Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,672, James Brown, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Brown, James Asenath
NUMBER
W. 23.672.
CONTENTS
born in Ipswich Mass.
In 1818 aged 58 yrs & res of Palermo Me. + died there Feb. 28, 1837.

5846
4
Maine
James Brown.
Private,
Massachusetts line - 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of - 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 th of April 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th of Jan'y 1819 and att'd R. C. Vose, August Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818. 4 mo 11/30 - 34.93 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48.00
$82.93.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Palermo.
Con
Notification of continue sent to R. C. Vose Sept 19. 1820
Died Jan. 28, 1827

Maine 1719.
Ry.
Asenath Brown Maf widow of James Brown who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 d day of September 1843 and sent to Geo. W. Morton Augusta, Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 1, Page 2.

James Brown, Palermo, p r Col. Tupper's Mass. Reg. 1777 to 1780.
April 24. 1818.
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that James Brown, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Palermo, in the said County of Lincoln, in the District of Maine, on the twenty fourth day of April, A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twentieth day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston C. Just. C. Court C. Pleas 2 d East Circuit.
C.A. Starnes his 1st L

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Davis
C. A. Starn his 13th

Commonwealth of Massach
I James Brown, aged fifty eight years, a citizen of the U. States, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, now resident in Palermo, in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare that in January 1777 I enlisted as a private soldier for three years in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy upon the continental establishment in Capt George White's company and Col. Ebenezer Francis's regiment of the Massachusetts line, afterwards commanded by Col. Benjamin Tupper. This period I fully served out, and was finally and honorably discharged from the service at West Point Jan 7. 21. 1780. My discharge was signed by Major Knapp. I have since delivered it to a Mr Ephraim Taylor to receive my pay when due, and he lost the discharge, and it is not to my knowledge now in existence. I was in the retreat from Tyendrague and in the battle of Hubbardton, where my Col. Francis was killed. From my reduced circumstances, I need the assistance of my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States; if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever. I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine.
Col. Stannard his 1st Lt
James Brown
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Gt.
24
On the twenty fourth day of April A.D 1818 James Brown above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him subscribed
Before me,
Nathan Weston Clerk
Chief Justice of Court. Plus, Second Eastern Circuit

8 50 410
James Brown
Chas Dunbar 50746.
March 1879
Declaration is to be made in the Court of the County, where Declarant resides,
Robert F. Vose, Augusta Maine
Levi G. Bryant Court of Common Pleas. August Term 1880 Reunited and filed Attest Nat. Coffin, Clerk A true copy Attest Nat. Coffin, Clerk

State of Maine.
416
copy
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this fifteenth day of June , 1820, personally appeared before  in open Court before  Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, James Brown aged Sixty years, resident in Palermo in the County of Lincoln within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain White and Regiment commanded by Colonel Francis afterwards Trapper of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years and was in the battle of Hubbardston and at the taking of Burgoyne
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the twenty fourth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 5846 . And I, the said James Brown do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
James Brown
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
I have no property in the world except my necessary clothing. I have no income. I was by occupation a farmer, but from age and infirmity am entirely unable to labor, my family consists of myself and my wife Asen-ith, aged fifty five years, who is very Rheumatic and lives in a part of my son's house, by whom we are assisted.
James Brown
Subscribed, sworn to, and declared, both the oath and schedule on the fifteenth day of June 1820. before me
Nathan Weston Jr E J G G Pleas.

Aseneth Brown 4700 widow of Jas Brown Act July 7, 1838.
m 85. a 27.
See additional evidence of John Brown and Mrs. Noeuf.
adm?
2 yrs pri 80 $
no deduction
Geo. M. Morton Augusta Me.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
STATE OF MAINE.
Waldo
County, ss.
On this twentieth day of August A. D., 1838, personally appeared before the Hon: Nathan Weston, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State. Aseneth Brown a resident of Palermo in the County of Waldo and State of Maine, aged seventy four years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, enti- tled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of James Brown late of said Palermo, deceased who at the time of his death was a pensioner of the United States, on the Maine Roll, under the act of Congress of March 18, 1818, as she refers to the evidence he furnished the War Department for proof of service,
She further declares, that she was married to the said James Brown on the  month day of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five ; that her husband, the aforesaid James Brown died on the twenty eighth day of January eighteen hundred twenty five , at Palermo ; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated; that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. That her maiden name was Aseneth Barstow , she was married at New Castle, Maine.
Aseneth X Brown mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me (taken by request at the residence of the applicant, she being too infirm, from age, to attend at a court town) Nathan Weston C.J. S.P.C.

State of Maine.
On the twentieth day of August, 1930, Aseneth Brown, the applicant within named, was examined and sworn, as within stated. I am satisfied, that she was married to James Brown, late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, in September 1705, that the said James Brown deceased on the twenty eighth of January, 1927, and that the applicant has ever since remained his widow.
Nathan Weston C.f. J.f.C.
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec
ss.
I the subscriber clerk of the Judicial Courts for said County hereby CERTIFY, That the Hon. Nathan Weston before whom the proceedings were had, is Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State. I also CERTIFY, That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Chief Justice in the matter of the application of Aseneth Brown for a pension. I also certify that John Hussey Dyer before whom the annexed affidavit were sworn is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Lincoln.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 28 th day of Jan'y. A. D., 1839.
L. A. Chamberlain

I Isaac Brown of Palermo in the county of Waldo, do in oath state, that James Brown late of said Palermo, died on the twenty eighth day of January A.D. 1827, & that Aseneth Brown, by whom the foregoing declaration was made, has remained a widow ever since that period. Said James was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States. Isaac Brown
State of Maine Waldo ss Subscribed Sworn to this 20 th , day of August A.D. 1838 the element being a credible witness - the date of James Brown's death being first altered from "1828" to "1827" before me, Nathan Weston C.J. S.J.C.

Seventeen hundred & eighty five July seventh there was a purpose of marriage published between Mr. James Brown and Miss Asenath Burrows both of this Town.
Samuel Nickels Town Clerk.
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed in the record, in fair, legible figures, as follows, viz. "1785 July 7"
Solomon Hutchinson, Town Clerk,
I Solomon Hutchinson, above named, depose & say, that I hold the office of Clerk of the town of New Castle in the County of Lincoln, State of Maine, that the above is a true extract from the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Solomon Hutchinson, Town Clerk,
I further depose & say, that there are no marriages on the records of New Castle, previous to the fourteenth of February, seventeen hundred & eighty six.
Solomon Hutchinson, Town Clerk,
State of Maine, Lincoln, ss: In this eighth day of December 1888, the above named Solomon Hutchinson made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificates by him signed.
Before me,
John Hussey
Justice Peace,

I Sally Husey of New Castle in the County of Lincoln, and State of Maine, aged seventy years, do upon oath testify say, that I well knew James Brown late of Palermo in the County of Waldo, deceased, & also well knew his wife Asenath Brown, whose name before marriage was Asenath Barstow. That previous to the year 1794 / Seventeen hundred ninety four, I think in the Autumn of the year seventeen hundred eighty five, I was present at New Castle aforesaid, at the marriage of the said James Brown & the said Asenath Barstow. If my memory does not fail me, the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thurston Whiting, Sally Husey,
State of Maine Lincoln, ss: — Subscribed & sworn to this seventh day of December A.D. 1838, the deponent being a credible witness.
Before me
John Husey, Justice Peace,

I Ephraim Taylor of New Castle in the County of Lincoln State of Maine, aged eighty years, do upon oath testify & say, that I was well acquainted with Mr. James Brown late of Palermo in the County of Waldo, deceased, & also with his wife Asenath Brown, whose name before marriage was Asenath Barstow. That previous to the year seventeen hundred ninety four, I think in the Autumn of the year seventeen hundred & eighty five, I was present at the marriage of the said James & Asenath, at New Castle, & if I remember correctly, the marriage was solemnized by the Rev. Thurston Whiting.
Ephraim Taylor
State of Maine, Lincoln, p: I soon subscribed this seventh day of December, 1838, the deponent being a credible witness.
Before me John Hapgood, Justice Peace,

I John Brown of Palermo, in the County of Waldo, and State of Maine, aged fifty four years on the seventh day of October next, do depose and say, that my late father James Brown, was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, under the Act of Congress of March 18. 1818, upon the Main Roll, and that he died in said town of Palermo on the twenty eighth day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, that my mother his relict widowed Arnett Brown now living in Palermo aforesaid, is the identical person, who made a declaration before Chief Justice Weston on the twentieth day of August 1838 in order to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of July 7. 1838, that she is unable to leave home, and appear in open Court to make a declaration, to be pensioned under said Act in consequence of bodily weakness, & the rheumatism with which she is afflicted. that I am the Oldest child of the said James & Arnett, they had a family consisting of nine children, of whom there are now living seven, that the said Arnett Brown has remained unmarried ever since the decease of her late husband the said James Brown, my said father and mother lived together as husband & wife, from my earliest recollection till his decease, there was formerly a family record kept by my late father of the date of his marriage and birth of his children, which is lost. I have not seen it for many

year and it undoubtedly is lost or destroyed. In every exertion of my mother and he found to find it have proved ineffectual.
John Brown
State of Maine County of Kennebec ss.
August. August 5. 1839
Personally appeared the above named John Brown and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. I certify the deponent is a credible witness and entitled to credit & belief.
Before me
Georgemorton Justice of the Peace

I William Woart Jr of Augusta, Maine, upon oath state that on the 28 th of August 1838, I visited Palermo with Chief Justice Weston of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, who was requested to visit that town to take the declaration of Aseneth Brown under the act of July 7, 1838; that I prepared the said Aseneth's declaration, & afterwards at her request wrote to the Town Clerk of New Castle where she said she was married, for a copy of the record, but the Town Clerk could find only the publication, wrote me that fact & that there were people there who knew of the marriage. I thereupon requested him to take the affidavits of two disinterested & credible people, of their knowledge of the marriage, & for him also to send me a copy of the publication & a certificate that the marriage was not recorded. He did so, but as his affidavit & the affidavits of the witnesses were not in the form required by the Commissioners of Pensions, I prepared the papers in proper form for the execution of the witnesses & clerk, & afterwards received them completed, as annexed to Mrs Brown's declaration. I well knew James Brown the pensioner before his death & knew his sons John & Isaac. The son John who has given the foregoing deposition is reported to be of the age he represents, & there is no doubt whatever in my mind from personal knowledge of the family that the said Aseneth is correct in her declaration. His pretty entitled to her pension which she claims, & still continues, unable to go from home to make her declaration in Open Court.
Wm Woart Jr

State of Maine
Kennebec ss:
Subscribed & sworn to this 7th day of August 1839. The deponent being a credible witness.
Before me
Geo W Morton Justice of the Peace
Kennebec ss:
State of Maine
I the subscriber Clerk of the County for said County, hereby certify that George W. Morton Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the several times, now is, a Justice of the Peace for said County, & that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.
Witness my hand & the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, this 7th day of Augt. 1839.
J. A. Chandler Clerk

Rev. & 1812 War Section
WAS aw
June 20, 1928
Dr. C. K. Turner 439 Congress St. Portland, Maine
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 23672 , it appears that JAMES BROWN was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, date not stated.
He enlisted January 21, 1777, and served as a private in Captain George White's Company in Colonels Ebenezer Francis' and Benjamin Tupper's Massachusetts Regiments; he was in the retreat from Ticonderoga, the battle of Hubbardton and the capture of Burgoyne and was discharged January 21, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 24, 1818, at which time he was fifty-eight years of age and was living in Palermo, Lincoln County, Maine.
He died there January 28, 1827.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, July 9 th 1818
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that James Brown served as a Soldier in Capt. White's Company, and Col. Tupper's Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from January 21, 1777 to Jany. 21- 1780, being three years and — months.
Hlden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

State of Maine.
I Nathl. Coffin Clerk, for the County of Lincoln of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is
Nothing dollars and cents; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is dollars and Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this thirtieth day of August 1820.
Nathl. Coffin Clerk of said Court for the County of Lincoln

2059 Asenath Brown
George A. Woodin Esq. Augusta Me., $80 per ann
Palermo Me Jan 7.
Marion Augusta for W. Morris
6

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received Pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
STATE OF MAINE, }
County of Waldo, ss. }
A. D. 1843, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Waldo and State of Maine, Asenath
Brown a resident of Palermo in the County of Waldo aged Seventynine years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of James Brown who was a private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said James Brown at the rate of Eighty dollars and cents per annum, under the Act of July 7, 1838, which was paid to her at the agency in Portland in the State of Maine She further declares that she is still the widow of the said James Brown having remained unmarried ever since his death.
Widow Jacob Buffum Isaac Browne
her Asenath Brown mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me,
Jacob Buffum
Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me to have been pensioned under the Act of July 7, 1838, and is the reputed widow of James Brown deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.
Jacob Buffum
Justice of the Peace.

STATE OF MAINE State of Maine
County of Kennebec ss.
I the subscriber clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the county of Kennebec do hereby certify that Jacob Buffum is a Justice of the Peace as within State & that the signature purporting to be his is genuine —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine This twelfth day of June A.D. 1843. W. R. Nichols.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
1928, June 20, tomb- stone data to Dr. C. K. Turner ms
File No. 236/2
Asenath Brown Widow of James Brown Brinsker
Act: Mar 3rd 1848
Index:—Vol. A , Page 91
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Maine - 4048
Asenath Brown, widow of James Brown, who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th Mar. '18, and who died on the 28 th January 1827, of Waldo in the State of Maine who was a P er . in the Company commanded by Captain  of the Reg t commanded by Tupper in the Mass s time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars  Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st day of Aug t '39, and sent and Geo. W. Morton, Augusta, Me.
Arrears to the 4 th of March - $ 240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending  40.00
$ 280.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk Book A Vol. 1 Page 3

DR. C. K. TURNER OSTEOPATH 439 CONGRESS STREET PORTLAND, MAINE
May 31, 1928
Dept. Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me war service record of James Brown of Palermo, Huldobee, Maine. His wife drew a pension, and I think her name was Asenath.
This is to get a Revolutionary stone and marker for his grave.
Thanking you. I am,
Daughter Anna Perry Elizabeth Wadsworth Chapter Portland Mr. Cassie K. Turner