Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 38,572, Stout Brunson, Penn.
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Service                                        Number
Penn.      Brunson, Stout             S38,572
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2669B

Kentucky
Stout Brunson
of ? in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the company 
 commanded by Captain Paterson of the Reg. commanded by Col. Cook in the Pennsylvania line for 2 years. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 
80 Dollars ___________Cents per annum, to 
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of April 
1834 and Hon.  C. Tompkins, 

Arrears to the 4th of March     240.00
Semi-ani. allowance ending Sept. (?)     40.00
_________________________________$280.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Danl. Boyd  Clerk,
Book  E   Vol. 1  Page  36
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27494
Stout Brunson
To}  Declaration
War Department


To the Politeness of the
Hon. C. Tompkins  M. H
Walker
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State of Kentucky}
County of Allen}  SS.

On this the 14th day of October 1833 personally appeared in open court before Will Ham, Tho Caruth, Tho. Sutton, Will Johnson, Saml. Harston, Will Fitzpatrick, Edwin Morley, Sam E. Carpenter, Jud Whitney, Tho. Caruth Justices of the County Court in and for the said County ? in the Courthouse in and said County in Court sitting Stout Brunson a resident of said County and State aged Eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth now his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.  That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the spring of 1778 with Captain Alexander Paterson of Regulars at Strouds Mill near East town in Pensylvania (sic)  the month and day from the lapse of time and frailty of memory and old age he cannot now designate.  Shortly after this enlistment that he marched under Captain Paterson to Valley Forge where he joined the division of the American Army under General Washington; and Paterson Company formed a part of Regiment of Infantry (Regulars) Col. William Cook comandant (sic) .  That from Valley Forge he marched a private in said Paterson's company, in Col. Cook's Regt. and General Wayne's detachment to the Battle near Monmouth Courthouse and was in the battle there fought between the American and British armies on the 28th June 1778.  That from the excessive heat and exertion of that day he became sick and was sent to the Hospital at Princeton where he remained until restored to health and from thence proceeded to, and joined the army at the White Plains.  From thence they he marched with the  American army to Middlebrook where the campaign of 1778 being closed they went into winter quarters.  From Middlebrook he marched with said army to West Point on the North River; at which place it is his best recollection he was when General Wayne stormed Stony Point.  This applicant states that when he joined the army at White Plains he was transfered (sic) from Paterson's company and Cooks Reg. to Captain Bankston's company and Col. Walter Stewart's Regt.  
It is his best recollection that he marched with and serve in the last mentioned Regt. and Company under command of the last mentioned officers from the time of his joining, as stated above at White Plains, that from West Point the company in which he served proceeded to observe the motions of the enemy and changed their position accordingly, marching from place to place.  He recollects that he was in several inconsiderable engagements with several (?) detached parties of the enemy but he cannot now through defect of memory point out the movements of that prat of the American army in which her served after he left West Point until their arrival at or near Morristown New Jersey, at which
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or near which place the campaign of 1779 being closed he went into winter quarters with the division of the American Army.  This Declarant states that he does not recollect distinctly the movements of the division in which he served with Campaign of 1780, but it is his best recollection that it acted as an army of Observation;  The British forces in New York were observed, detached and foraging parties sometimes met and encountered by detachments from our division; but declarant does not recollect the different positions which the division in which he served occupied in 1780 (? hole in the paper) it is his best recollection that he again at the close of that campaign went into winter quarters at Morristown.  Declarant was on gard (sic) near Morristown in 1781 when the troops (? hole in paper) of the Pensylvania (sic) line revolted, and it is his best recollection that he marched from that town with troops to Trenton and was discharged then in the spring of that year having served as a Regular Soldier of the United States in the infantry service and under the officers and in the Companies Regiments and  Division mentioned above for not less than Two years Eleven months and Fifteen days. 
Declarant states at Harris' Ferry across the Susquehanna River, Penslyvania (sic) some time in the summer or Fall of the year 1781, the month and day not remembered and as is his best recollection, he enlisted in the marine service of the  United States under Captain John Henderson, by and with whom he was marched below Philidelphia (sic) to Moarkus = hook on the Delaware where he went on board the American armed vessel called The South Carolina Frigate commanded by Captain John Joiner; that in said vessel he served under Capt. John Henderson as a private of marines; that said Frigate, the ship Hope and a Brig and Schooner sailed on a cruise against the Enemy to the South and were captured, the Schooner accepted by the British vessels Dioined (? could be the Diomede), Quebeck (sic) and Ostrich, and conveyed to New York. That the Declarant was there confined on board the British Prison Ship Integrity for some months the exact time he does not now recollect and from thence he escaped in February or March 1782.
This Declarant upon his said Oath deposeth and saith (sic) that by reason of Old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served no less that the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For Two years Eleven Months and Fifteen days I served as a private of Regulars in the infantry Companies Commanded by Captains Alexander Paterson and John Blankston and in the Regiments commanded by Colonels Cook and Stewart.  For six months I served as a private of marines, the time I was detained as a prisoner inclusive, And for such service I claim a Pension.

To the Interrogatories prescribed by the department of War this Declarant responds and upon his said Oath states as follows To wit;
To Question 1st:  That he was born at Kingwood in the state of New Jersey on the 28th of March in the year 1749 as from the best information he believes. 
To Question 2nd:  That he has no record of his age.
To Questions 3rd: That he lived when called into service in the state of New Jersey, that from thence he moved to Summersett (sic) County New Jersey from thence since the War of the Revolution he moved to (? smudged illegible)  now Allen Cty Ky. where he now lives. 
To Question 4:  I entered the service by enlistment.
To Question 5th:  Generals Washington, Green, Scott, Lee, Wayne, Colonels Cook & Stewart, Captains Paterson and Brankton all Regulars and many others whose names I could mention were with the troops where I served.
The general circumstances of my service, were that I was marched through Penslyvania (sic), New York, and New Jersey in the companies and Regiments as above stated.
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Some times in pursuit of the British, at others retreating from them, now, suffering the extreme of heat at the battle of Monmouth , anon nearly frozen at Morristown in the winter 1780, seldom well cloathed (sic) , often badly fed and badly paid. 

To Question 6th:  I received a discharge from the service given me at Trenton town by General Wayne as is my best recollection.  I sold the discharge at Swaine's Tavern in Market Street Philidelphia (sic) to Captain Craughan in the summer of 1781 to the best of my recollection.  From my service as a marine private, there was no time for a discharge after I escaped from the prison ship Integrity, I never returned to the marine service, the war being then considered ended. 
7th: This declarant states that he is known to Walter Thomas, Robert H. Paris Johnson, J. Cockrille, Alexander Ritchie, the Rev. Jesse Hickman, Jacob Dry, William Oliver and many others in his present neighbourhood (sic) and county who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution.  This declarant states that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person now alive, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service.  And 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 the agency of any state or Territory. 

Sworn and subscribed in Open Court the day and year aforesaid}   Stout Brunson

State of Kentucky Allen County  set. Ule (?) Jesse L. Hickman a Clergy man residing in the County of Allen and state of Kentucky and Johnson J. Cockrille and James Atwood Senior and James Atwood Jr. residing in (the same) hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Stout Brunson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be 84 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood (sic) where he resides  to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.  And that said Brunson's reputation for truth is unimpeached and good.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in Open Court}  J. L. Hickman, J. J. Cockrille, James Atwood Sr., James Atwood Jr. 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department  that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states that it appears to them that Jesse L. Hickman who has signed the preceeding (sic) certificate is a clergyman resident in Allen County State of Kentucky  and that Johnston J. Cockrille, James Atwood Sr., and James Atwood Jr. who have signed also the same are residents of the same County and state last aforesaid, and that said Declarant and all the persons who have signed said preceeding (sic) certificate are credible person and their statement entitled to credit.  
W. Hamm,  J P  Presiding Justice

I David Walker Clerk of the Court of Allen County do hereby certify that the
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foregoing  contains the Original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Stout Brunson for a Pension. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office, this 17th day of October 1833.

David Walker Clerk
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27494

Stout Brunson
Allen Co.  Ken.

f. 1777  K 2 yr
#80

Amend:  Decla: et Depo.
Return herewith to Department of
War by Jacob W. Walter

To the politeness of the Hon. C. Tompkins M. C.

David Walker ( is crossed out)
Scottsville   (is crossed out)

Clk.  (is crossed out

Hon. C. Tompkins  N. R. 

Ken.
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War Department, 
Pension Office, 

Sir:  

The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 8, 1832, has been examined and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.   The notes and the regulations will shew (sic) what is necessary to be done.  Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will be compling (sic) with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.  

A Statement, shewing the Service of Stout Brunson

Period when the service was rendered: 
1778  
1781

Duration of the claimant's service. 

Years          Months      Days
     2             11              15                              
                       6

Rank of Claimant.

Pr.
Marine 

Names and rank of the Filed officers under whom he served. 
Capt. Patterson
Col. Cook

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
84
PA

Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditions
on Roll  

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted;
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c, Teamsters, Boatmen, &c.  Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1.  The Regular Troops.
2.  The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3.  Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4.  Indian Spies.

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians (sic) or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Records of the County where such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. 

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

State, Territory or District of }
County of }     ss.

On this   day of      personally appeared (a) before    A. B. a resident (b) of        in the county of      and State, Territory or District of     aged (c)     years, who being first duly sworn, according to 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 enlisted in the Army of the United State in the year (d)   ,  with   and served in the      (e) regiment of the     line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular periods, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and person who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] 

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the Sate of

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid    A.  B.

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, it true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted: and unless therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m)  interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the Sate troops of Virginia. 
1.  Where and in what year were you born?
2.  Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3.  Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4.  How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?  and if a substitute, for whom?
5.  State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. 
6.  { To a Soldier.  { Did you ever received a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
 { To an Officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, why whom was it signed, and what has become of it?

7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.  
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. 
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -- one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify , from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.  If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificate. 
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party., And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. 
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of the Court of Record of the proper county, and Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court .
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Records, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on accout of the services of any person, who may have died before taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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38572

INVALID

Revy

File No.  38, 572

Stout Brunson
Pri   Rev. War

June 7, 1832

Act.  18th  March  18th
Index:----  Vol.  3,  Page 59

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of Kentucky
County of Allen  Sct.

On this the 14th day of April 1834 personally appeared in Open Court before Will Ham, Amos Harris, Jno Whitney, & Tho Sutton
Justices of the County Court in and for the County aforesaid in the Court = house thereof in Court sitting:  Stout Brunson a Resident of the County and State aforesaid aged Eight = four years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following amendment to the Declaration subscribed and sworn by him in the court on the 14th day of October 1833.  In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832. 
This declarant states that since the time of making his original declaration in this court, he hath procured the deposition of John Barton of Fayette County State of Kentucky in support of his application for a pension.  That at the time of his making said declaration he did not know that said Barton was alive.  That in the Original he stated that he served as an infantry soldier supposing that term infantry comprehended all who were foot soldiers, it is however his best recollection that from Capt. Paterson's company he was transferred, and served in Captain Bankston's company of Granadiers, (sic) (should be grenadiers) , which he supposes may be the cause of his name not appearing on the Roll as stated by the Commissioner of Pensions. 
In addition to the names of Officers in his declaration already given, he recollects Captain John Irwin acting adjutant to the Regt. (Stewart's) Irwin was a native of Ireland and had a full head of long red hair.  Declarant also remembers the names of many others non commissioned and privates who served with him in Bankston's Company in Stewart's Regt. amongst others Orderly Sargeant (sic) Hugh Mulholland, Sargeant George Gosnell, George Bitterson (Butcher), John Craughan, Federick Ouran, Silas Walcot, Israel Pifer, Conrad Stone, Joseph Maddin, Daniel Godshalt, Michael Fink, Patrick Sulivan and John or Thomas Collins (Barber for the Company).  Your declarant refers to Alexander Richie, John Atwood and many others whose names will by them be appended to their certificate later sworn to and subscribed by them in this Court.
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as he confidently expects for further traditionary evidence of the justness of his claim and in support of his Reputation for truth.  
Stout Brunson

Sworn and subscribed in Open Court the day and year aforesaid. 

W. Hamm  Presiding Justice Alad. (?)

State of Kentucky}
County of Allen}  Sct.

Mr. John G. Gibson, Zachariah Hopson and Joshua Buchannon and Alexander Retchie

Residents of Allen County State of Kentucky being first duly sworn according to law depose and say the said Gibson, Hopson and Buchannon  that they have known Stout Brunson about or at least Thirty five years, the said Retchie that he hath known said Brunson at least 18 years, that the statement made by him in his declaration to the department of War for a pension is worthy of credit, that his reputation for truth is good.  That he is reputed in the neighbourhood (sic) where he resides to have been a soldier of the United States in the Revolutionary War and that we concur in that opinion.  That we all confidently believe from frequent conversations with him, many years previously to the 7th June 1832, when could not have anticipated the passage of the Act of Congress of that date, and from general report and belief that the above applicant Brunson is as well entitled to a pension for services rendered the United States in the War of the Revolution as any man.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in Open Court. 
John Gibson
Zachariah Hopson   X  his mark
Joshua Buchannon  X  his mark
A. Ritchey.  (spelled different ways in transcript)
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And the said Court again express their opinion after a reconsideration and examination again had and made of the evidence adduced by applicant Stout Brunson for a pension that he is well entitled thereto, and they further certify that said declarant and the said John S. Gibson, Zachariah Hopson, Joshua Buckhannon and Alexander Ritchie who have sworn to and subscribed the within foregoing certificate are all of them credible persons and their said statements entitled to full faith and credit.  They are all of them known to the Court as residents of Allen County State of Kentucky. 

W. Hamm  Presiding Justice Allen County Court 
I David Walker Clerk of the County Court of Allen County Kentucky hereby certify that the foregoing contains the amended Declaration and proceedings thereupon of the Said Court ?? April term 1834 of said Court in the matter of the application of  Stout Brunson for a pension, and the Original proceedings at October term 1833 of said Court ? the said proceedings of April term 1834 together with the deposition of John Barton (name given on previous documents) of Fayette County Kentucky are attached to each other under ?

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 16h day of April 1834

David Walker
Clerk of the Court of Allen County
State of Kentucky

Stout Brunson 
To {Amend: Decla.
War Department
To Politeness of C. Tompkins, Esq. M. C.  

Walker
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State of Kentucky
County of Fayette Sct.

This 10th day of March 1834 personally appeared before me James E. Davis a Justice of the Peace in and for the County afore John Barton a resident of said County aged 78 years who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth (sic) and saith (sic) that for a great many years he has known Stout Brunson of Allen County Kentucky, who he is informed is an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832.  That said Brunson and this deponent were raised in the same neighborhood in Hunterdon County State of New Jersey that he has seen and conversed with said Brunson frequently since his removal to Kentucky and known him to be the same Stout Brunson stated above.  That said Brunson must be now about 79 or 80 years old.  This deponent states expressly and from his own knowledge that said Brunson is a Revolutionary Soldier and served as such according to the best of his recollection in the Pennsylvania line, but from the great lapse of time, this deponent is unable
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at this time to state whom the Officers were the (sic) he served under, but the Brigade were commanded by General Anthony Wayne, this deponent saw Brunson at my  father's house near Princeton whilst he was with the army of the United States and was then performing duty services therein as  such (?) a soldier, deponent also 
saw Brunson at Hopewell and he was then a soldier in said Army and performing service therein as such services spoken of were rendered by said Brunson in the years 1778, '79, '80 & '81 to the best of his recollection.  This deponent recollects seeing said Brunson furlough when on a visit to his friends ("and also his discharge" has been crossed out) deponent's best recollection is that Brunson was discharged at Trenton in 1781.  That Brunson has always been called a Revolutionary Soldier, and is one this deponent knows and that from the length of time he was  absent from home the deponent thinks and from  his best recollection must have served some three years.
John Barton
Signed and sworn to the same day and year above mentioned before
James E. Davis  J.P. F. C.
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State of Kentucky
County of Fayette Sct:

I James E Davis a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Fayette in the State of Kentucky hereby certify that the foregoing deposition of John Barton was taken subscribed and sworn to by him before me this 10th day of March 1834.  And I further certify that said Barton is a resident of said County.  That he is a credible person and his statements in his said deposition well entitled to credit.
Given under my hand this 10th March 1834
James E. Davis JP FC

State of Kentucky 
Fayette County  Sct. 
I James C. Rodes Clerk of the County of Fayette in the State of Kentucky hereby certify that James E. Davis whose name appears to the foregoing Certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to act, and I do further certify that I am well acquainted with his Signature, and that the Signature to said certificate purporting to be his Is Genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my said office and subscribed my name this 10th day of March 1834

J. C. Rodes  Clk.  F. C. C.
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Two Certs issued by mistake I suppose - the other is sent to r. Brinson 

(written vertically)

To Pension Office

Hon. C. Tompkins (?)
House of Representatives (?)
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Payments to be made
at Lexington
by ? of ?  
Agent for paying Pensionors (sic) in the Agency of Kentucky

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E  Vol. 7 Page 36 by Danl. Boyd, Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. 

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Stout Brunson of the State of Kentucky who was a private in the arm of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty dollars and ---- cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1834, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 8th day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty=four.

Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned. }

J. L. Edwards  Commissioner of Pensions.