Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,669, Thomas Brown, Navy. (N.H.)

SERVICE
Navy (N.H.)
Brown, Thomas Cunice
NUMBER
W. 23,669
CONTENTS
res. at Mt. Potosi, Mo. 1820 In 1818 aged 69, was a resident of Potosi, Mo. when he died there on Oct. 25 1820

13922
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Maine
Thomas Brown
of Hitting  Dist in the state of Maine who was a Marine  Seaman in the regiment  brigade commanded by Colonel Nicholson of the U.S. Navy line, for the term of one year .
Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist. of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 th of December , 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st of July , 1819 and sent to Bay n Greene, Esq. S. Berwick, Me.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 2 mo. 1/2 17. 54 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th  Sept 1819. 48. 00
$65.54
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent July 24 th 1820 to
Daniel Davis, Stanchard , Maine

• Maine 2079
Eunice Brown widow of Thomas Brown
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the — 1822 — of York Co in the State of Maine who was a Seaman in the Seam commanded by Captain Nicholson of the the commanded by Frigate in the U.S. Navy — line for 12 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 48 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Mar 1839 and sent to Jon a Gannond, Eliot, Me.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839, $144.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept '39 24.00 $168.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D m Curdy Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1, Page 2.

Thomas Brown - mariner
Imp. Dean Frigate.
Capt. Nicholson.
1778 - 1780.
The depositions of the witnesses, within mentioned, must be forwarded to the pension office, duly taken & authenticated.
10 May 1819
The depositions of the within witnesses, taken & authenticated as above required - together with the deposition of Thomas Shelburne, taken & authenticated by the same magistrate, are herunto annexed - by the subscriber B. G. Greene
Admitted

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. } Thickett
ON this Thickett day of December A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears Thomas Brown aged sixty three years resident in Thickett in said county of York, 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 Thomas Brown in the Month of May or June A.D. 1778 entered as a seaman on board the United States Ship called the Deer Frigate of thirty two Guns, the command of Capt. Nicholson then in the service of the U.S. States, as a seaman, that he was on board said Ship at such time, continued to do his duty faithfully on board the same until her arrival at the Port of Boston in the month of May A.D. 1779 when he was honorably discharged, but that his discharge together with other papers of importance to him are long since lost by him.
(And in proof of the foregoing Declaration made by the said Thomas Brown, Pray Esq. John Wood two credible and disinterested witnesses personally appear, and being first duly sworn according to law, they upon their oaths do say, that the foregoing Declaration made by the said Thomas Brown is substantially true, that they saw and heard the same Ship at the same time, and do know that the said Thomas Brown served as a seaman on board, as a good seaman, that he was honorably discharged at Boston in the month of May A.D. 1779 as he has testified. And by the certificate of the Selectmen & overseers of the Poor of the Town of Thickett , in addition to his own oath, the said Thomas Brown further proves
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj. Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thomas Brown did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Thickett day of December Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj. Greene

Thomas Brown
Kittery 13.922
Sep 1819 con
Daniel Sewall Esq. Kennebec Maine July 21, 1810

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at York within and for the County of York on the first Tuesday of July, being the fourth day of said month, and by adjournment  from day to day, on the  day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Greene, chief Justice, Judge of said Court.
ON this fourth day of July, in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court ,
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said County , Thomas Brown aged sixty five years, resident in Hiltobury in said County , who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a mariner on board the  the  Dean Frigate of 32 guns.  company commanded by Capt. Lieut. Hoploy Yeaton in the Regiment commanded by Colonel in the line of the State of New Hampshire, on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the thirteenth day of December, A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 13.922, was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident 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 engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," 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, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
Sworn to and declared, on the fourth day of July, A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Benj a Greene Ch. Justice { One of the Judges of the said Court.
W m Daniel Sewall, Clerk

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
1 yawl boat 12 years old - 1 wherry - 1 young cow 2 years old - 1 pig
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me
who, by occupation am a seaman which I am unable to pursue by reason of infirmity, having been long afflicted with a rupture.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Eunice, my wife 56 Weakly & slender constitution Thos Brown  
STATE OF MAINE.
I, York ss. Daniel Sewall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of York do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is twenty five dollars and sixty cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eleventh day of July , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Daniel Sewall, { Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of York .

Deposition of Sally Brown for Emma Brown

State of Maine } Ss. York County }
October
On this eleventh day of September , 1838 personally appeared Eunice Brown of Kittery in said County, aged 74 years, before the Hon William A Hayes Judge of Probate for said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision, made by the act of Congress, passed July 7 th A D 1838 entitled, an act granting half pay to pensions to certain widows, That she is the widow of Thomas Brown, late of Kittery, in said County who was a Revolutionary pensioner, of the United States, as will more fully appear, by his original declaration, now in the War department of the United States, and also by his Certificate, herunto annexed or inclosed
She further declares that she was married to the aforesaid Thomas Brown on the third day of September & nineteen hundred & eighty eight and that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Brown died on the fifteenth day of October eighteen hundred and twenty two - That she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January & twenty hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated, and that she was never at any time afterwards married -
Witness Wm. A. Hayes - Your Honorable Eunice her K Brown Mark
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written Before me Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate York County Maine -

I certify that the said Eunice Brown by reason of her great age and bodily weakness is unable to travel and attend court
Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Cumberland County Maine

Town Clerk's office October 10 th 1838
I Daniel Jones Clerk of the Town of Suttery in the County of York and State of Maine hereby certify:—That The intentions of Marriage of Mr Thomas Brewer and Miss Eunice Fernald both of Suttery were entered on the Records of the Town of Suttery May the thirty first one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight as appears by the Original Records of the Town of Suttery
as appears by said records.
I Daniel Jones Clerk of the aforesaid Town, of Suttery hereby certify, that the above is a true extract from the original records of said Town, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible letters and figures, as follows: May 31 st 1788
I Daniel Jones above named, depose and say:—That I hold the office of Clerk of the Town of Suttery
in the County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town of Suttery with the exception above named, as certified by me. Daniel Jones Clerk of the Town of Suttery Sworn before me, John Hammond Justice of the Peace

I Sally Brown of Kittery County of York & State of Maine Widow woman and the natural sister of Thomas  Emmie Brown widow of Thomas Brown (who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States) aged 64 years Depose and on oath declare that I was well acquainted with the aforesaid Thomas Brown who was married to my sister Emmie Fernald on the third day of September 1788 that I was present at the time the marriage took place, and the aforesaid Emmie Brown is the Widow of the aforesaid Thomas Brown and that she has never since been married since the death of the aforesaid Thomas Brown which took place on the fifteenth day of October 1822
Sally Brown
Witness Adams Cutts
State of Maine } ss. York County
November 2 nd 1838 Then personally appeared Sally Brown above named and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the above deposition by her subscribed
before me John H. Hammond Justice of the Peace

Marine On Frigate Dean
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23669
Cannie Brown
wid of Thomas Brown
Seaman U.S. Navy
Act July 7 th 88
Index: Vol. A , Page 91
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Thomas Brown Certificate of Death

State of Maine.
York County, ss.
COURT OF PROBATE,
October Term, 1838.
BE it known, that on this nineteenth day of October A.D. 1838, it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, that Thomas Brown late of Hilary in said County, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States , and that he died at said Hilary on the fifteenth day of October A.D. 1822 : And that Eunice Brown is the widow of the said Thomas Brown deceased.
IN testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name this nineteenth day of October in the year 1838.
John Steele
Register of the Court of Probate, York County.

Power of Attorney of Emma Brown
Power of Attorney for Emma Brown
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a 22

Know all men by these presents That I Eunice Brown of Kittery County of York and State of Maine Widow of Thomas Brown late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Joseph Hely of Portland County of Cumberland & State of Maine my true and lawful attorney for me and in my behalf to receive of and from the agent for paying pensions in Portland State of Maine my late husband's pension from the fourth day of September 1822 to the fifteenth day of October 1822 at which time he died  Eunice J. Brown mark  Sealed & signed in presence of Jon th Hammond Atty
State of Maine } ss York County } October 11 th 1835  Then personally appeared the above named Eunice Brown and acknowledged the above power of attorney by her subscribed to be her free act  Before me Jon th Hammond Notary of the Peace

State of Maine.
York, ss.—
I, JOHN SKEELE, Register of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of York, being a Court of Record, hereby certify that
William A. Hayes is Judge of said Court of Probate and that Jonathan Hammond is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and that the signatures to the papers hereunto annexed and purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- eight .
John Skeele } Register of Probate } York County.

I Hiram Culls of Kittery in the County of York and State of Maine aged forty one years in December last depose testify and say that I married the daughter of Thomas & Eunice Brown - That I was born and brought up in Kittery and have known the said Thomas Brown & his wife Eunice Brown ever since I was a child, the said Thomas Brown drew a pension under the the law of March 18 th 1818 until he died on the fifteenth day of October in the year eighteen hundred & twenty two - His widow the said Eunice Brown has remained a widow & in married ever since the decease of her said husband Thomas Brown, and is now living in my family in the same house which the said Thomas Brown occupied while living - The said Eunice Brown's maiden name was Eunice Fernald - and she is as I veryly believe the same identical person person to whom the said Thomas Brown was married about fifty years ago -
Hiram Culls
State of Maine } ss. York County }
October 11 th 1838 Then personally appeared the above named Hiram Culls and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Before me Vot ry Hammond
Virtue of the Power

9. David Fernald - County of York & State of Maine of about  aged 71 years age depose and say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Brown late of Hiltz in the County aforesaid who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United and that Eunice Brown of said Hiltz is the Widow of the aforesaid Thomas Brown and that she was never married after the death of the aforesaid Thomas Brown and that the said Thomas Brown died on the fifteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and twenty two I also depose and say that I was present at the marriage of Thomas Brown to Eunice Fernald who is my natural sister which marriage took place on the third day of September 1788
November 2 nd September " 1838
David Fernald
State of Maine } ss. York County }
Then personally appeared David Fernald of Hiltz in said County who is a credible person and disinterested and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Before me
Josh. Hammond
Virtue of the Lease

Thomas Brown
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Portland, at the Cumberland Bank
Runner

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Thomas Brown late a  Marine  Navy in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the District of Maine Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this thirtyfirst day of July, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

(3652) Thomas Brown Eunice Brown (2079) Wid of Thomas Eunice Brown
Me Ad July 1838 M ch 1788 Aud 1822
Allan D r Scammon $48 per ann
J m Hammad Eliot me

War Department, N o 13.922.
PENSION OFFICE,
July 22 a 1820.
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined ; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Thomas Brown,
Kittery, Maine
1030 1700 5-0

We Bray Cose and John Todd both of Kittery in the District of Maine, testify & depose & say, that in the summer of the year 1779, & according to our best recollection, early in June, we entered with Lieut. Hoply Yeaton of the United States Frigate Deane Cap t Nicholson, to serve in said Ship in the revolutionary War. We entered at Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire, and Thomas Brown, now known as Cap t Thomas Brown of s d Kittery, & Thomas Sherburne of s d Portsmouth entered with said Lieut. Yeaton, at the same time we did. We all went to Boston, at or about the same time, went on board said Frigate there, and sailed in her on the cruise on which she went from thence. the Deponents We were severally put on board prizes captured & sent in, but both continued in s d Service belonging to s d Ship until the crew were discharged at Boston after the cruise. We were discharged, according to our best recollection sometime in the summer 1780, by a verbal discharge only. We will know that we continued in s d service more than twelve months and that the said Brown also continued in said service more than twelve months, & that he was discharged at Boston at the same time we were discharged.
Bray Cose
John Todd
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss Portsmouth.
On this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen, before me Daniel Humphreys of s d Portsmouth Notary Public in & for said State, a Justice of the peace & of the Quorum throughout the same State, personally appeared Bray Cose and John Todd, both of the neighbouring Town of Kittery in the District of Maine, Citizens there, and both to me well known, and made

Oath in due form of Law, to the Truth of the before written Deposition, by them severally subscribe in my presence, and I further certify that the said Bray Cox and John Todd are both credible and disinterested witnesses. ~
In Testimony whereof I have here- unto subscribed my name & affixed my Notarial Seal the day & year last aforesaid. ~
Dan l Humphreys Not y Pub c by Fed Rec d & 2 nd throughout U.S. State
John Todd

I Thomas Sherburne of Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire, testify and say, that I entered to serve in the United States' Frigate Deane commanded by Samuel Nicholson Esq r in the Revolutionary War. Entered at Portsmouth aforesaid with Hoplay Yeaton, Esq r Lieutenant of said Ship. I do not now recollect the time of my entering precisely, but I think it was sometime in the summer or the Fall of the year 1779. That Capt Thomas Brown, of Kittery in the District of Maine, Bray Cox and John Todd all of that place entered at the same time I did , and we all went to Boston and went on board said Frigate, and went in her on the cruise she made, sailing from thence on it about February or March 1780. And we all continued to belong to said Frigate, until we were discharged at Boston. The precise time of our discharge after we returned to Boston from said cruise, I cannot now recollect; but I will remember, & know that I served more than twelve months in said Ship & that said Brown returned with me in said Ship, & was discharged at the same time; and that he also continued in said service more than twelve months.
Thoms Sherburne
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss Portsmouth.
On this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen, before me Daniel Humphreys of said Portsmouth Notary Public by Letters Patent duly commissioned & sworn, & a Justice of the peace, & of the Inferior throughout said State, personally appeared Thomas Sherburne of Portsmouth aforesaid, a citizen here to me well known, and made oath  him  his due form of Law, to the truth of the above written

Deposition, by him subscribed in my presence. and I further certify that the said Deponent Thomas Sturburne, is a witness worthy of good credit, and disinterested.
In Testimony of all which premises, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal in Portsmouth, aforesaid, the day and year last before mentioned.
Den s Humphreys Not y Pub l & Jus t Peace & Qu et throughout the State