Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8093, Francis T Brooke, Continental (Va.)
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[Print] (8-1776)
SERVICE     NUMBER
[Handwritten] Continental (Va.) Brooke, Francis T.  S.8093
Carded
[Print] CONTENTS
[Handwritten] B.LWt. 281-200-Lieut. of VA. was allowed 
to Francis Brooke, no date of issue of 
said warrant, (no papers)
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[Left side:]
Reported
Letter to Pension Agent November, 25 1818
[ap]plication certificate [illegible] 4, March 1818, and delivered to Honorable John Taliaferro Present.
[illegible] to $536.53 October 16, 1850 and certificate sent to J. M. Lawson Pension Agent.
Richmond, Virginia.

[Right side:]
Number 32001
Virginia
Francis F. Brooks
Spotsylvania in the State of Virginia who was a Lieutenant artillery in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regiment commanded by _____ in the continental line for 8 months Lieutenant artillery
           16 months Lieutenant and quartermaster
Inscribed on the Roll of Richmond at the rate of 528 dollars 0 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of November 1842 and sent to Honorable Francis F. Brooks Richmond.
Arrears to the 4th of April 42.  
Semi-annual allowance ending 4th , 4 [18]43
deduct payments under act 15 May 1828.
$6072.00
 -  264.00
 $6336.00
Revolutionary 
Act June 7, 18__
Recorded by Theo Smoody
Book E Volume 6/2  Page 5
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Act 1828
Settled at  Treasury
Cous'ed with Invalid file
#8093
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Revolutionary Claims.
[A]
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Officers.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an 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, Francis T. Brooke of Spotsylvania, in the State of Virginia do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such from 1780 to the ends of the war. as which period I was 1st Lieutenant in the first artillery regiment of the Virginia line. And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22nd of March, 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October, 1780.

Witness my hand, this eleventh day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight. 
Before me John N Moulder, Justice of the Peace in the county of Washington in the Districct of Columbia, personally appeared, this day, Edmund Brooke and Thomas Miller of the said county, who did severally make oath that Francis T. Brooke by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this eleventh day of June in the year 1828.
John Moulder Justice of the Peace
E. Brooke
Thomas Miller
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No.35419
Francie T. Brooke
Va.
Act 7, June, 32
Admd
8 mo Lt of Arty
16 mo Lt & Qr Mr.
$528
Deduct what has been paid under the Act of 15 May 1828
Hon. F. T. Brooke
Richmond Va.
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State of Virginia
City of Richmond

I Francis J. Brooke do hereby on oath declare that I acted as a Lieutenant and Quartermaster to the part of Artillery consisting of the Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania Artillery in the war of the Revolution: that I am advised that under the act of the 7th June 1832, I am entitled to an additional compensation, to the pay allowed to me by the act of 1828 in consideration of my having done duty as a staff officer. That I hereby relinquish all claim to my pay except that which is specified in the certificate now held by me, and which I do now herewith relinquish and surrender, for and in lieu of a certificate which is to be issued in my name for the additional pay to which I am entitled under the act of the 7th June 1832.
Francis Brooke

Sworn to and subscribed before me Wm. H Cabell President of & as such, one or the judges of the court of appeals in the state of Virginia this 16th November 1842.
Wm H. Cabell
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I, Joseph Allen, clerk to the Court of appeals are hereby certify that William H. Cabell esq'r whose name is subscribed on the other side of this sheet, is president and one of the Judges of the Court of Appeals.  In testimony whereof, 
that hereunto set my hand and seal (there being no seal of office) this sixteenth day of November 1842 in the 67th year of the Commonwealth. J Allen C. C. D.   seal
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Revolutionary Claims.
No. [obscured]
Under the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved 15 May, 1828.

I Certify that Francis T Brooke of      in the County of Spotsylvania in the State of Virginia is entitled to receive pay under the above mentioned Act, as a surviving Lieut. of Artilery in the Virginia Line of the Army of the Revolution, at the rate of Thirty three dollars and 33 1/3 cents a month, payable during his life on the third day of March and third day of September, in each year.
It is provided by law that the said pay "shall not in any way be transferable or liable to attachment, levy or seizure, by any legal process whatever."
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Treasury of the United States, this twenty fourth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four and of Independence, the fifty eighth.
R.B. Taney
Secretary of the Treasury
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[STAMP]
Richmond Va.
Mar 2

[STAMP]
5

John Taliaferro Esquire
Washington
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Richmond  March 7th 1848

My dear General
My pay and pension certificate has been lost  I believe it was left with the pension agent here and it can't be found.  I have written to the commissioner of Pensions Mr Edwards at Washington for a duplicate and shall be hereby obliged to you if you will call on him and request him to send me a duplicate as soon as he can. let me hear from you 
yours respectfully
Francis T Brooke

I go home on Sunday to stay until the 1st April where I shall be glad to see you
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Washington 13th of March 1843 - I do hereby certify, on my destinct knowled of the hand:writing  of the Honb: Francis T: Brooke, Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Virginia & who is my near relative, that the within letter addressed to me, stating the loss of his half-pay certificate is wholly written & subscribed by him in his own hand-writing.  And I ask, in his behalf, that this letter may be taken in lieu of his affidavit on oath, to the loss of his certificate, to the end, that a duplicate may be granted to him to supply that which is lost.  Given under my hand the date above
John Taliaferro
of Virginia
And many years a member
of Congress, from that state
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Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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The Petition of F.T. Brooke respectfully represents
That he has been inscribed on the Rolls of the Pension Office as an Officer of the Army of the Revolution under an act of Congress entitled "an act supplementary to the 'Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution' " passed 22nd Congress and has been paid semiannually at the rate of $520 per ann.
Your petitioner held the rank of Lieutenant of Artillery & Qr master in the continental army of Va.  He is advised that by a recent decision of this department, his pay should have embraced both ranks, which he held in the army to wit: that of Lieutenant of Artillery at the rate of $400 pr. ann. and that of Qr master at the rate of $360 pr. ann. forming an aggregate sum of $760.  Claiming the right to be inscribed as a Pensioner of the United States, under the act of the 15 day of May, 1828 having exclusively served in the Continental army of Virginia, your petitioner respectfully prays that his accounts may be readjusted computing his pay from the 3rd day of March, 1826, as authorized by the act of 1828, until the 3rd March 1850[?] when last paid, deducting therefrom the respective sums heretofore paid to him to that period, and that the annual stipend hereafter accruing may be paid at the rate of $760 pr. annum.
Francis T Brooker
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Francis T Brooke
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Lt. Francis T. Brooke of Va. line does it appear that he was a Qr. Mr. & if so how long did he serve in that capacity?
GWC
27 Octr. 42

Lt. Francis Brooke has been allowed the additional pay as a Quarter Master at 16 dollars per month from the 1 April 1782 to the 1 August 1783 - see settlements made by E. Dunscomb.
Treasury Dept
3 Aud Office
October 27. 1842
Peter Hagner Aud

Mr. Hagner 
3rd. Audr.
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Let [illegible] Honorable [illegible]
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To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:

I Certify, that John N Moulder, whose name is subscribed to the annexed Instrument of writing, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace for Washington County in the District of Columbia, duly appointed and commissioned and that full faith is due to all his acts as such

In testimony whereof, I, Henry Clay Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Eleventh day of June A.D. 1828 and of the Independence of the United States of America the fifty second.
H. Clay
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No of org paint[?] 23.

Revolutionary Claims
Treasury Department,
11 June 1828

Francis T. Brooke of     in the County of Spotsylvania in the State of Virginia 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 army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he was an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war at which period he was a 1st Lieutenant in the first Artillery regiment of the Virginia line;  and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is request to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
A Dinkins

Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office
June 12th 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Lieut. Francis Brooke in the Virginia line, amounting to Two thousand dollars.
It further appears that Lieut. Francis Brooke is not on the pension list of any agency
Peter Hagner Aud
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D,m The United States in A/c with Francis Brook Cd,,
1782        dollars 90 1782
To pay as lieutenant
Artillery from Janu:
1st to December 31st.
400 "
To additional pay as
Quarter Master, from
April 1st to Decr. 31st. 144 "
544"
1783
To pay as Lieut. from
January 1st to Novr. 15th  350
To additional pay as
2d Master from Jan.
1st to Aug 1st 1    112
462 "
To five years full pay
in lieu of half pay   2000 "
1782    dolls. 90
By Genl Green for pay 100  60
By Pan. Gl. for ditto 82   60
By John Hamilton (Clo)   70   9
By Tm Gl. Dept. for stores  1    3
By Major Tinby for 33.833 1/3
dolls-500 for one  67  60
Balance due
221  78
544   "
 
1783 By four mos pay recd as Lieutenant   133  30
Balance due   328   60
462 "
By Certificate  2000 "
Richmond December 23 1784 Settled by John Brooke"
The foregoing is a true copy from a book of army accounts found in this office and known here as a Dan Combe's Settlements" Given under my hand as the 1st Auditors Office Richmond July 29 1850
Rv Johnston
1sr Aud
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Payment to be made
at Richmond, Va
by J. Brockenbrough Esqr
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of Richmond

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book E, Vol. 6 1/2
Page 5 by
Theo Smoody 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, Francis T Brooke of Virginia who was a Lieutenant of Artillery, Lieut: of Quarter Master in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive five hundred and twenty eight dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.  Payments under Act of 15th May, 1828 to be deducted.
Given at the War Office on the United States, this 18th [page torn away]
Novem[page torn away]
hundred [page torn away]

SEAL

Examined and Countersigned.
JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Cancelled
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Francis T. Brooke
Increased to $536:53 
per annum, deducting 
former payts at $528: per an

Richmond Roll

F.M. Lawson
Pension Agent
Richmond VA
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Richmond Va'Oct. 12th 1850

Col. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
Enclosed you have the pension certificate of Judge Francis T. Brooke who was a Lieut. of Quartermaster in the war of the Revolution.  By a recent decision of the department Judge Brooke is entitled an increase of the pension running back to 1832 - or 1828.  Before issuing a new certificate you require the cancelling of the old certificate.  There has been a good deal of delay in this case growing out of the circumstances of the case.  You will much Judge Brooke by enclosing the new certificate to Mr. Lawson the pension agent in Richmond with direction for the payment of the pension.  An early attention to this will much oblige
Your obt St
Henry C. Cabell
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[STAMP]
Staunton Va
Jul 11

Aug 4th/50

Frederick Vincent Esqr
Philadelphia
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Staunton July 11th 1850

My dear Sir
Having seen your letter to Mr. Coulter Cabell I give you the following information - I was appointed a first Lieutenant in Colonel Charles Harrison's regiment of Artilery in the month of February (I think it was) in the year 1781.  I joined one of the companies of the Regiment in the month of April following, but I had previously been sent down the river to reestablish the fortifications at Portsmouth which had been destroyed by General Arnold the winter before; and there had various commands until I joined the Marquis's army and served under him during that Campaign until after the battle of Green Spring, when the corps I belonged to was ordered to join General Green in the South.  The troops however were detained in Virginia for some time;  and finally I joined General Green's army early in the year 1782.  Soon after which I was appointed Quarter Master of the [illegible] of Artilery on condition that I should not lose my rank in the line but should perform both duties and was frequently attached to the Light Infantry under Colonel Lawrence and afterwards under General Wayne.  But on going to the War Department you
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will find there my account as Quarter Master furnished by Col Carrington the Quarter Master Genl of the army and if the orderly book of Genl Green for the year 1782 can be found there also, it will be seen how and when I was appointed.  I am now in the reciept of half pay as Quarter Master instead of whole pay which I recieve as an officer in the line under the act of 1828 and I suppose the officers under that act are entitled to whole pay also.
I am sir respectfully
Francis Brooke
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F.T. Brooke, of
Va.
for increase of 
pension


2 yr Lieut            400.00
17 m day Qr Ms  131.53
                            531.53
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Washington, June 17th 1850

Sir:
Enclosed you will find the declaration of the Hon. Francis T Brooke, of Virginia, who applies for an increase of pension.  He is clearly mistaken in supposing he is entitled to $760 per annum, but if he served two years as Lieutenant and Quarter Master, we suppose he is entitled to $600 dollars per annum from the 4th of March 1831.  Will you be so good as to have the case examined, at as early a day as practicable, and if any increase of pension is found due issue a certificate for the same.
The enclosed declaration was sent to us by Mr. Vincent, who will be here in a few days, & would like to have the case examined by that time, if possible.
Very Respectfully
Your obt servts
Dickins & Coombs

Hon J.L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
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To
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[STAMP]
[illegible

Oct 27. 1842
Va.
D. Crump
Francis Brooke
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Richmond 25th October 1842

Dear Sir,
You will see by the enclosed that Judge Brook claims additional pay under the act of 7th June 1832 as a quartermaster;  in which character the law which you will find in the 3d. Vol laws U.S. allows him ten dollars pr month, additional pay.
Will you do me the favour to investigate his claim, and let him know the result.  I have induced him to believe that he is entitled to the benefit of the act of 1832. in virtue of the staff appointment which he held, and which entitled him to ten dollars pr month, additional pay
Accept my friendly regards.
Richard Randolph.

G.W. Crump.
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8093
Invalid
Rev War

File No. 8093
Francis T. Brooke
Lt. Rev. War

Act:  June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. 1st, page 45
Arrangement of 1870.
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Richmond Oct 15th 1850

Col. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
I received this morning the enclosed certificate which should be in your office upon the receiving of a new certificate for Judge Brooke.  This last certificate was obtained by Judge Brooke upon the belief that the first had been destroyed or mislaid.  The first afterwards was found by Judge Brooke and has been already enclosed to you.  I think it may be convenient to enclose to the Office of Pensions here the new certificate allowing the increased pension at an early day.
Your obt St
Henry C Cabell
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Payment to be made
at Richmond
by James Caskie Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of
Richmond

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book E Vol 6 1/2
Page 5 by
[illegible ] Clerk.
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$528


War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, for the 7th June, 1832, Francis T. Brooke of the State of Virginia who was a Lieutenant of Artillery and Quarter Master is entitled to receive Five hundred & twenty eight dollars and - cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.  Issued in lieu of one that has been lost or destroyed
Given at the War Office of the United States, this fourteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty=eight
W.L. Marcy
Secretary of War.

[SEAL]

Examined and countersigned.
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
by F.S. Evans.
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Washington 8th of July 1850
My dear Sir,
I thank you for the information afforded me in
your note under date of The 6th instant, in relation to the pay allowed to Lt. Francis T. Brooke, under The Act of The 15th of May 1828. He is under The impression, that he has been allowed half pay under the Act of 1832, as Quarter-Master in a Regt of Artillery. Is that so? Has he been allowed any Thing under that Act? And do either of The Acts aforesaid authorize The pay of Captain, to a Lieut. of Artillery, who is appointed Adjutant in his Regiment? If you will cause a reply to be given to the above enquiries, & sent to me under cover addressed to The Hon. H. S. Conger, you will oblige your friend, 
John Taliaferro
was U. S. Bounty Land allowed to
F.T. Brooke as Lieut. of Artillery, & have much was allowed?
To
Col. J. L. Edwards