Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,094, Ezra Brown, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                            NUMBER
New Jersey  Brown, Ezra   S.34,094
CONTENTS
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New Jersey
4,499
Ezra Brown 4
Capt Morris Private
New Jersey line - 1775. 1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 6 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of Nov 1818
and sent Hon Mr Southard
House of Representatives
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818 4m 29/30 - 39.73
semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819 - 48.-
                                                            $87.73
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818}
Col. Winds   1820
                        68
                     1752
Morris Cpt
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Ezra Brown
(desires to have his pension, if
granted, made payable in
New York.)

Not on Rolls

Admitted
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State of New Jersey
County of Morris

Personally came to me Lewis Condict one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Morris, Ezra Brown, after being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he served as a private soldier, against the common enemy, in the American Revolutionary war in the Continental establishment, that he enlisted at Succasunna [?] plain in the township of Roxbury[?] in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey on the 29 or 30th day of October
of the year seventeen hundred and seventy five in Captain Joseph Morris company of the first Regiment of the Jersey line, under the
command of Lord Stirling, that Col Stirling was soon after promoted and the said Regiment was commanded by Colonel William Winds. that he continued in the same till some
time in the month of August seventeen hundred and seventy six, when by order of Captain Morris he was placed in the hospital at Fort George as a nurse to the sick there confined, that he remained there for nearly two months, when being taken ill himself he received from Col Winds a furlough or pass for an unlimited time to go into the country to recruit his health, that on account of his ill health and the term for which he enlisted
to wit, One year, being nearly or quite expired he did not again enter the army. This Deponent further saith that he resides near Morristown in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey that he has never heretofore received any pension from the United States & that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support, and pray to have his name placed on the pension list under the Act of Congress passed the 18 March 1818.

Sworn & subscribed before me at
Morristown the 6th April 1818.
Lewis Condict

Ezra Brown
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State of New Jersey}
Morris County ss}

Personally came before me Lewis Condict one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, Uzal Munson, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he is well acquainted with Ezra Brown, the person in the foregoing deposition named; that he knew him as a private Soldier in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War; and that the time and
manner set forth by the said Ezra Brown, in the
said deposition of his entering and leaving the
said service, are as this Deponent believes, correct and true.

Uzal Munson

Sworn and subscribed before me
at Morris Town, the 8th
day of April AD 1818
Lewis Condict.}

I, Lewis Condict, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ezra Brown did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the foregoing deposition, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken
before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress of the 18th March, Dom: 1818.

Lewis Condict

Morris Town N. Jersey
April 7th 1818.

I do also hereby further certify to the Secretary of War, that Uzal Brown, the foregoing applicant for a pension, has for many years been well
known to me,- that he has been from my first knowledge of him, & still remains a man in indigent circumstances, & really needs the assistance of his country for support.

Lewis Condit
Morris Town N.J. June 9th 1818
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State of New Jersey
County of Morris SS }  I Robert H. M. Carter Clerk of the said County of Morris, do certify, that Lewis Condict Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits are made, is and was at the doing thereof duly Enrolled One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto 
Subscribed my name and affixed the
Seal of the said Court, the second day
of May AD Eighteen hundred & eighteen

Robert H. M. Carter

State of New Jersey
Morris County ⎬
Personally came before me Lewis Condict, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, Thomas Mitchell, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that he is well acquainted with Ezra Brown, the person in the foregoing
deposition named; that he knew him to have served as a private soldier in the service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War, for more than nine months; and that the time and manner set forth by the said Ezra Brown in the said deposition of his entering and leaving
the said services are, as this Deponent believes, correct and true.

Thomas Mitchell

Sworn and subscribed before me
at Morris Town the 9th day of
June, Dom. 1818.

Lewis Condit
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Ezra Brown
County Morris

Not entitled

Mar 1819
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[emblem of State of New Jersey on left]
District of New Jersey,
Morris County, } SS.
On this Eleventh day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removeable by writ of error only]

Ezra Brown aged sixty eight years, resident in the township of Morris in said county, who being sworn according to law doth on his oath
declare, that he served in thte first Jersey Regiment first commanded by Lord Sterling afterwards by Col Winds in Captain Joseph Morris Company; that made his original application and declaration for a pension on the 6th day of April 1818, that he has received a pension warrant which is numbered
4.499-

And I do solemnly was that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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.  That I am sixty eight years
old; my occupation is that of a laborer but by reason of a lame hand and the weakness of old age am not able to do half a days work in a day; that my family consists of my wife named Bethia
aged 67 years afflicted with Rheumatism occasionally and not able to support herself: and of my grand daughter named Ann aged only 12 years not able to support herself but of some service to us in our advanced age-

Ezra Brown

Sworn to & declared the 11th
day of July 1820 before
Gab H Ford
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SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of Ezra Brown--

42 acres of land- 1 Horse waggon and Harness
1 pair shovel and tongs, 1 Cow, 1 pair Andirons 2 Kettle, 1 Iron pot 1 Meal Cask 1 Soap tub, 2 Barrels 2 tubs, 3 old Barrels, 1 pail, 2 tin pails, 1 Large Wheel 1 Small Wheel, 10 chairs 1 table  1 Forking Clasp-  1 Basket, 1 Hog, 1 plow, 1 half
Bushel 1 Cutting box 1 Pig 1 Cask 1 Shovel 1 Spade 8 Sheep--

I am indebted to the following persons in the following sums of money namely-

To Joseph Pierson on lands. ....$425.00
To Elias Pierson ........225.00
To John Pierson..........55.00
To  Louie & Sally Mills.....1.50
To Ward Witman........... 1.50
To D Wm A Whelply.......10.00
To Samuel Holliday.......$719.50

The following persons are indebted to me in the following sums of money, namely -
William Pack
$217.50
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William Pack.....................................$217.50
William Pack on Judgment..................86.00
Shubal Trowbridge on Judgment........14.00
Samuel Betts.........................................4.00
John Vail................................................1.50
George Dickinson.................................0.50
Elisha Pierson.......................................0.53
                                                           _______
                                                           $324.03

Ezra Brown

Sworn to & declared the
11th day of July 1820
before Gab H Ford
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State of New Jersey,
County of Morris.  } SS.
I, Robert H. McCarter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do hereby 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 six hundred and twenty three dollars and twenty four cents--
8623.24.

In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and 
twenty.
Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the
Court for the County of Morris
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34094
Revy INVALID.
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File No. 34094
Ezra Brown
Priv Rev War
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Act: 18th March 18
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.}

[Arrangement of 1870]
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[left column]
623.22
324.03
299.21

See letter to the Applicant. Care of of the Hon
Lewis Condict 13 Decr 1823
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[right column]
cannot be restored-
wirth $354.54

See letter to
Lewis Condict Esq
Morristown

To be briefed
Rcd March 24. 1864
1823

Rejected under Act March  1 1823
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New Jersey
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Ezra Brown, Private, served
1 year from 1775
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1st schedule dates 11 July 1820 containing
42 acres of land, 1 horse, 1 Wagon & harness
1 Cow, 2 hogs, 8 sheep, and sundry
articles of furniture          $ 299.21

Debts due by him and 
names of creditors given $719.50--------------

Schedule under act March 1823, dated July 1823 contains 41 acres & 27/100 of an acre of land without any buildings- 1 cow, 4 sheep, 1 hog and various farming and household articles $354.54
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Owes to Joseph Pierson for the
land mentioned in schedule $250.00
and to sundry other persons.   48.00
                                                 $298.00

Accounts for decrease the property by sale of the house the value of which has been consumed in support of his family, and the wagon in the same way.  The debts due to him have been collected and [cut off] also paid to persons to whom [cut off] was indebted for the same, and owing to deprecation of landed property[cut off] pension that the laws will not
be sufficient to pay the balance due it, and that the last payment will be due in October next.

Claimant exhibits his affidavit made the 23d February 1824, before David Thomas [cut off] Jr. Master in Chancery, stating that since the rejection of his claim the agent of Joseph Pierson to whom he owed a balance of $250 for the land, ordered a prosecution for the balance rather than undergo which and be subject to additional costs the claimant sold the land to Lewis Pierson for $272, which cancelled the
bond for the land. Joseph Cutler who was the agent to prosecute, and Lewis Pierson who bought the land, certify the claimant's statement is correct and an authenticated
copy of deed to Lewis Pierson is produced. The Hon. Mr Condict states that the claimant is his neighbor and that he personally knows him to be destitute and needy; that he is prudent & temperate man, and in poverty constitutes any title to a restoration the claimant deserves it.-

Hon Lewis Condict,
H.R.
Restored April 13 1824
& sent as above

Mar 1819
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Jas. L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office
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House of Reps Febr 28th, 1824

Sir,
I see by yesterdays mail, the enclosed application to your office with a request from Mr Brown, that I would present it. The statement is rather awkwardly drawn up, but I have no doubt of the truth of the facts. He is my neighbor and I know him personally to be destitute & [illegible].  One important consideration which is not mentioned in the enclosed statement, but I think you will find it [illegible] in his declaration of July 1823, is this.  On the receipt of his first payment amounting perhaps to about $80 or $90 he purchased a small house with a few acres of rough mountain land, for a home, applying the whole of this sum as the first payment & relying with certainty upon his pension, he calculated by [illegible]to pay the balance in a few years.  This little home, being taken into his estimate upon the act of 1820, [illegible] his [illegible] to an amount which prevented his restoration.  Being unable to labor, he has earned nothing, whilst his own & his wife's subsistence has consumed what little personal property he had, & the interest accumulating upon the unpaid balance owing for his house, he is now actually turned out of doors to pay that debt, which he never would have thought of contracting, had he not relied on his pension.  By the operation of the law, he is worse off than if he had never recd. his first payment.  I know him to be a prudent, temperate & industrious man & if honesty constitutes any title to restoration, I cannot but indulge the hope he may fairly adjudged to be poor enough to
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admit him to the benefits of the pension laws. I will ask your attention to his declaration of July 7th 1823.  I expect he probably may not have been sold out of possession by the Sheriff, but
finding that Joseph Pierson, the man of whom he purchased, & who in his absence is represented by Joseph Cutler his agent, was determined to prosecute his bond & compel payment, he has been obliged to part with it to Lewis Pierson, who has either paid the debt, or become liable for it, & has exonerated Brown, who now is homeless & destitute.  

Will you be kind enough after examination to notify me of the result, & if further, or different testimony is wanting to inform me?

Yours in haste, & with much respect
Lewis Condict

Jas. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension office.
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
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Morristown N.J. July 22d 1823 -

Dear Sir,

I enclose herewith the applications of 8 persons, for pensions under the act of last session, viz: of Geo. Emmel, L. Nowe, Corns.
Mills, J. Hurd, W. Munson, W. McKean, S. Hicks, & E. Brown.-

Should they or any of them be entitled to pensions, small as their Septr. paymts. will be,- still it will be very acceptable & useful to them, as I know them to be in indigent. They desired me to state particularly that the urgency of there wants, rendered it very desirable that a decision might be had if possible, in season for September payment.

Please notify me the result of your examination.
&I rect. within a few days, a certificate in favor of Stephen Jones.

I remain, with much respect & esteem

Yr. friend & very obt Servt
Lewis Condict

J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension office
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Ezra Brown
March 1819
354.54
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District of New-Jersey, Morris County, ss.
On this seventh day of July 1823 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the county of Morris, in the term of July in the year aforesaid, (the said Court being a Court of Record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping record of its proceedings, and its judgments being removable by writ of error only) Ezra Brown aged seventy one years, and resident in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March, 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that he the said Ezra Brown enlisted for the term of one year on the 29th or 30th of October 1775 in the State of New Jersey in the County of Morris in the Company commanded by Capt Joseph Norris in the Regiment Commanded first by Lord Stirling and afterwards by Col. Winds in the line of the State of New Jersey on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the expiration of his term of enlistment that he was sent by his Commanding Officer to attend at the hospital and continued to serve there and was not with the regiment when it was discharged.-  that his name has been placed on the pension list and was dropt therefrom on account of his property

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May, 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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, entiled "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 18th day of March, 1818; 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. Note, since the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have ben made in my property as follows viz:
forty one acres and twenty seven hundredths of an acre of land, upon which there are no building of any kind
One Cow
3 Sheep and one lamb
One hog
10 fowls & 25 Chickens
Narrow Ax & Grindstone
Pocket wedge I Santer
10 old chairs
Shovel tongs and andirons
1 pot and dish Kettle
teakettle and frying pan
1 old barrel and three tubs
1 Cider Barrel
1 Lyetub pounding Barrel and tub
1 Copper tea kettle 1 old pail
1 large wheel and reel
1 little wheel
3 flour barrels
Lot of old Boxes
Vinegar Keg & 8 tubs

2 old Buckets
3 Earthen pots
1 pair Steelyards
Socket wedge & 1 lantern
1 Looking glass
hand bellows shears snuffers and
3 Candlesticks
6 tea spoons
2 Decanters and 2 Bottles
7 Knives & 6 forks
15 Earthen plates
9 Dishes
2 Tumblers & 1 wine Glass
6 tea cups & saucers teapot & Coffee pot
1 Bible 1 Psalm Book & 2 other books
8 Brooms
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He also further declares that he owes the following debts
viz
He owes to Ebenezer Stiles.............20.00
To Joseph Pierson for the land mentioned
in the foregoing schedule...............210.00
William Dalrymple (Blacksmith).......20.00
Wood and Wilmore.............................4.00
Dr. Whittley.........................................2.00
To Robert H McCarter.........................1.50
David Wills in unsettled account

He further declares that he has no notes, bonds, bills or vouchers for money due and owing to him that he is a laborer by occupation but by reason of infirmity he is entirely unable to labor, and not even to put on or off his clothes without help. that he has a wife aged about sixty nine years who is a hearty woman and somewhat able to labor and attends to the
ordinary concerns of the household; that he has there children all married but they live at a great distance from him and are able to take care of themselves and are not dependent upon him and the youngest is more than thirty years of age.

That since the exhibition of his first schedule the following changes have taken place in his property viz.

The horse has been sold about two years since and the proceeds used for the support of his family - also his waggon and harness The debts
due to him have been collected and the greater part of them paid to persons to whom he was indebted for the land he purchased and owing to the depreciation of the value of landed property he is apprehensive the land will not be more than sufficient to pay the balance for which it is incumbered - That the last payment due upon his land will become due in October next and he has no means whatever to pay the balance due upon it except by a sale of it, which in all probability must take place as soon as the debt becomes due

That when he first received his pension he supposed it was to be permanent and in consequence thereof he purchased the land mentioned in his schedule and has paid out all his funds toward it. And since his pension has stopped he has been unable to pay any thing upon the land except some debts which were due to him, and the land has now taken all his means, and will not if sold fetch but very little more than the sum that is yet due upon it. There are some small changes in his household furniture occasioned by use and being broken and some of the sheep have been sold and killed for his family's use
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and one of them has strayed away and never been recovered-
Ezra Brown
Sworn to and declared in open }
Court the 7th day of July 1823 }
Silas Cook
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Ezra Brown
of
Morris Co N. Jersey

To the Secretary of War
City of Washington
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Ezra Brown a pensioner of Congress for services in the revolutionary war, having made her declaration with a schedule of his property-- annexed thereto, on oath in open Court, on the Seventh of July 1823 and the Court having heared testamony [heard testimony] touching the value of said property, do order the said declaration and schedule to be filed as a record of the Court and declare their opinion that the
amount in value of property exhibited in said Schedule is  $357.54; since the rejection of his pension, the agent of Joseph Pierson, to whom he owed a ballance [balance] for the land set forth in his former scheduel, [schedule] did order prosecution for the recovery of the debt; rather than pay cost, and have the land sold by the Sheriff, he sold the land to Lewis Pierson for two hundred and seventy two dollars which canceled the bond held against him given for the land-

This has left him destitute of all property except the personal; mentioned in the schedule filed in the office; and reduce the valuation to $104.54 he lives in a small house on rent which by reasons of his infirmities and old age, cannot pay the rent nor labour to support himself; and unless he receives the aid of gover[n]ment by the renewal of his pension he must  suffer or apply to the charity of his neighbours or the
oversears [overseers] of the poor for a sustenance- and he further saith the personal property he has now in possession, if sold would not pay the several debts he owes, which has principally occurred for his sustenance for a year past.-  and as a corobating [corroborating] testimony,  have inclosed a copy of the deed on record of the sale, with the certificate of Joseph Cutler the agent of Joseph Pierson to whom
I was indebted for the land, and also that of Lewis Pierson the purchasor [purchaser], which certificate will be found on the office copy of the deed inclosed.

State of Newjersey
County of Morris  SS}

 On the twenty third day of Feby Eighteen hundred and & twenty four before me David Thompson one of the masters in Chancery of the State of the New Jersey personally came Ezra Brown the person in the foregoing statement named, & being duly sworn
according to law did depose & say that the foregoing statement is in all things just & true according to the best of his knowlege [knowledge].

Ezra Brown

Sworn before me Feby 23d- 1824
David Thompson Junr
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This Indenture, made the ninth
day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
twenty four Between Ezra Brown 
of the township of Morris in the county of Morris and state of
New Jersey of the first part and Lewis Pierson
of the same place
of the Second Part,
Witnesseth, that the said Part of the First Part, for and in consideration
of the sum of two hundred and seventy two dollars 
good and lawful money of the United States, to him
in hand well and truly paid by the said Party of the Second Part, at and before
the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged,
and the said Party of the First Part, therewith fully satisfied contented and paid,
has given, granted, bargained and sold aliened, enfeoffed, conveyed and
confirmed, and by these presents do give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, 
convey and confirm to the said Party of the Second Part, and to his
heirs and assigns for ever, all that
tract or parcel of land and premises hereinafter particularly described,
situate, lying and being in the township of Mornis
in the county of
Morris and state of New Jersey
butted and bounded as follows:
Beginning at a hickory sapling the north west
corner of a lot conveyed by Joseph Pierson to
Arom Guerin thence (1) South Seven degrees
east fifty three links to the end of a stone fence
thence (2 ) South Sixty five degrees and twenty
minuts west six chains and ninety five links
thence (3) North forty five minutes west nine
chains and thirty three links to a heap of stone
thence (4) South Eighty degrees East six chains
and seven links to a large stump Corner of Joseph
Querins lands thence (5) north two degrees and
thirty minutes west twenty six chain to the end
of a stone fence thence (6) North Eighty eight
degrees east Eleven Chains and seventy four links
to a heap of stone thence (7) south three degrees
East twenty nine chains and eleven links to
the north east corner of Aram Guerins lot
thence (8) along his line south seventy eight degrees
and thirty minutes west Eleven Chains and ninety 
seven links to the place of beginning 
Containing 
forty one acres and twenty six hundredths
of an acre of land be the same more or less
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Together with all and singular, the profits privileges, and advantages with
the appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining also, all the estate,
right, title interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever, of the said Party of the
First part, of, in and to the same; and of, in and to every part and parcel thereof-
To Have and to Hold, all and singular the
above described tract
or lot of land and premises, with the appurtenances, unto the said Party of the
Second part, his heirs and assigns, forever--And the 
said Ezra Brown
doth for
himself his
heirs, executors and administrators, covenant and grant to and
with the said Party of the Second part, his heirs and assigns, that he
the said Party of the First Part, is the true, lawful and right owner of
all and singular the above described land and premises, and of every part and parcel thereof
and are no lawfully sized and possessed of the same, as a good, perfect, and
absolute estate of inheritance in fee simple; and that the same land and premises, or any
part thereof, at the time of the sealing and delivery of these presents, are not incumbered
by any mortgage, judgment, dower, recognizance, or limitation, or by any incumbrance whatsoever, by which the title of the said Party of the Second part,
hereby made, or intended to be made, for the
above described land and
premises, can or may be changed, charged, altered, or defeated in any way what
ever:--And also, that the said Party of the First Part, now have good right,
full power, and lawful authority to grant, bargain, sell and convey the said land and
premises in manner aforesaid-Also, that he will warrant, secure,
and forever defend the
said land and premises,
unto the said Part of the Second part, to his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all and every person and persons, freely and
clearly freed and discharged of and from all manner of incumbrances whatsoever.
In witness whereof, the said Ezra Brown
has hereunto set his hand, and seal the 
day and year first above written.
Ezra Brown (seal)
Signed, Sealed and Delivered ⎬
In the Presence of }
Ira C. Whitehead

New Jersey }
Morris County } ss. Be it remembered that on the
ninth day of February A.D. Eighteen hundred and
twenty four personally appeared before me
Ira C. Whitehead one of the masters in the Chan[cut off]
of the State of New Jersey Ezra Brown who
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am satisfied is the grantor named in the foregoing
deed of conveyance and to whom I made known 
the contents of the same and did acknowledge
that he Signed Sealed and delivered the same as
his Voluntary act & deed for the uses and purposes
therein mentioned and expressed -
Ira C. Whitehead
Received and Recorded February 9th 1824
L. Drake Clk

State of New Jersey }
Morris County ss }
I. Zephaniah Drake Clerk of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas do
hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true Copy of a Deed Recorded in my office in Liber O.O. folio
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of
said County this twenty third day of
February AD one thousand Eight hundred
and twenty four -
Zephaniah Drake
We the subscribers inhabitents and citizens of Morristown in the
County of Morris & State of New Jersey do certify that we have red
the deposition made by Ezra Brown & Sworn to, before David Thompson
[illegible] Master in Chansory, for the purpose of obtaining a [illegible] of
his pention, and so far as regards the conveyance of his lands to
pay the incumberances on it from our own knowledge we know
it to be true - and we verily believe the statement made by
him as to the residue and disposition of his property is trew, we have 
been long acquainted with him,-- we know him to be a man 
in very poor circumstances, that he has always had the reputation
of being strictly honest
Joseph Cutler
Lewis Pierson