Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,867, Peter Brown, Continental. (Penn.)

SERVICE
Continental (Penn.) Brown, Peter Sarah
NUMBER
W. 16867 B. & M. 1686-105
CONTENTS
res. at m. Reading, Berks Co. Pa. died May 5, 1822 at Kellkill, Orange Co. N.Y. aged about 65 yrs.
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BROWN, PETER (CONT. PA.) W 16867

Berks Co.
I do hereby certify that Peter Brown of the town of Reading was Intermarried with Sarah Sarah Piener of the same place according to Lutheran rites and the 13 th day of August 1788
John Ludwig

(2594)
New York Roll.
Peter Brown
Private
Pennsylvania line - 1 year war
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of New York - - at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 d of July 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st of September 1818 and sent to A Dinnick Bloomingburgh Orange Co New York -
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. - 2m th - 2/30 16-53 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 40-
Capt
Von Heer
$ 61 53
Coast
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Notif n sent Dec. 19 th 1820 to
A Dinnick Bloomingburgh V Sullivan Co N Y
Wallkill Orange Co

New York 399
2
Sarah Brown of Orange in the State of New York who was a in the  commanded by Captain of the  commanded by in the limber Widow of Peter Brown dis d late a Hrayson in the Revolution Pa
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 58 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of Nov r 1837 and delivered to Armstrong Present
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $220.80 Semi-ant. allowance ending Feb 1837 29.16 $249.96
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. L. Goodson Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 Page 127

839- 3 sec.
Sarah Brown widow of Peter N York
adm. 14 mo. Dragoon no deduction due in 1822
Sent to H. Armstrong Newburgh Orange County New York

State of New York
Orange County ss On this fourteenth twenty first day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty six personally appeared before James Gblinton one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Orange in the State aforesaid Sarah Brown a resident of the Town of Wallkill in the County of Orange & State of New York aged eighty one years on the fifth day of April last past who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declara- tion in order to obtain the benefit of the provis- ion made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836. That she is the widow of Peter Brown who was a private in a company of Light Horse under the command of a Captain Van Hare said company was the life guard of General Washington. That some time in the summer of the year 1782 as near as this deponent can now recollect her said husband enlisted as a pri- vate in the company of Captain Van Hare, and that her said husband at that time resided in Reading in the County of Berks & State of Pennsylvania, that he enlisted in said com- pany for during the Revolutionary war & was employed in said company as a life guard to General Washington until he was dischar- ged which was some time in the fall of the year 1783. her said husband was for some time stationed with his company at New Wind- sor in the County of Orange & State of New York at the head Quarters of General Washington that about two months before he was dis- charged he was taken sick & was billeted out at the house of a Mr Knapp in Orange County aforesaid this deponent being informed of the sickness of her said husband came.

from Reading aforesaid to Orange County and attended him during his sickness, that shortly after she arrived her said husband, was removed to the House of a Captain Hatfield in the Town of Goshen in Orange County, that while her said husband remained sick at the place last aforesaid he was, discharged by General Washington & his discharge was delivered to him by his Captain aforesaid in the presence of this deponent, that the discharge of her said husband is as she is informed now on file in the Pension Office at Washington, to which this deponent for greater certainty refers.
That her said husband was also a Pensioner of the United States under the law as this deponent has been informed & believes of Congress passed in the year 1818. That the original pay certificate of her said husband is as she is informed & believes, on file in the Pension Office aforesaid that the same was transmitted to said office in order to enable this deponent to draw the pension of her said husband that was due to him at the time of his death to which this deponent also refers.
She further declares that she was married to the said Peter Brown on the thirteenth day of August 1780 at Reading in the County of Berks & State of Pennsylvania by John Ludwig a Justice of the Peace of Reading aforesaid as by the certificate of the said John Ludwig hereto annexed more fully appears, which said certificate was made by said justice at the time of her marriage & has ever since been in her possession. And that her said husband the said Peter Brown died on the fifth day of May in the year 1822 at the town of

Walhill aforesaid. And that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto an- nexed. That this deponent is not positive as to the name of the Captain under which her said husband served but from the best of her recollection & belief she believes that his name was Vern Hare. That she cannot from age & loss of memory state the precise dates as to the time that her said husband enlisted & was discharged but that the times are generally stated in said discharge. And that she is unable to state the names of any other officers under which her said husband served except those before named. And that by reason of age & feeble health she is unable to attend the sittings of the Court of record in the County of Orange aforesaid
Sworn to and subs.cribed on the day & year above written before me November 21. 1836
J. A. G. Clinton on of the Judges of Orange County Common Pleas
Sarah her Brown mark
I the undersigned Judge before whom the foregoing declaration was made & subscribed do certify that I am acquainted with Sarah Brown & believe her to be a woman of truth & veracity & her statements entitled to full credit & also that I am satisfied that the said Sarah is from her age & bodily infirmity unable to attend the sitting of the Court of record of the County of Orange November 21. 1836
J. A. G. Clinton on of the Judges of Orange County Common Pleas

State of New York
Orange County } ss On this fourteenth  twenty first day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty six personally appeared before the undersigned a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Orange aforesaid David Oliver of the Town of Montgomery in said County, who being by me duly sworn according to Law deposes and says, That he has been acquainted with Sarah Brown who made & subscribed the fore- going declaration for more than thirty several years last past, that he lived a neighbour to said Sarah Peter Brown for more than thirty years, that he knew said Peter & said Peter Brown the husband of said Sarah until the time of his death, that said Peter died on or about the fifth day of May in the year 1822 that he was at the funeral who was a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death of said Peter, and well recollects the fact, that he knew that the said Peter & Sarah lived together as man & wife until the time of the death of said Peter & that they were in the neighbourhood where they lived reputed to be man & wife & that this deponent never heard their marriage questioned or disputed & this deponent verily believes they were lawfully mar- ried. That he has been acquainted with said Sarah since the death of her said husband the said Peter Brown. And that the said Sarah has remained a widow & unmarried ever since the death of the said Peter and further says not
David Oliver
Subscribed & sworn before
me this 21 st day of November 1836.
Edward Livingston a Judge of Orange County Common Pleas
I the undersigned judge before whom the

Foregoing affidavit of David Oliver was made & subscribed. Do certify that I am well acquainted with said David Oliver & believe him to be a man of truth & veracity & his statements under oath entitled to full credit & belief —
Dated November 21, 1836
J. W. Clinton a Judge of Orange County Common Pleas
State of New York
Orange County
3/
J. Lebbus L. Fairchild
of the Court of Common Pleas for Orange County. Do certify that James W. Clinton before whom the above affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same a Judge of Orange Com. Pleas, and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting of the said Judge and justly believe the same to be genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 10 th day of December 1836.
Lebbus L. Fairchild

Greenville Greene Co NY Novr 1st 1830
Sir I have received Bounty Land Warrant N o 1686 issued to "John S Brown Son and the other Heirs of at law of Peter Brown who was a private in Van Horn's Dragoons" in the Army of the American Revolution Very Respectfully Your H ts Servt
Louis Wakeley
To William Gordon Esquire of the United States Bounty Land Office Washington City

Peter Brouwers
Adf. ~
and Discharge

District of Verdyack Pa
On this Second day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Orange in the State & District of Verdyack, personally appears Peter Brown aged sixty one years resident in the town of Wallkill in the County of Orange and state aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war". That he the said Peter Brown at the town of Redding in the County Berks in Pennsylvania on or about the 23 d day of April A.D. 1782 enlisted in the Company & Troop of Captain Van Heer, of Light Dragoons; that he continued to serve in the said corps, & in the service of the United States agreeable to the annexed certificate & discharge one year & two months when he was discharged from service at Shawangunk in Ulster County & State of Verdyack. That the annexed discharge & certificate is a true & original discharge given him the said Peter Brown - and that he is in reduced circumstances in life and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Sworn to & Declared this 2 nd day of July A.D. 1818 before me
Peter X. Brown Mark
Stephen Jackson
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Orange and State of Verdyack

I Stephen Jackson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Orange and State of New York do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within mentioned Peter Brown did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the within declaration against the common enemy on the continental establishment & that he is in reduced circumstances in life and stands in need of assistance from his country for support; and I now trans- mit the proceedings, testimony taken and had before me together with his original discharge annexed hereto, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress - Given under my hand this Second day of July AD 1818
Stephen Jackson

State of New York Orange County - } ss
Peter Brown being duly
sworn saith that he is now is aged sixty one years and that he resides in the town of Wallkill in Orange County - that he has a wife nearly of the same age - and that he and his wife are living on a small piece of land of two acres, and support themselves by their industry when in health but they are both frequently unwell and therefore are in need of more supplies than they can themselves procure - and that he really needs the assistance of his country for support -
Sworn the 2 nd day of his Peter 1 Brown July 1818 before me Marks.
Stephen Jackson
State of New York } ss David M. Westcott clerk of the court of common Orange County - Pleas for the said county of Orange do hereby certi- fy that Stephen Jackson is a judge of the court of com- mon Pleas for the said county and that his signatures set to the preceding certificate and affidavits are the proper hand writing of the said Stephen Jackson - In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said court the second day of July 1818
D. M. Westcott, Clerk

In matter of Peter Brown Pensioner
Copy - Walkie Orange Co N.Y.K. 2594
Con 21 Sept '18

State of New York County of Sullivan
Sarah Brown being duly sworn doth depose and say that she is the Widow of Peter Brown deceased that the said Peter Brown was a Soldier in the Corps of Dragoons commanded by M c Heer in the Army of the American Revolution that he Enlisted into the said Corps between one and two years before the close of the War at Redding in the State of Pennsylvania for the term of during the War: That he continued in the service until the close of the War when as I have ever understood and believed he was Discharged at Newburgh in the State aforesaid. That the said Peter Brown died in Wallkill in the State aforesaid on the fifth day of May 1822: That he was a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his decease: That his Discharge was sent to the War Department on his application for a pension That John S Brown late applicant for Bounty Land is his son and heir at law and further saith not  Subscribed  her Sarah Brown mark
Sullivan County
Personally appeared before me Grant B Marvin Commissioner of Sarah Brown subscriber to the above affidavit who is well known to me to be a person of respectability & truth and made solemn oath to the truth of the deposition by her subscribed this seventh day of October 1839  Grant B. Marvin Commissioner of Deeds, in & for Sullivan County  Grant B Marvin is the same officer before whom the papers of John S Brown were ex- ecuted

District of New York County of Orange ss On this fourth - day of December AD 1820 Personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County & District being a Court of record by the laws and constitution of said State Peter Brown aged sixty three years and a little rising, resident in the town of Wall- kill in the County and district aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows under Captain Van Harn in the life guard of General George Washington for the space of fourteen months Besides military duty That the date of his original declaration was on the second - day of July - AD 1818 and the number of his pension certificate 2594 and I do solemnly swear that I was a res- ident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner 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 aged in the land and naval service of the United States passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities or trust 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; and that my family con- sists of myself aged 63 years by occupation a weaver able to do only one third the labour of a common well man and my wife named Sarah aged 60 years able only to do one half the labour of a common well woman This signed & sworn to in open Court Peter X Brown before me Dec. 4. 1820 mark Jas W. Wilkin Clerk

Schedule of the property debts and credits of Peter Brown -
Property
  12 acres of Land, of which ten acres is weed enough & covered with stones & worth nothing But for wood — worth — $110. —   1 Cow $10. 9 Cows $4. 2 tables $6 — 20.00   1 loom & stockling $4. 2 iron pots 1.50 — 5.50   1 old chest $2. 3 old Barrel $0.75 — 2.75   6 old knives & forks 0.25 — 0.25   12 teacups & saucers $0.87 1/2 12 plates 62 1/2 — 1.50   1 wheel $0.75. Shovel Stang $1. old andirons 50 — 2.25   1 pr smoothing irons, 50 tea kettle 3.00 1 ax $1 — 4.50   1 meat Barrel, 50 - 2 candle stands old - 1.75 — 2.25   2 candle sticks 75 — 0.75   $149.75 
   Debts due to me Debts due from me to     James Martin — $3.00 John Stitt — $45.00   Jonathan Mills — 10.00 L. Brush & Co — 5.00   Gilbert Oliver — 2.68 3/4 G. H. Horton — 3.50   Peter Puff — 3.00 Dunham & Derram — 2.18   Charles Balle — 1.87 1/2 Saml. Dunham 6.00   Silas Fidd — 1.00   John Burnett — 4.00   $25.56 $61.68   149.75   $175.31  
Subscribed to this fourth day of December 1820
Peter his X Brown mark

State of New York } Orange County } ss.
I James W Wilkin Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Orange and State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhib- ited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and seventy five Dollars & thirty one Cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this fourth day of December
1820
$175.31
James Wilkin Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County
of Orange. The words "seventy five" interlined

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
from Lewis Wakeley Heir of Peter Brown
18th Dec 1813 London

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.
By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities:
State of New York } ss County of Sullivan }
I, John S. Brown, son and heir at law of Peter Brown Deceased do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Peter Brown did enlist in 1782, for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment Company under the command of Colonel Captain Von Hecke of the Pennsylvania line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the same I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Peter Brown aforesaid on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: Therefore, KNOW all men by these presents, that I, John S. Brown aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Lewis Wakeley to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
I further Attest, Declare that Peter Brown aforesaid, served in Von Hecke's Troop, said to be his Excellency's guards; In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal John S. Brown
Present; Reuben Baldwin.
Personally appeared the above named John S. Brown subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Attest, Subscribed & sworn before me this 28 th day of January, 1830 Grant B. Marvin Justice of the Peace. act for taking acknowledgments
In testimony that the abovewritten Grant B. Marvin was a Commissioner authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the state of New York at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Monticello. Sullivan
County this 29 th day of January 1830
Amos Holmes County Clerk, &c. of Sullivan County

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 Peter Brown , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. N o 16867
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 23, 1782 June 23, 1783 Pvt Von Heer Co. of Light Dragoons        
Battles engaged in, none stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Reading, Berks Co., Penn.
Date of application for pension, July 2, 1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Wallkill, Orange Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 61 years.
Remarks: Soldier married at Reading Penn. Aug 13, 1780 Sarah Biemer  b. Apr. 5, 1755, he died at Wallkill N.Y. May 5, 1822 and she was allowed  pension on an application executed Nov 21, 1836 while a resident of Wallkill  Son John S. Brown, was a resident of Sullivan Co. N.Y. in 1830.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

By His EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Peter Prower private in Cap t Ben Shepp in the 1 st Troop of L. Dragoons Regiment, having faith- fully served the United States one year and two months and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 23 rd June 1783.
G Washington
By His EXCELLENCY
Command,
J Humbull
REGISTERED in the Books of the Corps. of the Regiment,
Adjutant
J. M. [unclear] 6 th Co.
THE above has been honored with the BADGE OF MERIT for Years faithful Service.

HEAD-QUARTERS, June 23 rd 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Person private
Peter Brown Continental Co. N 16867

Rev St. 2834. East 7th St. Kansas City Mo Commission of Pensions Washington D.C.
Will you give me all the information on Pensions rolls of Rev War of Peter Brown of Red Bank N Jersey. of Orange Co NY. (Private) Russian War July 2. 1818 - 64 yrs old Died May 4 th 1822. If married when deceased. and to whom pension paid. very truly 4-2-16 Medora B Maynard

Rev WIDOW, &c.
1916 Apr 13. History to Mrs. Madora B. Maynard. M.B.H.
File No. 16867
Sarah Brown
widow of
Peter Brown
Sera goon Revwar
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 89
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John D. Cummings Sullivan County N.Y. Oct 18 Dec 1820
MS. B. 1. 6 v. 10 p. 497.
Rec. 12 Dec. 1820.
Ex 9 E. Calhoun Esq. Washington City (p 6) Rec.

Sullivan County New York Bloomingburgh December 5 th 1820
In Sir
Inclosed I send you the schedule of Peter Brown a petition your communication on the same may be made to me at Bloom- ingburgh as above I am your humble serv t Hon J C Calhoun Esq r V S Dimmick

Flomingsburgh Aug. 21 st
Will
Correct George Boyed Esq. W.H.G. Pension Officer War Department Washington City -

Inclosed are Peter Brown's declaration & discharge, sent to have his name entered on the Pension list & requests a certificate of
residence to me the subscriber Bloomingburgh Sullivan County New York.
Dated at Bloomingburgh Aug. 20 th 1848
Hon. J. Calhoun Esq.
Adinick -

Peter Brown fri. 8 $ p. mo. N York adm d ach 1818- when last p. d ??
Died 4 May 1822 p t that period JH
EW Jan y 18. 37.

STATE of New York } ss. Sullivan County. }
Surrogate Office, - January 28. 1830
I certify, that satisfactory evidence was adduced to me, to prove that
John Y Brown is a son and one of the heirs at law to to Peter Brown — dragon late a soldier in the Company Regiment of Don Heers troop as was said — in the Army of the Revolution —
Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this 28 th . day of January 1830 —
A C Alvin Surrogate —
The above form will answer for the following States: viz.
Maine, } Judge of Probate. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, } Surrogate. New Jersey, South Carolina, } Ordinary. Georgia,

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Brown, Peter GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 3663 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 1, 1789 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.