Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8100, Jesse Browder, [BLANK]
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Browder, Jesse - R8100
Penticost, Pollly
Former Widow

Widows residence Va in 1844
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 and 23d August 1842
State of Virginia.
Dinwiddie County
S.S.
On this 13th day of April 1844. personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the
Peace Mrs Polly Pentecost a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn and according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Acts of Congress passed 7th July 1838 and the 23d August 1842 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Jesse Browder, who was
first Sargent, in Capt Rumley P Powlnan Company. that he enlisted under the aforesaid Poulnan about the year 1776 for the term of three years, which term he served in the southern army. that she has often heard him speak of having been in the battle in Sullivans Island, also of his being in an engagement, on or near the Savannah river. (the name of the place not now recollected), where the Americans were defeated, and he in order to save his life, and not be taken a prisoner, was obliged to swim the Savannah river with many other and she does know that he always did attribute his bad health and early death to cold taken at that time that she has often heard
him speak of other battles the names of which she cannot now recollect that she does not of her own knowledge know, that he was a Sargent that he enlisted under Capt Powlnan. That he was in the battles above mentioned, but she has often heard him say that they
were facts, and she does now, and has always believed them to be such as much as she ever believed any thing that she ever heard, but did
not see. That she has often seen his discharge, which is now destroyed or cannot be found. does not recollect by whom it was signed, but she has often seen him call it up with other papers and heard him say at such times, that he must keep it, for he had to serve three years
before he could get it.
She also declares that she was married to the said
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Jesse Browder on the 15th day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty. That her husband the aforesaid Jesse Browder
died on the 7th February 1783. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous
to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated. She further declares, that after the death of the
husband aforesaid she was married to Thomas Pentecost, on the 25 of September 1784. That he died on the 7th day of February 1830.
and that she is still a widow.
Test. James H. [illegible]
Polly (her x mark) Pentecost

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me And I further certify that Mrs Polly Pentecost whose name is attached to the above declaration is a respectable and credible witness
James H. [illegible] J. P.

Family Record
Marriages
Thos Pentecost Born
19th November 1758
was Married to Mary
Browder 23 Septr 1784
She was Born 7th Decr 1762

I hereby certify that the above family record was taken from the family Bible now in the possession of the above named Polly Pentecost & I believe that the said family record is in the hand writing of Thomas
Pentecost the husband of the said Polly Pentecost. Given under my hand this 13th day of April in the year 1844.

James H. [illegible] J. P.
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10965
Polly Pentecost
Virginia
[illegible]
Jany 1844
to the [illegible] Jany 13 '45
Act Jul 7 1738
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10965
Polly Penticost
wid Jesse Browder
Va
Act of July 38
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COPY.

Pension Office
June 7,

Sir:
I have the honor to inform you that the following claims have been examined.

Polly Pentcost -- She claims for the services of her first husband, Jesse Browder, who is represented to have served three years in the Southern Army in the company of Capt. Rumley P. Dowlman -- This is not sufficiently descriptive of the service to admit of the examination of the rolls, but there is no evidence furnished by
rolls of the Virginia Line or State Troops that there was such an officer as Capt. Dowlman.
The date of the marriage should be established
by the best obtainable proof.

Hon. Samuel Chilton, H. R.
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22[9?]
Pension Office
Jany 13 '45

Sir
The addl evidence in the case of Polly Penticost formerly widow of Jesse Browder claiming a pension under the Act of July 7th 38 has been examined and filed. The Bible containing the
orginal family record, of which a copy as alleged is given in connection with the declaration should be forwarded to this office. The acting Magistrate James H [illegible] certifies that it is
possession of the claimant and of course can be produced. The objections stated in my letter to the Hon Saml Chilton of the 4th of June last in the sum of service remain unanswered

Henry Green Esq
Richs Va
 10-965
Act July 7th '38
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This record is hereby mistake;  
It is
35721
Phinehas Parkhurst of NH
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Pension Office
Jany '45

Sir
the addl evidence in the case widow of Jesse Browder of Polly Penticost formerly of Jesse Browder claiming a pension under the act of July 7th '38 has been examined and filed. The original family record of which a copy, as alleged, is given
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Richmond 5 July 1845

Col J L Edwards
Commr of Pensions

Sir:
I am applied to, on behalf of Mrs Polly Pentecost, former widow of Jesse Browder claiming a pension under act 23 Aug 1842.
On the 2 Decr last, I sent you his amended
affidavit since which time I do not see that I have had the favor of an answer. Or it has been misplaced.
Pardon me for calling yr attention to this case and asking its present condition.  I am [rest is illegible]
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Richmond 2 Decr 1844.
Col J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Sir:

In yr letter of 7 June last to Houble Saml Chilton in regard to Polly Penticost's application for a pension under act 23 Aug 1842 it appears the Officers name had been misspelt & was not recognized

Enclosed is her amended affidavit of the 17th inst.
The clerk had certified that the records furnished no proof on the subject & she has no family Bible so that the evidence filed, is the best the [illegible] of the case admits of.
I am yr obt servt
Thomas Green
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REJECTED

[number illegible]
Polly Penticost
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State of Virginia Dinwiddie County  ss

Be it known that on the second day of April
1844 personally appeared before me James H. Boisseau, Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Susan Browder aged 71 years of said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following statement.
That she well knew Jesse Browder who was said to have been a soldier in the revolutionary war that she has often heard his the foresaid Jesse Browder mother speak of his having being in the southern army that she cannot say as to the length of his service of the particulars
of the same That he the said Jesse married one Polly Browder they were married as has been told by one part and that he the said Jesse died some two or three years after they were married and that his widow Polly soon married again to and Thomas Pentycost but as to the precise time of their marriage she cannot state but she does know that she herself was married in the year 1791 and that they the aforesaid Thomas and Polly were married some years before that the said Thomas died some thirteen or fourteen years ago and
that the said Polly is still his widow [illegible] of the name [illegible] and the interlineation of the name [illegible] was made previous to the
signing
her
Susan (her x mark) Browder
Test James H. Boisseau

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and date above written before me and I further certify that the above Susan Browder is a respectable and credible witness
James H. Boisseau, J. P.
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Virginia:
At the April Term of Dinwiddie County Court 1844; 
The Declaration of Mrs. Polly Pentecost certified on the 13th day of Paril 1844 by James H. Boisseau a Justice of the peace for said County, and the affidavit of Mary Williams certified on the 13th day of April 1844 of Isham Browder & Susan Browder which were certified on the 2d day of April 1844 by the aforesaid James H Boisseau, and the affidavit of Peter Eppes certified on the 11th day of April 1844 by James Epes who is a Justice of the peace for said County, having been submitted to the court, it doth approve their proceedings and acts in the aforesaid cases
and hereby direct the Clerk to endow this approval on the papers.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my
office this 22d day of April Anno Dom
1844, in the 68th year of the Commonwealth

Jno G. Crump Clerk of the County Court of Dinwiddie

State of Virginia:
Dinwiddie County [illegible]
I John P. Camp Clerk of the County Court of Dinwiddie, do hereby certify that I have examined the records of this office, and can find no evidence of the marriage between Jesse Browder and Mary Browder, and that the records of that period are in much derangement. I further certify that Mary Browder qualified as administration of Jesse Browder decd in the said court, on the 16th of February 1783 as appears by a bond on file in said office. Given under my hand by a bond on file in said office.  Given under my hand this
22 day of April 1844.

John P. Crump clk of Dinwiddie County Court
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State of Virginia Dinwiddie County [illegible]
Be it known that on the 13th day of April 1844 personally appeared before me James H Boisseau Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Mary Williams aged 83 years of said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following statement.

That she was raised in the same neighborhood with Jesse Browder and Polly Pentecost now, then Polly Browder and know them both well long before they the said Jesse and Polly were
married they being cousins. I well recollect that in the time of the revolutionary war he the aforesaid Jesse left the neighborhood and it was said in the neighborhood that he had joined the southern army which fact I do not know of my own knowledge but which fact [illegible] have and do now believe to be true that after he had been gone as well as I can recollect about three years I know that he came home and it was always believed by all that he was a regular in the army at the south
That after he came back he the said Jesse counted and married Polly Browder now Polly Pentecost I was present at the wedding and saw them married but cannot recollect the precise date but this I do know that they the said Jessee and Polly were married before the year 1794 that some few years after they the said Jesse and Polly were married he the said Jesse died and his widow the aforesaid Polly married one Thomas Pentecost who also died and left a widow the above named Polly Pentecost who is now his widow
[illegible]

Mary (her x mark) Williams

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and date above written before me and I further certify that the above Mary Williams is a respectable and credible witness.
James H. Boisseau. J. P.
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State of Virginia.
Dinwiddie County  ss

Be it known that on the 11th day of April
1844 personally appeared before me Jas. Epes
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Peter Eppes aged eighty five years of said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement That I did not know Jesse Browder in the army but that I knew Jesse Browder before the war of the revolution
and after I had been some time in the northern arm. I learned from his brother Charles Browder who served in the same company with me (viz Capt Alexander Rose company of
infantry) that his brother Jesse Browder had enlisted into the regular service and joined the southern army how long he the said Jesse Browder served or in what I knew him after the close of the war and recollect to have had but one conversation with him in relative to the service when I recollect to have said to him the aforesaid Jesse that I had rather serve two years in the northern army than six months in the southern army Although I did not see him in service I have not the least shadow of doubt but that he did enlist and served the form of his enlistment faithfully. I would also state that some time after the was the aforesaid Jesse Browder married on Polly Browder now Polly Pentecost of this county I cannot say as to the precise time of the marriage but this I do know that I was married in the year 1787 and
that they the aforesaid Jesse & Polly Browder were married before myself
Peter Eppes
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and date above written before me and I further certify that the above Peter Eppes is a pensioner of the United States and is a respectable and credible witness also that the interlineation in the thirteenth
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time of the word "the" and of the words "I do not know" in the fourteenth line were made previous to the signing of the affidavit also that the interlineation of the words "in the" in the fourth line of this certificate was made previous to the signing of the same
Jus. Epes J. P.
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State of Virginia
Dinwiddie County  ss
Be it Known that on the second day of April 1844 personally appeared before me James H. Boisseau a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Isham Browder aged 78 years of said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement That he was well acquainted with Jesse Browder when he was young and that the aforesaid Jesse enlisted in the regular service as he always believed and that he was in the service three years, but who he the said Jesse served under or the particulars of his service he cannot say more than that he heard him the said Jesse say that in an engagement near the Savannah river
when the american forces were defeated and that he the said Jesse and two more in the retreat came for the savannah river that of
the three could swim that they made a raft and all three crossed in safety that soon are his return he the said Jesse married to one Polly Browder now Polly Pentecost as I always understood and I do know that they the said Jesse and Polly did live together as man and wife untill he the said Jesse Browder death that she the said Polly Browder after her husbands death the aforesaid Jesse Bowder she married one Thomas Pentecost as I heard and I do know that they the said Thomas and Polly lived together as man and wife and were considered to be lawfully man and wife by all who knew them and that he the said Thomas Pentecost died about fourteen years ago that the said Polly is still his widow
Isham Brown

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and date above written before me and if further certify that the above Isham Browder is a respectable and credible witness, that the interlineation in the last line of the above affidavit took place previous to signing
James F. Boisseau J. P.
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State of Virginia
Dinwiddie County

Be it known that on the 19th day of
November 1844 personally appeared before me Peter Boisseau a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Mrs Sally Penticost of said county aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following statement

That she has been informed that her claim for a pension has been suspended became there was no such offer as Rawley P. Downman that she does know the there was an officer of similar name she does not know how it was spelt the person who wrote her declaration might have spelt the name wrong it may
be spilt Bowleigh. P. Downman (which she thinks is the right name) that her first husband Jesse Browder did enlist under a man of that name and she thinks served under him [illegible] that there is no family record of the marriage that the clerks office has been examined and no license can be found and that she does not know of any better evidence that can possibly be found there has been already attained to the and sent to the Pension department
Polly (her x mark) Penticost

Sworn to and subscribed the day and date
last above mentioned before me And I
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further certify that Mrs Polly Pentecost is
respectable and credible witness
Peter Boissiau J.P

State of Virginia
Dinwiddie County Sct:
I John P. Crump Clerk of the Court of Dinwiddie County certify that Peter Boissiau is a magistrate
as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
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In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name this 23rd day of November 1844, in the 69th year of the Commonwealth.
Jno P. Crump