Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1185, Isaac Brewer, N.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Brewer, Isaac

NUMBER
R. 1185

CONTENTS
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37.218
Claim of Isaac Brewer of 
a Pension
Ala
Act 7 June 1832
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Declaration of Isaac Brewer in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

State of Alabama}
Talladega County} On this the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared in Open Court before the Honorable George Goldthewaite Judge of the Circuit Court of said County now sitting - Isaac Brewer, a resident of Talladega County and State of Alabama aged eighty two years of age since the fifteenth day of May last past 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 the 7th 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated - The Captain under whom he entered the Service first was Captain Martin Nawls the majors name was John Nawls and the Colonel who commanded the Regiment in which he entered the service was Richard Litterl, deponent is an illiterate man and does not remember the date of his going into service under the foregoing officers, but states that it was towards the close of the Revolutionary war and that he served at least six months under them, he cannot state the exact time when he left or when his tour of duty ended. Deponent states that whilst he served under Col. Litterl he was a foot soldier. Col. Litterls command was principally about Hillsborough and the adjoining country in North Carolina. When Deponent first went into service as is above stated he resided in Chatham County in No. Carolina. He thinks he was drafted into service. During the time he served under Col Litterl he was in no engagement or battle with the enemy. Col Litterls command was never marched out of Orange or Chatham County. He did not form a junction or serve with any Regiments or Companies of Continental Troops. Deponent states that the object of Col. Litterl was to hold the tories in check who were devastating the country and occasionally murdering the whig inhabitants. The tories were under the command of Col. David Fanning Col. Hector McNeil and one Elrod and Capt. Joseph Walker = About two months after  Deponent was discharged from service
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As above stated he entered into the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - Capt. William Smith was Captain, John Nawls Major, and Robert Maybin Colonel. The exact date of entering the service under Col. Maybin Deponent does not recollect for the cause aforesaid. Deponent thinks he served under Col. Maybn eight months, and is positive he served six months this tour. At the time He entered the service under Col. Maybin he resided in Orange County No. Carolina on Haw River, deponent was a drafted foot soldier. During this tour Deponent was in a battle at Lindley Mills on Cane Creek Orange County. Col. Fanning & McNeil commanded the enemy who were supposed to amount to nine hundred men. Maybins Regiment was between four and five hundred strong. Deponent states that the action continued about an hour and the conflict was a sharp one. Col. Maybin ordered a retreat, and as the retreat deponent received a shot near the spine, which was never retracted. He was confined six or eight weeks with his wound and to this day he occasionally feels considerable inconvenience from it. Col. Maybins command which deponent was under his command extended principally over the Country of Orange and Chatham and on one occasion he marched his Regiment into Wake County in pursuit of the Tories. During the action at Lindley Mills Col. McNeil and Major John Nawls met in single combat both fired at the same instant. McNeils ball struck Nawls near the left pap, and Nawls ball penetrated McNeil in the forehead; both died on the spot. A good many men were killed & wounded on both side. For a short period whilst Deponent served under Col. Maybin his Regiment cooperated with Col. Sees legion in Orange the rumor memorable Hacking-match as it was called took place in which Capt. Pyles, a celebrated tory, was defeated with a terrible slaughter. This occurred in Orange County fifteen or twenty miles from Hillsborough. Col. Maybin was not in the battle nor was Deponent but he is of opinion that some of the troops were engaged. Deponent does not know that he ever received a discharge from the service,  - if he did he has no recollection of it. nor does he know of any person who can testify to the whole or any part of the service performed by him.
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Deponent was born in the State of Georgia in the  (now) County of Wilkes in May 1763. At about five years of age his father carried him to Bedford County Virginia where he resided about two years From thence he was removed to Chatham County No. Carolina where he resided until he was twenty four or five years of age. He then removed to Hancock County in the State of Georgia where he resided upwards of twenty years. He then removed to Blount &  afterward to McMinn County Tennessee in which last state he resided until about five years ago, at which time he settled in Talladega County Alabama, where he now resides. 2. Deponent has no record of his age but understands his younger Brother George who is said to reside in Wayne County Tennessee is in the possession of the old family Bible which contains a Register of his age. 3. Dep. was living in Orange Co. No. Carolina as above stated when called into service. He was drafted and served in the infantry in both tours of duty performed by him under the command of Col. Litterl and Mabin. 4. for a very short time the Regiment of Col. Maybin acted in concert with the legionary troops under Col Harry Lee. 6. He never received. 7. He is known in his neighborhood where he has only resided for a few years to the Reverend Philip Archer Hance Hendrix Esq. D. Edw. A. Pearson & Col. P. E. Pearson. These persons know his character and may possibly have formed an opinion chiefly deemed from conversation with himself during our short acquaintance as his having served in the dis war.
It is more than sixty years since Dep. left orange county and has never visited it since. He does not know of a single one of his youthful companions now living or any one living who served with him in the revolutionary war. 
About eleven years ago and whilst Deponent resided in the state of Tennessee he spoke to a Gentleman by the name of Lowry to prepare his papers, being then resolved to apply for a pension under the act of 1832. He was then able to prove his service by positive testimony of William Buchanan and William Brewer both of whom were about that time put on the pension Roll. Mr. Lowry suggesting that Deponent should swear to the number of the Regiments in which he served, which he refused to do because he could not conscientiously, and the said Lowry also claiming one half of his pension when drawn for his services. Deponent for that time gave up his view of a pension. Deponent however intended at some other time to make application for a pension but his removal to Alabama took place in a few years after
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and has delayed his purpose to the present moment. Deponent further states that William  Buchanan application for a pension was in part sustained by his testimony which he supposes is on file in the war department, and to which he refers as corroboration of this statement. Buchanan and Brewer are both dead. Deponent 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 or territory. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

[Signature] Geo. Goldethwaite Presiding Judge of Talladega Circuit Court
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1853-1775=78

State of Alabama} SS. On this 15th day of January 
County of Coosa} A. D. one thousand eight hundred & fifty three personally appeared before me James Weed one of the Justices of the Peace within & for the County & State aforesaid, Simon Brewer aged 78 years and has been informed and being sworn according to Law deposeth & says that he is the Brother of Isaac Brewer of Talladega County Alabama who is the claimant for a Pension from the government of the Untied States for for services rendered in the Military Service of the revolutionary war & other wars since. He says that he was born as he has been told about the year 1775 at the beginning of the revolution & got of sufficient age before it closed to recollect it. He remembers his Bother Isaac going away from home & coming back home and several [illegible] and has always understood, that he said Isaac served in said war but he does not recollect nor did he now know how long or how many tours or under what commanders. He further recollects of his brother being wounded & has always understood, that it was in said war. He further says that he never knew any other Isaac Brown, but his brother in the state of North Carolina no does he believe there was
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He says his brother was very young but was very expert with a gun & he has always understood and believed was a very good soldier. He has also heard his brother Isaac often speaking of being in much service since the revolution & on the frontier but he has no personal knowledge of it not being with him, but he fully believes it  also that said Isaac got badly wounded while in the said frontier service. He says he has no interest whatever in his brothers business or claims but is not backward to say that he fully believes that Isaac ought to have his claim allowed him as well as others & further saith not.
[Signature] Simon Brewer X his mark
Test.
George Johnson [Signature]
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day and date before written & I certify that Simon Brewer is a very credible & appears of the age he states & that I fully believe his statement as made in the foregoing. [Signature] James Weed Justice of the Peace.
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Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of  Pensions
Washington City
D. C. 

Mr. Nile
Mr. Hunt
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No. 12731
REJECTED
Sarah Brewer.
Widow of Isaac Brewer.

REJECTED

Died at

Received, ,186 .
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37218
Isaac Brewer
Ala. 
Letter to Hon. Reuben Chapman
20th April 1866.

act 7 June 1832
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Isaac Brewer
Ala S Jus 1832

Official Business

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
D. C.
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Pension Claim
of Isaac Brown

S

Isaac Brewer
Ala-sus 1832

Official Business

Oxford Ala.
Feb. 27

L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Interior
Washington City
D. C.
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Comptrollers Certificate
N.C.

To the Commissioner of Pensions
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State of North Carolina}
Comptroller's Office}
I, William J. Clarke, Comptroller of public accounts in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that, it appears of record in my office, among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for Military services in the Revolutionary War, as follows to wit:

Isaac Brewer
Book A. No. 11 page 66 £18 S5. specie
No. 6 page 16 £33 S7 D 6 specie

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed my
seal of office, this 15th day of June
A.D. 1852-
Wm. J. Clarke Compt. [Signature]
[seal]
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H. Rep. Apl. 9th 1846

Sir:

The enclosed application of Isaac Brewer
of Talladega Co. Ala. for a pension has been forwarded to me to present to you for allowance.
Please inform me of the result
Very respectfully
your obt. St. 
R. Chapman [Signature]


J.. L. Edwards Esq.
Coms. of Pensions
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Isaac Brewer
Applicant for Rev Pension
Request for return
paper to have them
printed.
Claim filed Sept.. 27 1883

Attorney
William Hunt
Washington City
D. C. 


Alabama
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Washington City D. C.
March 24 1803

Sir:

On the 27th of September 1851 I filed the claim of Isaac Brewer for a Revolutionary Pension under the Act of June 1832.
The evidence not being deemed sufficient, the parties who employed me, are desirous of printing inasmuch as being voluminous, they think some of the points have been overlooked. 
If it be in accordance with the custom of your office to return papers for the purpose of printing them will you please cause them to be returned to me.
Very Respectfully
Your obt. Ser. 
William Hunt [Signature]
Attorney

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Com. Pensions
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+38264-37218*
Isaac Brewer Ala.
* Hon Reuben Chapman
apl. 20 1846
+Wm. Hunt - Dec. 9 1851
Wm. Hunt Mch 29 1853
H. H. Sutton Oct. 13 1853
H. H. Sutton Jny. 17 1855.
H.H. Sutton 15 Feb. 1855.


1185
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1185
P.O. Isaac Brewer
Service:
Enlisted:  REJECTED
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:


Registered.
Contract.
Cet. of Dis.
Searched for
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Circular from com. of Pensions instructing for evidence
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Pension Office
December 9, 1857

Sir:
The claim of Isaac Brown is totally unsupported by evidence. We pass no claims which are not sustained by the testimony of persons that have personal knowledge of the service. In this case the certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina could also be required.
Very Respectfully
Your obt. st.
J. Wilson
for Comm'r. Pensions
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Isaac Brewer

Amd. Aug. 16 '52

Aug 7 1802

Isaac Brewer

Is he in the right? JDW
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Talladega Ala. 28th July.
Der Sir:
An application for a Pension for Isaac Brewer was forwarded to the Department from this county, some time ago. It was sent by a Wm. Tritton. The applicant is dead - He has left a widow and children - will you inform me, what has been done with the application, and whether it has been granted or rejected? And who will succeed to it - if any person?
Yours Respectfully
[Signature] Joseph Brewer

Direct your reply to Silver Run P.O. Talladega Cty Ala-
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Ind - Isaac Brewer

Sarah Brewer
Widow of
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Pen Off Aug 8 1853

Sir.
We have recently received a letter from Sarah Brewer relative to a claim for a pension on account of the death of her husband Isaac Brewer. In July 1852 a letter was received from Joseph Brewer in which it was stated that Isaac Brewer had applied for an invalid pension and that his papers had been forwarded by you. We then informed her that we were unable to discover any papers in our files and requested him to give all the facts in the case to enable us to determine whether the widow was entitled He doe not appear to have done so. If you will say to what regiment and Company Brewer belonged and when and from what cause he died, we may perhaps be able to say whether the laws granting pensions to widows embrace her case.

Mr. Wm. H. Sutton
Oxford Ala.
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Pen Off Aug 16 1852

In reply to your letter of the 28th ulto. I have to inform you that we cannot confirm that any papers in the case of Isaac Brewer have been received in relation to an application for Invalid pension. If the regiment and company to which he belonged when he died, be stated, as well as the time when the papers were transmitted, a more satisfactory examination may perhaps be made.

Mr. Joseph Brewer
Talladega
Ala
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L. p. Waldo
Commissioner of the Interior
Washington City
N. C.
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Oxford Alabama
July the 15th 1854,

L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Intr.
In the case of Isaac Brewer for a Pension has at Last Come into my hands, the Declaration & some of the evidence are in your office & I send you the accompanying Documents, with the humble request that you again reexamine the whole proceeding & with all the patience & Liberality you possibly can remembering that it is not possible now to find two Living Witnesses who know the service in revolutioners case, & that such a requirement amounts to an utter rejection of their claims without saying anything more about it? Please give all allowance to the evidence offered & see if it has not convinced you that the old man was a good old whig soldier, if so then we can perhaps set about having the rules of your office somewhat relaxed so that good old honest revolutioners & their widows may yet be able to feel the respect of their country in this regard. Then Please to instruct me for I am as Convinced as I am of my existence that it ought to be paid.
Respectfully &c [Signature]
Henry H. Sutton 
Agent for Claimant
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Soloman Murphys
affidavit
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State of Alabama} SS. On this 4th day of 
Benton County} December A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before me Benjamin S. Wilson, a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and state afforesaid Solomon Murphree aged 94 years who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was raised in the State of North Carolina & lived then in time of the revolutionary war, and that he well remember the family of the Brewers, who were the family connections of the said Isaac Brewer the claimant for Pension. for revolutionary services, and that the said family were notoriously distinguished for being good and unflinching whigs & it was his understanding that they were generally soldiers in the said war, him not intimately acquainted with every one of them, but had a general historical knowledge of the family, & has reasons to believe that the said Isaac was a good whig soldier in said war. He well remembers the said Cross Creek Battle at Lindley's Mills in the then county of Chatham, said state of N. Carolina and he remembers the name of the said Colonel Bob or Robbert Maban or Maybun[Robert Maybin] who commanded the whigs at the time and that the Tory commanders were one David Fannin & also Huskes M.C. seal. Who were powerful oppponents to the caus of Liberty in those parts and that the said McNeel was killed in said Battle and that the whigs under  said Maybin was
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was defeated & many of the men killed and he has just held a connections with the said Isaac Brewer & form his representative of the Battle plan, names of officers and circumstances which he knew did happen he is fully of he opinion that he was there and he also knew the said Colonel Dirks Literal, who the said Isaac served under in Haw river in and about the Barrans. He also had a good deed about Howel Brewer the father of the said Isaac & from that tradition has no to doubt but that he was a faithful soldier in said war - & he further says that the said Isaac Brewer, is regular member of the church here & he considers him highly credible and further saith that he himself also served some in the revolution & hired men to go several times in is place but has never thought  fit to seek any pension, being able to live without it and that he has raised 15 children from whom there is now a Large stacks somewhere between four and five hundred more of his [illegible] lineal descendants & that he has lived some 75 years a member of a Church & has never been turned out the first time and that he now lives at home on his own land & raises his own bread and meat, & has to his own business all which is glory enough for him which he stays her & further saith not - 
[Signature] Solomon Murphree
Test. 
B. Easley, Snr. [Signature]
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and date aforesaid and I do hereby certify that deponent
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is and appears to be of the age to State, and that he is a man of wealth and responsibility standing among very highly credible and is a preacher of the gospel , and has been long a member of the church given under my hand and seal-
[Signature] Benjamin S. Wilson JP [seal]
Justice of the Peace

State of Alabama}
Benton County} I Alexander Woods Judge of the Probate Court of Benton County & state of Alabama do hereby certify that Benjamin S. Wilson whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration and afidavit is an was at the time of assigning the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and state aforesaid duly sworn & commissioned and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that the aforesaid Court of Probate is a court of record having general jurisdiction. Giving under my hand and seal of office this 16th day of December A. D. 1851, at office in the Town of Jacksonville.
[Signature] A. Woods Judge of Probate  [seal]
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Silvermann, Talladega Ala.
June the 20th 1853.

L. P. Waldo Com. of the Int.

Dear Sir I am a poor old desolate widow, the widow of Old Isaac Brewer the revolutionary Soldier whose Declaration & papers have been sent from this county to Mr. William Hunt & by him, as I have learned, been referred to the proper Department at Washington.  I should not have returned to trouble you with a single thought about it only for the following reasons which I think will  be understood & approved by you. Since the claim was sent to Washington my poor old husband has died and has left me his widow & helpless widow, and as I have understood it makes me the proper person according to the Law and that sort of claims to receive & own the Pension. If this be so I now apprise you that I desire & expect my rights to be regarded then, Should anything be allowed. I have also been told that if I was married to him before 15800 that I was truly the person to  certify as above now the main difficulty is this, my old man made a will before he died & made it in his right mind
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and in that will he left that claim, should anything be allowed to me my lifetime & to the rise of me and a sickly daughter of ours and also Some other things which he thought would end as in resolved and as in our helpless situation to live this offended a contrary & headstrong son of our & he is trying & has been to prevent that the will & mar my claim & it is said now being repeated among the people that he has with the aid of others, the names of Some are Curry Bowie, & Knox, tried to induce the Department there to fix the claim and in his power either in the name of some of these for himself or as administrator, or upon Some other plan so as to deprive me of my Lawful rights in some way, now I was afraid some misrepresentation, might be sent to your department, or through them somehow, some unjust advantage be  gotten of me, and having not acquaintance with Mr. Beck the agent there, not knowing but he might be brought over to their  purpose. I have thought it bet to make these plain and faithful statements to you. So that you may be fully aware of my fears, and see to it that injustice & fraud be not done to me in the premises. I have with confidence in the man that took up the claim here for the old man & wish you to respect what
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he may do in the matter as being right [illegible] if the doings of the others are regarded all the desires of the old faithful soldier will be disappointed. please write me concerning these things & all about the condition of the claim and direct your letter to our common friend & trusty old acquaintance Henry H. Sutton at the above place who will faithfully bring it & read it to me so doing you will oblige a Bereaved widow
Truly yours &c [Signature] Sarah Brewer Widow of Isaac Brewer Revolutionary Soldier.

N. B. The name of my son alluded to is Joseph Brewer & I further say that myself and the said Isaac Brewer, was married before 1800
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L. P. Waldo-
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or evidence wanting you could direct me what it was & we could see are with the claim. I am becoming quite tired of the tricks of agents at that place and would feel much obliged to any of the Departments there if they would instruct me themselves so that I could get along with claims more speedily, our patience have long been worn out and still Mr. Hunt delays. I have some other evidence that I would submit if you had the papers under your control, but what is the use if it never is to be put in the proper office. If I knew how to make him hand over the papers I would do it but I do not know how to do it. As to Sarah the old widow Brewer, She is the lawfull wife of old Isaac, and I suppose will be the one to whom the Pension will now be coming instead of her children & I also suppose she is also entitled to a Pension as the widow of a revolutionary Soldier. She desired me to write you a letter some time back, which I did and am very anxious for this matter to come to an [illegible] old man Brewer appointed me as executor to his will when he died, and I suppose I ought to consider myself duty bound to attend to it. Please write me a receipt in regard to all these matters. I have the honor to be Sincerely your obt. Servant &c.
[Signature] Henry H. Sutton
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Oxford Alabama
Sept. the 15th 1853.

L.P. Waldo, Com'r. Int'r. 
Dear Sir your special favor of August 8th ult. was received today only from the fact of my being absent & from home for the last 5 weeks. Your obliging kindness enables me in reply to explain some things concerning the Widow Brewers case that you seam not to know. In the year 1851 I made out and sent to William Hunt Esq. as agent at Washington City as good a statement of old Isaac Brewers Case as I could & the papers were certified to and authenticated in the ritual way, and then was some evidence also appended. Mr. Hunt must have kept them out of the Pension Office as you don't seam to speak of them. He has several times written to me concerning them, but has never let me know what has become of them. I supposed and the Claimant also that they were in the proper office but it is possible he has kept them out, for purposes more congenial to his own interest. He never would act until I got old man Brewer to send him a Power of Attorney to act for him, then in all except drawing the money and it is probable he may be waiting for that. At any rate an examination of those papers will explain the old man's claim to you and I know not why M. Hunt has not allowed you to have them for if there should be anything wanting about them
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Duplicate
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Silver Run, Ala. July 30th 1853

L. P. Waldo Com. Int.
Dear Sir: a while back I wrote you in regard to the Pension claim of Isaac Brewer and its attendant consequences. I stated to you that I was able to show you that I am the widow of Isaac Brewer the claimant & was lawfully married to him and requested you to state to me the condition of that claim feeling that I had a right so to do. I wish to know what efforts are being made and by whom to deprive me of my rights and to prevent the proper direction of the claim can you? or will you? Please to write me or to anyone concerned with it please let me know them forthwith.
Sincerely yours &c
Sarah Brewer X her mark

Signed in presence of 
James S. Woodward [Signature] & others
Please direct to Silver Run Alabama or to H. H. Sutton Oxford Ala
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Oxford Alabama,
Jan. the 6th 1855 -

To the Commissioner of Pensions

Sir two or three years ago an old revolutionary man named Isaac Brewer a resident of Talladega County sent an application to your office through the agency of Mr. Wm. Hunt of that city. The claim as I have been informed by  Hunt was filed in the office and since that he has turned the papers and case all over to Mr. [illegible]. You may look on him as being the only representation for said claim as this the honorable J. L. Dawdel can inform you, as he was concerned in turning over the case from Hunt to me my reason for calling your attention to this is because there has been evidence sent since the changing of the case from Hunt and among them the certificate of the Comptroller of North Carolina where the service was done from this last evidence and will request you again to overhaul the case and see if the evidence is not now strong enough to authorize you to allow it. Inform me of the disposition of the matter and if you cannot allow any thing under your rules, we will refer it to congress & see if they will provide, some compensation for the said case. Please write me as soon as you can and direct to H.H. Sutton Oxford Ala. most respectfully &c
[Signature] Henry H. Sutton
Agent Oxford Ala.
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Letter of the Attorney William Hunt Washington City D. C.

The power of attorney will be file in a short time the one sent being imperfect.
W.H.
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Washington City D. C. Sept. 27th 1851

Sir,
I herewith present the claim of Isaac Brewer for a Revolutionary Pension; also the arrearage of pension due to him from the passage of the act under which he may be entitled to the present time.  He has applied for the benefit of the act of June 1832, but I think it will be found that he is entitled under some act prior to that of 1832. The Comptroller of North Carolina says the only way of proving the services of such soldiers as the Claimant is the sums of money paid them; but the claimant states that he seldom received any pay, and that the companies were seldom regularly offered and frequently formed parts of other companies as Regulars. The Comptroller says there are no or very few Rolls of any kind there. This being the case we can look for no evidence from that quarter, that would be of value.
Great care has been taken in the preparation of this case and it is hoped that the claim will be considered complete.
Respectfully
Your Obt. Svt.
William Hunt [Signature]
Attorney for Claimant

Hon. James E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Alabama} By virtue of the Power in our vested I do hereby appoint and commission Jonathan B. Starnes, one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Talladega & State afforesaid to qualify examine and certify and to do all the necessary act and things for one Isaac Brewer represented to be entitled to a Pension as a revolutioner and am Mary Inzer represented to be the widow of a revolutioner both of Talladega County, oath first being made before me by Henry H. Sutton that the said persons by reason of old age and infirmity are unable to attend the court having jurisdiction over such cases, or otherwise to have their claims prepared for adjudication; as fully and officially as I might or could do, if personally present a the doing of the same. Given under my hand and seal this 29th day of March A. D. 1851.
[Signature] R. Dougherty [seal]
Judge 9th Circuit & - of Alabama
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Petition of Neighbourhood of  Claimant
Talladega County} We the undersigned 
State of Alabama} Petitioners whose names are hereunto set, do honestly and truly show that we are and have been acquainted with the Claimant for a pension, Isaac Brewer for several years and know him to be old and helpless in a good degree and poor and in need, that he lives on public land of the governments no do we believe him to be able to buy him a house or to have the comforts that old persons many times need. We believe him to have been an honest hard working simple sort of man, and is and has been a regular member of the Baptist Church in this vicinity and is reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and other causes for the defense of our Country, which we have no reason to dispute; but believe and think it the general believe. We hope that the Department at Washington may find it in their power to make a favorable allowance to him in proportion to his services rendered in favor of our common country, all which we respectfully submit and as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray - Given under our hands this 7th day of March 1851
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Martin Weatherly
Adam Carper
John P. Weatherly
J. D. Stewart
George Wright
Hance Hendrick
Samuel A. Jack
Jon McClurkin
J. P. Corcoran
Benjamin Ball
John Moore
George Bittle Snr.
William F. Galding
C. D. Arthur
Wm. Perrin
Thomas W. Jones
Andrew Cochran
M. L. Inzer
William Cochran
Henry Boggs
James D. Green
Franklin Elmore
Jacob Wright
W. W. Mattison
J. M. Curry
James W. Godby
Augustus Richard
Isaac Bittle
Joseph Jones
L. J. Gaddis 
O. B. Bittle
John Miller
Martin Martin
In the adjoining settlement Called Kentucky
Richard Nall
William A. Graves
Nathaniel B. Linder
Francis A. Godby
Reuben Ball
Samuel R. Spruell
Elias Adams
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State of Alabama}
Talladega County} I Jonathan B. Starns J.P. as afforsaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the person whose names are assigned to the foregoing Petition, as the most of them, that they all live in the space of about 12 miles square and within my local, as Jurisdiction, and are the nearest persons around about within vicinity of the Claimant Isaac Brown and have had the best chance to be acquainted with him. That they are all heads of family and are generally resputable men, and some of them in a very honourable standing in Life. Given under my hand day and date above.
J. B. Starns J. P.
[Signature]
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State of Alabama} SS.
County of Talladega} On his  4th day of April A.D. 1851 Personally appeared before me Jonathan B. Starns one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county and state afforesaid Henry H. Sutton and being duly sworn saith an oath that he is the person that presented the foregoing Petition to each and every individual assigned thereon, and that each one either assigned his own name deliberately or authorized it to be done and that it was after reading or knowing the meaning and contents of said Petition - 
[Signature] Henry H. Sutton
Sworn to and subscribed before me day and date above -
 J. B. Starns J.P. [Signature]
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State of Alabama} SS.
Talladega County} On this 4th day of April A. D. 1851 I J.B. Starnes do hereby certify the following interlineations and erasures now in the foregoing Declaration & statement before the papers wee witnessed by me and that they were all respectvely investigated viz - On the 1st page of the Declaration above the 12th line from the bottom the word annexed is interlined and on the 4th page the words appear to be are erased and the word "are interlined in place - and on the 2nd page of his general statement below the 0th Line from the top is the word "N. Carolina interlined and on the 4th page below "the 12th line from the top is interlined "of the horse" and below the 9th line is interlined the word "required " and on the 5th page above the 1st line the words "are mine" and above the 6th line the words "than before" above the7th Line from the bottom the word "services" and above the 8th Line the word "N. Carolina" and on page 9th above the 7th line from the top the word "class"
[Signature] J. B. Starns Justice of the Peace
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Talladega County}
State of Alabama}
April the 4th 1851} The officer of the Pension Department is requested to Direct his communications if he has need for such, to Isaac Brewer at a [illegible] Oxford Benton County Alabama or to Henry H. Sutton his appointed agent now at the same place. But is particularly requested to [illegible] or consult with Wm. Hunt Esq. at Washington City, who is agent there to attend to anything concerning said claim, that may be needful, about said office and also will feel sufficiently authorize to hand over to him any warrants or certificates of allowance should there by any together with any and all directions concerning the case.
[Signature] Henry H. Sutton
employed and appointed agent for the claimant

N.B. If any moneys area allowed the claimant himself will be notified of the amount and place of reception -

This I am sure is sufficient as I have procured a proper Power of Attorney which is filed with the case.
[Signature[ William Hunt
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No. 1
State of Tennessee McMinn County} Personally came before me William R. Walker One of the Justices of the Peace in & for said county Eliza Walker Wife of Samuel Walker both of this place, and being sworn deposeth & saith on oath that he is well acquainted with the Claimant Isaac Brewer & his family and that it affords her pleasure to say of term from acquaintance of a long standing that they are an have been a family of good industry, and honest habits - and that they have ever been considered so, so far as she knows or believes, that she was raised by them a poor orphan girl 0 from childhood & staid with them until she was near 20 years old - which affords her an opportunity to make the foregoing statement and also she remembers that the said  William Buckhannon alluded to in Elizabeth Brewers statement did occasionally call & stay with the family & during these stays she heard him and the claimant Brewer talking about the old revolutionary war, and about their being in it & serving & suffering hard ships - that t hey talked about the facts occurrences and places as though they had been together & especially about an place that she heard them talk considerably about but the name of the place or any of the others she don't now recollect -
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She also remembers that they talked a good deal about the claimant. Isaac Brewer being wounded in the said war and that Brewer seemed to make it the pride of his conversation when on that subject - She also real Lits that the said Buckhannon urged and requested the said Brewer to put in for a Pension from the Government and telling him that he was entitled to it, and also that he would certify for him, for he knew that he ought to have it as much as any and it was her understanding that the said Buckhannon was drawing a pension - But the said Brewer was of an independent sort of spirit & told his friend that he did not like to make any such request - that he was able to work & that enabled him to live without it - that he fought for his Countrys Liberty & not his countries money, and she further says that such was the character of the man; a good many of the people was wondering at him for not puting in and urging  him but he would not. She further says that she never heard of any thing like Toryism being alleged to Brewer, but always that he was a good Whig - Witness states that she heard these conversations along about 18 years ago or in the years of 1831 & 1832
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and 1833, while the Claimant lived in McMinn County Tennessee -
[Signature] Eliza Walker X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th day of April 1850.
[Signature] William R. Walker J.P.

I do herby certify that I have been for many years acquainted with Eliza Walker the above named witness and from that acquaintance hesitate not to say that she is entitled to full faith and credit, and that her evidence could not be refused in our courts here. [Signature] William R. Walker J.P.
Macmin [McMinn] Co - Tennessee

Athens McMinn County}
State of Tennessee} I do hereby certify that William R. Walker whose name appears above is acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county - That he was duly elected and commissioned and qualified and whose official acts as such are entitled to full faith and confidence. Given under my hand and seal of office at office in Athens this 30th day of April 1850 -
[Signature] Geo. W. Mays Clerk
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State of Tennessee}
McMinn County} I Wm. H. Ballew Chairman of the county court of the county of McMinn and state of Tennessee do certify that Geo. W. Mays whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is the clerk of the county court of the County and State aforesaid that he was duly and constitutionally elected and qualified that his certificate is in due for of law that full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts given under my hand and seal this 30th day of April 1850
[Signature] Wm. H. Ballew [seal]
Chairman of the Court -
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No 2 -
Monroe County} Personally appeared before me
State of Tennessee} Samuel Edington one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county Mary Blankenship and being duly sworn saith on oath that she is one of the Daughters or is said to be, of old William Brewer of Blount County & said state, that she is now the rise of sixty  years old and is the wife of Spencer Blankenship, and that she is well acquainted with Isaac Brewer who is the Claimant in this case for a Pension . She further says that her Father Wm. Brewer was an old Revolutioner and was drawing a Pension form the Government up to the time of his death, which she says was about 12 or 13 years ago, in Blount  County. She further says that the said Isaac Brewer is a cousin of hers & without any of the partiality common to relatives she says that he has always been considered a clever honest Y hardworking man, and that she has always understood that the Brewer family were all good Whigs in that war and never heard of a Tory among them. She further says that she has heard her Father & the said Isaac Brewer talking often about the said war and of their being
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together in the said war, that their talk was such as left no doubt of their both serving their country in said war. It was the notorious  opinion that the said Isaac was a soldier in said war and she has heard her Father & the said Isaac talking about he Cane Creek Battle in Orrange County N. Carolina & about the colonel Mabun & Capt. Nalls & that the said Isaac was in the Battle - also about his getting wounded in said Battle. That she has always understood that the said Isaac Brewer was on of he old Whig soldiers in that war & was entitled to a Pension as well as others, She further apologizes that she is now old & the conversations, took place so long ago that she cannot evaluate so as to State the half as what she has heard her Father & the said Isaac saying on that subject. [Signature] Mary Blankenship X her mark
Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 3rd day of May 1850. [Signature] Samuel Edington J.P.

Monroe County} I Samuel Edington do hereby 
State of Tennessee} certify that the witness Mary Blankenship whose name
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is signed to the above statement is a very respectable woman, that the highest confidence is placed in her word & that her oath could not be rejected in any court in our country. Given under my hand this 3rd day of May 1850:
[Signature] Samuel Edington J.P.

State of Tennessee}
Monroe County} SS.I John A. Stephens Clerk of the county court of the County aforesaid hereby certify that Samuel Edington Esqr. whose name appears affixed to the foregoing statement is now and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly elected, commissioned and sworn and that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as Clerk of the county court of the Courts aforesaid this 4th day of May 1850.
[Signature] John A. Stephens Clerk
[Seal]

State of Tennessee} I John Carson chairman of 
Monroe County} the County Court of said County do Certify that John A. Stephens whose name appears affixed to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of signing the
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same an acting Clerk in and for the County Court of said  County and full faith and credit is due all his official acts as such. Given under my hand and seal this the 4th day of May 1850
[Signature] John Carson
Chairman of the Court of Monroe County 
Tenn.

Statement of Mary  Blankenship in the case of Isaac Brewer
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No. 3-
The State of Tennessee}
Bradly County} This 18th day of May 1850 Personally appeared before e Hamilton L. Alexander one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county William H. Walker of said county and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith, That about 20 or 20 years ago he lived near to Isaac Brewer in McMinn County Tennessee who is now the Claimant in this case for a Pension & that he then considered him, and still does a hard working industrious honest man, but one who was ignorant and uninformed & that he believes such to have been his general standing  that he was poor and seemed to have but Little of the slight of good management - He says that he heard said Brewer often talking of being in the Revolutionary war as a soldier but he has no further knowledge of it - that what he heard him say, he would feel obliged to believe Brewer on his oath, or in any case that he should assert for fact - He says that he understood Brewer then to say that he
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was very young, only a boy when he went in the war. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of May 1850 - [Signature] W. H. Walker

H. L. Alexander}
Justice of the Peace}
Interlined and erased before assigned.}
[Signature] H. L. Alexander J. P.

State of Tennessee Bradly County May the 18th 1850} I H. L. Alexander do hereby certify that William H. Walker whose statement appears above is or appears to be about 60 or 65 years old. that he is a very respectable man a zealous member of the Methodist Church & an acting Class Leader in good standing as such & whose oath or word would be taken as soon as any mans where he is known, Given under my hand day and date above - [Signature] H. L. Alexander J.P.
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State of Tennessee}
Bradley County} I John H. Robertson Clerk of the County Court for the County of Bradley aforesaid [seal] do certify that H. L. Alexander whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is an acting Justice of the peace and was at the date of [seal] his signature a Justice for Bradley County [seal] Elected Commissioned and sworn - and faith and credit is due to his official acts given under my hand and seal of office in Cleveland June the 5th 1850
[Signature] John H. Robertson Clk
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State of Tennessee}
Bradley  County} I John H. Robertson Clerk of the County Court fo the County of Bradley aforesaid do certify that H. L. Alexander whose name appears to the foregoing certificate  is an acting Justice of the Peace and was at the date of his signature a Justice for Bradly County he was duly Elected Commissioned and Sworn - ad faith and credit is due to his official acts given under my hand and seal of office in Cleveland June the 5th 1850
[Signature] John H. Robertson Clk
[seal]
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No 4 -
State of Tennessee} This 24th day of May
Bradley County} Personally appeared before me W. P. Simmons one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county John F. Larson and being duly sworn & [illegible] and saith on oath "that he is well acquainted with Isaac Brewer the Claimant for a Pension as a Revolutioner - That he lived neighbors to him while he said Brewer & family lived in McMinn  County this state from about 23 years ago down to 13 years ago a period of some 10 years and then again in Bradley or this county to which place said Brewer moved to from McMinn C. and stayed for a period of about 5 years at which time said Brewer moved to Alabama since which he has not seen him in all he was acquainted with him & lived near to him for the term of about 15 years during all which time said Brewer sustained the character of a hard working, go ahead honest man that he followed the business of having & carpentering while he was able to do it & accompanied Some of warming with it
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that in this way he supported his family and raise them to honesty and industry But he says that said Brewer thought he lived a well man he seamed to have no slight or despoliation to lay up or discard up, seaming to care nothing for the business of fortune making & was always among the poor class of people, that he was a lively joking kind of man generally preferring more the company of the young than the old, also that he carried his age well, appearing much younger than he really was, which no doubt [illegible] from his Lively and exuberant feelings insomuch that it was the general  remarks "how young old man Brewer seamed for his age. He knows nothing of said Brewers revolutionary Service than from heresay or common tradition, He says that when Brewer came to Macmin [McMinn] county, the report came with him that he had been a revolutionary soldier, and that he has often heard said Brewer talking of being in the revolutionary war as a soldier and of his being
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in Battle several times, that he has heard him speak of his officers &c, and that he was just a boy when he went in the said war, also that it was the prevailing opinion in the vicinities, both the county named above that the said Brewer was a soldier in said war, that it was talked of as such and understood as such and as to his own part he firmly believes, that Brewer was in the said war and is as much entitled to a Pension as any one else is for such service. He well remembers that people  seamed to wonder at Brewer, why he did not apply and get a pension to which Brewer always replyed that he was able to work and could live without it & that it looked insomuch like making him a beggar. "He believes that Brewer at that time was too stout hearted to put the merit of it and that the act was eh reason he never applied, he further says that he would rely fully in any thing Brewer would state for fact,-  [Signature] John F. Larson
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of May 1850 [Signature] W. P. Simmons J.P.
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Bradly County} May the 24th 1850 I W. P. 
State of Tennessee} Simmons do hereby certify that John F Larason, the witness whose name appears to the within statement is a man whose word or oath or statement in any way is entitled to highest credit and uter confidence that he would be accredited as a witness in any case sure as soon as any man in our part of the country - He is also a respectfully and reputable member of the Presbyterian Church and a worthy citizen from under my hand day and date above -
[Signature] W. P. Simmons J.P.

State of Tennessee}
Bradley County} I John H. Robertson Clerk of the County Court for the County of Bradley aforesaid do certify that W. P. Simmons whose name appears to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the date of his signature an acting Justice of the peace for Bradly County he was duly elected commissioned and sworn and faith and credit is due to his office acts given under my hand and seal of office at office in Cleveland June the 5th 1850
[Signature] John H. Robertson Clk
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No 5-
State of Tennessee} This 28th day of May 1850
McMinn County} Personally came before me James Bonner one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Littleberry Whitecotton, and being duly sworn saith an oath, that he has been a long time acquainted with Isaac Brewer the claimant for a Pension. That he was raised by him from a child, and was acquainted with him in Georgia as far back as about 32 year ago, that said Brewer moved from Georgia to Blount county Tennessee & staid there a few years & from thence to McMinn County & staied there several years ad he then moved from there to Bradley County & stayed there a few years, up to about 8 years ago, at which time he moved to Alabama, since that he has not seen him during the time of his acquaintance with him, was about 25 years and during which he never knew of said Brewer doing any thing dishonest but that he was a hard working go ahead independent ort of an old fellow. That some 15 or 16 years ago he heard said Brewer saying that he was then about 75 years old, which, with his other sayings about
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the old revolutionary war, with all that he has heard, and has a right to believe he should believe that he the said Brewer was in said war also that he would fully believe Brewer on oaths or in matters where fact was expected of him -He further says that he has heard the many talks and sayings that are alleged to by the other witnesses, which it is not thought mindful now to enumerate [Signature]
Littleberry Whitecotton X his mark
Sworn to & subscdribed before me this 28th day of May 1850. [Signature] James Bonner
Justice of the peace 9th civil district McMinn County State of Tennessee

McMinn County}
State of Tennessee} I James Bonner do hereby certify that Littleberry Whitecotton the witness whose name appears to he statement above is considered an honest poor man & one whose statement on oath or otherwise is entitled to weight & credit Given under my hand this 27th day of May 1850 [Signature] James Boner J.P.
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State of Tennessee}
Bradley County} I John H. Robertson Clerk of the County Court for the County of Bradley aforesai do certify that I am personally acquainted with James Bonner of McMinn County whose name appears to the foregoing certificate and from the best of my knowledge and belief he is now and was at the date of his signature - a Justice of the peace for McMinn County - given at office in Cleveland June the 5th 1850 -
[Signature] John H. Robertson Clk
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No. 7
State of Alabama} SS.
County of Talladega} On this 4th day of April A. D.  one thousand eight hundred and fifty one. Personally cam before me Jonathan B. Starnes one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county and state afforesaid, Elizabeth Brewer and being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that she well remembers that Isaac Brewer the Claimant, for services rendered in the war of 1812, did leave home for the purpose of driving the team in said services as he states in his declaration, and that he staid away from home some months then returned home from Service, that she believes he performed said service that she believes he performed said service as he states, and that he staid at home but a short time and went back tot he war again as a substitute in the place of the said John as alluded to in the Claimants statement Page 11 & 12, and that in he staid away some 6 months or more, and again returned home, and that she honestly believes did serve as he states. She says he started with his Knapshack and accoutriments and returned home with them. [Signature] Elizabeth Brewer X hir mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me day 7 date above [Signature] J. B. Starnes J.P. -
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State of Alabama}
Talladega County} I Jonathan B . Starnes J.P. afforsaid. Do hereby certify that Elizabeth & Joseph Brewer the two witnesses whos names are placed tot he foregoing statements are both credible persons, whose death is entitled to confidence given under my hand this 4th day of April 1851 - [Signature] J.B. Starnes J.P.

The State of Alabama} I Alexander J. Cotton 
Talladega County.} Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the  County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that J. B. Starnes whose genuine Signature appears to the foregoing Declaration and Affidavits is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned and Sworn, that he is entitled to full faith adn credit for all his official acts as Such and that the aforesaid Court of Probate is a Court of Record having general Jurisdiction. Given under my hand and Seal of office at Talladega this 12th day of September A.D. 1851. [Signature] A J. Cotton Justice of Probate
[seal]
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No. 6
State of Alabama}
Talladega County} Personally appeared before me Jonathan B. Starnes one of  the Justices of the Peace in and for the county afforesaid; Elizabeth  Brewer, & being duly sworn Deposeth and saith that she has always from earliest childhood understood that her Father Isaac Brewer, the claimant for a Pension in this case, was a a soldier in the Revolutionary War between this Country & Great Britain; & that she never knew any thing or ever heard anything adverse to his rights as such only the vague suggestion of some envious persons who knew nothing of the matter, "that her Father had too young an appearance to have been old enough for a soldier in that war. She further says that about 25 and 30 years ago, that she heard conversations, between her Father the Claimant and several other old men who were said to be revolutionary soldiers concerning their hardships & ups & downs in the war, speaking of the things which took place or many of them at least -
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as seems as acts that they had the same knowledge of and that would give and did give right to her, to believe that they were both present, at the same and concerned in doing the same, and in our case in particular viz. the conversating with the Claimant and old Wm. Buckhannon who had much reputation for being a faithful old revolutionary warrior was of such a nature as to admit of no doubt of their bein together at some of the same scenes at least. She said that  she was a girl of about 15 or 16 years and this old war friend of her Father's came to his house & staid with them several days at a time on such occasions. She further says that the said Buckhannon spoke of living in the same vicinity with the Claimant and knew of his volunteering in the service, and seamed to know of many things that the Claimant knew & spoke of them as affairs that he had witnessed and knew to be so. They spoke of their officers  of their being prisoners in a case or two & of their many near escapes, and also of her Father the Claimant being wounded in some one of hte engagements, but which
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She cannot now recollect nor of any words that she could state or any things further than the general tenor of the conversations as above stated. In reply to the question why the Claimant did not apply and get his claim sooner, she says her Father was always of a very independent spirit and though poor yet scorned any thing like begging and until of late years he never would agree or give consent for any tryal to be made in the behalf of said claim, though it has always been known wherever he has lived that he was a revolutioner, and so entitled.
[Signature] Elizabeth Brewer, X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of April 1851. [Signature] J. B. Starnes J.P.

State of Alabama} Personally came before me
Talladega County} Jonathan B. Starnes one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Joseph Brewer and being sworn Deposeth and saith that he well remembers that the said Buckhannon alluded to in his sister's statement above was a reputable old soldier
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and that he has long ago, understood that he was drawing a Pension from the Government. He also recollects hearing the conversation between his Father the Claimant & the said Buckhannon they talked together as men would who understood and was together at the same scenes, but as to the particular words he does not now recollect them - he says he was but a boy at that time, but has often felt the Patriotic fires stream through his frame at the recitation of their services, trials & difficulties, and that the general tenor of their conversation was fully calculated to impress any one with the fact of their both serving their Country faithfully in the ties tat tried many souls - as to the Claimant not applying until of late years for his claim he thinks the cause mainly because he had good health was able to work and live free from want and always passed independent feelings about such things, and would not trouble himself about it, until he got old & helpless and unable to work - He also recollects that an old uncle of his by the name of William Brewer who was in the same war had often spoke of his father the claimant being in the same war and serving as a soldier - [Signature] Joseph Brewer
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of April 1851  
[Signature] J. B. Starnes J.P.
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state of Alabama}
County of Coosa} I Isaac W. Suttle Judge of the Probate for said County and Sate do hereby certify that James Weed whose genuine Signature appears to the accompanying paper was at the time of Signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected sworn in & commissioned according to Law, and all whose official acts as such are and ought to have full faith & credit. Given under my hand and the seal of said court at office in the Town of Rockford on this 12th day of September A. D. 1851
[Signature] Isaac w. Suttle
Judge of Probate Coosa Co. Ala

[seal].
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State of Alabama}
County of Benton} SS. I Alexander Woods Judge of the Court of Probate for the County and State afforesaid, do hereby certify that George Lee Alexander & Benjamin S. Wilson & Abel Philips whose genuine signatures appear to the accompanying papers & certificates, are and were at the time of certifying and attesting the same acting Justices o the Peace in and for the County of Benton ad State of Alabama commissioned and sworn according to law and all their official acts as such are an ought to be entitled to full faith and credit - Given under my hand and the Seal of said court at office in the Town of Jacksonville on this the 2nd day of February A. D. 1853
[Signature] A. Woods Judge of Probate

[seal]
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State of Alabama} SS. On this 17th day of 
County of Benton} December one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me Abel Philips one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County & State afforesaid John Cunningham aged 79 years & being sworn declares or affirms that he is the son of one old Revolutionary Soldier & that some of his brothers who were older than him were also soldiers in said war, but that he himself was too young to go in service but can recollect the sd. war. "He says that his father lived in & raised this family in the state of North Carolina and that all of them that served close said service in that and adjoining states. And] that he very well recollects the Brewer family. He remembers some of their names which were John & Howell, & has learned from Isaac Brewer who is the Petitioner for a Pension for services done in the said war that he was the son of old Howel Brewer, a fact which he believes to be so. He further says that he never knew of any other family of Brewers but them in that state & that they wee called & known to be the best of Whigs. and that he honestly believes that said Isaac Brewer was in said war as he states and that he has heard the officers Duke Litteral & Bob Mayburn spoken of as being good Whig soldiers in said war & further saith not. [Signature] John Cunningham X his mark
Test.
B. F. Johnson [Signature]

Sworn to & subscribed before me day & year above written & I do hereby certify that John Cunningham the witness appears to be of the age he states is credible & that I fully believes his statement hear made.
[Signature] Abel Philips
Justice of the Peace  [seal]
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State of Alabama} SS. On the 5th day of April  County of Benton} A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty two Personally appeared before me Benjamin S. Wilson one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county & State afforesaid James Cunningham aged 92 years a resident of the county of St. Clair and State of Alabama and being duly sworn according to Law, deposes and says that he is son of the revolutionary soldiers. That he was raised in Augusta County and State of Virginia and went from there in the revolutionary Service and was in several Tours of  Service, and under several officers, and that he was in North Carolina & other adjoining states during said war and while in said service and when in North Carolina he got acquainted with some of the Brewers viz. old Howell Brewer & a boy that he called his son at the time he thinks they called his name Isaa Brewer but he does not certain recollect but he believes it was Isaac. He says the Brewers were in the service under some of the North Carolina officers who was then under the command of General Green He further says that they and himself were not under the same officers or in any engagements together but that they were in causes together more than one. He doe not know how long they served in said war but is of opinion that they served over a year. He also says that he moved from Virginia to McMinn County State of Tennessee and about the year 1830 & 1835. He again got acquainted with the same Isaac Brewer and from this relation of  events & things he recollected him to be the same man that he had seen in the service in North Carolina & Brewer said he was the same and also
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recollected him. He and Brewer then hand many talks about he war and were acquainted with other for several years finally Brewer moved away and he has not known anything of him since until he saw his application for a Pension. He is fully satisfied that Brewer ought to have a Pension and further says that he himself is receiving a Pension and further saith not.
[Signature] James Cunningham X his mark
Test. John Wilson [Signatures]
Boler Moore

Sworn to & subscribed before me day and year above written & I certify that the said  James Cunningham appears to be of the age he states, is Credible & by reason of old age and bodily infirmity is unable to travel and I fully believe his statement. [Signature]Benjamin S Wilson [seal]
Justice of the Peace
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State of Alabama} SS. On this 15th day of 
Benton County} December A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me George L. Alexander one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county and state afforesaid. Walter Billingslee Jnr. a resident of the county of Cherokee & said State and being sworn according to Law Deposes & says that he is the son of Welter Billingslee Snr. now Deceased. Who was a revolutionary soldier & drawed a Pension for the same & lived & died in McMinn County Tennessee. He says that he was well acquainted with the old man Isaac Brewer who is now trying to get a Pension & whose Declaration is already at the Pension office and that about 18 or 20 years ago which witness lived near his Father in said McMinn County the witness was present & heard a conversation take place between said Isaac Brewer & his Father Walter Billingslee & an old man by the name of William Buckhannon and an old man by the name of Richardson, who were all old Revolutioners and as he understood were drawing Pensions, the substance of the conversation was that they all had been in said war and served & some one or more of them asked Brewer why he did not get his Pension and was urging him
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and as witness believes said to him "we know you served as well as we did for we were with you or were knowing the past" and we think you ought to try and get it. but Brewer was of an independent spirit and told them he could then do without it ad witness further says that he has always believed that Brewer serviced in the said war and ought to have had a Pension for it as well as others. also that he considers it a foolish whim of Brewers that kept him from trying to get it. He further says that Brewer and his family have always been needy enough but foolishly stout hearted. He also says that he knows that all the above named witnesses are ow dead and he thinks it very difficult for Brewer to prove his service as he could have done while they lived and further saith not -
{Signature of Witness} Walter Billingslee
Sworn to and subscribed before me day and year before written and I certify that the said Walter Billingslee is a very credible & honourable man in our vicinity is a man of business and veracity and I fully believe his statement as he has made it in the foregoing affidavit.
[Signature] George Len Alexander [seal]
Justice of the Peace
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Declaration of Claimant for a Pension
State of Alabama}
County of Talladega} SS.
On this 4th day of April Personally appeared before me, at my house, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county and state afforesaid, Isaac Brewer a resident of said county, aged, between 77 and 78 years old, 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 or acts of Congress, granting and regulating Pensions to Revolutionary soldiers and others but especially that of June the 7th 1832. That he went into and entered the service in the way and manner as set down in his historical account herewith annexed from Page 1st to Page 5th to which he refers the examination, that he has there sworn all the particulars that he could now recollect, and that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services and that he is now too old and infirm to travel after evidence or to appear in open Court and to be examined on the subject, and by reason of old age and loss of memory he cannot set forth or make out a letter statement of his services than alluded to above
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and that he has never received any Pension money from the Department and knows not nor believes that his name ever was on the Pension rolls, and hereby relinquishes any and every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except such as may be allowed to him in the present case. [Signature] Isaac Brewer X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me day & date above [Signature J. B. Starnes J. P. [seal]

I Jonathan B. Starnes do hereby certify that to the questions, Why he did not apply sooner for his pension the claimant answered that his being illiterate and living in obscure Life prevented him from knowing when the Laws were passed and how to set to work to get it but more especially when he did find out such a thing could be done he went to a man by the name of Lowery some 18 years ago, who was doing such claims for others, and Lowery asked him half for fixing his claim, claimant states that he told Lowery he would rather the government should have it at and from there he considered that he knew how to work and would do without it then about 5 years ago he got helpless and neady and
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got some man by the name of Edward Pearson and Samuel F. Rice to try for it again, they said that they sent on the papers and failed to get any thing, since which he has not tried to do anything more about it until an old acquaintance seeing his old helpless and needy condition fixed up the present papers herewith appended, to which he prays a favorable consideration.
[Signature] Isaac Brewer X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day & date above [Signature] J. B. Starnes J. P.

We Joseph Jones & J. P. Cocoran citizens & S. G. Jenkins Clergyman residing in the said county ad state afforesaid do hereby certify that we are acquainted with the said Claimant Isaac Brewer who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and statements that we think him to be 87 or 88 years of age that he is reputed and believed in his vicinity to have been a soldier in the Revolution &c. and that we concur in that opinion. [Signatures] Joseph Jones} respectable
Sworn to and } J. P. Cocoran} citizens
subscribed } S. G. Jenkins Clergy
before me this day & date above}
[Signature] J. B. Starnes J. P.
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I Jonathan B. Starnes J. P. as afforesaid do hereby certify or declare that the foregoing and accompanying is the declaration and statements of the said Isaac Brewer Claimant and also of the certificate of Joseph Jones & J.P. Corcoran, both of   who are citizens and S. G. Jenkins Clergyman, resident in the said county and state afforesaid and that they are credible persons whose statements are entitled to credit. And that I do also, concur in the belief that  the said claimant & Isaac Brewer was in the said wars and served as he states. [Signature] J. B. Starnes J. P. [seal]
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State of Alabama} SS. On this 4th day of Aug. 
Talladega County} Elias Brock M.C. Do hereby certify that I have this day given a Surgical examination to the wounds alluded to in the Claimants, Isaac Brewers statement accompanied herewith and find that on his back there is the appearance of an old gunshot wound having the appearance as though it had ben inflicted with a long rifle Ball, about one inch from the 4th Dorsal vertebra, that from the examination  of it, and the claimants former and present condition covering it. I give it as my opinion that it has caused some straight Disability and may cause his death, and that he has two incised wounds about 4 inches below the rifle joint another left thigh grafting downward and forward through the whole integument of the thigh a little in front of the Femoral artery made with some cutting instrument producing a weakness of the thigh and causing considerable debility and the more as age comes on -[Signature] E. Brock M.D.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and date above [Signature] J. B. Starns J.P.
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I Jonathan B. Starnes J. P. as afforesaid do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Doctor Elias Brock, who has just made the examination of the wounds of the Claimant Isaac Brewer in my presence and has just made his appended certificate under his own proper signature, given under my hand this 4th day of April, 1851 [Signature] J. B/ Starnes J. P.
N.B. I also certify that the said E. Brock is a graduate at the Medical College at Augusta Georgia, and has his Diploma, given under my hand day and date above
[Signature] J. B. Starnes J. P.
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General Statement of the Services of Claimant
State of Alabama}
Talladega County} SS. On this 4th day of April 1851 Personally appeared Isaac Brewer before me Jonathan B. Starnes, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County and State afforesaid, being a resident of the said county and state and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith - that his services as well as he can recollect, as a soldier in the defense of his our Common Country is as follows. He was raised in North Carolina and was there in the ending of the revolutionary war, and toward the latter part of it was in the service himself. He says he was as he learned from his parents born in the year 1763 in the 13th day of May and was first taken to the war by his Uncle John Brewer, That he went with him to gratify curiosity and trust with him wherever he went that he went with him to a place then called the Pine Tree on Catawba River in South Carolina last soon after and ever since called Camden, "He says he arrived then about 3 months before Gate's defeat, and was ignorant of the way people done in the war. but they gave him a gun and he mustered with them, answered to his name and obeyed orders, soon thou was preparations making among them for a battle, and in about 3 weeks from the time he arrived then the Battle came on and the clash of arms and the struggle of death.
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took place, in which our people were defeated many of them slain, but many more run, and he is sorry to have it to say of his uncle John Brewer to his ashes, that he run, and affiant was induced to run too because uncle john run. He and uncle John however were both taken prisoners & after serving in the Sepulture of the dead, they were returned to Liberty. From thence they got into their company again in a few days and marched to and fro over the country, and finally got in a few miles of Guilford Courthouse N. Carolina at the time of a Battle which took place there, fought by General Green. They could not get there in time to be in the Battle, and our men again just whiped from thence they ranged about as before a short time and were permitted to go home, the time that he was in that service he supposes to be 6 or 7 months but was under or was mustered by different officers, the names of which with much that occurred he has now forgotten. He says that families were all on the stroll from place to place and his Fathers family was then living in Chatham County North Carolina and in a few months from the time of Leaving the service above, he went under a call which was a sort of call out as draft for soldiers to meet the exigencies of the troublesome times then existing under this call
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He went for 3 months, that being the term that calls were generally made for in those parts a that time, under Colonel Dick Literal and Capt. Martin Nalls, which service was performed in Scouting after the Tories principally in the aid Chatham County. He says that he now felt a degree of hardyhard which prompted him to go into the service without his uncle John and upon his own [illegible] Then at the expiration of this 3 months, joined in again for another 3 months and went to the Barracks in Chatham Comar Haw River and worked till that time expired under the same commanders - The next was another 3 months under Col. Bill Ghalson in the same county and Capt. Martin Nalls still continuing to be the Capt. this service was performed in scouting after the  Tories in the same and adjoining counties. The next he volunteered under Col. Bob Maburn or Mayburn for  a 3 months service Capt. Bill Smith was the Capt. and  served this tour out in scouting in the same and the adjoining Counties, the adjoining county alluded to are orange, Moore, Randolph, Franklin, & Wake Counties
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And at the expiration of this service he volunteered under Col. Lee of the Horse the Balance of the name not remembered nor does he recollect the name of the Capt. in this service, this service was  done in scouting in many counties He served some 2 months in this  and was granted a furlough to go home, and the other month of the service was not required in any other way than to rest and refresh up - The next he joined under Col. Bob  Mayburn again as a volunteer, Capt. Bill Smith still the Capt. for another tour of 3 months "The object of this was to prevent the Tories from taking Hillsborough n orange county this was done as the other were in scouting after Tories, He says he had been in this service about 5 weeks and a Battle came on at Lindley's Mills N. Carolina. In this engagement Mayburn had or was said to have had between 4 & 500 men & the Tories was said to have over 900 the Battle Lasted some 3 or 4 hours and the Tories were commanded by old Hector McNeil & one David Fennin or so they were called. The rationality
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proved too hard for us our men and were slaying our ranks down by scores, Col. Mayburn thought it best to order a retreat instead of being taken and did for the result of which was that they mowed us down more rapidly than before. In carrying out this order the affiant Declarant says that he received a ball or shot of some kind in the back after which he ran about 1/4 of a mile and fell and then was one John Carigan who was there issuing commissary of Powder & shot &c U the Doctor of the company whose name he thinks was Washington or something like it they found him over on his back and it was said a gallon or more of blood ran about. He was then soon put on a Litter and carried away about 8 miles & those staid under another Doctor for 9 of 10 weeks until he recovered. The services took place not long from the time of the Battle of Ramsour's mills in  Linkhorn [Lincoln] County N. Carolina but whether prior or subsequent the affiant does not now recollect - He returned back to no more to the war until he heard [illegible] was made. Which was his services in the revolutionary war - 

w/o page 5 will be found "Two years services"
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6 The affiant Declarant states in addition that he never knew by what authority these services were called for, it being his rules to go and do service when it learned service was needed, it was not a question with him when called or by what authority so the service was necessary and the country protected. He says further, that there was not much system or regularity in them matters, at that time, that companies were many times only parts of companies Battalions & Regiments more frequently only a fractional part and know better b such a Colonels regiment, such a majors Battalion, or Capt. Company than any number letter or initial of any kind nor was it customary to have these corps regularly affirmed sometimes a commissary would be looking some times a Doctor or Surgeon, sometimes one or another and rarely a full set of officers or men but pay masters especially were hard to find, the result, of which was, they served for the glory, for it was seldom they got any thing else -He remembers the name of a number of persons who were in the same serving with him, some of who were, 1 his Father Howel Brewer, 2 his uncle Bill Brewer 3 Uncle John 4 Henry Bagly to Bill Buckhannon 6 Nat. Powell 7 Jacob and Andy White  8 Joe Kirk & all them are dead as he has understood &
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7 has reasons to believe, he doe not know of any living witness and it was not a customary thing for solders to take certificates of discharge in those days, for himself he had never had one in all his service in the revolution, nor does he remember the exact dates of the Battles he was in or of those in the region round about but says that he was but a boy when he performed the service alluded to - his age during said service was about 16 - 17 - & 18 years old of country life and uninformed. He further says that he hanged about among his relations and at his Fathers until about 1791 or 2 and then came to Georgia, and the Creek Indians being troublesome as well as other Indians he was induced to enlist at Greensborough Georgia under Capt. Martin his first name forgotten and Major Call his first name not known, of the 4th regiment of Colerain = for the term of 3 years and actually served two years & 6 months - and then hired a substitute by the name of John Cade or Cady, not recollected which, who served out the ballance of the time, as well as he can recollect. He was second Sargent in the company which was called the yellow Company or Company y.
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8 this service was performed in guarding the frontier between the Creek Indians and the Whites refs and and down the Ocane [Oconee] river and said State of Georgia - The Indians being very troublesome it was necessary every year & spring in particular to put up skirmishing parties, the affiant says that he very soon found it necessary to join in those services and did so under one Cole Thomas Lamar and Cap. Hugh Horton, of the Militia and served about 2 months, then the next spring continued the said service under Capt. Mark Sanders and Major Adams of the Militia for about 2 months - Then volunteered under the said Hugh Horton and Col. Thomas Lamar for one year as an Indian spy then rested a year and again volunteered under the same commanders for two years as an Indian spy - all which service he actually performed within the then frontier country up and down the said Oconee river and all about wherever ordered - Then rested a few months & again volunteered under Capt. Ben Harrison of the Militia in Washington County Georgia - for 3 months and still performed the service in skirmishing about and in the spring of the year the
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date of the year not recollected his company had an engagement with a party of Creek Indians at a place called the sandbar an said Oconee river not far from Sandersville Washington County, in which they killed 9 of the Indians, but he in a close contest with one of them received two  sever stabs around with a Butcher Knife which went through the thick part of the left thigh which was kind and threw him under the power of the Indian but the Capt. came to his assistance & they dispatched him. In this encounter he also received a severe cut on his left hand, at the same time, many others of his company were wounded but none died of wounds, It was several weeks he lay under the Doctor and never did recover his strength and actions as well as before. In these skirmishing parties there was but Little of Military order about them and there was but Little formality in mustering in or out certificates and discharges wee not expected, but every one did the best he could to combat the Indians who were very troublesome and expect in these excursions many of them were killed an das to prisoners there was no use for them.
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some 3 or 4 years after the last mentioned service, he volunteered under Col. Newman of Georgi in Warren County for 3 months to go against the Simminols [Seminoles] and did go to Arelarhy Cola [Apalachicola] Bay and preformed the services in a regiment of horse, the Captains name he does not recollect among the officers there was one Capt. White there was also a Capt. gray & a Major Ramsy that he recollects &c this service he thinks was performed somewhere between 1798 and 1800 but as tot he exact date he cannot recollect this service was a Skirmishing tour in which there was a good many Little running fights with the Indians and Negroes combined or the negroes that had got in among them somehow, there was a number of them killed and about 25 of our men killed. From this time refer to the war of 1812 with Great Brittain he says that he engaged in Domestic life with his family and moved from warren County Georgia to Jackson County in the w/s country, and then worked at farming and sometime carpentry & Millwrighting, and supported and raised his family in that way up to that time. At length the war of 1812 came on and he
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being used to a soldiers life went again in the service. While in said country there was a great call for soldiers and he being off of the muster list years back encouraged up and joined a company of silver grays which were old gray headed men who still felt Patriotic, and determined to show that if the country needed them they were ready - also to excite younger persons - this company was not called for however and he restless to be in service, hired himself to two more by the name of Pinckney & Lowry - to drive a team in said service and went on to Fort Hawkins on the Oakementgy [Ocmulgee] River are the frontier of Georgia, and then was received in to the service in march & to the best of his recollection in 1814 for three months and actually performed said service, under the command of Capt. Simons who was the Capt. of the Waggon yard Col. Graham of N. Carolina was the Militia Col. Major Cook was also in command the whole under Gen'l. Pinckney - The places they sent him to alternately was Fort Decatur, Fort Mitchel, Fort Hull, Fort Lawrence, Fort Bainbridge and Fort Jackson all in Indian Country - or Creek nation but now
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in Georgia and Alabama - The next service he engaged in was as a substitute for one John arc of Jackson County Georgia which he went into about the first of November 1814 for the term of 6 months under Capt. Hananiah Garrison & Col. David Boothe of the 4th regiment Georgia militia under Gen'l Mackintosh and went to Mobile and served the town out there which service ended the war & peace was made he received his discharge and returned home about the 1st of April 1815 which ended his service as a soldier in the Battles of his country - He then led a domestic life with his family in the callings of farming, carpentering & Millwriting as before mentioned 0 Not long after this he moved to Tennessee in the Easter part of it & then followed his said business sometimes adding mill keeping to it. He was in several counties there for several years and about 9 years ago came to Talladega County Alabama where he now lives and is now too old to do anything else but farming and not much of that, but still lives for which he thanks his maker with an overflowing heart - one more Little
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narrative and he is done, not long after he came to the state of Georgia in one of the spells that he was allowed to rest from the wards, he among other neighbours was overpaying a Fort called the Cider Shoal Fort on the Oconee River which was then the line between the Creek and whites and in those days families and every body else had to live in Forts unless they were under arms. On one morning he took his gun and walked out alone and about a short mile from it an sin sight of a house where a family was venturing to stay, and heard 3 guns fire, supposing some mischief he slipped rite near to see, and just then a young woman came running by him and as she passed he understood  her to say Indians, she passed a Little distance and seamed to fall down, at that he saw a Large Indian fellow following with his gun and raised it apparently to s hoot the young woman at that instant applicant drawed upon him and killed him before his gun fired, the others  then cam running but affiant took the gun of the killed Indian and hollered come on boys, then they are come on and in that way -
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frightened them so that they ran, It so happened that the guards from the fort came in sight and seeing the flying Indians pursued them - fell upon them and killed them all = 5 in number. He returned back to secure the young woman & took her in a fainting condition to the fort and had her nursed until she recovered of her fright. The name was Elizabeth York not long after she married a man by the name of Turk - He further says that he has had two wives and has raised seven children of his own and two orphan children not kin to him. His oldest child is 57 years old and the youngest 37 and was about 30 years old when he married his first wife all which he respectfully submits as the best and most authentic account that he can give of his wanderings & the way in which he has spent great portions of his time in life.
[Signature] Isaac Brewer X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me day and date above [Signature] J. B. Starnes J. P.
N.B. Claimant says that he does not know of any family record containing his age in existence.
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Petition of Claimant
State of Alabama}
Talladega County} SS. The Petitioner Isaac Brewer, the Claimant in this case for a Pension showeth that he is old and infirm and has always felt some disability from his wounds received in the wars. That owing to his occupying so many of his years in the service of his country and the effect of losses & misfortunes he has now accumulated are grown rich as some have, but is now and has been for some years in a needy condition, That he now ha his old wife who is some 78 years old & one daughter now an old girl and himself all of whom he considers helpless as regards the strugling and success in Life as even in that of Living, That he has children but they are all in need themselves and could not help him with convenience, also that he is not able to buy or to have any others other known but to live on a Little improvement wedged up in the spurs of the mountains as public or government land, and knows not how soon he may be deprived of that by the entry made by someone else. That all the support for his said family subsidy, consists in a small Pony mare, two or three cows and a few Pigs, with what they can make on this.
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Little farm each year, and that he has shown as well as he can that his services as a soldier in the revolution in all, amounted to 2 years, and since 1790 in all the various tours to 7 years, and that he has not even been able to give in all at that. He further shows that he is unacquainted with the Laws making provision for soldiers in those wars but understands that there are persons and have been persons who have drawn pensions and bounty who were in the same wars and that he as yet has never had anything of the kind. He would show that he has always tried to be the faithful soldier and discharge his duty that he never deserted or left his post, except the one time which he has stated under the influence of his uncle John when he first went in the war in his boyhood. He refers ,to the statements of the various persons herewith appended, which will give some light on his case to which he prays a favorable consideration and to his claim throughout he prays a patient investigation and allowance in proportion to his services, all which is respectfully submitted and as in duty bound your petitioner will ever pray.
[Signatures]
 J. B. Starnes J. P.           Isaac Brewer x his mark
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On this sheet the Declarant makes an amendment to his statement which has occurred to his recollection since the making of his main statement, found from pages 1, to page 16, 
State of Alabama] SS/
Talladega County} On this 4th day of April A. D. 1851 Personally, appeared before me Jonathan B. Starnes one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County and State afforesaid Isaac Brewer the Claimant afforesaid and make the following amendment to his foregoing Declaration included from Page 1, to 16, First, that he remembers the names of Caswell grade not recollected. He remembers Col. Dixon and believes that he was under him. He remembers to have served Gates and DeCalb [DeKalb]. He says he recollects a Major McDowell, that he thinks was there, He further recollects serving the enemy charge and seeing one man throw down their guns and run, which was the time that his uncle John and he did likewise, and he further says, that the North Carolina Soldiers strolled about over the country in all directions, like ships without a shepherd and got in Little Squads or bands some in one place and some in another and was not ever collected together up to the time of Greens battle and Guilford Courthouse and that there was several Little Squads of them that did not arrive in time for the engagement or well as the one he was in. He says the battle at Camden
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took place in the summer season but the year he don't recollect, though he had just turned 16 and was in his 17th year when he went, but was rather a small unhealthy boy. he say the Battle at Guilford Courthouse took place in the Latter pat of the winter or in the first of the Spring following.
2nd He says that the Col. Lee alluded to on page 4 of his former statement was the same Col. Lee that cut to pieces the Tory Crowd under one Col. Pyle and that it was common, when persons spoke of it in those times, to call it lees hacking matiita, and that the same Lee afterwards got to be Gen'l. Lee but how long after he does not recollect.
3rd He further says that the Doctor who attended to him at the house when he was carried after receiving his wound at the Cane Creek Battle alluded to on page 5 of his statement, was by the name of Doctor Carrol the name of the proprietor of the house was   . And he further says that as to the battle Ramsour's mills alluded to on same page, that he is definite in memory as to the date of it, or at what time of the year, not being near to the place, but he thinks upon reflection that his services as a soldier took place after that Battle for he recollects that Old Ezekiel Polk and a Col.  or Capt. Crump
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with whom he was acquainted was said to be in the affair, and that he also had some knowledge of a Capt. Falls, who  was said to have been killed in the said Battle and that the name Whig was given to one people or was changed from that of Liberty men to that of Whig from something that was said to have took place about the said battle - And 4th That his Father Howel Brewer once had a family Record, but that he married a second wife and had children by her and lived at the time of his death in West Tennessee somewhere, and this claimant knows not how to come at it or  [illegible] it nor does he believe that the said records is now in existence - 
[Signature] Isaac Brewer X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day & date above [Signature] J. B. Starnes J. P.

State of Alabama}
Talladega County} On this 4th day of April A. D. 1851 I Jonathan B. Starnes J. P. afforesaid do hereby certify that the said Isaac Brewer claimant, is old and infirm that he is now in bad health, helpless and unable
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to travel or attend to the courts or places required, in the customary way of preparing up such Clalims, and that he is unable to leave home, or give attention to any business requiring exercise or travel - given under my hand and seal - day and date above
[Signature] J. B. Starnes J. P.