after his enlistment he was in the battle of the Three Rivers which place he was taken prisoner by the British removed to Quebec and there confined on board a prison ship for five months and eleven days when he was pardoned by Sir Guy Carlton the governor of Canada that to the best of his recollection, about a year and an half after his parole as aforesaid, he again enlisted at the town of Carlisle in the State of Pennsylvania under Capt Alexander of the Pennsylvania line after which enlistment he served between two and three years that he was under Genl Wayne when the British took Charlestown in South Carolina that he afterwards went home and on a recruiting party where he took sick, and not being able to join the army again until it was disbanded, received no discharge. that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of his countrys assistance and that he has no other evidence in his power of his aforesaid services 
Sworn to and declared the day and year aforesaid before me 
Matthew Simpson Associate Judge
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State of Ohio 
Harrison County} Ss 
I. Matthew Simpson one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Harrison County in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that I am fully satisfied that John Brannon the within declarant, did serve on the revolution my war against the common enemy and I now certify and transmit, to the Secretary the Department of war, the evidence and proceedings had before me in this case. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 17th day of May 1818. 
Matthew Simpson Associate Judge   
State of Ohio 
County of Harrison} Ss   I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Harrison County Ohio do hereby certify that Matthew Simpson whose name appears to the foregoing declaration and certificate was at the time of signing the same and now is one the late Judges of the Court aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signatures are his own proper hand writing 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and  affixed the seal of said Court this fifth day of June A. D. 1818   
Wm. Tingley Clerk
Certificate to be sent to Cadiz Harrison Co. Ohio
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Mem. Penn’a roll p. 5 
Book final sets Pa Vol 3  p. 252 
Returned for applicant’s former declaration, or the certificate of the judge before whom it was made, relative to the date thereof 
4 Jan 1821 
Refd -  Adm’d [admitted]
19 April 1821
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State of Ohio 
Harrison County} Ss At a Court of law begun and held at Cadiz in said Harrison County and State on the twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord 1820, before the honourable Benjamin Tappan President of the Court of Common pleas in the fifth circuit of said State and John Macurdy, Alexander Henderson and John McCullock Esquires associate Judges of the said Court in the said County of Harrison, the same Court being a Court of Record, personally appeared in open Court John Brannon a Citizen of the said Town of Cadiz in the County aforesaid aged seventy five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March A.D. 1878, and the 1st of May A.D. 1820.   
That he the said John Brannon enlisted for the Term of one year about the 25th day of March A.D. 1776 in the State of Pennsylvania in the Company commanded by Capt Abraham Smith in the battalion or Regiment commanded by Col William Irvine in the line of the State of Pennsylvania, in the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said Corps until the latter part of July in the said year of 1776 when he was taken prisoner by the British and sent to Quebeck, where he was detained a Prisoner of war about five months and eleven days when he was parolled by Sir Guy Carleton. Governor of Canada, at which time the said John returned home to Pennsylvania but never Rec’d written discharged from his officers, the time of his enlistment expiring during his parole, the said John Brannon further states that about  one year afterwards, he again enlisted for the Term of three years or during the war, in the State of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Capt William Alexander in Col. Hays Regiment, in the Pennsylvania line on the Continental establishment - that he continued to serve in said Corps until the year 1780 when he was sent home sick and was afterwards employed in the recruiting service until the close of the war, but never received a written discharge, his officers being discharged at Carlisle in Penn. as he believes. The said John Brannon further states that he was in the battle of the Three Rivers, in 1776 in the company of Captain Abraham Smith aforesaid in the Regiment of Col. William
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Irvine & Brigade of Genl Thompson, that he was afterwards taken by the British when under the command of Capt Wilson of said Col Irvines Regt when returning in a scouting party which was sent to view the works at St Johns in Canada, and was thence again sent to Quebeck.   That he was at the Battle of Monmouth and Brandywine, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Hays, and that he has no other evidence now in his possession of his said services except the Deposition of  Lieut John Edie relative to his first term of service, his imprisonment &c, And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March A.D. 1818. & 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 Revolution war passed on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, 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. - Schedule of property owned by the said John Brannon.  
One Acre of ground & the produce thereof supposed to be about Ten Bushels of Wheat - $80.00 One Cow -                    10.00 
3 Sheep and 1 Lamb -     3.00 
1 Bed & Bedding -       10.00 
1 Rough Cupboard        1.00 
2 Pots -                            3.00 
1 Bake oven  -                  1.00 
1 Spider -                         0.75
1 Small Table -                 0.75 
2 old flour Barrells -         0.12½ 
1 Spinning Wheel & Reel 2.00
1 Pig                                  0.50
$112.12 ½
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Schedule of Debts due and owing by John Brannon.
1st To Thomas Bingham &c -  5.00
2nd To Benjn Parish –              2.00
3rd  To William Hamilton        2.50
4th  To James Finney -             2.50 
5th To Hugh Guynn                 3.50 
6th To John Glasener -            1.25 
7th To Peter Parrish -              1.50 
8th To Philip Shannon             1.50 
19.75 
The said John Brannon further saith that he is by occupation labourer & farmer - That he is now from old age & infirmity hardly able to do any business - that his family consist of two persons beside himself viz. his wife aged 65 years who is sickly and quite helpless and unable to do any business or to support herself and his Daughter Rachel Brannon aged 21 years who supports herself by her own labour, and for some time past has contributed to the support of her mother and her father. - Signed John Brannon  
Sworn to and subscribed & declared on the 30th day of November AD. 1820 in open Court William Tingley Clerk of said Court 
State of Ohio  
Harrison County }Ss
 I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Harrison in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the above is truly copied from the Records of said Court.- And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court that the value of the property exhibited and contained in the aforesaid Schedule is One hundred and Twelve Dollars 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cadiz this 18th day of December AD. 1820. 
Wm Tingley Clerk 
N.B. Direct to Asa Andrews attorney at law in Cadis Harrison County Ohio, and also write what is the late of Samuel Stoners application
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section 
OWN
August 6, 1924 
W. G. Burress, D. C., P.C., 
544 East New York St. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 42098 it appears that John Brannon enlisted at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania on March 25, 1776, served as a private in Captains Abraham Smith and Wilson's Companies in Colonel William Irvine's Pennsylvania Regiment, was at the battle of Three Rivers and the last of July 1776 was taken prisoner, removed to Quebec and confined on board a prison ship for five months and eleven days when he was paroled. In about one or one and one half years, he enlisted in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, served as a private in Captain William Alexander's Company under Major Hay in the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine and Monmouth and in 1780 was sent home sick, after which, he was employed in recruiting service to the close of the war. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed
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May 11, 1818 while living in Cadiz, Harrison County , Ohio aged seventy-four years and one month. 
In 1820 he referred to his wife aged sixty-five years and to his daughter Rachel Brannon aged twenty-one years. The name of his wife is not stated and there is no further family data on file. Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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John Brannon  
A Andrews  Agt.
Cadiz Ohio
Rec’d 8 Feb 1821
N. B. Please let me know the facts of Samuel Stone’s Application A Andrews
Free
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
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N.B. Enclose one of the papers of John Brannon, his original declaration of the applicant is a pious old sole, & poor as one of Falstaff’s soldiers, but a good deal honest 
A Andrews
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Lieut. John Edie's [unreadable] Deposition
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Pennsylvania
Adams County} Ss Before me one of the Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally came John Edie, who being duly sworn, doth depose and say that in the year 1776 he was a Lieutenant  in the Regiment commanded by Col William Irvine in the line of the State of Pennsylvania, that he was well acquainted with John Brannon, a soldier in the company commanded by Captain Abraham Smith in said Regiment, that said Brannon was at the Battle of the Three Rivers and was afterwards taken prisoner, and sent to Quebec when this deponent was also a prisoner & that he was discharged from the service some time in January and that he was a good soldier during the time he knew him, and that he knows that John Brannon who has applied for a pension under the act of congress the war, is the same John Branson mentioned above, and further this deponent saith not --- 
Jno Edie
Sworn & subscribed May 23 1820 before me 
Samp S. King 
Pennsylvania 
Adams County } Ss
I James Duncan Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Adams. Do Hereby Certify. That Sampson S King Esq before whom the above deposition was made and taken, is now and was at the time of taking the same one of the Commonwealth's Justices of the peace in and for said County, by lawful authority duly commissioned and Sworn, to all whose official acts and deeds, due faith and credit is and ought to be given. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Gettysburg the twenty third day of May Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and twenty
James Duncan Prothy
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J Brannon Mar 31 1820 
There was no Col Hays on continental establishment of the Pa line. There was a Col Hay of the Gr. Mr Dept - perhaps the number * of the regt can be recollected in the last service. The time he enlisted, to what time he remained in the last service should be set forth in the declaration or of 9 mos  service in Col. Irvine's regt [& time is sufficiently expressed in the declaration] can be proved including the time of imprisonment, it will be allowed. The Judge if satisfied of the reduced circumstances of the applicant will so certify & 2 witness can be obtained to either service as to shew in in continental establishment their credibility & interestedness to be certified by the Judge or Magistrate who administers the oath, whose that character is to be authenticated under the seal of the Court by the Clerk thereof
N. B. John Brannon says the regiment in which of his last was the 7th A Andrews
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State of Ohio  
Harrison County} SS
[seal]    I James Roberts one of the Associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas of Harrison County in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that John Brannon of the County aforesaid, a revolutionary soldier and an applicant for a pension from the government of the United States under the act of Congress passed March 18th 1818, is very infirm and in poor and reduced circumstances, and that he stands in need of his country’s assistance 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal, the 13th day of April A.D. 1819. 
James Roberts   Associate Judge
State of Ohio
Harrison County}Ss I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Harrison do hereby certify that the above named James Roberts Esquire whose name to the above certificate is subscribed was at the time of with making out said Certificate and sub scribing the same, and now is one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said Harrison County duly Commissioned and qualified and to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cadiz this 12th day of April AD 1819 
William Tingley Clerk
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42098   
Revy  INVALID.  
File No. 42,098 
John Brannon 
Pri Rev War 
Act: 18” March 18”
Index:--Vol. 5, Page 60 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 
1908 Mar. 28. Hist. to Ethel Snodgrass – 
1924. Aug. 6 - Hist to W. G. Burress   MMHF
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TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 5755   
W. G. BURRESS, D.C., PH. C. 
CHIROPRACTOR SPECIALIST 
S44 EAST NEW YORK STREET 
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.  July 8. 1924 
Com. of Pensions 
Washington D.C. 
Dear Sir:-  
Will you kindly furnish me record of John Brannon, where he was borned who his parents was of possible.  
John Brannon enlisted at Shippensburg Pa - Files Dept of Interior Bureau of Pensions J D. C. Sur File 42098 Rev War 
I wish to place my application in the sons of the American Revolution, thanking you
Very respy 
W G Burress
U. S. PENSION OFFICE O JUL 10 1924
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U. S. PENSION OFFICE A MAR 21 1908
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S. 42098  ctf. 18115
Commissioner of Pensions 
Can you give me any information regarding John Brannon as to whether he or his widow Elizabeth Brannon were pensioners John Brannon enlisted in the Maryland Troops in the War of the Revolution March 16, 1777, was discharged April 15, 1777. Born about 1750 died about 1830 lived at or near Cadiz Ohio at his at time of death
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He may have had other war record, I rather think he did and think he was a pensioner. 
Yours very truly Ethell Snodgrass 
Muncie Ind 
518 So. Council Street
March 18, 1908
RECORD DIVISION MAR 28 1908
U. S. PENSION OFFICE A MAR 21 1908
A W B
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In reply to your request of    received    for a statement of the military history of soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired formation as contained in his  application for pension on file in this Bureau. 
S. File 42,098
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.   March 25, ’76    LENGTH OF SERVICE.  For 1 year but was captured the latter part of July ’76 was confined on prison ship at Quebec 5 mo. 11 days & then paroled    RANK.   OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain Abraham Smith  Captain Wilson Colonel William Irvine STATE.  6 Battles Pa.  
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  About 1 year after for 3 years    LENGTH OF SERVICE.   served until 1780 when he was sent home sick after employed in recruiting service   RANK.   OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  Captain William Alexander  Major Hay  STATE.  7th Pa Regiment
Battles engaged in,   Three Rivers, Canada   Brandywine  Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl. at Shippensburg Pa. 
Date of application for pension, May 11, 1818.  His claim was allowed. 
Residence at date of application, Harrison Co. Ohio Cadiz Ohio in 1820   
Age at date of application, 74 years 1 month
Remarks  1820 wife – 65 yrs dau Rachel Brannon 21- 
Death not shown