Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,480, John Brannon, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

Brannon, John

NUMBER
S. 46,480
B.L.Wt. 1741-100
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CONTENTS
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[very faded handwriting at left-hand top of page]
Rev. 6 July 1831.
1962. [written at top right-hand corner]

Revolutionary Claims.
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[ B. ]
Form of a declaration to be made by the Non-Commissioned Officers, Musicians, and Privates.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I, John Brannon of ---in the County of York--- in the State of Pennsylvania---do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period, I was a *Private in Captain Bowers Company, in the second Regiment, of the Pennsylvania Line.  And, I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May, 1778.

And I further declare, that I was not, on the fifteenth day of May, 1828, on the Pension List of the United States. +nor since that time

Witness my hand, this twenty fifth day of June in the year of our Lord 1831.

John his X mark Brannon
Sworn & subscribed before me}
the day and year above written }
George Klinefelter, J.P. [signature]

Note.  The most convenient [Branch crossed out] Bank of the U. S. is at Philadelphia.
The most convenient Post Office is at Daniel Smalls at York Co. Pa.
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Before me,:  the subscriber  Justice of the Peace in the County of York---in the State of Pennsylvania personally appeared this day, Andrew Duncan Esqr and William E. Smith----of said County, persons known to me as credible witnesses, who did severally make oath that John Brannon by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.

Witness my hand, this 25th day of June
in the year of our Lord 1831
Andrew Duncan [signature]
Wm. E. Smith [signature]

Sworn & subscribed before me
the day and date above written
George Klinefelter J.P. [signature]
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I, Richd Porter Clerk of the Court of the County of York in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify, that George Klinefelter before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths, in and for York County.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this twenty fifth day of June, A.D. 1831.
Richd Porter, Prothy [signature] [SEAL] [affixed at lower left-hand corner of page]
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[part of form cut off due to the seal]
Corporal, Musician, or Private as the case may be.
nant, though not on the pension list on the 15th May, 1828, may have been on the  list on or since the 3d of March,
and afterwards stricken off:  if so, he will add, and that I have received of the United States, as a pensioner, since the 
of March, 1826, the sum of -------dollars, paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the
State of
Here insert a Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths.
Justice of the Peace, or otherwise, as the case may be.
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John Brannon
No. 1741
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Bounty L Officer
June 13. 1831
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR
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Regulations for the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary War who acquired a right to Land from the United States, but have not received it.

By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve, during the War, or until discharged by Congress, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration must be filled up and sworn to by the claimant:

State of Pennsylvania  }
County of York            } Ss
I, John Brannon, aged seventy four years, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty--I enlisted for the term of "during the war," and served in the regiment No. 2d under the command of Colonel Humpton of the Pennsylvania line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the 2d regiment, commanded by Colonel Humpton.

I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever:  therefore,

KNOW all men by these presents, that I, John Brannon aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Hon Adam King of York Pennsylvania to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.

John his X mark Brannon
Attest, George Klinefelter
sworn and subscribed before me
May 31st 1831 
George Klinefelter, J. P. [signature]

I, Christopher Sipler aged seventy seven years, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with John Brannon, who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know, or do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated,
Christopher his X mark Sipler
Attest,
George Klinefelter [signature]
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Before me, personally appeared the above named John Brannon subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and, likewise, personally appeared Christopher Sipler who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this 31st day of May 1831
George Klinefelter, Justice of the Peace.

In testimony that the above written George Klinefelter was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Pennsylvania at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at York Borough this Sixth day of June 1831.

Richd Porter, C. Clerk, & Prot. [SEAL]
[hand finger arrow pointing to the right]
This law expires 3d March, 1827.
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December 29, 1936

John Brannon
S. 46480
BA-J/AWF [initials]

Sarah E. Smyser
504 West King Street
York, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of John Brannon of York County, Pennsylvania.

The data furnished herein were obtained from pension claim, S. 46480, based upon the service of John Brannon in the Revolutionary War.

John Brannon was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, date not given, nor are the names of his parents stated.

He enlisted in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the year 1780, served as a private for a while in a recruiting party, then transferred to Captain Bower's company, Colonel Humpton's Pennsylvania regiment; he was at the taking of Cornwallis, after which marched to "Carolina", remained there during the winter of 1782, returned to Lancaster and was there discharged.

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 25, 1831, then aged about seventy-four years and living in York County, Pennsylvania.  He then stated that he had lived in Ohio for many years and had returned to York County, Pennsylvania about one year.

He was also allowed 100 acres of bounty land
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on Warrant #1741, on account of the service mentioned herein.

In order to obtain information in regard to the location of this land, you should apply to The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C., and give the following:

Warrant #1741--100 acres--issued June 14, 1831.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[left-hand side of page]

Cert no-1052
[3--230.] Cert
[blurry words]
{Revy.  No. 1095 [circled]

written sideways at right-hand margin]
46480
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Name:  John Brannon
Rank:  Pri   Comp'y:  Bowers
Reg't:  2nd Pa. Line
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________________________} Agency.
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Ag. Bk -
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st
Issue.
{$80 per annum
{Cert. issued Comm'g Sept. 1, 1831
{Date of Com. of pen. not on AB.
[above was enclosed in parenthesis]

2d
Issue. 
{_____________________ Comm'g ______________
{_____________________________________________

3d 
Issue.
{_____________________ Comm'g ______________
{______________________________________________
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DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st
Issue. {_____________________ Sent to __________
{______________________________________________

2d
Issue.{_____________________ Sent  to _________
{_____________________________________________

3d
Issue. {_____________________ Sent to _________
{_____________________________________________

[written sideways on page]
Allowed [underlined]
Act 1828 [underlined]
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[Act 14th July, 1862 - crossed out]  Bk. G.,
Vol. _____, Page ________
Registering Clerk:
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Disability {____________________________
                {____________________________

[right-hand side of page]

1936 - Dec. 29 - List to Sarah E.
Smyser [illegible] [audit? annuity?]
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York County }
Pennsylvania} Ss

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Christopher Sype a Pensioner of the State of Pennsylvania and also a United States Pensioner aged about seventy seven years a credible witness who being by me duly sworn according to law saith that he is well acquainted with John Brannon now of York County Pa and that he knew him to be an Enlisted Soldier in Col Humptons 2d Regt of the Pennsylvania line and that he did enlist and serve in said corps for and during the Revolutionary War and further saith not
Christopher his X mark Sype

Sworn and subscribed                 }
this 13th day of August AD 1831}
before me George Klinefelter     }
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Asbury Dickens, Esq
Acting Secretary of
the Treasury
Washington City
D. C.

[written upside down]
Recd Augt 23d
p.m.
#46482
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Recd. Augt. 23d 1831

(4008)
York, August 16, 1831
Sir,
In your last you stated that a man of the name of John Brannon had received a pension, representing himself as having served in the same corps as the petitioner in the case I had sent you; who died in 1826.  I made this known to Mr. Brannon who persisted in his declaration I have since seen him and Mr. ^ Michael Warner together, who I repeat is a credible and respectable man, who now receives a pension.

I examined them, and have satisfied myself that they must have been together in the service of the Country.  I do not believe any one could doubt who would hear them fight their battles over again, and see it produce all the emotions and feelings
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which are characteristic of an old soldier, which cannot be counterfeited. Mr. Warner says he knows Brannon to be the same man.  You have Mr. Warners deposition, which states this fact, so that it need not be affirmed over again.
In addition to this evidence I enclose a deposition of Christopher Sype, another pensioner.

Respectfully yours, &c.
Adam King [signature]

As Dickens, Esq
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York, June 20. 1831.

Hon. J. H. Eaton

Sir--
I have received a Land warrant No. 1741 for 100 acres issued in the name of the applicant John Brannon, a soldier in the Pennsylvania Line.

Respectfully yours, &c.
Adam King [signature]
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Rev. Claims

Asbury Dickens Esq
Acting Secretary of the
Treasury
Washington
D. C.
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[upper left-hand corner]
Recd 6 July 1931.

[upper right-hand corner]
3954

York, Pa. 
July 4, 1831.

Sir,
Mr. Brannon has requested me to send you his papers in support of his claim to a pension for having enlisted in Lancaster & memorable this day.

Respectfully yours &c
Adam King [signature]

As. Dickens Esq
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York, July 22d, 1831

Michael Warner whose deposition is annexed, has for many years been known to me personally and to the citizens of this place, with whom he bore an irreproachable character, whose testimony is entitled to the fullest credit.

Adam King [signature]
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Recd 28 July 1931.

York County    }
Pennsylvania   } Ss

Be it remembered that on the 18th day of [of] July A D 1831 Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Michael Warner aged about seventy six years a United States Pensioner who has resided in York about forty five years.  Last past a credible witness who is entitled to the utmost confidence and credit on his oath or otherwise who being by me duly sworn according to law saith that he was well acquainted with John Brannon now of York County Pa and that he knew him to be an Enlisted Soldier during the Revolutionary War in the Pennsylvania line
And was at Lancaster when he was discharged at the close of the war and knew him to be the same John Brannon that belonged to the Second Regiment of Pennsylvania

Deponent was with him at the taking of Cornwallis at York Town Virginia in October of 1781 after which he marched to Carolina and remained there during the winter of 1782 after which they returned from Carolina to Pennsylvania
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in the same year [deponent crossed out] ^ and he was with the same John Brannon at Lancaster on his return from the South and was with him at Lancaster when he was discharged as aforesaid and further saith not.

Michael Warner [signature]

Sworn and Subscribed before me }
the day and year above written    }
George Klinefelter, J. P. [signature]
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State of Pennsylvania.
YORK COUNTY, SS.
[Seal at left-hand margin]
I, Richard Porter Protonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of York, DO CERTIFY, That George Klinefelter Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken is and was at the time of taking the same an acting justice of the peace in and for said county of York--and as such is duly commissioned and qualified; and that to all acts by him done in that capacity full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.

IN TESTIMONY  WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, in the borough of York, this Eighteenth - day of July - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one [twenty crossed out]
Richard Porter [signature]
Prothonotary
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[written sideways in left-hand margin]
Pension
Bounty Land Office
July 26th 1831

R. B. Taney, Esq.
Acting Secretary of War
Washington
D. C.
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[upper left-hand corner]
Recd 28 July 1831

[upper right-hand corner]
3084

Sir,
In answer to your last letter, I have to inform you that my Pennsylvania Land remained unknown--also never considered it worth by sending the warrant I obtained a few weeks since from the Secretary of War is also worth nothing no man that I can find since I have had it will give me twenty dollars for it -- I am informed that the State of Pennsylvania have drafted an act granting two hundred dollars as an equivilant [sic] for the donation land due old solders which remains undrawn. I shall therefore apply for the same at the next session of the Legislature for relief. I have resided in the State of Ohio for many years past & should have claimed it before now.  I came upon this about one year ago.  I was born in Lancaster County Penn[raised a] --As it respects my service in the Revolution.  Shortly after I enlisted in Lancaster, I was attached to a Recruiting party and remained in that service the most part of the time until we marched to the South. -- Inclosed [sic] I send you Michael Warners Deposition who had been a U States pensioner since 1818.  He informed you more of the particulars of my service.
York July [date is smudged] 1831
I am Sir very respectfully
Your obedient servant
John his X mark Brannon

Attest.  George Klinefelter
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[written at top of page]
No of orig Regt 1095 - 1962

Revolutionary Claims.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
8 July 1831

John Brannon----of -------------------- in the county of York-------in the State of Pena ---------has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private-------in captain Bowers' company, in the second regiment of the Pena line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Third Auditor's Office,
9th July 1831

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to John Brannon in the Pennsylvania line.  [rest of paragraph crossed out]

It further appears that a man by the name of John Brannon was on the pension list of the Pittsburg agency - and that he was reported as having died on the 11. of July 1826

Peter Hagner, Aud

No. 73,613
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War Dept Bounty Land Office
Augt 20th 1831

The name of John Brannon is returned on the records of the 2d Regt Penna line and entitled o bounty land from the U. States, and Land Warrant No. 1741 issued in his name on the 14th June 1831, and the same was sent to the Hon Adam King at York Penna.

Wm. Gordon [signature] 

[writing very faded]
The papers filed in the above case are not in the Borough of York Penna.-
[first line too faded to transcribe]
records of the Penna line is entitled to Bounty Land
A. King
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Sarah E. Smyser
504 West King St.
York, Penna.

12/12/36

Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs:-

Would you kindly send me the Revolutionary records of John Brannon of York County, pensioned 1831

Very truly yours
Sarah E. Smyser

[stamp with numbers 1-12 on outside round of stamp]
RECEIVED
DEC 15 1831
MAIL SUB-DIV
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