Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,094, David Brannon, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

Brannon, David

NUMBER
S.2,094

Carded
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CONTENTS
(rest of card blank)
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Enld. by Wm M Stewart
Page 30 - Vol 8. Book 
See letter 22 Dec' 34
to Hon T. L. Barner &
Pen Agt at Cincinnati
Let to Pen agt May 26 1835

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13162
Ohio
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David Brannon
of Clermont in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Culvertson of the Regt commanded
by Col. Hanams in the Pa Militia
for 11 month
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 36 Dollars 63 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of May
1833 and sent J D. Morris
Clk Clermont Co Ohio
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Arrears to the 4th day of Mar 1833   $73:26
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. 33  18.31
$91.57 [double underlined]

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

Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk
Book E      Vol. 8     Page 2
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                                                          10,565.
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State of Ohio           }
County of Clermont } ss.

On this 24 day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me Robert Haines -- one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of sd. County; David Brannon a resident of Franklin Township in Sd [said] County and State aforesaid; age Eighty one 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States some time in July 1776 as a volunteer in the capacity of a private being then a resident of Chester County Pennsylvania and served as such under John Hanams and Colonel John Culbertson as a Major and Robert Lochart as Captain, with whom he marched to Amboy and served at that time a tour of three months, and also that he had no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.  His next service commenced sometime in June or July Seventeen hundred and seventy seven as a private in the Pennsylvania Militia being draughted in Chester County and served under  Generals
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Armstrong & Potter and under David Phillips as Captain.  the other officers names not recollected. He further states that on this tour he marched from Chester in Chester County Pennsylvania from thence he was marched to Brandywine and was in that battle on the eleventh day of September in sd [said] year and immediately after sd [said] battle he was marched with his regiment to Germantown in Philadelphia county he being commanded by the same Generals. the regimental and company officers being changed names not recollected, and served in that battle which was sometime in October in sd [said] year and was home after discharge for a short time.  Sometime the following winter he was called out when the Brittish [sic] lay in Philadelphia as a scouting party and served under Colonel John Garner in this tour which lasted four months.  He was in several skirmishes and was discharged in the spring. He also further states that he was born in the County of Antrim near belfast in Ireland, in the kingdom of great Brittain [sic] in the year [year repeated] one thousand seven hundred and fifty one, that he has the record of his age in a Family Bible that he emigrated to America as he thinks in the year seventeen hundred and seventy one he landed at New Castle in the State of Delaware that after the Revolutionary war he lived sometime in Chester County and afterward in
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Bedford County Pennsylvania until about the year Seventeen hundred and ninety one he then migrated to Mason County Kentucky where he has resided since that time except sometime in Bracken County in sd [said] state until about nine years ago at which time he removed to his present residence and has continued there ever since:  he also states that if he received written discharges that he is not now in possession of any one of them.  He further states that Peter Hastings a clergiman [sic], now residing in Felicity in said County, and Richard Tucker a resident of sd [said] County. (Sd [said] Peter Hastings having been acquainted with him for upward of thirty years) will testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

David [his mark] Brannon

Sworn to an [sic] subscribed before me
this 24 of August 1832
the question set forth
in the declaration
was correctly
answered the
aplicant [sic] is believed
to be a man of 
truth

Robert Haines one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for sd [said] cnty [county]
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The State of Ohio Clermont County Ss
Before me Simon Goodwin one of the acting justices of the peace within and for the County aforesaid personally came Peter Hastings a clergyman of the township of Franklin in said county who being first duly sworn by me according to law upon his oath saith that he is well acquainted with David Branen now a resident of said Franklin township, and believes him to be eighty one years of age, and that from an acquaintance with him for the term of about thirty four years past he is fully of the opinion that he has been a soldier of the revolution. That for that length of time he has sustained the most correct character.
Peter Hastings

Sworn and subscribed before me this 7th day of August 1839
Simeon Goodwin JP

The State of Ohio Clermont County SS
Before me one of the acting justices of the peace within and for the County aforesaid personally came Richard Tucker of Franklin township in said County who to me is well known of reputable character, who being first sworn according to law by me, on his oath saith that he has been well acquainted with David Brennen now a resident of Franklin township in said county of Clermont for several years past. That in the course of that acquaintance he has heard the said Branen speak of his service in the
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Revolutionary war. That from personal acquaintance and the general character of the said Branen, he gives full credit to his word and declaration, and therefore believes he was a soldier of the Revolution - and further saith not 
Richard Tucker

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of August 1832
Simeon Goodwin JP

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Mr David Brannen for several years, and from his age and infirmity I am of the opinion that he could not sustain a journey to the place of the setting of the Court for this County without endangering his health
30th August 1832 --    Simeon Goodwin JP

I do certify that I have been acquainted with David Brannen for some years past and from my acquaintance with him I am of opinion that it would be intirely out of his power to perform a journey to the County Seat of Clermont County the County in which he now resides without endangering his health and probably his life he being supposed to be upwards of eighty years of age
John Brown
Clermont County
August 30th 1832
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The State of Ohio Clermont County SS
I Jonathan D Morris Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do certify that the honorable Robert Hains before whom the within and foregoing affidavit of David Brannon Sr was sworn and subscribed to was at the time and still is one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas within and for the County of Clermont aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and also I do further certify that Simeon Goodwin Esq before whom the within and foregoing affidavit of Peter Hastings and Richard Tucker who sworn and subscribed to was at that time and now is one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due to all their official acts as such and that the signatures of the said Haines and Goodwin are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Batavia the first day of September AD 1832
J. D. Morris Clerk
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2094
Rev War
INVALID
File No. 2094
David Brannon
Private  Rev  War

Act June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 42.

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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 Batavia                                                      FREE
April 1st.

              Hon. Lewis Cass
                       Secretary of War
                              Washington City,
                                                      D.C.



John Lewis    Cass Secretary of War
                      War Department 
                      Washington City, D.C.

Sep 25
10,565
Ohio
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David Brannon
Clermont
Ohio




11 month private
$36.63
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of David Brannon which require further proof of explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  Yes
II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the country where he resides?  Yes
III.  If the declarant did not make the declaration in the country where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  Yes
V.  Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades is which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  No
 VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, is conformity with the regulations?  Yes.
VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  No.
VIII.  Has the court given their opinion?  Yes
IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?  Yes
X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished form any other seal?   Yes
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XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at east one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  Yes.
XIV.  If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
    If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified in the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
    Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI.  Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No.
XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactory?  An, if not, which of them is not answered?  Yes

Explanatory Notes:
QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
    " Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, 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 not less than periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  For ______year____months, and ____days, I served as a _____ For ____months and _____days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.
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   It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three of four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some person who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia. &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case by clearly shown under what officers the applicant served;  the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place of places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field of in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
Quere XIV.  Proof of Service.
    In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
Quere XVI.  Mode of Authenticating papers.
    In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
    In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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                                                FREE

Hon.  J.L.Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 

(Date Stamp)
Cincinnati 
May 
18
Oh

May 25th
No. 13162
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Franklin Bank of Cincinnati
18th May 1832

Sir,

    The name of David Brannon, a pensioner under the act of 7th June 1832, at the rate of $33.63 per annum according to your order has been inscribed on the pension roll at this Agency with instruction to pay his widow this amount due him up to the day of his death, at the above rate.
    The original certificate which I now have in my possession call for $36.63 per annum and as examination I have ascertained that he was by this August at this Branch Bank in this city at the last-named rate.  Owing however to the discrepancy I have refused payment until you otherwise direct.

                          Yours very respectfully
                           John H. Groesbeck per agent
                           By R.W. Lawrence

J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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The State of Ohio
Clermont County ss

    Personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid David Brannon who having been duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and consequent of loss of memory he cannot say positively as to the precise length of his service as a Revolutionary Soldier but according to the best of his recollection.  He served such length of time as is mentioned before and in the following grade, as the 1st town of duty mentioned in his declaration he served as a private for three months, on the second tour of duty as mentioned therein he served as a private four months and the third tour of duty therein mentioned he served as a private four months and for such service he claims a pension and hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension list of any state.

                                            his
                                   David  X  Brannon
                                            mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of March 1833.

                                     //s//
                           James Goodwin
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State of Ohio
Clermont County ss

    I Jonathan D. Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county do hereby certify that Simon Goodwin Esqr. whose name is attached to the within affidavit of David Brannon was at the time of taking and subscribing such affidavit and state is one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such and that the signatures purporting to be his is genuine.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Batavia this 1st day of April AD 1833.

                                     //s//
                                 J.D. Morris Clerk