Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 3245, Joseph Brownlee, Penn
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Penn 
NUMBER
W3245
Brownlee Joseph
Guthrie Elizabeth
former widow
CONTENTS
See inside (an application for pension by widow's husband Wm. Guthrie, Penn. Rev.
(It was not filed by that soldier, but was forwarded to Pension Bureau in 1847, with this claim.
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4748
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Guthrie [illegible]
widow of Joseph Brownlee who died on the July 1782 of Armstrong in the State of Penn. who was a Lieut & Capt in the company commanded by Captain _______of the Reg commanded by ___________ in the Revolution for 22 mo.27 days [illegible]
      1    "    3    "     Capt.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 327 Dollars 32 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 and ending 12th August 1842, when she died
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of April, 1849, and sent to Hon. Henry Nes [illegible] Pa.
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending
Payable to Jane Hukel
Joseph B Guthrie, Wm Guthrie, James Guthrie and Joanna Guthrie
only children surviving
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the [illegible]}
Recorded by Th. Lumpkin [illegible]
Book C Vol. 1 Page 15{illegible]
Reported
{Payable crossed out} to
[illegible] A. Ramsey
April 26, 1849
Let. to Hon Henry Nes
Nov. 12, 1849
Duplicate Certificate 
issued Jan. 29, 1850
sent to Hon. H. Nes
M. [illegible} same date
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William Guthrie
Penn line
Flying Comp
May 1776 January 1777
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Armstrong County
State of Pennsylvania

On this 12th day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the judges of the court in and for the district aforesaid personally appears William Guthrie aged 62 years resident in the state of Penna in the said district who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the (illegible) act of Congress entitled and act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land in Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war. That he the said William Guthrie enlisted in the month of May 1776 in Cumberland County state of Penna in the company commanded by Capt James McConnel of the Flying Comp that he continued to serve in the land corps or in the service of the United States until sometime in the month of January 1777 when he was discharged from service served two years in the Penna Rangers as Lieutenant one year  under Capt Mathew (illegible) the other year as Capt went into the service in the year 1780 and 1782 when he was discharged from service and that he was in the battles of Trenttown & Princetown & several skirmishes and that he is in reduced circumstances and (illegible) in need of the assistance from his
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of his county for support and that he has lost his commissions or they are in his possession and if in his possession he will produce the same if in his power and that he has now no other evidence in his power of his said service sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Robert Orr, also signature of Wm Guthrie

I Robert Orr judge [illegible] as aforesaid [illegible] certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Guthrie did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceeding and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress May the 12th AD 1818

Robert Orr
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I the subscriber prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Armstrong in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the before named Robert Orr Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same and still is a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, duly commissioned and qualified by the proper authority and that full faith and credit may be given to his acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Kittanning this twelfth day of May A.D. one thousand and eight hundred and eighteen -

Eben Smith Kelley, Pro.
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No 6973
Elizabeth Guthrie [illegible]
widow of Joseph
Pa
Act 4 July 1836
Service Lieut  22.27
1780    Capt    1. 5
24--
Married before 1780
First husband killed 1782
Second husband died 1828
Widow died 12 Feb 1842
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State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County

On this the 25th day of June 1847 personally appeared in Open court Joseph B Guthrie who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in the name of Elizabeth Guthrie deceased in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836. That the said Elizabeth was the wife of Joseph Brownlee who served in the Revolutionary war as a Lieutenant in the regular service and belonged to the Pennsylvania Line at one time a Lieutenant in the rifle company of Captain Joseph Irvin and in  Col Nias battalion, that said company to the best of his knowledge and belief started from Westmoreland County Pennsylvania in the year 1776 and marched to the state of New York when it was engaged in the battle of Long Island. Said Brownlee having been attached to it during this time, and in that engagement was taken prisoner, afterwards exchanged and annexed to Col Stewarts regiment and Col Broadheads regiment. The latter regiment was marched to Fort Pitt, Brownlee as a lieutenant still serving with it. This declarant does not know nor can he learn how long Lieutenant Brownlee was in service, but to the best of his belief he entered Captain Ervins company in the spring or the beginning of summer in 1776 and continued in the service for some years. That the family of his mother the same Elizabeth have no documentary evidence to prove his service his books papers and accounts having been all destroyed with his house when he was murdered by the indians. Time of the destruction of Hannahs town in Westmoreland County. Owing to an injury which Brownlee received in the fort, he left the regular service and came home to be cured, and declarant is unable to say at what time this occurred tho he thinks in 1779.
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He continued to reside near Hannahs town in Westmoreland County until the indians made an attack on the settlement when they destroyed said town.  This Occurred declarant believes in July 1782, and while Brownlee at the date of that occurrence was making an effort to aid the settlers to escape to the Fort at said town, and among them his own family he with his wife and two children were taken prisoner by them - the indians killed him and his son, and carried into captivity his wife the mother of this of this declarant and her child they took her to Montreal and other places in Canada where she was detained upwards of a year. when she returned to the ruins of Hannahs town with her child.  The accompanying old papers the one dated "Montreal July 7, 1783" signed by Wm Jones Provit Marshall". the other signed by Valentine Thomas Dalton" indicate her captivity and have always been considered by the family as the evidence of her captivity. they having been brought home by her. the child who accompanied her in her captivity at the last account they had of her was still living in Muskingum County Ohio.
This declarant further says that at the time of her marriage to Lieutenant Brownlee, he was living near Hannahs town, where the said Elizabeth also lived.  he cannot fix the day or the month of their marriage, nor can he obtain any [illegible] knowledge of the day or month, but they were married about the year 1776, his mother the said Elizabeth had a family record, but on the occasion of some suit at the County town of Westmoreland it was taken to court and lost.  That he has made diligent search for some record evidence of her marriage but can find none the only written testimony of it consists of the papers above named in which she is called "Mrs Brownlee".
He further says that the said Brownlee was killed about July 1782. the day he cannot discover.  That after the return of said Elizabeth from captivity she married Captain William Guthrie who died on or about the
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10th day of March 1828. That said Elizabeth died on or about the 11th day of February 1842 and that the following children still survive her Jane Hukel formerly Jane Brownlee intermarried with (unintelligible) Hukel living in Muskingum County Ohio. James Guthrie and Johanna Guthrie residing in Jefferson County Pennsylvania and Joseph B. Guthrie and William Guthrie both residing in Clarion County Pennsylvania.
     He further says that the said Elizabeth Guthrie after her marriage to Captain William Guthrie resided in that part of Westmoreland County organized under the name of Armstrong County and that when Armstrong County was divided, her residence was in Clarion County when she died, and that he would have made this declaration in Clarion County but for the reason that there will not be a court there for a considerable time.  Said Elizabeth at the time of her death was aged about eighty seven years. 

Sworn and subscribed in Ohio Court before me the Hon. aforesaid Joseph B. Guthrie

J.E. Meredith Pro


State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County
     I J.E. Meredith prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do certify that satisfactory evidence has been addressed to said court to show that John Brownlee died about the year 1782 that Wm Guthrie died on or about the 10th March 1828. That Elizabeth Guthrie died on or about the 11 of February 1842 and that Jane Hukel residing in Muskingum County Ohio, Joseph and William Guthrie residing in Clarion County Pennsylvania and James and Johanna Guthrie residing in Jefferson County Pennsylvania are her surviving children.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty fifth day of June AD 1847.

J.E. Meredith Pro
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Testimony in the case of the application of Elizabeth Guthrie of Pennsylvania under act of July 4 1836 by her children - formerly Elizabeth Brownlee

Hon A Ramsey
Harrisburg
Pa
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State of Pennsylvania
Clarion County      SS
On the fifteenth day of January 1849 Personally appeared before the subscriber A Justice of the Peace in and for said County Joseph B. Guthrie who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is a son of Elizabeth Guthrie deceased formerly of Clarion County Pennsylvania for whose pension he has applied that James Guthrie and Joanna Guthrie both living in Jefferson County Pennsylvania William Guthrie and this deponent both living in Clarion County Pennsylvania are four of her children that said Elizabeth had another child Jane Hukel formerly Jane Brownlee who intermarried with Jesse Hukel that the said Jane removed to Muskingum County Ohio a considerable time ago That the family do not know whether she is living or dead.  That diligent effort and inquiry has been made to discover her both by this deponent and others without success and that they have not heard from her for a period of eight years.  The above are all of the children of Elizabeth.
{signature} Jos B Guthrie
Sworn and subscribed before me this 15th day of January 1847
William Davis P.P.
I certify that Joseph B Guthrie is entitled to Credibility and Belief
William Davis P.P.
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State of Pennsylvania
Clarion County     SS
I H A Thompson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do certify; That P H Hoffman & William Divins Esquires before whom the forgoing affidavits were made were at the time of the execution thereof acting Justices of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn to all whose official as such full faith and credit is due and whos signatures hereto affixed is genuine and in their own proper handwriting 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Clarion the fifteenth day of February AD 1849
H A Thompson Pro
[image of attached seal]
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February 24, 1937
BA-J/MCS
Joseph Brownlee, W.3245
Mr. Edwin B. Graham
362 South Negley Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Elizabeth Guthrie who first married Captain Brownlee and then married Captain Guthrie who served in the Revolutionary War. 
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 3245, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Joseph Brownlee.
While living in Hannastown, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Joseph Brownlee married in 1775, 1776, or 1777, Elizabeth, whose maiden name was not given. 
He enlisted in the spring of 1776 as a lieutenant in Captain Joseph Irwin's company of Riflemen in Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania regiment.  He was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, was exchanged and attached to Colonels Stewart's and Brodhead's Pennsylvania regiments and was stationed at Forts Pitt and Laurens. Because of an injury in the foot he left the service in 1779 and resided at Hannastown until July, 1782, when the town was destroyed by the Indians and he and his little son, whom he was carrying in his arms, were killed by the Indians at or near Miller's Fort.  His wife, Elizabeth, and child, Jane, were captured and taken to Buffalo and Niagara, where the wife was sold to a British officer for twenty dollars and the child for ten dollars and two gallons of rum.  Elizabeth was then sent as a captive to Montreal, was exchanged and returned with the child to Hannastown in July, 1783.
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Elizabeth Brownlee married in July, 1784, William Guthrie of Hannastown, Pennsylvania.  He enlisted in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, inMay, 1776, in Captain James McConnel's Pennsylvania company of the flying camp, was in the battles of Trenton and Princeton and was discharged in January, 1777.  He enlisted in 1780 and served as lieutenant in Captain Mathew Jack's company of Pennsylvania rangers, and he served another year as captain of a company of rangers.
After the close of the Revolutionary War William and Elizabeth Guthrie moved to that part of Westmoreland County which was later called Armstrong County and he was killed by a fall from a wagon March 10, 1828, at which time he was seventy-three years of age. 
Elizabeth, the widow of William Guthrie, died February 11, 1842, in or near Redbank Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, at the home of her son, Joseph Brownlee Guthrie, and she was then eighty-seven years of age. 
She was survived by the following children:  James Guthrie, Joanna or Johanna Guthrie who lived in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and Joseph Brownlee Guthrie and William Guthrie who lived in Clarion County, Pennsylvania.  In 1849 it was stated that Jane (the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Brownlee) had married Jesse Hukel and had moved to Muskingum County, Ohio, and that the family did not know whether she was then living or dead, as they had not heard from her for eight years.  Said Jane was four years of age in 1786. 
On June 25, 1847, the above-noted Joseph Brownlee Guthrie applied for pension that was due the surviving children of Elizabeth Guthrie, on account of the Revolutionary War service of Joseph Brownlee and the claim was allowed. 
In 1847 Sarah Beatty, aged eighty-four years and a resident of North Buffalo Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, stated that she was the sister of Elizabeth Guthrie and that her father (name not given) moved to the vicinity of Hannastown, Pennsylvania, before the Revolutionary War.  She did not give the date and place of birth of her father nor his place of residence before moving to Hannastown.  Said Sarah married William Beatty July 8, 1783.  In 1847 [blacked out] of Armstrong County,
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Pennsylvania, who married John Beatty December 31, 1789, stated that she was the sister of Elizabeth Guthrie and she stated that when the Indians killed Joseph Brownlee they killed her brother (name not given) at the same place.
The date and place of birth and names of parents of the Revolutionary War soldiers, Joseph Brownlee and William Guthrie, were not given and there are no further family data. 
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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BROWNLEE, JOSEPH
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The Bearer Mrs. Elizabeth Brownlee had been a Captive in Canada in Company with my Family during the time after she was brought in by the Savages  She lived with my wife her Conduct as a  Virtuous & Industrious Woman during her Captivity serves credit to her [illegible] as a [illegible] [illegible] to all honest good woman I make [illegible]
Valentine Thomas Dalton 
Westmoreland County August the 3rd 1783
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BROWNLEE, JOSEPH
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Montreal 7th July 1783
These are to certify that the bearer hereof Mrs. Elizabeth Brownley Prisoner has behaved in every respect as becometh during her residence in this Province and being particularly under my notice.  I do recommend her as such to all those who take pleasure in granting relief to the innocent and [illegible]
Will Jones 
[illegible] Marshal
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1914 June 9 Hist. to
Robinson V. L. [illegible]
1924, Mch. 5 - Hist. to [Hon?]
Nathan L. Strong. U. [illegible]
1931 Mar 6 hist. to
Strong [illegible]
1937 Feb. 24 hist. to
Edwin B. Graham
1937 - Mch. 12 E. B. [illegible]
further in regard to
name etc [illegible]
WIDOW, &c.
[Perry?]
File No. 3245
Elizabeth Guthrie
Widow
Joseph Brownlee
Capt. Rev War
Act:  July 4, 1836
Index:--Vol. A, Page 297
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No 6973
Elizabeth Guthrie former
Widow of Joseph Brownlee 
Pa
Act 4 July 1836
aomo,
1 mo 3 days capt 22.00
22 "    27 "    Lieut. 305.32
$327.32 
From 4 March 1831 to 12th Feby. 1842 the day of her death, payable to June Hukel, Joseph Guthrie William Guthrie, James Guthrie and Joanna Guthrie only surviving children of Eliabeth Guthrie decd.

Hon. Henry Nes 
[illegible]
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Armstrong County   ss
Before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for said County personally came Joseph McDonald and being duly sworn doth depose and say that Elisabeth Guthrie of Redbank Township and county aforesaid is the very person which was married to Joseph Brownlee which was killed by the Indians the time of the Revolutionary war at Miller town in Westmoreland County and knew their two children which she had to said Joseph Brownlee and that the said Elisabeth Guthrie was taken Prisoner at that time by the Indians at said place and further saith not
[signature] Joseph McDonnald
Sworn and subscribed
January the 3rd 1829
Before me William Henry JP
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State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County  [illegible]
I Jonathan E. Meredith Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county do certify that William Henry [illegible] Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that his signature thereto is genuine and in his proper handwriting.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Kittanning this 26th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty [illegible]
J. E. Meredith Pro
[written vertically] Joseph McDonald Deposition
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State of Pennsylvania
Clarion County    ss
On the this the seventeenth day of January 1847 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Robert McNatt who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he is personally acquainted with the family of Elizabeth Guthrie Deceased formerly of Clarion County Pennsylvania  In her lifetime the wife and widow of Captain William Guthrie that the names and places of residences of her children are as follows (four of them living in this section of Pennsylvania)  Joseph B Guthrie and William Guthrie both living in Clarion County Pennsylvania  James Guthrie and Joanna Guthrie both living in Jefferson County Pennsylvania  Jane Hukle formerly Brownlee I was not acquainted with but I am confident there was such a woman but it is not known whether she is living or dead   The above are all the children of said Elizabeth
[signature] Robert McNatt
sworn & subscribed before me -
William Divins P.P.
I do certify the above witness is entitled to credibility and belief
William Divins P.P.
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State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County    ss
On this eleventh day of January 1848, Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county Sarah Beaty who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say, that during the Revolutionary War she was a witness to the marriage ceremony of Lieutenant Joseph Brownlee of Westmoreland County and his wife the late Elizabeth Guthrie.  The ceremony of their marriage having become fixed in her mind (from the fact) in the connection with Brownlees service in the war, from the fact that after the marriage which took place at deponents fathers home Mrs. Brownlee and her husband staid there a short time after the marriage until he went away to join the army.  She remembers well when Brownlee left for this purpose for the reason that he left his farm near Hannahs town in the care and management of his fatherinlaw who moved in it with his family deponent and Mrs Brownlee included and raised a crop on it.  She recollects that when Brownlee left to join the army his wife continued to live with her father.  She and this deponent sleeping together and occupying the same bed.  She also recollects when Brownlee once returned from the army to his wife, their living with her father after a considerable absence his wearing the uniform of an officer impressed his return upon her mind - after he finally left the army he and his wife resumed the possession  of the farm and lived there until he was killed by the indians with his son the time of the destruction of Hannahs town.  She further says at the time of his marriage Brownlee had come home from the army on a furlough and after his marriage left home to resume it deponent further said not
[signature]  Sarah her X mark Beaty
sworn and subscribed before me
John Boyd JP
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I Justice as aforesaid do certify that Mrs Sarah Beaty the above deponent is person entitled to credibility and belief and further that she is a woman known for the [illegible] of her character and thus the fullest confidence may be placed in her statements
John Boyd JP
State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County
I J. E. Meredith Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county certify that John Boyd above named was at the time of the execution of the above affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 26th day of February A.D. 1848 at Kittanning 
J. E. Meredith Pro
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Capt William Guthrie was the wife of this lieutenant Brownlee.
Abraham Leasure - Sarah and Jane Beatty also say that it was known in the settlement that he was an officer, that they knew of his absence, and understood that at the time he was away in the service & that this officer was the husband of Elizabeth Brownlee, who was taken prisoner by the Indians.  That two old papers already furnished by the applicant show that she was a captive about the close of the war.  There is also an old declaration made by Capt Guthrie her last husband found among his papers, & McHaffey  also says that Guthrie her second husband was a Captain of Rangers.  Jane and Sarah Beatty both say that when Brownlee went from home to join the army, he was married, that his wife lived at home with her father in the same family in which they were [illegible] during his absence and that they were Mrs Brownlee's sisters, that they recollect when he went away to join the army, and also when he returned to his wife then living with her Father, that his wearing an officers uniform impressed his return upon their minds.  And that they were living on the farm Brownlee had left in charge of their Father when he went from home to join the army.  Their Father having moved upon the farm Brownlee owned   Sarah Beatty also says that when Broadhead's Regt came through Hannahs Town, many of the people went to town to see it.  Among them her sister and mother
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The enclosed affidavit of Joseph Brownlee Guthrie taken in the case of Elizabeth Guthrie of Pennsylvania formerly Elizabeth Brownlee sets forth that after diligent search no record evidence of the marriage of the parties can be obtained, and the reason why there is no family record is given.  No evidence of a record characters either of the birth, baptism of a child can be had, it is believed there is none in existence. 
The affidavit of McHaffey, Lesure, McDonald, Jane and Sarah Beatty, all assert that lieutenant Joseph Brownlee lived in Westmoreland Co. Penna.  The first two say that he lived near Hannahs Town in that County, and that he was an officer in the Revolution. 
One of the certified papers giving the names and residence of the recruiting offices of Col Stewarts Regt show that Brownlee lived near Hannahs Town, and another connects him with Westmoreland County in 1778.
Leasure and Mchaffey say that Brownlee, who lived there was a lieutenant in the regular army; the former that he saw him on duty at Hannahs Town as one of the officers of Capt Erwins rifle company raised there and that he marched away with it towards the seat of war.  A certified extract of Capt Erwins Co roll gives Joseph Brownlee as one of the lieutenants, and  Mchaffey says that Elizabeth Brownlee, who was taken prisoner by the Indians, and afterwards married
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the former to see her husband and the latter to see her son who belonged to it.  That the marriage of her sister took place in her presence when she was about fourteen years of age and that they had been married in the spring of 1777.
Mchaffey says he is confident that they were married as early as January 1778,  that they had been married five years when Brownlee was killed in July 1782, and that they had a son three or four years of age.
Abraham Leasure gives evidence somewhat similar.   The day of the death of Capt Guthrie and his wife Mrs Guthrie formerly Mrs Brownlee are given by the Justice from his own knowledge and the family record of Joseph B. Guthrie
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State of Pennsylvania
Clarion County    ss
On this      day of    1847 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the said county of Clarion, Joseph Brownlee Guthrie who being first duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that the declaration he made in open court in the name of Elisabeth Guthrie formerly the widow of Lieutenant Brownlee did not contain a full detail of the service [illegible] of said Brownlee.  He makes this statement supplemental to said declaration claiming the benefit of the acts of July 4, 1836, and the explanatory act of March 3, 1837.  
In the beginning of the revolutionary war said Brownlee was residing near Hannahs town Westmoreland County Pennsylvania.  To the best of his knowledge and belief he marched from there in the spring of 1776 as a Lieutenant in the rifle company of Captain Joseph Erwin, which belonged to the Pennsylvania line, and to the Battalion of Col. Miles, for a while was stationed in New Jersey, then marched to the vicinity of New York where he was engaged in the battle of Long Island, there taken prisoner, afterwards exchanged and attached to some regiments, one of which was commanded by Col. Stewart, for a time he was employed in the neighborhood of Philadelphia, performed a march up the river Susquehanna as far as the Big Island against the indians, was attached to Col Broadheads regiment for a while stationed at Fort Pitt under that officer, and at a Fort further down the Ohio called Fort Lawrence, which deponent thinks he aided to construct.  He further says that Brownlee was always spoken of by the old people whom deponent has known and met, as having been a bold and daring officer, an active and fearless woodsman, was highly beloved by the settlers and recognized by them as a leading man in the early settlement of western Pennsylvania and actively engaged in all the military enterprises for its security and defense untill his death.  These services of Lieutenant Brownlee were rendered between the years 1775 beginning in the spring of 1776 and ending about the beginning of the year 1779 or sometime in that year.  Deponent has no means of fixing the exact time of the termination of his services.  After he left the army and was residing near Hannahs town, the Indians made an attack on the
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settlement about the harvest time of 1782 and Brownlee while aiding some of the settlers to escape to the Fort near that place was captured by them together with his wife and two children, there were others captured at the time, and deponent has often heard his mother say that the more immediate cause of Brownlees death was that he was named by one of the captives , a Mrs Hannah who on perceiving that they were overtaken incautiously cried out, Oh Captain Brownlee, the Indians on hearing his name butchered him on the spot together with his little son whom he was carrying in his arms and thus gratifyed  a feeling of revenge they were known to entertained towards him for the activity he displayed in the frontier enterprises  against them.  These circumstances deponent has heard frequently related by his mother in his early boyhood.  They had made a deep and lasting impression on his mind.
The said Elisabeth was carried into captivity across the wilderness to Buffalo and Niagara.  At Buffalo she was taken sick and after four months suffering, she was taken to Niagara and sold to a British officer for twenty dollars, and her child for ten dollars and two gallons of rum.  She was then sent to Montreal by way of Carlton Island in Lake Ontario and after remaining there about seven months she was exchanged and sent to Ticonderoga by the way of Crown Point and St. Johns.  At Ticonderoga the prisoners were delivered to an American officer and she returned by the way of Skenesboro, Fort Ann, The Halfmoon Battery, Saratoga, Albany, New York and Philadelphia with her child to the ruins of Hannahs town after more than a year's captivity, reduced in health, without the consolation of her husband, her house & furniture destroyed and burned by the savages together with all her husbands books and accounts. 
About the year 1784 or 1785 she married Captain William Guthrie, who was killed by a fall from a wagon on the 10th of March 1828.  The accompanying declaration made by him in 1818 to obtain a pension was found by this deponent among the papers of Captain Guthrie in his possession.  He further says that the accompanying affidavit of Joseph McDonald herewith presented was taken to enable said Elisabeth to obtain a state pension, said McDonald is now dead.
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The family of Said Elisabeth have no documentary evidence of the service of Lt Brownlee, his papers being all destroyed when his house was burnt by the savages at the time of his death.
That the said Elisabeth was married to Lt. Brownlee in the year 1775 or 1776. that after diligent search, no record testimony can be found to prove the marriage. that after her return  from captivity the said Elisabeth had a family record, but upon the occasion of some suit at case[?], the record was taken to the County town of Westmoreland and lost.
He further says that the said Elisabeth was a widow on the 4th of July 1836. and remained the widow of Captain William Guthrie untill She died. That the said Elisabeth died on the 11th day of February 1842. and her husband Captain William Guthrie was killed by a fall from a waggon on the 10th day of March 1828- that these dates are taken from the family record of this deponent as he entered them at the time.
Sworn & Subscribed this 18th day of
September 1847. Before me
[signed] George Means
[signed] Jos B Guthrie
I George Means a Justice of the Peace as above do certify that Joseph B Guthrie is a person entitled to full credit and belief- that I have examined the family record of Said Guthrie contained in his family Bible and find the following entries, letters & figures the same viz.
William Guthrie died March 10th 1828 age 73 years
Elisabeth Guthrie died February 11th 1842. age  87.
I further certify that I resided a number of years in the neighborhood of Captain William Guthrie & his wife Elisabeth. and that they died about the times mentioned above. and that Said Elisabeth Guthrie was reputed by thou acquaintace with her to have been a captive among the indians in the revolutionary war. and that she was a widow on the 4th of July 1836.
[signed] George Means
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Clarion County
On this 18th day of September 1847.  Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Clarion.  Personally came Samuel Roads who having been first duly sworn deposeth and saith that Captain William Guthrie was killed by a fall from a waggon in the month of March 1828.  That this deposent was in company with him and present at the time of his death and is able to determine the day nearly from the fact of having made a journey to the west in the following year.
Sworn and subscribed before me. Samuel Rhodes
George Means
I do certify that the above named Samuel Rhodes is a man of veracity in whose statements of fact the fullest reliance may be placed.  George Means
State of Pennsylvania Clarion County
I, H A Thompson (illegible) of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Do testify that George Means Esquire before whom the foregoing depositions now taken was at the time of so doing and now is an acting Justice and sworn to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit are due; and whose signature thereunto annexed is genuine and in his own proper hand writing. In February whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of (illegible) said court the 20th day of September A D 1847
H A Thompson
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State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County
On this the 26th day of May 1847 personally appeared before the (illegible) a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Sarah Beatty aged about 84 years.  A resident of North Buffalo township in said county who being duly sworn according to law doth say that before the revolutionary war her father migrated to the vicinity of (illegible) in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania.  That she was present and saw and heard Lieutenant Joseph Brownlee married to the late Elizabeth Guthrie late of Armstrong and Clarion counties when this deponent was about fourteen years of age.  Said Elizabeth was a sister of this deponent, the marriage having occurred at her father's house.  She does not know the exact date of the marriage, but well known that they had been married and were living in the family of deponent's father at the time her father moved with his family, Mrs. Brownlee and deponent with him when the farm of Lieutenant Brownlee, which the latter had left in his charge when he went from home to join the army, this was in the spring of 1777.  Deponent recalled when he left home for that purpose his wife the said Elizabeth continued to live in the family of her father of which this deponent was also an inmate.  She also remembers when he returned home to his wife, then living with her father after an absence of more than a year, his wearing the uniform of an officer (illegible) his return when her mind--she also recalled that one of his officers as it was then said and understood was Captain Joseph Irwin, in whose company it was said he was a lieutenant.  It was also part of Lt. Brownlee's history at the time to have been a lieutenant in Brodhead regiment, as she remembers when it came to (illegible) many of the people went to the town to see it, among them the mother and sister of deponent the one to see her son who belonged
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to it, the other to see her husband.  The regiment was called the 8th--they went on to Fort Pitt.  Drownlee afterward came home from the army and lived with his wife until the burning of (illegible) when he, his wife and their two children were captured by the Indians.  The Indians having killed him and their oldest child.  Hi wife said Elizabeth was carried with her surviving child into captivity.  Deponent well remembers the time of the captivity of her sister, the death of said Brownlee and the destruction of (illegible).  Brownlee was killed at Millers fort, this occurrence happened about July 1782 in that month she thinks.  Deponent had a brother killed at the same time by the Indians.  She and her sister Jane were hoeing corn in the field when the savages approached, were compelled to fly for their lives and leave behind them their young brother, who was killed, by the occurrences of these facts the date of the normal (illegible) has been somewhat (illegible) when her mind.
Some fifteen or sixteen months after her captivity the said Elizabeth returned home with her child, and the year after, she was married to Captain William Guthrie of Westmoreland County who had been engaged in the war defending the frontier.  Her marriage to said Guthrie took place she thinks in July 1784, a fact deponent is able to determine from her own marriage which by reference to her family record occurred July 8th 1783, the said Elizabeth Brownlee having been married about one year after.  Said Elizabeth died about four years ago in Clarion County while living with her son Joseph and in the neighborhood or in Redbank township near the residence of her sons James and William.
Sworn & subscribed before me  John Boyd
Sarah Beaty (illegible)
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At and Orphans Court held at Greensburgh for the County of Westmoreland the Seventh day of November 1786. Before John Moon Esquire President, Christopher Truby Esquire and Michael Huffnagle Esquire Justices of the same Court.
Joseph Brownlee dec'd
Upon application of William Guthrie who is intermarried with Elizabeth Brownlee widow and (illegible) of Joseph Brownlee dec'd.  Setting forth that he has had in his care a female child of four years of age, of the said deceased from the seventh day of July 1784 until this time, and praying that the court would allow him such compensation for boarding and clothing the said child as they may think meet.  The Court order That the Administrators of the estate of the said Joseph Brownlee Deceased pay the said William Guthrie the sum of Eight Pounds by the year for the time that he has Boarded and Clothed the said child.
8/4 fees paid. J. (illegible)
Westmoreland County
I, David Fullwood Clerk of the Orphans Court of the County of Westmoreland in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify the above to be a correct copy of the Docket entry of the above stated case.
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Greensburgh the 23rd day of June A D 1848
David Fullwood Clerk
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State of Pennsylvania 
Armstrong County
On this 24th May 1847 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Jane Beatty who being duly sworn according to law hath deposed to say that she was acquainted with Elizabeth Guthrie formerly of Westmoreland County, afterwards of Armstrong County, and at the time of her death in Clarion County, Pennsylvania.  That same Elizabeth Guthrie was a sister of this deponent, that previous to the Revolutionary war, this deponent's father emigrated to Westmoreland County near the vicinity of (illegible) that in the beginning of the Revolutionary war said Elizabeth was married to Lieutenant Joseph Brownlee the marriage having taken place in her father's house and in the Presence of this deponent, after the marriage Lieutenant Brownlee left home as she understood then to join the main army under General Washington he was a Lieutenant then and was called by that title, this deponent well recollects his leaving home a short time after the marriage for that
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purpose, from the fact that after he left, the father of this deponent moved upon the farm owned by said Brownlee and raised grain on it--the wife said Brownlee--the sister of this deponent moved with him upon the farm, and continued to live with him there until said Brownlee retired from the army after a year's absence.  She thinks at least the deponent's recollections of his return home to his wife is very distinct as he had on his uniform which impressed it upon her mien--this deponent further says that after he had left the army he continued to reside in neighborhood of Hannahstown until he and his son were killed by the Indians at Millers Fort at the time of the destruction of Hannahstown--his wife the said Elizabeth and her surviving child were taken captives by the Indians--this deponent cannot fix the year of the marriage of her sister with said Brownlee but she knows they were living as man and wife four years before her captivity--the brother of this deponent being killed at the same time and place of Brownlee's death. About sixteen months after her captivity she returned home with her child
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To the residence of her father's in Westmoreland County aforesaid.
After her return the said Elizabeth the widow of said Brownlee was married by Captain  William Guthrie then of Westmorland County who was killed (from crossed out) by a fall from a wagon about 18 or 20 years ago her marriage to him having occurred she thinks about the month of July in the year 1784. The marriage of this despondent to John Beatty having occurred 31st December 1789 and the marriage  of the said Elizabeth to said Guthrie having occurred some year before and further saith not
Sworn and subscribed on the 24th day of May 1847 before me E.H. Baily} Jane Beatty her mark
I the above, Justice so identify that Jane Beatty is a person entitled to [illegible] and relief
E.H. Bailey
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State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County Set
I Jonathan E. Meredith Prothonotaries  of the court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do certify that E.H. Bailey Esquire before whom  the foregoing affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the Law and still is an  acting Justice of the peace, in and forsaid County, and that his Signature thereto is given and his proper hand writing.
The Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court at  Kittanning  the 26th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven.
J.E. Meredith [illegible]
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A list of the Officers names who are on Recruiting Service from Col. Walter Stuarts Regt.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stations    Names            Place of Residence
_________________________________________________
Captain     John Marshall   Litten Britton 
                                               Lancaster County
Captain     Matthew Scott   Shippensburg
Captain     Jas. Francis Moore  Westmoreland
----                John Robb             Muncy
----                Joseph L. Finley    Marsh Creek York Co.
Lieutenant  Joseph Brownlee   Near Hannah's Town  
Lieutenant  William Moore        Lancaster   
-----                 Jacob Snider         Sunbury  
----                  John Gregg            Marsh Creek
----                  John Vanpelt          Cross Roads Bucks Co.
Lieutenant    William McCrakan Shippensburg
---                    Saml McKinney     Carlisle
Ensign           Joseph Collier         Carlisle
---                     Patrick Fullerton     Fogs Manner
---                     Edward Speer         Shermans Valley
--                     William Johston      Northumberland 
Pennsylvania LS
I do certify that the above is a true copy of the Original paper on file in this office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the Secretary's Office to be affixed this 2nd day of July A.D.1847.
J Miller
Secy of the County
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State of Accounts of John M. Nesbitt Esquire, Late Paymaster of the Land and Naval Force of Pennsylvania
Sundries  Dr.  To John M Nesbitt esq. continued  paid Chris. Ludwig for services at camp (blank) (pound) 11,,5,,0
Captains Joseph McClean and Joseph Erwin of Col. Miles Reg't in advance of 25 percent on their pay from 1st July to 1st October last..... (pound)  43,,18,,8
Jas. Carnahan, Jos. Brownlee, Wm. Brown, Jacob Stake, and Thom. Boyd Lieutenants Philip Albright and Lewis Farmer, Capts. Jacob Reger, Surg. Jacob L Lawzler all of the 1st and 2nd Pennsylvania regts. advance as above, 17th. (pound) 56,,1,,2
Cap't Francis Murray 2 mo. hay and 3 mo. advance to 1st Jan. last 24th. 27,,10,,0
Lt. James Carnahan do do to do. 18,,11,,3
Lt. Joseph Brownlee do (short 4 days) do. 18,,2,,6
Comptroller General's Office. September 22nd 1786
Examined and vetted John Nicholson
Auditor General's Office
Harrisburg July 15th 1847
I certify the above to be a true extract, taken from the accounts of John M Nesbit on file in this office.  Witness my hand and seal of office this day and date aforesaid.
John (illegible)
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State of Pennsylvania
Indiana County
On this the 3rd day of June 1847 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said county Samuel Mehaffy who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that in the revolutionary war he was a resident of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania where he still resides, having emigrated thereto some time before the war.  Soon after he took up his abode there the Indians became troublesome and the settlers (illegible) among them for (illegible) gathered in towards Hannahstown in Somerset county where he lived from the first breaking out of hostilities until the end of the war.  That he was intimately acquainted with Joseph Brownlee who lived in the vicinity of Hannahstown in Somerset County, both he and deponent having lived in the same settlement.  In the commencement of the revolution deponent knows that said Brownlee was an officer in the Pennsylvania regular troops.  He distinctly recollects that in the beginning of the war there was a company of riflemen raised for the regular service by Captain Joseph Irvin, the company was made up of recruits enlisted through the settlement, who had their rendezvous at Hannahstown.  Deponent was at (illegible) town saw them there, saw them drilling and mustering.  In this company Brownlee was an officer, a lieutenant, as he saw him there performing his duty as one of the company officers.  They marched away to join the army in the east beyond the mountains, and Brownlee marched with them.  This he thinks was in the same year of the battle of Long Island, for when some of the company returned home to the vicinity of Hannahstown, it was a matter of conversation in the settlement that the company were engaged in that fight.  Deponent does not know how long Brownlee was in the company, but it was a considerable time before he returned home, some time after this, six or seven years, the Indians always very
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trouble and made an attack upon the settlement and burned Hannahstown.  This to the best of his belief on July 1782.  He knows that the murder of Brownlee and his little son by the Indians at that time, the captivity of his wife and her surviving child, and also Mrs Hannah, and that Brownlee was killed near Millers Fort a short distance from the Hannahstown were (illegible) always associated with the destruction of that place and this inroad of the Indians.  Deponent knows that Brownlee was always considered one of the most spirited, useful, and courageous young men on the frontier.  His death was very deeply deplored by all the settlers.
He does not know the precise date of Brownlee marriage to Elizabeth, his wife who before her marriage to Lieutenant Brownlee was named Guthrie, and who also lived in the settlement, but he is confident they were married as early as January first 1778.  They had been married five years he is partly sure when he was killed in July 1782, how much longer he does not know.  They had a son who was killed three or four years of age, he was the oldest of their two children.
After the return of Brownlee's widow from captivity she married Captain William Guthrie of Hannahstown who during the revolution was the captain of a company of rangers.  Deponent knows that he served as Captain of a ranging company from the fact of seeing him engaged mustering and drilling the men, knows he (illegible) them in the neighborhood for the defense of the frontier, and also knows that he marched the company away to the frontier where they were employed this was 1780 or 1781.  Guthrie was also of Westmoreland County and resided in Hannahstown here deponent saw his mustering his rangers.  This was not what was called a company of regulars, such a company as Brownlee was engaged in, but a company of men got up to range the frontier and defend it against the Indians.  Deponent
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himself was out several tours in the militia and as a [illegible]
the revolution for which he receives a Pension from
[illegible] states of about thirty three dollars and thirty 
cents about.
He further says that he is acquainted with the foregoing
facts from having been intimately acquainted with the persons
named, they were his neighbours, he knew no person better.
the peril and dangers of the frontier having frequently brought
them together and made them more intimate friends.
Deponent knows that Captain Guthrie before named
and his wife the [illegible] Elizabeth named after the war some time
to that part of Westmoreland County afterwards called
Armstrong. and further that he is well acquainted with
Sarah Beatty of Armstrong County Pennsylvania, who married
William Beatty and who was the said sister of said Elizabeth
Gurthner.
Sworn and subscribed this 3d day of June 1847  before
me Wm Hart
S mahaffey
I Justice as aforesaid do certify that Samuel Mehaffy above
named is a person entitled to credibility and belief
Wm Hart
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State of Pennsylvania,
Indiana County, ss.
I, Alexander W. Taylor, Prothonotary
of said County of Indiana, do certify
that "Wm Hart" Esqr. before whom the foregoing
affidavit was made and taken, and who has
attested the same in his own proper handwriting,
is and was, at the time the same bears
date, one of the acting Justices of the Peace in &
for said county, duly elected, commissioned
and sworn; and that full faith and credit are
due to all his official acts, as such, as well in
courts of Justice as elsewhere
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the Court
of Common Pleas of said
county, at Indiana, this 8th
day of July A.D. 1847.
A. W. Taylor,
Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
Butler County}

On this the 31st day of May 1847 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Abraham Leasure a resident of Said County aged about eighty six years who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that in the Revolutionary war, he was a resident of Westmoreland County State aforesaid and was very well acquainted with Lieutenant Joseph Brownlee of said county and his wife the late Elizabeth Guthrie

During the war said Brownlees residence was near Hannahstown[sp] about 2 miles off in said County. After Brownlee had left the army and was residing with his wife near said town, the indians made an attack upon the settlement and burned Hannahstown.  deponent was at the fort close by that night and distinctly recollects that Brownlee his wife; their two children Mrs. Hannah and some others were taken by the indians.  this occurred[sp] in July 1782 Lieutenant Brownlee & his oldest child were killed by them close to Millers fort- his wife the sd Elizabeth was with then surviving child taken off into captivity

Deponent has a distinct recollection of this occurring for a few days after he acted as one of a lookout guard while others buried Brownlee and his son with some others who were also butchered.  He further says that he was very well acquainted with Lieutenant Brownlee and his wife   they lived in the Same Settlement.  and when he was not about with the army and after he left it he frequently saw him at the different places of rendevous[sp] through the neighbourhood

His death deponent knows was very much regretted for he was one of the most active and fearless and useful men on the frontier.  He and Captain Matthew Jack who was also of the frontier and with whom deponent was intimately acquainted both had commissions in the regular service, or were officers, and both served as
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it was understood and known by the settlement, in the regular army East of the mountains= the Alleghanies[sp].  It was understood and known among all their friends and acquaintances that this was the kind of service they performed, and this deponent often heard.— What regiment he belonged to there he does not known.

At various periods of the war bodies of regular troops came from the east through Hannahstown aforesaid on their way to Fort Pitt, and during the war Broadheads[sp] regiment of regulars came through Hannahstown on their way to Fort Pitt.

Deponent further says that he does not know the precise period of Brownlees marriage but is confident that he had his wife sd Elizabeth married in the spring of 1778, he had been married to her four or five years previous to his murder by the indians at or near Millers fort in July 1782, and his son who was Killed at the same time was a little boy three or four years old, he may have been married before 1778.  After the widow Brownlee returned home from captivity she married Captain William Guthrie also of Hannahstown in Said County, who also had been engaged towards the close of the war defending the frontiers.  he was an officer and was sometimes called Lieutenant and sometimes Captain. He belonged to what was called the rangers

Deponent does not know how long said Elizabeth was in captivity— is well acquainted with her sisters Sarah and Jane Beatty of Armstrong County Penn’a.  they as well as said Captain Guthrie and his wife sd Elizabeth moved from Westmoreland jCounty acros’d. to Armstrong County after the war.  And he further states that he was well acquainted with Westmoreland during the Revolution having been employed much of the war in defending it against the indians, both as a scout and a militia man, and never knew any other Lieutenant Joseph Brownlee, or any other Captain Wm Guthrie than those above named, nor does he believe there was one.
Abraham his X mark Leisure[sp]

Sworn and subscribed before me
G. C. Sedgwick
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I Justice as aforesaid do certify that Abraham Leasure is a person entitled to credibility and beleif[sp].
G. C. Sedgwick

Butler County
State of P[ennsy]lvania} Ss

I, James McGlaughlin, Prothonotary of 
the Court of Common Pleas in and for the
[c]ounty of Butler, do by these presents certify that 
G. C. Sedgwick, Esquire, whose name appears
[t]o the foregoing affidavit, was at the time of
its execution, and now, is an acting Justice
Of the Peace in and for Said county and that the  Signature foregoing, purporting to be his, is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Said Court, at Butler in the Said county, This Third day of July, Anno Domini, one thousand Eight hundred and forty-seven

Attest     James McGlaughlin
                            Prothy.
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A Muster Roll of Captain Joseph Erwin's Company of the Second Battalion of the Rifle Regiment in the service of the of Pennsylvania Commanded by Colonel Samuel
Esqr encamped near Kingsbridge September ye 4th 1776
No. of
Men
Capt Joseph Erwin
No of
Men
Lieutenants
James Carnahan
David Stone
Joseph Brownlee

I do certify on honor that the officers non commissioned
Officer and privates who appeared on parade in Camp near Kingsbridge New York under my command were bonafide
raised for the defense of the State of Pennsylvania and have engaged in Continental service and receive pay according to the
rank they hold in this Roll

I do also certify on honor that the
three Lieutenants three Sergeants Sixteen private and one
volunteer missing and two privates sick were all effective to the times mentioned opposite to their names
Joseph Erwin Captain
Mustered on the parade in Camp near Kingsbridge New York
Captain Joseph Erwin's Company one Captain One Sergeant on file
and one dam and twenty nine Privates. This muster taken from 1st
August 1776 to fait September following
Ludk  Sprogell M.M.
Pennsylvania
I do certify that the above is a true extract from the original muster roll now on file in this Office
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and the seal of the Security Official Harrisburg
this 7th of June AD 1847
Miller
Secy of the Commonwealth
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For Mr Ramsey.
By reference to the certificate of the record of
Westmorland County of 1786 it will appear that
"Brownlee died and left a female child". Several
of the first affidavit of the case, those of
the Beatty, Leasure, Mchaffy and McDonald are
also credence of this fact; they state that
Brownlee and his wife had two children, one of
them having been killed at the time of the
murder of their father by the indians.
This testimony renders it certain that
there was one child of the first marriage of
the applicant left, who was Jane Brownlee
afetrwards Jane Hukel, and who in the 
declaration is named as one of the children
and in the certificate of the court is also named
The accompanying affidavit of
Wm McNutt states that he knew Jane Brownlee
forty two years ago. Rob't McNutt also states
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Service
Penn 
Brownlee Joseph 
Guthrie Elizabeth former widow
Number
W3245

Contents
See inside an application for pension by widow's husband Wm. Guthrie, Penn. Rev. (It was not filed by that soldier but was forwardede to Pension Bureau in 1847, [illegible] this claim.
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Memorandum for Mr Ramsey

The proof of the marriage of Eliz Guthrie to Capt. Brownlee is supported by the testimony of Sarah, and Jane Beatty, Abraham Leasure, Saml McGaffy, and Joseph McDonald already presented , and by the accompanying affidavit of Sarah Beatty & David Shield, and an extract from the records of the Orphans Court of Westmoreland C.

The testimony of Sarah Beatty, Sam’l McGaffy and Abm Leasure, set forth that the destruction of Hannahstown occurred in July 1782; and that at the time of that event Brownlee, his wife, and their two children were taken by the indians, the former, and their son Killed, the latter and then “surviving child” carried into captivity.

The two old papers already filed signed James and Dalton, show that on the 7th July 1783, Mrs. B— had been residing in Montreal as a captive, and had returned to Westmoreland by Aug 3d 1783.  These dates with the testimony of her sisters, that she was absent upwards of a year will assist to place the occurrence of these events, the murder, and captivity in the summer of 1782.

The certified copy of the petition of Wm. Guthrie addressed to the Orphan Court, November 7. 1786, sets forth that he has had in his care a fimal[sp] child of four years of age, the child of Joseph Brownlee, and his widow Elizabeth with whom he had intermarried.

The age of this child, not recalling months, but counting
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years was from ?about Nov 1786

Four or five of the witnesses say that Brownlee, and his wife had [underlined] two children, [underlined] McDonald says that he knew they had two, [underlined] Leasure says that one was killed with its father, and the surviving child”carried into captivity with its mother. [undelined] the two Beatty also swear that they had two

years was from ?about Nov 1786

Four or five of the witnesses say that Brownlee, and his wife had [underlined] two children, [underlined] McDonald says that he knew they had two, [underlined] Leasure says that one was killed with its father, and the surviving child”carried into captivity with its mother. [undelined] the two Beatty also swear that they had two children , and [underlined] McGaffy gives similar evidence.

The affidavit of Sarah Beatty has been taken over again.  She gives the additional fact that Brownlee when married had come up from the army on a furlough, and after he was married left home to rejoin it., and that the witness in his absence occupied the same house with his wife.  The Justice certifies that the  fullest confidence may be placed on her Statements.

The witness gives dates when they knew they were married, when living as man and wife.

Sarah Beatty Says that they were married in 1777.

Leasure and McGaffy say that they had been married in the spring of 1778.

Shields says he knows that they had been married in the spring of 1779 and were living as man and wife
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Four or five of the witnesses say that they had a Son killed with his father, time of the distraction of Hannahstown who was three or four years of age.

Even without the testimony of the relatives of the applicant there is the most ample evidence to show that the applicant was married before the termination of the service.

The child four years of age 7th Nov 1786, must have been the youngest of the two, no doubt it was more than four years of age— between four and five, for this was the “surviving child” carried into captivity with the applicant in July 1782.  If this child was four years of age in 1786, the other child must have been older, four or five of the witnesses say that the one which was Killed with its father was between three and four years of age.
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M 6973
Elizabeth Guthrie [illegible]
Pa
Let to Hon A Ramsey Aug 17 '47
Let to Ditto Dec 1 '47
Let to same Nov 30 '48 
Act 4 July 1836
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[illegible]
Heny Ness
24 Apr 1849
[illegible] Pa.
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Pension Office, 
August 17th, 1847

Sir, I have the honor to inform you that the [illegible] in the case of Elizabeth Guthrie, [illegible] formerly widow of Joseph Brownlee, have been examined and filed under the [illegible] of 4th July, 1836.
The alleged service of Brownlee in the Pennsylvania Line should be sustained by the records in the Auditor General office of Harrisburg, And his rank as a Lieutenant should be established by the production of his commission or some other record or documentary proof. His name is not found upon the record of the time of that State in this office.
The date of their marriage should be proven by some written evidence, public or private, if such can be obtained. Until it is shown that no such evidence exists, the testimony of individuals cannot be received.
The evidence of the service of Brownlee, and also of the marriage of these parties, is wholly insufficient to authorize the [illegible] of this claim.
I have the honor to be [illegible] respectfully, 
[illegible][illegible][illegible]
J L Edwards

[illegible] Alexander Ramsey, 
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Harrisburg August 2 1847
I. L. Edwards Esq.
[illegible]

I have been requested to enclose you the application of the children of Elizabeth Guthrie of Pennsylvania for a pension under the act of July 4, 1836

Very Respectfully
[illegible]
Alex Ramsey
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We the subscribers do certify that we recieved no more cloathing in the year One thousand seven hundred and seventy eight than what is set opposite our names.
Hatts Coats Waistcoats Breeches Shirts Stocks
Col. Danl. Brodhead 1 1 1 1 4 4
Col. Stephn. Bayard - 1 1 1 4 4
Maj. Fredk. Vernon  1 1 1 1 4 4 
Capt. Mathew Jack - 1 1 1 4 4 
Capt. John Clark - - - 1 2 2
Capt. James Carnahan - 1 1 1 4 4
Capt. Nehemiah Stokely - 1 1 1 4 4
Lieut. Craford - 1 1 1 4 4
Lieut. Finley - 1 1 1 4 4
Capt. John Finley - 1 1 - 2 2
St. Peterson - 1 1 - 4 4
[Endorsed] 8th. Reg. Cloathing 1778 to 1779
Auditor General's Office
Harrisburg 22d. July 1847
I certify the above to be a true extract taken from an original paper, pertaining to the revolutionary war, on file in this department. Witness my hand and seal of the office the day and date aforesaid.
John Purviance
Sec. General
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State of Pennsylvania 
Jefferson County Ss. }

On this Eleventh day of January AD 1848

Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County David Shields who being first duly sworn doth say that in the Revolutionary war he was acquainted with Lieutena[n]t Joseph Brownlee and his wife the late Elizabeth Guthrie.  Said Brownlee during the war lived near Hannah[s]town in Westmoreland County  Deponent also resided near said town. He knows that said Brownlee and his said wife Elizabeth had been married and were living as man and wife in the spring of 1779.  Deponent knew Mrs. Brownlee when She was the wife of Capt William Guthrie and also know Joseph & William Guthrie who have applied for the pension due their mother.  they are the children of Said Capt Guthrie and said Elizabeth his wife
David his X mark Shields

B.S. Wesson Justic[e of the] pea[c]e
David Fayed?

I Benjamin S Wesson do certify that the above witness is intilled[sic] to credibility and belief
Benjamin S Wesson
Justic[e of the] peace
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State of Pennsylvania
Jefferson County}
I John J Thompson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Benj S Wesson before when the forgoing affidavit was executed was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this  twenty eight day of February 1848.
John J. Y. Thompson Proth.
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[illegible]
Elizabeth Guthrie {illegible] Pa
Saml. A. Ramsey
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Harrisburg Oct 14,  1847
Sir
I am requested to forward you the enclosed additional evidence in the case of Elizabeth Guthrie formerly the widow of Joseph Brownlee of Pennsylvania.
Very Respectfully
Your obt. Ser.
Alex Ramsey
J L Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
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Coll: Stewarts
Officers out

Lancaster County
Lt. Benj Carpenter
Lt. David Zeigler
Capt. Bull

Westmoreland
Fran Moore Capt.
Jos. Carnichan Capt.
Jos Brownly  Lt.

Endorsed 
1778 February 14th
List of Officers  sent
on the Recruiting Service
Pennsylvania Pa:
I do Certify that the above are true extracts from an original paper now on file in this Office.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand the the Seal of the Secretary's Office at Harrisburg this 2nd of October AD 1844
J Miller
Secretary of the Common th
( Seal)
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Accounts for supplies and for service in the Militia under Colo. Pomeroy and Harrison, authenticated since last report with names of claimants estates etc,
Brownlees Est.{ Elizabeth Brownlee widow of Joseph- Lieut. 8th Regt. Capt. of militia in 1780--militia service only, to be settled here. 1 month and 3 days under Pomeroy.
David Shorley-[illegible] lost- Sandusky expedition, balance for militia service in 1781 and flour-service and flour do.
Shannons est{ Elizabeth Shannon widow of Capt. Samuel Shannon various services and tours in militia from 1777 Service entire 
Westmoreland County Feby. 1784
Danl. Robertsand L.S.
Auditor General's office
Harrisburg 14th Septr. 1847}
I certify the above to be a true extract, taken from an original on file in this department, pertaining to the Revoluntionary War.
Witness my hand and seaal of Office the day and date aforesaid.
J.W. Hammond for
John N. Purviance
said Seal
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The following as an arrangement of the officers of the Pennsylvania State Regiment which took place the 18th of April 1777-Philadia 20th June 1777-
Lewis Farmer Esq. Lt. Col.
John Murry first Major
Francis Murry second Do

Captains
Patrick Anderson
John Marshall
Mathew Scott
James Francis Moore
John Clark
James Carnahan

First Lieutenants
Joseph Finley
Thomas Boyd
Joseph Brownlee
Jacob Snider
William Moore
Jacob Metz

Auditor General's Office
Harrisburg 14th Septem. 1847}
I certify the above to be a true extract, taken from an original paper on file in this department, pertaining to the revolutionary war. Witness my hand and seal of office the day and date aforesaid
J.W. Hammond for John N. Purvianceand sent
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A muster roll of Capt. Mathew Scotts Company of the Pennsylvania
State Regiment Commanded by Major Lewis Farmer Esqr.
for April A.D. 1777.
| Capt. Mathew Scott Esq. | Remarks | No. of Men. | Lieuts. Joseph Brownlee Wm. McCracken. | Remarks | Ensign Robert Gregg
8th May 1777 -
Mustered then on the parade on Fort Island. Capt. Mathew Scott's
Compy. One Capt. two lieutenants, one Ensign five Sergeants, one
Drum one fife and thirty seven men also allowing four private
sick and three on Furlough to be effective, they being Certified
this muster taken from the 1st. of March 1777. To the 1. of May following.
Lodk. Sprogell Cong. Genl.
of Musters.
Auditor General's Office
Harrisburg 14th Septem 1847.
I certify the above to be a true extract taken from
an original paper on file in this department,
pertaining to the Revolutionary war: Witness my
hand and seal of office the day & date aforesaid.
Jn. W. Hammond for
John N. Purviance
Aud Genl
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Point Pleasant, near Amboy
July 27th 1776.
Gentlemen
Inclosed is a resignation of one of our officers which I have
taken the liberty to accept of in behalf of the Committee of Safety and have
dismissed the gentleman from the service. There are now several vacancies
in the three Batallions which I wish to see filled as soon as possible. Viz:
Edward Thompson appointed 1st Lieutenant and John Perrin appoint 2d
Lieut. have never accepted their appointments and William Barnit 3d Lieut
hath resigned. I will recommend the supplying of these vacancies: John
Carpenter now a 2d Lieut. to be promoted. Thos. Boyd and David Sloan
both be promoted to 2d Lieut. Joseph Brownlee, James Holmes and
John McGowan to be Lieuts. Mr. Brownlee and Mr. Holmes have done
duty as 3d Lieuts. ever since the companies to which they belong were
raised. & I think it will be doing them no more than common justice,
their commissions are dated sometime in April last. There is a new
Ensigncy vacant in the musketry and at the request of Col. Atlee I
now recommend Mr. Davis to supply said vacancy, he is brother to Dr.
Davis of the first Batallion of riflemen.
I am gentlemen; Your most
obdt. Humble Servt.
Saml. Miles Col.
of the Penna. Rifle Regt.
To the Honble Committee of
Safety for Pennsylvania.
Auditor General's Office
Harrisburg July 22d. 1847.
I certify the above to be a true extract, taken from
an original paper on file in this department, 
pertaining to the revolutionary war.
Witness my hand and seal of office the
day and date aforesaid
John N. Purviance
Aud Genl
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The following officers have become supernumerary and resigned (in addition to those already reported) since first September last
Capt Mathew Jack
Capt Nehemiah Stokely
Lt. Joseph Brownlee

To Col. Brodhead
Fort Pitt
July 1st 1779
__________________
Auditor General's office}
Harrisburg 14 Sept. 1847.}
I certify the above to be a true extract, taken
from an original paper on file in this office
pertaining to the revolutionary war. Witness
my hand and seal of office the day and date
aforesaid
Jn. W. Hammond for
John N. Purviance
Aud Genl
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To the Honbile Council of Safety
Gentlemen:-
This is to inform that I served in Col Miles, Rifle Regt. as Third Lieutenant and there being vacancys now in the said regiment of First
Lieutenants I offer myself for said office which favour if you confer on me I shall discharge my duty with the greatest care and dilligence and and with the greatest esteem
Yours to come
Jos. Brownlee
Dec. 30 1776.

Auditor General's office}
Hamburg 6 June 1848.}
I certify the above to be a true copy of the
original paper on file in this office, pertaining
to the revolutionary war. Witness my hand
and seal of office the day and date aforesaid ┃
Jno. M. Hammond for
John N. Purviance

And Genl
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I certify that the following Militia companies of Westmoreland were paid by the Dep. P.M. for guarding the continental stores to Ft. Pitt and Kittanning in May 1782 and that the pay
Master is entitled to the credits.

* Capt. Truby 1Lt. 21 non com? privates Col Perry
* Capt. Joseph Brownlee 1Lt 23 Do 
* Lt. Thomas Smith 15 Do Do Col Pomroys  Sutton

Paid at Hannastown #
  "      " Ligonier +    May 13th 1783
                                 Abraham Marshall
                                 Act Deploy L.

Auditor General's office}
Harrisburg 6th June 1848}
I certify the above to be a true copy of an original on file in this office pertaining to the Revolutionary War. Witness my hand and seal
of office the day and date aforesaid.
Jno. W. Hammond for
John N. Purviance
And. Genl
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Harrisburg July 20, 1848
Sir
I have been requested to enclose
you additional evidence in the
care of Elizabeth Guthrie of
Pennsylvania under the act of
July 4, 1836
Alex. Ramsey

J. L. Edward Esq
Comm Pension
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Pension Office,
November 30th, 1848.
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that the
additinal evidence in the case of Elizabeth Guthrie,
decd. formerly widow of Joseph Brownlee, is satisfactory
to shew that they were married prior to
the termination of her husbands service. But before
a certificate can issue to her children,
the date of her death should be established
by the affidavit of the Coffin maker
or Minister, who officiated at her funeral
or the Physician who attended her in her last
illness. The names and places of residence
of all her children should be also shewn
by the affidavits of Credible witnesses,
who are personally acquainted with
her family.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
Hon. Alexander Ramsey,
Member of Congress,
Present.
J. G. Berret
for Comm. of Pensions.
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Harrisburg Apr 22/49
Dear Sir,
As I shall leave my present abode with the view of opening the duties of my late appointment I will be happy to have you direct your future correspondence in the case of the application of the children of Elizabeth Guthrie of Penn. family widow of Mr. Brownlee a revolutionary officer under the act of July 4, 1836 to the Hon. Simon Cameron, Middletown, Pa.
The purpose in reply to your last communication were filed in May last.
Very respectfully
(illegible). Alex Ramsy
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. Pensions
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York Pa Nov 9/49
Sir
Will you have the goodness to inform me what amount pr annum was paid to Elizabeth Guthrie of Pennsylvania formerly the widow of Joseph Brownlee an officer in the Revolutionary war or the amount allowed his children I Shall be obliged for an early reply
Very Respectfully
Henry Nes

J L. Edwards Esqr
Washington
D. C
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Pension Office
November 12th 1849
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 7th inst: I have the honor to inform you that Elizabeth
Guthrie, Widow of Joseph Brownlee, was
inscribed on the pension roll at $327,,02,
per annum, commencing on the 4th March
1831 and ending August 12th,1842, when she
died__

I have one honor to be
Your Obt. Servt.
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions__

Honu. Henry Nes
York Pa__
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Washington January 22 1850
Sir
It was my intention to call upon you this morning but having just returned from Penna. I find myself too indisposed to leave my room except to attend to my duties at the capital. 
When Gov. Ramsey was a member of the house he filed the enclosed application.  After Gov. R. left for the (elligible) the case was decided and the certificate sent to me at York on the 24th of April last.  So Gov. R. was informed by you when he called upon you last week and when the endorsement (illegible) was made upon the enclosed.
If the case has been decided, I never received the certificate.  If it was directed to me it never reached me either here at York, nor did the person in whose favor it was (illegible) receive it up to the last of December.  As the certificate has no doubt been, I would suggest that a new one be (illegible), could not this be done, if a cancellation of the one sent
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Penn 
Brownlee Joseph
Guthrie Elizabeth former widow
W3245
contents
See inside an application for pension by widow's husband Wm. Guthrie, Penn. Rev.
It was not filed by that soldier but was forwarded to Pension Bureau in 1847, with this claim.
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Washington Jany 26. 1850
In the beginning of the week I wrote to you 
enclosing one of your letters to the Hon A Ramsey relative to the application of Mrs Guthries children, the final papers of which you informed Mr. Ramsey had been sent to me in april last. My letter stated, that I had not received them, and suggested that a new certificate be issued containing a cancellation of the old one that appecants up to the latter end of December had not received it. Mr Ramsey has left the matter in my hands. I intend to leave the city in a day or two. As the case has been several years before the office and once finally decided I shall be glad to hear from you at once.
Very respectfully Yours
Henry Nes

To
J L Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
Page 82

January 16th 1792
Received of Capt William Guthrey all Dues &
Demands from the beginning of the world to
this day I say received by Me
John Cooper
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I Justice as aforesaid do certify that Sarah Beaty
before named is a person of credibility & belief
I having been acquainted with her for a number of years
John Boyd

State of Pennsylvania}
Armstrong County Set}
I. J.E. Meredith Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for said County, do certify that John Boyd Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same, an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County and that his signature thereto is genuine and in his proper hand writing
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Kittanning the 26th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty seven.
J.E Meredith O.Sec
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State of Pennsylvania
Clarion County, ss 
On the Sixteenth day of January 1849 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared William McNutt who being duly sworn according to law doth Depose and Say that he is personally acquainted with the family of Elizabeth Guthrie deceased formerly of Clarion County, Pennsylvania in her lifetime the wife and widow of Captain William Guthrie that the names and places of residence of her children are as follows four of them living in this Section of Pennsylvania, Joseph B Guthrie and William Guthrie both living in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, James Guthrie and Joanna Guthrie Both living in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania Jane Brownlee [illegible] known to this deponent about forty two years ago and not since.  The above are all the children of said Elizabeth. 
(signature) William Mc Nutt
Sworn and subscribed before me this 16th day of January 1849 
William Divins P.P.
I do certify that the above witness is entitled to credibility and belief.
(signature) William Divins
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State of Pennsylvania
Clarin County SS
On the eighteenth day of January 1847 Personally appeared before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace he and forsaid county James H. Barnett who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he hauled the coffin for Elizabeth Guthrie formerly of Clarien County, Pennsylvania and officiated at her burial and saw her buried on the 12th day of February, 1842 and from the best information I believe. William and Joseph B. Guthrie to be the children of Elizabeth Guthrie deceased 
Sworn and subscribed before me this day January 1847 James H. Barnett
William Divins PP }
I, Justice as aforementioned said do certify that James H. Barnet is entitled to credibility and belief
William Divins
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State of Pennsylvania
Clarion Count  ss
Before me P. H. Hoffman one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Clarion Personly appeared George Hawk of Armstrong Co who being duly sworn according to law doth Depose and Say that he was at Captain William Guthries funeral and did hull him to the grave yard in the Spring of [illegible] who was killed from a fall off a wagon and further saith not. 
(signature) George his X mark Hawk
Sworn and Subscribed before me January 19th [illegible]
P. H. Hoffman
State of Pennsylvania
Clarion County ss
Before me P. H. Hoffman one of the justices of the peace in and for the County of Clarion Personly appeared John Himes of Clarion County who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he maid Elizabeth Gutherys coffin February 12th AD 1842 the wife of Captain William Guthery dec'd 
And further saith not
(signature) John Himes
Sworn and Subscribed before me January 19th [illegible]
P. H. Hoffman 
I do certify that the above witneses is intitled to credibility and belief 
(signature) P. H. Hoffman Esq
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[circular stamp to the right at the top shows the numbers 1 -12 around the edge of the stamp, an arrow pointing up, and the words "RECEIVED MAR 2 1937 MAIL SUB-DIV then a few illegible words and the number 34] 

Mr. A.D. Hiller, Executive Assistant
to the Administrator,
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Reference BA-JMCS Joseph Browmlee, W.3245
I have yours of the 24th inst. My inquiry was on John Brownlee and you have headed, and used the name of Joseph Brownlee. However; all the information you gave in your letter corresponds to that found in publications, but given as JOHN BROWNLEE.

All of this seems to be of the same man, and I am wondering if error was made in transcription from your records. The State of Pennsylvania has record of pension having been granted to Elizabeth, widow of John Brownlee, and that leads me again to wonder if Joseph and John were one and the same man, but in someway the name of Joseph had been used on National claim. Can you clarify this for me?
Thank you.
Yours very truly,

Edwin B. Graham, Penn'a. State
[handwritten signature of "E.B. Graham"]
Genealogist for the S.A.R.
February 27, 1937
362 South Negley Ave.
Pittsburgh

[on the left side of the letter there is a handwritten comment that starts "No John west" and then there are 5 illegible words to complete the note]
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[circular stamp to the right at the top shows the numbers 1 -12 around the edge of the stamp, an arrow pointing up, and the words "RECEIVED JAN 25 1937 MAIL then a few illegible words and the number 17]

U.S. Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.
Gentleman:
In re; Pension granted
Elizabeth Guthrie,
March 23, 1829.

Elizabeth Guthrie, b. 1755 in Londonderry, Ireland, came to America in 1771 with her father, John Guthrie [Guthrie is underlined by hand]. Married, 1st, Captain Brownlee; married 2nd, Captain Guthrie; granted pension of $60.00 per month on March 23, 1829.

I am assisting descendants in the Guthrie line to establish their Revolutionary War ancestor, and this is the data I have found. I would like all the information you have connected with the granting of pension to the widow in 1829. Most likely mention will be made of her children and any other information connected therewith will be appreciated by the descendants.

Thanking you in advance I am,
Yours very truly,
[hand written signature of E.B.Graham]
Edwin B. Graham, State
Genealogist for the Sons of the American Revolution.

January 23, 1937
362 South Negley Avenue,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Nathan L. Strong
27th Dist. Pennsylvania

J.D. Nolph
Secretary

Committee on Rivers and Harbors

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D.C.

February 28, 1931
William Guthrie,
Revolutionary War soldier.

E.W. Morgan, Actg. Commissioner,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
William Guthrie, of Pennsylvania, is understood to have served with the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Army, 1777, and later was a Captain of the Rangers protecting the frontier. It is stated to me that his wife, Elizabeth, was granted a pension on account of his service in 1829.
Please advise me what your records show concerning this soldier and his family. My correspondent wishes to know if he had a daughter named Jane, and what do the records reveal concerning her.
Thank you for any information you can give me in this case, I remain,
Sincerely Yours,
N L Strong
(stamp Pension A Office U S Mar 2 1931)
Page 90

Nathan L. Strong
27th Dist. Pennsylvania

J.D. Nolph  Secretary

Committee on Rivers and Harbors

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D.C.
March 1, 1924

Re: Lieut. William Guthrie,
Revolutionary War.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Lieut. William Guthrie, who lived at Hannahstown, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, served in the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War, and it is understood that he afterward drew a pension.  His descendants are desirous of obtaining official data in reference to his service.  I shall be pleased if you will have your records searched and advise me  what they show in reference to  this soldier, as to dates of enlistment and discharge, organization in which he served, and names of his children if shown.
Sincerely yours,
N L Strong
NLS/jn
(stamp U.S. Pension Office March 6, 1924)
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1497 Lemon St.
Riverside, Calif.
May (crossed out) June 1 1914

To the Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.
Gentleman:
I would be pleased if I could get the information or record in an application for a pension made by Mrs. Eliz.  Guthrie (formerly Mrs. Brownlee) of Feb. 2, 1829. She was a sister of my great grandfather. Thanking you in advance I am a very truly
W H Robinson
1497 Lemon St
Riverside Calif.
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March 6,, 1931
Hon. N.L. Strong
House of Representatives

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
MCS:MLB

My dear Mr. Strong:
References is made to your letter of February 28. You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 3245, that Joseph Brownlee, a resident of Hannahstown, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, married in 1775, 1776 or 1777 Elizabeth, whose maiden name is not stated.
Joseph Brownlee enlisted in the spring of 1776 as a lieutenant in Captain Joseph Irwin's Company of Riflemen in Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania regiment. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, was exchanged and attached to Colonels Stewart's and Brodhead's Pennsylvania regiments and was stationed at Forts Pitt and Laurens.  Because of an injury in the foot he left the service in 1779 and resided at Hannahstown until July 1782, when the town was destroyed by the Indians and he and his little son, whom he was carrying in his arms, were killed by the Indians at or near Miller's Fort.  His wife, Elizabeth and child, Jane, were captured and taken to Buffalo and Niagara, where the wife was sold to a British office r for $20 and the child for $10 and two gallons of rum.  Elizabeth was then sent as a captive to Montreal, was exchanged and returned with the child to Hannahstown in July, 1783.
Elizabeth Brownlee married in July, 1784, William Guthrie of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  He enlisted in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania in May, 1776 in Captain James McConnel's Pennsylvania Company of the Flying Camp, was in the battles of Trenton and Princeton and was discharged in January, 1777.
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He enlisted in 1780 and served one year as lieutenant in Captain Mathew Jack's company of Pennsylvania rangers, and he served another year as captain of a company of rangers.  He was killed by a fall from a wagon March 10, 1828, at which time he was seventy-three years of age.

Elizabeth, the widow of William Guthrie, died February 11, 1842 in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, at the home of her son, Joseph Brownlee Guthrie, and she was then eighty-seven years of age.

She was survived by the following children:-James, Joanna or Johanna Guthrie who lived in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania and Joseph Brownlee Guthrie and William Guthrie who lived in Clarion County, Pennsylvania.  in 1849 it was stated that Jane (the above noted daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Brownlee) had married Jesse Hukel, and had moved to Muskingum County, Ohio; that the family did not know whether she was then living or dead, as they had not heard from her for eight years.  Said Jane was four years of age in 1786.

On June 25, 1847 the above noted Joseph B. Guthrie applied for pension that was due the surviving children of Elizabeth Guthrie, on account of the Revolutionary War service of Joseph Brownlee, and the claim was allowed.

Pension was never granted by the United States on account of the service of the above noted Revolutionary War soldier, William Guthrie.

Very truly yours
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March 5, 1924.
 Hon. Nathan L. Strong,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Strong.
In response to your letter of the first instant, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.3245, it appears that Elizabeth of Elisabeth, maiden name not stated, married about 1775, 1776 or 1777 Joseph Brownlee, a resident of Hannahstown, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  He enlisted in the spring of 1776 as a Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Irwin's Company of Riflemen, Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania Regiment, was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, afterwards exchanged and was attached to Colonels Stewart and Brodhead's Pennsylvania Regiments & was stationed at Fts Pitt & Laurens.  Because of an injury in the foot he left the service in 1779 and resided at said Hannahstown until
Page 95

March 5, 1924.
Hon. Nathan L. Strong,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Strong.
In response to your letter of the first instant, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.3245, it appears that Elizabeth or Elisabeth, maiden name not stated, married about 1775, 1776 of 1777 Joseph Brownlee, a resident of Hannahstown, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  He enlisted in the spring of 1776 as a Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Irwin's Company of Riflemen, Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania Regiment, was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, afterwards exchanged and was attached to Colonels Stewart and Brodhead's Pennsylvania Regiments and was stationed at Fts Pitt & Laurens.  Because of an injury in the foot he left the service in 1779 and resided at said Hannahstown until July 1782 when the town was destroyed by the Indians who killed Lieutenant Brownlee (death {illegible]) and his little son whom he was carrying in his arms.  His wife, Elizabeth, and another child were captured and taken to Buffalo and Niagara where she was sold to a British officer for twenty dollars and the child for ten dollars and two gallons of rum.  She was then sent as a captive to Montreal, later exchanged and returned
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with the child to Hannahstown in July 1783.
The widow, Elizabeth, married in July 1784, William Guthrie of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  He enlisted in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in May 1776 in Captain James McConnel's Pennsylvania Company of the "Flying Camp," was in the battles of Trenton and Princeton and was discharged in January 1777.  He enlisted in 1780, served one year as a Lieutenant in Captain Mathew Jack's Company of Pennsylvania Rangers and he served one year as Captain of a Company of Rangers.  He was killed by a fall from a wagon March 10, 1828, aged 73 years.
The widow, Elizabeth Guthrie, while residing with a son, Joseph Brownlee Guthrie, in Clarion County, died February 11, 1842, aged 87 years.  In January 1849 the children were:  James and Joanna or Johanna Guthrie, residing in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Joseph Brownlee Guthrie and William Guthrie, both residents of Clarion County, Pennsylvania.  Jane Brownlee who had married Jesse Hukel had removed to Muskingum County, Ohio.  They were allowed the pension due their mother on account of the services of Joseph Brownlee.
Pension was not claimed (added: never granted by U.S.)  on account of the services of William Guthrie.
Sincerely,
Commissioner.
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June 9, 1914.
Mr. W. H. Robinson.
1497 Lemon Street.
Riverside, California.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the first instant, you are advised that from the papers in the claim, Wid. File No. 3.245. Rev. War, it appears that Joseph Brownlee who was residing near Hannastown, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, marched from there in the Spring of 1776 as Lieutenant in Captain Joseph Irwin's Rifle company, Colonel Miles' Battalion Pennsylvania Line, was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, afterwards exchanged and attached to Colonel Stewart's regiment and then to Colonel Brodhead's regiment, and stationed at Forts Pitt and Lawrence. 
After he left the army and when residing near Hannastown in July 1782, the Indians attacked that settlement and while aiding some of the settlers to escape to Fort Miller, soldier was killed by the Indians together with his little son whom he was carrying in his arms.  His wife Elizabeth and another child were captured and taken to Buffalo and Niagara, where she was sold to a British officer for twenty dollars and her child for ten dollars and two gallons of rum.  She was then sent as a captive to Montreal and at the end of seven months was exchanged
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and returned to the ruins of Hannastown after more than a years captivity to find that her home and all her possessions had been destroyed by the Indians. Said Elizabeth was married to Lieut. Joseph Brownlee at Hannastown, Pennsylvania, in 1775. 1776. or 1777. She married July 1784 William Guthrie, a Captain or Rangers. He was killed by falling from a wagon. March 10, 1828, aged seventy-three years. She died February 11, 1842, in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, aged eighty-seven years, leaving the following children: June Brownlee who married Jesse Hukel; James Guthrie; Johanna Guthrie; Joseph B. Guthrie, and William Guthrie. The claim for pension of Elizabeth Guthrie as former widow of Joseph Brownlee, was allowed to her heirs named above.

Very respectfully, 

[Hand written signature]

Commissioner.
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March 12, 1937

Mr. Edwin B. Graham 
362 South Negley Avenue 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Dear Sir: 

Reference is made to your letter of February 27, in which you request verification of the name of Joseph Brownlee, W. 3245, whose record was furnished you February 24, 1937. You state that your inquiry was for the record of John Brownlee, and this office used the given name, Joseph, whose record, however, corresponds with publications you have read of the record of John Brownlee. In your letter of inquiry dated January 23, 1937 the given names of the husbands of Elizabeth were not stated by you - only given as Captain Brownlee and Captain Guthrie. The only record found which seemed applicable to your description were those of Joseph Brownlee and William Guthrie, whose widow Elizabeth, received a pension. This officer's name is recorded all through the papers very distinctly as Joseph Brownlee. This office has no record of the pension of $60.00 per month which, you state, was granted Elizabeth Brownlee, March 23, 1829, as the widow of John Brownlee, nor as the widow of Joseph Brownlee. That pension may have been paid by the State of Pennsylvania and not by the United State, in which instances, the application may be of record in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There is a claim for pension on filre which was made by a John Brownlee, of Pennsylvania, in his own behalf. He did not give the name of his wife, but stated in 1820, that his family consisted of himself and his daughter, unmarried, aged about thirty years. In 1827, he was living with his son in Brooke County, Virginia; had moved to Virginia to live and die with his children. Very truly yours 

A.D. Hiller Executive Assistant to the Administrator