Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8108, Samuel Brown, Conn. Mass. Vt.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
Mass.
Vt.

Brown, Samuel

NUMBER
S. 8108

Carded
CONTENTS
(too faded to see clearly)
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Pittsburgh
Brown
State of Ohio
who was a
in the company commanded
by Captain Carpenter of the regt
command
by Col Woodbridge in the Mass. Mil
for six months for 1778.
Mass, Conn and Vt.
Record ampleth.
Incribed on the Roll of Ohio, Pittsburgh
at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Aug
and sent to 
Wm . Clarke, Middlebury
Arrears to the 4th of March 1835
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4. Sept 30
 Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm Allison
Book E.2 Vol. 5 Page 117
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed
7th 1832
The State of Ohio
Portage County
On this twenty day of August
AD 1832 personally appeared in
open Court before the Judges of the Supreme Court
now sitting Samuel Brown a resident of Springfield
in the County of Portage and State of Ohio aged sixty
nine years on the twenty first day of June last 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
under the following named officers and served as here
in stated to wit about the first of April 1778 he ended
in the Town of South Brimfield in the State of Massachusetts at
which time and place he enlisted into the service of the United States
for the term of three months, for the purpose of guarding
the military stores deported at Springfield in the State of
Massachusetts he then being in the fifteenth year of his age
and served to the term of three months in the service for which
he enlisted under the command of Captain Carpenter and
Ensign Bliss The company to which he belonged consisted of
about fifty or sixty men and was the only company that was
stationed at Springfield at that time and that in the la
the part of the month of June 1778 he was dismissed from the
service having served the full time for which he enlisted and
returned to his residence in South Brimfield aforesaid
That afterwards to wit in the month of July 1778 he again
entered the service of the United States as a substitute for his
Father Samuel Brown who was drafted from Captain
Wicher's Company in Colone Woodbudge's Regiment of
Massachusetts Militia at which time he resided in the Town of
South Minefield aforesaid and served for the term of
one month or more in Captain Shaws Company in to
loud Portas Regiment that the company me at
the Town of South Brunfield aforesaid and from thence a
roved to New London where the company joined to
Porter's Regiment, which was at that time, stationed at 
New London That at the time he was stationed at New To
and there were one or two regiments from the State of Connecticut
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stationed at New London & a company of Artilery from
the Town of Pomfret and Canterbury Commanded by a
plain Tyler and that in latter part of August following
he was dismissed from the service and returned to the residence
 of his father in South Benfield aforesaid
That afterwards to wit in month of March in the year 1779
he enlisted into the service of the United States at the Town of South
Burnfield aforesaid for the term of nine months and that
about five days after he enlisted, he went to the Town of South
Hadley where the recruits were entered and examined by
Colonel Woodbridge who took down the name's heights, complexion,
 ages and occupations of the receipts and after
the aforesaid examination he returned to the residence of
his father in south Brunfield aforesaid and remained
there about one week and then went to Springfield when
the receipts were again mustered and examined by a
pertendant (whose name he does not recollect) who again took
down the names, heights, ages &c of the rents and from
thence he with other recent marched in squads under the command
 of a continental lieutenant whose name he does not
recollect) Through the towns of Suffield, Litchfield, Washington 
& Fiskill to West Point where he joined the American
Anny about the first of May 1779 and the recent were distributed
 to fill vacancies in the several regiments and that hearth
five others were placed in the first (Captain Ballards company in
the seventh Massachusetts (Colonel Alder's) Lieutenant Colone Stacys)
regiment in General Pattersons Brigade which was composed
of Colonel Alden's Supper Bradford & Baileys regiment
that he remained at West Point about one month when to
one Aldens regiment was detached for the purpose of forming
General Sullivans division and Colonel Alder's regiment marched
up the Hudson River to Albany and from the
from thence to Cherry Valley when they need was
which were detached for the pression of forming general
That Colonel Alden's regiment was stationed at Cherry Valley for 
the purpose of guarding the frontier and the other regiments build
boats and went down the Susquehannah no and joined General
 Sullivans Division at Tioga posture That
Colonel Aldens regiment regiment at
valley about
three or four months in which time they
were employed a considerable part of the 
fort and
on scouts that 
in the month of July or Augus at
in the money
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Fort was attacked by a body of tories and beding
with a few British regular and at the time of the attack
most of the officers of our regiment were in the quartees
 without the fort the enemy soon retired after having
killed about twenty or thirty of Colonel Alders regiment
who were without the fort among whom was Colonel Al
den and colonel Stacy was taken prisoner at that time
or on a scouting party soon after and after which we
colonel Brooks took the command of the regiment that in
the month of October or November 1779 the regiment left
Cherry Valley and marched near the same out that they
came back to west point where the request agained joined
General Pattersons Bugade which with the principal part of
the northern army had taken winter quarters at West point
and the vicinity and that in the latter part of the month
of December 1779 or the first of January 1780 he received a
discharge from the service of the United States from the hand
of Colonel Brooks which discharge he has lost after having
kept the same about twenty-five years and after he received
the aforesaid discharge he returned to the residence of his father in
South Benfield aforesaid
That afterwards to wit in the month of April in the year
1780 at South Benfield aforesaid he again enlisted into
the service of the United States for the term of six months that
about ten days after he enlisted, he again went to South H
day and was entered and examined by Colonel Woodbridge
he then returned to South Banfield and remained there
about ten days and then went to Springfield and was
again, mustered and examined by a superintendant who took
down the names, complexion, color of the have, height, age &
occupation of the rents and from Springfield he with
about one hundred & fifty other recent marched under the
command of an ensign to Litchfield where they drew
about five days provision from thence they marched by
the way of Fishkill to west point where he with seven others
were placed in the first company of Colonel Books regiment
which company at the time who commanded by a heatenent
whose name is not recollected and was about two weeks after
wards drafted into a light infantry Company the command
of the company then devolved on Ennen Parker who contin
ned to command the company until about the first of
September when adjutant White of Wavel Brook's Regiment
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was appointed Captain and took the command of the
company to which the said Brown belonged
That at the time he joined the army at West Point about
the first of June 1780 General Washington was in the County
and the regiment under the command of Colonel Brooks & Major
Harby being the seventh Massachusetts regiment in General Patt
his Brigade remained at West Point until about the first
of July 1780 and then marched to Peekskill and from thence
to Verplanks where the brigade encamped a few days from
thence crossed to Stoney Point thence into the State of New Jersey
That at Stoney Point General Patterson's Brigade joined
General Glovers Brigade and formed the dimion under the
command of Barron Steuben That General Glover's
Brigade, at that time was in part composed of Colonels The
herd, Sprout and Putnam's regiment & General Pattersons
Brigade of Colonel Brooks Colonel Tupper Colonel
Bradford & Colonel Baileys Regiment that Barre Steuben's
Surnon spent the summer 1780 in the State of New Jersey
and encamped in Paramas Totoway Hackensack & ors
town & was at Morristown at the time Major Ander was
executed and in the month of November Baron Sten
endursion marched back to west point and in the man
with of December 1780 he the said Brown was discharged from
the service of the United States by Wanel Brooks which discharge
he lost about fifty years ago and after being discharged
he returned to the Town of South Brunfield aforesaid and
that soon after entering for Bennfield and in the month
of January in the year 1781 at lion in the State of Con
necticut he enlisted for the term of two months under design
Strong and from thence marched through Hartford New Ha
ven Stratford and fairfield and joined the regiment at
Stanford near Horseneck under the command of Colonel
deed and remained there for the term of two months for which
term he enlisted and was dismissed from the service in the
month of March 1781 and returned to the Town of South Benfield
X
That afterwards to wit in the fall 1781 he again entered
the service of the United States as a substitute for one Drake
who was drafted from Captain Sessions company of
Militia for the purpose of guarding New London after
the peace had been burned by the British under the
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command of General Arnold and that he joined
Captain Solomon Wall's Company at Amon and
from thence marched to New London and 
there eight days after the place had been burned and
served for the term of six weeks and was then dismissed
While at New London there were but two com
panies stationed there one of which was commanded by
Captain Solomon Wales & the other by Nathaniel Wales &
both companies were under the command Colonel
M Clannin of Woodstock Connecticut
That in the month of January in the year 1782 he
the said Samuel Brown removed with his father from
the town of South Brunfield to the Town of Stamford in
Bennington County in the State of Vermont and in
the month of March 1782 he enlisted into Captain Bow
downs company for the term of eight months and joined
a detachment of the Vermont troops stationed at Castle
ton under the command major Gideon Bronson and
was employed the ensuing season in guarding the frontes and
in scouting parties and at one time in the mouth of
July was employed to go with a flag of truce and convey
the wives of some tories to the husbands who had fled to law
Ada, and was detained by a Buttish foraging party
fourteen days and then sent back, and was dismissed
from the service in the month of November 1782.
That he has no documentary evidence and that he
knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can
testify to his services that he has no record of his age
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or
annuity except the present and declares that his name is not
on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
Samuel Brown
on the and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me John N. Skinner Dep. Clerk S. Con
M
and
We Roan Clarke and William Slater according in
dlebury in the County of Portage and State of Ohio
Charles Sumner residing in Springfield in the County
and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well
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acquainted with Samuel Brown who has subscribed and now
into the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty
nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
 where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution
and that we concur in that opinion & that we believe him
to be a man of truth & veracity
Roan Clark
William Slater
Charles Summer
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me John N. Skinner Dep. Clk.
Questioned by the Court
Where and what year were you born
Anna
by the applicant
State
Question
In the Town of Pomfret in the County of Wendran a
of
Connecticut in the year 1763
by the Court
Answer
Have you any record of your age and if so where it
by the applicant
I have no record in my possession or with my
knowledge at this time
Mertion
by the Court
Where were you living when called into the service
where have you lived since the revolutionary war and
where do you now live
Answer by Applicant
At the time I first entered the service of the un
ted States I rended in the Town of South Benfield in the
County of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts and
resided there until the month of January 1782 when
removed to Stamford in Bennington County in the State of
Vermont and ended their seven or eight years 
removed to the town of Locke in the County of Wyoga
in the State of New York and resided there until the
1813 and their removed to the County of Portage in
the State of Ohio and have resided there ever since and
now reside in the Township of Springfield in the County of
Portage aforesaid
Question by the Court
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Now were you called into service; were you drafted, did
you volunteer and were you a substitute & if a substitute
for whom
Answer by the applicant
In the first, third, fourth, fifth & seventh enque
ments I enlisted & under the second engagement as a
substitute for my father Samuel Brown sen & in the
sixth engagement as a substitute for one Drake
By the Court
State the names of some of the regular officers
who were with the troops where you served such continen
tal and Militia regiments as you can recollect and
the general circumstances of your service
By Applicant
Colonel Brooks Colonel Tupper Colonel
Bradford Coloul Barley General Patterson
Steuben
Baron
General Lafayette Colonel James Wolved
Brower General Glover
General Nixon to
el Shepherd Colonel Apront General Sullivan
General Lamb General Green Colonel Smith
●
General Parsons & General Wayne
That in the four at New london these were one
or two compecticut regiments in the service at that
place & at West Point there were all happen
Colonel Bradford & Wheel Baileys regiments & General
Glovers Brigade
Question by the Court
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service
and if so by whom was it given and what has become of
Answer by Applicant
I receved a discharge from Colonel Brooks from
1
the nine months service and from the six months
town I also received a discharge from Colonel Brooks
& from the last your received a discharge for a
for Monson all of which are lost or destroyed said
discharges were signed by the officers who gave them
By the Court
State the names of persons to whom you are known
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in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
By (illegible words) 
John Tourley, John McLerney, Roan Clark, Charles Irwin, Rufus Hart & Edward Sumner
Samual Brown

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me John Skipper, Dept Clerk of Court
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Roan Clark and William Slater who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of Middlebury in the county of Partage aforesaid and that Charles Sumner who has also signed the same is a resident in the township of Springfield in said county of Portage, that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
I George Kirkum, clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio for the county of Portage do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Samual Brown for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty eighth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Geo Kirkum Clerk

written vertically of left side of paper
Samual Brown's Application for Pension

At bottom overlaid with Xs
Please deed to the care of Walter Madison Portage County Ohio
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7559
Samuel Brown
Ohio
(illegible)
Hon J Sloan
(illegible) of Rep
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Sir:
WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office,
1st March 1834
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
1778 
Enlister 1779
1780 
1781.
1782
A Statement, showing the service of Samuel Brown
Duration of the
claimant's service.
was 3 months
6 mos
8 mos
 12 days
Rank of priv
claimant.
Names and rank of the Field oofficers
under whom he served.
Cap. Carpenter
Col Woodbridge
 Cap. Shaw
Col Alden
Cap. Ballard
Col Woodbridge
 Cap. Bandoin
Age at present, 69 years
and place of abode
when he entered
the service.
I am respectfully
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary
Your obedient servant
the rolls have been carefully
claimants name is not found
Brown and Samuel Brand
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
examined and the
thereon,
either as Samuel Brown
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers, all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1.
The Regular Troops.
Q.
The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of } ss.
County of
On this
day of
A. B. a resident (b) of
personally appeared (a) before
in the county of
and State, Territory or District
of
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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
with and
served in the
(e) regiment of the
line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
& c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the
and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,
Clerk of the Court of
for a pension
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
day of
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission
; but if neither of these can be obtained the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of these
vices of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principals
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected
. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his
case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given
, and what has become of it?
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow
the rule laid down for his guidance.
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so
definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. 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
-- months, and --
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades of his service; but, according to the best of his
days, I served as a-
For months and --- days, I served as a ; and for such service I claim a pension."
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 or four months,
is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
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, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the
particular place or 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 or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
pursuit.
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The opinion of the Court is always required.
The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he 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.
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 papers 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.
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 claimant's 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.
The notes from to are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in
note fil applies to continental troops only.
traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration
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7559
Samuel Browns
application for Pension
Ohio
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress 
passed June 7th, 1832-
State of Ohio 1834
Portage County S.S. On this second day of September
personally appeared in open Court before the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Samuel
Brown a resident of Springfield in the
County of Portage and state of Ohio aged seventy
 one years who being for
 duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress pass ed June 7th, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the
following named officers and served as herein stated
That about the first of April 1778 he resided in the Town of
South Brimfield in the State of Massachusetts
at which time and place he entered the service
of the United States as a volunteer in Captain Carpenters 
Company of Infantry which was called
into the service of the United States for three months
 for the purpose of guarding the Military stores
deposited at Springfield Massachusetts, the company
 to which he belonged was the only one which
was stationed at Springfield at that time, that
in the latter part of the month of June 1778, he
was dismissed from the service, having served 
full time for which he volunteered when he return
and to his residence in South Springfield afore
said he is being in the fifteenth year of his age
when he entered the service
That afterwards in the month of July 1778 he again entered
the service of the United States as a substitute
for his Father Samuel Brown who was do
after from Captain Winchester Company in 
Colonel Woodbridges Regiment of Massachusetts
Militia, at which time he resided in South 
Brimfield aforesaid were said Company
met and Marched under the command
of Captain Shaw to New London, and joined 
Colonel Porters Regiment which was then
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tioned at New London there was also one or
two Regiments from Connecticut and one
Company of Artillery from Pompet and Canter
bury, Commanded by Captain Tyler stationed
there that in the latter part of the month of August
at following he was dismissed from the service
and returned again to the residence of his
father in South Brunfield aforesaid
That afterwards in January in the year 1781 as union in the
State of Connecticut he again entered the service of
the United States as a volunteer for two month under the
command of Ensign strong and from the
marched through Hartford New Haven Stratford 
Springfield Norwalk and joined the regiment at Stanford
Maj Horseneck under the command of Col
samuel Mead, and remained there for the term of
two months and was dismissed from the service in
the month of March 1781 and returned again to
South Brimfield aforesaid
That afterwards in the fall of the year 1781 he again 
entered the service of the United States as a 
substitute for our Drake who was drafted from
Captain Lawsons Company of Militia for the
purpose of guarding New London after it had been
burned by the British under the command
of General Arnold that he joined Captain Sol
Coman Wales Company at Union and from
thence marched to New London where they arrived
1.12
Eight days after it had been burned and served
for the term of six weeks and was then dismissed
there was but one other company stationed their
at this time (viz) Captain Nathiel Wales Co both and
er the command of Colonel McClannin of Woodstock Connecticut
That in the month of January in the year 1782 
removed with his father to the Town of Stam
ford in Bennington County Vermont that in
the month of March 1782 he entered the service
of the United States as a volunteer in Captain
Bowdoins Company for a term of eight months
said Company joined a detachment of the 
Vermont Troops stationed at Castleton
under the command of Major Gideon Bronson
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That He here sworn
and was employed the ensuing season in a
landing the Frontier and in scouting parties
and at one time in the month of July was
employed to go with a flag of time and can
way the wives of some ones other Husbands who
had fled to Canada, where we were detained by a
British foraging party fourteen days and then
were sent back, and was dismissed from the
service in the month of November 1782
has no documentary evidence, and that he
knows of no person whose testimony he can
procure, who can testify to his service
by relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension 
or annuity, except the present, and declares that
his name is not on the pension Roll of the
Agency of any State. Samuel Brown
and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
before Price S. Hunter Dep. Clerk
in Hughes a Clergyman residing in Springfield 
and Charles Sumner residing in Coventry -
 hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with Samuel Brown who has subscribed 
and sworn to the above declaration that we 
believe him to be seventy-one years & three month 
after that he is reputed and believed in the 
neighbourhood where he resides, to have been 
a soldier of the Revolution, and that we con ┃
us in that opinion
and subscribed the day and
aforesaid before
John D. Hughes
Brice S. Hunter Dep. Clerk
Charles Summer
the Court
where and in what year were you born
Answer by Applicant
In the Town of Pompet in the County of 
Windham and State of Connecticut in the year 1783
Have you any record of your age and if so when if it
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I have no record of my age in either my 
possession or knowledge at this time. -
Where were you living when called into the service
where have you lived since the Revolutionary wars
and where do you know him
At the time I first entered the service I resided in
South Brimfield in the County of Hampshire in
the State of Massachusetts, and resided there untill
the month of January 1782, when I removed to
Stanford Benning County in the State of Vermont
where I resided 78 years when I removed to the
Town of Locke Cayuga County State of New York
and resided there untill the year 1813, when I
removed to the County of Portage in the State
Ohio, where I have resided untill the present
time and now reside,
How were you called into service; were you 
drafted or were you a substitute and if a 
substitute for whom?
The first third and fifth time I entered the
vice as a volunteer, the second time as a 
substitute for my father the fourth time as a
substitute for one Drake
State the names of some of the regular officer
who were with the troops when you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can
recollect and the general circumstances of your
service
Col. Porter, Col. Woodbridge, Col. McClannin, May
Bronson, Capt. Carpenter, Capt Shaw Capt Tyler
Capt Bowdoin in the Town at New London the
were one or two Regiment from Connecticut
Did you ever receive a discharge from
the service and if so, by whom was it given
and what has become of it?
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for the last tour of duty, I received a discharge
from Major Bronson which is either lost
or destroyed
State the names of persons to whom you are
known in your present neighbourhood and
who can testify as to your character for
truth and veracity, and their belief of your
services as a soldier of the revolution,
And the
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
said Court do hereby declare this opinion
after the investigation of the matter and after 
pertaining the interrogatories prescribed by the War
department that the above-named applicant
 was a revolutionary soldier and
served as he states, and the Court further
 certifies that it appears to them that John D Hughes
and Charles Sumner who have signed the precise
certificates are residents of Springfield and
Coventry in the County of Portage and that
Samuel Brown has also signed the same
is a resident of Springfield in said County that
they are credible persons and that their state
ents are entitled to credit-
I George Kirkum, Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for the County of Portage in
the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the
foregoing, contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the
application of Samuel Brown for a
pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this second
day of September in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred & thirty-four
Geo. Kirkum Clerk-
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8108
Rev War
INVALID.

File No. 8108
Samuel Brown
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:- Vol. 102?, Page 45

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Samuel Brown's
Application
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The State of Ohio 
Portage County ss  Personally appeared before me
the Subscriber associate Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas in and
for said County-- Samuel Brown
who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that
in the month of January in the year 1781 after having
received a discharge from Colonel Brooks of the U.S.
army, he enlisted at the town of Union in Connecticut
for a term of two months under Ensign Strong 
marched to Stamford near Horseneck & remained there
the said two months under command of Col. Meed
from which served he was dismissed in the month
March 1781 - That again in the fall of 1781 he entered
the service of the U.S. as a substitute for a man 
named was Drake of Capt Sessions of Militia
being a company made up of Drafts from several companies
 James Capt Solomon Wales Calmon
March'd to New London & arrived the eight ┃
days after the place had been burned & served there
the term of six weeks & was dismissed.
While at New London there was but two companies stationed
there under the command of Col. McClawen of WoodStock Con.
 The said applicant & Deponent would
neither state and explain that altho he was enroll'd 
a company in South Brimfield Mass in December 1780
is Father removed to Union in Con, from which place he 
 perform the above service, (that by reason of age and
infirmity, his memory is impaired, and that any apparent
discrepances in this with the former statement is in
correctly stating the place of residence, to which he
turned after said service, Samuel Brown
Sworn & subscribed before me this 13th day of July AD 1835
Charles Sam Assauch Judge
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The State of Ohio Portage County SS.
Geo. Kirkum Clerk of the Court of Portage
Common Pleas of the County of Portage
aforesaid do hereby certify that Charles
Summer Esq before whom the within
Deposition was made and who has
to the Jurat thereunder written in his
own proper handwriting subscribed his name 
was at the time of taking said and still
is an associate Judge of said Court in the County afore
said duly commissioned and qualified and authorized
by the laws of said State to take such deposition
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna this
twenty eighth day of July A.D. 1835
Geo. Kirkum Clerk
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W. L. Clark
Ohio
Sec And B.35
M. Silvester
Washington
of Pensions-
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Middlebury O. August 1835
Enclosed is Samuel Browns affidavit 
explanation of a former statement also
, all his "original papers, as he understood
your request in your last to me the
old Gentleman is very sanguine as to the
righteousness of his claim
I sincerely
believe that Justice would be done in
granting him a pension
Yours &c
William L Clarke
J I Edward