Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 9718, John Brown, Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE

Mass.        Brown, John


CONTENTS

b. about 1735   res of Worcester Co. Mass
In 1820 res. of Adams, Washington Co. Ohio
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Pennsylvania

John Brown 1st

Cole Ward
Mass

Sergeant in Army U. States
----
Inscribed on the Roll of Penn as $5.33⅓ pr mo
----
Certificate issued June 26. 1820 & Sent to J W Hand, Esqr

Genl Post Office
W. City
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Pennsylvania

John Brown - 1st Sergeant

$5.33 1/3

Certificate issued June 26, 1820 and sent to J W Hand, Esqr, Gen Post Office
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State of Ohio
Washington County

This day John Brown of Adams in said county formally (formerly) from the Township of Leicester, County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, personally appeared before me the undersigned, and made solemn oath, that he is the same John Brown to whom a certificate of Pension was granted by the commissary of pensions of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And I do certify that said certificate of Pension now is in possession of said John Brown, was this day exhibited to me said undersigned, and that the same is in the words and figures following to wit -

This certifies that John Brown Sergeant an inhabitant of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who belonged to the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col Jonathan Ward, and in Seth Washburn's Company, in the service of the United States of America, aged fifty one, as appears by certificates lodged
in the pension office, having been examined by me, is found to be disabled in said service by a musket ball in the right foot and left thigh, and I do hereby certify that he is entitled to receive Twenty shilling per month commencing 17th March 1786, agreeable to the resolution of Congress of the 7th of June 1785, and to an act of the Legislature of the commonwealth of Massachusetts of the 17th March 1786 and that said John Brown is now fit for general or garrison duty.

Given under my hand at Boston this Twenty seventh day of Sept in the year of our Lord 1786 and in the Eleventh year of the Independance of the United States of America.

John Lucas Commissary of Pensions

I do also certify that the above affidavit was made by the there named John Brown to enable him to obtain from the secretary of War a certificate of his having been placed on the invalid pension Roll of the Revolutionary establishment he never having obtained one to that effect
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effect other than of which the foregoing is a true copy.

John Brown

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of June AD. 1820

John Green Justice of Peace

State of Ohio
Washington County

As clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County I do hereby certify that John Green, Esquire who hath signed his name to the above certificate then was and now is an acting Justice of the peace within and for the township of Adams in said County, duly Elected and commissioned and qualified agreeably to the laws of said state and that full faith and creditor and ought to given to all things by him thus certified as well the county of Justices.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Marietta in said County of Washington this thirteenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred
and twenty

Geo Dunlevy Clerk
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[Typed letter with handwritten markings]

                                  [Handwritten:] (3)
                                  
                                  
                                  May 16, 1939
                                  
                                  
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                                  JOHN BROWN
                                  S.9718
                                  BA-J/MLB [Handwritten initials?]
Mrs. Lovell Elliott
Perrysburg
Ohio


Dear Madam:

    The data which follow in regard to John Brown were obtained from
the papers on file in pension claim, S. 9718, based upon disability
incurred during service in the Revolutionary War.

    The date and place of birth of John Brown and names of his
parents were not stated.

    While a resident of Leicester Township, Worcester County, Mass-
achusetts, John Brown enlisted and served as sergeant in Captain
Seth Washburn's company, Colonel Jonathan Ward's Massachusetts regiment,
and while serving in line of duty, received musket ball wounds in his
right foot and left thigh.  Dates of enlistment and discharge and
circumstances under which he was wounded were not stated.

    On account of disability resulting from wounds noted above,
John Brown was pensioned from March 17, 1786, then aged fifty-one
years, and his name was placed on the pension roll of the Pennsylvania
Agency.  In 1820, he was a resident of Adams Township, Washington County, Ohio.

    There are no family data shown in the papers on file.
    
                                   Very truly yours
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   A.D. HILLER
                                   Executive Assistant 
                                   to the Administrator
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[Typed letter, unsigned]

                                               May 16, 1939
                                               
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                                               BA-J/MMHF:MLB


Mrs. Lovell Elliott
Perrysburg
Phio [sic]


Dear Madam:

    Reference is made to your letter in which you requested the
Revolutionary War records of Elihu Tinker, Nehemiah Tinker, Jesse Shepard of Plainsfield, Connecticut, John Brown of Leicester,
Massachusetts, who was born in 1735, died in 1821 in Ohio, and his
brother, Perley or Berley Brown, was killed in the battle of White Plains, also the record of Major Samuel Johnson, World War officer,
who died recently in Athens, Ohio.

    There are no claims for pension on file based upon service in
the Revolutionary War of Elihu or Nehemiah Tinker or of a Perley or
Berley Brown.

    The records of Jesse Shepperd and John Brown are furnished you
herewith.

    Your letter has been referred to the proper official for reply
in regard to Major Samuel Johnson.

                                   Very truly yours
                                   
                                   
                                   A. D. Hiller
                                   Executive Assistant
                                   to the Administrator
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[Typed draft of a portion of an unsigned letter, with handwritten notes]

    In the papers in pension claim Inv. File No. 9,718 it is ["alleged" crossed out and next word handwritten above it] shown
    
that John Brown of Worcester, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant in

Captain Seth Washburn's company, Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment

of Massachusetts troops and was disabled by a gunshot wound of right foot

and left thigh, on account of which he was pensioned from March 17, 1786.

["The" handwritten over "---"] date and place of enlistment and discharge, and circumstances under

which he was wounded are not stated.

    Soldier was fifty-one years of age in 1786; in 1820 he waas a resident
    
of Adams, Washington County, Ohio.

    There is no data as to family on file.
    
                           Very respectfully,
                           
                           
                           
                                             Commissioner
                                            
                                             
 [Handwritten, lower left corner:]
 Answer
 to letter dated June 14}
           rec'd June 16}1909
 filed in R. File 10,262 Abel Johnson.
 Mrs. F. Y. Crowley
   316 S. Franklin St.
     Kirksville, Mo.
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[Typed letter, signed]

[Initialed in upper left corner]  Rev. War Section.


                               March 29, 1917
                               
 Mrs. H. D. Henry,
 
 [ul]6[/ul] College Street,
 
      Athens, Ohio.
      
 Madam:
 
   In response to your letter dated the fourth instant,

you are advised that the papers in claim Survivor's File No.

9,718 Rev. War, show that John Brown of Worcester, Massachu-

setts, served as a Sergeant in Captain Seth Washburn's com-

pany, Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment of Massachusetts troops

and was disabled by a gun shot wound of right foot and left

thigh, for which he was pensioned from March 17, 1786.

    The dates and places of his enlistment and discharge,
    
and the circumstances under which he was wounded, are not stat-

ed.

    John Brown was fifty-one years of age in 1786; and in 
    
1820 he was a resident of Adams, Washington County, Ohio.

    There is no family data on file in the claim.
    
                    Very respectfully,
                    
                    [signed]  G M Saltzgaber
                    
                              Commissioner.
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[Typed letter, signed, with handwritten corrections]

[Initialed in upper left corner]  Rev. War Section.



                                   September 5, 1912
                                   
 Miss Mary Lewis,
 
      Albany, Ohio.
      
 Madam:
 
     In response to your letter dated the 23d and received the
     
26th ultimo, you are advised that in the papers in pension 

claim. Inv. File No. 9,718, it is ["alleged" crossed out and next word handwritten above] shown that John Brown of

Worcester, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant in Captain Seth

Washburn's company, Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment of Massa-

chusetts troops and was disabled by a gunshot wound of right

foot and left thigh, on account of which he was pensioned from

March 17, 1786.

    The date and place of enlistment and discharge, and the

circumstances under which he was wounded are not stated.

    Soldier was fifty-one years of age in 1786; in ["1830" crossed out, next number handwritten above it] 1820 he
    
was a resident of Adams, Washington County, Ohio.

     This bureau has no records of soldiers who served prior
to the Revolution.

                        Very respectfully,
                        
                   [signed] J. L. Davenport.
                   
                               Commissioner.
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[Handwritten letter]

Rev. records -              March 4th 1917
                                    Rev Sec[?]
                                    Ohio[?]
                                    
 Department of the Interior
         Washington D.C.
         [Stamp:]
  Department of the Interior
  [unintelligible]
  [star]  MAR 13 1917  [star]
       TO BUR. PENSIONS
SECY[?]  OFF.[?]  [unintelligible] & FILES[?]  

   Would like the record of
 Capt. John Brown, Born 1733
 Worcester Mass.
   Served in Capt Seth 
  Washburns. Company,
  Colonel Johnathan Ward's
  regiment of Mass.
     In 1826 was resident
     of Adams Twp., Washington
     County Ohio,
             
             Sincerely
          Mrs H D Henry
          6# College St
                Athens, [Co crossed out]
                        Ohio
 [Note:] This is John Brown
                    Mass. S. 9718
             JSC        [Note written vertically,  lower right:]            
                                                          JSC
                                                         Henry
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[Handwritten note, duplicate of document 6 in this collection]

                       Rev Svc[?]
                       Ohio[?]
           Athens, Ohio
                   March 4th 1917,
  Department of the Interior
       Washington D. C.
       
    Could you give me
  the war record of
     - negative on
 Benjamine Johnson of
 Woburn, Mass. - B- 1700,
  His son and grand son
  both took active part.
 am anxious to see if the 
 grandfather was, there also.
  "See Col. Baldwin's reg,"
  "also Cap Win's[?] 3rd. foot Co.
  His wife's name was, Mary Walker.
        Very sincerely
Kept to     Mrs H D Henry
show
address-    6 College St
                     Athens
                         Ohio
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[Handwritten note]

                       Rev Svc[?]
                       Ohio[?]
           Athens, Ohio
                   March 4th 1917,
  Department of the Interior
                 Washington D. C.
       
    Could you give me
  the war record of
     - negative on
 Benjamine Johnson of
 Woburn, Mass. - B- 1700,
  His son and grand son
  both took active part.
 am anxious to see if the 
 grandfather was, there also.
  "See Col. Baldwin's reg,"
  "also Cap Win's[?] 3rd. foot Co.
  His wifes name was, Mary Walker.
        Very sincerely
Kept to     
show          Mrs H D Henry
address-    6 College St
                     Athens
                         Ohio
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[Printed letterhead, handwritten two-page letter.  First page (page two is document #4 of this collection)]

             MISS HELEN MAR TOWNSEND
                   180 EAST STATE STREET
                          ATHENS. OHIO
                   
                                            Aug. 27, 1916.
                           
The Comr. of Pensions, [Pension Office stamp:]
    Washington, D. C.                   PENSION
                                                                 S
 My dear Sir:-                                     AUG  
      I would like the                     U.   30  S.
 Rev. War service and [ul:]fam.  1926
 ily data[/ul] of John Brown,     OFFICE.                                
 born Leicester, Worcester Co.,       
 Mass., 1733 or 1734, died 1821,
 Washington Co., Ohio,
 First wife Rebekah Baldwin
 second "   Elizabeth  ___________
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[Printed letterhead, handwritten two-page letter.  Second page (page one is document #5 of this collection)]

third wife - name not
known to me.
He was in the Battle of 
Bunker Hill, as were his 
brothers.
 I believe he received a 
 pension.
 The information is desired 
for making out a paper
for the Daughters of the 
Am. Rev.
                    Respectfully,
                    Helen Mar Townsend  
 Registrar-
 W. G[?]. A. Chap.
 D. A. R.
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[Printed letterhead with handwritten letter]

A.L. Elliott                                                   F.J. Beasley                                                                     

                                        [Handwritten notes:]W.I.[?]
                                                                      Revo, Sie[?],
                    ELLIOTT & BEASLEY
                    STONY RIDGE, OHIO
ELEVATORS...                                      SHIPPERS OF... 
STONY RIDGE, OHIO                        GRAIN, FEED 
MOLINE, OHIO                                      SEED 

                                                 Feb 29, 1916
                                 
                                 
 Dep't of the Interior
      Washington, D.C
                Will you kindly give me the
       military record or pension record of
       John Brown of Worcester, Mass. who was
       wounded at battle of Bunker Hill.
       I refer you to Inv[oice crossed out] File #9718 [?]
         If it isn't too much trouble I would
         like to have two copies of same.
       [Handwritten in pencil:] sent Mch. 1, 1915. 
           Also a record of Azel[?] Johnson, from
       Woburn Mass.   S. File 2658.
          Thanking you for this favor, I am,
                  Yours truly,
                       Mrs. A. Lovell Elliott.
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Albany, O. Aug 23,

Bureau of Pensions,
              Washington, D.C.

Will you kindly give me the Revolutionary
War record of John Brown who was
wounded at the Battle of Bunker 
Hill? Think he enlisted from Leicester,
Mass. and probably applied for pension
from Washington Co., Ohio. The John
Brown I have in mind had three
brothers who were engaged in this war,
- Benjamin, Pearley, and William.
Hope these points will make it easier
for you to find his record.
Does the Bureau have the French
and Indian War record of this man's
father Captain John Brown?

Yours truly,
(Miss) Mary Lewis,
                     Albany,
                        Ohio.


[Round Pension Office date stamp:]
    PENSION
           A
        AUG
U.      26     S.
       1912

      OFFICE.
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[Handwritten notes on two facing pages]

[1: Left-hand page:]

                            Oct. 30-1900
                            Miss Anna Clark
                            Ft Smith Ark
  1909 June 26. Hist to Mrs. F. Y. Crowley
   letter in R. File 10262 Abel Johnson C [vertical                   line through letter C]
1912 Sept. 5. Miss Mary Lewis. c
1912 Mch. [Massachusetts?] Hist. to Mrs. A. Lovell Elliott c [vertical line through C]
1917 Mch. 29 [series of 3 ditto marks indicating same info as on previous line: Hist. to Mrs.] H. D. Henry C [vertical line through C] aug [?]
1926-Oct.19- [series of 3 ditto marks indicating same info as on previous line: Hist. to Mrs.] Helene M. Townsend
1939, May 16 [series of 2 ditto marks indicating same info as on previous line: Hist. to]" Mrs Lovell Elliott MLB


[2: right-hand page: printed form with handwritten info]

[Upper left-hand corner, written vertically:]
RevWar

                      9718
                      INVALID

File No. ..............9718
      John Brown
      
        Sergt. U S Army
        _______________
        
   Act: __________________________        
Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 46


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