Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28660, John Matthias Brown, New York
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Service: New York
Brown, John Matthias
Number: S. 28660
CONTENTS
b. Nov. 5, 1745, in Ulster Co. N.Y.
res. at enl. & in 1832 Schoharie Co. N.Y.
d. Nov. 1, 1839.
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Left side:
to H.F. Yates May 1843

Payable to George William Brown, Elizabeth Taft, Henry Brown, David Brown, Abraham Brown, Jacob Brown & Severinus Brown, children of John M. Brown, deceased. [the remainder is stricken]

Right side:
31,996
New York
John M. Brown decd.
of Schoharie in the State of N. York,
who was a Lt. & Cap. in the Com[p] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded
by Col. Cox in the N York
line for 2 mo. Lt. $26.66
4 " Capt. 80.00
[=] $106.66

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 106 Dollars 66 Cents per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 & 
ending 1 Nov 1838, the day of his death

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Octr 
1842 and sent to G. F. Yates Esqr. Albany NY 

Arrears to the 4th of March '38   746.62
Semiannual allowance ending 1 Nov. '38  70.02 
[=] 816.64
(See endorsement) 

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by Theodore L. Moody Clerk 
Book E. 2. Vol. 4 Page [corner torn]
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 

State of New York}
County of Schoharie} ss. 
On this 26th day of July 1832, Personally appeared before Henry Shafer a Judge of the court of common Pleas in and for the county of Schoharie and Silvanus Parkinson one of the Justices of the Peace of said County 
John M Brown a Resident of the town of Carlisle, in the County of Schoharie and State of New York Aged nearly Eighty seven years, who, being first duly Sworn according to Law, doth, on his Oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated- 
1st that he was Born in Ulster County in the State of New york the 5th day of Nov 1745 -  will be 87 years of Age the 5th Novr Next 
2nd that he has No Record of his age at present to his knowledge Excepting in his own Bible kept by himself - 
3, that he was living in the County of Schoharrie [sic] ten or twelve years before the War, and have lived in the same place Ever since the War - Not less than Sixty Eight years in this place and on the same farm where he now Resides - the County of Schoharrie or a part of the same at the time of the War was then Called the County of Trion [sic]
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4, that in the year 75 - he Subscribed [?] the Association and at the same time he was Chosen a member of the Committy [sic] of Safety (so Called at that time) of the County of Schoharrie and was Elected Second Lieut in Capt Jacob Millers Company in Col Ebenezer Cox's Regiment, My Commission was signed by Charles Thompson, Secretary and Robert Harper, Clerk, of a Certain Convention, thinks it was Called the New York Convention - took the Oath of Allegiance of Supremacy and Abjuration, together with the Oath of Office - he now Considered himself solemnly Engaged in the Cause of his Country and that he Obeyed the Commands of his superiors while in the service - thinks in the fall of the year 76 the above named Jacob Miller and Peter Sommers his first Lieut. got disaffected Refused to disarm John Johnson (Son of Sir William Johnson), who at that time headed a Company of Indians at Johnstown Now in Montgomery County - and for the above Refusal they were arrested put in Johnstown jail tryed [sic] by a Court Martial found quilty of disobediance of Orders were Broke and discharged from Office and Ordered in the ranks. Says he was now served with a Brevett [sic] Signed by Gen Herkimer, with Orders to take the Command of the Company which, Jacob Miller Capt and Peter Somers 1st Lieut were discharged from by being [Coshuned?] -- Under Which Brevett he served as Captain until Goverment [sic] was formed which he thinks was in the last of the year 76 or first of the year 77 -- then he Recd a Captains Commission under Goverment Signed by George Clinton and Served in Samuel Campbells Regiment, under whoom he served until he Closed his Service which was on the 16th day of Octr 1780 which day and month he well remembers, in Consequence of having Acted as a Spie and did discover St Johns Army when two days march off from Schoharrie, and made the same known in Schoharrie. Was not in the Army after this and that he served in the Army as Captain of the above Company about five [four?] years but Served in all about [five?] years and that no other Commanded the said Company during said time but himself - Saith during the five years of his service ["5 yrs" in margin]
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he marched from Schoharrie to Montgomery to fort Stanwix on the Mohawk River: being at that time about the Circle of Ninety Miles as the Roads were -- Cannot state particular as to parts of his Service But that he Guarded the fort in Schoharrie a part of the time and, at another time was Commanded by Colonel Henry Van Rensselaer - a [lame?] man to guard [from fort?] Dayton at German Flats to Fort Stanwix Publick property and delivered the same to Major Grames who at that time Commanded fort Stanwix, think this was on the 27th day of Nov in the year 79 - thinks in the year 75 or first of 76, he then guarded Genl Schuyler up the Mohawk River to fort Dayton at which time he made a treaty with the Mohawk Indians 

Cannot Remember, the Particular time nor place of many of his Marches, But in General was on the Mohawk as this Place was a frontier and Necessary to be Continually on guard on account of the Indians who at that time were Continually troublesome In this Place. When not at the Mohawk River he was Continually on Guard in Schoharrie Which Place was Also troubled Verry Much by surrounding Indians -- Saith he never happened to be in any Battles, and would not be understood that his Company were always on the march doing service, but some time they were at their Necessary labour with their Guns and Equippage in their fields or where ever their Business led them, and ready at every Alarm By Night and by day, and that he this Applicant was not out of the Service at No time, and is positive he Served More than four years in the Actual Service of the Revolution, in the year 80 moved the other side of Herkimer was then active [illegible] then came back to Schoharrie again. [illegible]

5thly - he says he Cannot tell what has become of his first  Commission and Brevett - the last Commission he served until about five or six years past, and Cannot now tell where it is 

that he the said John M Brown hereby Relinquishes Every Claim Whatsoever to a Pension or Annuity Except the present and he declares his Name is Not on the Pension Roll of any Agency of any State, that he the said John M Brown Says on his Oath that he is Unable to Appear in Court By Reason of his Bodily infirmity, not able walk without help Cannot get in a waggon 

Saith that at any time when he was not in the Service with his Company he was managing the Business of said Committe or in the Service [?] as a spie so as to
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he Continually in the Service Commanding his Company, Serving in said Committe or as a Spie, No time was lost from the time he was first Chosen until the year 1780.
[Signed] J.M. Brown
 Sworn and Subscribed the 26th day of July} 
1832 before me Henry Shafer }
Judge of Schoharie Common Pleas} 
and Silvanus Parkinson Justice of the Peace of said County 

I Henry Shafer a Judge of the court of common Pleas in and for the county of Schoharie; do certify that I has been well accounted [sic] with John M Brown ever Since the american Revolution; that he the Said John M Brown is unable to appear in court by Reason of his bodily infirmity; that the Said John M Brown is a man of credibility and to be believed under oath 
[Signed] Henry Shafer 

State of New York}
Schoharie County} ss. I John Gebhard Jr. Clerk of the said county Do certify that Henry Shafer before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn and also whose name appears to the preceding certificate was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the Said county -- and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the Said affidavit and certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature 
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this twelfth day of September 1832.
[SEAL]
[Signed] John Gebhard Jr. Clk.
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State of New York} 
County of  Schoharie}

John M Brown of Carlisle Being duly Sworn deposeth and saith that in the year 1775 ["1775" noted in margin] he was Chosen one of the Committee of Safety in County of Tryon and that he was Second Leut. in a Company Commanded by Jacob Miller Capt. and Peter Sommer first Leut. in Col Ebenezer Cox's Regt in the Militia of the State of New York and in the line of said State and about the first of July he Commanded the said Company as Capt to guard Genl Schuyler up the Mohawk River for the Purpose of Making a Treaty with the Six Nations (Indians) the above mentioned Jacob Miller and Peter Sommer were not true to their [trust?] from the Verry [sic] Commencement of the War, And in the [Result?] in the year 1776 ["1776" noted in margin] Proved to be tories, was tried at Johnstown by a Court Marshall [sic], and found guilty of Disobedience of Orders because they Refused Openly to Assist Genl Schuyler to Disarm Sir John Johnson and his tories in that year, they Imediately [sic] Fled to Canada -- When guarding Genl Schuyler up the Mohawk he was gone about two months before he Returned, Commanding his Company and [Using?] Means as one of Said Committe to Reconcile the Tories and Indians And about the first of July and Returned about first Sept was ordered this time by Gen Schuyler and discharged by his Orders ["1775 July - 9 Months" in margin]

["1776" in margin] In April the first in 1776 Saith he was Ordered to take the Command of the fort in Schoharrie [sic] (or one of the forts) under Col Vrooman which he did do and then Continued during Six months as Capt. - Without out a proper Commission Except by Order of his Col. until after Genl Schuyler Disarmed Sir John Johnson and was then Served with a Brevett [sic] Signed by Genl Herkimer as he has testified in his Application - Was discharged by Col Vrooman Served Six Month ["month 6" in margin]

["1777 April" in margin] the first of April 1777 was Ordered to take the Command the same fort by Commd of Col Vrooman, and did so -  Continue for the term of three Months, and was then discharged by Col Vrooman, and was Imediately [sic] called on by Col Campbell
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and Was placed at fort Herkimer and fort Schuyler and fort Plank [&c?] and there Continued until about the first of Nov was then discharged by Col Campbell Served in there [illegible] Seven Months ["1777 Months 7" in margin]

["1778" in margin] In July about the first 1778 was Called upon by Col Campbell and was Placed at fort Plain and fort Plank and at other forts near them for three months, was then discharged by Col Campbell ["month 3" in margin]

["1779" in margin] Was about the first of April 1779 Called again by Col Clyde was placed at ft Plain and Other forts in that Section during three months was then discharged by his Col Served this time three months ["months 3" in margin]

["1779" in margin] In the fall about Last of Oct was Called upon by Col Vrooman was placed building a fort in Cobleskill which occupied two months, was then discharged by his Col. ["months 2" in margin]

["1780" in margin] about the first of April in 1780 was Called on by Col Vrooman, was placed in Cobleskill at the fort which was built the Last fall and there Continued 2 months was then discharged by his Col. - Was at all times discharged by Word, does not Recollect Other times of Service ["month 2" in margin]

Saith that in the year 76 when Capt. Miller and Summers fled to Canada more than twenty Persons, Tories went With them -- And Recollects that at the same time, he was Called upon as a Member of Court Martial and that he with the others had to try 27 of his Own Company, part of them for disobediance of Orders and as tories, And that his time was Occupied in Other Respects Continually as a Spye and as one of the Committe as has been Stated in his Application 
And further Saith that Notwithstanding the dates of two Commissions as they Appear on the Annexed transcript he makes Oath that he did Serve said Company as
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as one of the Committe as has been Stated in his Application 
And further Saith that Notwithstanding the dates of two Commissions as they Appear on the Annexed transcript he makes Oath that he did Serve said Company as
as their Capt from some time in 1778 by a brevett [sic] and he received his Commission signed by his Excellency George Clinton, and Verily believes he had his last Commission nearly two years before the date as it appears on said transcript - And further Saith that no other person Commanded his said Company as Capt. but himself during four years (as he has Already testified in his Application he believes) And further he Repeats other words which is that he was Second Leut. in Jacob Millers Company under Col Cox in 1775 and before Even under the Kings Command -- Saith above statements are true according to the best of his Present Recollection. And lastly that he Served Not less than two years as Capt in the Militia of this State and for Such Service he Claims a Pension
[Signed] J.M. Brown
Subscribed and sworn before me 
the 13th day of Nov 1833 
[Signed] Silvanus Parkinson Justice

State of New York 
County of Schoharrie ss. 
I, John Gebhard Jur. Clerk of the said County Certify that Silvanus Parkinson Esqr whose name appears to the above Affidavit was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. I am Acquainted with the hand writing of the Said Justice and Verrily believe his name Subscribed to the above Affidavit is his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Affixed the Seal of Said County and of my Said Office the 14th day of Nov 1833 
[SEAL]
[Signed] John Gebhard Jr.   Clerk
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At a meeting of the Council of Appointment held at Poughkeepsie 
the 25th June 1778 
Present ut supra 
       Resolved that Samuel Campbell Esquire be Colonel of the Regiment of Militia in the county of Tryon heretofore commanded by Ebenezer Cox deceased and that Samuel Clyde Esquire be Lieutenant Colonel:
       That Mathias Brown be Second Lieutenant of Captain Jacob Miller's Company of Militia and Jacob Haines Ensign of the said Company. 

"At a Council of Appointment held at the Senate Chamber in the City of Albany the fourth day of March 1780 
Present 
His Excellency George Clinton Esq. &c President 
The Honble {Levi Pawling, Rynier Mynderse, Alexander Webster} Esqrs. Members
        Resolved that Peter S. Deygart Esquire be a Major in the Regiment of Militia in the County of Tryon commanded by Colonel Campbell. 
        That Mathias Brown be Captain of the [beat?] heretofore commanded by Jacob Miller deserted to the Enemy: Jacob Hains first Lieutenant vice Peter Sumner deserted to the Enemy; Coenradt Brown Second Lieutenant vice Mathias Brown promoted; Jeremiah Young Ensign vice Jacob Hains promoted 

State of New York}
Secretary's Office}  I certify the preceding to be true Extracts from the minutes of the Council of Appointment of this State and that Commissions were issued to the Officers above named.
Given under my hand and the Seal of this office at the City of Albany the 16th day of October A.D. 1833. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Archd. Campbell 
Dep. Secretary
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See on the back of his Commission which is Annexed to his Application - you will then Learn he was Called by different Name yet the Same Person
[SEAL]

Omit [?]
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Whereas my late father John Matthias Brown during his life time was engaged in the prosecution of a claim for a pension under the act of 7th June 1832, as a Lieutenant & Captain in the army of the Revolution for services rendered by him in those capacities during the years 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780 &c and since his decease the said claim has been prosecuted by us; and whereas we urged, and our said father through his agent, urged the allowance of said Claim for more than twelve months services as aforesaid, and such an amount of service has not and cannot be established as we have been advised & believe. Now therefore we hereby agree to limit our claim to six months services as Lieutenant & Captain, to wit to two months service as Lieutenant & four months service as captain, making in all six months services. Witness our hands this 8th day of September 1842.
[Signed] Severius Brown
in his own behalf and in behalf of the other children of said deceased, and as Administrator &c of said deceased. 

On this 8th day of September 1842, personally appeared before me Severius Brown above named to me well known & made oath, that the facts set forth in the above paper by him signed are true & he acknowledged that he had [illegible] the same as his act & Deed. Witness my hand the day & year last aforesaid 
[Signed] John Osterhout Justice 

Schoharie County}
Clerk's office} ss. 
I Thomas McArthur Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that John Osterhout Esq before whom the preceding paper has been sworn & acknowledged was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly elected & qualified; & that his signature to said paper or the certificate thereto annexed is genuine. 
Witness my hand & official seal this 9' day of September 1842. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Thos McArthur Clerk
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Payment to be made 
at [blank]
by [blank]
Agent for paying Pensioners
 in the Agency of [blank]

Recorded in the Pension Office,
 in Book [blank] Vol. [blank]
Page [blank] by [blank] Clerk.
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Omit [?]

WAR DEPARTMENT. 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. 
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, John Matthias Brown decd of New York State who was a Lieut & Cap in the Revolution was entitled to receive One hundred & Six dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831,but having died on the 1 day of Nov 1838 the amount due up to that date is pay'l to Geo. Wm. Brown, Elizabeth Taft, Henry Brown, David Brown, Abraham Brown, Jacob Brown, Severius Brown children of said John M Brown deceased.

Given at the War Office of the United States this [blank] day of [blank] one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
[unsigned]
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.}
[unsigned]
Commissioner of Pensions.
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No 18187 
John M Brown Schoharie County 
New York 

admd 
e.i.
2 mo. Lt. 	26.66 
4. -     Capt 	80--
[=] $106.66 
d. 1 Nov 38
from 4 March '31 to  1 Nov. 38 the 
day of his death to George William Bown,
Elizabeth Taft, Henry Brown, David Brown, 
Abraham Brown, Jacob Brown & Severinus Brown 
children of John M. Brown decd 

Giles F. Yates 
Albany N.Y.
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Omit [?]

WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Pension Office, 
183

Sir: 
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, shewing the Service of John M Brown Schoharie County New York
Period when the services were rendered | Duration of the claimant's services (Y-M-D) | Rank of claimant | Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served | Names and Rank of the General and Field officers | Battles in which the applicant was engaged | Country through which he marched | Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period | Evidence by which the declaration is supported

The applicant States that he has been in the United States service as a soldier from 1775 up to 1780 | 5 Y | Captain | Capt. Miller | Genl Herkimer, Col. Cox, Col. Campbell, Col. Van Rensselaer | [battles- blank] | Marched from Schoharie to Montgomery to Fort Stanwix on Mohawk River to German Flats, guarded Genl Schuyler up the Mohawk River to Fort Dayton | 87 years, Schoharie County New York | traditionary, and living witnesses certified credible - documentary, Clergymans certificate &c papers not properly attached

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
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Omit [?]
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
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Omit [?]
Page 2 of REGULATIONS UNDER ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
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March 4, 1937 
John Matthias Brown 
S. 28660 
BA-J/AWF [initials "ow"]

Miss Mildred Ainsley 
c/o Petroph and Jacobs, Inc. 
1410 Broadway 
New York City 

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of "Judge" John Mathias Brown of Schoharie, New York. 

The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 28660, based upon the service of John Matthias Brown in the Revolutionary War. 

John Matthias Brown was born November 5, 1745 [?] in Ulster County, New York. The names of his parents were not given. He stated that he was christened John Matthias Brown, but during the Revolution was known as Matthias Brown. 

While a resident of Rhinebeck, Tryon County, later called Carlisle, Schoharie County, New York, he was a member in 1775 of the Committee of Safety, was elected 2nd Lieutenant in Captain Jacob Miller's company in Colonel Ebenezer Cox's New York regiment, shortly afterwards was a brevet captain until early in 1777, when he was appointed Captain and continued to serve at various times in Colonels Samuel Campbell's, Peter Vrooman's, Samuel Clyde's New York regiments until October 16, 1780. During this service he was a guard to General Schuyler up the Mohawk River, when he made the treaty with "the Six Nations", was stationed much of the time in "the Stone Fort" in Schoharie, and was out in frequent alarms against the
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Indians, length of service about two years. 
[note in margin: "add next time his appointment as Capt., Mont Co. NY Mil. 1786"

Pension was allowed on his application executed July 26, 1832, then a resident of Carlisle, Schoharie County, New York. 

John Matthias Brown was Judge of Common Pleas of Schoharie County, New York for several years after the Revolution. He died November 1, 1838 or 1839 in Carlisle, New York. 

The following children were referred to in 1842 -- George William Brown of Vienna, Oneida County, New York; Elizabeth Taft of Lisle, Chenango County, New York; Henry Brown of Seward, Schoharie County, New York; David Brown of Carlisle, New York; Abraham Brown of Carlisle, New York; Jacob Brown of Carlisle, New York; Severinus Brown of Carlisle, New York. 

Reference was made in 1832 to grandchildren and nephews of the above noted John Matthias Brown; no names were given, nor are there any data relative to his wife. 

Very truly yours
 A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator 

[note at bottom: "next time add - One Conradt (Conrad) Brown was 2" Lt during Rev - no relationship]
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[Not sure on any of this]

341 
2300/50

311
19-50
3.30-.50

Capt. Comssn


These Comissions 
Close A Thiket [?]
No. 4150
Lottery N[Y?] 

1050
1810
2/16
30
7-600
376
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THE PEOPLE of the State of NEW YORK,
BY THE GRACE of GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT; 
To Matthew Brown Esquire Greeting 
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence, as well in your Patriotism, Conduct and Loyalty, as in your Valour and Readiness to do us good and faithful Service; HAVE appointed and constituted, and by these Presents, DO appoint and constitute you the said Matthew Brown Captain No 2. of a Company in the Regiment of Militia in the County of Montgomery whereof James Cannon Esquire is Lieutenant Colonel Commandant 
YOU are therefore, to take the said Company into your Charge and Care, as Captain thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Company in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as their Captain and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, as you shall from Time to Time receive from our General and Commander in Chief of the Militia of our said State, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you; and for so doing, this shall be Your Commission, for and during our good Pleasure, to be signified by our Council of Appointment. IN TESTIMONY whereof, we have caused our Seal for Military Commissions to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS our Trusty and Well-beloved GEORGE CLINTON, Esquire, our Governor of our State of New- York, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with the Advice and Consent of our said Council of Appointment, at our City of New-York, the Second Day of October in the Year of our LORD, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty six and in the Eleventh Year of our INDEPENDENCE. 
Passed the Secretary's Office, 23 October 1786 
[Signed] Lewis A: Scott. SECRETARY
[SEAL]
[Signed] Geo: Clinton
28660
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State of New York} 
County of Schoharie} ss. John M Brown the within Aplicant Being Sworn Saith that he is the same person the within Commission as Capt was given to and that he Received a Number of [illegible] Commissions In [illegible] of the Revolutionary War, and Since and that he was Sometimes Called John M Brown other times Matthias Brown other times Matthew Brown and Sometimes John Brown, and that he was a Judge of Schoharie County Common Pleas about [illegible] years since the Revolution and then went by Hon John M Brown when he was Justice [&?] Judge
[Signed] JM Brown

Sworn And Subscribed
this 27 Sept 1832 
before Me Silvanus Parkinson
[SEAL]

Your Honor will notice the object of Sending this is that you may be satisfied that his Reputation As [illegible] American has been good at the date of this Commission It discovers he Never Was a Tory. If he had been he would Not had this So Soon after Peace 
the within Aplication has been delayed a Number weeks for the purpose of Making Search for his Commission which he thinks he gave to one of his Grand Children or Nephews. Search has been made but Cannot find it
Be good enough to Send your Answer to My Name At [illegible] Schoharie County New York - I believe he the Aplicant Served as he States
[Signed] Silvanus Parkinson

State of New York 
County of Schoharie ss.  I John Gebhard Jr. Clerk of the said County Do certify that Henry Shafer before whom the annexed declaration purports to have been sworn, and whose name also appears to the certificate of credibility was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the Said county; and also that Silvanus Parkinson before whom the six annexed affidavits purport to have been sworn and whose name also appears to the certificates of credibility was at the dates of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for Said county; And further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the Said Judge and Justice of the Peace [obscured by SEAL] and verily believe their names subscribed to the said affidavits and certificates of credibility to be their respective proper hand writing and signatures. Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 29th day of May 1833
[SEAL]
[Signed] John Gebhard Jr. Clerk
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I Henry A Raymond, Clergyman, of the town of Cobleskill hereby Certify that I am Verry well Acquainted with John M Brown who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration - that I Believe him to be nearly Eighty seven years of age - that he is Reputed and believed in the Neighbourhood where he Resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and Captain of a Company of Militia. I Also believe the above Declaration Sworn to by him is true. I further Certify he is a Member of My Church and in good standing 
[Signed] Henry A Raymond
Sworn to, and Subscribed, this 26th of July 1832
before me, Silvanus Parkinson Justice 
I Silvanus Parkinson Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Schoharie, do Certify that Henry A Raymond is a Clergyman in the town of Cobleskill and that he signed the above himself and made oath to the same 
[Signed] Silvanus Parkinson 

I Jeremiah Young of the town of Sharon County of Schoharie Certify that I am Seventy Seven years of age was Acquainted with John M. Brown, who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above Declaration Before the war In the war and to the present date - and that after Jacob Miller Capt. was Broke of office and put in the Ranks I know the said John M Brown Served as Capt of the same Company a number of years, and that he was a part of the time a Capt under the Command of Genl Herkimer and under Samuel Campbell - I Believe him to be about Eighty Seven years of age, that he is Reputed and believed in the Neighbourhood where he lives to have Been a Captain, and in the Service of the Revolution, I also believe the above Declaration Sworn to and Subscribed by him is true I further State I was a Lieutenant under him at the same time and further that his Character as to truth and Veracity is Good and Also that he is a member of Henry A Raymonds Church.
Jeremiah (X his mark) Young
I John Angle do Certify to the same as Jeremiah Young Except I was an Officer.
John (X his mark) Angle 

I Silvanus Parkinson Justice of the Peace in for the County of Schoharie, do Certify that Jeremiah Young and John Angle Subscribed their names by their Mark and Made Oaths before me to the same as is above state. And also they are Men of truth and Veracity and in good standing, dated this 26 July 1832  [Signed] Silvanus Parkinson
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I William Ferris (of the town of Carlisle in the County of Schoharie) hereby Certify that I am Sixty Six years old, that I have lived in the town of Carlisle thirty Six years a Neighbor to John M Brown, that I am well Acquainted with him. I believe him to be Nearly Eighty Seven years of age, that he is Reputed and believed in the Neighbourhood where he Resides, to have been a Captain of a Company in the Militia in the Revolution, and I Concur in that opinion, he is also a man of truth and Veracity Generally understood, and the above declaration which he has sworn to I believe to be true. I have never heard any thing to the Contrary But has Generally been Reported that he Served in the Revolution in the Manner he has Stated 
[Signed] William Ferris 
I Silvanus Parkinson Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Schoharie do Certify that William Ferris Subscribed his name and made oath to the above before me and Also, I know him to be a man of truth and Veracity and in good standing, dated July 24, 1832  
[Signed] Silvanus Parkinson

I John A Strobeck of the town of Sharon in the County of Schoharie hereby Certify that I am Sixty Eight years of Age and have been Acquainted with John M Brown who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration forty seven years and that I believe him to be Nearly Eighty Seven years old, that he is Reputed and believed in the Neighbourhood where he Resides to have been a Captain of the Militia of the Revolution and that I Concur in that Opinion, and Also he is a Man of truth and Veracity, and Bears that Character in General throughout the County of Schoharie. I Also Verrily believe the Declaration above Sworn to by him. I further say, My father was a Soldier under his Command in the Revolution so I understood at that time by My father 
[Signed] John Adam Strobeck
I Silvanus Parkinson Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Schoharie do Certify that John A Strobeck Subscribed his Name and Made Oath to the above before me, and that he is Genrally believe to be a man of truth and Veracity dated July 26th 1832
[Signed] Silvanus Parkinson
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I William Beckman First Judge of the County of Schoharie Certify, that I have Been Acquainted with John M Brown who has Subscribed and Made Oath to the Within Declaration about forty years, and that he is a man of Credibility and Entitled to full belief when Under Oath and I Believe the within Declaration Sworn to by him is true. dated this 4 day of September 1832 
[Signed]  William Beckman 

State of New York}
Schoharie County ss.}  I John Gebhard Jr. Clerk of the Said county Do certify that Silvanus Parkinson before whom the four preceding affidavits purport to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the Said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the Said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature. I am also acquainted with William Beckman whose name appears to the preceding certificate, he is first Judge of the said County and his signature above subscribed is genuine. Witness my hand and seal of Office this 12th September 1832.
[SEAL]
[Signed] John Gebhard Jr. Clerk
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State of New York} 
County of Schoharie} ss.
Peter Becker Jun. a Resident of the town of Carlisle County and State aforesaid Aged 54 years being duly Sworn Deposeth and Saith the within named John M Brown Aplicant is not able to appear in Court being about 12-14 miles by Reason of Lameness in Both of his knees which Deprives him of their proper use. When he Steps he has two staffs and must be lifted in a waggon as a Child. 
[Signed] Peter Becker Jun.
Sworn and Subscribed Before me
[Signed] Silvanus Parkinson Oct 6th 1832 
I certify that Peter Becker Jun. is a man of truth and Veracity fullest Credit is due his oath [Signed] Silvanus Parkinson

State of New York}
Schoharie County ss.}
I John Gebhard Jr. Clerk of the said county Do certify that Silvanus Parkinson before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the Said county and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the Said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature - Witness my hand and seal of office this 6th October 1832. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] John Gebhard Jr. Clk.
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State of New York} 
County of Schoharie} ss. 
John Duesler a Resident of the town of Danube in the County of Herkimer State aforesaid Aged 75 years Being duly Sworn Deposeth and Saith he was Acquanted with John M Brown who has Subscribed and made Oath to the above Declaration - in time of the Revolutionary War. And Recollects he was a Captain in the Militia, and further saith he was a private Soldier under him at different times and places from about April or May in the year 1776 until the year '80 And Recollects the said Capt John M Brown Guarded Genl Schuyler up the Mohawk River, to make a Treaty with the Indians. Recollects at another time he guarded Boats up said River, Recollects Also that he was in the Service as a Capt. About the Mohawk River and at or near Herkimer County and other places East of there, Every year Until the year 80. Seen him In the service as Capt at ft Stanwix fort Dayton &c 
John (X his mark) Duesler
Sworn and Subscribed by making his Marke the 30th day of Augt 1832 before me 
Silvanus Parkinson 
Sworn be fore me N Schuyler Jr, a Justice of the peace of Danube in Herkimer County September the 6th 1832
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I have been acquainted with John Dussler for twenty five years that he is a man of Truth and Veracity in the Neighberhood Where he Resides
[Signed] Nicholas Schuyler jr  [illegible - JP?]

Upside down [Top is cut off. Full document on next page]:
writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature of "N Schuyler Jr" Subscribed to the said Certificate & Affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature - In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 13th day of September 1832
[Signed] F.E. Spinner Dep. Clerk
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State of New York}
Herkimer County}
Clerks Office} ss.
I Francis E. Spinner, Deputy Clerk of the County of Herkimer Do hereby Certify that Nicholas Schuyler Jr whose name is Subscribed to the within affidavit and Certificate and before whom the affidavit purports to have been Sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly authorized and qualified to act as such and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature of "N Schuyler Jr" Subscribed to the said Certificate & Affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature - In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 13th day of September 1832
[SEAL]
[Signed] F.E. Spinner Dep. Clerk
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State of New York}
Herkimer County}
Clerks Office} ss.
I Francis E. Spinner, Deputy Clerk of the County of Herkimer Do hereby Certify that Nicholas Schuyler Jr whose name is Subscribed to the within affidavit and Certificate and before whom the affidavit purports to have been Sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly authorized and qualified to act as such and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature of "N Schuyler Jr" Subscribed to the said Certificate & Affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature - In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 13th day of September 1832
[SEAL]
[Signed] F.E. Spinner Dep. Clerk
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State of New York 
Schoharie County ss. 
Henry Shaver of the town of Cobeskill [Colbeskill] in the said County, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, That he was well acquainted with Matthias Brown, now of Carlilse [Carlisle] in the said County, an applicant for a pension, before the revolutionary War, and during the continuance of the War, and has been acquainted with him ever since, to this day. That the said Matthias Brown was always from the first recollection of the deponent, always called Matthias Brown, and that the deponent never knew that the said Matthias Brown had any other name, until the said Matthias Brown was appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schohary [Schoharie], when his name together with the name of the deponent as one of the Assistant Justices of the said Court, appeared in the commission of the Judges and Assistant Justices granted by the Governor and then council of appointment of the State of New York, by the name of John M. Brown. That the deponent well recollects that he enquired of Judge Brown, whether that was his right name in the Commission, to which Judge Brown answered, Yes, I was christened John Matthias Brown. And this deponent further saith that during the revolutionary War, the said Matthias Brown resided at a place, then called Rhinebeck but now in the town of Carlilse, in the said County, and that he yet resides on the same place he then did. That during the revolutionary War, the deponent resided between four and five miles from the said Matthias Brown, but in a different military beat from that in which the said Matthias Brown lived. That the deponent always understood that Brown was a Captain in the Rhinebeck and Turlock (now the town of Sharon) military beat, and that he was a brave officer, and did a great deal of military duty, along the Mohawk river.
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That the Cobeskill [Cobleskill] company of Militia under Captain John Bouck, to which the deponent belonged and was enrolled in, did duty generally in Cobes-kill and in the Valey of Schohary. 
And this deponent further said, That until he heard the commission of the Judges and Assistant Justices read in the court house, to which he has already refered, he did not know that the said Brown had any other given name; and that the said Matthias Brown, is the same identical Matthias Brown, who was during the War called and known as Captain Brown and afterwards as Judge Brown. And further saith not 
[Signed] Henry Shafer
Sworn before me this 16th}
day of February 1839.}
[Signed] Jacob L. Lawyer
Justice of the Peace 

And I the said Justice do certify that the Honorable Henry Shaver, lately one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the said County, is a man of honor and of truth and veracity and that full faith is due to his attestation.
[Signed] Jacob L. Lawyer
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State of New York 
Schohary [Schoharie] County ss.
Jacob France of the town of Cobeskill [Cobleskill], in the said County, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, That before the commencement of the revolutionary war the deponents father Bastian France, resided at a place called Turlock, now called the town of Sharon, in the said County of Schohary, where the deponent was born in July one thousand, seven hundred and Sixty. 
That Matthias Brown, lived about five miles from the dwelling of the deponents Fathers before and during the revolutionary war, at a place then called Rhinebeck, but now called Carlilse [Carlisle] in the said County, where the said Matthias Brown still lives. That in the spring or begining of the summer of the year, one Thousand, seven hundred and Seventy seven, the said Matthias Brown, was Captain of the Militia of that part of Schohary in which he resided. That the said Captain Matthias Brown, called on the deponent, then in the Seventeenth year of his age, and enrolled him into his company as a militia man; and that, that summer Captain Brown, ordered out his company, and marched them to Cherry Vally when they meet General Herkimer. That Captain Brown in consequence of a hurt he had received in his left knee, did not go any further with them, and returned home, and the rest whent with the General to the Unadilla, were they meet Brandt, the Mohawk chief and his Indians. That there General Herkimer tried to make a treaty with Brandt and his Indians, to keep them peaceable and quiet; and to prevail on the Indians, not to interfere in the quarrel between America and England. And the deponent further saith, that from the year, one thousand seven hundred and Seventy seven he served between three and four years in the Company of Militia under the command of the said Captain Matthias Brown, until he enlisted in the nine months service, first under Captain Bigbread, and afterwards under Captain
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Gray. That the Indians and tories made inroades and invaded the Settlement of Schohary and the Mohawk Country every year, and Kept the inhabitants in almost constant alarm, and perpretated [sic] a great many murders and burnings of dwelling houses and barns, and the militia marching from one place to another. That the deponent and his company with Captain Brown at their head, were every year on tours of duty, princibly [sic] on the Mohawk river; at Fort Plain, Fort Plank and Fort Herkimer, sometimes they were out a fortnight, sometimes three weeks and a month before they returned home. That the deponent whent with Captain Brown, and his company one Christmas to guard provissions up the Mohawk to Fort Stanwic [sic], and that they were gone between three and four weeks before they returned home. 
And the deponent on his Solmn Oath, further saith, that altho' he cannot now recollect and enumerate the several tours of duty and the number of days, or weeks that he was, out on duty with Captain Brown, in each year, he is confident and certain, that taking the whole aggregate together, he served and did duty with and under Captain Brown for more than six months, while he served under him, until the deponent enlisted in the Nine Months service. And the deponent further saith, that Captain Brown, twice called out his company for a draft of men, that on one of the drafts the deponent among others was drafted and were sent to Fort Herkimer, and that Captain Brown sent his Sergeant Lodowick Kling with the drafted men to Fort Herkimer. 
And the deponent further saith, that ever since he has had any recollection from his
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youth to the present day, he has known Captain Matthias Brown. That it is but a few years since, that he heard for the first time, that some people called him John M. Brown, at which the deponent was much surprised, and on his enquiring what made some people call him John M. Brown, he was informed that he had been christened John Matthias Brown. And the deponent further saith, that Matthias Brown, who is now an applicant for a pension, is the same identical Matthias Brown, under whom the deponent served as a Militia Captain in the revolutionary war, between three and four years; and that he has always been known and called by his middle name Matthias Brown and never by that of John M. Brown, but always by the name of Matthias Brown. And further saith not. Note the word "a treaty" 23th line interlined, and the words, "that he was" 21th line second page, erazed. 
Jacob (X his mark) France
Sworn before me this 18th February 1839.
[Signed] Jacob L. Lawyer
Justice of the Peace 

And I the said Justice do certify, that I am well acquainted with the above named Jacob France for more than Thirty five years past, that he is a man of truth and veracity, and that full faith is due to his Attestation. And I further Certify, that the said Jacob France reads the German, but that he never could write his name, and always has made his mark.
[Signed] Jacob L. Lawyer
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State of New York
Schohary County ss. Johannes Koing [Koenig] being duly sworn deposeth and Saith, that he is now in the Seventy fifth year of his age, and that he well knew Captain Matthias Brown from the commencement of the revolutionary, and k[n]ew him during the whole of the war. That the deponent at the commencement of the war, lived with his Father Michael Koing [Koenig] in the Settlement of Cobes-kill, now in the County of Schohary. And the deponent further Saith, that, that part of the County of Schohary, which now comprises, the town of Carlilse, & a part of Cobeskill and the Town of Sharon, at that time belonged and was considered as part of the County of Tryon. That the said Matthias Brown, then lived at a place called Rhinebeck, now the town of Carlisle in the County of Schohary. That the said Matthias Brown lived between four and five miles from the residence of his Father Michael Koing [Koenig]. That the deponent well recollects, that in the fall of the year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy seven, in consequence of the inroades and invasions of the Tories and Indians into the Settlements of Schohary and the Cobes-kill, the Individuals of the settlement of Cobes-kill resolved to build a fort, which resolve they carried into effect, and that the civil authority or Committe of the Schohary Settlement, called on their friends and neighbors to help and assist them. That Col. Debois [?] came into Cobes-kill & called out the neighboring Militia to aid and assist in building the said Fort, and that the deponent and his neighbors did assist in building the said Fort; That the said Fort was commenced in the fall and was not finished until the next year.
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And this deponent further Saith, that in the fall of Seventy seven, and the next spring, he saw Captain Matthias Brown and some of his company aiding and assisting in the building of the said Fort, but how many days they were at work at the said Fort the deponent does not know. 
And this deponent further said that the said Matthias Brown from the commencement of the war served first as a Lieutenant and afterwards a Captain of the Militia of Rhinebeck and Turlock, during the War and that the tour of duties belonging to the said Captain Matthias Brown was generally along the Mohawk river.
And the deponent further saith that Matthias Brown, now an applicant for a pension, is the same identical Matthias Brown, who was a Captain of the Militia of Rhinebeck and Turlock in the revolutionary war, and always was called Matthias Brown, and further saith not. Note the word "served" first interlined, the word "now" struck out 
[Signed] Johannes Koenig

Sworn before me the 18th 
day of February 1839. 
[Signed] Jacob L. Lawyer
Justice of the Peace 

And I the said Justice do certify, that I have been acquainted by the above Johannes Koing for more than thirty five years past, that
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the said Johannes Koing is a man of truth and veracity, and that full faith and credit is due to his attestation.
[Signed] Jacob L. Lawyer Justice
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State of New York 
Schoharie County ss. 
I, William M. Holton Clerk of the said County, Do Certify that Jacob L. Lawyer before whom the preceeding Affidavits purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavits, to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of office this 29th day of April 1839.
[Ribboned SEAL]
[Signed] William M. Holton, Clerk

Crosswise at bottom:
Johannes Koing
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January 2, 1931 
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
AWF 

N. Berton Alter 
Nelliston 
New York.

Dear Sir:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 28660 that John Matthias Brown (also referred to as Matthias Brown) was born November 5, 1745 in Ulster County, New York. 

While residing in Tryon (which was later Schoharie ) County, New York, he served in the New York Militia, as follows -- 
In 1775, he was elected second lieutenant and served two months in Captain Jacob Miller's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Cox's Regiment; from April 1776, six months as second lieutenant in Colonel Peter Vrooman's Regiment; from April 1777, seven months as captain in Colonels Vrooman's and Samuel Campbell's Regiments; from July 1778, three months as captain in Colonel Campbell's Regiment; from April 1, 1779, three months as captain in Colonel Samuel Clyde's Regiment; from October 1779, two months as captain in Colonel Vrooman's Regiment; from April 1780 to October 18, 178[0?] in Colonel Vrooman's Regiment. 

Pension was allowed on his application executed July 26, 1832, at which time he was living in Carlisle, Schoharie County, New York. 

He died November 1, 1838 or 1839. 

In 1842, the following children are referred to-  George William Brown of Vienna, Oneida County; Elizabeth Taft of Lisle,
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Chenango County; Henry Brown of Seward, Schoharie County; David Brown of Carlisle, New York; Abraham Brown of Carlisle, New York: Jacob Brown of Carlisle, New York; Severinus Brown of Carlisle, New York. 

In 1832 grandchildren are referred to, their names are not given, nor is the name of soldier's wife stated. 
Very truly yours, 
E. W. MORGAN 
Acting Commissioner.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3 -- 525 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C. Mar 31 1921

S.28660 

In reply to your request of [blank] received  [blank] a statement of the military history of Jno Mathias Brown a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's[stricken]) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT | LENGTH OF SERVICE | RANK |  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED (Captain/Colonel) | STATE
1775 | [illegible] 2 mos. | 2 Lt. | Capt. Jacob Miller/Col. Ebenezer Cox | NY
Apl 1776 | 6 mos. | " | Col. Peter Vrooman | "
Apl 1 1777 | 7 mos. | Capt. | Cols. Vrooman and Saml. Campbell | NY
July 1778 | 3 mos. | " | Col. Saml Campbell | NY
Apl 1 1779 | 3 mos. | " | Cols. Saml Campbell & Clyde | NY
Oct 1779 | 2 mos. | " | Col. Vrooman | NY
Apl 1780 to Oct 1780 | " | "   " | NY

Battles engaged in, None stated 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Schoharie Co. NY (formerly Tryon Co.) 
Date of application for pension, July 26, 1832. cl. al. 
Residence at date of application, Carlisle, Schoharie Co. NY 
Age at date of application, b. Nov. 5, 7145 in Ulster Co. NY 
Remarks: children of sol. referred to in 1842 as follows: Geo. Wm Brown of Vienna Oneida Co.; Elizabeth Taft of Lisle, Chenango Co.; Henry Brown of Seward, Schoharie Co. and David, Abraham, Jacob and Severinus Brown all of Carlisle, Schoharie Co. NY. In 1832 sol. refers to Grandch. no names stated; he d. Nov 1, 1839 or 1838

Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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March 21, 1931 
Rev & 1812 Wars Section
MMHF: NLB

Mr. N. Berton Alter
Nelliston
New York

Dear Sir:
You are advised that photostatic copies of papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.28660, of John M. Brown, will be furnished you for 15¢ a page. The number of pages to be copied is 67.
Should you desire to have them certified, allow 25¢ additional for the set.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Acting Commissioner of Pensions.

Very truly yours
E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner
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N. BERTON ALTER 
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 
HOME NELLISTON, N.Y.
OFFICE CANAJOHARIE, N. Y

March 23, 1931.
Bureau of Pensions. 
War of Revolution and 1812 Division
Washington, D.C 

Dear Sir: About 2 months ago I asked the cost of the records of J. M. Brown S. 28660 No reply has been received. 
Let me hear from you at once.
Truly
NB Alter

[Receipt mark] 
Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section
Bureau of Pensions
MAR 26 1931
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N. BERTON ALTER 
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 
HOME NELLISTON, N.Y.
OFFICE CANAJOHARIE, N. Y

Jan. 28, 1931.

Dear Sirs:  Re No S. 28660
Revolutionary war pension claim
What will photostat copies of claim cost.
Truly
N Berton Alter

(John M Brown, Carlisle, Schoharie Co No. S28660)

[Receipt mark] 
Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section
Bureau of Pensions
JAN 30 1931
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PETROPHE & JACOBS, Inc. 
Sun Surf Modes
1410 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK, N. Y. 
Febraury 16, 1937. 

[Receipt mark] RECEIVED FEB 17 1937
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington, D. C. 

Gentlemen: 
Would you kindly look up your records and send me any data you have concerning the deceased Judge John Mathais Brown of Schoharie, New York. 
The writer is a direct descendant of above mentioned person and would like this information for the purpose of joining the Daughters of the American Revolution. 
Being unfamiliar with the usual proceedings in obtaining information of this sort would appreciate it if you would let me know if there is any charge for same. If so will you kindly notify me, and will mail same immediately. 
Very truly yours, 
[Signed] M. Ainsley 
(MISS. MILDRED AINSLEY c/o OF ABOVE.
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N. Berton Alter 
Superintendent of Schools 
Nelliston, N. Y. 
December 1, 1930. 

Bureau of Pensions 
War of Revolution and 1812 Division 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sirs: 	John M. Brown of Schoharie County, N.Y. was born Nov. 5. 1745 and died about 1838. He was reputed to be a captain of Militia in the Revolution. Did he receive a pension? If so, what will a transcript of his application cost? 
Truly 
N. Berton Alter

[Receipt mark] Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section, Bureau of Pensions DEC 1- 1930
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Rev MH

2-23-21 
Afton, N.Y 

Department of Interior 
Bureau of Pensions
[Receipt mark] U.S. Pension Office FEB 25 1921

Gentlemen:- 
Was John Mathias Brown of Schoharie Co. N.Y. ever on the Pension roll? Said Brown was Captain of Tyron [sic] Co. Malitia at one time. Tyron Co was later changed to Schoharie County. 
We would like all the data you could give regarding the above named party he being our ancestor and
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through the establishment of this fact hope to prove ourselves eligible to membership in the Daughters of The American Revolution 
Very truly yours 
Zilpha J. Dimorier

U.S. Pension Office FEB 25 1921
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28660
Revy INVALID.
File No. 28, 660
John M Brown
Capt Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 58
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Right side:
1921 Mar 31 Hist to Zilpha J. Dimorier - Eu
1931 Jan 2 Hist to N. Berton Alter awy.
1931 Mar 21 N. Berton Alter add [obscured - cost of?] photos. MMHF
1937 [obscured] Hist to Miss Mildred Ainsley
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Omit [?]

New York 
Revol 
John M. (Matthias) Brown 
Suspended 
See letter to Sylvanus Parkinson 20 August 1833 [stricken]
See let to S. Parkinson Esq May 13. 1834
- to Hon. John Edwards 4 Feb 1839 
to Henry F Yates 11 July 1839 [stricken]
Act 7. June 183[2]
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John M. Brown
N.Y.

[Stricken- Let to G.F. Yates Oct 14, '42]

18187 John M. Brown
Let to H.F. Yates 21 May 1840
to Giles F. Yates Jany 18[?] 1841
"        "         "      Sep. 3 1842
"        "         "      Sep. 23 1842
["        "         "      Oct 5 1842 - stricken]

Act June 7, 1832.
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[Faintly at top]
will therefore see the propriety of my inquiries
Respectfully
Yours,
Henry F. Yates

Mr Edwards Pension office.

May 26 1843
Jno M Brown
NY Case

Crosswise:
Carlisle N.Y.
May 23/43
Free [postage]
The Hon
Mr Edwards
Pension Office
Washington City
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Omit [?]
Carlilse Schohary County 
New York. 
May 23rd 1843.

Mr Edwards, 
Will you oblidge me, on the receipt of this to inform me, whether the application I made to you some years since, for a pension in favor of Captain John M. Brown of this place, has been granted by you and if so, the date to whom the certificate was delivered, the place were the money was paid, whether at the pension office at Albany or in Washington and to whom, and the amount for which the certificate was given. If the pension of Captain Brown was paid at Washington, then I want to know by whos authority, or what documents were presented to you, that authorized you to pay the money. After an absence from this country for nineteen months, I am now informed that the pension has been granted and the money paid to the amount of $575, and that the real owners, have not got it. You
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will therefore see the propriety of my inquiries
Respectfully
Yours,
Henry F. Yates

Mr Edwards Pension office.
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Oct 13 '41
NY
John M Brown

Crosswise:
[Postmark] ALBANY N.Y. OCT 11
f[ree]
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Omit [?]
Albany Octr 10 1842.

Sir:
I have received your last favor in the in the matter of the application made in behalf of the late John M. Brown deceased, in which you state, that the delay in issuing the certificate in this matter, was been caused by my not sending a Surrogate's Certificate stating the names of all the Surviving children of the deceased. In and by your letter of the 23d of Sept ulto. you state that the Court should "certify the day of this death, and the names of his surviving children, or of his Administrator." In compliance with the last named requisition I furnished a certificate stating the day of his death, & the name of his Administrator. This requisition being in the alternative "children, or Administrator," must I furnish a new certificate giving the names of the children also?  To do this, but more especially to get the powers of attorney from some 7 or Eight children residing in different & distant parts of the country, will subject the Administrator to great trouble, inconvenience delay & expence. Is not the law in cases like this applicable, which was passed [18th?] June 1840 & which provides, that the amount due deceased pensioners
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shall be paid their Administrators, to be by them divided among the children. Administrators take an oath & give bonds for the faithful discharge of the duties of their office.
I am very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
[Signed] G.F. Yates
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Left side:
answd.

Oct 4 1842.
NY
asking for regulations.

Crosswise:
[Postmark] SYRACUSE N.Y. OCT 2	
free [postage]
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City - D.C.
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Omit [?]
Syracuse Onondaga Co. N.Y. 

Dear Sir,
Mr. F. Served 6 years in the Revolution & was discharged at the Close of the War. In 1790 he married Miss. C with whom he lived until 1814 & then he died. In 1818  his widow married Mr. H  (also a soldier). Mr. H. died in 1828 & his widow is Still living & has remained a widow ever Since. Does this 2d marriage prevent her drawing five years pension under the act of July 7. 1838 on account her first husbands Services?  
My impression is, from what light I can Obtain, that the act of July 7. 1838 is to be Construed in the Same way as the acts of July 4, 1836 & March 3d 1837 - together. 
If you will do me the favor to remove all doubts, you will oblige me. I have no rules or dicisions later than your Report to the Secretary, dated January 18th 1838 & as I am frequently Called on for information relative to pensions, You would add another to a long catalogue of favors, by transmitting such rules & decisions, Resolutions & acts as have been adopted Since & are now in force.
Yours Respectfully- 
[Signed] Edward A. Brown
To J.L. Edwards Esq
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Carlisle N.Y.
Sept. 19.
10 [postage]
Giles F. Yates
Albany,
N.Y.
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To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern -- send greeting - 
Be it known, that at a Surrogate's Court by me held in and for the County of Schoharie, in the town of Cobleskill in said County, the most satisfactory evidence was adduced to me to prove, that John Matthias Brown late of the town of Carlisle in said County deceased, departed this life on the first day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred and thirty-nine. And further that Severinus Brown one of the sons of said deceased, has been duly appointed, and is now sole Administrator of the Estate of said deceased. In testimony whereof I the said Surrogate have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this thirteenth day of September 1842 
[SEAL]
[Signed] Thomas Smith Surrogate
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John M. Brown, decd, Albany roll, act June 7. 1832, at $106.66 per annum. 
Be pleased to say what amount has been paid in this case  - to whom the money was paid - when - and whether at the Pension Agency, or Washington City? 

Pension Office} 
May 26 1843}  

$583.60, paid at the Agency to Giles F. Yates Attorney for 5 of the Heirs- two of the Heirs, viz G. W. Brown, and Elizabeth Taft still remaining unpaid. It appears Mr B. died 1st Novr 1838, and the Receipt of Mr Yates as Attorney bears date 10th Novr 1842. 
[Signed] B.L. Bogan
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Omit [?]
John M Brown, Lt & Capt $106.66 N.Y. Pensioned 29th Oct 1842 at Schoharie Co.
died Nov 1st 1838.
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Omit [?]
Schenectada Augt 30 1842. 

Sir - 
In the matter of the application of John M. or Mathias Brown under the act of 7th June 1832 - the following service is alledged -
In 1775 - 2 months as Ensign under Capt Jacob Miller 
" 1776 - 6 months. Brevet commander of Schoharie fort 
April 1777 - 3 months in command of a Company at Fort 
July 1778  3 months at Fort Plain, Plank &c 
1779 	 3 m "
In fall[?] "   2m "  fatigue duty at Cobleskill 
April --	2m " as Captain - Do - 
The Rolls in the Comptroller's Office, abstracts from which have been furnished, relate only to the years 1779 & 1780, and cover only a service in the aggregate of 1 mo. & 23 days. I now send enclosed a document showing that Brown as Captain, received a Balance of pay in 1784, pursuant to an act of the N.Y. Legislature passed that year for that purpose of £28.7.4 ($70.92), [Take?] this in connection with a reasonable estimate of services coming within the
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strictest provisions of law, rendered in 1775, 1776, 1777 & 1778, and I cannot but believe that you will be satisfied that said Brown served more than 6 months as Lieutenant and Captain, and award a pension accordingly. 
I also send herewith a document showing that Brown's first or original Commission as Captain bore date April 3. 1777. 
Very respectfully 
Your obt Servt 
[Signed] G. F. Gates
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Oct 24 1842
NY
John M Brown

Crosswise:
[Postmark] Illegible N.Y. OCT 24
f[ree] [postage]
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Omit [?]
Albany Oct 22d 1842 

Sir
I send enclosed the certificate you require in the case of John M. Brown under the  act of 7 June 1832.
I am very respectfully &c 
[Signed] G. F. Yates 

J.L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions
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Oct 4 1842
NY

Crosswise:
[Postmark] ALBANY NY OCT 2
f[ree] [postage]
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Omit [?]
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions 
Albany, Oct 3d 1842 

Sir, 
I have recd your favor of the 23d ulto informing me that no certificate can be issued in the name of John M. Brown because deceased - that a certificate of the Court as to the day of his death & the qualification of his Administrator is necessary. 
When I wrote my letter of the 19th ulto, I had not yet received such certificate. A few days after however & before the receipt of your letter of 23d, I received the certificate & forwarded it forthwith by mail to your office. 
Having received a communication from you on another subject under date of the 27th ulto, and not having heard from you in relation to the certificate which you must have received, (if at all) previously, I fear it may have miscarried. If so, I would like to be informed.  
Yours respectfully
[Signed] G.F. Yates
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167
Pen off
Oct. 14 '42

Sir
In the case of John M. Brown decd the certificate of the Court is deemed indispensable as the act of 19 June 1840 relates to the amount due to a "deceased Pensioner"  - not to those who may have died without becoming pensioners altho entitled 

Giles F Yates Esqr
Albany N.Y.
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54
Pen off
Oct. 5 '42

Sir
In answer to yours of 3rd inst in the case of John M. Brown I have to inform you that the issuing the certificate has been delayed for a certificate from a Court of record shewing the names of all the children who survived him which must be inserted in it 

Giles F Yates Esqr
Albany N.Y.
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Sept 23 '42
NY
John M Brown

Crosswise:
[Postmark] SCHENECTADY N.Y. SEP 21
J.L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Omit [?]
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Schenectada Sept 19 1842 

Sir
In conformity with your requisition in the case of John Matthias Brown I have procured the enclosed renunciation. When I visited Schoharie for the purpose of procuring it, I called at the office of the Surrogate of that County at Cobleskill for a certificate of the time of Mr Brown's decease, and that Severinus Brown his son was administrator of the estate &c. The Surrogate being from home I failed to procure such certificate. Without making another visit expressly to Cobleskill I cannot procure it. If the certificate is issued in the name of John Matthias Brown, I can procure the necessary proof of his death & afterwards, to accompany the Power of Attorney to draw the money. Trusting that such a course will be satisfactory, I shall await the certificate. 
I am very respectfully 
Your Obt Sert 
[Signed] G.F. Yates

J. L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
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Sept 26, 42
N.Y.

Crosswise:
[Postmark} ALBANY N.Y. SEP 33
J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
[Written over the address:]
The certificate cannot be issued to the administrator- The money may be paid to heirs after the certificate is issued to his children.

Omit [?]
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Albany, Sept 21. 1842 
Sir,
If the pension certificate in the case of John Matthias Brown is the not yet issued when this note reaches your office, oblige by forwarding same to me at this city. 
If you conclude to issue the certificate in the name of Severinus Brown Administrator &c the enclosed Surrogate's Certificate (which I have just received) will be needed as part of the testimony to be filed in your office. If however the Pension Certificate has already been issued, or you conclude to issue the same in the name of John Matthias Brown, you will confer a favor by returning the enclosed to me at this place. 
I am very respectfully
Your Obt Servt 
[Signed] G. F. Yates 

J.L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C.
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Left side, crosswise:
Matthias Brown
no papers on file

Right side:
June 15 
Jurat
Mr [illegible] [?]

Crosswise:
Free [postage]
J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office 
War Department 
Washington City

{Carlisle NY June 10th}

Omit [?]
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State of New York}
Secretary's Office} 
I Certify that on the 25th day of June 1778 Matthias Brown was appointed and Commissioned as Second Lieutenant in Captain Jacob Miller's Company in the Regiment of Militia in the County of Tryon Whereof Samuel Campbell was Colonel, as appears by the Minutes of the Council of appointment of this State in this Office.
[Signed] Archd. Campbell 
Dep. Secretary
Albany April 18. 1839 

Carlilse [sic] June 10th 1839 
Sir
Absence from home for a fortnight, has prevented me from acknowledging the receipt of yours of May 21th enclosing copies of the affidavits in the case of Thomas Matchin until this day.  You may rely upon it, that I will set myself about
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investigating immediately the truth or falsehood of the affidavits, and apprise you of the result of my discoveries. 
In packing up the papers in the case of Captain Matthias Brown, I overlooked the enclosed, which I now forward to you, as a link in the chain of testimony, already in your possession. 
respectfully Yours 
[Signed] Henry F. Yates

J.L. Edwards Esq.
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193
War Department  
Pension Office 
11. July 1839 

Sir 
The additional evidence in the case of John M alias Matthias Brown has been examined -- No one term of Service is definitely specified by the witnesses whose affidavits are now [illegible- introduced?]. It may be said that very few of the ordinary Militia of that part of the Country to which the applicant then belonged was in actual Service Six months from 1775 [?] to 1781 
E

Henry F. Yates Esq. 
Carlisle N. Y.
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Abstract of Pay due to Colonel Campbell's Regt of Tryon County Militia in the service of the United States of America now commanded by Lieut. Col. Samuel Clyde, being on Duty different times from 15th June 1779 until 1st January 1783. 

Amot of Capt Matthew Brown's pay Roll No. 7 | £ 98 | 11 | 9 
		ditto 		ditto              No. 8 | 55 | 4 | 11

State of New York }
Comptrollers Office}  I certify the preceding to be a true Extract from Book A of Audited Accounts now remaining in this Office 
[Signed] Bates Ceske
Comptroller

Albany Oct. 14, 1839.
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Sylvanus Parkison 
20 August 1833. 
A.C. [?]
[illegibe]
Re vol C
Pa 23.
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War Departt. 
Pension off 
20 Aug. 1833 

Sir 
The claim of Jno M. Brown has been examined & suspended 
His papers upon the first examination were returned for a detailed recital of his militia tours, they are now returned without a compliance therewith. As the act provides alone for actual service, it is indispensable that each item of service should be specially set forth as required by note "e" on 3rd page of the enclosed printed sheet. There is probably evidence of his being commissioned in the executive records of New York & as Claimants are required to produce the best testimony in their power, a certified transcript of the record should be furnished. His papers are placed on file 
act [initials?]

Sylvanus Parkinson esq.
Carlisle
Schoharie N.Y.
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Schoharie Ct [Co?] N.Y.  6
Augt 28
Silvanus Parkinson Esq.
Carlisle
Schoharie County
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Omit [?]
Schoharie August 28th 1833- 

Dr. Sir, 
Your letter of the 23d came safely to hand. With respect to John M. Brown's pension papers, I have to state, that they were directed to me with a printed direction. I examined the papers, and found that some of the affidavits were not duly authenticated. I affixed the proper certificates and returned them, together with the direction, to the war office. I think the only way for you will be, to request the Secretary of war to return the papers to you with directions.
Respectfully Yours &c 
[Signed] John Gebhard Jr. 

S. Parkinson Esq.
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Surrogates certificate
as to names of
Children of
J.M. Brown
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State of New York} 
Schoharie County} 
Surrogate's Court} 
I, Thomas Smith Surrogate of Schoharie County Do Certify that the most satisfactory evidence has been adduced before me to prove that the following named persons are the only surviving children of John M. Brown late of the town of Carlisle in the said County of Schoharie deceased and that they reside at the several places in the State of New York hereinafter specified, to wit. 
George William Brown of Vienna in the County of Oneida
Elizabeth Taft of the town of Lisle in the County of Chenango 
Henry Brown of the town of Seward in the County Schoharie, 
and David Brown, Abraham Brown, Jacob Brown and Severinus Brown all of the town of Carlisle in the County of Schoharie and State of New York and are all of lawful age 
In testimony whereof we have caused the seal of office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. 
Witness Thomas Smith Surrogate of our said County of Schoharie at Cobleskill this fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lord 1842 
[Signed] Thomas Smith Surrogate
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Letter
Severnus Brown
to
Commissioner of Pensions &c

Dec 20/50

Mr Cole
Mr Cole
or ct. clk.

Omit [?]

filed by
William Valentine
Albany
New York.
who will call again in a day or two - say on Saturday next, to see the papers.
Dec. 19, 1850.
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Albany N.Y. Decr 3d 1850

Sir 
I am one of the children and the Executor of John M. Brown, decd late of Schoharie County N.Y. who was a pensioner of the United States, And I hereby authorize and request the commissioner of pensions as well as any other officers of the United States Goverment, to allow Wm. Valentine of Albany N.Y. to examine any papers which may be on file their respective Departments, in the case of said John M Brown, and the said Valentine is hereby appointed the Agent & Attorney for the aforesaid purpose & for the promoting said claim for an increase of pension. 
I am very respectfully 
and Obt Servt 
[signed] Sevenius Brown

To the Commissioner of }
Pensions, & other officers} 
of the United States Government} 
Washington City }  

R. W. Young 
Agt at Washington
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Notes

Notes on Browns application
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On the application of }
Matthias Brown for a pension}  

The following facts are submited
In July 1777, General Herkimer marched to Unadilla and their [sic] meet [Joseph] Brant. And in August thereafter, the battle of Oriskany was fought, were Herkimer fell, and in October thereafter Burgoyne surrended [sic] at Saratoga 
In 1778, Cherry Valley was destroyed by Butler & Brant, and McDonald a Tory of some enterprise with 300 Tories and Indians, invaded the settlements of Schohary [sic] 
In 1779, Schohary was again invaded by the Indians & Tories 
In 1780, Sir John Johnson, Butler and Brant, invaded Schohary and the Mohawk burning and destroying every thing before them 
In 1781, Curries-town [Currytown] in Tryon County within four miles of the Mohawk was burned and destroyed by the Tories and Indians, and the battle of Turlock was fought by Col. Willett, with the Tryon County Militia. And In August of that year the battle of Johnstown was fought by Col Willett with Major Ross.
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Omit [?]
Mar. 30, 1840
addl. proof
Matthias Brown

Crosswise:
Free [postage]
J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Carlisle N.Y.
March 24th
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Carlilse March 23th 1840 

Sir
I now enclose you, three additional affidavits in the Case of Matthias Brown. The additional facts as now stated, I think, will be sufficient to satisfy you, that the pension ought to be granted, and should you persist in denying the grant, I shall appeal from your decision to the Secretary. I am so perfectly satisfied of the Justice of this application, that I must press it. 
On my late tour into Schohary [sic] I was informed by Honorable men, that pensions had been granted to Old Tories and the widow of one Tory. Tice or Matthias Rynhart, Judged to be about Sixty two or three years old, is I am told on the pension list, and that John Snyder and the widow of Jacob Lawyer, who were both Tories in the revolutionary war, I am told are also on the pension roll. I have no personal knowledge of any of those person or of the facts stated [remainder cut off]
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Omit [?]
P.S. The affidavit of Catharine Hitzman is supported by the affidavit of Jonh Sweetman Esq.

J.L. Edwards Esq.
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In the Matter &c of
John Matthias Brown
under the act of 7th
June 1832

Agent
Giles F. Yates
Schenectada [sic]
N.Y.
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Schenectada Decr. 10 1840
To J. L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
In the matter of the application} 
of John Matthias (or Mathew) }
Brown for a pension under the} 
act of 7th June 1832.}  
Previous to the decease of the above applicant Judge Brown of Carlisle,  Schoharie County, I was engaged by him to attend to the prosecution of his claim. Subsequently Henry F. Yates Esq undertook the agency of the cases. Last Spring Mr Yates placed the Same in my hands. When I saw Mr Yates he was engaged in procuring such testimony of Captain Brown's services as the Comptroller's Office afforded, but I believe did not find the enclosed proof from the Book of audited accounts A. in the Comptroller's Office. 
It will be seen by reference to Capt. Brown's papers on file in your office, that in the early years of the war he was only an Ensign, afterwards a 2d Lieutenant & in 1779 & until the end of the war a Captain. Some objection appears to have made to this case on the ground that he is in some of the documents called John Brown, and in others Matthias Brown, his whole name being John Matthias Brown. I send enclosed an old document, in which the name of Matthias Brown is classed with other officers which classification if it agrees with the statements made by Mr Brown in his origi[nal]
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[origi]nal papers, may serve to satisfy you that Matthias (or Matthew) Brown & John M. Brown are identical. With this view I send it all the parole testimony that can possibly be adduced, has been, & is on file with the papers in this case. I trust that on a review of this case, it will be found that Capt. Brown has served for more than 24 months from 1775 to 1782, or two years out of season of the war, during which term he was on active duty. Capt. Brown was over 100 years old when he died. 
Very respectfully 
Your Obt Servt 
[Signed] Giles F. Yates
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Catharine Hitzman
Affidavit
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State of New York 
Schohary [sic] County ss. 
Catharine Hitzman, being duly sworn on the Holy Evangalist of Almighty God deposeth and says, that she was born in the town of Schohary, on the Eleventh day of March in the Year one thousand seven hundred and Sixty three, as appears from a certificate of the Reverand George A. Linter, the present minister of St. Pauls Church of Schohary, which said Certificate is hereunto annexed. And the deponent further saith, that she was fourteen years old when her Father Henry Hitzman, with his family in the spring of the year, moved into the Stone Fort in Schohary, but the year she cannot now recollect; only that she was fourteen years old, and that it was in the beginning of the revolutionary war, and that she knows that it was, the same year that Burgyone was taken. That when she with her Father and Mother removed into the Fort, she found a Captain Matthias Brown, with his company of Militia in the Fort, that the said Brown and his company where from Rhinebeck and Turlock, now the towns of Carlies and Sharon, and that her Father lived between Ten and Twelve miles from Rhinebeck. That the Fort was commanded by Colonel Peter Vrooman, who lived in the Fort with his family. That Captain Brown almost every day had his company on parade and excersied [sic] them, and that in the morning and evening he always fired off a cannon. That Captain Brown had a fiddle, and often in the evening, would play on his fiddle and the men and women in the Fort would often dance. And this deponent further saith, that she well recollects, Conrad Brown, Jacob Heyntz, Ernest Fritz, Michael Frederick, John Angle, Andrew Fighter, Herman Barnhart, William Heyntz, John Hess, Cornelius Laux, Zachariah Young, John Frantz, George Angle, Adam Frobeck, Christian Ottman, Christian Rittigh, Philip Hoffman, Isaac Falk, John Carger and Hendrick Fratz or Fratts
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where [sic] privates in Captain Browns company, and that they were all germans, and that her Father was also a german. And the deponent further saith, that some of Captain Browns men had their families with them in the fort, and that John Hess one of Captain Browns men, lost his wife in child-birth, while they were in the fort, and that the deponent, with all the men and women in the fort attended her funeral, and that Captain Brown, and the men sung at the grave; and that she can yet this day point out the spot were [sic] Mrs Hess and her infant were buried. And the deponent further said, that she is perfectly certain, that Captain Brown with his company remained doing duty in the fort, between two and three months of that year; and that, after they left the fort, she did not see either Brown or any of his men until after the war was over; That some years after peace the saw Captain Brown, when he was a Judge of the Courts in Schohary County and knew him immediately. 
And the deponent further saith that while Captain Brown and his company where in the Fort, Colonel Van Schoonhoven with several men came from Ballstown, and remained several days in the Fort. And further saith not. 
Catharine (X hir mark) Hitzman
Sworn before me this 20th March 1840. 
[Signed] O. H. Williams Justice of the Peace 

And I the saith Justice do Certify that I have been intimately acquainted with Catharine Hitzman (who lives a neighbor to me) for Eleven years past. That she is a woman of truth and veracity, and that faith is due to her Oath, that her memory is good. And
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I further certify, that I never knew her to write her name, which is the reason why the now makes her mark 
[Signed] O. H. Williams J.P. 

State of New York}
County of Schoharie} ss.  
I, William M. Holton Clerk of the said County, Do Certify that O. H. Williams before whom the preceeding Affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily that his name subscribed to said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signatures  Witness my hand and seal of office this 20th day of March 1840 
[SEAL]
[Signed] William M. Holton Clerk.

State of New York} 
Schoharie County,} ss. 
George A. Lintner, pastor of St. Pauls Luthern Ch[urch] of the town and county of Schoharie and State aforesaid, being duly sworn, saith that on an examination of the records of said Church, he finds therein recorded the age of Catharine Hitzman, in these words and figures, viz: 
Catharine Hitzman was born March 11, 176[cut off]] 
[Signed] G.A. Lintner
Subscribed and Sworn}
this 20th day of March} 
1840, before me} 
[Signed] David Miles Justice of the peace
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State of New York 
Otsego County ss. 
Thomas Thompson of the town of Cherry Valley, in the County and State aforesaid, being first duly sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that he is now in the Seventy seventh year of his age, that during the American revolution, this deponent was enrolled in the company of Militia under the command of Captain Rynier Van Everen, in the regiment of Militia under the command of Colonel Samuel Campbell and which regiment after the destruction of Cherry Valley was under the command of Colonel Samuel Clyde, and that the said regiment belonged to the then County of Tryon. 
And this deponent further saith, that he does not now recollect the year, but that it was the same year, when Brant and his indians burnt and destroyed the Houses, barns and the Church at Fort Plain on the Mohawk river, that the Militia of Tryon County, were ordered out, and among other regiments, the regiment under the command of Colonel Samuel Clyde was also ordered out, to guard the provissions [sic] and munitions of war, for the Garrison at Fort Stanxwic [Stanwix] at the head of the Mohawk river. That the deponent when with his regiment on that tour of duty, and that they did guard and deliver the said provisions and munitions of War into Fort Stanwic. That this deponent well recollects, that Captain Brown with his company of Militia from Rhinebeck and Turlock accompanied the said expedition, and went with the said regiment to Fort Stanxwic, and that upon this expedition, the regiment were absent for more then a fortnight. And further this deponent saith not.
[Signed] Thomas Thompson

Sworn before me this 5th day of April 1839. 
[Signed] J. D. Hammond, First Judge of Otsego County
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And I the said Judge, do certify that I have been personally acquainted with the within named Thomas Thompson for thirty years past. That he is a man of truth and veracity, and that full faith is due to his attestations. 
[signed] Jabez D. Hammond 
First Judge as above stated -


Crosswise at bottom:
Thomas Thompson
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State of New York}
Schoharie County} ss.
Jacob Snyder, in the 80th year of his age, being duly sworn, saith, that he was well acquainted with Matthias Brown, in the Revolutionary War, and saw him in the service a number of times at the fort in Schoharie in the year that Burgoyne Surrendered, but the length of time he served he cannot state with precision
[Signed] Jacob Snyder
Subscribed and sworn this 29th day of April 1839, before me 
[Signed] David Miles Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Jacob Snyder is a person of veracity. 
[Signed] David Miles Justice of the peace
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State of New York 
Schoharie County SS. 
I, William M. Holton Clerk of the said County. Do Certify that David Miles, before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing, And verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature - Witness my hand and seal of office this 29th day of April 1839. 
[SEAL]
[Signed] William M. Holton, Clerk. 

Crosswise, at bottom:
Jacob Snyder
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State of New York
Schohary County ss. 
Jacob France of the town of Cobeskill [Cobleskill] in the said County, being duly sworn on the holy Evangalist of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that in addition to and in explanation to his former affidavit taken before Jacob L. Lawyer Esquire one of the Justices of the peace of the said County and now in the pension office at the City of Washington, the deponent says, that after he returned from the Unadilla in the year 1777, under the command of General Herkimer, in the early part of the summer of that year, as stated in his first affidavit That in the month of August of that year when General Herkimer called out the Militia along the Mohawk river, to repel St. Ledger [sic]. Colonel Campbell ordered out Captain Matthias Brown with his company of Rhinebeck and Turlock to Fort Plank near the Mohawk river, that part of the company {and that the deponent was one of those) was left to garrison Fort Plank, and the rest under Captain Brown whent on to Fort Herkimer, and that on this tour of duty they were absent from six to seven weeks at least according to the best of his knowledge before Captain Brown returned home with his company. [In margin: 1777 from 6 to 7 weeks 1.12] And this deponent further saith, that he cannot now recollect and remember the particular years in which he did Militia duty under Captain Brown, but from circumstances and events that did take place, during the revolutionary war. And the deponent on his Oath says, that during the year that Cherry Valley was burned and destroyed by Butler and Brant, he served under Captain Brown, with his company at Fort Plain and Fort Plank near the Mohawk, at least three months during that year, before Captain Brown returned home with his company [In margin: not specified 3- (illegible) to claimant]. And this deponent further says, that the year that General Sullivan and Clinton marched into the Indian Country to destroy and rout the Indians at the Seneca
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and Cauga [Cayuga?] Lakes, In the fall of that year, he again served under Captain Brown in his company at Fort Plain, and was on that tour of duty, to the best of his knowledge and believe, at least between two and three months [In margin: 3-]. And this deponent further saith, that the year, Sir John Johnson, Butler and Brant, distroyed [sic] and burned the Valley of the Schohary and the Mohawk Country, he the deponent with others were drafted out of the Company of Captain Brown, to serve in the Corps denominated the Nine Months Men, and were sent by Captain Brown under the charge of Sergeant Lodowick Kling to Fort Herkimer and a promise was made to them by Captain Brown that he would relieve them at the end of three months, and that the deponent after he was at Fort Herkimer enlisted in the service of the Nine Months men under Captain Bigbread, and afterwards did not again serve under Captain Brown. 
And this deponent further saith, that the following men composed the company of Captain Brown, viz. Jacob Heyns Lieutenant, Conrad Brown Lieutenant, Jeremiah Junk or Young Ensign. Sergeants, Ernest Fritz, Ludowick Kling, Jacob Heyntz, Corporals Michael Frederick, John Angle, Andrew Fighter, Matthias Merkle, and that at one time, the brother of the deponent Christopher Frantz was also a sergeant. The privates were the following Charles Heerwag, Robert Arson, Christian Lam, Herman Barnhart, Michael J. Merkle, William Heyntz, Frederick Strobeck, John Hess, Cornelius Laux, Christian Minard, Michael Merkle, Michael Frederick, Zacharia Junk or Young, Adam Yordon, Matthias Junk or Young, Jacobus Hopper, George Angell, Peter Crais or Crank, William Angle, John Conrad, Adam Strobeck, Christian Ottman, Christian
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Rettig or Ritter, Frederick Merkel, George Crais or Crause, George Walker, Jacob Van de Werke, Philip Hoffman, Peter Junk or Young, Isaac Falk, Wilhelmus Lummer, John Carger, Hendrick Fratz or Fratts, with his Brothers Christopher Frantz John Frantz and this deponent were members of Captain Browns company, and that they all lived neighbors in Rhinebeck and Turlock and that many of them were blood connections and by marriage. 
And this deponent further said, That he is perfectly certain, that in the aggregate of the time from 1777 until he enlisted in Captain Bigbreads company, he served full nine months if not more under Captain Brown in his company of Militia, altho it is not in his power now to enumerate the number of days, weeks and months that he did service under Captain Brown, and that the Statement he gives under his solemn Oath is true to the best of his knowledge and believe, and further saith not.
Jacob (X his mark) France
Sworn before me this 
note in line 21, the words they were absent interlined
18th day of March 1840 [?] 
[Signed] Jacob L. Lawyer Justice
of the Peace

I Jacob L. Lawyer do certify that Jacob France who has made the above affidavit before me, is a man of character and respectability and of truth and veracity, who retains his [illegible] faculties and memory [will?], And that full faith is due to his oath. And I also certify that I live in the neighborhood of the said France and have known him for Thirty years past and longer, and that the reason why he makes his mark, and does not write his name is, that he never learned to write his name, and that he always makes his mark. 
[Signed] Jacob L Lawyer Justice of the Peace
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Facts submitted on
the application of
Matthias Brown
for
pension
N.Y.
addl. proof
Matthias Brown
Act '32


Henry F. Yates
Carlisle
Schoharie Co.
N. York
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Historical facts in relation to the revolutionary War in the County of Tryon, New York.
1th. The County of Tryon, bordered on upper Canada, in the revolutionary war, and included within its bounds, Harpersfield, Rhinebeck, Turlock, Cherry Valley, Unadilla, Springfield. These settlements were situated from Ten to Forty miles from the Mohawk river. In the Valley of the Mohawk, were the settlements, and where, were also situated Fort Hunter, Caughnawaga, Johnstown four miles North of the Mohawk; Forts Plank, Clyde and Fort Plain, in the lower Valley; with the Forts Herkimer, Dayton, and Stanswic [Stanwix], the later was during the war called Fort Schuyler in the upper Valley, near the scources [sic] of the Mohawk. 
2th. Prior to the year 1777, there were no incursions made by the Tories and Indians, into Tryon County.
That year Burgoyne left Canada, and invaded, this State, by the way of Lake Champlain; and sent General St. Ledger [St. Leger] by the way of Oswego, to push his way down the Mohawk and meet him at Albany on the Hudson river. In the month of August of that year, General Herkimer with the Tryon County militia, marched for the relief of Fort Schuyler or Stanswic, then besieged by St. Ledger, and was meet by the forces of St. Ledger at Oriskany, a few miles from the Fort, were [sic] General Herkimer and the principal part of his forces fell. St. Ledger however was deserted finally by his Indian allies, and was obliged to retreat to Montreal. 
In the fall of this year however, the inhabitants of Schohary began to feel the effects of Indian and tory vengeance. Schohary then was part of the County of Albany. 
3th.  In 1778 the massacre, at Springfield, Cherry Valley,
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and Wyoming took place, by Butler and Brant, and the settlements in the Valley of the Schohary, were invaded by the Tories and Indians, under one McDonald, who committed great depredations on the frontiers. 
4th. In 1779, Generals Sullivan and Clinton, invaded the Indian settlements on the Cauga [Cayuga] and Seneca Lakes, in consequence of the dreadfull devastations the Indians had committed in the two previous years, and distroyed all their towns, in the vicinity of those Lakes, and drove them back on Niagara. But during the latter part of the summer a party of the Onondagas, after the destruction of their towns by Col. Van Schaick, made an incursion into Schohary, and perpetrated some murders and burned several dwellings &c. Schohary lies about twenty miles from the Mohawk river. 
5. In 1780 Sir John Johnson, with Butler and Brant invaded the Schohary and Mohawk Vallies [sic]. Schohary was devastated in the month of October, and Cobeskill [Cobleskill] in Tryon County, a distance of about Ten miles from the lower Fort in Schohary, suffered by burning and massacre at the same time, after the destruction of Schohary, this settlement ceased to be so much an object of Tory vengeance. From Schohary Sir John passed down the Schohary river to the Mohawk, and burned and massacred the inhabitants of Fort Hunter and Caughnawaga. From Caughnawaga Sir John passed up the North side of the Mohawk, ravaging [?] and burning everything in his [course?] made his escape through the woods to Canada. 
Early in the spring of this year, a party of Tories and Indians distroyed Harpersfield.
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In the winter of this year Fort Schuyler was in great distress for provissions [sic], a convoy was dispatched from Schenectaday in Sleighs and the Militia of Tryon, marched to guard the convoy to Fort Schuyler. 
6th In 1781 it was necessary that provissions and munitions should be sent to Forts Dayton and Schuyler on the upper Mohawk; and as a constant warfare was carried on in the vicinity of the Forts on the Mohawk by parties of Indians and Tories under Brant: The militia of Tryon County, were called out in a body, to guard those provissions and munitions, which were conveyed in Battoes [sic] or boats to their respective destinations.
In the summer of this year, Indians and tories under John Dockstader, burned and massacred the inhabitants of Currystown within two miles of the Mohawk, and then retreated South to Turlock, where Col Willet with some New York levies and the Tryon County militia, over took them, fought and dispersed them. 
While the militia were out guarding the provissions and munitions to Dayton and Schuyler, after they had passed Dayton, Brant who had been watching them, by his spies and runners, observing that the battoes were well guarded, burned his course South and East, and Knowing that the militia were all out, and that Fort Plain was defenceless [sic], marched to attack it. But when he came near it, he found the Fort well maned [manned] and defended, he contented himself with burning about twelve dwellings, with Barns, and the Church, distroying the farm Utensils, and Killing and driving off the
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cattel of the inhabitants. The historic fact is, that the Reverend Mr Gros chaplain to Col. Willets regiment, assumed the command of the Fort, and the inhabitants on the approach of the Indians fled into the Fort. There were none but old men, women and children in the Fort, Mr. Gros ordered the men to strip off their jackets and coates, and each women to put on a Jacket or coat and the hats of the men, shoulder muskets and mount the ramparts, so that the Domine [?] made quite a respectable figure, with his female soldiers, and scared Brant off, who dare not attack him. 
In August of this year Major Ross and Captain Walter Butler, came from Canada by the way of the Sacondaga [sic] river, to Johnstown with five hundred British, tories and indians. They were met by Col. Willet at Johnson Hall, with 300 levies and 200 militia and defeated. The incursion of Ross and Butler, was the last made into the County of Tryon. Indeed, there was no longer any thing to destroy; the inhabitants lost all but the soil which they cultivated, their butiful [sic] country, except in the vicinity of the Forts was turned into a wilderness. 
I ought to have observed, that in the retreat of St Ledger in 1777, and the success of the American arms at Benington, restored hope and amination. Tryon County, smiling through her tears, for her looses [sic] at Oriskaney, obeyed with alacrity the call to rinforce [sic] General Gates at Saratoga, in the month of September following. Her militia, some on horseback, others on foot, sallied forth, and joined the camp at Saratoga. 
I have thrown together, the above historical
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facts, to show what diversified scenes, the militia of Tryon County were obliged to encounter from 1777 to 1781. It was computed by the ablest and soundest men, at the conclusion of the war, that one third part of the male population, were tories and whent off with the Johnsons to Canada, and that one third were Killed in battle and massacred by the Indians and their more merciless allies the Tories; and the remainder had to stand the heat, fatigue, and burden of the war. 
All which is respectfully submited, on the application for a pension for Captain Matthias Brown of the Tryon County militia. May 1839.
[Signed] Henry F. Yates 
Attorney for applicant.
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Jacob Enders
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State of New York 
Schohary County ss. 
Jacob Enders of the town of Schohary in the said County being duly sworn on the holy Evangalist of Almighty God deposeth and saith that he was born the 25th day of August 1756 and is now in the Eighty fourth year of his age, That during the revolutionary War he lived in the part of Schohary which then belonged to the County of Albany. That the deponent was acquainted with Mathias Brown who lived at a place called Rhinebeck in the County of Tryon. And the deponent further says that the year before Independence was declared, the deponent was enrolled in the Company of Militia under the command of Captain Strobeck [?] in Colonel Peter Vroomans militia regiment. That he with his company under the command of Lieutenant John Fitts when marched to Turlock to the house of Frederick Merkle where they met the Rhinebeck and Turlock Company of Militia commanded by Matthias Brown, on an alarm that the Indians were seen at the Brimstone Hill. That they remained their [sic] between one and two weeks when they were discharged and returned home. That when they started for home Brown and his company, marched off to the Mohawk river, as was [illegible] to Fort Plain. That he well recollects Jacob Heyns, Jeremiah Youngs, John Angle, Christian Lam, Herman Bernhart,  Christopher Frantz, Michael Merkle, William Heynts, Christian Meinard, Zacharia Young, Mathias Young, John Frantz, Frederick Merkle, Peter Young, Henry Fratz or Fratts as composing part of Browns company of Militia and saw them march off under Brown. And the deponent further saith, That the winter when General Schuyler disarmed Sir John
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State of New York 
Schohary County ss. 
Jacob Enders of the town of Schohary in the said County being duly sworn on the holy Evangalist of Almighty God deposeth and saith that he was born the 25th day of August 1756 and is now in the Eighty fourth year of his age, That during the revolutionary War he lived in the part of Schohary which then belonged to the County of Albany. That the deponent was acquainted with Mathias Brown who lived at a place called Rhinebeck in the County of Tryon. And the deponent further says that the year before Independence was declared, the deponent was enrolled in the Company of Militia under the command of Captain Strobeck [?] in Colonel Peter Vroomans militia regiment. That he with his company under the command of Lieutenant John Fitts when marched to Turlock to the house of Frederick Merkle where they met the Rhinebeck and Turlock Company of Militia commanded by Matthias Brown, on an alarm that the Indians were seen at the Brimstone Hill. That they remained their [sic] between one and two weeks when they were discharged and returned home. That when they started for home Brown and his company, marched off to the Mohawk river, as was [illegible] to Fort Plain. That he well recollects Jacob Heyns, Jeremiah Youngs, John Angle, Christian Lam, Herman Bernhart,  Christopher Frantz, Michael Merkle, William Heynts, Christian Meinard, Zacharia Young, Mathias Young, John Frantz, Frederick Merkle, Peter Young, Henry Fratz or Fratts as composing part of Browns company of Militia and saw them march off under Brown. And the deponent further saith, That the winter when General Schuyler disarmed Sir John
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Johnson, the militia of Schohary under Col Peter Vrooman were called out and [illegible]  the deponent under either Captain Strobreck or Captain Peter Snyder, but which of those he does not now recollect as he served under both Captains at the said begining of the revolutionary war, when the [illegible] to Caughnawaga  when the regiment [illegible] on the ice on the [illegible], and fr[illegible] and marched into the village of Johnstown where they meet Brown and his company, and where he saw and [illegible] with the [illegible], and that they where out [illegible] that [illegible] time four weeks before they arrived in Schohary again, and that when they left Johnstown they left Brown and his company their. And further saith not. 
Jacob (X his mark) Enders
Sworn before me this 21st day of Justice of the Peace 

And the said Justice do Certify, that I personally know the above Jacob Enders, that he is the person who made the above Oath before me. And from the Oath of Alexander Vrooman, a person to me well known, who testified before me, That he is well acquainted with the aforesaid Jacob Enders, and has been well acquainted with the aforesaid Jacob Enders for Thirty years past, That the said Jacob Enders [illegible] always [illegible] [reputation?] of a man of truth and veracity, and that in the opinion of the said Alexander Vrooman full faith is due to his oath. 
[Signed] O.H. Williams Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Schohary County ss. 
John Sweetman in the Seventy seventh year of his age, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that the deponent resided with his Father Thomas Sweetman in Ballstown, in Saratoga County at the commencement of the revolutionary war. 
That news came into Ballstown, in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Eight, that Brant the Mohawk chief, with seven hundred indians, were at the Brimstone Hill near Cherry Valley; and great fears were intertained, that Brant and his warriors intended to run down and destroy the settlement of Schohary. That thereupon, the one half of the Militia of Ballstown under the command of Colonel Van Schonhoven, were immediately called out and marched for Schohary. 
And the deponent further saith, that one David Maxwell a near neighbor of the deponents Father, among others were ordered out. That the said David Maxwell not being willing to go, hired the deponent as his substitute, and that the deponent whent as the substitute of the said David Maxwell, in the militia company then commanded by Lieutenant Epinetus White. That the second day after they marched from Ballstown, they arrived at the Stone Fort in Schohary;  were [sic] the deponent saw one Captain Brown, who had under his command a number of Militia men, that they remained in the Fort about a week and then returned to Ballstown, and that while the deponent remained in the said Fort, the said Captain Brown, continued their [sic], and that he often seen him excercise the men. 
And the deponent further saith, that in the year one thousand Eight hundred, he removed with his family from Ballstown, into the town of Carlilse, in the County of Schohary: And that the de[ponent]
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[de]ponent, then found, that the same identical Captain Brown, whom the deponent had seen in the Stone fort in Schohary, in Seventy Eight, was one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Schohary. That the said Judge Brown, generally was called Matthias Brown, and then resided at a place called Rhinebeck, now in the said town of Carlilse, on the same farm he now resides on. 
And further the deponent saith not. 
[Signed] John Sweetman 
Sworn before me the 23th day of February 1839. 
[Signed] John Osterhout Justice 

And I the said Justice, do Certify that I am personally acquainted with the said John Sweetman, and have been so acquainted with him, for the last fifteen years: That the said John Sweetman is a man of Character, of truth and varacity [sic], and that full faith is due to his attestation under Oath.
[Signed] John Osterhout Justice
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State of New York 
County of Schohary [sic] ss. 
Elias Hilsinger of the town of Decatur in the County of Otsego, being duly sworn deposeth and saith: That at the commencement of the revolutionary war, the deponents Father Michael Hilsinger lived and resided at a place called Rhinebeck in the County of Tryon. That Matthias Brown, now an applicant for a pension, lived and resided in the same place, between one and a half and two miles from his Fathers residence. That the deponent well recollects, that the said Matthias Brown was a Captain of the Militia of Rhinebeck and Turlock. 
That Schohary was run down and burned by Sir John Johnson, in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty. 
And the deponent further saith, that when he was a boy from twelve to fifteen years old, for three or four years, before the distruction of Schohary by Sir John Johnson, he frequently saw Captain Matthias Brown, marching his company of Militia, past the dwelling house of the deponent Father (the only road then run past his Fathers house, to the Mohawk River.) That whenever the deponent and others of his Fathers family saw Captain Brown marching past, he or some of the family, on inquiring which way, they were marching and that the answer always was to either Fort Plain, Fort Plank, or Fort Herkimer, on the Mohawk. 
And this deponent further saith, that at that early period, their where but few grist mills at either Cobes-Kill [Cobleskill] or on the Schohary creek, that could grind the whole year: That at one time, the deponent was sent by his Father, with a grist of Wheat, to Van Alstynes Mill, at Canajohary [Canajoharie], near the Mohawk river; and that the deponent whent in company with Captain Brown, and his company, consisting between twenty five and thirty men, when he was informed by some of the company that they were on their march to Fort Plain and Fort Herkimer.
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And the deponent further saith, that before Sir John Johnson, burned many houses and barns in Schohary the deponents Father, with all his Family removed from Rhinebeck to Schohary, into the Stone Fort, which consisted of a stone house and a stone church which were picketed in; and that they continued to live their till the war was over. And that when his Father and his Family moved into the Fort, they found the said Captain Brown in command of the said fort; and that he continued in command of the said fort, for some weeks, but how long the deponent does not know; nor can the deponent distinctly say, whether it was in Seventy Eight or Seventy Nine, when his Father with his family moved into the fort. 
And the deponent further saith, that after his removal, with his Father into the Fort, the deponent was enrolled in and did duty in Captain Peter Snyders company of Militia in Colonel Vroomans regiment: And that the deponent with his Captain and company, where in the Fort at Cobeskill [Cobleskill], where he saw the said Captain Brown, with a number of his company, but how long they remained, the deponent does not know. 
And the deponent further saith, that the said Captain Brown, was always called Matthias Brown, and that he is the same identical Matthias Brown, who after the war was appointed a Judge of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Schohary; and that he now resides on the same farm, where he resided during the war. And further saith not. Note the word Eight 14th line and the word him 43th lines erazed
Elias (X his mark) Hilsinger
Sworn before me the 
23th day of February 1839. 
[Signed] John Osterhout Justice
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State of New York 
Schohary County ss. 
Isaac W. Fero of the town of Carlilse in the said County, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he is personally acquainted with the above Elias Hillsinger (who is now present before him). That the deponent has been intimately acquainted with the said Elias Hillsinger more then fifteen years. That the said Elias never to the deponents knowledge has been able to write his name. That the deponent has had a good deal of business with the said Elias and has taken in the course of his deal with the said Elias a number of Notes of hand, and that the said Elias always made his mark as he has done to the above affidavit. And further saith not. Note the '"and has been so acquainted with him for" first erazed. 
[Signed] Isaac W Fero
Sworn before me this 23th day of February 1839. 
[Signed] John Osterhout Justice 

And I the said Justice do certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Elias Hilsinger for the last Ten years; and with the said Isaac W. Fero, also for the last Ten years; that they are men of Character and of truth and veracity, and that full faith is due to their respective Attestations. 
[Signed] John Osterhout Justice
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State of New York} 
County of Schoarie ss.} 
I, William M. Holton clerk Clerk of the said County, Do Certify that John Osterhout before whom the preceeding Affidavits purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature - Witness my hand and seal of office this 29th day of April 1839
[SEAL]
[Signed]  William M. Holton Clerk
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State of New York 
Montgomery County ss. 
John Yordon of the town of Canajohary [Canajoharie], in the County of Montgomery, in the Eighty first year of his age, being duly sworn, deposeth and says; that he was a Militia soldier from the commencement of the American revolution first in the company of Militia under the command of Captain Seeber[?], and afterwards in Captain Crouse's company and after the Oriskany battle, he the deponent did serve in the company of Militia command by Captain Adam Lipe in Colonel Cox's regiment; that Colonel Cox fell in the battle of Oriskany, and that the regiment after that battle was commanded by Colonel Samuel Campble [Campbell], who continued in command of said regiment until after Cherry Valley, was burned and destroyed by Butler and Brant: After the distruction of Cherry Valley, the said Regiment was commanded by Colonel Samuel Clyde. And the deponent further saith, that the inhabitants of Freys-bush a distance of about Three miles from Fort Plain, built a stockade Fort for the protection of their families, and named it after their Colonel Fort Clyde. And the deponent further saith that that part of the inhabitants living near to and about Fort Clyde, belonging to Captain Lipes company, guarded the said Fort, and in case of eminent danger from the Indians and tories, the inhabitants of the whole settlement of Freys-bush, with their families took shelter in the said Fort, which was frequently the case after the battle of Oriskany in 1777. And the deponent further saith that after that battle the Indians, and Tories under Butler, Sir John Johnson and Brant until the year 1781, frequently invaded the Settlements in Schohary, and those on the Mohawk river, including the settlement at Cherry Valley, and those of Fort Hunter, Curriestown,
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Caughnawaga, Johnstown, Stone Arabia, on the Mohawk river, so that the militia of Tryon County were every year from 1777 to 1781 called out and had to march to defend and protect those places, and drive off the Indians and tories, and to guard provissions [sic] in the summer seasons, to Fort Herkimer, Dayton and Stanxwic [Stanwix] or Schuyler. 
And the deponent further saith that he has frequently seen Captain Matthias Brown, who was Captain of the company of Militia of the settlements of Rhinebeck and Turlock, and who belonged to Colonel Clydes Regiment, stop at Fort Clyde with his company of about Thirty men, when the deponent was in the said Fort, where they took their dinner, and after dinner saw him and his company march off towards the Mohawk river, but the particular years in which he saw Captain Brown and his company at Fort Clyde he cannot now state. And further saith not. 
John (X his mark) Yordon
Sworn before me this 27th day of April 1839. 
[Signed] Matthew F Champlin Justice 

And the said John Yordon in addition to his aforesaid affidavit, further deposeth and saith, that in the opinion and solmn believe [sic] of the deponent, the Militia of the County of Tryon, from the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy seven, until the close of the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one where called out and did military duty for more then three months, in each and every year between those two periods. And further saith not
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John (X his mark) Yordon
Sworn before me this 27th day of April 1839.
[Signed] Matthew F. Champlin Justice of the peace 

And I the said Justice do certify, that from general report, and from the examination of Henry F. Yates with whom I have been personal acquainted for the last ten years, and who was sworn before me to answer such questions, as I should put to him, touching the character and standing of the aforesaid John Yordon, who has subscribed the aforesaid affidavits before me by making his mark. And that the said Henry F. Yates did declare under oath, that he has been personally acquainted with the said John Yordon for more then forty years, that he was brought up in the same neighborhood where the said John Yordon now resides, and that he has known him from his youth, and that the said John Yordon is a man of respectable standing in society, and that full faith is due to his attestation under Oath, and that the said John Yordan never could write his name, and always made his mark. And the said Henry F. Yates further declared that he is now in the Sixty second year of his age. All which I certify to be correct in my Judgment and believe. 
[Signed] Matthew F. Champlin 
Justice of the peace of the town 
of Canajoharie Montgomery County
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State of New York} 
Montgomery County} ss.  
I certify that Matthew F. Camplin Esqr whose name is subscribed to the Jurat &c of the forgoing affidavits and certificates was on the day the date of same a Justice of the County of Montgomery duly Elected & Sworn And that the signature subscribed as aforesaid is his genuine Signature. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this thirtieth day of April 1839 
[SEAL]
[Signed] A.J. Counce Clerk