Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,563, William Brown, N. C.

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3 - 1776)
SERVICE                 NUMBER
N.C     Brown, William   S. 31.563
CONTENTS
A. [illegible] Bedford Co. Va. [illegible] of John
Res. of [illegible] NC  [illegible] where was later Washington Co. East Tenn.
res. since Rev. Oglethorpe Co. Ga and [illegible] co. Mo. res. in 1839 Thompson Township Pike Co. Ark.

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Kansas
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William Brown
of Pike in the State of Arkansas
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Robinson of the Regt commanded

by [illegible] in the N. C.
line for 9 mons of was
Inscribed on the Roll of Arkansas
at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Sept
1839 and sent Samul
Moore Washington Ark
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 39             $255.
Semi-annual. allowance ending r Mar. '40  15.
                                                           $270

Revolutionary Claim, ┃
Act June 7, 1832.
Record by D D Addison Clerk,
Book [torn] 9 Page 115

letter to Samuel Moore as
Auds. 3 April 1840
letter to Pension Agent 26. June
do to Samul Moore 1 July 1840

S31563

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31.559
Wm Brown
Missouri.
Charles Wheeler
Troy
Lincoln Co
Mo

M A Foyes Clerk

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State of
County of Lincoln 
On this nineteenth day of May 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Circuit Court of Lincoln County, now sitting William Brown a resident of said County and State, aged seventy eight 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 enlisted as a private soldier in the service of the United States for the term of three years, in the spring of the year 1776, according to the best of his recollection, in the town of Jonesborough, now in the State of Tennessee in the company commanded by Capt. James Robinson that he served three years under the first enlistment most of which time he was engaged against the Indians, and was in eight battle with them-- that he was during that time a while under a Capt. Jane, and was with him when he was killed by the Indians on the Tennessee river, at the place called the orchard defeat - that he recollects that he was during this enlistment under Capt. James R inson, Capt. Jane, Col Christie, and Col. Charles Robinson that at the expiration of the three years he was discharged in the aforesaid town of Jonesborough, and then within few days enlisted for during the war, he thinks in the

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under the last enlistment four years, three months and
some days making in all a little more than seven
years - that he has no education and can neither read
nor write-- that he can recollect but a few of the
officers he served under, but that he was at the battle of
the Lookout Mountain, and was then under Col. Joseph
Martin, and he thinks under Capt. Isaac Butler, that
he well remembers that he was standing near and on
one side of Captain Butler, when he was killed, and his
brother Joseph Brown was standing on the other side
that he Wm. Brown made the litter to carry the Captain to the foot of
the mountain where he was buried - that he was at the battle of
Kings Mountain, and then under Captain Sevier, and he thinks,
Col Christie, but was not in the engagement they heard the
report of the guns and hurried on for several miles and arrived
at the foot of the mountain just as the guns ceased
that he arrived at York Town, Virginia, about the
time the town was rendered to the Americans, and thinks
he was then under Col John Sevier- that he was discharged at the close of the war in or near Richmond, Va
he further states that he has no documentary evidence
and that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can
procure, who can testify to his services, except his brother
Joseph Brown, who is a twin brother, and was with him
all the time during the Revolutionary war, and likewise
Mrs. Mary Thurman who is now absent from this County as he is informed 
that he the said William Brown does not

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know
whether he belonged to the regular troops, State troops, Militia, or volunteers -
Question by the Court-
where, and in what year was you born?
Answer - I was born in Bedford County, Virginia, in
the year 1756.
Question by same-have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it
Answer- I have no record of my age, but the time of my
birth was set down in a bible, which was burnt
together with the house it was on thirty or forty years
ago, but well recollect my age from hearing it
from my mother.
Question by same. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live
Answer - I have lived since the Revolutionary war in North
Lawler now East Tennessee, and came to Lincoln
County, Mo. about twenty years ago, and left this
County the 10th of May 1832 and went to the
Arkansan Territory to reside with a son, and have
lately returned to Lincoln County aforesaid to reside with Levi Brown, another son, who lives in this county.
Question by same - How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute
Answer - I was never drafted, but enlisted voluntarily both times
Question by same-State some of the names of the regular officers
who were with the troops where
you served, such
Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect
and the general circumstances of your service
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Answer-most of my services were against the Indians, on the frontiers
and sometimes against the British and Tories - was in one skirmish
against and with the Tories at Ramsour's Mill in S. Carolina
was not marched to Virginia till near the close of the war
I
do not recollect particularly any officers more than I
have already mentioned, except Col Tipton, and was
under him two or three tours - there were others that I
have same recollection of, but do not remember particularly
when & where I served with them-- but have a distinct
recollection of the battle at Guilford Court house & was in the
battle, but am not sure who was my captain or Col
Question by same - - Did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and
, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?

Answer -I received
regular discharge at the expiration of the first
three years service given. I believe, by Col Charles Robinson
another at the close of the war given by Col John
Sevier, who was afterwards Governor of Tennessee, and they
were both burnt with the house they were in a few years
after the war in E. Tennessee, the house was Peters Parkerson's 
I am well acquainted with many person in this County
having live have for some years, and am acquainted with
several Clergymen, the Rev Mr. Bowen, and the Rev
Mr. Hubbard, and some others
He relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or
except the present and declares that his name is not on the
pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open
Francis Parker Clerk
           his
William  X Brown
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AI / Machine-Generated
(4 months ago)
We Thomas Bowen, a clergyman, residing in the County of Lincoln,
and State of Missouri, and John S. Besser residing in the
County & State aforesaid, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
William Brown, who has subscribed and sworn to the
above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy eight
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood
where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution
and that we concur in that opinion-
Sworn and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid in open Court
Thomas Bowen
J. S. Besser
Francis Parker Clerk
State of Missouri
County of Lincoln
Be it remembered that on this 19th day
of May 1834 personally appear in open Court, in the Lincoln
Circuit Court, Joseph Brown, who being duly sworn, on
his oath says that he is a twin brother of William Brown
whose name is subscribed to the above and foregoing
Declaration, that he entered the service of the United States
according to the best of his knowledge and belief in the
spring of the year 1776, with his said brother, William Brown
that he continued with him the whole time mentioned in said
declaration that they both enlisted together in the same company
and continued together during the seven years & some months
therein mentioned, and that the particulars in said declaration
are true according to the best of his recollection, remembrance, and
belief and for his services he the said Joseph Brown now receives
a pension by Certificate bearing date the 17th of October 1833
             his
Joseph  X  Brown
           mark
Sworn and subscribe to this day and year aforesaid in open court
Francis Parker Clerk

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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after
the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department, that the above named
applicant, William Brown, was a revolutionary soldier and
served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it
appears to them that Thomas Bowen, who has signed the
preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the County
of Lincoln Mo. and that John S. Besser who has
signed the same is a resident in the same County, and is
creditable person, and that their statement is entitled to
credit-
T. H. McBride Judge 3rd
Inv. Circuit Missouri

I Francis Parker, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lincoln
County, Mo. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of William Brown for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of Office this 19th day of
May in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty four -
Frances Parker Clerk

State of Missouri
County of Pike
Be it remembered that on this 19th day of
June A. D. 1832 personally appears before the undersigned a

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Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Pike and State
aforesaid Mary Thurman, who being first duly sworn on her
oath says that she was born in the year 1760, and that in the year
1770 her father Jonas Little, removed to within nine miles of
Jonesborough then in North Carolina, now Tennessee, that in March
1776 she first saw William Brown whose name is subscribed to his
the foregoing declaration for a Pension, and that he & his brother Joseph
Brown then lived about four miles from her father, and were spoken
as soldiers-- that she often heard her brothers, who were in the revolutionary war, say that both of the Brown were good soldiers-- her
brothers names were George, John & Benjamin Little, & were all in the war
and are now dead-- that they were frequently out after the Indians
with the said Browns, that Col Jonathan Tipton, whose name is
mentioned in Wm Brown's declaration was her uncle, and she has
often heard him, the said Tipton say that both of the Browns
who are twin brothers were as good soldiers as any in the
world- that he saw said William Brown a few days ago, and well
recollects him & knows him to be the same person, that she saw
in the year 1776, and the person her uncle & brothers used often to speak
of as a soldier, and that she has often seen him before the time mentioned
above since the war - that she has no doubt from what she heard at
the time of the revolutionary war from Col Tipton, her brothers and many
others that said William Brown served as a soldier as long as he has stated
in his declaration, and that she has heard the same persons tell of both
 the Browns being at several places & in several battles with the
Indians while they were soldiers that William Brown has not mentioned
in his declaration, & which he has probably begotten, that she thinks
Wm Brown is mistaken where he says that he served under Capt. John
Sevier, and that it was Capt. Robert Sevier - that she has never
heard any thing against the character of the said Wm Brown, that he has
always been considered very honest but [illegible], that she has lived as a
neighbor to said Wm Brown several years since the revolutionary war, and
she believes from what she has ever heard and known of said Brown
that if he has made in his declaration any incorrect statements that it is
owing entirely to the want of recollection, and that his character always
stated fair as to truth and veracity
Sworn and subscribed to the
day and year aforesaid
James M. Watson J P 
         her
Mary A Thurman
         mark
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Mrs. Mary Thurman
whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and that she is a creditable
person of fair character and respectability and that her statement is entitled
to credit the nineteenth day of June A. D. 1832
James M. Watson Justice Peace

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State of Missouri
County of Pike ⎬ I Michael S. Hayes Clerk of
the County Court within and for the said County of
Pike certify that James M. Watson whose name is
subscribed to the within certificate, is and was at the
date of his said certificate an acting Justice of the
peace within and for the said County of Pike, duly
commissioned and qualified according to law,
and that good faith and full credit are
due and are and ought to be given to all his official
acts as such
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County Court 
at the office of said Court in Bowling Green in said County, this
20th day of June A.D. 1834, and
in the 58th
line of the year of the Independence
United States
M. J. Hayes Clerk
31.559 Wm. Brown
[illegible]

Charles Wheeler
Troy Lincoln Co.
Missouri



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The
amended Declaration of
William Brown for
a Pension
State of Missouri
County of Lincoln
On this 4th day of November
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four 
personally appeared before the Lincoln County
County in the County of Lincoln and State of Missouri
William Brown a resident of said County and State and
seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on his oath make the following additional declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made
by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United as a private soldier
probably in the militia, in the company commanded by Captain
James Robinson, he thinks in the spring of the year 1776, near
Jonesborough in the State of Tennessee, then North Carolina and went
immediately with the Company and commenced building a fort in
the point between the rivers Nolichucky and Big Limestone near
the aforesaid town of Jonesborough, and remained here about three
weeks when four Indian traders came in from the Cherokee Nation, and told them that the Indians were coming upon them that
night or the next morning at this time the captain was absent
but returned about 12 o'clock at night and ordered the company
to march immediately for [illegible] Fort eighteen miles distant, there
the company[illegible] the next 
morning the Indians followed

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and remained about the Fort for some weeks, killed several men,
citizens, who had come to the Fort for protection, and among others,
one by the name of Norton, one Cooper and his two sons
and one by the name of Manshoat - one morning the Indians
attacked the Fort from both sides of the river, and kept up
a brisk fire for nearly three hours, which was as well returned
from the Fort, eighteen Indians were found dead
after the others had retired, and it was supposed that the
Indians had taken away many more, from the appearance
of blood in every direction, but he recollects after arriving
at the Fort and before this battle, that he went under
Lieut. Elijah Robinson, the Captain's brother, with eighteen ┃
men to the Long Island on Holstein about forty miles
here they found about one hundred soldiers more, and here
they had a severe battle with the Indians, supposed to be
several hundred in number, many of them were killed
and twenty five or thirty of our men were killed or wounded
he then returned with the Lieutenant to the Fort - Soon after
the battle at the Fort, Col Christie sent on there a Captain
with a company of men, then Capt. Robinson's company started
immediately after the Indians, the company, sent by Col. Christie
being fatigued, remained at the Fort, and they pursued the Indians
to Little Limestone twenty five or thirty miles from the Fort,
and killed eight Indians, and took a large number of horses
which the Indians had stolen; the horses were sent back to the
Fort by four soldiers, he with the remainder of the company

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and they all marched from that place to the Indian Towns
to wit the Big Island Town, the Hiwassa Town &c. and destroyed the town & corn the Indians having fled - and Capt.
Robinson's company then returned to Mataga Fort in the fall
of that year and during the succeeding winter he was frequently out in scouting parties after the Indians, the particulars of which he cannot now recollect- in the following
Spring 1777, he went again under Capt. Robinson and Col Shelby
and Col. Charles Robinson to the Indian Mobile Town several
hundred miles from the Fort, and were all well mounted
there were about four hundred soldiers along, but found no
Indians except a few friendly ones, they having gone to the
British lines on the Mobile, and they all returned to Mataga
Fort about the first of January 1778 - during this year 1778
he was out on military duty most of the time in the same company as before, and thinks it was this year that they had a skirmish 
with the Indians at a place called the French Run, near the Indian
nation, and killed several Indians; he thinks that Capt. James
Robinson had left the service at this time, and that his brother
Elijah Robinson, was Captain a while, and after he was wounded
Robert Seveir took command of the company, and that it was
this year the skirmish at the place called the Orchard defeat took
place, where Capt. Fane was killed, and likewise the battle
at the Look out mountain, where Capt. Buller was killed, at each
of the places he was present, and in the spring of the [illegible]
year, 1780, he started with the company from Jonesborough, and
joined two companies at Buncombe in North Carolina, and in a
short time they all marched towards Ramsour's Mill, and was
engaged in the battle fought at that place with the Tories, and was
then under Col. Campbell from this time he can recollect nothing
of importance till the battle at Kings Mountain, but the regiment

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to which he belonged did not arrive till the firing ceased he
thinks that he continued in the same company and in the
4th Regiment during all his services in the Revolutionary war
from this time he has now no distinct recollection of his services
but thinks that he was not discharged till peace was made; he is
very confident that it was some over seven years from the
commencement to the end of his services in the revolutionary war
, but from infirmity of body and mind he cannot give
a more particular description of history of his services than
what he has already done, but knows that he spent the
prime of his life in the service of his country, for which he
has never as yet received the value of one dollar; that he
knows of no person by whom he can prove his services
except his brother Joseph Brown and Mrs. Mary Thurman
who have already testified for him; and that by reason of old age
and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively
as to the precise length of his services, but, according to the best
of his recollection, he with the greatest confidence can swear
that he served not less than the period of three years as private soldier
 and for such service he claims a pension.
Subscribed and sworn to in open ┃
Court this 4th day of Nov. 1834
Francis Parker Clerk
 William his Brown
mark
We, Benjamin Sullivan, a clergyman, residing in the County of
Lincoln and State of Missouri, and David Bailey and John
Chandler residing in the County and State aforesaid hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with William Brown, who
has subscribed and sworn to the above amended Declaration
that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age,

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that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood
where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion-
Sworn and subscribed, in open
Court the day and year aforesaid
Francis Parker Clerk
Benjamin Sullivan
David Bailey
John Chandler

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the
investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant ┃
was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states; and the
Court further certify, that it appears to them that Benjamin Sullivan who signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman,
resident in the County of Lincoln, Missouri & that David
Bailey and John Chandler who have also signed the same
are residents of said County, and that their statement is
entitled to credit. And we do further certify that we have
for several years been some acquainted with the said William
Brown ourselves, that he is quite old & infirm and of frail memory
but sustains a good character as to truth & veracity, and
has been considered since our acquaintance with him
a soldier of the revolution, that we concur in that opinion
William Young P.L.C.C
Geo H. Zimmerman J.C.C.L.C
Caleb McFarlon J.C.C.L.C.

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I, Francis Parker, Clerk of the County Court of the
County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of William Brown for a pension
on his amended Declaration

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this
fourth day of November, in the year
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and thirty four -
Francis Parker
Clerk

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Affidavits
of Martha
[illegible]
& John Hughes
in the matter
of the application of Wm.
Brown for a
Pension-

[sideways] [first line illegible]
sworn affidavit and together that

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State of Arkansas ⎬ Set
County of Pike
Martha Caker of lawful age
being produced & sworn doth depose and say that she recollects of having family & the neighborhood in which
 William Brown
of the old County
and State being a soldier in the
Revolutionary war at the same
time his father John Brown was such
has been dead some thirty years &
his brother Joseph Brown who
lives in Lincoln County Mo. was
and who is now (as she is informed) drawing a pension from the
general government- She further
deposes that she has never 
heard or doubted but that the said
William was a revolutionary soldier
of some grade she don't know
what
and further this deponent ┃
sayeth not
Martha [illegible]]mar
Sworn to and subscribed this 2nd day of May
A.D. 1839
and ┃
D. L. Dickson Clerk
State of Arkansas
County of Pike
set
John Hughes being produced and
Sworn deposeth and saith that


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Martha
Caker who has made
the above affidavit is a creditable
person and that her said of
affidavit is [illegilbe] to credit
(Signed) John Hughes
Sworn to and subscribed
2nd day of May A.D. 1839
D. S. Dickson Clerk

I David L. Dickson clerk of the circuit court
of Pike
County Arkansas do hereby certify
that the
two
persons whose names
are subscribed to the above affidavits, are both creditable her
person & that their statements are
entitled to credit.

In testimony whereof I
hereunto set my hand as
Clerk and affix the seal
of
office at Murfreesboro
[illegible] Pike County
Ark this 2nd day of May A. D. 1839

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Suspended
See letter to
Charles Wheeler
Troy Mo.
14 March 1835

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William Brown
Arkansas
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Suspended
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See let 22 Aug
1838 S. Moore do to
Same Oct. 16. 1838
and same 15 Dec. 38
do 13 June 1839
do31 July '39


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Act 7 June 1832

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State of Arkansas
County of Pike

On this sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight in open court before the Hon Pike Count Court now sits personally appeared the declarant William Brown a resident of Thompsons township in the county of Pike and state of Arkansas aged eighty three years who herein first duly sworn according to law doth per his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year of seventeen hundred and seventy seven [1777] some time in the month of January with a certain Elijah Robinson, he believes a Lieutenant, who was at the time acting as a recruiting officer and served in a regiment of which he does not now recall the number but which was when he first enlisted as aforesaid commanded by Col. John Sevier the mayor's name of the said regiment was Elijah Robinson the same that he enlisted with but who had received promotions. His Captain was James Robinson (he does not know whether the [unk] name is Robinson or Robison or Robertson) his Lieutenants name he does not recall. His Ensign's name was Drury Robinson-no relation to the former tow Robinsons-The first General he served under was General Christy Elias Crisly. He rendezvoused in the town of Jonesborough in East Tennessee some time in the latter part of January 1777. He resided what is now in Washington County East Tennessee when he entered the service of the United States as aforesaid. His first engagement was for three years. From the above place of rendezvous after two or three days sojourn. the command to which he was attached, marched (crossed out) and belonged marched to Big Limestone a tributary of Holstein River-stayed here two months. Here there was but one company stationed (unk Robinson's) from thence (the Indians coming too thick) the said Company marched to Wahtaga Fort in the Wahtaga River in E Tennessee. stayed here about three months from. From thence he with his company marched to the

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Long Islands on the Halstein River (E Tenn.) where his said Company was attached to General Christy aforesaid's command. He does now know whether it was a brigade or a division from thence the said command marched to the Big Island town on the Tennesse River in the Cherokee Nation of Indians. Stayed here about two months. Left here in September 1777 and went to Fort Wataga alias Wahtahgah. He first enlisted a private soldier but was appointed at the commencement of his service an orderly sergeant which office and appointment he held for one year and [unk]. when he getting tired of it declined holding it any longer. Stayed here (at Wahtaga) about one month and thence wet to the Lookout Mountain in Tennessee where they had two battles with the Cherokee Indians. About a week from one to the other. The first of the said engagements was at what was called the Big Peach Orchard, where Lieut. Col John Baller was killed and the other was at Lookout mountain. on the return of his corps to Fort wataga afd. In the former eighteen of our men were killed and several wounded and in the latter only two killed and a considerable number wounded. Stated at Wataga Fort over two years from which he with his corps or detachments of it made frequent excursions among the Indians. Would be gone sometimes a month or more. They had a battle with the Cherokee Indians in the month of May 1778 or about that time in which none of the Americans were killed altho it lasted three hours and upwards. five persons were killed just below the Fort. before the batte or seige commenced Capt Robinsons Company was alone in this battle. Next battle was two days after the above one man by the name of Charlton was killed in this engagement which was at Gap Creek. about one fourth of a mile below Fort Wataga at Col Charles Robinson's farm. He don't know of any Indians killed in this battle (or siege). In June 1778 two hundred en went under Col John Sevier to Mobile River where the spies killed an Englishman.

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by the name of Scott who was from his papers an Indian agent from the British government. they did nothing here worthy of remark. they returned to wataga in the latter part of October 1778 and stayed here till sometime in the winter of 1779 making frequent excursions through the country after the Indians having small skirmishes with them occasionally & frequently killing a few of them at a time and taking their horses. Having now completed a term of service of three years, he the said declarant reenlisted for the term enduring the revolutionary war against Great Brittain. after this he stayed at the aforesaid Fort Wataga attached to the company of the said capt Robinson. He was in no other battles till the end of the aforesaid war except some small skirmishes with the Cherokee Indians in which sometimes one or two on either side were killed. sometimes they would follow the Indians nearly to their nation. Under the aforesaid engagement he this declarant William Brown served the United States in the capacity aforesaid the term of three years and under the second when he enlisted for enduring the aforesaid war he served the United States for the term of three years and upwards. in all and upwards years of which said time he was first sergeant for the term of one year and a (private marked out) private for the trm of five and upwards years. Under this second engagement he was subject to the same field and company officers that he was under the first excepting when a few changes might occasionally take place. This declarant was born in the state of Virginia in the year of 1755 in Bedford county in the said state. removed from thence with his parents. his parents to South Carolina after the age of six years and from thence to E Tennessee at the age of 21 or 22 years where he resided when he entered the aforesaid service. He has no record evidence of his age. When he entered the said service he was living in whats now Washington Count E Tenn. Since the revolution

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any more he has lived in the same county, East Tennessee in Oglethorpe County Georgia, and in Lincoln County Missouri and he now lives in he now lives in Pike County Arkansas. He thus declared left the service of the U. States in this spring of the year 1782 or 3 He received a discharge after he left the service aforesaid from and signed by his senior Capt. Robinson which he has long since lost by fire in being burnt in its house at one Parkinson where he left it when he removed to Georgia. He does not recollect the names of any other regular officers than those he has named as being immediately over him nor any particular Continental or Militia Regiments or any other material circumstances as than those above named. He never recd. any commission but only the aforesaid appointment of first sergeant. The persons living in my present [superscript] neighborhood by whom my character for veracity may be established and who can testify the life of my services is a soldier Silas C Blair [superscript] of the Revolution this declarant would further state that his Brother, Joseph Brown, was in the aforesaid service at the time with himself and who is now living in Lincoln County Missouri and draws a pension from the U. States for his aforesaid service, and that this declarant has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his said service. He has no record evidence of his age and can neither read nor write and the reason he has not applied before for his pensions is because he emigrated to this new country shortly after the act of Congress passed granting pensions and when he has [superscript] applied to any lawyers or other persons to aid and assist him - and such affliction he has frequently made - they would promise very fairly to do so, but make some excuse or pretext or other have hitherto failed to by to do any thing for him – alleging the absence of the proper Act of Congress giving directions by which to proceed or [superscript] the proper form of the War Department or the like – So that this declarant had until lately despaired of

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ever having any thing done for him in the premises till lastly [crossed out] and that he was he absent from the army none of the time on civil business. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or and amenity except the present and he declares that his name is not on an the Pension Roll of any agency in any state. [Illegible] that he is the same William Brown whose [illegible] ought to be on the pension rolls in the War Department of the U. States}
	William X Brown 
	Marked
Sworn and subscribed the day and year referenced 
D. S. Dickson
BY W. Davis, Sept 6
And the said do hereby declare the opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. [Crossed out]
I David S. Dickson Clerk of the Pike County Court hereby certify that the foregoing contains the. [Crossed Out]
I, David S. Dickson Clerk of the County Court of Pike County – aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of its application of William for a pension – In testimony whereof I have hitherto set my hand and seal of office, this day of  in the year our lord eighteenth hundred thirty eight -- [Crossed out]
Know all even by those present that the afd. William Brown do and have hereby appointed Samuel Moore of Washington Hempstead Co. Ark. my lawful attorney in respect to arbitration and [illegible] set my hand and seal this 16th July 1838 William Brown.

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The Silas C. Blair residing in the County of Pike and state of Arkansas and Hiram Kiziar residing in the same county and state hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. that we believe him to be eighty-three years of age, that he is reputed and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that [illegible] 
Sworn to and subscribed 
The day as aforesaid					Silas C. Blair 
D. S. Dickson 					Hiram Kizzia 
By W. Davis, Dept Clerk. 
And the said court do hereby declare then officially [crossed out] opinion of the investigations 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 Hiram Kiziar – who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Pike – and state of Arkansas and that Silas C. Blair who has signed the same is a resident in the County of Pike – stated afd. and is a creditable person and that their statement is entirely [illegible]
(Signed)		William Riley Judge, Pike County Court
		Jesse Simpson [Illegible]
		John Hughes
David S Dickson	 Clerk of the County court of Pike County (Ark.) do hereby certify that the said [illegible] going contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the applicant of William Brown for a pension. In testimony inhere of and hereto set my hand and seal of office this 16th day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eighty.
	David S. Dickson, Pike CC
	By W. Davis Dep Clerk

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Supplemental declaration of William Brown who applied for a pension under the Act of Congress of June 4th 1832-

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State of Arkansas – S. O. 
County of Pike
On this 24th day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Honorable	 Pike Court now sitting William Brown a resident of Pike County and State of Arkansas aged about eighty three years who being just duly sworn according doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress of June 4th 1832 – That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the month and year that he has alleged in his original declaration which he made before the Hon. Pike County Court at the July hearing thereof 1818 and served as therein states as a regular soldier and was as a “militia-man” – and that he served the office of sergeant in the said service for the time therein specified and served under the officers and was in the battles and on the marches therein named - and that if the term “militia-man” is in the original declaration made by this declarant - 	it must have been by mistake, he not apprehending at the time the true import of the world as contradistinguished from a soldier in the regular service of the United States Complimentary “militia” with military generally - and this declarant from further says that he is the same William Brown that served the several tours of duty alleged in his original declaration as a regular soldier and now commissioned officer as therein stated and that he is the same William Brown that made a declar-

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-ation before Hon. Pike County court at the July term thereof 1838 in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 4th, 1832 and further this declarant sayeth not his
(Signed)	William Brown
	mark
Sworn to and subscribed the month day and year aforesaid 
	D. S. Dickson 
State of Arkansas
County of Pike     } set.
Samuel Moore having first produced and sworn doth on his oath depose and say that William Brown who has made a declaration for a pension as aforesaid got him to write the declaration which he made and subscribed at the last July term of the Pike County Court and that the said. William Brown claimed only for services as a regular soldier and a non-commissioned officer in the U. States services and not as a “militia man” and that of such term to which ‘militia-man’ was used it must have been done inadvertently by this applicant and not by the direction of the Said Brown – and if such term “militia-man” is any where in the original declaration of the Said Brown, this officiant is persuaded that he (the sd. Brown) did not understand it as implying that he was in the militia service of the U. States and he must have confounded its signification with military which epithet applies to every declaration of dates and services of a soldier of whatever name whether regular

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militia volunteer ability or courage affirmation the official – sayeth not
(Signed)		Samuel Moore
Sworn to and subscribed and the day and year aforesaid
		D. S. Dickson
And the said Court does hereby disclose its opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
				William Conway
I, David S. Dickson Clerk of the Court of Pike County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the application [crossed out] of the said [superscript] Court in the matter of the application of William [obscured] a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and seal of office this 24th day of October      A. D. 1838 and of the independence of the United States 63rd year
D. S. Dickinson

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		31. 559
			Declaration of William Brown for
			a pension
			Arkansas 
			[illegible]
			Capt. Robinson
			Col. Sevier
			A.D. 7 June 1832
			Samuel Moore
			Washington 
			Arkansas

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States of Arkansas  }
County of Pike        } set	
On this 23rd day of April in the year of our lord eighteenth hundred thirty nine personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Pike Circuit Court now sitting William Brown a resident of Thompson Township in the County of Pike and state of Arkansas aged eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 4th A.D. 1832.
That he enlisted the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He entered the said service as he has always that as a regular and as he has stated in his original first supplemental declaration that he does not recollect of ever receiving any bounty in money or bond or any promise of a bounty hence he thinks it more than probable that he might have engaged his service as what is called a select militia man – but he will recollect he first engaged his service to the United States for three years and next for the war. He is not well acquainted with the [superscript] terms of designation in military affairs - having been raised and lived all his life in remote settlements which did not offer the means of education or general information. That he entered the same service as a duty sergeant the first of September 1776 or 7 some 4 or 5 months after he engaged his service for the said three years and served under General Christie, Col. Sevier, Capt. James Robinson, Liet. Elijah Robinson. He does

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not recollect his Major’s and Ensign’s names – When he entered the same service he resided in the district of East Tennessee he does not know by what name the county may have went but it was near Wataga Fort – The company he belonged to was rendezvoused based at what was then called Big Lime Stone Creek where they joined Genrl. Christie’s commissioned – this was about the 8th Sept. 1776 or ‘7 – and from thence took the line of march into the Cherokee nation against the Indians which lay west from Wataga Fort some 250 miles – there was no battle with the Indians on this expedition, there was however some terms of a temporary peace agreed upon herein the Indian chiefs and the commanding general – They returned home that is to Wataga Fort the Last of February or first of March following after serving a tour of six months and he thinks some few days he don’t recollect what number – Second tour or expedition he served on he served [superscript] as sergeant as aforesaid was under the same officers as aforesaid except General Christie who was not along. Col. John Sevier having the command of the regiment which he thinks was called the 4th regt. – He marched as a sergeant in the said regiment from Wataga Fort on the last day of August 1777 or ‘8 to Mobile which lay west of south from the said fort as they marched they crossed Clinch River and Highwassee Telaco [sic. Tellico] and others whose names he does not recollect except the Mobile River on which they had a battle with the Cherokees at their main or big town in which six

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or seven whitemen were killed and several Indians he does not know how many and also killed a British superintendent to the Indians about where there were a great many papers found which indicated his employment and returned home about the middle of December of 1777 or ‘8 and on the return of the same regiment off the second expedition they had a battle also with the Cherokee Indians at the Big Island Town on the Hotcheloochee River (Called the Battle of the Peach Orchard) [superscript] (or at least what was so called at that time) in which battle there were 18 white men killed – he does not know how many Indians – the Indians were defeated in both these battles – They then returned to Wataga Fort about 13th December 1777’ or 8’ as aforesaid – having served 3 ½ months [superscript] He went with the said regiment and with the same officers on a third tour or expedition as a private (having got tired of his office of sergeant and given it up) to Lookout Mountain which lay about 200 miles south of Wataga Fort aforesaid – They started on this expedition on the first of May 1778 or 9’ – they had a battle with the Cherokees at Lookout Mountain Town – five whitemen killed and 3 women he does not know the number of the Indians killed but there were a great many of them killed – They crossed French Broad River and a small stream they called Lookout River – he does not know the right name of the same river – and he and the said regiment returned home

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some time in July then next following after performing a tour of some two months and one or two weeks – They returned to the same Wataga Fort – This declarant further states that before he started on any of the aforesaid expeditions to wait in August 1776 or ‘7 the Cherokee Indians attacked Fort Wataga which was then in the possession of the company to which he belonged commanded by his said Capt. Robinson – there were several Indians killed but no white men – In a few days after this attack there was a requisition of [crossed out] made for all the men that could be spared out of the same fort when Lieut. Elijah Robinson was sent with about 20 men to join the command of Col. Issac Shelly at the Long Islands of Holstein River about 20 miles below the same fort – this declarant was one of the member – and at this latter place they had a battle with the Cherokee killing a large number of them with a small loss on the part of the said regiment so commanded by the said Shelly – after which they returned to the said Fort having performed a tour of 13 days. He says that between the First of May 1776 or 7’ and Sept. same year he was frequently ranging from the said fort for 8 or 10 days at a time but didn’t recollect the precise number of times, nor the number of days each time. – And after his first three years engagement so as [crossed out] explained

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he engaged for the war as he first engaged – he has been of the opinion that he was a regular but he might have had that impression from the length of time of the inhabitants of that frontier section engaged themselves for either voluntarily or as select militia – But after the aforesaid tours of duty he does not recollect of ever being been called on actual service after [crossed out] but kept in and about the said Fort Wataga except when he was out ranging in small tours for from 10 to 20 days at a time under the command of a Lieutenant or an ensign and this was very frequent. The inhabitants all toiled in that section of Country and had to work the fields – soldiers as well as others – when they were not on an exploration or in the active service – He knows he was not a substitute for any person and that he was not drafted int its service. That he never was promised or recruited a bounty but engaged freely and voluntarily for the periods aforesaid as well as served the said specific times and in the said several capacities – has no documentary evidence and knows of no person] whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his said service. That his brother John Brown and his brother [obscured]

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And have it [superscript] sent on to the proper department of war as corroboration of this his diclaration [sic] as he knows of no means of procuring the said testimony here – He was born in the year 1753 in Bedford Co. VA [superscript] – He has no record of his age – When he entered the service he lived in the district of Tennessee them a part of N. Carolina – Since the Revolutionary War he has lived in Cocke County [superscript] C. Tennessee in Oglethorpe County [superscript]Georgia in Lincoln County Missouri [superscript] and now lives in Pike County Arkansas – He thinks Genl. Christie was a regular officer, he does not know the pack – He does not distinctly recollect any other regiments than above stated – He received a written discharge from the service signed by Col. Shelly aforesaid which being left at the house of one George Parkenson was burnt up at his house which caught fire and was buried down – Persons who live in his present neighborhood that can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution are Jesse Jenkins + I. White 
	} William Brown
	mark
He hereby relinquishes every claim wholesale to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state
	William Brown
Sworn to and subscribed 
The day and year aforesaid
D S Dickson – Clerk
We Jesse Jenkins a clergyman and [crossed out] residing in Thompson Township Pike County

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Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be eighty-three years old – that he is reputed to live in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
	(signed)	Jesse Jenkins
			Isaac White
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 	D. S. Dickson. 
And the said court does hereby declare its opinion of the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department until the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the court further certifies that it appears to them (crossed out) him that Jesse Jenkins who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in Thompson Township Pike County and that Isaac White who has also signed the same is a resident in the Thompson Township Pike County and is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit
	William Conway, Judge
I David S Dickson Clerk of the Circuit Court of Pike County and state of Arkansas afd. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Brown for a pension – IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal of office this 25th day of April A.D. 1839		D. S. Dickson – Clerk

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State of Arkansas 
County of Pike
	I, D. S. Dickson clerk of Pike County
Do certify that the above was sworn to in open court in the 23rd day of April A.D. 1839
	D. S. Dickson, Clerk

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William Brown Ark Cl.
Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

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Washington Hempstead Co. Arl
Sept 16th. A.D. 1839
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Respect Sir 
Yours
Of the 225 ULT is recd. – I find that the application of William Brown for a pension is suspended because “The alleged service was as a militia man and the militia service in towns of short duration.” And that “Each town of actual service should therefore be particularly specified in or order to a favorable decision.”  
It would be truly gratifying, sir, if you could grant this application of William Brown a reexamination in proper person when – I am persuaded you would [superscript] find it [superscript] clearly expressed that the applicant was in the regular service of the U. States and not the militia or state troops – the word military may be used but it will be discovered that such word is equally applicable to the regular, militia or state troops service, or was at least intended so to be used.
I have heretofore made successful applications for other soldiers of the Revolution in the reg-

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regular service of the U. States and am almost certain that this application of Browns is to the full as explicit as any other that I have assisted the applicant in making – If however I have inadvertently made any mistake, I hope you will shortly advise me of it that I may forward you an amended declaration. If such mistake does really exist it must have been one of my own, which the applicant being entirely an illiterate and a feeble old man could not direct when it was read to him – for he has even been esteemed one of the most perfectly honest men –
N. B Several men whose names are on the pension list have failed to draw their pensions on account of their residence being remote from the place where their pensions were payable, for eight months or more and in consignment the places of payment are changed to for Washington City, be so good as to inform me what other steps are necessary to be taken, than were before, in order to enable them to draw at the latter place.
Upon the examination of the Rolls of the Regular army of the U. States, I am in induced to believe you will find the applicant’s names near that of his brother – Brown who has been drawing a pension for several

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years –
He states that he enlisted in 1776 or there about under Capt. John Robinson and Col. Christie [superscript], for three years in what is now Tennſsee [sic] - and after the expiration of that time he reenlisted for the period of the war. And then he alleges that he was in the actual service of the U. States all the aforesaid time till the time he specifies he left the service being duly discharged - and was not absent during any of the time on his own or any civil business.
on the most fully convinced sin, that of you will do in this case, what I am aware it is impracticable for you do in all that is, give it a personal examination will find all things right or at least substantially so. Truly and respectively yours
	Mo. Obl. servant
	Samuel Moore

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			Washington Hempstead Co. Ark
Hon J. L Edwards
Enclosed is the affidavit of [superscript] a subsequently discovered writing in the matter of the application of William Brown for a pension – The 3rd declaration is forwarded to its office you occupy – There will be yet be an affidavit sent on from Lincoln County Missouri, on the subject of William Brown’s services as a soldier of the revolution, and which may arrive as soon as this – But if does not it will be on account of some accident happening – the witness having died before the affidavit could be had miscarriage or the like – this evidence as it can be obtained will be of a very positive character – Yours truly, safe [crossed out]
Respectfully S. Moore

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	Arkansas	Nov 23
			Add. Proof
			William Brown
	J. L . Edwards Esq.
	Commissioner of Pensions
	War Department
	Pension Office
	Washington City
	D. C.

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	Washington Hempstead, Co. Arkansas
J. L. Edward Esq.				Oct. 24th A.D. 1838
	Respectful Sir,
	
Enclosed I forward you the supplemental declaration of William Brown a soldier of the Revolution - a regular – You will find his name by the side or close to that of his brother who was also a soldier of the revolution - a regular in the in the Corps and services who is now drawing a pension –
	Yours truly and respectfully
	Samuel Moore
N. B. I am inquired to by persons who find themselves interested to [crossed out] also with the increase

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(obscured) pension of officers and soldier of the Revolution – as to what circumstances will entitle those to such increase – the steps to be taken H.B. - I being unable to say. Should be glad of information and necessary forms to proceed by from your department 
I have likewise been asked by her sons that supposed themselves interested what regulations have been made for the widows and those who were the orphans of persons who were killed in the revolution – and I should be glad of information HB on this head as in the above –
	Your Obl. Servant
	S. Moore

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Mail 						Aug 17
William Brown
Arks
Act 1832 
	Hon. Joel R. Poinsett
	Secretary of War of the
	United States
	Washington City
	(Pension Office) D. C.

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Washington   Hempstead Co. Ark.

July 19th A.D. 1838

Hon. Joel R. Poinsett -

Hon. Sir,

I forward you the papers pertaining to the application of William Brown for a pension. I am Brown’s agent as you may perceive by the papers themselves. As he is an old and very illiterate man and lives far from my post office, it would be better to forward to me the result of your action upon his application.

With great respect - Hon. sir, Obt. St.

S. Moore

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[on the lefthand side is written Nov 24? - Wm. Brown - Mo]

Troy, Mo.                ? [illegible word - Three or Tree?]
November 6th

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

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Troy - Lincoln County, Mo.

Nov. 6th 1834

Dr. Sir,

Enclosed are the papers of Wm. Brown for a pension, the Amended Declaration contains he says, as particular a description of his services as he shall ever be able to make out - he is quite infirm & his memory nearly gone.

I am with the greatest respect, Your ? [illegible]

Charles Wheeler

J. L. Edwards Esq.

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31563

Revy INVALID

File No. 31,563
William Brown
Pri  Rev  War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 54

[Arrangement of 1870]

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1351  [STAMP] REJECTED

P.O. William Brown

Service:

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Mail}

Mar 29 1840

Mr. Evans

Wm. Brown
Arks [illegible]

[STAMP] JUN WASHINGTON Ark.

FREE

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Treasury Dept. U. State
Washington City
D. C.

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Washington Ark.
June 6th 1840

Hon. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions Treasury Dept. U. States

Hon. Sir,

Wm. Wood ? [illegible] Commissioner of pension at Little Rock Arkansas refuses to pay the pension of William Brown pensioner because there is no evidence furnished him by the war department of his being a pensioner - or by your department. I do not know which - so Brown has been delayed money some six months on one account or another - the application has been made some 4 months and voucher is said to be regular - and the pension will be paid whenever the name of Brown is put on the pension list in his office. I hope Sir you will have this attended to shortly and oblige

Your Obedient Servant,

Saml Moore

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William Brown
Application for a pension

Joseph Brown
Affidavit

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State of Missouri
County of Lincoln} set.

Be it remembered that on this 25th day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine Joseph Brown of the county aforesaid, who is a credible person and worthy to be believed on his oath, being produced & sworn before me Francis Parker, Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Lincoln and state of Missouri ? [illegible] ? [illegible] oath deposith and saith That he has known William Brown of Pike County Arkansas all his life. That he knows him to have been a soldier of the Revolution. That he served in a great many campaigns with the said William Brown from shortly after the beginning of the revolutionary war till the end of the same. That he was in the same company regiment and command with him on several campaigns. That one of the said campaigns commenced about the first of September 1776 or ‘7 against the Cherokee Indians West from Watauga fort about 250 miles under Genl. Christie, Col. John Sevier, Capt. James Robinson and Lient Elijah Robinson, the ensign’s name not recollected, and the Major’s name not recollected. He thinks this regiment was called the 4th and that the said campaign ended about the last of Feby. or first of March 1777 or ‘8 - but which was a full six months campaign. There was no fighting on this campaign but some kind of a treaty with the said Indians that lay in that operation. That the said William was a ? [illegible] ? [illegible] on this campaign for all the time.

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That the said Will Brown was on a second campaign in the same company with himself under all the aforesaid officers except Genl. Christie. This second campaign commenced 1777 or ‘8. The regiment left Fort Wataga (Wawtanegah) [difficult to decipher] in the later part of August of the said year and marched to Mobile - they had a battle with the Indians on this campaign at their Big Town on the Mobile River in which were several Indians and a British superintendent killed. And they returned home or to Wataga Fort the middle of December 1777 or ‘8. In this expedition the said William Brown held the office of a sergeant. And they had a battle also at Big Island Town, (called the battle of the Peach Orchard) in which 18 white men were killed. The Indians (Cherokees) were defeated in this battle. This tour was over three months. That the said William was also on a third tour under the same officers as in the last aforesaid tour, in which he was only a private. They started from the aforesaid fort on the first of May 1778 or ‘9 and marched about 200 miles ? [illegible] to Lookout Mountain where they had a battle with the Cherokee Indians in which there were a few white men killed and some Indians. They returned off this campaign about the middle of July of the same year. That he the said applicant is now drawing a pension from services rendered with and at the same time the said William Brown was in under

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ranging under proper authority (as he was in all the said tours by such) for 8 or 10 or 12 days at a time against the Indians. And after he had finished the said general tours and when he engaged his services for and during the war he was very frequently ranging out from the ? [illegible] Fort for 15 or 20 days at a time under the command of a Lient. or an ensign. He can’t say particularly how many - but not less than ten before peace was restored. And further this deponent saith not.

Joseph “X” his mark Brown

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid before me.
Francis Parker, Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Lincoln and State of Missouri.

[Seal Image] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name as Clerk and affix the seal of office at Troy this 25th day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine and of the Independence of the United States the ? [illegible].
Francis Parker, Clerk

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[Stamp] WASHINGTON JUL 3 ARK.     

[Stamp] FREE

Mail 

? [illegible]

Jul 31 

Wm Brown 

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office, War Department
Washington City, D.C.

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[this page was difficult to read do to bleed through writing]

Washington Hempstead Co. Ark.
July 2d 1839

Hon. Sir

Yours of the 13 Ult. is at hand, and upon a careful perusal I can discover in it no objection to the lost ? [illegible] ? [illegible] declaration of William Brown except that contained in the last ? [illegible] of your letter; which says “It is indisputably necessary to approveable ? [illegible] decision that he should specify each tour of actual service” ? [illegible] This, sir, the declarant has done ? [illegible] explicit language as he is able to do so far as it respects this. ? [illegible] first ? [illegible] tours of duty and in which he also states the length of time, the grade, or office he ?[illegible]. And as to the other little tours, he casually mentioned he wishes you to put them out of the question as his memory does not serve him so as to be more explicit as to them. He distinctly stated to me at the time his declaration was written as he now states, that he does not wish the last little tours to be taken into the account, in estimating the amount of his pension, but only stated them as circumstances of his service or going to prove his service. So you may feel authorized

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to throw away those little occasional excursions on sudden emergencies which were numerous, of short duration, barren of incidents and consequently not long or distinctly remembered.

As it respects the three first tours in the declaration I believe they are as explicit as any I have ever had a declarant to make who has employed me to assist him in getting a pension and when they ? [illegible] never failed to obtain a pension on account of not being explicit and any that I have applied for or ? [illegible] other assisted in their application have seldom failed on any account. As it is some time till court yet at which I can do any thing farther for the declarant Wm Brown I should be glad if you would look again at the statement of the first tours in his declaration and inform me what deficit there is in them if any for I am entirely at a loss to know.

No man acquainted with William Brown doubts for a moment his having been a soldier of the revolution and if he does not get a pension it will be entirely owing to his decayed memory or tenacity of truth. Please answer

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this as shortly as practicable and oblige

Your Obt. Servt.

Saml. Moore

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Wm. Brown
Ark, ? [illegible]

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Coms. of Pensions
Washington City

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Pension Agency Office,
Little Rock, Arkansas,
1 June 1840

Sir,

I was applied to, a few days since, by the Attorney of William Brown, for payment of the Pension of said Brown, from 4 March 1831, at the rate of $30 per annum, and the necessary vouchers ? [illegible] duced. But, on referring to my Roll, I do not find the name of said Brown. If a pension has been granted to him, I have not been apprised of it. I therefore declined paying the pension applied for, until I shall be officially advised by you of the said William Brown being entitled to the same. The Pension Certificate is dated 10 Sept. 1838, and is signed S. Casper, Acting Secretary of War.

This is the first instance in which I have been applied to for payment of a pension previous to being apprised by you, of the pension being granted. My impression is, that the Certificate is genuine and that the voucher wanted pays none I to pay the Pension; but still, as there is some doubt on the subject, and as impositions might easily be practiced in the same way, I think it the most prudent way for me to decline paying any new Pension whatever until officially informed, by you, of their being granted.

Respectfully,

Yr. Obt. Servt.
Wm. E. Woodruft, Esq.

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Comms. Of Pensions
Washington City

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May 10

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Mo or Ark

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Wm Brown
Act 1832

Free

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

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Troy, Lincoln Co. Mo.  May 25th 1839

Dear Sir,

I have been requested to forward to your Office the enclosed paper relating to the claim of William Brown for a Pension. He is now in the State of Arkansas.

I am very Respectfully Yours ? [illegible]

Charles Wheeler

James L. Edwards Esq.

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May 25

Washington Ark
May 1st

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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.

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Washington Ark
April 27th 1839

To the Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions, the enclosed 2d supplementary Declaration of Wm. Brown who applies for a pension, is respectfully submitted. There may be a short time corroborate affidavits ? [illegible] forwarded from Lincoln County Mo. and from Independence or Washington County Arkansas.

Very respectfully your Obt. Servt.

Saml. Moore
Agt. of Wm. Brown

P.S. This is Hempstead County, Washington is the county seat.

Yours truly,

S. M.