Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,106, Abel Brown, Mass.
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8-1776

Service
Mass

Brown, Abel

Number
S34,106

Contents
In 1818, aged 63 yrs & res of Concord, Middlesex Co. Mass
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4,087
Massachusetts Roll
Abel Brown
Col Sprout
[can't read]
Mass. Line - 1780. 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 of Nov 1818 and forwarded to nephew Stephen Minot
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818 43.48
Semi-anl. al'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 48.00
$91.38
5 mo 9/31, 4/30
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
[can't read]
Concord, Middlesex
Notification sent to Abraham Biglow
Oct 13 1820 Cambridge Mass
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247
Abel Brown
4007
[can't read]

Nov 18
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Please for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of [handwritten] June A. D. 182
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DATA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and WILLIAM WETMORE, and STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires,
Associate Justices of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, [handwritten] Abel Brown resident [handwritten] in Concord in said [handwritten] county Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. [handwritten] 4,087 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the
"18th March, 1818, [handwritten] Abel Brown late a [handwritten] Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the
"Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of [handwritten] eight
"dollars per month, to commence on the [handwritten] twenty third day of [handwritten] March one thousand eight hundred and [handwritten] eighteen
"Give at the War Office of the United States, this [handwritten] second
"day of [handwritten] November one thousand eight hundred and [handwritten] eighteen

[in a box to the left side] L.S.

J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"

appears and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit

SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, "Nothing
[handwritten] Abel Brown.

[entire paragraph handwritten] And the said Abel Brown being first sworn  does on his oath declare that he served in the war of the revolution more than six years - eight months under Capt. Brown and Col. Nixon in 1775 - eight months in 176 under Capt. Brown and Col. Whitman - three months in 176 & 77 under Capt. Blaney and Col. Thatcher twelve months in 1777 and 78 under under Capt. Smith and Col. John Jacobs - in 1780 nine months in Capt. Holden's company in Col. Nixon's Regiment in 1781 commencing two years and half in Capt. [can't read] company
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and Col. Sproats Regiment - that he is 64 years of age and is so much debilitated ^ disease that he is wholly unable to do any labour, has no family and depends on public charity for support.
Abel Brown
Sworn to & declared before me
Paul Dana, Judge
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. [handwritten] Samuel Data a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, [handwritten] Abel Brown do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
[handwritten] Abel Brown

Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. [handwritten] June Term, A. D. 182
Then the abovenamed [handwritten] Abel Brown took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
[handwritten] Paul Dana Judge of said Court.

I, Abraham, Biglow, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is [handwritten] nothing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this [handwritten] 20th day of [handwritten] June 1820.
Attr: [handwritten] Abraham Biglow
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Abel Brown
March 23, 1818

Not on the roll

Adm
Stephen Minot
[can't read] Mass.
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[all handwritten]
I, Abel Brown of the age of sixty three years declare and say that I am a resident Citizen of the United States, that I reside in & belong to Concord in the County of Middlesex, in the Middle Circuit, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, that about the month of September, A.D. 1780 (the very time I cannon name) having then served at different times nearly three years in the army, I then inlisted in the revolutionary army on the Continental establishment for three years. I inlisted at Boston, was marched to Springfield in this State, & from there to West Point, where I was attached to Capt. ____ Manes' company in the second Regiment, under Colonel Sprout, in the Massachusetts Line. I served said three years as a private soldier in said army; and at the end of said three years, being about three months after the peace, I was honorably discharged by General ____ Knox; but I have since lost his certificate of discharge.

I also declare that I am, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from my Country for support, and that I never had any pension allowed me by the Laws of the United States.
Abel Brown
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex SS March 23 D A. D. 1818. Then the above named Abel Brown made solemn oath that the aforesaid declaration by him subscribed is true, before me,
Stephen Minot
2nd associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Please for the Middle Circuit.

Whereupon, it appearing to my satisfaction, that the said Abel Brown did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in his declaration aforesaid, against the common enemy, I now certify that the said Laughton & Temple and [can't read] witnesses & transmit the testimony in the case, & the proceedings had thereon, to the secretary of the department of War. I also [can't read] that the said Brown is in indigent & needy circumstances in life.

Stephen Minot, Judge as aforesaid.

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State House
Boston Nov 19 1891

To the Commissioner of Pension
Washington, DC

Dear Sir.
I beg you if the records show the fact, that you will give me the record of which my Gr Grandfather Abel Brown of Concord, Mass, obtained a pension for services in
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the war of the Revolution, which I am informed he did. I enclose herewith a record of his service so far as ascertained, but from family legends. I am led to the belief that he had [can't read] service I and know whether you require a fee for this service or not. If you do you will inform me.
I am [can't read] Very truly,
Wm C Capelle
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34106
[can't read] INVALID
File No. [handwritten] 34,106 
[handwritten] Abel Brown
Pri Rev War
Act: [handwritten] 18^ March 18^
Index: --Vol. [handwritten] 2, Page [handwritten] 55
[ Arrangement of 1870. ]

1892 Feb 10 [can't read] to W C Capelle Bo
F.S.
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[all handwritten]
I, Jacob Laughton of Vernon in the State of Vermont, now resident of Concord in the state of Massachusetts, depose & say , that Abel Brown of the same, Concord served in the army of the United States, in the Revolutionary War, on the Continental establishment, more than two years, [can't read] in the year 1781, 1782, & 1783, in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, in the Regiment commended by Col. Sprout, and that I have repeatedly seen said Brown's discharge, signed by Ge. C Knox.
Jacob Laughton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex Ss Concord.
Sept. 28, 1818.
Then the abovenamed Jacob Laughton, made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed before me, Abiel Heywood, justice of the peace
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[crossed out] Stephen Tem

Samuel Tomples
Deposition
September 2d, 1818
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Middlesex ss October 2d, 1818 This  may certifie that I Samuel Temple of Acton in said County, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was a soldier in the service of the United States in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Crane in the year 1782 and the year 1783 and that he Abel Brown was a soldier in Colonel Sprouts Regiment Capt. Maine Company. Do testifie and say that I was personally knowing that Abel Brown was a soldier in a Regiment of whom said Sprout was Colonel for one year or more.
Samuel Temple

Middlesex SS October 2d 1818. Then personally appeared the said Samuel [crossed out] and made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him signed ___ Before me William Parkman Justice of the peace
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Concord, M. March 23d 1818 --
To the Secretary of the Department of War,,
Sir, I wish you to transmit a Certificate of allowance of my Pention, under the late law, to Stephen Minot, [can't read] of Haverhill Ms. who will forward the same to me.
Abel Brown