Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1356, Jeremiah Browning, Md.

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SERVICE
Md.

Browning, Jeremiah 

NUMBER
R.1356

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Jeremiah Browning of Brachin Co. Kentucky Rejected see letter to Hon J T Johnson House of Representatives, March 22 1822. Applicant Pender Law 18 March 1818 Vc

Rejected _ the applicant name not appearing on the rolls. J L Edwards Pension Office 20 Apl 1814.

Jeremiah Browning

Rejected, 22d March 1822.

Respectfully transmitted to R Loockerman Esq Auditor Genl. at Annapolis for a certificate of service War Dept.

N W Van Zandt  Attorney

Pension Office 17 March 1819

The name of Jeremiah Browning does not appear on the Rolls 

Thos. Karney auditor State Md

Deposited by Mayor

John Davidson of Washington City 
2 Oct 1818

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State of Kentucky
1st Judicial District

On this 18th day of Augst.
1818 before me the subscriber sole Judge of the
Mason Circuit Court within the Judicial District above cited, personally
appeared Jeremiah Browning, aged sixty years resident
in Brackin County in the said district, who being
by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth, 
on his oath, make the following declaration 
in order to obtain the provision made by 
the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to
"provide for certain persons in the land and 
"naval service of the United States in the  
Revolutionary war": That he the said Jeremiah 
Browning enlisted at Bladensburg in the state 
of Maryland in the company commanded 
by Capt. Resin Bell of the Rangers, on the 
continental establishment, in the month of 
November 1777 to serve during th war that he continued 
to serve in the said corps until the month 
of Sept 1778 when he was honorably discharged 
being disabled at the mouth of Patuxent river Maryland:
that he fought with said Rangers in the 
driving of Dumore from Saint Georges Island 
in which engagement his Capt. Bell was 
wounded and sent to Brunswick and s
Jeremiah

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Jeremiah Browning moreover swears that he is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence of his said services now in his power to adduce, except what follows.

Sworn and declared before these presents also subscribed the day and year first within written.
Jeremiah Browning
his X mark
In presence of
H. R. grass
Sworn and declared before me the day & year above.
Adam Beatty
I, Adam Beatty, Judge as aforesaid , certify that it appears to my satisfaction, from the oath of Shadrick Caso, duly sworn before me this day, that the above named Jeremiah Browning, is in very reduced circumstances, and that he needs the assistance of his country for a support.  It also appears to my satisfaction, from an examination of said Browning on oath, and by the oath of the aforesaid Caso (who proved that he knew the said Browning while in the army and that he brought him home, he having been discharged in  consequence of sickness, which discharge he does when he received it.)  That

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he did serve nine months and upwards in the public service, as stated in his declaration.  In testimony where I have affixed my hand this 18th of August 1818.
A Beatty [signture]

State of Kentucky  Mason Circuit, [illegible]
I Marshall Key, clerk of the Mason Cir[piece torn out] Court, do certify, that Adam Beatty, before whom the foregoing statement and affidavit were made, is now and was at the time of subscribing the same, Judge of the said Court, duly commissioned and sworn; and that full faith and credit ought to be given to al official acts by him done.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Washington, Kentucky , the 18th day of August 1818.
Marshall Key [signature]

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Delilah McKinsey
Affidavit
Jeremiah Browning
Pension

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Commonwealth of Kentucky
Mason County Sev.

Before the undersigned a Justice 
of the peace in and for said County personally appeared
Delilah McKinsey and made the following statement after 
being sworn by.
That she is now upwards of seventy years of age; that 
Jeremiah Browning of Bracken County, the same who 
is now applying for a pension, and who made his declaration
before the Bracken Circuit Court at the last 
September Term; is her brother. That at the Commencment of
the revolutionary war, she resided with her father on what
was called Snowden manor, Fredrick County Maryland,
and the said Jeremiah Browning also resided there. That 
the said Browning entered the service of the State of 
Maryland by volunteering or enlisting as it was generally
called sometime in the winter and was gone all the 
summer, and late in the fall or first of the winter following 
he was brought home very sick and continued sick a
long time before he recovered. She does not recollect the 
year, but it was the commencement of the war and the 
fence was raised for the protection of the Bay Coast, and 
when her brother enlisted or volunteered it was understood
that he was to be gone a long as was necessary, or as
it was generally termed during the war, for it was not
thought that the war would last very long, she very well
recollects that her father was very dissatisfied at his 
enlisting as he would be gone all the summer. She 
does not very well recollect the time he was gone further
that on she has already stated, but thinks it must have

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been nine or ten months. The said Jerimiah Browning 
is older by some years than she is. Sworn to and 
subscribed this 5th day of February 1839.
Delilah McKinsey
her Ｘ mark

and I do further certify that the said Delilah McKinsey
is a near neighbor of mine, and is a woman of 
respectable character and her statement discovery of
credit given under my hand this 5th day of 
February 1839.

Jesse Turner

State of Kentucky
Mason County Sev.

I Marshall Key clerk of the Court 
for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Jesse Turner 
before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and sworn to 
was at the date of said affidavit an acting Justice of the 
peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn
and that his signature to this foregoing certificate is genuine 
testimoney where of I have unto set my
hand and affixed my seal of office 
this 7th day of February 1839.

Marshall Key

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34,671
Declaration
Jeremiah Browning
Kentucky
Jeremiah Browning
______________
[written vertically left side]
cation of Jeremiah Browning for a pension
In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand
and affixed my seal of
office this 17th day of
September 1838.

John Payne [signature]

Hon H Chambers 
HN

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State of Kentucky Circuit
+ County of Brachen Sev

On this 17th day of September 1838 ~ personally 
appeared in Open Court before the Court of Brachen
Circuit now sitting Jeremiah Browning a resident
of said County aged eighty years, who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on his oath 
make the following declaration in order to obtain 
the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th
1832.

That on the 10th (or around that date) in the month of
January in the year 1776, he (being then a resident of
Fredrick County and the state of Maryland, on Samul 
Snowden Manor where he was born) -he- enlisted or volunteered or entered 
the service of the state of Maryland, at Bladensburgh
in Prince George City, under Capt. Reason Bell, 1st 
Lt Brachen, 2nd Lt Terresse Adams, Ensign Hachmon
1st Srgt Thos Bell, 2nd Sergeant Colla Williams, 3d Srgt.
Joshua Bell, 4th. Srgt. Nigman Hillary to serve
during the war with Great Britain unless sooner 
discharge. The Company to which he was attached
was raised for the purpose of protecting the Bay
Coast of Maryland from Anopolis to St Georges Island
and was stationed as head quarters at the mouth
of the Patuxent and was denominated the Ranging
Company. At this time Gov Dunmore had his
fleet in the bay, and landed his troops at and
 on the island of St George when he was 
attacked by the troops under the command of Capt Bell 
the attach and skirmishing until the enemy retreated

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continued for three days ( in this affair, he the 
affiant, was engaged) and Capt Bell was wounded
with a rifle or musket shot through the fleshy 
part of the breast and arm. in the month
of October, about the 25th having been much
injured in his right arm by a [illegible] of a piece 
of artillery and being also very sick with fever
he was taken home having been first discharged from service by Lt Adam who then 
commanded at the camp at the mouth of the Patuxent with this wound and sickness;  the affiant lay two months before he got so that he could go about, the scar of the wound he bears to this day.  In the engagements above mentioned 13 prisoners were taken.  Capt Bell was shortly after promoted as the affiant was informed to the rank of a B^r Gen^l in the regular army.  Some years ago the affiant made application for a pension and then proved his services by John Tucker, Benjamin Fitzgerald
Moses Arms and Shadrach Case but failed
in consequence of there being no law embracing his case__ those witnesses are now dead, and he knows of no person by whom he can prove his service except his sister M^rs Delilah McKinsey of Mason County Kenty. Lt Adams gave the affiant a written discharge but that has been lost or left behind in Maryland many years ago.  During the whole time from the engagement in {illegible] to the discharge in October 1776 the affiant was in actual service in the field & camp__ and did actually by his voluntary enlistment engaged for

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and during the war with Great Britain unless sooner discharged, that he was discharged in September & sent home in consequence of his wounds and sickness form which wound it was some years before he entirely recovered.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Jeremiah Browning
his X mark

And it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that it would be inconvenient to procure the testimony of ministers of the gospel resident in the neighbourhood of said petitioner, Isaac Day, Gilbert Donovan, and James Patterson Citizens of said county came into Court and being sworn and interrogated by the Judge state that they have been acquainted with the said Petitioner for many years perhaps fiften [sic] or twenty__
that he has always borne a good character as an honest man, a good Citizen and a man of truth and veracity, and that they believe him to be such__They also state that haveing heard his declaration and from their knowledge of the petition they believe him to be of the age stated by him, they also state that in the neighbourhood where he resides they have heard him generally spoken of as a Soldier of the Revolution, and it is so generally understood and believed & they concur in that opinion.  And the said James Patterson states that he has heard the said petitioner as well as his wife, speak of his services during the revolutionary war and the injury he sustained in his right hand and arm [crossed out] as well as the wound in his breast [illegible] [/crossed out] while in service  John Payne clerk  of the Brachen County Court being in Court and being sworn states that Jeremiah Browning the petitioner
now in Court is the same Jeremiah Browning, who

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in the year 1828 made his declaration for a pension and whose services were proven by John Tucker, Shadrach Case & others & certified by him as clerk of the Brachen County Court in November 1828.  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 that Isaac Day, Gilbert Donovan Jesse Patterson & John Payne whose statements on oath given as above certified in open Court are residents of the county of Brachen, and are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.

I John Payne  clerk of the Court for the Circuit of Brachen and county & state aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Browning for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this 17th day of September 1838.
John Payne[signature]

[written vertically on page]
Hon. J. Chambers
[illegible]

34671
Declaration
Jeremiah Browning
Kentucky
Jeremiah Browning

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Jeremiah Browning
Kentucky
Suspended ["suspended" crossed out]
Rejected [written above "suspended"]
See let; 29th Dec 1838  
Hon J. Chambers
let 22d June 1839
G G Brewer
let 27 June 1839 J
Payne__

did not perform him month actual pension
Act 7 June 1832.

1356

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1316.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An act for the relief of certain Surviving officers and Soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th day of May 1828.  I Jeremiah Browning of ___ in the county of Bracken and in the state of Kentucky, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war and contined in its service untill its termination: At which period I was a private soldier in Cap^t Reason Bell's Company of Rangers [last word underlined] of the State of Maryland.   After Capt. Reason Bell was promoted I then served under Capt Bracker who succeeded to the Captency [sic] in the same company.
And I also declare that I often [page torned]
received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, to which  I was entitled, under the Resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778.
And I further declare that I was not on the 15th of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States
Jeremiah Browning
his X mark

Before me a Justice of the Peace in the County of Bracken, in the state of Kentucky personally appeared this day John Tucker and Benjamin Fitzgarld the former of Bracken & the Latter of Mason counties in the state aforesaid, who did severally

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make oath that Jeremiah Browning by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a private Soldier in the army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this 14 day of November in the year 1828
G.M Blackerby J. CB,C

I John Payne clerk of the court of the County of Bracken in the state of Kentucky do certify that John M Blackerby Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths
In  Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 27th day of November 1828
[image of seal]
John Payne 
By O. H. Browning [illegible]
Deputy

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[crossed out] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 [/crossed out]
1356

P. O. Jeremiah Browning

REJECTED [stamped]

lleges: List of rejected claims printed in 1852, shows cause
Re-Enlisted: of rejection as follows:
"not six months service".

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[printed document with fill ins]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
{10th December 1828}

[crossed out] It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued ______in the _______ [/crossed out]
It further appears that {Jeremiah Browning} is not now on the pension list of {any} agency, and has not been so since the {3d March 1826}
[crossed out]  at the rate of_____dollars per month.[/crossed out]

The name of Jeremiah Browning cannot be found among those of the Maryland line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty ever Peter Hagner [illegible]

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Revolutionary Claims

Augusta Ky
Nov 24

Mr Richard Rush
Secretary of Treasury 
Washington City

Mail

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J L Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City D.C

FREE [stamped]

[round stamp]
ANNAPOLIS Md
JUN 25
[/round stamp]

[notations]
June 27
In ab
mal

Mail

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Land Office, Annapolis,
25th June, 1839;


Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 22nd Inst., I have to stat,__ That the records of the revolution in this office afford no evidence of the service of Jeremiah Browning, Captain Rezin Beall, under whom he alleges to have served, commanded ["company" crossed out] in one of the Independent Companies, he is charged on the Army Ledger, with money's paid him on account of his Company, but there are no master or pay rolls of his Company to be found,  The muster and pay rolls of the Independent Companies, have all be lost or destroyed;
Very respectfully,
Yr. obt s?
G. G. Brewer

J. L. Edward's Esq^r

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John Payne
November 22. '38
O C

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War Dept. Pen Office
Nov 22, 1838

Sir

In reply to your letter of the 13th inst relative to the case of Jeremiah Browning I have to inform you that the papers exhibited under act March 18, 1818 are on file in this office.  If he will make a declaration setting forth his services as required in the enclosed printed regulations a pension may probably be allowed him.  The best evidence of his identity in his power to procure should be exhibited.

John Payne Esq
Augusta, 
Kentucky.

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Hon John Chambers
Dec 29, 1858
D. C.

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War dept. Pen. Office
dec 29, 1838

Sir

The declaration of Jeremiah Browning under act 7 June 1132? has been examined and filed with suspended cases in this office.  He alleges to have served under Captain Resin Bell as a Ranger from January to October 1776 in the state of Maryland.  It is also stated that he made a declaration in 1828.  The period of the service set forth in his declaration made in 1822 is different from that [illegible] stated, and it does not appear that any papers were received here in 1828 in support of his claim.  The alleged service was not on the continental establishment, It is doubtful whether there was continuous service for a longer term than six months excepting on said establishment.
An explanatory statement relative to the period of service should be made, and some more [illegible] information given respecting the declaration

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and proof made in 1828.

[written vertically right side of page]
Hon John Chambers
Dec 29, 1838
C. C.
[/written vertically ]

[written bottom of page]
Hon John Chambers
M. R


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ent [rest of word smeared]
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G. G. Brewer
June 22  '39
OC

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389

War dept Pen Office
June 22, 1839

Sir

Jeremiah Browning has applied at this office for a pension.  He alleges to have served under [last word crossed out] in Capt. Regin Bell's [crossed out] in January 1776[/crossed out] company of Rangers from January 1776.  I will thank you to inform me what proof the records in your office affords of his service. An early answer is respectfully requested.

George G. Brewer Esq
Register [illegible] office,
Annapolis,
Md

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ento
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Jeremiah Browning
Kentucky
_____
Rejected
_____
Sen letter 22 March
1822 to Hon J. T. Johnson. N. Ret.
Let 22d Nov; 1838
to John Payne

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F or T
War Department
Pension Office
Washington City

[written vertically left side]
Inab    Jun22
Ken.

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Augusta Kenty  Nov. 13th 1838

M^r J. L. Edwards

Dear Sir

An old gentleman by the name of Browning  (Jeremiah Browning) informs me that many years ago he made application for a pension for revolutionary services and he states that there were also several depositions when proveing [sic] his service, that it was not granted in 
[illegible] of it approving that he was in the militia service of Maryland.  The persons whose depositions were then taken are now dead and he does not know what because of the papers,_ he wishes to make application under the act of 1832_ were the papers lodged in your office?  If they were mite you be so good as transmit them to me.
Will you be so good as send me a copy of the rule instructions of the [illegible] relative to proceeding under the act of July 7th 1838. granting has pay & pensions to widows_
Respectfully yours Hble Servt
John Payne [signature]

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House of Representatives  27th Dec^r 38

Sir

I send you inclosed the application of Jeremiah Browning for a pension and beg leave to refer you to a correspondence relative to his service which I am informed you have held with Genl John Payne of Augusta in Ky.

Respectfully 
your obt serv^t
John Chambers

J. L. Edwards  Court of Pensions
Pension Officedwards Esq

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[typed]
AUGUSTA KY FEBY,12
[/typed]

[handwritten]
Y'ne____
[illegible]
J. L. Edwards Esq.  Court Pension
Washington City
Feb. 21, 1839 [written vertically]

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Augusta, Ky,, Feb 7th 1839.

J L Edwards Esq^r
Enclosed you will find the deposition of Mr. McKinsey in support of old Mr. Brownings application for a pension.  His declaration made in 1829 was placed in the hands of N. D. Coleman Esq^r who has moved to Mississippi.  I have not seen Mr. Browning since your communication was received, he is very old and infirm, I doubt very much his ever being able to get this far from home again he lives some twenty miles from here in the back part of Brachen county.  As to the terms of his enlistment I am satisfied it was as Mr. McKinsey says, that he volunteered to remain in the service as long as required not supposing that they would be long required & that he was only a militia man.
Should his pension be allowed M^r Chambers will receive his money for him.

Respectfully yours
John Payne

Old Matthias Bailey cannot furnish any further evidence of his service__ I have no doubt he was in the service from the time he states until the close of the war__ He is also very infirm, and will not want anything [illegible] long_ his memory quits very much
JP

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[printed document with fill ins]

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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,

28 Feb 1829

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of {Jeremiah Browning} under the above mentioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be placed to cape 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.
R. Rush

The Hon. the SECRETARY of War.

[notation at bottom]
War Depart:
The records of this office do not show that Jeremiah Browning of the Maryland line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States.

Robert Taylor
2 March 1829

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Jeremiah Browning

[illegible]

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State of Kentucky County of Mason}  ss.

I, Jeremiah Browning, aged 63 years, a citizen of the United States, do upon oath testify ad declare, that in the month of November 1777, I enlisted in the army of the revolution against the common enemy of my country, for the term of "during the war", and served in the company of Capt. Resin Bell, of the Rangers, and on continental establishment: and that I continued in the service aforesaid to about the last of September 1778, at which time I was discharged for disability, having received a severe injury in my right arm &c, and was taken to my Fathers House, by order of Lieut. Adams, under the care of Sha^h Case, that whilst I was in said service I fought with the Rangers, in the driving of Dumore from Saint Georges Island, in which engagement my Capt Bell was wounded and sent to Brunswick__ my discharge is now lost so that I cannot procure it to corroborate the above statement.

Jeremiah Browning  [handwritten seal]
his X mark

Attest
H. R. Grassan
Wm Duff
Richard Bouchers

I, Moses Orme, aged 65 years a citizen of the United States, do upon oath declare, that I have been long acquainted with Jeremiah Browning, who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents  himself to be; and further, I know that he did perform the military services therein stated; and that after having served abot [sic] ten months above time he was discharged, and sent to his Father on account of disability acquired whilst he was in the service of the United States.
Moses Orme [signature]  [handwritten seal]
Attest
H. R. Grasson
Wm Duff
Richard Boucher

State of Kentucky}
County of Mason }  ss.

Wm. Duff - - Before me Wm Duff a Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid personally appeared Jeremiah Browning

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Browning and Moses Orme subscribers to the foregoing declaration and certificate of identity both credible and most respectable persons and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed this 18th day of February 1822.
Wm Duff J.P.M.C.  [handwritten seal]

State of Kentucky Mason County ss

I Marshall Key Clerk of the County Court of said County certify that William Duff Esqr who has granted the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of granting the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that to all their official acts as such full faith and credit are due and ought to be given
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the 19th day of February 1822.
Marshall Key
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O W Rej
#1.356

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Jeremiah Browning -  Pat-
Maryland line
Evidence insufficient Act 1828
Kentucky
Rej File No 1,356
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John Payne
June 27 1839
O. C.

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476

War Dept. Pen. Office
June 27, 1839

Sir
The declaration of Jeremiah Browning under act 7th June 1832 has been examined.  He alleges to have served in Captain Regin Beall's Company of Maryland troops  That company was a volunteer company of militia and turned [illegible] Independent company.  The actual service performed was less than six months.  The Act of 7 June 1832 provides for none who did not perform six months actual service.  The claim has therefore been rejected, and the papers filed in this office.

John Payne Esqr
Augusta
Ken

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