Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3218, Simeon Brant, R. I.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE
R.I.

Brant, Simeon
or Brandt,
Prudence

NUMBER 
W.3218
B.L. Wt. 26,948-55

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[left side]
Let to J. R. Poinsett
16 Aug 1837
Let to Levi Peet
22 Aug 1837

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[illegible]
30.747
Simeon Brant
of Allegany Co. in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Hopkins of the Reg commanded
by Caslin on the R Island
line for 8 months
Inscribed in the Roll of Albany N.Y.
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of July
1836, and forwarded the pensioner
At Cuba, Angelica Co NY
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 = $133.30
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 13.33
$146.63
{ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R Burdine Clerk,
Book E2 Vol. 4 Page 6

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1042
Pennsylva Philada
Prudence Brandt
widow of Simeon Brandt
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private
Rhode Island line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
26 Dollars 66 
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
31 day of July 1848
and sent to
Jacob Brown
Athens
Crawford Co. Penn
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 204 Vol. 2

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Reported

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111.135} Oct-Mar 3 May 1 21/55
Prudence Brandt [crossed out: or Brandt]
wid of
Simon [crossed out: Brand] Brandt
Brandt, Priv
Gen. Greene
Revolutionary War
widow has been pensioned
Penn. [illegible] 1042
[illegible] May 22d/56
G. B. Delamater
Kingsley
Crawford Co.
Pa

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C. G. B. Delamater, Jany 4" 1855

Vol B2-69

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Simeon Brant
Pension Papers

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State of New York
Allegany County
On this twenty-seventh day of August one thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appeared before Asa S Allen Esquire a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Allegany and State of New York at his office in the village of Angelica in the said county. Simeon Brant a resident of the town of Cuba in the said county of Allegany aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. I
That he enlisted in the Rhode Island State Troops in the month of April one thousand seven hundred & seventy six at the Town of West Greenwich in the county of Kent & state of Rhode Island, under Colonel Archibald Caslin (sp?) as he believes & in a Company commanded by Captain Allexander Hopkins and that he served in the said Company and regiment for the term of six months, and that he then received a written certificate or discharge which is since lost and that he has now no documentary evidence nor knows of no person living who can testify his service.
And he further declares that in the winter of the year last aforesaid he a second time entered the service of the United States in the Rhode Island State Troops as a substitute for Thomas Joslin for the Term of two months at the Town of West Greenwich aforesaid in a regiment commanded by Colonel

Sidebar of page states I. he declares that he was home at the Town of Westerly in the county of Washington Rhode Island but he does not certainly recall what the County was then called

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Archibald Caslin as aforesaid & in the company Commanded by Joseph Draper and that he served in the said Company for the said term of two months & then received a certificate of discharge which is now lost and that he has no documentary evidence nor knows of no person living who can testify to his service.
And he further declares that he a third time entered the service of the United States in the Rhode Island State Troops in the month of April one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight at the Town of Greenwich aforesaid by enlisting in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Stephen Lipcot likely S Lippette as he believes and in a company commanded by Captain Benjamin Gordon for the Term of six months and that he continued to serve in the said Regiment & Company for the said Term of six months & that he then received a written discharge which is since lost that during the said Term of six months he was marched to Providence & returned again to Greenwich, and that he has no documentary evidence nor  knows of no person living who can testify to his service as aforesaid.
And he further declares that he a fourth time enlisted in the service of the United States at the Town of Greenwich aforesaid in the month of April one thousand seven hundred & seventy nine for the Term of six months in the Rhode Island State Troops & in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Stephen Lipcot or Lipet as the Regiment as last aforesaid and in a Company commanded by

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Captain Benjamin Gordon as aforesaid and that he continued to serve as aforesaid for the said term of six months & then received a written discharge which is since lost and that he has now no documentary evidence nor knows of no person living who can testify to his service a aforesaid that during the said last Term of six months he was in what was called Sullivans expedition on the Island of Rhode Island & that he was then wounded in the leg with a grape shot.
And he further declares that a fifth time enlisted in the service of the United States in the Rhode Island State Troops at the town of Greenwich aforesaid in the month of April one thousand seven hundred & eighty in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Archibald Caslin or Caslle and in a company commanded by Captain Thomas Hall as he believes for the term of six months that he was marched to Boston Neck to guard the shore against a British Man of War and that he continued to serve for the said six months & that he was there discharged & that he has no documentary evidence nor knows of no person living who can testify to his service as aforesaid.
And he further declares that he a sixth time enlisted in the service of the United States in the Rhode Island State troops at the town of Greenwich aforesaid and in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Stephen Lipcot or Lipet and a company commended by Captain Archibald Gibbs

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in the month of April one thousand seven hundred & eighty one for the Term of six months that he was marched to a place called [illegible] & that he can continued to serve as aforesaid for the sum of six months & was then discharged & that he has no documentary evidence nor know of no person living who can testify to his service aforesaid 
And he further declares that during his said several services as aforesaid of he saw General [crossed out: Washington] ^Nathaniel Greene Sullivan & other officers whose names he can not now recollect that three or four years ago he applied for a pension but did not obtain one and that some papers relating to the service are now in the war department, ^as he supposes [written above] and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State 
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Simeon Brant
Allegany County ss We Thomas McElhany a justice of the peace of said County and a Post Master & Jacob Baldwin residing in the ^said county hereby certify that we of are well acquainted with Simeon Brant who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid- 
Thos McElheny 
Jacob Baldwin

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and I the said Asa S. Allen Judge, as aforesaid does hereby certify that the said Simeon Brant is sick infim & resides at about twenty miles from where the said court is held & that I believe he would not be able to attend the same 
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states and I the said judge do further certify that it appears to me that Thomas McElhany who has signed the preceeding certificate is a resident of the Town of Haight in the County of Allegany & that Jacob Baldwin who has signed the same is a resident of the Town of Cuba in said County and that they are both credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit & further that no Clergyman resides near the said Joseph York & the said Judge do further certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings had before me in the matter of the application of Joseph York for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this first day of September 1832 
Asa S Allen Judge of Common Pleas of Allegany County

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State of New York Allegany County } Clerks office to Judson W. Sherman Clerk of the County of Allegany & clerk of the court of common Pleas of the said County do of hereby certify that Asa Allen before whom the within proceeding the institued was at the time the same purports to have done a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County & further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & that his signature within subscribed is in his proper hand writing 
Witness my hand & seal of office this fourth day of September 1832 
JW Sherman 

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Simeon Brants
Pension Papers

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State of New York Allegany County SS. } On this 31st day of March 1845 personally appeared before me William Hicks one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. Prudence Brant a resident of the Town of Cuba in the County and State aforesaid aged eighty years who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed. March 3 1843. That she is the widow of Simeon Brant, who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution as she believes will fully appear by reference to his papers now on file in the pension office on which he drew his pension and that her husband the said Simeon Brant drew a pension at the rate of thirty six dollars per annum, and that he lived at the Town of Cuba in the said County of Allegany at that time 
And she further declares that she was married to the said Simeon Brant at the Town of Ballston in the County of Saratoga in the said State of New York on the twelfth day of October 1786 by Elder Schank the parish minister of said Town and that her maiden name before her marriage to the said Simeon Brant was Prudence Phelps. And that she was ^not married to the said Simon Brant prior to his leaving the service but she was married to the said Simeon Brant

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prior to the 1st day of January 1794. Namely at the time above stated. And that her Husband the said Simeon Brant died at the Town of Angelica in the County aforesaid on the 4th day of December 1842. and that she has no family Record of the marriage or the ages of her [illegible] Children which she had by the husband the said Simeon Brant and that she is still the widow of the said Simeon Brant, and has not since married 
Prudence Brant her mark X
Subscribed and sworn before me the day and year first above written W Hicks Judge of Allegany Co. Courts
 I hereby certify that Prudence Brant who made her mark to the forgoing declaration before me is unable by reason of age and bodily infirmity  to appeal in Open Court or write her name Wm Hicks a Judge of Allegany Co. Courts
State of New York of Allegany County Clerks Office sc} I William Windsor Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Wm Hicks Esq before whom the preceeding Affidavits taken was at date of the same one of the Judges of Allegany County came in and for said County and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed thereto is his given signature
Witness my hand and the seal of said County this 20th day of May AD 1845 
Wm Windsor Clerk

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State of New York}
County of Saratoga} SS:
I certify that the Book containing the record of marriages of the first Presbyterian Church in the Town of Ballston in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York over which the Reverend William Schenck presided as Pastor, is in my possession and under the head of Marriages Solemnized by him the said Pastor I find the following to wit: "October twelfth Seventeen, hundred Eighty six ^then were joined in the bonds of marriage[written above] Simeon Bryant and Prudence Phelps. 
A true extract from the record aforesaid with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows “October 12th 1786”
Geo. H. Thatcher
I George W. Thatcher above named depose and say that I hold the office of Pastor of the first Presbyterian Church in Ballston above named and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church with the exception above named as certified by me, 
Geo. W. Thatcher 
Sworn and subscribed before me this 25 day of April 1845 ⎬ William H Satterlee Justice of the Peace
And I the said Justice hereby certify that the above named George Thatcher is to me known to be the Pastor of the first Presbyterian Church of Ballston in Saratoga County as stated by him in the foregoing Certificate 
William H Satterlee Justice of the Peace

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And I the within named Justice do further certify, that the words, then were joined in the bonds of " (between the 7th and 8th lines) and (marriage) below the 8th line were interlined and also an erasure was made on the 8th of the within before sworn 
William H Slattery
Justice of the Peace
State of New York County of Saratoga}ss Horace Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga Do hereby certify that William H. Satterlee was at the date of the within affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Saratoga duly Elected and sworn and that the signatures of of the said Justice of the said Justice to the said affidavit and also to the certificate are genuine 
Witness my hand and official seal this 2 day of May 1845 
Horace Goodrich Clerk
[crossed out: illegible illegible pension illegible]

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No
Prudence Brandt
Widow of Simeon
NY
Act 3 March 1843
17 June 1844
M 8/1 @ 42

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111.135

Soldiers Widow's Claim

Prudence Brandt

Revolutionary War

GB Delamater
Atty
Kingsly
Crawford Co
(Pa)

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State of Pennsylvania County of Crawford}
On this 17th day of April Anne Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justices the peace of Steuben Crawford County, and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid, Prudence Brandt aged ninety two years a resident of Steuben Township in said County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to Law declares that she is the widow of Simeon Brandt, deceased. who was the identical Simeon Brandt, who was a private in the Revolutionary War. She does not remember the name of the Captain under which he served nor his Colonel, but he was under the command of General Greene her said Husband was in Several Battles, among others the Battle of Bunker Hill in [null] he served during several years as she has reason to know in said war with Great Britain from 1775 till 1780; to wit: he served a term of fourteen days; and he continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days and was honorably discharged at [null] on [null] day of [null] AD both time and place have gone from her memory 
She further states that she was married to the said Simeon Brandt at Ballston N.Y. about seventy years ago by a Preacher by the name of Shank (he thinks) and that her name before her marriage was Prudence Phelps -- that her said husband died at Angelica Allegheny Co. N.Y about thirteen years ago- cannot give the precise date; and that she is now a widow, and

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continued such since his death. She further states that she has applied for and receives a pension in consequence of her said Husband services in said war The certificate in Relation thereto is in the following words War Department Widows Pension. I certify that in conformity with the act of Feb 2nd AD 1848 Prudence Brand widow of Simeon Brandt, who was a private in the Revolutionary war is inscribed on the Pension List at the rate of twenty six dollars & sixty six cents from commencing on the 4th of March 1848 and continuing for life unless she should again marry in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage 
Given at the War office of the United States this thirty first day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty eight examined
J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions    Wm L Marcy Secretary of War
By F S Evans
She gets her Pension in pursuance of this Certificate receiving the same from the agent of the U.S. at Pittsburgh - for such purposes. to the record in which matter she refers as evidence in this case 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d AD 1855. she further declares that she has not received a Land Warrant under this or any other law and authority and empowers G B Delamater to prosecute and receive her warrant
Prudence Brant [signed under hand drawn seal]

Mr S. Bly and D. Terrill
residents of Steuben Township, Crawford County & State of Pennsylvania upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed by the mark of the above named Prudence Brandt and acknowledged by said Prudence in our presence (clk)

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and that we believe from the appearance and Statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be; we have no interest the claim 
S Bly [seal]
D Terrill [seal]
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year before written. And I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons and that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and I have no interest in this claim 
Lyman L Lamb Justice of Peace [seal]
State of Pennsylvania County of Crawford I William Hope Clerk of the County Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Crawford and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Lyman L Lamb, whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing Declaration and affidavit, was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State afore said duly commissioned and sworn; and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record having general jurisdiction [crossed out: illegible]
Given under my hand and Seal of my Office at Meadville County of Crawford & State of Pennsylvania this 24th day of April Anno Domini 1855 
Wm Hope Clerk

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( 3 - 223. )
No. 20, 178.
Ex'r.
OLD WAR INVALID.
Simeon Brant
P.O. Cuba Allegany County
New York
Service: Rhode Island Troop
Revolutionary War
Enlisted: [null] 18
Discharged: [null] 18
Application filed: [null] 18
Alleges: [null]
New Jacket
Attorney: C T Chamberlain
P. O. Cuba Allegany Co.
New York
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Rejected
Ex'r. OLD WAR.
Revy War
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.

Simeon Brant
Pri
Capt. Hopkins
R.I. Line

[stamp] REJECTED

Evidence insufficient Act 1821

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Rev

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3218
Prudence Brandt
Widow
Simeon Brandt
Pri. Rev. War.

Act: Feb 2d 1848

Index: --Vol. A, Page 82

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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New York
Revo:
Simeon Brant
Suspended
Cor. D Raymond 11
Dec 1833
let to [illegible] Aug. 22 ‘34
“ “ P. C. Fuller Sep 11.34
“ “ D Raymond 3d Nov
“ “ Hon P. C. Fuller 24 Feby ‘35
“ “ D Raymond 26 March 35
“ “  “ “ 27. April 1836
Act of June 32

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check mark
36.948

[illegible]

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7116
Pennsylvania
[crossed out: Albany New York]
Prudence Brandt
Widow of Simeon Brand
who was a Private
in the RI Line
St. died 4 Decemb. 1842
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
26 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
8 day of July ‘45
and sent to A.S. Lyon
Rushford
NY
Act of March 3, 1843.
And June 17. 1844
Recorded in Book 10
Vol. 2 Page 71

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His to Pen Agt 2 March 1846
To Penn [illegible] 4 Sep 1845
10. March 1846. Notification 
to Jacob Brown 
Fray, Crawford County

Penna

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Simeon Brant of Cuba in the county of Allegany in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution, "" approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination , at which period he was a Private in captain Hopkins company, in the --- regiment of the Rhode Island line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. [handwritten note] Oct 2 8/20 No Record [illegible][/handwritten]
By Order of the Secretary. 
F. A. Dickins 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 
13th January 1830 
[crossed out: It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to in the]
It further appears that Simeon Brant is ^not now on the pension list of the any agency and has ^not been so since the 3 March 1826 [crossed out: at the rate of month.]
The name of Simeon Brant cannot be found among those of the Rhode Island line to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued
Peter Hagner And 
/correct

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War Department
Bounty Land Office
Jany 25 1830

The name of Simeon Brant cannot be found on the Records of the Rhode Island line on file in this office, among those entitled to Bounty Land of the U. States, or, to whom a Land Warrant has issued.
Wm Gordon

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Simeon Brandt

Let 22 Aug '34
amd - Sept 17. '34

[stamp] FREE

J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington City

[stamp] Sep 8

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Geneseo 7 Sept 1834
J L Edwards Esq --- 
Sir
Mr Cowell of Providence, informs me he has sent to your office some additional testimony in the case of Simeon Brand.
The old Gentlemen is very infirm, and from all I can learn, I have no doubt, he is entitled to a larger pension than his testimony will warrant. I hope however it will be convenient to you to have his papers examined, and that the evidence before you, will be such as to give him some little relief - Please advise me of the result, when the examination is made 
Yours respectfully
P.C. Fuller 
Brands papers were sent you I believe by Genl S.S. Haight, of Angelica, or by D. Raymond of Cuba, Allegany Co. N.Y.

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Cuba N.Y.   Free
Jun 26

Pension Office
Washington City


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NY Feb 2d

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Simeon Brandt

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Sir Cuba 12th Jany 1836 
Sir 
By request of Simon Brant ^and his friends I write this to ask you to send to me at Cuba all the papers in your office which relates to the claims of for Simon Brandt for a pension 
I believe their object in making this request is to put them into the hands of some other person who will again remit his claims or who will try to make another attempt to get his just claims to a pension allowed to him-- As he is very needy and apparently perfectly honest in his statements in that business I really hope he and his friends may be at last gratified with a perusal of the papers
With much respect I remain 
your obt Servt 
Daniel Raymond 
Hon J L Edwards Esqr 
Cour to Washington City

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76 – Hopkins – Coslin – 6mo
76 – Draper “ substitute – 2 [illegible]
78 – Gordon Lippet – 6mo
79 – “ “ – 6mo
80 – Nate Coslin – 6mo
         Gibbs Lippett – 6mo
Supplemental [illegible]
75 – Johnson Varnum – 8mo

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NY
Simeon Brandt

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J.L Edwards Esq
Pension Office

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Hon. P. C. Fuller

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Ho. of Reps
19 Feb. 1835

Dear Sir
I enclose an additional paper in reference to Brants case. From what I know of that case, I do believe justice between him and the U.S. will be subserved, by his receiving some and in his old age- Judge Chamberlin is a respectable man, residing in Allegany Co. 
The letter enclosed refers to one which I handed you a day or two since from Mr. Raymond. Please return the letter 
With much respect 
P.C. Fuller
J.L. Edwards Esq

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 Cuba 12th Feby 1834
Dear Sir 
I send herewith a supplement to Mr Brants declaration with a request that you will in person present it to Mr Edwards and let his decision respecting it-- As the old gentleman was very feeble I concluded not to try to get a court but before a judge who you will perceive is well acquainted with him as is stated in his proceedings. Mr Cowell of Providence states in a letter to me recently that he thought when he sent the affidavit of Greene and Prudence Capwell there would be no doubt of his claim to a pension. Pray dont delay this [illegible] let me know without delay the result-- for the old man must be helped soon from some quarter or die by reason of his ^poverty In December I wrote to you respecting the claim of Ashbel Webster with a request that you would attend a little to that case. As I have ^ since heard nothing from you in any way it is possible that letter miss carried so ^I will in brief again state his case 
In October 1832 before the Court at Angelica be made in due form a declaration for the benefit of the pension act of 7th June 32 in which he stated among other service that he served in the war of the Revolution in the year ‘75 Nine months 
As no troops were in actual service till after the Battle of Lexington which was on the 19th of Apl that year he must have been mistaken as to the duration of his service that tour at least 19 days. This error cast a shade over his whole claim and put him to the trouble to prove his services which he has done to the satisfaction of the department to the amount of 11 months 14 Days - But instead of granting him a pension for that amount Mr Edwards first demands that he will sign a release to the U. S. for all further claims to a pension and then he will give him a certificate for that amount. To this demand the old man demurs and I promised him that I would try to enlist you in his behalf at least so far as to procure a revocation ^ or withdral of it for my own

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past I can see nothing derogatory to Mr Edwards or inconsistent with the guardian of the public treasury of [crossed out: a pension] the old man's whim should be gratified and a certificate issued to him for what service he has proved. But if this cannot be untill he will thus compound his claims upon his country I wish again to be informed of the fact and I will try to induce him to sign as required your attention to this case is most respectfully solicited and I will see that you are reasonably rewarded for your trouble when he draws his pension whether it ^is all or in part 
I am Respectfully your Friend 
Daniel Raymond 
Hon B Fuller 
Member of Congress 
Washington City 
Note by examining Ashbel Websters papers on file in the pension office you will be enabled but to know how to act in that case

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fil 2846
Mr Evans

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Kingsley Pa
Feb 24

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Washington City Pension Office
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

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Troy Crawford 
County [illegible] 15th [illegible]
Sir
I have made out the transfer for Prudence Brandt according to a form in my possession but if it is not correct send in a from and point out the failures 
I am Sir 
Very Respectfully 
Your obt svt 
Jacob Brown 
Direct to Jacob Brown 
Troy Crawford
County Pa 
Recorded in the Pension Office 
in Book A Vol. 2 Page 71 
F L Swann Clerk &

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Free

War Department
pension office
Washington City

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N.Y. April 12

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Simeon Brandt

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Cuba 6th April 1836 
Sir
By the urgent solicitations of poor old Simeon Brandt who still lingers above ground contrary all reasonable expectation I have ventured again in address ^you on the subject of his claim for a pension 
The question now submitted is whither he can or cannot be allowed for his services which he proved by Wm Green and Prudence Capwell? and if ^he I can whether a limitation of his claim to a specified amount would not be as well as for him for his friends to go to the expense of making out a new declaration which would be but a copy of the supplement to the first one- In yours of the 24th Feby 1835 you say " unless he can " make a more satisfactory recital of each time and the officers under whom he " served & produce proof of each item alledged he cannot expect a favourable decision. Also that Col Christopher Lippitt was not in service as Brandt States in ’78-‘79 & 81. and you know nothing about col Caslin or Costin of R.I. troops &c &c. With this decision I had expected to abide knowing that he could not with certainty correct himself in any point as his memory so far gone-- but on a closer investigation. it sums there is not or never has been any ^objection to the proof procured by Mr E. Cowell and that his supplement though made out without any knowledge of the nature of their testimony perfectly and with it as well as the known facts in the history of the year ‘75 
Mr Cowell also explains to my satisfaction other officers He says it is probable that Stephen ^Lippett and not Christopher is alluded to by Mr Brandt also that he thinks Col Archibald Kasson is attended to by the applicant- I am likewise told by a respectable R.I. soldier that he knows there was a Col Castle in service in R. I. at that time. Mr Cowell further states that the testimony of Green and Capwell was clear and decisive for at least Eight months service in ‘75 and at the time he had no doubt but the old man would be entitled to at least 12 months service on the strength of it 
As the whole history of the case is in your hand I sincerity hope you will again carefully examine it [crossed out: again] and if it is possible for him to procure even a small pittance from his country's County, instruct me how to proceed to procure it for him, I also most devoutly hope and expect that you will make all proper allowances for the old mans age and infirmities and not deprive him of his rights because his attorney who knew nothing of his case at first foolishly advised him to curtail his claims yet without the least appearance of fraud
I remain Respectfully your
Obt Servant and friend
Daniel Raymond
Hon J L Edwards Comm &c

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March 46

Mr. Evans

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commiss. of Pensions
War Dept.
Washington City

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MECHANICS & FARMERS' BANK,
Albany Pension Agency,
March 6. 1844

JAMES L. EDWARDS, Esquire, 
Commissioner of Pensions.,
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 2d inst.
I have to state, that Prudence Brandt a Pensioner under the Act of March 3, 1843 &c at 26 66/100 Dollars per annum 1845 was last paid to the 1 day of Sept 1845
I am, Sir, 
Very Respectfully, 
Your ob’t serv’t,
Tho. W. Olcott
PRES'T AND PENSION AGENT. Per
L. Jenkins

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May 31 ’45 
N. York
Mar 3 1843
Prudence Brant
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[illegible] NY
Mar23

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Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
D.C.

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Rushford May 23 1845 
Sir
Enclosed I send you this Claim of Prudence Brant widow of Simeon Brant for a pension under the Act of the 3d of March 1843 her Husband the said Simon Brant died in the poor house at Angelina and whether his original certificate has been returned to the Pension Office or not I do not know or whether his name was written in his Certificate Bryant of Brant I cannot learn I find the name spelt both ways all of which is submitted to your decision 
I am very respectfully 
your Obt Servant 
A J Lyon 
Hon J L Edwards
Com of Pensions

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No
Prudence Brandt
Widow of Simeon
N.Y.

Act 3 March 1843 and
17 June 1844

Adm. 8 mo per $21.66
per. ann

act - 43 No. 7979
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A. J. Lyon Esq
Rushford
N.Y.

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I William Green of Coventry in the County of Kent and State of Rhodeisland aged 80 years on oath do testify that I am well acquainted with Simeon Brand formerly of West Greenwich who many years ago removed to the State of New York we lived near Neighbors Together before and during the Revolutionary War. I have no particular Recollection as to the length of the services which he performed during the Revolutionary War as a Soldier yet. I well remember that he went from home a number of times to go into the Army. I remember when he went to Roxbury in Col Varnums Regiment in the year 1775 I was there to and we both served there about Eight months, in Captain Johnson Company in said Regiment I remember also during the following years of the War he was repeatedly in other various in other Companys and regiments - In 1777 I saw him on duty in Captain Benjamin Gastons Company of Militia I have no doubt but he was in many other services and always did his duty when called on, the Militia were called on as much as four or five times a year while the British were in Newport at a month at a time I believe he always went when it came to his turn 
Witness Benjamin R. Hoxsie 
William Greene  his Mark

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Kent Sc In Country July 3d AD 1831
Personally appeared the within named William Greene and made oath to the within named deposition by him subscribed And I further certify that said William Green is a credible witness in the premises Before me Benjamin R. Hoxsie Justice Peace

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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations 
Secretary's Office August 13. 1834. 
I Certify that at the session of the General assembly of said State holden on the first Wednesday of May last Benjamin R Hoxsie was elected a Justice of the Peace for the town of West Greenwich in the County of Kent for one year, and that he has been commissioned accordingly, as appears of record in this office. I further certify that the signature “Benjamin R Hoxsie” to the annexed certificate is the proper hand writing of said Hoxsie
 Witness Henry Bowen Secry

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Here BY HIS EXCELLENCY 
John Brown Francis 
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. 
BE IT KNOWN, that the name "HENRY BOWEN to the afore-written attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who, at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law. Wherefore unto his said attestation, full faith and credit are to be rendered. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed at Providence, this thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four and of Independence the fifty-ninth
John Brown Francis 
BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND. 
Henry Bowen Secry

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I Prudence Capwell of West Greenwich in the County of Kent and State of Rhodeisland being now 75 years of age on Oath do testify and say that Simeon Brand Formerly of West greenwich but Now residing in the State of New York is my Brother that he removed from said Westgreenwich to New York pretty soon after the Revolutionary War since which I have not seen him but once or twice, and I further Testify and say that during the revolutionary War my said Brother was in a great ^deal of service at various times and Various Companies and regiments soon after the Battle Bunker hill I remember of ^his going off into the army to Roxbury, near Boston and being gone Eight or nine months I also remember during the following years that he was gone a great ^deal of the time into the army I should think nearly one half of the time, but I do not remember the names of his officers but it seems as if one was named Gaston. I was not married until after the war, my husband Benjamin Capwell is now dead 
Witness Benjamin R. Hoxsie      Prudence Capwell X her mark 
Kent sc in Westgreenwich July 3d AD 1834 Personally appeared the above named Prudence Capwell and made oath to the above deposition to which her mark is affixed and I further certify that said 
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Prudence Capwell is credible Witness in the premises
Before me Benjamin R. Hoxsie Justice Peace

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Application for a Transfer 
County of Crawford} ss 
On this 7 day of February 1846 before me the subscribed Justice of the Peace for the said County of Crawford personally appeared Prudence Brandt who on her oath declares that she is the same person who formerly was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York from whence he has lately removed That she now resides in the State of Pennsylvania where she intends to remain and wishes her pension to be there payable in future The following are her reasons for removing from the State of Newyork [sic] to Pennsylvania. That she had a daughter living in the Town of Troy in the fore said County and wishes to live with her for her pension would not maintain her as many strangers 
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid} Ezra Carpenter Justice of the Peace
Attest Ezra Carpenter
Jacob Brown          Prudence Brandt her mark X [signed under hand drawn seal]
Crawford County} ss
Before me Ezra Carpenter one of the Justice of the peace in and for the County of Crawford personally appeared Thomas Odell of Troy who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that the person who has taken the above oath is the person described in the affidavit 
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 7th day of February 1846 Ezra Carpenter Justice of the Peace} Thomas Odell [signed under hand drawn seal]
I certify that the witness in the above affidavit is a person of truth and veracity Feb 7th 1846 
Ezra Carpenter Justice of the Peace

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Crawford County, SS. 
I hereby certify, that Ezra Carpenter, aforesaid, is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the above County, and that I believe the signature to be his own. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Courts of said County, this 9th day of February, 1846 
Jas. E McFarland Clerk

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State of New York 
Allegany County SS On this 29th day of January 1835 personally appeared before me Calvin Chamberlin a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County Simeon Brandt or Brant late a resident of the town of Cuba in said County but who has very recently removed to the adjoining town of Lyndon in Cattaraugus County (N.York) aged 77 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration which is supplemental to his former declaration made in the year 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of congress passed 7th June 1832 
That in addition to his services in the war of the Revolution set forth in his said declaration above refered to and which is now on file in the pension office he enlisted ^with Thos Sweet at Greenwich R.I. in the army of the United States in the spring or fore part of the summer of 1775 as a private for Eight months in a company commanded by Captain Edmund Johnson of Rhode Island State and served in the said company in Col Varnums Regiment during the said Eight months and then Recd a written discharge Signed (as he thinks) by Col Varnum and Lieut Thos Sweet dated in Dec 75 or Jany '76 long since lost 
During this service Capt Johnson was broke and sent home for shooting a British Centinel and Lieut Thos Sweet took the command of the company in his stead 
Some part of this service was at and near Boston and the other part in Rhode Island - He thinks he was in the Regular or United State service but is not sure
He omitted this in his declaration above refered to because he did not expect he could prove it by two living witness as required by law and he had been informed that his name was not found on the rolls
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever ^ to a pension or annuity except that to which this declaration is supplemental and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State 
Simeon Brant 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Before me Calvin Chamberlain a Judge of Allegany Co

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And I the said judge do hereby declare that [crossed out: it is my] I have long been acquainted with the above named applicant, I believe him to be 77 years of age and have not Now nor never had any doubt of his being a soldier of the Revolution and served therein as he States - And also it is my belief that by reason of his old age and consequent infirmities he is entirely unable to attend at our County Courts which are held at a distance of more than twenty miles from his place of residence 
Calvin Chamberlin
One of the Judges of Allegany 
Common Pleas
State of New York Allegany County ss} I Judson W Sherman Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Calvin Chamberlin before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the time one of the Judges of said County And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & believe his name subscribed thereto to be his genuine signature Witness my hand & seal of office this 5th day of February 1875 
J.W. Sherman Clk
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Hon P.C. Fuller

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Simeon Brant
Adl Evidence

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Providence Aug 13 1834 
Sir
At the request of the Honorable P. C. Fuller a member of Congress from the State of N York. I have the honor herewith to enclose some depositions taken in this State to prove the services for Simeon Brandt formerly of R Island but now resident in the State of New York whose application as Mr Fuller informs me is in the Pension office at Washington, I have to request that the enclosed depositions of William Greene & Prudence Capwell may be filed with said Brandt other papers
I am respectfully
Your obt Servt
Benja Cowell

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June 27
NY.
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War Department
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Simeon Brandt
Suspd.

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State of New York
Allegany County
On this 31 day May 1834 came before me Samuel M Russell a Justice of the peace of said County Simion Brandt who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that in the year 1832 he made a declaration before a Judge of said County agreeably to the rules and regulations of the war department in order to obtain a pension under the act of 7th June 1832 and again in January 1835 he made a supplement to said declaration before C. T. Chamberlin a Judge of said County all of which are on file as he is duly informed at the War department in the City of Washington which said declaration and supplement declare for ^different services rendered in the war of the Revolution in the troops raised in the State of Rhode Island for more than two years in the whole 
That he is now informed by the commissioner of pensions that his ^proof does not sustain only a part of his said declarations and to the end that he may receive for the present a part of what he conceives himself entitled to he relinquishes or rather assigns a Limit to his said claim to come, and with the proof he has already procured which is eight months service ^as a private in Col Varnums Regt in the year 1775 reserving always the right to the whole pension at any time he procures sufficient proof of his other services 
Simeon Brant
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Samuel M Russell Justice of the peace 
State of N York 
Allegany County Clerks office ss. I Judson W Sherman Clerk of the Court of said County certify that I am .uel M Russell before whom the above deposition purports to have been taken is a justice of the peace of this county. That I am acquainted with his hand writing and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper hand according to the best of my belief and knowledge
given under my hand and the seal of said office this 15th day of June Eighteen hundred and thirty six 
J.W. Sherman Clerk

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Cuba 1st June 1836 
Fred Sherman
Dear Sir
The within is an affidavit which Mr Raymond requested me to send you by driver but I am going away & shall not be here to send it to him the for it is considered the safest way he mail it to you Raymond will be in Angelica Thursday & he will pay you the postage 
Yours &
S M Russell

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J. W. Sherman Esq
Angelica
Cuba N.Y.
June2

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War Department Pension Office
J.L. Edwards Esq Comm of 
Pensions
Washington City



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Simeon Brandt

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Cuba 5th October 1834 
Dear Sir
It appears by your letter sometime since recd. that the proof ^ for Simeon Grant sent by Esq Cowell from R.J. does not agree with his declaration of historical facts - To this Mr Brandt says that he served one tour for eight months in the regular service (as he thinks) which some friend and he has forgotten who it was advised him not to put into his declaration because from the rules of the war office if his name in that case was not found there he would have to procure two witnesses to prove it which it was doubtful whether he could do - Bad as this advise was ^neither the old manner his friend had any design to defraud the treasury by it but merely to get along the easiest way as he supposed he was amply entitled to a full pension without relating this service Awkwardly as I now am situated in this case that having a scrip of his declaration in my possession am ignorant of the amount of the proof sent from R. I. and the old man’s recollection almost entirely gone from him I confess sir I hardly know what to say to you 
I will however give you his present (imperfect) statements and perhaps they may furnish active to the facts of the case. These are his words " In the fore part of the summer of ’75 I enlisted at West Greenwich R.I. for 8 months under Capt Edmund Johnson in Col Varnums Regt and served eight months in that company a part of the time near Boston and some of the time at Rhode Island was discharged at R. I. While near Boston Capt Johnson was broke and sent home for shooting a  British centinel and Lieut. Thos sweet after that had the command of the company" 
If this statement can be made to correspond with the evidence or his name can be found in [crossed out: illegible] Col Varnums Regt. I think no doubt will remain but this man is entitled to a pension
I am as ever your friend
D Raymond
J L Edwards 
Comm &c Washington City 
Note. I have delayed this on account of the absence of Esqr McElhaney Brants friend but he cannot explain

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Farmersville Cattaraugus Co ss.
August 4th 1837 
Hon J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of pension 
Respected and Dear Sir 
The case of Mr Simeon Brant of Lyndon in this County, Who served his Country in the campains [sic] of her Revolutonary War is now at charge on our County as a pauper and as such relieved does not his case cry out against us as a party and against us as a country there is no doubt but that he rendered the services in There is no doubt but he is in want of his countrys County, and why should it be withheld from him soon his days will be numbered, relief must come quickly or it will be too late, he does not cease to pray for his country and her officers Act all the rich blessings of the best of Heavens Stars he asks the Father of his country to paid down upon them [crossed out: illegible] and yet he stays allmost wholly neglected and forgotten. I could not listen to the old mans prayer, without wishing that some kind providence wants more upon the old Gentleman Devote County & its officers do that he might in his [missing word due to tear] days and in his closing prayer (which will soon be day) have to thank God that his country for which he faught [sic] & bled has at last rendered to him a few of those comforts which has been so profusely bestowed upon the and so long with held from him while I set writing these lines I looked out & Saw [illegible] [illegible]and the Mr Blackman walking along together they are Revolutionary Fathers and receive these country bounty but for which they would be like unto M. Brant, but now they are hapy [sic]  with the reflections that the services are rememberd and in a measure Rewarded Please look about your papers and review the testimony in Mr Brants case give it a liberal construction remember at the same time that his services contributed to your Elevation and that where much has been and given them at least even [illegible] Justice is required yours in behalf of M. Brandt [illegible torn][illegible] of the Poor

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Farmersville NY      Free
Aug 4th 1837
Hon J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City D.C.

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Simeon Brant

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Admitted


Jacob Brown
Athens
Penn

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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February 1844 entitled an act making further provision for surviving widows and Soldiers of the Revolution 
State of Pennsylvania Crawford County} ss
On this 30th day of June 1844 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Prudence Brant resident of Troy in the County of Crawford aged 84 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1848 granting pensions to Widows of persons the served during the Revolutionary War that she is the Widow of Simeon Brandt who was a private in the Revolutionary War and the Received under the act of 17th June 1844. Twenty Six Dollars Sixty two Cents she further declares that she is still a widow
Prudence Brant
Her X Mark
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 30th day of June 1844 
Ezra Carpenter Justice Peace 
Certify that declarant is personally known to me and she is the Widow of Simeon Brandt as above stated Ezra Carpenter Justice Peace

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State of Pennsylvania, 
Crawford County, ss. 
I do hereby certify, that Ezra Carpenter, aforesaid, is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his is in his own proper hand writing. Witness my hand and seal of Court of Common Pleas of said County, at Meadville, this 6th day of July A.D. 1848 
Jas. C. McFarland, Prothonotary

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Revolutionary Claims. 
[ B. ] 
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Non-Commissioned Officers, Musicians, and Privates. 
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I Simon Brant of Cuba in the county of Allegany in the State of New York do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution , for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a Private Soldier in Captain Alexander Hopkins Company, in the [null] Regiment, of the Rhode Island Troop Line. And I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May, 1778. 
And I further declare, that I was not, on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the Pension List of the United States 
Nor Never was on the pension list and that I served from the commencement of the War until its termination and was wounded and am now unable to support my wife. My age is 71 years. Entered the War in my 17th year
Witness my hand this 29 day of December, in the year [null] according to the best of my knowledge in the year one thousand Eight Hundred and twenty nine 
Simeon Brandt
Before me C. T. Chamberlain one of the Justices of the Peace in the county of Allegany in the State of New York, personally appeared, this day, Gilbert. B. Champlin and Thomas McElheny of the said county, who did severally make oath that Simeon Brant by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated. 
Witness my hand, this 29th day of December, in the year 1829 
C.T. Chamberlin Justice of the Peace 
I Amos Peabody Clerk of the Court in the County of Allegany in the State of New York do hereby certify, that Calvin T Chamberlain 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 31st day of December AD 1829- Amos Peabody Clk 
Sergeant, Corporal, Musician, or private, as the case may be. 
The claimant, though not on the pension list on the 15th May, 1828, may have been on the list on or since the 3d of March, 1826, and afterwards stricken off: if so, he will add, and the United States as a pensioner, since the 3d of March, 1826, the sum of by the Agent for paying pensions in the State of Here insert a Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths. Justice of the Peace, or otherwise, as the case may be.

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AN ACT for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each of the surviving Officers of the Army of the Revolution, in the Continental Line, who was entitled to half pay by the Resolve of October twenty first, seventeen hundred and eighty, be authorized to receive, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his full pay in said line, according to his rank in the line, to begin on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and to continue during his natural life: Provided, That under this act, no officer shall be entitled to receive a larger sum than the full pay of a Captain in said line. 
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, whenever any of said Officers has receive ed money of the United States, as a pensioner since the third day of March, one thou sand eight hundred and twenty-six, aforesaid, the sum so received shall be deducted from what said Officer would otherwise be entitled to, under the first section of this act; and every pension to which said officer is now entitled shall cease after the passage of this act. 
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That every surviving Non-commissioned Officer, Musician, or private, in said Army, who enlisted therein for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination, and thereby became entitled to receive a reward of eighty dollars, under a resolve of Congress, passed May fifteenth, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, shall be entitled to receive his full monthly pay in said service , out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated to begin on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and to continue during his natural life: Provided, That no non-commissioned Officer Musician, or private in said Army, who is now on the pension list of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act. 
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the pay allowed by this act shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be paid to the Officer or Soldier entitled thereto, or to their authorized attorney at such places and days as said Secretary may direct; and that no foreign Officer shall be entitled to said pay; nor shall any Officer or Soldier receive the same, until he furnish to said Secretary satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to the same, in conformity to the provisions of this act; and the pay allowed by this act shall not in any way be transferable, or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, but shall inure wholly to the personal benefit of the Officer or Soldier entitled to the same by this act. 
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of said pay as accrued by the provisions of this act, before the third day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, shall be paid to the Officers and Soldiers entitled to the same, as soon as may be, in the manner and under the provisions before mentioned; and the pay which shall accrue after said day shall be paid semi-annually, in like manner, and under the same provisions. 
A. STEVENSON, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
S. SMITH. 
President of the Senate pro tempore. 
Approved, May 15, 1828. 
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, MAY 28, 1828. 
The "Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution," approved on the 15th day of May, 1828, (of which the foregoing is a copy,) will be carried into effect under the following regulations: Each Officer claiming under the act will transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a declaration, according to the form hereunto annexed, marked A, and each noncommissioned Officer, musician, and Private, according to the form marked B showing particularly in what manner he is entitled to the benefit of the said act, accompanied by the oath of two respectable witnesses as to his identity, which oath is to be taken before a Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths in the

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State or Territory in which he resides, and authenticated under the seal of the Court of the County in which the oath was administered, as shown in the said forms. 
Each Officer will also transmit his commission, if in existence and attainable, and each Non-commissioned Officer, musician, and Private, his discharge; which documents, after being registered, will be returned. If the commission or discharge has been lost or destroyed, he will transmit such other evidence as he may possess or can obtain corroborative of the statements set forth in his declaration.
If the evidence transmitted, taken in connexion with that afforded by the public records at Washington, be found satisfactory, the amount of two years' full pay, at the rate to which the Officer or Soldier was entitled, according to his rank in the line, at the close of the war, or at the time of his reduction, as the case may be, but in no stance exceeding the full pay of a Captain in the Continental Line -- will be transmitted to him, at the place of his residence, after deducting therefrom the amount of any pension which he may have received from the United States since the 3d day of March, 1826. He may, however, authorize any other person to receive his pay; in which case, he will execute a power of attorney, according to the annexed form, marked C, which must be acknowledged before a Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate, and authenticated under the seal of the Court of the County, in the same manner as is already prescribed in regard to declarations. But no payment will made to any such attorney, until he has made oath, according to the annexed form D. that the pay which he is authorized to receive is intended to inure wholly to the personal benefit of the Officer or Soldier whose attorney he is. 
It is requested that all letters to the Secretary of the Treasury, on the subject, may be endorsed on the cover ""Revolutionary Claims." 
RICHARD RUSH.

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[light writing top left corner] Rc’d 9 July 1830
2047
Cuba July 20th 1830
Dear Sir 
enclose & find you an affidavit as further evidence of the services of Simon Brant rendered to his country in the Revolutionary War. It is to our hopes that the Evidence of his services will be sufficient and satisfactory for his age the Debility of his health and the wound which he [illegible] prevents him from traveling to procure further Testimony But of it should be required please communicate the particulars to him in a letter addressed to the subscriber in Cuba Vilage and him know the result of the additional testimony as soon as business will permit and much oblige your Humble Servant 
Cuba Allegany County of NY. 
Hon S. D. Ingham C. T. Chamberlain Scy of Treasury

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Cuba NY             KS
July 22

Hon. S.D. Ingham 
Secretary of the Treasy
Washington

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Recd 27, 1830 
Benjamin Chambers of the Town of Quat Valley County of Cattaraugus and State of New York after being duly Sworn deposeth and Saith that Simeon Brant of the Town of Cuba County of Allegany and State afforsd was a soldier of the Revolution and that he the said Simeon Brant enlisted on the 19th of March 1776 in Capt Edmond Johnson Company Col Varnums Regiment and Col Greens Brigade in the Rhode Island Line and that he actually performed duty at Boston in the State of Massachusetts until the 20th of Feby 1776 when he was discharged and went to Rhode Island in Sullivans Expedition and this Deponant further saith that the said Simeon Brant Received a wound by a grape shott in the leg which very much disables him and has done from the time he received it untill the present time and that he is unable to obtain a living by his labor by reason thereof and that this Deponent believes the said Brant Entitled to a Pension agreeable to the acts of Congress of the United States and that he the said Simeon Brant done actual duty in the Continental army for a term of more than nine months according to this Deponants Best Recollection and Belief and further this deponant saith not 
[2 illegible signatures]
Sworn and subscribed this 12th Day of July 1830 before me C. T. Chamberlain a Justice of the Peace of Allegany County 
I do hereby certify that the above named Benjamin Chambers is personally known to me and that he the said Chambers sustains a good Character and that his Varacity has never been doubted 
July the 12th 1830 
CT Chamberlain Justice of the Peace

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Allegany County
Clerks Office} ss
I Amos Peabody Clerk of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Calvin T Chamberlain before whom the within affidavit was taken and one by whom the certificate was given on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned & sworn, and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and truly believe the signature attached to the same to be , In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County this 19th day of July 1830 
Amos Peabody Clerk

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State of New York Allegany County SS 
On this 6th day of September1833 personally appeared before me Josiah Stevens a Justice of the peace of the said County at my office in the Town of Cuba Simeon Brant who being duly sworn doth after hearing the above declaration read to him and after examining this signature thereto annexed depose and say that it is the same he made and sworn to before Asa S. Allen a Judge of said County at Angelica on the 27th day of August 1832 
And further this deponent saith in addition or by way of an amendment or explanation of the former declaration that the first to in he went into the service of the United States as there stated he was mustered at East Greenwich in the County of Kent in a week or 10 days after he enlisted and to also he did at every subsequent time as there Stated according to the best of his knowledge and belief That he thinks he always drew his uniform or as he says soldier clothes from the store of Silas Casey of the same place - was some times stationed at Conanicut Island about 1 mile from Rhode Island City and probably 20 miles from Providence. some times he was stationed about 6 miles East of there on the sea shore some times at Boston Neck about 12 miles up the bay from Rhode Island City once at Puttawalm neck about half way between Rhode Island City and Boston Neck and was never out of the State except when he went to Boston and once thinks he might have been on the edge of Connecticut about the time General Burguine was taken. Thinks it was the 3 time on was in the service as there mentioned he went in Sullivans expedition saw General Cornell at that time was wounded after he got off from the Island by a grape shot near Brister of Bristol Expedition lasted nearly 30 days.  Thinks the
That by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively the precise time he was engaged in actual service in the war of the revolution but from the best of his recollection it was not less than two years seven months and twenty days as a private during which time he was not engaged in any civil pursuit for which he claims a pension

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And to the interrogatories prescribed by the war department and put to him sepparately by me the said Justice the said Simeon Brant gave the following answers Viz 
1st Where and in what year were you born? 
Answer In 1758 March 25th in Westerly Rhode Island 
2nd Have you any record of your age?
Answer - None. It was once in an old Family bible but now gone 
3rd Where were you living when called into service Where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live? 
Answer - In the town of West Greenwich County of Kent & State of Rhode Island -  moved from there in about 1781 or 2 to Lanesboro Mass from there to the north River at Stillwater in ‘83 or ‘84 from thence to Sharon in Connecticut in one year after then to Balstown [Ballston] in New York had lived in this state in [illegible] ever since & Now lives in Cuba
4th How were you called into service &c 
Answer - 1st time enlisted under Capt Edward Johnson who left the sevice soon afterwards and Lieut Thos Sweet took the command 2nd time substitute for Thos Joslin under Capt Alexander Hopkins or Joseph Draper 3d time he enlisted under Capt Hopkins Kent County aforesaid or [illegible] 4th time Enlisted under one of the said Captains Gordon or Hopkins and the 5&6th time the same 
5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served &c this war
Answer - dont know who were continental troops and who were not [illegibl] Capt Benjamin [illegible] run of Covington Kent Co R.J. Capt Colvin of the same place Col Comstock, Col Bennet besides those before mentioned to wit col gordon Col Caster also saw Genral Sullivan and Cornell 

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service? 
Answer -  Yes; they called the certificates -  by presenting them to Mr Ward of providence he was entitled to his pay he had in the whole six of them as he believes dont remember whether Ward kept them or whether they were otherwise destroyed they ^each respectively Signed by the various captains under whom he had served 
7th State the names of the persons &c? [crossed out: illegible]
He here offered to procure a number of respectable persons to prove this general character and as he is personally known to me the said Justice I have thought proper not to request any of them to appear 
Sworn Simeon Brant
 Sworn and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid at my office in Cuba Josiah Stevens Justice

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State of New York Allegany  On this 6th day of September 1835 personally appeared before me Josiah Stearns a Justice of the peace of the said County at my office in the town of Cuba Benjamin Chambers of the Town of Great-- Valley in the County of Cattaraugus aged 76 years who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he saw Simeon Brant the above applicant in the service of the United States with the Rhode Island State troops near Boston in the year 1775 he thinks and ^knows he was then in actual service of United States and again he the said Simeon Brant on Rhode Island in General Sullivans Expedition and knows he was then a soldier in actual service of the United States in the Rhode Island State troops and further this deponent saith that from various conversation he has had with the said applicant at different then within the last 5 or 6 years he is satisfied he verily believes his declaration hereunto attached and which has had read to him before me at this time is substantially true in all its part, [illegible signature]
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid at my office in Cuba before me
Josia Stevens Justice

And I the said Justice do hereby certify that it appears to me that the above named Benjamin Chambers who has sworn to and subscribed the above certificate is 76 years of age and a respectable citizen of Great Valley in Cattaraugus County and that his statements are in all respects entitled to credit and further by request of the said Simeon Brant I have examined his leg which has a sear on it with resembling that which would probably be in consequence of a shot as he states and further it appears to me the said Justice that the belief is general and without ^an excepting that he the said Brant was a solder of the Revolution in which belief I fully concur 
Given under my hand at Cuba this 6th day of Sept 1833
Josiah Stevens Justice

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State of New York 
Allegany County 
Clerks office} ss I Judson W Sherman Clerk of the said County of Allegany do hereby certify that Josiah Stevens before whom the above amendment to Simeon Brants declaration was taken and also the affidavit of Benjamin Chambers was taken was a justice of the peace of the said County at the time therein specified and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and that his signature there unto subscribed is in his own proper hand writing and in according to the best of my knowledge and belief


Witness my hand and seal of office this 17 to  day of September 1833
Judson W Sherman 
Note All communications respecting Simeon Brants pension and to be such to Daniel Raymond of Cuba Allegany County N. York of 

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Simeon Brandt 
Or Brant
Admitted 
Private 8 months
Pensions
[crossed out: illegible]
Cuba
County of Angelica
New York