Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,138, Samuel Brown, Continental (Va.)

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3-(1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Va)
Brown, Samuel
NUMBER
S.32,138B L Reg. 232630-1855

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Illinois 31561
Samuel Brown of Macoupin Co in the State of Illinois who was a pri of Cav in the Compy commanded by Captain Barrett of the regt commended by Col Washington in the N.C. [Continental crossed out] for 6 months 
Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois at the rate of 25 Dollars  ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Novr 1838 and sent to the Pension at Carlinville, Macoupin Co.
Arrears to the 4th of 4 Sept 1838 $187.50
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 39 12.50
$200.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk, Book E2 Vol. 8 Page 116

232630
Date of death not in AB.

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232.630.
Act of March
Jany. 24, 1856.
Berthena Brown widow of Saml. Brown dec. 
Priv.
Capt Wm Barrett
Col. Wm. Washington.
N. C. Cavalry.
Ent. fall. 1780.
Dis.  Revolutionary War
Battle of   & Ninety Six.}

Ills. June 32 – 31561
Wm. T. Givens
Waverly. Ill.

[illegible] Wm. T. Givens Aug: 2d,/ 56

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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
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 by 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 compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

[a table with several columns with the following headers as described]
A STATEMENT, Shewing the Service of 
Period when  [illegible] / Duration of the claimant’s service years. – months. – days. - / Rank of the claimant. / Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. / Age at present and place of above when he entered the service. / Proof by which the declaration is supported. 

[under column: Name and rank of the field officers under whom he served.] Lieut  Jon Linton Sgt Maj Dangerfield
[under column: Proof by which the declarations is supported.] Certificate of Samuel Sears Clergyman and Daniel Sears Resident of Macoupin County Illinois

I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant, 
JAMES L. EDWARDS, 
Commissioner of Pensions.

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[Standard printed form with addition of brackets { } indicating those portions of the claim that are required]

{Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, ad will then procure, if possible, the testimony of a least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
if such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether be produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, [blacked out] can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his}

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[Standard printed form with addition of brackets { } indicating those portions of the claim that are required]

{...alleged service as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, there are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.}

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33,133
Samuel Brown
Illinois

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State of Illinois}
Macoupin County} SS
On the first day of June in the year AD 1835 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the County Commissioners Court for the County and State aforesaid, now sitting in Carlinville Samuel Brown a resident of the County aforesaid aged Seventy three in April AD. 1835 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 AD 1832 that  he enlisted as a soldier in the revolutionary war in the year AD 180 at Hillsborough North Carilina during the war under Captain Barrett and first Lieutenant John Linton in the third regiment of Cavalry Commanded by Colonel William Washington that, he enlisted to the best of his recollection in September or October 1780, and went with Colonel Washington to a place called Rugely’s farm about nine miles of Camden, where a party of tories was Stationed in a barn and the cavalry not being able to get at them, a tree was mounted in a waggon and the enemy was ordered to surrender and Colonel Rugely & the men did Surrender. I then went to the battle of the cowpens and was engaged in the Battle under General Morgan and Lieutenant Colo Washington. I think these were a Colonel Pickens, and, and officer names Triplet, we retreated from the Cowpens with the prisoners to the State of Virginia, and I was detached from the Regiment with a recruting officer and the recruted men and horses, and joined the Regiment  again at the Siege of ninety six, and continued there

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during the Siege, and we were compelled to abandon the Siege in consequence of the Brittish receiving a reinforcement and compelled, the, american army to retreat to the Brushey Mountain to a place then called the cross roads from that place, the army marched [with the army crossed out] towards Camden and left me at that point in consequence of having the small pox, and as soon he recovered he marched and joined the army at or near Camden, and from that place he march to the Eutaw Springs and fought the Brittish army at that place and if he is not mistaken Colonel Washington was wounded by a Bayonete, and was taken a presinor. He then marched to Charlestown South Carolina and besieged that place the Brittish being in possession, and they had to retreat, I then went into the country with the troops, where we could procure provisions, and remained untile the war was ended & peace made
He further states that from the time he entered the service he was in the service untile peace was concluded, and he don’t think he can be mistaken when he says that he served upwards of two years in actual Service that he was not employed in any civil pursuit, during the time.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid before said Tristram P. Hoxsey Clerk and the said

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I Tristram P. Hoxsey Clerk of the County Commissioners Court for the County of Macoupin State of Illinois do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Brown for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set  my hand and seal of office this first day of June AD 1835 
Tristram P. Hoxsey

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Declaration for Bounty land by a widow under an act of Congress of March 3d 1855 
State of Missouri}
County of Buchanan} SS
On this the 6th day of November 1855 personally appeared before me Milton H Nash, Clerk for the County Court for the county and State Aforesaid Berthena Brown aged Sixty nine years a resident of Doniphan County Kansas Territory, who being duly Sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Samuel Brown decased who was a private in the company commanded by Captain William Barrett in the regiment commanded by Colonel William Washington of a company of Cavalry formed and organized at Hillsborough North Carolina that John Linton was 1st Lieutenant of his company and Richard Watts was Lieutenant Col. of the regiment in the war of the revolution that her said husband volunteered or enlisted at Hillsborough North Carolina on or about the fall of the year 1780 for the term of during the war and continued in actual service in said war for the term of two years and eight months and wpaceas honorable discharged at  [blank space] in the Summer of the year 1783 when he recieved a discharge which was lost that he was in the battle of the Cowpens in January 1786 under Gen Morgan the Seige  of Ninety Six in [blank space] and at the battle of Eutaw Springs under Gen Greene in Sept 1781 she further States that she was married to the Said Samuel Brown in the State of Illinois

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but does not  recollect what County on or about the 10th day of Sept. AD 1838 by one Samuel Sears a minister of the Gospel as that her name before her Said marriage was Birthena Groves that her said husband died in the County of Morgan and State of Illinois on or about the 20th day of August  AD 1851 and that she is now a widow She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she is entitled under the act of Congress approved March 3d AD 1855 and declares that she has never received a land Warrant on account of the service of her said husband under this or any other act of Congress and she hereby constitutes and appoints William T. Givens of Waverly Illinois her attorney to prosecute her said Claim to bounty land and received her Warrant when ready for delivery the Said Samuel Brown applied for and obtained a pension for said services at twenty five dollars per Anum from March the 4th 1831 under act of June 2d 1832. And was on the roll of the pension agency of Illinois when he died she refers to his papers on file for proof and dates of service.
Attest:
Berthena Brown her X mark

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We Henry Boder Jr and Carnelius Roberts residents of the county of Buchanan in the State of Missouri upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledge by the said Berthena Brown ___ in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Henry Boder Jr.
Cornelius Roberts
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written: and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be
In Testimony whereof I Milton H. Nash ckl of the County Court of the County of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have hereunto set  my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at my office in the City of St. Joseph.
Milton H. Nash, Clk

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State of Illinois} SS
Morgan County}
Personally appeared before me A. P. Rigg and Isaac Conlee and made oath that they ware acquainted with Samuel Brown in h is life time, and Bartheny Brown and knew them to live together as husband and wife, and that they were so reputed in the neighbourhood where the lived, Subscribed and Swore to before me this 12th day of Decr. 1855} A. P. Rigg
James Graham J. P.
State of Illinois}
Morgan County}
I Matthew Stacy Clerk of the County Court within and for Said County do hereby Certify that James Graham whose name is Subscribed in his own proper hand writing to the foregoing affidavit was at the time of Signing the Same an acting Justice of the peace within and for Said County duly Commissioner and qualified according to law and that as Such full faith and Credit is due to all his official acts. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Said Court at  Jacksonville this the 3d day of December Mat Stacy Clk

232.680

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May 19, 1938

Samuel Brown
S. 32138
BA-J/AWF

Honorable William L. Nelson
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Nelson:
The data concerning Samuel Brown furnished herein were obtained from papers on filed in pension claim, S. 32138, based o his military service in the War of the Revolution.
Samuel Brown was born in the month of April, 1762 or 1764 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given.
While a resident of said Pittsylvania County, Samuel Brown enlisted in Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, in the fall of 1780, served as a private in Captain William Barret’s company in Colonel William Washington’s Third Regiment of Cavalry; he was in the battles of Rugleys Mill, Cowpens, Guildford Court House, Ninety-Six, Eutaw Springs, where several shots passed through his clothing and his horse was fatally wounded, at the Siege of Charleston, South Carolina until the British surrendered, and was discharged in the month of June,  1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 1, 1835, at which time he was a resident of Macoupin County, Illinois. His address in 1837 was Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois.
He was residing in 1847 in Morgan County,

Note Bounty Land papers were placed in this file on 7-20-1950; therefore data contained therein is not shown in these summaries. CS

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Illinois, and then referred to family and relatives, but gave no names.
The papers on file in this claim contain no further data in regard to the family of the soldier, Samuel Brown.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension,  name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington D. C., and furnish the following data:
Samuel Brown
Certificate #31561
Issued November 14, 1838
Rate $25.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Illinois Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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State of Illinois} Sct
Macoupin County}
On the seventh day of March A. D. 1836 personally appeared in open court Samuel Brown a resident of said County and State before the judges of the county commissioners court for said county and state now sitting in Carlinville,  who being first duly sworn doth on this oath make the following supplemental declaration to his declaration made the 1st day of June A.D. 1835. in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th A D 1832 “That for the last 12 or 14 years he has been endeavoring to get his application before the war department; but he is illiterate himself and the agents he has employed to attend to the business for him have neglected and failed to proceed in the business by complying with the requisitions of the law. After the Battle of the Eutaw Springs, Colo Washington being wounded & taken prisoner the command of the Regiment to which he (said Brown) belonged devolved upon a Major whose name he can not recollect, but thinks _ tho his memory is vague as the name that it was Major Swann. The battle of the Eutaw Springs was very fatal to the officers – after that he (Brown) with the

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Regiment under Command of Said Major Marched in persuit of the British down the river to Charlestown & the British they (the US troops) supposed crosed the river in the night, the British guard kept up the fires til day light to deceive them & in the morning they, the British were gone, they (the US troops) corsed the river next day & besieged them in Charlestown – until they had to capitulate. They were permitted to take shipping & (the U. S. Troops) marched in and took possession of Charlestown. The U.S. Troops remaned a short time in Charlestown; there being no provisions to be had there. They (the U. S. Troops) then marched into the country under the same Major and went into winter quarters near the Savannah river on bay & stayed there until march 1783. They were then marched down to the forks of the Congaree & wateree rivers & were stationed there until June, when their horses & other public property was sold off and thay were discharged. (Said Brown received a discharge. He thinks from said Major and also a certificate of his services to enable him to draw his pay – but he has lost said discharge & certificate & he does not know how or when he lost the same. He has carefully examined his old papers & is unable to find them. He

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received said discharge & certificate in June 1783. at the above place towit the forks of the rivers Congaree & Wateree – after they unite they are called the Santee river. He state that he can not write his own name
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Samuel Brown his X mark
T. P. Hoxsey clk
I Samuel Sears residing in the County & state aforesaid do hereby certify that I am acquainted well with Samuel Brown who has made his mark & sworn to the above declaration. That I know said Brown is not in the habit of subscribing his name & believe he is unable to do so.  That I know he has been endeavoring to get a pension for 12 or 14 years ever since he was apprised of the passage of the preemption law. I know that he enlisted in the Revolutionary army as a regular soldier in the year A D 1780 sometime the last of August or first of September at Hillsboro Orange County North Carolina. I was discharged & returned to Guilford County North Carolina where I lived in Rowan County North Carolina in July during harvest. I remember we were reaping when he got there from the army.  S. Sears his X mark

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Sworn  & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Tristram P. Hoxsey Clk
I Jacob Sears of the county & state aforesaid do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Samuel Brown since 1820. That he has made or attempted to make several applications for a pension first under the act of the 18th March 1818. About 7 or 8 years since & repeatedly since. Jacob Sears
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid.  Tristram P. Hoxsey Clk
And the said court do hereby declare that S. Sears & Jacob Sears who have signed the foregoing certificates are residents in the County of Macoupin & State of Illinois & that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Tristram P. Hoxsey Clerk of the County Commissioners Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Supplemental proceedings of the  said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Brown for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal of office this 7th of March AD 1836
T. P. Hoxsey Clk

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State of Illinois} SS
Macoupin County}  
Be it known that before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Saml Brown and made oath in due form of law that he is the Identical person named in the following application for a pension and to the truth of the matters therein contained he state as follows – he says some time in the latter part of the year 1780 he was drafted as a militia man in the continental services he says he resided in the County of Pittsylvania in the State of V.a. and was drafted at that place and from there he says he was marched to Hillsborough N Carolinea and at that place he says that he enlisted in during the revolutionary war – he says that he was enlisted by Barrett and he was attached to the Regiment of Cavalry Commanded by Col. William Washington and continued under said Washington’s Command until h e Col Washington was wounded and made a prisoner of war by the enimy the British at the Eutaw Springs. And he says that he does not recollect at this time the name of the Capt. that Commanded the Company in which that he belonged to in Said Rigiment but as well as he recollects his Leiutenant name was Linton owing to the greate length of time and old age has rendered it impossible for him to make pointed statement upon that subject – he says from Hillsborough NC they marched a southern direction and

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Reconnoitering and scouring the Country for some length of time until a sufficient force was collected of the continentals – to join the enemy Battle. He says that he was present and engaged at the three forks of Saluda river with Col Washington in killing and making prisoners of a party of  Tories and he further says that he was present and engaged at Rudgley Mill ten or twelve miles from Camden in taking a party of Tories with a [illegible] and he further says that Washingtons Cavalry continued in that Section of Country for some length of time but how long he cannot say at present Scouring of the Country until the Battle was fought between Gen Morgan and Tarlton the British officer at the cowpens which he says he fought in under the Commad of Col. William Washington and he further says after the Battle of the cowpens Col Washingtons Rigiment of Cavalry with the balance of the army retreated to the state of Va and he says on there retreat to the State of suppression he had the misfortune to get his feet badly frost bitten for which reason he was detached from the army for some time and employed in Company with a recruiting officer in  recruiting men and horses – and he further states that he joined the army again at the Seige of Ninety Six and continued there until the Seige was raised in Service of his Country except a few weeks that he was disabled by the small pox and he further says that he

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Joined the army again at Camden and from that place the army moved to the Eutaw Springs and there fought the enimy & the British army which he says he was entirely engaged in as he received several shots through his clothing and his horse badly wounded which ocasetioned the death of his horse and was furnished with another horse of a soldier which was killed in the Battle and continued this action in the rigiment of Cavalry under the Command of Col Washington and he further says in that engagement Col Washington was wounded and made a prisoner of by the British army – and he continued in Service Commanded by Col. Washingtons inferior officers there names he cannot recollect at this time and he further says the British from the Eutaw Springs moved on to Charleston and the Amerrican army persued them to that place and continued there or about Charleston until the British surrendered Charleston to the Amerrican forces and he further says from Charleston the Rigiment of Cavalry moved a southern direction and went into winter quarters at or near the mouth of the Savana river as well as he can recollect the name and continued there until spring following and then were removed from there to the Congree river and he says remainded there until the public property belonging to the Rigiment of Cavalry was sold and from the Congree river they were removed to the Santee river and

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and there were discharged  -
and he further says that he continued in actual service from the time he enlisted at Hillsborough N. C. until he was discharged, except time he had small pox, on the Santee river which was upards of two years but the exact length of time he cannot recollect and he further says that he received pay for continued services rendered from the time of his enlistment at Hillsborough N.C. untill he was  discharge on the Santee river S. C. 
Sworn to and subscribed this 14th day of June 1837 before me William Goode J. P. } Samuel Brown his x mark
I Tristram P. Hoxsey, Clerk of the Court of Macoupin County certify that William Goode is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 19th day of July A. D. 1837. 
Tristram P. Hoxsey Clerk of the Court of Macoupin County Illinois

admitted Jan 6
Pr Vate Cavr $25.
Claimant
Carlinville 
Illinois

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County Commissioners Court
September 5, 1836
State of Illinois
Morgan County.
On this fifth September Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty six personally appeared in open court before the County Commissioners Court with and for said county now sitting Samuel Brown a resident of Morgan County and State of Illinois aged Seventy three 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 7. 1832.
Samuel Brown here declares he was born in Pittsylvania County Virginia in the year Seventeen hundred and sixty four and enlisted and entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and service as herein stated – He enlisted and entered the service in the fall of seventeen hundred and eighty under one Captain Wm Barrett in a mounted company – for and during the whole war – in the company commanded by Barrett  - one John Linton was first Lieutenant – the company was formed at Hillsboro in North Carolina and consisted of about one hundred men – at Hillsboro we joined the Rigiment under the command of Col Wm Washington – and one Richd. Watts was second Colonel – the other officers I cannot at this time recollect – we marched to Saludee river so called – and there engaged and defeated a body of about 300 Tories – and travelled or foraged about through the state a short time and joined Gen Morgan and engaged in the Battle of Cowpens in 1780 of I recollect aright – called Tarltons defeat. We then retreated to Virginia

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with our prisoners - to Pittsylvania Co. on Dan river we then remained a short time _ from there we were detached for about two months to recruit men and horses _ after recruiting service we went and joined Gen Greene at the Seige of a place called ’96 _ in North Carolina in the spring of 1780. The place was besieged 2 or 3 weeks _ and then we retreated from there and went towards Virginia until we recieved recruits _ and supply’s and then went through the country to Camden _ occasionally engaged in skirmishing _ and went to Eutaw Springs in the fall of ’81. And served under Gen Greene _ we then passed through  North and South Carolina _ engaged in defeating Tories and kicking the English in subjection - when the English retreated to Charleston. S. C. I was there _ and remained during the Seige and until the place was evacuated by the by the British _ I continued on duty in North and South Carolina – until the summer of seventeen hundred and eighty three _ when I recieved a discharge for two years and eight months service _ This discharge I have lost or mislaid I served constantly from the time I first enlisted until I was discharged as a private _ and have no documentary evidence and know of no person who can testify to my service except the one who certifies here below _ and by reason of old age and consequent loss of  memory cannot state so much in detail of the service during the 2 years & 8 months as I once could _ but during the whole time I was not employed in any civil pursuit – He hereby relinquishes every claim

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whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of agency of any State or Territory – Samuel Brown his X mark
Sworn to and subscribed to the day & year aforesaid}
Dennis Rockwell Clerk
We Samuel Sears a Clergyman residing in the County of Macoupin adjoining Morgan County Illinois and Robert Busby residing in the County of Morgan County, Illinois _ hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Brown who had subscribed and sworn to the above declaration _ that we believe him to be seventy three years of age _ that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion – 
Samuel Sears his X mark
Robert Busby his X mark
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid} Dennis Rockwell Clerk
Robert Busby now a pensioner hereby certifies that in the fall of 1780. he met with and saw the above name Samuel Brown in the service of the United States as a private soldier _ at the Cowpens while under Capt Caffy - himself – and often he heard his name called over from the muster Roll _ while we were joined _ I saw him again at Eutaw Springs but we were on different service _ but from frequent conversions [sic] had with him at different times believe him to be the same person who now applies for a pension –
Robert Busby his X mark
Sworn to and subscribed to the day & year aforesaid
Dennis Rockwell Clerk

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and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the  matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them Samuel Sears who has signed the preceding  certificate is a clergyman resident in Macoupin County Illinois and that Robert Busby who has also signed the same is a resident the county of Morgan County Illinois _ and they are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit –
Jacob Redding
Jacob Ward
Jas Ethel
I Dennis Rockwell clerk of the court of the County Commissioners do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Brown for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fifth day of September Ann. Domini Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Six –
Dennis Rockwell Clerk
[round seal]
33.888 [crossed out]
33.133
Samuel Brown
Illinois

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May 19, 1938
Samuel Brown S. 32138
William Moore S.36166
BA-J/AWF
Honorable William L. Nelson
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Nelson:
Reference is made to your letter, with which was enclosed one from Mrs. James R. Short, 9978 Maryland Avenue, Columbia, Missouri, in which she requests the Revolutionary War records of Samuel Brown of Virginia, a pensioner in 1835, and of William Moore of Virginia, a pensioner in 1823 while a resident of Rockcastle County, Kentucky. 
The Revolutionary War records of Samuel Brown and William Moore are furnished you herewith.
The letter from Mrs. James R. Short is returned herewith, as requested by you
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

see cong Wm. L. Nelson's letter in Wm Moore S. 36166

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June 17, 1938

xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Samuel Brown, S. 32138
William Moore, S. 36166
BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Honorable William L. Nelson
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 

My dear Mr. Nelson:
Reference is made to your letter in behalf of Mrs. Jaes R. Short, of Columbia, Missouri, whose letter  you enclosed.  Mrs. Short requests the Revolutionary War record of William Moore whose name, she states, is listed in the American State Papers under Public Lands in Volume 7, page 347, Warrant 530, and as sergeant (Boatswain), also the date of last payment of pension of Samuel Brown, Certificate No. 31561, from the comptroller General, General Accounting Office, for which she cites the reference for identification.
Mrs. Short’s citation in regard to William Moore does not pertain to the records of this office.  In the effort to aid her, the record of a William Moore (S. 36166) was furnished you for her, with that of the Samuel Brown cited above.  In that letter to you of May 19, 1938, last paragraph, you were referred to the General Accounting Office for the data which Mrs. Short now desires and which is not on file in this office.
It is regretted that this office has no further information to aid in this research.
Mrs. Short’s letter is returned herewith.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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November 10, 1931

BA-J/AWF

Mrs. C. W. Gale
1508 Elk Street
Beatrice, Nebraska.

Dear Madam:
Reference is  made to your letter requesting the date of the last payment of pension of Samuel Brown, a soldier of the Revolution from Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
I order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possible the date of death of Samuel Brown, Revolutionary War soldier, pension claim S. 32138, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C. citing all of the following data - 
Samuel Brown
Certificate number 31561
Issued November 14, 1838
Rate $25.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Illinois Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF/eel
November 1, 1928
Mrs. J. H. Riddle
2127 Parke Avenue
Lincoln, Nebraska
Madam
I advise you that in the Revolutionary War pension claim of Samuel Brown, S. 32138, it is not stated whether he was ever married.
I order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possible the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Samuel Brown (S. 32138), you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, this city, citing all of the following data -
Samuel Brown, Ctf. No. 31561, issued November 14, 1838, rate $25.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832,
Illinois Agency.
Respectfully,
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. , …………. , 19 …..
S. F. 32.138
In reply to your request of ………. , received ………… , for a statement of the military history of Samuel Brown a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information  as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[standard form with six columns with the following headings and transcription]
Dates of Enlistment of Appointment. Sept. or Oct. 1780 / Length of Service. 2 yrs & 8 mos. / Rank. Prt. / OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED CAPTAIN. Wm. Barret / COLONEL. Wm Washington Cav. Richard Watts / STATE. Va.
Battles engaged in, Rugeley’s Mills, Cowpen, Guilford, Ninety Six, Eutaw Springs, Siege of Charleston.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Pittsylvania County, Va.
Date of application for pension, June 1, 1835. His cl. was allowed
Residence at date of application, Macoupin Co. Ill.
Age at date of application, born in Apr. 1764 in Pittsylvania Co. Va.
Remarks: There is no other data on file as to his family
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6-285C

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WILLIAM L. NELSON
SECOND MISSOURI DISTRICT
WASHINGTON ADDRESS: 225 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
HOME ADDRESS: COLUMBIA, MISSOURI
MEMBER: COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
June 11, 1938
Mr. A. D. Hiller
Administrative Assistant
Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Friend:
Enclosed is a letter from Mrs. James R. Short, of Columbia, Missouri, who makes inquiry concerning the pension records of Samuel Brown and William Moore.  If you can furnish us a report concerning the service of these two veterans, I will appreciate it. When the enclosure has served your purpose, please return it for our files.
Thanking you, I am
Sincerely yours,
W. L. Nelson
(encs)
S
[Samuel Brown is circled with handwritten notation] Mrs. Short in the let wh. was attached to this date June 8 – ’38, cited  cetf. no. 31561 etc & asked Mr. Nelson to get her the date of last pay. from the Comp. Genl.

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[letterhead]
Clarence W. Gale Photographs Gift Shop Beatrice. Nebr. 
10-2 7-3
Pension Department Washington D. C.
Can you tell me when and where Samuel Brown, Revolutionary soldier enlisted from Pittsylvania Co. Virginia drew his last pension - I am trying to find the names of his children.
Sincerely.
Mrs. C. W. Gale.
[round stamp] RECEIVED PENSION FILES RECEIPT SECTION OCT 29 1931 11:00
[lower left corner of stationary is sketch of wooden door ajar in a wall with creeping vine]

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[letterhead stationary – birds eye view image of manufacturing plant]
MILWAUKEE CORRUGATING COMPANY
CABLE ADDRESS MILCOR WESTERN UNION CODE
BRANCHES: 
CHICAGO ILL. 
KANSAS CITY, MO.
LA CROSSE, WIS. 
J. H. RIDDLE
2127 Parke Avenue, Lincoln, Nebr.
Phone F 4095
36th AVE and BURNHAM ST
Milwaukee, Wis.,

Bureau of Pensions, Washington D. C.,
Dear Sirs:
I wish to know if you can give me any information as to the children of Samuel Brown, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. His pension no. is S. F. 32138?
Very truly,
Mrs. J. H. Riddle

MANUFACTURER OF MILCOR SHEET METAL BUILDING PRODUCTS

[round stamp] PENSION A JAN 27 1928 U. S. OFFICE

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Rev Sec
Peru Nebraska
March 4, 1919
U. S. Pension Bureau.
Washington. D. C.
Sirs. -
Will you please, at your earliest convenience, send me all information obtainable concerning Samuel Brown Revolutionary Pensioner

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Thanking you in advance for your knowledge in this matter I am.  Yours sincerely. Mrs. William L. Davenport Peru, Nebraska

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32138
Revy INVALID.
File No. 32,138
Samuel Brown
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32”
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1911 Dec. 9 Mrs. Lucy D. Hayes furnished tombstone data 
Letters in W. F. 3603 Joshua Richardson V. L. M.
1919 Mch. 18 Hist. to Mrs. Wm L. Davenport.
1928 Nov. 1 . Mrs J. H. Riddle - ad - 
no fam. data [illegible] to obtain date of last pay. etc.  avy [clerk initials]
1931 - Nov. 10 - Mrs. C. W. Gale adv as top date of last pay. etc  avy [clerk initials]
1938. May 19 - Hist to Cong Wm L. Nelson for Mrs. James R Short – avy [clerk initials]
see his letter in Wm. Moore S. 361 66 Mrs. Short’s letter returned
1938 - June 17 - Hon. W. L. Nelson adv. the data desired by Mrs. J. R. Short not on file in this off. & referred to Comp. Gen.
MMHF

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932.630

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Waverly January the 14th 1866
Sirs I send you the declaration of Birthena Brown for Bounty land under Act of March 1855 please examine the same I have had it on hand for some time please accept if any thing is wrong let me there from you and I will attend to it and much obblige yours Hon J. Minot 
Wm. T. Givens
See next page

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Dear Sir I would like to hear what has been done with 
Claims of E. Seymoane No 113.757
[Claims of} R Seymane [No] 113.760
[Claims of] S. Vanville [No] 113.758
[Claims of] D. Hunt [No] 113759

I see some warrants I [illegible] some time since that was sent since these claims if any thing is rong please let me her from them if Samuel J. will attend to them for you as [illegible] as I have all these claims as in Capt. Barretts Company Coln. Matthews Black Hawk was in the Springs of 1832 I remain yours Wm. T. Givens.

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Samuel Brown
Illinois
Suspended
let: 27 Sept. 1836
R. W. Drummer
do. 4 Feb 1837.
let 1 May 1837 to applicant do. to. same 18 Augt 237

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Suspended
See letter 24 June 1835 to P. N. Winchester
let 8 Jany 1836 Hon J. Reynolds,
let 9 May 1836 J. S. Greathouse

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232.630
[round stamp] WAVERLY IL
official business Free
Hon. J. Minot Com.
Washington D. C.

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Do 6
Do 6 1847
Samuel Brown
of Ills.
Increase
Declaration for a pension.
R.346 Nov. 30. 47
Pension Office
W Lee until

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To the Hon Secretary of War 
The undersigned Samuel Brown of the County of Morgan and State of Illinois would beg leave respectfully to represent that he served his country in the war of the revolution  which secured the independence of our country, And that the name of your petitioner is on the pension list of the United States, and has been there for Six or Seven years, but owing to the want of full testimony as to the time your petitioner served in the war, he has received but twenty five Dollars per annum The neciseties of your petitioner are now such that he has to forego the false pride that long prevented him, from availing himself of the munificence of Genl Government, having passed through the Snows of between Eighty and ninety winters, he finds that his unusually strong limbs that carried him through the toils of a Campaign in the service of country, refuses to carry about his tottering frame, only as it goes bending to the Earth, where it will soon rest. Your petitioner thinks he enlisted in 1780 at Hillsboro, in the State of North Carolinia, his inlistment was for three years or during the war. He Served 32 months and received a discharge for that time, he entered the Service under Capt ___ Barett in the 3rd Ridgement of Cavalry commanded by Col William Washington, under Genl Morgan until after the Battle of Cowpens your Petitioner as a private Soldier Shared in the dangers and Glories of that battle, he was under Genl Greene at the battle of Guildford and the Eutaw Springs, and in many skirmishes

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your Petitioner was at the Surrender of Charleston in a Short time after which he was discharged On the Santee River in South Carolinia, your Petitioner was Once Strong and able to labour for support he was Once blessed with family and relatives to whom he could look in the hour of need, but death has has removed from him this Support, and now full of age infirmities, and decrepitude he turns to his beloved country, which he supported in the hour that tried men of Stout harts, and askes for a pitance upon which to lean, until he shall be gathered with the remaining final of his Generation, to where most of his comrades now rest.
The undersigned petitioner addresses his prayers to the Hon Secretary of War, with the hope that he may interest himself in Securing an increase of the pension to the full pay allowed to those who served no longer than your petitioner, the amount will be required but a short time, all of which your petitioner respectfully submits.
Morgan County Ill, Nov. 13th 1847
Samuel Brown his X mark
Witness
Newton Cloud

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State of Illinois}
Morgan County}
We the undersigned Citizens of the the State of Illinois, being personally acquainted with Samuel Brown the foregoing petitioner take great pleasure in bearing testimony to his Good moral character, And believe him to be a man of Strict varasity, and full credit may be Given to the Statement in his petition. And we feel well assured from our personal knowledge of Mr. Brown’s circumstances in life that he needs the fostering hand of his country to Smooth the path of his final remaining days to his Grave, we hartly Join in the petition and ask to have his pension increased he is poor and unable to labour, and has no means of support. We therefore hope he may be relieved by the Government, And we will &c Nov 13th 1847
Newton Cloud, Isaac Conley, A. B. Kinkead; Allen Conley; Roberts Alderson; Henry Homner; Wm Cadwell; John Hart; Asahel Thayer; L. L. Duncan; George Homner; James Rhea; Woodson W. Clayton; C. T. Turner; S. A. Turner; T. P. Turner; J. C. F. Tosh; J. A. Craine; Henry Davidson; Ebenezer Jones; Wm. A. Hutchison; Drury Pulliam; E. C. Pulliam; Thomas Wyatt; Carson Collins; Wm. Mahan; Jacob H. Springer; C. A. Kinkead; Andrew Kinkead; Saml Hughes;  Julius B. Peek; Jas. D. Salter; J. W. Lint; D. York

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Res Oct 2 
Add: proof
Saml. Brown

[round seal] CARLINVILLE ILL. SEP 19
25 FREE FREE
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm. of pensions
War Department Pension office
Washington City D. C.

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State of Illinois}
Macoupin County} SS
On this the 11th day of September A. D. 1838 personally came before me Samuel St. Lewis who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that Samuel Brown who has applied for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 and who in his declaration under said act was that he was 73 years old in April 1835 and that he entered the services of the United States as a regular soldier in the year 1780, did enlist as aforesaid about the 20th of August in the year 1780 a short time after General Gates defeat and that he continued as a soldier in the Service of the United States until the close of the war which this deponent believes was some time in the year 1783 – That it was in June of the year 1783 that the said Samuel Brown returned home from the army – That the Said Samuel Brown enlisted at Hillsborough in North Carolina under Capt Barrett And further this deponent Samuel H. Sears his X mark
Sath not. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of September 1838. 
James McLarning a Justice of the peace

State of Illinois}
Macoupin County} SS
I James McLarning the Justice of the peace before whom the above affiant was sworn to and subscribed do hereby certify that the said affiants to wit Robert Busby and Samuel H. Sears are persons of credibility and good character and worthy to be believed in what they depose on oath. Given under my hand and seal at Carlinville in said County on the 11th day of September A. D. 1838
James McLarning {JP}
a Justice of the peace

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State of Illinois}
Macoupin County} Sct.
I John A. Chesnut clerk of the County Commissioner Court of said County do certify that James McLarning Esqr. before whom the enclosed affidavits were sworn to & subscribed and whose signature appears to the certificate herewith also enclosed now is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified according to law and that as such full faith and credit should given to all his acts. And further I certify that his said signature as aforesaid affixed is genuine
Given under my  hand and the seal of said Court at Carlinville this 15th day of September AD. 1838.
John A. Chesnut, Clk
C. C. C. M. C.

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State of Illinois}
Macoupin County} SS
On this the 11th day of September AD 1838 personally came before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the peace in & for the County and State aforesaid Robert Busby who being duly sworn according to law deposes & says that Samuel Brown (who has applied for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832) and who in his declaration under said act vows that he was 73 years old in April 1835 and enlisted in the year 1780, was first seen and known to him the deponent at Cowpens a short time previous to the battle at that place that he came therein company with and under the command of Capt. Barrett whose company had been raised at Hillsborough in North Carolina before that time _ that he was informed by the said Samuel Brown and other credible person that the said Brown did enlist at Hillsborough that during his service whilst [illegible] the deponent he belonged to Col. William Washington’s Regiment of Cavalry Capt Barrits company and Col. Washingtons line. That the said Samuel Brown and deponent continued together in the services as soldiers from the said Battle at Cowpens until the Battle at the Eutaw Springs at which time and place the said Samuel Brown and this deponent was separated and the said deponent from and after that time never saw the said Samuel Brown until after the close of the war and further he says not.
Robert Busby his X mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 11th day of September A D. 1838}
James McLarning
ac Justice of the peace

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Revolution
Maj. P. U. Cain Nez
Samuel Nisbell
case the License form Lee for him
This is difference from others

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[Standard printed form with no additions, not transcribed]

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[Standard printed form with no additions, not transcribed]

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[Standard printed form with no additions, not transcribed]

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JAs. July 31
Act '32
Saml Brown

Carlinville Ill}
July 20th}  free
J. L. Edwards Esqr
War Dept.
Pension Office
Washington City D. C.

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War Department
Pension Office
May 1. 1837
Sir,
Your amended declaration has been examined and it is herewith returned in order that the magistrate before whom it was made may sign his name thereto, and that his official character and signature may be authenticated as required in note i, in the enclosed printed sheet. Captain Barrett’s company in which you allege to have served was not our officer in the continental establishment  but he commanded a volunteer company of Cavalry. Not more than six months service can be allowed; unless the time which you were in actual service in each tour can be more particularly specified.
I am respectfully, your obt. sert.
J L. Edwards

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Macoupin County Ills.
March 27th 1837
Dear Sir
I herewith enclose to you an other application for a pention my reason for heaving this made out before a Justice of the peace is that I am old, and frail not well able to go any great distance to have the business attended to. The last application I sent to you I have had no satisfactory answer as the Gentleman that attended to the business measurable with held your answer from me. You will please to write to me at Eagle Point Macoupin County Ill. and give me all necessary information relative to the matter and of my Claim and if my proceedings and testimony are not sufficient inform me in what way and form I must send them to you. This from yours OS Saml Brown

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on this fourteenth day of November Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty six – personally appeared in open Court Samuel Brown before me Aaron Willson Judge of Probate within and for the County of Morgan and State of Illinois.
Samuel Brown having herefore made a declaration for a pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. Now makes the following as an amendment by reason of the loss of memory he cannot state the details of the different tours of service he performed _ he is satisfied of having service constantly from the time he enlisted until the war ended and the statement he last made is as full and explicit as he can possibly make and he will have to abide by that if no consideration is to be given to age and feebleness under which he labors 
Samuel Brown his X mark
Aaron Willson Judge of Probate within and for the County of Morgan & State of Illinois hereby certifies that the above named Samuel Brown this day personally appeared before me in open court – and signed the above declaration having made oath to the truth of the statement of the declaration made therein _ Given under my hand and private Seal (there being no public seal) this fourteenth day of November Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty six –
Aaron Willson Judge of Probate

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Jacksonville Ill Nov 29th. 1836_
I am acquainted with Aaron Willson whose Signature appears to this foregoing affidavit of Samuel Brown, - He is the Judge of the Court of Probate of Morgan County which is a Court of Record, and is authorized by the Laws of the state to administer oaths and take affidavits
Given under my hand this date above
Govr of the State of Illinois & Late a Member of Congress of said State.
Joseph Duncan

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[seal] JACKSONVILLE ILLS. SEP 8
Sept 23
JAs.
Free
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington. D.C.

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Sir.
Enclosed is the application of Samuel Brown for a pension _
yrs &
[illegible] Wm Dummer
Sept. 6. 1836.

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JAs. Ma 28
Carlinville Ill}
March. 8}
Honble. J. L. Edwards
Washington City. D.C.
mail}

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Carlinville March 7th 1836
Honble J L Edwards
I enclose a supplemental Declaration to obtain a pension for Samuel Brown - in which he has endeavored to supply the deficiency pointed out in your printed letter herwith enclosed. My name was made known to the Department in 1833. or 1834. Through a member in Congress from this state upon the application of Daniel Brown of Madison Cty Ills. in which Case I succeeded in getting a Pension.
YUr. Most Obt Servant Resply John S. Greathouse

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JAs. Dec 22
Carlinville, Ill}
Dec 8}
FREE
Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

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Carlinville Dec 9th 1835
To Jas. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
If the Enclosed papers should want for I shall be much indebted to your if you will drop me a few lines, and tell me wherein they are insufficient - As I know the applicant, believe his statement, and think him needy please let me hear from you on the Receipts of this
Yours Respectfully
Mort Bainbridge

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State of Illinois}
Macoupin Co} SS
On the Seventh day of December 1835 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges if the County Commissioners Court for the County and State aforesaid now sitting in Carlinville Samuel Brown, a resident of the County aforesaid. Aged Seventy three (73) in April 1835. Who being first duly Sworn according to Law. doth, on his oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June the Seventh (7th) 1832
That he enlisted as a Soldier in the Revolutionary war in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty (1780) at Hillsborough, North Carolina, during the war, under Captain Barrett, and first Lieutenant John Linton, in the third (3rd) Regiment of Cavalry, commanded by Colonel William Washington, that he Enlisted, to the best of his recollection on September or October Seventeen hundred and Eighty (1780) and went with Colonel Washington to a place called Rugely’s farm about nine miles of Camden, where a party of Tories was stationed in a Barn, and the Cavalry not being able to get at them a tree was mounted in a waggon and the Enemy was ordered to surrender, and Colonel Rugely and the men did Surrender _ I then went to the Battle of the Cowpens, and was engaged in the battle under General Morgan, and Lieutenant Colonel Washington _ I

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think there was a Colonel Pickens and an Officer named Triplet, we released from the Cowpens with the prisoners. I went to Virginia and was detached from the Regiment with a Recruiting Office, and the Recruited men and Horses and formed the Regiment again at the Seige of Ninety-Six and continued there during the Seige, and we were compelled to leave the Seige in consequence of the British receiving a Reinforcement and compelled the American Army to retire to the Brushy Mountain to a place then called the Cross Roads. From that place the army marched towards Camden and left me at that place, in consequence of my having the Small Pox _ and as soon as I recovered I marched and joined the army at or near Camden, and from that place we marched to the Eutaw Springs and fought the British army at that place and if I am not mistaken Colonel Washington was wounded by a Bayonette and was taken prisoner. We then marched to Charlestown, South Carolina and beseiged that place, the  British being in possession and they had to retreat _ I then went into the Country with the Troops, where we could procure provisions and remained untill the war ended and peace was made _ He further states that from the time he entered the Service, he was in the Service until peace was concluded and he does think he cannot be mistaken when he says that he served upwards of two years in actual service and that he was no employed in any Civil persuit during that time _ He hereby

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relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency of any State Sworn to and Subscribed this 7th day of December 1835
Samuel Brown
Subscribed and sworn to before me Tristram P Hoxsey, Clerk} 
And the Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states
I Samuel Sears a Clergyman, residing in the County of Macoupin and State of Illinois and Daniel Sears, residing in the same County and State, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration and that we believe him to be Seventy three (73) years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
Saml Sears
Daniel Sears
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid before Tristram P. Hoxsey, Clerk
And the Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the

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Court further certify that it appears to them that the said Samuel Sears who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman Resident in the county of Macoupin and State of Illinois and that Daniel Sears who has also signed the same is a resident of the same County and State and is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit
State of Illinois}
Macoupin County} Scts.
I the undersigned Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of Said County, do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of Said Court and that the declaration and Cirtificates were Sworn to in open Court. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court, at Carlinville, this Seventh day of December, A D 1835
Tristram P. Hoxsey Cl'k

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Carlinville Ill}
June 9th}
Free [25 crossed out]
James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D C
JAS.
June 22

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Dear Levi
I send you the declaration of Mr. Brown it is [illegible] from a form sent me by Governor Reynolds, I have no doubt that the old man is  justly entitled to a pension, I hope your action will be soon had on it I have omitted to put the intorogatories supposing it necessary from the form 
Most Respectfully 
Your obedient Ser 
P. H. Winchester June 8th 1835
James L. Edwards
Washington City

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Brown, Samuel
GRADE Private
LINE Hazen's Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER 12759
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED June 11, 1793 to James poulson, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.


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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Brown, Samuel 
GRADE Private
LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 3710
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Oct. 10, 1791 to A. Maxwell, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.