Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8092, William Brown, N. C.

NUMBER
Brown, William
S8092
bearded

North Carolina 23. 544
William Brown of Beaufort in the State of N.C. who was a for in the Regt commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Caldwell in the N.C. line for _____
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 20. Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 1 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of July , 31 Williams and Sub Hon Lewis H.R.
Arrears to the 1 th of Sept 1833 50 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Mar: 34  10
1 60
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by C. D. Rice Clerk Book E Vol. 6/2 Page 46
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 Sept 1836 to 4 Sept 1837. Agent notified 19 July 1838.
Paid as above from 4 Sept 1838 to 4 March 1839. Agt notified 23 April 1840
Paid as above from 4 March to 4 th Sept 1839. Agt notified 9 th June 1840

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit the act of congress June 7 th 1832. State of North Carolina } November Term Iredell county 1832 On this 21 st day November 1832 William Brown Simon personally appeared in court of pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Iredell State of North Carolina being a resident of said county and state aforesaid he states that he has no record of his age but believe that he was fifteen or sixteen that fall after he done the six month term of duty which as well as recollects was in seventeenth hundred and seventy seven was living in Rowan county No Carolina when he entered the service of which he now lives which is now Iredell County Who being 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 th 1832 That he entered the service of the united states under the following named officers and served as herein stated He volunteered under Capt David Caldwell in Burke County North Carolina To oppose the parties against the Indians we were stationed at the head of the Catawba River and went over the Mountains about once a week for three months

and when that time of service was out volunteer for three months more and served out the Pico Iowa which was under the command of Capt David Caldwell who was ordered by General Rutherford to keep a station of men to guard the prairie. Lieutenant Richard St Clair Ensign John Bross same officer the second three months I was out several other Little Iowas was in the skirmage at Lawrence East of Beale's ford on the Calcutta River Nowam County now Fredell But unable to state the time of service in these Little Iowas 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 and if any only on that of the agency of the state of Pennsylvania sworn and subscribed to H. M. Brown
I Thomas Benson do certify that I was a soldier and served in the same Iowas of service with William Benson and here read the above statements Read and do declare that his statements are true sworn and subscribed to Thomas Benson his wife

upon us who believed to have been a soldier in the revolution in the neighbourhood when he resided here and subscribed to David Beatie
And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the within applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further believes that Thomas Benson & David Beatie who has sworn and subscribed the above certificates are credible persons and their statements are entitled to be credited
John W. Galt Chairman
State of North Carolina November Term 1832 Fridell County
I Absalom Lemmon Clerk of the county court of the county of Fridell do hereby certify that the application of William Brown for a pension that the within contains the original proceedings of said court in Lillibury whereof I have set my hand and seal of office this 21 st day of November 1832
A. Lemmon Clerk

State of North Carolina Fredell County From a letter directed to John W Gray. Dated August 22 nd 1832 Respecting the claim of William Brown; his alleged service after turning out once a week for three months cannot be admitted and his lost service having been three months only affords him no claim to the benefit of the act of June 7 th 1832, Being satisfied that his claim has not been fairly and clearly set forth to the War Depart- ment in his Declaration of November last 1832 The applicant William Brown appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace for and in Fredell county North Carolina and offered the following Declaration to make plain his former declaration Who being first duly sworn Deposeth and saith that he is seventy two or seventy three years of age Last September that he was living with his Father in Rowan county So. 6a in April 1777 he enlisted in Capt David Caldwell company a volunteer to guard the frontier against the Indians For three months; Capt Caldwell was a citizen of Rowan County. We were stationed in Burke County at Samuel Davidson's fort which was an Number Miles from where I resided we generally went over the mountain once a week to make discoveries if there were any prepara- tions making by the Indians to make depredations on the whites. When that term of service was out I entered Three months more and served out that term These two engagements for three months made six months Capt Caldwell had got orders from Gen Rutherford to raise a company to go to Burke County to guard the frontier against the Indians The officers were Capt Caldwell Major David Caldwell Coln R. Powell I was out several times on Minute service but unable at this time to state the precise time; I was at the Battle of Torrence's East of Beatties Ford on the Catawba River then Rowan County now Fredell County No Carolina for which service I claim a pension

When and where were you born; Ans Pennsylvania Lancaster county from the best information I can get in the year 1760 or 1761
Have you a record of your age and if so where is it to be Where were you living when called into service; when have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live Ans With my Father in Rowan county I have lived generally in Fredell county. I now live in Fredell within two miles of where I lived when I volunteered in the Mobile
How were you called up into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute And if a substitute for whom; Ans I volunteered State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental and Mobile Regiments as you can recollect and the General circumstances of your services
Coln H Bower I recollect Capt Caldwell when Indians came to the fort took a guard and took them to Coln H Bower
I was a private soldier in the fort
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given & what has become of it?
Ans I never received a written discharge but Capt Caldwell marched us back to Rowan county and discharged us verbally as well as I recollect State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
Ans I am known to Thomas Bensan; Rev James H Bee; Mathew H Pheron & John H Pheron
To whose certificate I refer Sworn to and subscribed From Brown This 10th day November 1853
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I Thomas Bensan aged 79 Residing in Rowan county North Carolina Do certify that I am well acquainted with William Brown who has signed and sworn to this declaration That He served as he alleges in Capt Caldwell's company a private soldier in the fort in Brink county North Carolina in the year 1777 under

Two successive engagements in the State of Tennessee that I was a soldier in Capt Caldwell's company the same Terms of service sworn and subscribed to before John M. Gray J. M. Gray
Thomas his Burns
I James M. Ree a clear gentleman residing in Fredell county aged 81 years do hereby certify that he has lived a neighbour to William Brown who has signed and sworn to the foregoing declaration. That said Brown as far as he knows has always conducted in an honest and inoffensive manner that my acquaintance with him has been about thirty five years; and that it is my opinion that full credit may be given to whatever William Brown may say as to his service during our revolutionary war, sworn and subscribed to before John M. Gray J. M. Gray
Signed James M. Ree V. D. M.
We Mathew M. Pherson aged 75 and John M. Pherson aged 73 Residing in Fredell county North Carolina do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William William Brown who has signed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we have been acquainted with William Brown fifty years that we believe him to be seventy two years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion - sworn and subscribed to before John M. Gray J. M. Gray
Matthew M. Pherson John M. Pherson
I John M. Gray a Justice of the peace in and for Fredell county North Carolina do hereby certify that William Brown is unable to attend in court at the court house

Through bodily informity that James McRae who has signed and sworn to the foregoing certificate is a regular clergyman of the Presbyterian Denomination and that Mathew and John McPherson who has signed & sworn to the same are residents of Fredell county North Carolina are credible persons and their statements is entitled to full credit Given under my hand and private seal the 10th November 1853 JOHN W GRAY JR Seal
I Absalom Simanton Clerk of the court of common pleas and quarter sessions for Fredell County North Carolina do hereby certify that John W Gray before whom the foregoing Declaration of William Brown and the certificates of Thomas Bensen James McRae Mathew & John McPherson appears to have been signed and sworn to is an acting justice of the peace in and for said county of Fredell and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the 20th day of January 1854
A Simanton Clerk

Mr Brown Kitt Haggis of North Carolina
Admitted Pupil 6 mo $20=
Wm L Williams

BRIEF in the case of Wm Brown  junr of Sedell  County in the State of North Carolina (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Was 15 or 16 when he entered the service  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1777 "only a Week for three Months" As a Gen. Coll Walmorell also Genl Rutherford.    When the above Major, Col - entered for three Months
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Burke County North Carolina
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
No testimony
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Service not stated - No clergyman.
Reference
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J Mahon Examining Clerk. July 26 1833

Rev War
8092 INVALID.
File No. 8092
William Brown
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1862
Index:—Vol. 128 , Page 45-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 3 d , 1840.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Brown, a Pensioner on the Roll of the N. Carolina Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 4 th Sept. 1839,
Respectfully, yours,
Abner H. Parsons Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 17. 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Brown a Pensioner on the Roll of the N. Carolina Agency , at the rate of twenty Dollars and .. .. Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1835 to the 4 th Sept. 1837 —
Respectfully, Yours,
William H. Parrish Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
March 18 th 1848.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Brown, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the North Carolina Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1838, to the 4 th March 1839.
Respectfully, yours,
Wilson B. Purvis Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Amended declaration of William Brown which Mr Colman will please examine immediately and obey Lewis Williams
Feb 7th 1834
Hm. L. Williams