Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1343, Samuel Brown, New York

SERVICE
New York
Brown, Samuel
R. 1343
CONTENTS
At Oct. 27/59 in New York City, there at end of an 1847 store at 23 W. Douglas St.

N 35 777 Samuel Brown NY Feb 6. A Day 2.9 31.67
1348
Act 7 June 1832

C. A. Day
July 31. 47

Pension Office 269 July 31, 1847
Sir.
The declaration of Samuel Runn made before a Justice of the Peace unsupported by a particle of evidence of his service has been received and filed.
As you are familiar with the regulations for the adjustment of Claims in this office it is deemed unnecessary to point out the defects in this declaration. If however there was no other objection, as Brown Claims but one term of service, under Col Sashner which Runn to have been less than 6 mos. Should he be able to establish it unless he can establish also his Captinity he could not obtain a pension.
This Claim is wholly unsupported by proof -
In the case of Tamar Ryckman widow of Abraham Ryckman, the testimony of Samuel Runn cannot be received as evidence of her husband's alleged service under Col Sashner until he has established his own service under that Officer
C. A. Say Engr NY

1343
ELECTED
P. O. Samuel Brown
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: List of rejected claims printed in 1852 shows cause of
Re-enlisted: rejection as follows:
"The claim is wholly unsustainable by proof, and the term under Col. Lasher was less than six months."
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

No 35.777 Jr
Samuel Bunn
Mr
Act 7 June 1832
W. K. T.

State of New York Declaration
City and County of New York S.S. Be it known, That on this 18 th day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the County Court of said County, and a Justice of the Peace, Samuel Brown, a resident of No. 23 No. Douglas Street in the State and County aforesaid, aged 86 years, who being first duly affirmed according to law, doth on his affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 7 th June 1832, That he enlisted in the City of New York, in the year 1776, as private in the Army of the United States, for to serve six months, That the Company in which he enlisted was commanded by Capt. James O'Neil, and Lieut. Bancker, and the Regt. was known as the 1 st New York Regt. which was commanded by Col. Lasher the names of the other field officers he does not recollect, That according to the best of his recollection he enlisted in May or June of the year 1776, and that he served in accordance with his enlistment under the above mentioned officers with the main body of the Army in the City of New York and on Long Island and was with the Troops at the time of the Battle at the last mentioned place, and at Flatbush in both of which battles the Battalion to which he belonged was stationed as a reserve, and that soon after the above mentioned Battles, upon the retreat of the Army from the City of New York, he being anti-British at the time and was not called in, was cut off by the enemy's Light Horse and taken prisoner, and was kept a confined prisoner of War in the City of New York until the only part of the ensuing month of March when he was released from prison, and immediately made his escape over to New Jersey, to within the American Lines, and soon after which he joined the (so called) Society of Friends, and performed no other service, but was engaged to work at his trade which was that of a Cooper, in this and the State of Pennsylvania until the close of the War, when he returned to the City of New York where he has continued to reside ever since That he should have made an application for a pension but he did not suppose his service was of sufficient length to entitle him to a pension, not having understood until lately that he was entitled to a pension for the time he was a prisoner. In answer to the interrogatories he declares, that. 1 st That he was born in the City of New York, October 20 th 1758. (2 nd ) That he has an original record of his age in his family Bible (3 rd ) That he resided in the City of New York at the time enlisted in the service, where I have continued to reside since the close of the War, and where he now resides. (4 th ) That the Station to which he belonged was ordered

to be drafted for six months but that he preferred serving by enlistment and so enlisted for a like period. (5 th ) That he does not recollect many of the names of the Officers, but he recollects Capt. Van Dyke Commanded a Company of Dra- goons, and there was a Capt. Blaker in the same Regt with him and Col Malcom was in the service at that time. That the general circumstance of his service was that he enlisted for six months and should have served out my term if he had not been prevented by circumstances over which he had no control. (6 th ) That he never received either discharge or pay for his service. (7 th ) That he is well and respectably known throughout the City and he believes any number of persons can be found that will testify as to his character for truth and morality. And he further declares that he has no knowledge information or belief of the existence of any documentary evidence of either his service or of the service of the Officers under whom he served, but he believes there is persons yet living who knew him to have been in the service, in the campaign in 1776. And he lastly declares that he hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension or an annuity except the present and that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Army of any state.
Affirmed to me the day and year above written, before me
Wm M c Rea Alderman 8 th Ward City & County New York Judge County Court
James B...
I the said Justice, before whom the foregoing declaration was affirmed do hereby certify that the aforesaid applicant is personally known to me to be a man of the most undoubted character for truth and morality, and to believe the matter contained in the foregoing declaration may be fully relied upon as true in all its parts.
Wm M c Rea Justice
2

STATE OF NEW-YORK, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, James Conner , CLERK of the City and County of New-York, and also CLERK of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Wm Tucker before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, alderman of the  St. Marks in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of this State to take the same; and that I believe the Signature of said alderman thereunto subscribed is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 13 day of July 184 7
James Conner
Clerk.
No 35.777 Samuel Brown N.Y.

New York July 13. th 1847.
Sir,
I herewith enclose the declaration of Samuel Brown and accompanying papers in his case, and desire the same may be reported to me.
I would also respectfully call the attention of the Chief Clerk to this declaration, as he delayed making a final decision on the case of Mrs. Sarah Ryckman widow of Abraham Ryckman per Act of 7th July 1838 until the declaration of the said Samuel Brown was received as his testimony was relied on to prove 6 months services in 1796, as he wished to compare the declaration with his deposition.
I am very respectfully Your most obedt. Servt C. A. Gay
J. L. Edwards Esq r .
Commission of Pensions.
N.B. Mr. Brown evidently intended to name his Capt. "Able" instead of "O'Bald" or as his pronunciation of names was much broken I may not have understood him correctly.

State of New York } Secretary's Office }
I certify that it appears by the records of the Provincial Congress of New York in this Office, that on the 14 th day of September 1775 that the following Military officers were duly appointed and Commissioned by the said Congress in the First Battalion (supposed to be in the City of New York) viz:
John Lasher Colonel Abraham Brasher Lieut Colonel Andrew Stockholm 1. Major Sebastian Bauman 2. Major
James Able Captain John Johnson 1. Lieutenant John Bancker 2. Lieutenant Abraham B. Bancker 3. Lieutenant
And I further certify that on a careful Examination of the records in this office I found no evidence of the Service of the above named officers or either of them, or of any non Commissioned officer or private belonging to the said Battalion during the Revolutionary war and particularly of Samuel Brown , who is alledged to have served for some time in the same.
Arch d Campbell Dep. Sec. of State
Albany January 30. 1847

State of New York Comptroller's Office } I certify that upon examination of the books, documents, and papers, pertaining to the Revolutionary period, remaining in this office, no pay rolls, or other evidence of services, under Cap t James O'Neil, and Lieut. Bancker in the Regiment known as the first Battalion, under Col Lasher can be found. Albany January 30 th 1847
Philip Phelps Dep Comptroller