Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2,401, Brown Brookfield, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Brookfield Brown
NUMBER
S. 2401
CONTENTS
carded

Dead at Woodland Oct 30 1845
New Jersey 31.621.
Brown Brookfield
of Morris Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Jaques of the Reg't commanded by Col. Potter in the N. Jersey line for 10 months
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of May 1836 and sent to Hon. L. Condit Cherrystone, N. J.
  Arrears to the 4th of May 1839  266.64    Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept.  16.66     $283.30  
{ Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book E. 2. Vol. 3 Page 116

Brown Brookfield
of the hundred and fifty fourth and last of office the IN THIS BOOK MATTER OF THE the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars
of the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars
the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars
one hundred and fifty dollars

DECLARATION, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY, } County of Morris } ss.
On this twenty eighth day of September 1833 , personally appeared, in open court, before the Judges of  the the court of Common Pleas now sitting Brown Brookfield a resident of Long Hill in the County of Morris and State of New-Jersey , aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated:
That he was born at Rahway in the County of Essex on the 5 th day of March 1760 , as appears by a record contained in a family bible now in his possession. He resided at Rahway until March 1 st 1777 when he was drafted into the Militia, in the Company commanded by Captain Moses Jacques, in the Regiment under Colonel Samuel Potter. The other company officers on this tour were Amos Morse Moon Lieutenant, David Rop Ensign. He was employed during this month between Rahway & Amboy protecting the country from plunder by the enemy, who then lay in force at Amboy, and were often sent out foraging parties, into all the surrounding country. He was  did duty at this time one month , was then verbally discharged & went home. In the month of October following he thinks, he was stationed upon guard duty as before for one month at Trenton Point in a company under Amos Morse who was now a Captain, and in the regiment of Moses Jacques , who had been now promoted to the rank of Colonel. David Rop was again Ensign of the Company. They were employed during the month to prevent the Tories from driving cattle, and trading with the enemy on Staten Island. He was out at this time one month , was then verbally discharged and went home. In the month of February 1778 , he was again called out in the Company under Capt. Williams in the Regiment under Colonel Jacques to keep guard at Morris Mills , he was  did duty at this time for one month was then verbally discharged & went home. In the month of April 1779 , he thinks, he was again called out under Capt. Morse to Elizabeth Town Point under Genl. Washington he was employed upon guard duty for one month was then verbally discharged, and went home. In June following, he was drafted into Capt. Williams Company now  to  his duty for one month at at Morris Mills  Morris Mills , under either Colonel Jacques , or Major Hoag , keeping guard as before stated was then verbally discharged & went home. In the month of August following he thinks, he again went out into the Company of Capt.

6- Chambersburg under Major Hays of Newark. He was employed 1- upon guard duty for one month at this time was then verbally discharged I went some time in the month of September as he thinks. In the month of 7 October following, '79, he was again called out in the seventh company of Colt's Horse, in the regiment under Colonel Frelinghuysen, stationed at Somerville Point upon guard duty. During this month it was he thinks that a strong body of British came over from Staten Island, to Elizabeth town, and into the country as far as Connecticut Farms, and returned to New York, by way of the English neighborhood, plundering the country on their route, and hotly pursued by the Militia. He was out upon duty at this time for one month was then verbally discharged I went home. In the months of November & Decem- ber (parts of both probably) he performed guard duty for one month at Eliz th town point under Capt. Williams. The next year (1780) in the month of June, he went out as a volunteer for one month week when the enemy came over from Staten Island I burnt Connecticut Farms. He was then at the house where Mrs Caldwell was shot by a soldier under Rumpfhausen I was engaged in a skirmish, and fired a dozen rounds, near Springfield. He has ordered to state one month. In the month of April of this year, he was stationed for one month at Frelinghuysen's point under Capt. Moss upon guard duty as already stated. In June, he thinks '79, a party of the enemy came over at Frelinghuysen's point, surrounded his father's house, the family escaping by the back door. In the autumn of this year '80 he again was out for one month at Eliz th town point under Capt. Williams I performed guard duty at that place for one full month. In the month of Oc- tober following, he was for another month at Eliz th town & the points under Capt. Chambers upon the same duty, did duty at this time a full month. In the year 1781, he was again, in harvest time called out to Eliz th town under Major Hays & Capt. Williams, was stationed for one month at Eliz th town & the da point upon guard duty. During the Autumn of this year, the Father of this deponent removed to Eliz th County, on the Mountain North west of Westfield, and he did no more duty as a Militia man after this time. Besides these monthly tours, there were a great great many alarms and this deponent was often out upon them, but of these he can make no account, there were no doubt many other monthly tours but his memory is unable to recall them. He does not mean with positive accuracy as to dates but states them according to the best of his remembrance. One alarm he has omitted to state. At the time of the burning of Springfield, in the month of June '79, he thinks, he was called out upon alarm and was in service at this time for two weeks in Capt. Moss's Company I under as he believes Colonel Frelinghuysen. He will remember often seeing General Washington, General Putnam, Moxon, Morris & Hayton Dayton. During all the periods now recited, amounting to 12 monthly tours, and two alarms of weeks there, he was in active service, subject to the command of his Company Officers and during no portion of that time was he engaged in civil pursuits. I for this period he now claims a pension. He hopes to obtain the testimony of some of those who were his comrades, and if he can succeed their testimony will be annexed to this Declaration.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State, is only on that of the Agency of the State of New Jersey.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Stephen Dail
We Silas Lindley and Elias Ward Brown Brookfield residing in the County of Morris  Brown Brookfield hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Brown Brookfield who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Silas Lindley
Stephen Dail
Elias Ward
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Silas Lindley and Elias Ward who have signed the preceding certificate, are Brown Brookfield resident in the County of Morris aforesaid, and that who has also signed the same, is a resident in the and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Stephen Dail
I David Day Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Brown Brookfield for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty eighth day of September - in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
David Day Clerk

State of New Jersey, Morris County ss:
Before the subscriber, a Justice of peace in & for said County of Morris personally appears Jacob Brookfield Esq. of the County of Essex, in the State aforesaid, a man of unimpeachable character, & believed by me to be a man of truth, & fully entitled to belief - who being by me duly sworn according to Law, on his oath states as follows viz: - I am in the 72 d year of my age, & am the younger brother of Deacon Brookfield, an applicant for a pension for Militia services in the war of the revolution. I & my brother Deacon Brookfield & my father Benjamin Brookfield, lived in what is now the town & village of Rahway, which was often in the possession of the enemy in the war of the revolution. My father & my brother Deacon, were both out upon Militia duty a great portion of the war, & my father expended a large amount of property in defense of his country in various ways. I was not old enough to serve as a Militia man myself, but I know very well, that my brother Deacon was out performing Militia duties throughout the whole war, in every year, & almost in every month of each year. My father lived close upon tide-water, very near to Staten Island & had all his stock of cattle stolen by the enemy & driven off to supply them soon after the British took possession of N. York & Staten Island. I know that Deacon Brookfield was a Militia man, belonging to Captain Morris's company, in Col. Morris's Jersey Regiment: that Deacon Brookfield was out on duty at the battle of Connecticut Farms, & at the battle of Springfield under these officers in the year 1780 in the spring & summer seasons, not less than two months guard duty in the neighborhood of these places. I saw him go, & saw him return from these duties & from many others. I know that after these battles, he performed many tours of guard duty of a month each, at Tumbler's point - at Rahway - at Elizabeth town, & at the point & along the shore opposite Staten Island & at Woodbridge, more than a month at each of the places I have named. At Tumbler's point, at Rahway, & Elizabeth town point, I verily believe he performed not less than 3 tours of a month each of guard duty, at each place, from the battle of Springfield to 1782, inclusive - beside all the service which he performed before that period, when I was too young to remember much of his duties. He, (Deacon) was in a fight with the enemy at Woodbridge one summer morning, when the corn was ankle high; Capt. Skinner was killed sitting at table, & one of the enemy. My father's house was surrounded by the enemy before day light one night - 5 men escaped at back door & were fired at, but escaped. - The enemy were followed to the blazing star ferry, & one of them was killed. In the year 78-9- (winter season) the enemy came off as prisoners to Staten Island. Dr. Craig, barefoot in the night - also an old man, David Ball, barefoot, whose toes they crushed by the butt of their muskets. - I or: I then also was carried off. I was made prisoner myself & carried off to Staten Island. I am certain my brother was on active Militia duties defending his country, not less than half the time whilst the war continued; but I cannot particularize his duties. - Three other brothers, viz: William & Elisha Brookfield, were also taken prisoners by the enemy, - William in 1776 & died in the sugar house, - Elisha in June 1781, & returned 5 or 6 months afterwards, on parole. I sworn & subscribed before me, at Morris town, July 11 th 1837.
Before me, Eliza Ward J.P.
Jacob Brookfield

Curr
I hereby certify to the Secretary of War & Commissioners of Pensions, that in a joint Meeting of the Legislative Council & General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, held in the State House at Trenton, on Friday the 28th October 1838, David B. Hurd, was duly appointed Clerk of Morris County in said State, for the term of five years, in place of Joseph Dalrymple Esq. whose term of office had expired. The signature of his name to a certificate of the official character of Elijah Ward Esq. a justice of the peace before whom the within deposition of Jacob Brookfield, & an annexed deposition, or supplemental Declaration of Brown Brookfield (D. B. Hurd) to which his official seal also annexed, is genuine.
Lewis Goudie, Speaker of the House of Assembly, & Chairman of the joint meeting of the two Houses.
Trenton, N. Jersey, Nov. 18th 1838.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Brown Brookfield a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     March 1 1777 enlisted at Pvt Moses Jacques Samuel Potter N.J.   various times Amos Morse Moses Jacques   12 mos & 2nd Benjamin Kenan Felinghausen   3 mos Chandler   Williams  
Battles engaged in, Woodbridge Burning of Springfield Connecticut Farms.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Rahway, Essex Co. N.J.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 28, 1835 His el. was ab.
Residence at date of application, Long Hill, Morris Co. N.J.
Age at date of application { born March 5-1760 at Rahway, Essex Co. N.J.
Remarks:
He was the son of Benjamin Brookfield. died ab. 1805 - place not stated. Soldier married about the year 1792. The name of his wife is not stated.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
brothers Jacob William & Gershon Nephew John Frazee

To Whom it may Concern,
We the subscribers being personally acquainted with the bearer Mr. Brown Brookfield and knowing him to be a sober industrious civil young man, and is a person of good Reputation and Character, and has ever been a friend to, and supporter of, the American cause. As such, we wish to Recommend him to all the worthy citizens of America. Given Under Our hands at Rahway in the County of Essex & State New Jersey, this 28 th day of March, A.D. 1785.
Dan d Marks S r B r own
John Craig Capt. Militia
As I have been from home the

BROOKFIELD, BROWN

greater part of the time for several years past I have no personal acquaint- ance with Mr. Brookfield, tho' I have seen him, but from what I have generally been informed he is of reforming of the above character.
Abra. Clark
Benjamin Willis Joseph Wetfield David Wetfield Anthony Morris
27

BROOKFIELD, BROWN

These may Certify all Persons concerned That Brown Brockhurst the Bearer of this, is a quiet Civil And Industrious young Man, and is hereby recommended as such, to any People where God in his Providence may call him
Tested by Aaron Richards Pastor of the Church of Christ in Pawley
March 30: 1785

Brown Brookfield, S. File 2401.
A certificate of indebtedness of N. J., in the sum of £1..8..4 for Militia service, also
A Continental paper money bill for Seven dollars ;
Said papers, mentioned in soldier's declaration, are not with case.
F. Williams.
Jan. 4, 1904.

List.
affids. made by John Frazee Sept. 6-1837 3 pages.

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Ad. [illegible] [illegible]
May 6, 1930
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me uncertified photostatic copies of three pages, one positive and one negative copy of each page, from Revolutionary War Pension claim of Brown Brookfield, S. 2401.
Miss Winifred L. Holman 39 Windsor Ave. Watertown Mass.
Received payment $0.90 May 6, 1930
M. C. Stokes
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
Cash - 90 cents.

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April 14, 1930.
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April 14, 1930.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Please furnish photostatic copies of the following Revolutionary War pension claims, uncertified:
Hezekiah Bayles, S. 16624, 4 pages Brown Brookfield, S.2401, 5 pages
Very truly yours,
Mrs. J. M. Haddan Haddanfield, N.J.
Received payment April 14, 1930. $1.35
Antonia W. Ford
Rev.&1812 Wars Section.

V.P.H. Rev. War Section.
June 19. 1914.
Mrs. Mary V. Brookfield, # 5 Luray Avenue, North Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 16" instant, you are advised that there is no provision of law that would entitle to pension the grand daughter or other descendants of a soldier of the Revolution.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

2401
3-068.
(Old No. 3-649.)
Bureau of Pensions.
Brown Brookfield
Sept 28, 1833 -73
Long Kill Morris Co. N.J.
Born Mch. 5, 1760 Rahway N.J.
Mch. 1, 77 Rahway Capt Moses Jacques Cal Saul Ballen Put - 1 m
Oct. 77 Capt. Amos Morse Cal to Jacques Put - 1 m
Dec 78 Capt. William Miners Cal to Put - 1 m
Apr. 79 Capt. Morse Cal - 1 m
Jun 79 - Capt. Miners Cal - Jacques on Hays Put - 1 m
Aug 79. Capt. Chandler Cal - 1 m
Oct. 79 Capt. Morse Cal. to Lieut. Layman Put - 1 m
Nov 79 Capt. Williams Cal - 1 m
Dec 80 1 cook
Apr. 80 Capt. Morse Cal - 1 m
Aug 80 Capt. Williams Cal - 1 m Over

Oct. 8 th Capt. Willis Chandler Cal - 1 m
21 Capt. Williams Cal 1 m
Bob Springfield
Cdf 31621 - 32 is May 27, 1836 m. J. Key

JRW
No. 2401, Inv., Rev. War.
April 15, 1904.
File
Sir:
In reply to your inquiry you are advised that the records of this Bureau do not show the place and date of death of Brown Brookfield.
For date of last payment of his pension, application should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, at the Treasury Department, this city, citing the following data, viz: "Certificate No. 31,621, Act of June 7 1832, issued May 27, 1836, New Jersey agency."
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Wm. Holden,
Lloyd Library,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
1042

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Stamped envelope 84
Rev. Sec 12 14
pt. enr. ret 9/28/16 Drown
Rev. Sec
Needles Calif Sep. 30-1916
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Revolutionary War records section
Dear Sir.
You very kindly sent me the records of Brown Brookfield - a poor wounded soldier in the Revolutionary War and would like very much to know when he died and where. It seems every one that I think might know has passed

to the 'Great Beyond' and my letters are returned marked (decayed), so I thought I would bother you once more.
If any charges let me know and oblige
Anna Brookfield Brooks

Pittsburgh: Pa
* 5 Luray Ave North Side
June 16 th 1914.
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
As I have written before of a pension, and being the last of my own family, I write relative to my Grand Father, Henry Brookfield, who lived in Rahway at the time of the revolution, went into the army at the age of fifteen yrs. '75, living on St George Road with his parents. I am over seventy five years of age, and in need, and think now I could be entitled to this pension, am sick at this time, and trust soon to be able to hear from you favorably.
Respectfully Mary T. Brookfield

OFFICE OF The Lloyd Library.
224 WEST COURT STREET, CINCINNATI, OHIO, U. S. A.
WM. HOLDEN, Librarian.
Cin. O, April 8 th 1904
Hon. E. F. Ware, Comm. of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir
Many thanks for the certificate of service of Brown Brookfield a revolu- tionary pensioner from N.J. Can you furnish date and place of death?
Your letter is marked O.W. & N. Div. J.R. N. 2401 Rev. Rev. Ware.
Yours truly Wm Holden

THE LLOYD LIBRARY - Erected in 1902.
The Lloyd Library.
THIS Library is devoted to botany, pharmacy, chemistry, and allied sciences. The building contains between fifteen and twenty thousand volumes and pamphlets on the aforementioned subjects. The herbarium of pressed plants is extensive, and the mycological department contains four or five thousand specimens, the fleshy fungi being preserved in alcohol in jars. This library is incorporated, is free to the public, and is pledged to be donated intact to science. The final resting place has not been decided upon, but the library will be placed in the University best calculated to serve science.
PRESIDENT
JOHN URI LLOYD.
SECRETARY
THOMAS BELL.
TRUSTEES
JOHN URI LLOYD. W. E. BLOYER, M. D. J. K. SCUDDER, M. D. THOMAS BELL. C. G. LLOYD.

OFFICE OF The Lloyd Library.
224 WEST COURT STREET, CINCINNATI, OHIO, U. S. A.
WM. HOLDEN, Librarian.
Sim. O. Mar 27 1904
Hon J. F. Ware, Commr of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir.
Will you send me a copy of the revolutionary record of Brown Brookfield of New Jersey. I do not know certainly that he was a pen- sioner.
I wish the certificate for mem- bership in the Sons of the Revolution.
Yours truly
Wm Holden

THE LLOYD LIBRARY - Erected in 1902.
The Lloyd Library.
THIS Library is devoted to botany, pharmacy, chemistry, and allied sciences. The building contains between fifteen and twenty thousand volumes and pamphlets on the aforementioned subjects. The herbarium of pressed plants is extensive, and the mycological department contains four or five thousand specimens, the fleshy fungi being preserved in alcohol in jars. This library is incorporated, is free to the public, and is pledged to be donated intact to science. The final resting place has not been decided upon, but the library will be placed in the University best calculated to serve science.
PRESIDENT
JOHN URI LLOYD.
SECRETARY
THOMAS BELL.
TRUSTEES
JOHN URI LLOYD. W. E. BLOYER, M. D. J. K. SCUDDER, M. D. THOMAS BELL. C. G. LLOYD.

Apr 5, 1904. His to Wm Halden. Cinti, Ohio
Apr 15-1904 To above. As to date of last payment
1914 June 19 Mary V. Brook field the there is no law granting pensions to Grand daughters etc
1916 Sept. 28 Hest. to Anna Brookfield Cooks
1930 Apr. 25. Photos mailed to Mrs. J. M. Headman & Fin. Rev. ntf'd. 9.10.7
1930 May 16. Photos mailed to Winifred L. Holman & Fin. Rev. ntf'd. 9.10.7
Rev War
2401. INVALID.
File No. 2401
Brown Brookfield
Pr. Rev. War.
Act: June 7, 1882
Index:—Vol. A. , Page 42.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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3 C. 71. Feby 5. 1839.
Pension Office
Feb 4. 1839. I have recd. from the Com te of Pension the Certificate within mentioned -
J. P. B. Mapwell

The Secretary of War.

House of Assembly of N. Jersey, Trenton, Jan'y. 31 st 1839.
Honble Joel R. Poinsett Secretary of War.
Dear Sir,
In behalf of an aged soldier of the Revolution of this State, Brown Brookfield, I respectfully ask your permission, to withdraw for a few days, only, from the files of the Pension office, a Certificate issued by authority of this State, for a small sum, due to said Brookfield for a small portion of his Militia service. It was forwarded with his declaration & other vouchers, as furnishing some evidence of service. It is an original paper, & its authenticity here, where the hand writing of the Commissioners is known, can be established. The old man by my advice, petitions this Legislature for payment, & I have not a doubt it will be acceded to him, provided the original paper can be produced. It will give the old man perhaps some fifteen or twenty dollars, which to him, in his poverty & helplessness, will be something. It will satisfy his hunger, all winter. A copy, which Mr. Edwards has offered me, will not answer, because the antiquity of the paper, & its whole appearance, as well as the signature of the Commissioners, will furnish proof which can be supplied in no other mode whatever, as to its genuineness.
I know, that it will be in my power to return to the office again, the same paper, as it now is, after the Legislature shall have acted upon it, & I hereby pledge myself to you & to Mr. Edwards, for its safe return, in all the month of February, commencing to morrow. — In other cases, I admit, that the certificate on payment would be cancelled — but on this occasion, the Treasr. on payment, if directed, can take Brookfield's receipt, voiding its form, in the receipt. The Legislature could not judge of its validity & authenticity, otherwise than by inspection, after which, it shall be returned to the Pension office. — I stated in my letter to Mr. Edwards which accompanied the Declaration, that after he had satisfied himself that it was a genuine paper, I should ask its return, for the use now stated.
The rule, which restrains Mr. Edwards from complying with my request, is a reasonable one, & which I would be unwilling to infringe, if a copy could answer. Under existing circumstances, I trust & hope, you will permit the rule to be dispensed with on this occasion. I have requested my friend,

the Honorable Mr. Maxine, of the H. R. to present this communication to you, to whom I desire the Certificate may be handed in my behalf, & who will perhaps be willing to join me, if necessary, in the pledge, for its safe return, within one month from its delivery. — I do not particularly describe the certificate herein, because it is well known to Mr. Edwards, & is specified in some of my letters to him. I think the subscribing Commission name is, Thomas Clark.
I remain, with much esteem & respect
your very ob t . serv t
Lewis Bondick.

34,734
New Jersey
Declaration & papers of Brown Brookfield, for a Pension under the Law of 1832, June 7 th
Admitted
Private 10 months
Return to Lewis Pondit Morristown, N. Jersey.

State of New York } City & County of New York } 31.
Francis Craig, of the City of New York, being duly sworn, doth depose & say, that he is well acquainted with Brown Brookfield, now residing at Long Hill, in the County of Morris, State of New Jersey, as deponent is informed, & that deponent has been acquainted with him for sixty years & upwards. That this deponent was in service during the war between the United States & Great Britain & commenced such service about the year one thousand eight hundred & Eighty - That at the time this deponent commenced such service, the said Brown Brookfield was a private in the company of Captain Amos Morse - & that the said Brookfield, to the best of this deponent's knowledge, recollection & belief, continued in the service of the United States until the termination of the war, which took place in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & Eighty thro'. That during his service this deponent was engaged in a skirmish or action with the enemy at Springfield, in the State of New Jersey, in which skirmish the said Brookfield was personally engaged. - That after deponent entered into the said service he was frequently in the habit of seeing the said Brookfield until the termination of the said war, & that during such service that to the best of this deponent's knowledge, recollection & belief, the said Brook- =field was discharged & appeared to discharge the duties of an United States soldier.
Sworn this 4 th day of September 3 1837 before me -
R. P. P.
Francis Craig Recorder of the City of New York

N. Luce, Morris County Declaration & papers of Brown Brookfield for a pension under the law of U. S. June 1832.

Sept 28. N.J.

D. Sir
I enclose to you a letter just recd from Doct r Condit with the Certificate of Brown Brookfield. As I gave a receipt for the Certificate please to acknowledge the receipt of it -
in haste
Col. J. L. Edwards House of Representatives
yours respectfully
J. P. B. Macswell
A. R. Feb 25 - 10 P. M.

J. I. Richards Comm. of Public H. D. Marshall H. R.

An important certificate in the case of Brown Brook field
oc. 1839 handed to Major Cooper by order of the Secuban d war. This case not to be acted on until the return of that certificate
Feb. 4 } 1839 }

War Dep t
Pension Office
Oct. 29. 1838
Sir,
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commission of Pensions
Washington.

Morris town April 3 d . 1839.
Dear Sir,
The enclosed papers I rec d . yesterday from Mr. Maxwell. I presume they were returned to him from your office, through inadvertence. By looking at my letter which accompanies Brookfield's old certificate, I herewith enclose dated at "Trenton, 25 th . Febr y '39," you will be satisfied, that it was then sent through Mr. Maxwell to your office, to be restored to its place among Brookfield's vouchers on file. — The Legislature passed an act, directing the Treasurer to pay the certificate, with interest from date, (54 years) & the poor old man has rec d . his money, about $21.70/100. — Since As soon as the bill passed both Houses, I obtained leave to withdraw the certificate for the express purpose of returning it to you, as I had promised to do, & felt some regret, as well as mortification yesterday, on having it sent back again. — I have no doubt it was an oversight, from the pressure & hurry of business in your office.
Will you not, whilst this is before your eye, run over Brookfield's papers, which are not voluminous, & decide its merits! He is exceedingly helpless & dependent, & no man living is free from guile & deception than he.
With much respect
Yr. ob l . serv t . &c.
Lewis Condick.
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions.

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Brown Brookfield Nf alk 32
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Morris Town N. J. April 28 th 45.
Sir,
Brown Brookfield, a pensioner under the act of June 1832 died last week, leaving an aged widow in extreme poverty, to whom he was married as I am informed, about the year 1790.
Her friends desire to know, whether or not, she will be entitled to a pension. I presume she will be, provided the evidence of the marriage be satisfactory, that it was consummated prior to the 1 st January 1794.
I wish to avoid the expense & trouble of a negative application, & you will confer a favor by informing me whether her claim can be admitted under the circumstances above stated.
Very respectfully,
Your ob. Servt.
Lewis Condick.
Col. Edwards

1737 1738 1739
Brown Brookfield

War Department Pension Office March 22. 1839
Sir,
The certificate of Thomas Clark, Commissioner of the State of New Jersey, to Brown Brookfield, showing that there was due him on the 7. th of October 1784 one pound eighteen shillings and four pence for militia services, is, in compliance with the request in the letter of the Hon. Lewis Coudert, herewith returned. As it constitutes a part of the evidence in support of Mr. Brookfield's claim to a pension under the act of June 7. 1832, the investigation thereof will be postponed until that document is again received at this Office.
I have the honor to be Very respectfully Your Obdt. Servt. J. L. Edwards
Hon. J. P. B. Maxwell Belvidere N. Jersey

Boon Brookfield New Jersey
Honorable J. P. B. Maxwell
House of Reps.
Washington

Trenton, Feby 25 th 1839.
Dear Sir,
I thank you for your kindness in aiding Brown Brookfield to obtain his little Certificate from the Pension Office. By a special act, passing each House unanimously , our Legislature has directed the Treasurer to pay it, with interest for 54 years & 8 months, & have permitted me to withdraw it from their files, to be returned to the Pension Office.
Inasmuch as you were cognizant to my pledge given to the Secretary of War for its safe return, I will ask the favor of you to transmit it herewith, to Colonel Edwards, the Commissioner of Pensions, with the old Continental Bill attached to it. The certificate is recited in the act, so that there is no danger it will be hereafter presented for payment.
Very sincerely
Yr. ob. serv.
A friend.
Irvin Conaid.
Honorable J. P. B. Maxwell
Member of the House of Reps. U. S.
from N. Jersey.
P. S. The poor old soldier gets for his Certificate a little more than $20. Can you not prevail on the Commission of Pensions to devote one hour when he returns the paper to its file, to look to the merit of the claim, & allow him whatever pittance he may justly be entitled to receive?
L. G. —

B. 1. 39 A. 1. 39
Jan 19 Carc.
Rev. J. D. Sleeper Esq. Consumption of Prison Washington.
FREE

Trenton, N. J. Jan. 15 th 39.
Dear Sir,
In Nov. last, I forwarded to your office, the declaration & vouchers of Brown Brookfield, asking a pension. —
Among his vouchers, was an original certificate, signed Thos. Clarke, as Commissioner of Essex Co. for about $5. in specie, bearing int. at 6 per cent, & dated 1784, & an old Continental 7 dollar bill, which had been in Brookfield's possession ever since the certificate was issued, till it was handed to me by him. — In my letter to you which accompanied his papers, you may observe, that expressed a wish that the old certificate after your examination, might be returned to me, as I had no doubt the Legislature would pay it, principal & int. —
He has petitioned the Legislature for it, & you will oblige him by returning it for the purpose of examination here, the old man being in great need of every dollar which is fairly due him.
If you are satisfied of its authenticity, perhaps a copy of it may be all you may desire, if it be indispensable, as forming a part of the record of his claim before you.
And whilst glancing over his papers for the certificate, if you can devote half an hour to investigate the claim for a pension, with a view to its final decision, you will confer a great favor on one who was unquestionably a Military Revolutionary soldier of our State, possessing as little guile , as any living man.
Please address me at Trenton.
Very respectfully
for the just, &c.
Lewis Condict.

Jan 28
to Brookfield.
Jan 29. 1839. Edwards B. G.
An impression of Pension Washington.
FREE

Trenton, N. J. Jan'y. 25 th '39.
Dear Sir,
Your favor of the 21 st  18 th was rec d .
Last evening. I regret that the old certificate of Brown Broodfute cannot be returned, as a certified copy, would be less satisfactory than the original. There is in its very appearance - the texture of the paper, the shade of the ink & more than all the rest, in the signature of the Commissioner - something more convincing of its genuineness, than even in a fac simile, or any kind of copy, which can be taken.
With the original, I have no doubt the Legislature will pay it, with the interest: & altho' the sum will be small - yet to an old man, who has nothing - it will give him bread, all winter.
I will pledge myself to you for its return, as soon as our Legislature shall have decided. If paid - it will be on joint resolution, or by bill, & the Treasurer in taking his rec d can specify that it is on acct. of the Certificate, setting forth its date, sum, conditions, signature &c.
Under these circumstances I hope you will so far relax the rule, as to permit the old man to receive the 15 or 20 dollars it will ensure him, which he cannot recover without the original.
If I am not certain of being able to return it safely to your care, (risk of mail excepted only) - I cannot solicit it.
Very respectfully
Yours truly,
Lewis Condict.
Gen. J. Edwards Poynter } Commissioner of Pensions.

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Jos. L. Edwards Esq.
Commission of Pension.

Trenton, N. J. 15 th Novr. 1838.
Dear Sir
I herewith send for your examination, the Declaration & testimony in the case of Brown Brookfield, for a pension under the Law of 1832. His Declaration has been in my custody since it was first executed & for a long time I despaired of his finding testimony. He is peculiarly helpless, & devoid of energy, & is without, almost without any active friends. He promised me from time to time, that he would be able to find evidence of his services, & since the last deposition or supplemental Declaration, I have effected some other evidence. A few weeks past, he urged me to forward on his papers as they are. His little Certificate of a triple due him from Cr. J. J. J., I will thank you after giving it such weight as you think it deserves, to send it back to me, as I am persuaded the State will pay it, principal & Int. I believe he has had it locked up in his old chest, with the Continental seven dollar bill over since the close of the Revolutionary war. He is a man without guile & free of reproach. The old certificates of character he seems to me to have been intended to be used as a sort of pass, when there was danger in travelling without.
I trust you will be fully justified in allowing to this aged & honest Veteran soldier, some remuneration for his Revolutionary services - of which please notify me.
Our Legislature adjourns to morrow, with a view to another sitting in January.
Please address me hereafter at Morris town .
Very respectfully
your ob. servt.
Levis Bondict.
Gen. L. Edwards Esq. Commission of Pensions

Jos. J. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Morristown N. J. Nov. 23. 38.
Dear Sir,
The enclosed letter accompanied the deposition which was sent to me from N. York, as testimony, in the application of Brown Brookfield, now in your office. I presume the writer, (an entire stranger to me) believed that persons appointed to the Treasury Dept. - possibly he may have some personal acquaintance with the Secretary, & desired through him to aid Mr. Brookfield. - When I forwarded Brookfield's declaration, I doubted what was best to do with it. - Finding it this morning among my papers, I concluded I would send it to you, to be filed if you deem it proper after reading it - among  with said Brookfield's papers.
Very respectfully &c.
Your ob t . serv t .
Levin Condit.
Jas. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions.

State of New Jersey, Morris County ss:
Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of peace in said County, Brown
Brookfield, of Chatham township, in said County aged 76 years, believed by me to be a man of truth & of fair reputation, who being first duly sworn according to law, on his oath saith as follows, viz: — I am the same Brown Brookfield, who on the 28 th Sept. 1833, before the Court of Common Pleas of Morris County aforesaid, made my Declaration of my Militia services, in the revolutionary war, with a view to obtain a pension therefor from the United States. I have till this day deferred & postponed presenting said Declaration to the Commission of pensions at Washington, hoping that I should be able to find some comrade who would be able to testify to my services in said war, or to some portion of them. My bad health, & extreme poverty have kept me at home, & my papers are yet unsupported by proof, except so far as a younger brother, viz: Jacob Brookfield, who altho' too young to serve with me in Militia duties, will tell what he knows, & the Pension Commission will give such consideration to his deposition as it may deserve.
I have in my possession, a few old papers, relics of revolutionary times, some of them showing the opinion which my neighbours had of me, as regards my integrity &c. — They accompany this supplement & are as follows. viz: A Certificate of Rev. Aaron Richards, pastor of Rahway Church in the war of the revolution. Another Certificate signed by Abac: Clark Esq: a Member of Congress in the war time, as well as by David Mark, a Member in many years of the Legislative Council of N. Jersey, — by John Craig, a Militia Captain; by Benjamin Willis, Joseph & David Atfield, & Anthony Moxie, dated March 28 th . 1785. Also Thomas Clarke's certificate, showing the indebtedness of the State of N. Jersey to me, on the 7 th Oct. 1784 in the sum of £1.18.4. for Militia service, then unpaid, & unpaid to this day. Also, an old continental paper money bill, for seven dollars, "in gold or silver", dated Nov. 2. 1776 — paid me as part of my Militia services, the rest of my Militia duties for the whole 7 years being paid in similar promissory & in like coin.
I am very needy, & have endured cold & hunger & suffering in various forms for my Country's freedom, & shall feel truly grateful for a small pittance from her full Treasury, to furnish me an honest loaf of bread, for the few days which may perhaps yet be allotted to me on earth.
For the genuineness of Abac: Clarke's signature, I refer to the original Declaration of Independence. Mr. Clarke was my neighbour, & I have voted for him as a Legislator & Congress man, many times. — Perhaps Secy. Dickinson knows his signature also. Sworn to & subscribed before me at Morris town, N. Jersey, this 11 th . day of July, 1837.
Brown Brookfield
Elijah Ward S.P.

State of New Jersey, Morris County.
I, David B. Hunt, Clerk of Morris County, hereby certify, that Elijah Ward Esq. the Magistrate before whom the within deposition of Brown Brodfield was taken & subscribed on the 11 th day of July 1837, & before whom also the annexed deposition of Jacob Brodfield was taken & subscribed on the same day, was at the date thereof, a justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid, & that the signature of his name thereto, "Elijah Ward" is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto
subscribe my name, & affix my seal of office at Morristown this thirteenth day of November, Anno Domini 1838.
D B Hunt Clerk
Brown Brodfield
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State of New Jersey, Borough of Elizabeth - 3 d fs:
Personally appeared before me Joseph H. Walsey one of the Aldermen of the said Borough, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the same. Richard Lee of the township of Rahway in the County of Essex, in the said State, who being by me duly sworn on his oath says, that he is now seventy- nine years of age, that he was born in what is now the said township of Rahway, and has resided there ever since - That he is well acquainted with Brown Brookfield, now resident at Longhill, in the County of Morris, and has been well acquainted with him during all his life - That the said Brown Brookfield was born within two hundred yards of where deponent lived, and continued to reside at the same place until after his marriage. Deponent recollects that the said Brown Brook- field was out doing duty in the militia in the summer of 1777. at Rahway and Amboy. Amos Morse was then Lieutenant of the company, and Moses Iagues was Captain as deponent thinks - The said Brown Brookfield served a month's time then as deponent believes & thinks - in the fall of the same year the said Brookfield served a month- ly tour of militia duty under Captain Morse at Grenoble's Point opposite Staten Island watching the enemy - Deponent distinctly recollects that during the same winter the said Brookfield was out again & performed duty at Morse's Mill in said County for a month or more, doing principally guard duty; Col. Iagues was Commander. In the Spring of 1779. the said Brookfield was again out doing duty for a month, at Elizabeth Town Point under Captain Morse - Deponent also recollects that the said Brookfield was drafted the same summer & performed guard duty at Morse's Mill and in the neighbourhood, under Captain Benjamin

Winans as deponent thinks - Deponent distinctly recollects the said Brookfield was out again under Captain Morse at Trembly's Point performed duty for a month or more in the fall of 1779. during which time a body of the British made an incursion from Staten Island to Elizabeth Town & Connecticut farms - Deponent also recollects the said Brookfield was out at Elizabeth Town Point the same winter under Captain Williams for two months or nearly that time, on guard duty.
Deponent well remembers that the said Brookfield was out on duty at the time Mrs Caldwell was shot at Connecticut Farms, and that he was engaged in the battle. Deponent recollects hearing at the time, of the surrounding the house of the Father of the said Brookfield, and that the said Brookfield was then out on duty. Deponent well recollects that up to the time the father & family of the said Brookfield removed to the Mountain back of Westfield, that he the said Brookfield was out on many other monthly tours of duty, under Captains Morse, Williams & Winans, besides those hereinbefore enumerated; and that he the said Brookfield performed such duty at Trembly's Point, Rahway, Elizabeth Town Point, and along the lines between Elizabeth Town and Amboy, watching the movements of the Enemy, and guarding against their attacks and plunder. Deponent from his advanced age, and the length of time which has since elapsed cannot now however undertake to specify with positive exactness, the precise dates of the other duty performed by the said Brookfield. but from his own knowledge and recollection, this Deponent can safely and with certainty say that he the said

Brookfield performed duty for more than twelve monthly tours between the years 1777. and 1781. inclusive
Richard Lee
Subscribed & I sworn the - 3 day of October 1837. before me } Joseph H. Walsey
I Joseph H. Walsey before whom the foregoing deposi- tion of Richard Lee is taken do certify that he entitled to full credit as a witness and that I have been well acquainted with the said Richard Lee for thirty years or more
Joseph H. Walsey
State of New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth } ss:
I Joseph D. Price Clerk of the Borough of Elizabeth do hereby certify that Joseph H. Walsey before whom the foregoing deposition of Richard Lee is taken, is one of the Aldermen of the said Borough of Elizabeth & a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the same, and as such is fully authorized to administer oaths & take depositions. And further that the signature of Joseph H. Walsey to the said foregoing deposition and certificate is in his own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the said Borough this third day of October A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty seven
Joseph D. Price M c

To the
Hon. Levi Woodbury
Belongs to Paper of Brown Brookfield of New Jersey on the files of the Pension office
Secy Treasury
Quint

New York Sept. 6, 1837-
Dear Sir,
This, with other papers, will be forwarded to you from Brown Brookfield, of New Jersey - an Applicant under the Pension Act in behalf of Revolutionary Soldiers.
Mr. Brookfield is a Maternal uncle of mine; and his advanced age, needy Circumstances, and a sincere belief in the integrity of his Claim naturally urge me to proffer a few words in his favor. — I am well aware that his success will chiefly depend on the testimony of persons who were eye-witnesses to the services he rendered his Country. But Time has left him so few of those brave Compatriots who fought by his side during that struggle for righteous liberty, that I have thought some testimony of a circumstantial nature might be favorably admitted. —
The Farm of my Grandfather Brookfield was, during the period of the Revolution, situated in the Township of Rahway, N.J. and about 4 miles from Elizabeth Town, directly on the old Stage Road from Newark to New Brunswick, and the inhabitants of that quarter of the Country, as the History of those times will show, were much exposed, both in their persons and property, to the repeated incursions and attacks of the British forces that were stationed at the Block-Houses on Staten Island; and no family perhaps suffered greater hardships and privations than that of my grandfather. He and his sons — six of them — were all stern whigs, and no opportunity was passed over by the traitorous refugees to point out the family to the enemy as a band of desperate rebels, and fit subjects for royal vengeance. — Adverse fortune with my father caused me to be reared at my Grandfather's dwellings; and it was there that, in my early youth, I first heard and learnt the history

of those trying scenes. — As long ago as the year 98, and still farther back, I can distinctly remember how my grandparents and my mother — their eldest child, would sit and talk over the events of that war; and often have I seen them weep when relating those severe trials and sufferings they had been fated to endure. — But I need not trouble you with a detail of these traditions. — I will state however that I have often heard my grandparents say that my Uncles Brown, William, Jacob & Gershon were out in the Militia Service as soon as they severally became old enough for duty, and that they had frequent encounters and skirmishes with the Enemy; — that Jacob & Gershon were taken prisoners and confined in the Block House on Staten Island, where they remained some time, when they were dismissed on parole; — That William also, at another time was taken prisoner and conveyed, with a number of American Captives, to New York, and confined in the Old Sugar House; * that he there took the Small Pox and died in that Prison. — While he lay sick with the disease, utterly destitute of care or kind treatment, his parents, learning his distressed situation, went over to the City, and my grandmother begged of the British Commander that she might be permitted to go into the Prison to her son, and attend him in his sickness. — Her petition was not only totally disregarded, but the loyal barbarian refused her even the privilege of seeing her dying son! This stroke of cruelty was too severe for the soul of one of the best of women; — she never recovered from it during her life. —
My Uncle Brown was longer in the service than any of the other boys; he being the oldest — was the first on duty, and I believe he never
* This Building yet stands in Liberty Street, — a monument of British cruelty, & oppression.

was actually discharged until the close of the war. It is much to be regretted that he did not apply for his Pension sooner. — Jacob applied & obtained his some 3 years ago. — But Brown being very poor, very old, and living for many years, where he still lives — very remotely from some of his principal witnesses, he seemed to fail of courage in the undertaking. I hope however, he may now succeed in his application.
With great respect
I remain Your very Ob d Serv t
John Frazee
Sculptor & Architect
The Hon. Levi Woodbury. —
P.S. This is to certify that I have, during thirty five years past, been intimately acquainted with Frazee Craig, who is a witness for Brown Brookfield, and have always known him to be a man of good moral character and steady habits.
John Frazee