Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,214, Isaac Brown, Va.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
[ Handwritten] VA. Brown, Isaac, S 29,214

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20984

Virginia 

Isaac Brown

Of Chas. City,  Cty in the State of Virginia who was a private in the company commanded y (first, letter cut off/ misspelling)  Captain Sanford of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Campbell in the Virginia line, for the term of 18 months from the 11th of July 1780 to  (blank)  17 

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the 17th of July 1829. 

Certificate of Pension issued on the 27th of July and sent to the attn: John Tyler Charles City C.H.O a,

Arrears of 4th Septi 1829 $12.93
Semi-ani , all’ce  ending   $12.93

{Revolutionary Claims,
 Acts March 18, 1818 and 
May 8, 1820.}

Recorded Book C.
7h page 130
BL Beall

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State of Virginia,

	At a Superior Court of Law continued by adjournment and held for the County of Charles City in the State aforesaid on Tuesday the 19th day of May, in the year of one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, before James Sample esq Judge of the said County Isaac Brown this day personally appeared in Court and made a Declaration under the acts of Congress of the United States of the 18” of March 1818, and the 1st May 1820, which was signed and sworn to by said Brown and is in the words and figures following [Illegible]

Charles City County, State of Virginia, Vitb.  On this 19” day of May in the year of 1829, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record  for the County aforesaid Isaac Brown aged sixty nine years, who first being duly sworn
according same doth on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18” of March 1818 and 1st May 1820, that he the said Isaac Brown enlisted for the term of 18 
Months in the Fall of the year 1780, in the State of Virginia under Captain Wm. G. Munford at Charles City Courthouse with other recruits by Captain Stith Haragmon and was there mustered in the Company by Captain Sansford in the Regiment under the Command of Cto: Campbell in the line of Virginia on the United States Continental establishment- That he continued to serve in the said Corps until the cesperation of the said term of eighteen months, when he 
was discharged from the said service at the round O, in the State of South Carolina- That he was in the battles of Gulford Courthouse, of 96, 
(and) of Eutaw, when the gallant Commander of the Regiment (Cto: Campbell) was killed, and Cto. Washington of the Calvary was made prisoner– That he has no other evidence now in his power to establish his said services other than the certificate accompanying this; his discharge having long since been lost; and that he is old and infirm, and stands in need of the
apectances of his Country for support:_  And inpursuance of the Act of the 1st May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the U: States on the 18” day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or any other manner disposed of my property, or any parts thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it astobring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to Provide for Certain persons engaged in the Sand and Naval Service of the State during the Revolutionary War” haped on the 18” of March 1818, nor that I have not

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is not, nor has anyone in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to  me, nor have I any incomes other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subsidized Vizt.  seventy acres of ? and exhausted Iand and 2 cows, 2 yearlings, and one ox, 4 sheep, 3 feather beds 2 pine tables 4 Rush
bottom’s chairs, 1 waterpail, 3 metal spoons, 3 pine chests, 3 pots and 1 Spider
1 plough, 2 axes, 3 hoes, 1 sow and fourteen shoats and 2 squibbling hoes; That he is a farmer by profession and that his family consists of a wife who is now old and infirm, a son of about 20 years of age who has been for years past, afflicted with a grievous issue and is a weighty expense whim, being unable
to work except in light and indifferent matters, his right arm and right leg being almost entirely disabled, and a daughter above 21 years of age who has an infant child of four years of age.
 Isaac Brown 
X
his marks“
Sworn to and declared in open court on the 19th day of May 1829;: before me 
“Judge of the Superior Court of Law for the County aforward - James Semple”

The following is the certificate accompanying the foregoing declaration and referred to
therein- Peter Ladd solemnly (illegible) in open court that he recollects that
“Isaac Brown of the County of Charles City and Male of Virginia during the Revolutionary War enlisted as a soldier and marched from the said County The South,  that this workplace was as well as he can recollect about eighteen months 
before Lord Cornwallis invaded Virginia during the said war, and was captured at Little York, that he Ladd, was at about that time 18 or 19  
years old, and knew the said Brown very well.”___

Virginia,

       Charles City County (illegible),

            J. Robert W. Christian Clerk of the Superior Court of Said 
for the County aforesaid  in the State of Virginia due hereby certify that the foregoing
oath and schedule thereto (ilegible) are truly copied from the Records of said
Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that,
the property inhibited in the said Schedule is 
One hundred and sixteen dollars.___

		In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
                       and affixed the seal of the said Court this 27th 
                       day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand 
                       eight hundred and twenty nine and of the Common-
                       wealth the 53rd.

				Ro: W: Christian

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State of Virginia-

	At a Court of monthly session begun and held for the County of Charles City in the State of aforesaid at the Courthouse of said county on Thursday the 16th day of July in the year 1829, before Cary Wilkinson, Thomas E. Poythress, 
Jos: C. Wilson and Anthony H. Lamb, Justices of the peace for the County aforesaid—-

Isaac Brown this day personally appeared in Court and made a declaration under the Acts of Congress of the United States on the 18” March 1818, and the 1 May 1820, which was signed and sworn by said Brown and is in the words and figures following (illegible)-

Charles City County, State of Virginia, To (illegible) 
“On this 16th day of  July 1829, personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the County of Charles City Isaac Brown and exhibited In open Court a declaration heretofore made by him before the Honorable James Semple Judge of the Superior Court of Law for the County aforesaid, and in Correction of the errors and deficiencies of the aforesaid declaration, being first in due solemnly sworn makes the following additional declaration Vitzy,
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pensipt the presents, that is name is not on the pension roll of any state or territory, or of the United States, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application 
for a pension Vizt.  That except within a few years past he has been enabled to procure from his own assertions the means of living in comfort, but the increased weight of his years added to the multiplias infirmities of his Constitution, which may reasonably be calculated on him to weigh upon him daily with greater pressure, renders it necessary now for him to apply to the Government for that aid which it had liberally intended to Revolutionary man of advanced age and in our strengthened  circumstances
That since the 18th of March 1818, the only material change he such has been
made in his property convisted in the deterioration of his land in point of 
Productionip, and the life of 2 horses which were used by him in the cultivation of the farm - That for many years he has and still is; 
a resident of the County of Charles City, State of Virginia, and that all that
Is contained in the annexed declaration is here-
						         his mark
                                                    Isaac  X Brown

Sworn to and declared in open court on this 16 day of  July 1829, before (illegible) yes 
                                                                                                                             Judges

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Judges of the County Court for the County Advisor -         

Cary Wilkinson                                                                                          
Thos E Poytnress
 Jos C  Wilson
Anthny H Lamb


Virginia
	Charles City County (illegible)

		J Robert W Christian Clerk of the County Court of Charles City in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing oath is truly copiedfrom the Records in the said Court = and on the two first pages of this sheet 
Is contained the former declaration and oath of the said Isaac Brown made before the Judge of the Superior Court of Law for the County aforesaid on the 19’’ day of May in the year 1829- 
                               In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and offices  the Seal of  the said County Court this 17’’ day of July in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine and of the Commonwealth of the 54th. 
 
                                            Ro: W: Christian 


Isaac Brown;s deed for a pension-
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
[illegible]

August 18, 1927

Ruth E. Fortney
425 Walnut Ave
Fairmont, W. Va. 

Madam;
	I have to advise you from the papers in the Revo-lutionary War pension claim S. 39214 it appears that Isaac Brown enlisted at Charles City Court House, Vir- ginia in the fall of 1780 and served eighteen monthsin Captain Sanford’s company, Colonel Campbell’s Vir-ginia Regiment, and was in the battles of Guilford, Siege of Ninety-Six, and Eutaw Springs.
		He was allowed pension on his application exe-cuted May 19, 1829, while a resident of Charles City County, Virginia, aged sixty-nine years.
	In 1829, he referred to his wife, age and name not given; and to a son aged twenty years, and a daughter, aged twenty-one years, and a grand-child aged four years,no names stated.

	No further family data.

	                Respectfully,

		                   E.W. MORGAN            
                                              Acting Commissioner

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    425 Walnut Ave.
 			Fairmont, W. Va.
			April 19, 1927


Commissioner of Pensions
Dept. of Interior 
Washington, D.C.

My dear sir:

	      Will you please send 
me the record of Isaac Brown of
Charles City County, Virginia, who
was pensioned for service in The 
Revolution? Also any information 
concerning his family which might
be included.     I shall be very 
thankful to receive this information.

                     Very truly yours,

                               Ruth E. Fortney

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39214
INVALID.

[Front]
                                                             
Revy

         File No.  39214
      
       Isaac Brown 
  Priv.  Gen_(Illegible)
                                                   Act.  18 March 18
              Index: Vol  3   Page: 59
                                                [Arrangement of 1870s]
                                                           
  				          
                                             [Written on far right spine of document]
                                        1927- Aug- 18 Hist to   Ruth E. Forney [ Illegible]

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Charles City Ct. Hs. Va.                                                                    FREE  [line crossed through]
24 July                                                                                                   37 1/2

											July 24 1829
										[written vertically]


					James L. Edwards Esq.
                                                                        Pension Office
                                                                        War Department 
Washington

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 Chs. City July 24, 1829

Sir:

I now forward you the amended declaration of Isaac Brown.  All of the deficiencies pointed out by your letter of the 2, June are corrected,  and I have that no cause will re-main adverse, in any degree, to the claim- Brown is a near neighbor of mine and has made heretofore frequent esquines to the provisions of the Acts of Congress but has until now [crossed out] weightily felt by him and his little farm is no longer capable of supporting  him in comfort- in truth it is so much exhausted as to be nearly worthless-   Be heard to make known your decision to me as soon may suit your convenience. 

                                                     W.  Abt Sans.
                                                                        
                                                           John Tyler 

         Jas. L. Edwards Esq.