Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,711, David Brooks, Continental Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Continental
Penn.
Brooks, David
Maria M. 
NUMBER
W. 23,711
B.L. Wt. 1909-200
CONTENTS
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New York 494
Maria M. Brooks
Pa
widow of David Brooks
who was an Ajct. Clothier Genl
in the Revolution

nscribed on the Roll at the rate of
600 Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Increased from $320

Certificate of Pension issued the
19th day of October 1843
and sent to P. M. Irving, Esqr
15 ½ Wall Street, New York.
Former payment of $160 to be deducted

Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1
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Page 101
Reported to Pension Agent by letter
Increase of Pens
allowed David Brooks
decd under Act of 7th
June 1832. See papers
within
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Know all men by these presents, that I David Brooks of the City & State of New York a surviving officer of the Revolutionary War have made constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make substitute and appoint William Radcliff, my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name place and stead, to apply, ask for, & receive from the Secretary of War, or from any other officer of the War Department authorized to grant the same the Warrant for my Bounty Land that I may be entitled to receive from the United States on account of my services in the Revolutionary War, or on any other account whatsoever, and on receipt of the same due acquittances and discharged for me and in my name to sign, seal, and execute. 

Hereby giving and granting unto my said Attorney full power and authority in and about the premises; And generally to do every act or thing necessary to be done in order to obtain said Bounty Land, and which I might or could do if personally present. Thereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said Attorney shall lawfully do by virtue hereof. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the seventeenth day of January A. D. 1833
Sealed & delivered in present of 
[signature] Fred D Priest
[signature] Edwd. Radcliff
[signature] David Brooks

United States of America
City & State of New York Ss: Be it known that
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on the  day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three before me Edward Radcliff a notary public in and for the State of New York, duly commissioned and sworn, dwelling in the City of New York, personally came David Brooks known to me to be the same person described in the within Power of Attorney and acknowledged the same to be his act, and deed. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my Seal of office the day and year last above written. 
[signature] Edward Radcliff
Notary Public

[image of affixed seal]
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United States of America
City & State of New York Ss:  David Brooks of the City of New York a surviving officer of the Revolution War, being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he has never received from the United States any Bounty Land for his services in the Revolutionary War, neither in pursuance of the acts of Congress granting him pay for life, nor in the pursuance of any other act, or Resolution of Congress. 
[signature] David Brooks

Sworn to this  day of January A.D. 1933 before me
[signature] Edwd. Radcliff
Notary Public
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No 8614
Declaration of
Maria M. Brooks
(Widow) under the
act of Congress of July
7th 1838, &c &c

admd
2 yrs Lt. Infy
$320

Hon NP Talmadge
Poughkeepsie NY
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Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," and also of a joint resolution of Congress approved August 16th 1842, entitled "a resolution declarative of the pension act of July 7th 1838" 

State of New York
City and County of New York Ss:
On this twenty third day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before me Maria M. Brooks a resident of the City and County of New York aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" and also for joint resolution of Congress, approved August 16th 1842, entitled "a resolution declarative of the pension act of July 7 1838" That she is the widow of David Brooks, who was a lieutenant of infantry in the Pennsylvania line, and held the office of assistant clothier general in the army of the Revolution. 



She further declares that she was married to the said David Brooks on the twentieth day of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven, that her husband, aforesaid David Brooks died on the twenty ninth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
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that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated. 

She further declares that her said husband was pensioned, as a lieutenant of infantry in the Pennsylvania line, under some one of the acts of Congress, granting pensions for revolutionary services, but she is unable to state under what act the same was allowed, and she would refer to the evidence of service of her said husband now in file with the Pension Department, on which his said pension was allowed and also to the evidence heretofore presented by her, and now in the hands of the Committee on Pensions of the Senate of the United States, and also to the evidence hereunto annexed. 
[signature] Maria M. Brooks

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me. 
[signature] Wm Inglis Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of New York

I, William Inglis one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the City and County of New York, where the above declarant resides do certify, that the above declaration was made before me at the dwelling home of said declarant in said City she being prevented by reason of bodily infirmity, from attending the Court of Common
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Pleas aforesaid for the purpose of making said declaration. 
[signature] Wm Inglis
assoc: Judge New York Com Pleas

State of New York
City and County of New York, Ss:  I Nathaniel Jarvis, Clerk of the City and County of New York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said City and County, do certify that the Hon. William Inglis whose name is subscribed to the preceding certificates, is Associate Judge of said Court duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts, and that said signatures are genuine. 
In witness whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 25th day of Febry. 1843
[signature] Nathl Jarvis, Clk
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In the matter of the application of Maria M Brooks widow of David Brooks late of the City of New York to the War Department of the United States. 

State of New Jersey
County of Essex Ss:
I Ansel D Eddy of the city of Newark in the County of Essex and state aforesaid do depose and say that I hold the office of Pastor of the first Presbyterian Church in said city that I have been informed and believe that Alexander McWhorter was pastor of the church to which I am now attached from the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine until the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, and that the said Alexander McWhorter  was duly authorized to solemnize marriages  according to law, that I have made search for the records of marriages by said Alexander McWhorter , that I have never been able to discover any such records among the papers and documents of said church in my possession or elsewhere, and that I have never been informed nor do I know of the existence of any such records
[signature] A. D. Eddy

Affirmed and subscribed before me November 29, 1838
[signature] Stephen R Haines Justice of the Peace
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State of New Jersey
County of Essex Ss
I Elias Van Ansdale Junior Clerk of the inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said county of Essex in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Stephen R Haines Esquire before whom the foregoing affirmation appears to have been taken was at the time the same was taken and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Essex, and that the signature of said Stephen R Haines annexed thereto is his proper hand writing and genuine signature and that full faith and credit are due to the foregoing and to his other official acts as well in courts of justice as elsewhere. 

In testimony whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office the thirtieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. 
[signature] Elias Andale Jr Clk
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State of New York
County of Wyoming Ss: 
Maria Hosford of the Town of Castile in the county aforesaid, being sworn deposes and says - that she is the wife of John Hosford of the same place, that she is a second cousin of Maria M. Brooks the wide of David Brooks deceased who resides in the City of New York and who is an applicant for a pension on account of the revolutionary services of the said David Brooks - that the maiden name of said Maria was Neil - that deponent is now in the sixty sixth year of her age - that deponent was present at the marriage of Maria with said David -that said marriage was solemnized by the Rev. Alexander McWhorter Pastor of the first Prespyterian Church in Newark New Jersey at the house of her Step Father Col. Samuel Hay in the Town of Acquacanook in the State of New Jersey and that the last mentioned place is a few miles distant from Newark aforesaid - that said marriage took place to the best of deponents recollection and belief on the twenty third day of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven
[signature] Maria Hosford

Subscribed and sworn before me this 11 day of April 1843, 
[signature] Alonzo B. Rose a Justice of the Peace of said County. 
I further certify that I am well acquainted with Mr John Hosford and Mariah his wife who has made the above affadavit and consider them to be people of unimpeachable character. 
[signature] Alonzo B Rose Justice
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State of New York
Wyoming County Ss
I Nelson Woolcott Clerk of the County of Wyoming - do hereby certify that Alonzo B. Rose whose name is subscribed on this sheet to the attestation of Maria Hosford, was at the time of taking such deposition a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county - dwelling therin and duly authorized by law to administer oaths and affirmations and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verify believe that the signature above written is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this thirteenth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three. 
[signature] Nelson Woolcott Clerk
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D Brooks
Recd 8 Dec 1829

[stamp] FREE
Hon. Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington

[circular stamp] NEW YORK
DEC 5
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Office of the Courier
New York. Dec. 4, 1828.

Sir, 
My father, Col. David Brooks requests me to acknowledge the receipt of a circular from the treasury department dated Nov. 29th calling upon him for further proof as to his having served in the Revolutionary Army. His difficulty is this - of the officers of the Pennsylvania line who were captured with him at Fort Washington, not one is known to be living - after his eighteen months captivity, he returned to the army and accepted a staff appointment as Assistant Clothier General (under Gen. Wilkinson) with a Colonel's emoluments, as such was at the close of the war one of the founders of the Cincinnati Society a diploma of which he now holds bearing the signatures of Genl Washington and John Knox. Of all the officers of the Cincinnati in this state not one except himself was at the capture of Fort Washington, nor a fellow prisoner with him subsequently. Consequently, they cannot vouch for his early services, although nearly all of them remember him as a staff officer, attached to head quarters for nearly four years after this exchange. 

Our late Governor Dewitt Clinton when a boy, living at New Burgh, was often at my father's quarters and knew him well. As a proof of this I enclose a letter addressed to yourself when minister to England at a time when I expected to go to London to prosecute some old claims of our family against the English Government. Circumstances prevented my going, and the letter of course was never delivered to you. It is now enclosed as an additional evidence, and I ask it of your kindness to return it to me, as it is, one of the few mementos I have of a man to whom I was much attached. 

If my fathers Cincinnati diploma would be of any service as additional proof, it will be enclosed - he presumes not, in as much as the affidavits of Col. Platt and Col. Morris (forwarded to
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the Department last summer. that he was an original member of the Cincinnati, and an officer of the army, have not been deemed sufficient. 

the Regiment in which my father entered as Lieutenant in 76 was the first quota furnished by Pennsylvania, and from all that we can learn, the archives of that state contain as records of that is settled period of the Revolutionary War. His own affidavit of his seven years services he is ready to make, and that he is not a man to state untruths or to be doubted for an instant the Patroon Van Rensselaer now in Washington and all the other eminent men in this state can bear witness. 

My father requests me to ask of your courtesy as early a decision as may be convenient as to the admissibility of his own testimony, in case the search he is now making for other documents should be unsuccessful, it being his intention to bring the case before the present Congress, should the only evidence he can offer at this late day be unsatisfactory to the Department.

With the highest respect 
I have the honor to be 
yr mo. obt svt.
[signature] James G Brooks. 

Hon. Richard Rush; Secretary of the Treasury.
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David Brooks
No 1909.
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Treasury Department
January 23d 1833

I [illegible] that David Brooks of the City of New York by virtue of a special act of Congress passed for his relief on the 29th of May 1830, is receiving the benefits of the act of the 15th of May 1828 as a Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania line of the Army of the Revolution.

[signature] A. Dickins. 
C. Clk.
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The president
refers the enclosed to the Secretary of the Treasury for his report thereon. 
A. J. 

To
Andrew Jackson
President of the U. States
Washington
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Office of the Courier and Enquirer
New York. June 27, 1829

To Andrew Jackson, President of the U. S. 

Sire, 
To you, as the head of the nation, I make the following statement. 
My father, David Brooks, was an officer of the Continental army, throughout the whole seven years war. More than a year ago, he sent on his claims substantiated by the affidavits of two officers of the Cincinnati. After the lapse of many months he received a circular demanding further proof. A laborious search resulted in the discovery of Doctor Beattie and Genl Smith in Bucks County Pennsylvania who knew him as an officer of the line when captured at Fort Washington. When his captivity of eighteen months was over he returned to head quarters, and by the advice of Genl Washington and without resigning his lineal rank he entered the staff, as assistant Clothier General (under Genl Wilkinson) with the emoluments of Colonel. The additional testimony of Doctor Beattie &c was forwarded in March last to the Treasury Department. No answer was vouchsafed - his only reply was the silence of neglect and indifference. Three weeks ago, my partner, Mr Webb, went to Washington on business of our establishment. I requested him to make enquiry about my father's claims. To my surprise, I learn that Mr Dickens, who has the management of these things, said that there was as such office in the Revolutionary Army, as assistant Clothier General! An office which my father filled for five years, the only one of that title in the whole continental army, and under the immediate orders and direction of Washington! The accompanying Diploma bearing the signature of Washington, will, prove how much Mr Dickens knows of Revolutionary affairs, and how easy it is for a clerk in office to wound the feelings of an old man of 73 by insinuating ought against the veracity of a person whose integrity is questioned for the first time, when he is on the brink of the grave. If I express myself too strongly Sire, I trust you will pardon me - I feel indignant whenever I think upon this subject. May I beg Sire that this Diploma may be returned to me - I should grieve to lose it.
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To you, Sire, as the President and protector of the People I appeal and ask that my father's claims may be examined by some other person than Mr Dickens, and an answer given. If they are founded on Justice and equity he relies upon the Government that they should not be defeated through the quibbling of ignorance. If they be not just, he is the last man to ask and he knows you to be the last man to sanction a compliance with them. In either case, he asks to be relieved from the suspense of deferred hope. His documents and my letters, are, or ought to be, on file in the Treasury Department. I have learned that Mr. Dickens had a charge of them, and similar claims, under the late Administration and therefore, I am convinced that from Mr Dickens, he will never get any satisfaction, or any answer, under the present. 

With most sincere respect 
Sire, I have the honor to be 
yr obt svt. 
[signature] James G. Brooks
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David Brooks Cincinnati certificate as 
Assistant Clothier General in the late Army
dated Mount Vernon, 10 Dec 1785

(signed) J Knox Secretary
(signed) G: Washington, President
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Bounty Land Office
July 2d 1829

W. Gordon has the honor to state, in reply to the inquiry of the Honbl. the Secretary of War, that the name of David Brooks is not returned on any of the Records of this office as an officer in any line of the Continental Army, or as entitled to Bounty Land. 

In the office of the 3d. Auditor he has ascertained that the name of David Brooks is returned as Quarter Master in Baxters Regt. of the Pennsylvania Line, and that he received pay in May 1778 - no further traces of his services present themselves in the investigation. 

To The Honl.
Jno H. Eaton
Secty of War
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Richard Rush Esq
Minute Plempotentiary &c
Lendon
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114
No. of orig Payb - 2,138

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
5 July 1828

David Brooks of the City County and State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the close of the war, 
at which period he was a Lieutenant in Col Baxter's regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received commutation  he does not say certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing. 
he states that without having resigned his commission, he was at the end of the war serving as assistant Clothier General. 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary, 
A. Dickins. 

On a subsequent examination of Mr. Brooks's case, it becomes desirable to ascertain whether either of the Clothier Generals James Mease, James Wilkinson or John Moylan * received commutation. Mr Hagner will please to cause inquiry to be made &=or any other person known to have belonged to the Clothiers Department. 
Aug 17. 1829
by order of the Secretary
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
July 7 1828
Neither of the gentlemen named appear to have received commutation, nor is it believed that any other person belonging to the Clothing did receive it. 3d Audit. Office. 17 Aug. 1829. 

[signature] P. Hagner
[all other typed language after this has been struck through] 

Lt David Brooks is not returned either for commutation or Land from the statement above; He did not serve to the end of the war in the Line of the Army. 
Peter Hagner Aud

Lt David Brooks Quarter Master of Col Baxters Regt has an account on the Books the only entries of which account in two debits amounting to 240 Dollars in May 1778. which which was closed by a general account of
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"officers of the Pennsylvania Line Prisoners"
June 10 1929
P.H. 

James Mease
James Wilkinson
John Moylan
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114
Revolutionary Claims. 

Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828. 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
20 Nov 1828
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of David Brooks
under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a
request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any
records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive,
the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army
of the Revolution.

[signature] R. Rush
The Hon. the Secretary of War. 

War Department
Bounty Land Office
It does not appear by the records of this office that David Brooks as an officer of the Pennsylvania line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States. 
[signature] Robert Taylor
25 Nov 1828
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I David Brooks of the City and State of New York, Do declare that I entered the army of the Revolution as a Lieutenant in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Baxter of the State of Pennsylvania; That I was taken prisoner (with many others) at the Capture of Fort Washington on the 16th of November 1776. And remained a prisoner until the 8th day of May 1778. When I was regularly exchanged together with others. After my exchange (without resigning my rank) I acted as Deputy Clothier General, under the then Clothier General James Mease Esquire, and continued in the same under his succession General Wilkinson until his resignation, and was then continued under his successor John Moylan, Esquire as assistant Clothier General, until the Close of the War; and on settlement of my accounts, received my pay in certificates which depreciated to two shillings or two shillings & six pence in the pound - or eight for one. I do further state and declare, that I have never received any pension or remuneration, except as above stated, from the United States. 
New York June 14th. 1828. 
[signature] David Brooks.
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City of New York Ss. 
Personally appeared before me John R Peters Alderman of the Ninth Ward of said City Col Richard Platt and Wm. W. Morris who being duly sworn depose and say that they were officers of the Revolution, and also that they know that David Brooks, now a resident of said City was also an officer of the Revolution Army. 
Sworn this 15th day of June 1828. 
before me 
[signature] Jno. R. Peters
Alderman
[signature] Richd. Platt. 
[signature] Wm. W. Morris

I Nicholas Dean Clerk of the County of New York, in the State of New York, Do certify that the above signed John R. Peters -- is the Alderman of the Ninth Ward of the city of New York and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of New York and is duly empowered to administer oaths; Witness my Hand and the Seal of the Court of the said County, this thirteenth day of June 1828. 
[signature] N. Dean
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Sir
As James G Brooks Esqr of this State will apply to you for your favorable interference in behalf of his interests of his family, I take great pleasure in assuring you that he is a gentleman of extraordinary merit and talents and every way worthy of your patronage. His father now living was a respectable officer of the Revolutionary army and has been a member of Congress and in other [illegible] public offices. 
I am very respectfully
Your most obedt servt
[signature] 
Dewitt Clintin

Richard Rush Esqr}
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FREE
To the
Hon. Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
[circular stamp] NEW YORK
JUL
[written on other side upside down]

David Brooks 114
2021
Recd 15 July 1828
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Office of the New York Courier
New York July 15, 1828.

Sir,
I have been requested by my father David Brooks to make the following addition to the statement forwarded by him (through me) to Col. Ogden, on the subject of his claim to the Revolutionary pension. 
My father has found on looking over his old papers the receipts of some of his accounts with Genl Wilkinson which will prove (if it be deemed necessary) that his pay was equal to that of Colonel. As his lineal rank when he was captured at Fort Washington was only that of Lieutenant, and as his rank of Colonel after his exchange was only a bervet rank, connected with his Deputy Clothier General's appointment he thinks it proper to submit to your decision whether he is or is not entitled to the highest pay. Col. Platt whose case is precisely similar in all respects to my father's has received (as I understand) a Captain's allowance. 
It may be that I view it with partiality, but I consider my father's claim as peculiarly sacred. His services throughout the war, his eighteen months captivity, his refusal to receive the commutation certificates in consequence of the dispute as to his being entitled to a Lieutenant's or a Colonel's, he demanding the latter, and on its being questioned, refusing the former, and then losing the benefit of either, seem to me subjects worthy of consideration, and I trust that I shall not be considered intrusive in alluding to them, particularly as my father is too aged a man to attend to business. 

With the highest respect
I have the honor to be 
yr mo. obt. st.
[signature] James G. Brooks

Hon. Richard Rush
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D Brooks
Recd 10 April 1829
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Under the act entitled "an act for the Relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution, approved 15th of May 1828. 
To Samuel D. Ingham Esquire, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. 
Sir, On the 14th of June 1828, I wrote to your predecessor, Secretary Rush, enclosing of my claim under the above mentioned act, To which I recd. an answer dated the 23d of the same month acknowledging the receipt of my application, & stating the claim should be examined with all convenient Despatch. 
I received a subsequent letter dated November 29th 1828 from Secretary Rush, stating that he could find nothing on record in the public offices to corroborate the statement of my claim, and adds, "This however is not to be considered a sufficient cause for rejecting it inasmuch as the Records relating to the army of the Revolution are known to be incomplete; Yet as the Testimony furnished by You in addition to Your own
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Declaration does not assert the fact of your  having served in the Continental Army in the manner stated by you, but only that you are generally reputed & and believed to have done so, It is deemed a sufficient cause for calling upon you for further evidence." I am nevertheless aware of the difficulty that exists in obtaining, after so long a time any positive or direct proof that your services were such as to entitle to the benefits of the act: and you may be assured that in weighing such, as you may find yourself able to bring, all proper consideration will be given to this difficulty." After some further suggestions that are unimportant to recapitulate, The secretary adds, "it will be desirable for you, to obtain from one or more persons, who know you to have served in the Continental Army, an affidavit to that effect, authenticated in the manner heretofore prescribed."
I have transcribed all that is important in the two letters which I have received from Secretary Rush (which are all that I have recd. from him.)
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It is now upwards of 52 years since I was taken prisoner at the capture of Fort Washington - It will not appear extraordinary, after such a lapse of time, that direct Testimony to the facts, necessary to establish my claim should be found somewhat difficult to procure. 
But in reflecting on the subject and calling to my recollection (which has not altogether forsaken me) the names of the officers and other persons with whom I was intimate, I have been so foster - note, as to discover several persons of irreproachable characters, who have testified unequivocably, - to the facts that are necessary for me to prove to entitle me to the benefits of the Act of Congress. The first person whom I shall produce to prove that I was an officer in the Continental Service is Doctor Reading Beatty who was in public service in the Revolutionary War and was taken prisoner when I was, at the Capture of Fort Washington the 16th of November 1776.
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and after 18 months captivity were exchanged together the 8th of May 1778 - and were both in the army from that time to the close of the war in Nov. 1783. He was in the Hospital Department; and I was assistant Clothier Genl. with the main army under the immediate direction of Genl. Washington
This fact is known by every surviving officer of the Revolution - 
Doctor Reading Beatty lives in Newtown in the County of Bucks - The next witness that has sworn to my statement, is Genl. Samuel Smith also a Citizen of Bucks County - The third is Abraham Smith (a son of a respectable Quaker) whom I was well acquainted with when he was a youth. 
I was
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I was also born in Bucks County and lived there until, the beginning of the Revolutionary War - But the changes brought round in the course of more than half a century would render me a stranger to the present inhabitants. 
I must make an apology for the slovenly manner in which I have written my statement; but I thought I could do it in fewer words than to dictate it to another; to commit it to paper. 
Should any further testimony or explanation be deemed necessary, I shall as far as may be in my power, product it. 
I remain, with great consideration, 
Sir; your most obedt. servt. 
[signature] David Brooks

To Samuel D. Ingham, Esquire
Secretary of the Treasury
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M Van Buren
for 
Brooks 114. 
11 April 1829.
114

[written upside down to other text]
The Secretary of the Treasury
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Dear Sir
Judge Brooks of my state has sent to your department the evidence within his reach to entitle himself to the benefit of the act of the last session before the last making an allowance to the surviving officers of &r. I have known the Judge well I have no hesitation in saying that his statements may be relied upon. He is a worthy old soldier & of a standing in society which would prove
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him (other considerations apart) from imposing upon the government. I make this communication in the belief that you may know to rely in part upon his own affidavit & that it will be found to do so. 
Yours respectfully
[signature] M. Van Buren
W. April 11t. 1829

Mr Ingham
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Registers Office New York 19th May 1786

Officers accounts opened in the pay Mr Genl Book,  Dr. 
To Elias Boudinet late Commy Gen: of Prisr. h/a O. E. 
For sundry payments made by Thomas Franklin Depy Commy Genl of Prisoners in Philadelphia & Lewis Pintard Dy. Com: Genl. in New York, to sundry officers in Old Ern. & for which they are respectively chargeable in the pay masters books to wit ~ 
D. Brooks Quarter Mr. Baxters Reg. pd him as P No 15. $40.00
Treasury Department
Registers Office 13 July 1829
A live Extract from Revolutionary Blotter No 2 page 299
[signature] L. S. Smith
Reg. Treas Un: States

Registers Office New York 19 May 1786
Officers accounts opened in the Books of the pay Mr. Geul

To Elias Boudinet late Commy Genl of Prisoners - Specie. 
For the following payments made by Lewis Pintard Dy. Com: Penl. of Prisoners for the board and Clothing of Prisoners in New York, who are respectively chargeable therewith in the pay M. Genl. Books; the Commission on each sum having been deducted, and charged to Commission accot. to wit.
D. Brooks Qr. M. Penna ~ For No. 15 New York Currency
L 95. 13. 11

a true Extract from Revolutionary Blotter No 2. page 306
Treasury Department
Registers Office July 13th, 1829
[signature] L. S. Smith
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Registers Office New York 14 February 1788
Sundries in Specie Dr. To Funded debt
5753 For so much funded the 29th Ulto by David Brooks
on Interest from 1 January 1778. & Ent to hy credit
in WB. B. page 401  .... dollars 191. 30/90 
Treasury Department
Registers Office 13 July 1829
A true extract from Revolutionary Blotter No 11. page 3798.
[signature] L. S. Smith. Reg. Treas. Un: States 

Registers Office 14 February 1788. 
Sundries in Specie Dr. to Funded Debt
Quarter Master Generals Department in specie
for so much the value of 143 Cords of Wood, the amount 
of David Brooks claim as per statement, $191. 30/90
Treasury Department
Registers Office 13 July 1829
A true extract from Revolutionary Blotter No. 11.  page 3796.
[signature] L. S. Smith
Reg. Treas. UStates
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Rec 10 April 1829.
I Reading Beatty of Newtown in the Co. of Bucks in the Commonwealth of Pennsa. practioner of physic, being duly sworn do depose & say, that on the 16 of Novemr. 1776 this deponent was taken prisoner at Fort Washington - that he was well acquainted with David Brooks, who was taken prisoner at the same time & place - that according to the best of his recollection, the said David Brooks was a Lieutenant in a Penna. Regt. which was captured at the same time, with many other officers & soldiers - that the said David Brooks & this deponent with others were regularly exchanged on the eighteen day of May 1778 - that nearly all the privates taken there perished with cold & hunger, so that the Regiments were broken up. - That the said David Brooks, immediately after his exchange joined the main army as Assist. Clothier Genl. in which capacity he served under the immediate direction of the Commander in Chief until the close of the war in the month of Novembr. 1783. - 
[signature] Reading Beatty

Sworn & subscribed to this 20th February 1829 before me as a Justice of the peach of Bucks County
[signature] I. Hicks

We the subscribers having a perfect knowledge and recollection of the above named David Brooks, and acquainted with the fact of his having been a Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Regiment & serving as an assistant to the Clothier General during a number of years in the revolutionary war, do hereby depose & say, that the above statement made by Dr. Reading Beatty is true and correct. 

Sworn, affirmed & subscribed to the 27th March 1829 before me as a justice of the peace of Bucks County. 
[signature] I. Hicks 
[signature] Abra. Smith
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Bucks County Ss:
I John S Brueget Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bucks do certify that Isaac Hicks Esquire before whom the written affidavits were taken is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Bucks duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is given to his acts as such. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this second day of April AD 1829
[signature] John S Brueget Protolay

[written upside down below] Testimony in the case of David Brooks A Revolutionary Officer.
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Recd 3d July 1830. 

STATE OF NEW-YORK, 
City and County of New-York } ss. 

I, Nicholas Dean, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County, do hereby certify that George D Cooper of the said city Esqr. whose name is subscribed to the annexed Notarial Certificate was on the day of the date of said Certificate a Public Notary in & for the State of New York duly appointed & sworn & dwelling in the said City. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this first day of July, 1830.
[signature] N. Dean
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[corner cut off] ed States of America. 
STATE OF NEW-YORK, ss. 
[seal is affixed] 
By this Public Instrument be it known to all whom the same doth or may in any wise concern, That I, George Duncan Cooper a Public Notary in and for the State of New-York, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the said State duly commissioned and sworn, dwelling in the City of New-York, 
Do hereby Certify, That on the day of the date hereof before me personally appeared William W. Morris and Jospeh Scofield both of the City & State of New York the said William W. Morris being duly sworn and the said Joseph Scofield being duly affirmed according to Law say and each for himself says that they are well and personally acquainted with David Brooks of the said City of New York now present and that he is the identical David Brooks mentioned in the act of the Congress of the United States of American entitled An act for the relief of David Brooks passed the 29th day of May 1830. 
[signature] Wm. W. Morris
[signature] Joseph Scofield

In Testimony whereof, I have subscribed my name, and caused my Notarial Seal of Office to be hereunto affixed, the first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty. 
[signature] Geo. D. Cooper
Not. Pub.
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Copy of an act entitled. An act for the
Relief of David Brooks passed the
29th day of May 1830.
Be it enacted, &. That the Benefits of the
provisions of the act entitled "An act for the
Relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, passed May 15th 1828. Which a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution on the Continental Establishment is entitled to recieve, be extended to David Brooks
of the City of New York in the same manner,
as of the said David Brooks had fully complied
with the provision of the fourth section
of the said act; and that the seretary of The
Treasury be authorized and directed to pay
To him or his authorized, out of any monies
in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated,
Such monthly pay as he is entitled to under the
provisions, commencing on the Friday
of January One thousand eight hundred and
Thirty. "
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An Act.
For the relief of David Brooks.
No of original Payment 1127
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the allowance required to be made to the said David Brooks,
by the act entitled ""An act for the relief of David Brooks," approved May the twenty - ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall commence and be computed from the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty - six, instead of the first day of January one thousand eight hundred
and thirty.

Approved July 4th 1832
A true copy company with the roll in this office
Dept. of State
July 6th 1832
Daniel Bronk C.C.
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Know all men by these present that I, David
Brooks of the City of New York, have constituted and appointed and by these presents do constitute and appoint William
Redcliff of the same place, my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and behalf, to ask and receive from the Government of the United States, or from any of its officers or departments which may be authorized to pay the same, the amount of money which may be granted me by virtue of any law passed or that may be passed during the present session
of Congress for arrearage of my pension, which was allowed by an act for my relief passed the 29 May 1830, in pursuance of a
Bill introduced into the House of Representatives on the 6th day of February last, entitled "a Bill for the relief of David Brooks, or of any other Will of the like nature which has been or may be introduced into either House of Congress and become a law; with full power authority to receive in my behalf of whatever may be this granted and to give due acquittance therefore, giving & granting unto my said Attorney full power & authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite to be done in & about the premises as fully to all intents & purposes as I myself might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or her substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the first day of June eighteen hundred & thirty two.
David Brooks
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
Edwd Radcliff

State of New York & County & Cork
Be it remembered that on this second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
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hundred and thirty-two, before me. Edward
Radcliff, a Notary duly commissioned and sworn, and residing in the City of New York, personally appeared David Brooks, known to me to be the same person described in the above Letter of Attorney, and acknowledged
the said letter of them to be his own proper act and deed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal of Office the day and year last above written.
Edward Radcliff
Public Notary

Before me, R.S. Briscoe, a Justice of the peace of the City of Washington, District of Columbia personally appeared this day William Radcliff, the Attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney, and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to ensure wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed. 
Witness my hand this ninth day of July A.D 1832
Wm Radcliff
Subscribed & sworn to July 7th, 1832 before
R.S. Briscoe
J. Peace
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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Cond with
Widow's file
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Recd 3d July 1830
New York July 1st, 1830
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose such Judicial proof
of my existence as I trust the Department requires in order to pay the first six months of the Pension granted to me by the act of the Congress of the United passed the 29th of May 1830, unless your construction of that act
should coincide with mine, and in that case the third day of the month of September and March would be the semiannual periods for the proofs of being in Life - which the law requires. By referring to the law passed
in my favour, you will perceive that the Benefit
of the Provisions of the act entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution passed May the 15th 1828. by which "a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution on the continental Establishment is entitled to receive, by extended to David Brooks of the City of New York, in the same manner as if the said David Brook had fully complied with the provisions of the fourth Section of the said act. This act for my individual belief is to commence the first
of