Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1243, Thomas Brooks, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. 6
Brooks, Thomas
R. 1243
Angelica
CONTENTS

State of Missouri County of Jefferson
On this 29 th day of April A. 1854, personally appeared before me an acting Justice Peace, in and for the County of Jefferson, James R England and George Willson who being sworn upon their oath, say that the book called the "Fletchers Appeal," cont- =aining the family record of Thomas Brooks and Angelica Brooks his wife, between the pages ten and thirteen are lost and destroyed out of said book, and that said affiants further state, that the time of the deaths of Thomas Brooks and Angelica his wife are recorded in the family bible of Stephen Brooks, son of said deceased Thomas and Angelica Brooks, said records read as follows. Thomas Brooks departed this life June 1 st 1822.
Angelica Brooks departed this life September 19 th 1847.
Sworn and subscribed to } George Willson before me day and date } above mentioned } James R England
Wm Fiston J.P.

State of Missouri
County of Jefferson ss.
vs. Tho. C. Fletcher, Clerk of the County Court within and for County and State aforesaid, do, hereby certify that "William Hoston, before whom the within affidavit was made, was at the date thereof, an acting Justice of the Peace, duly qualified and commissioned as such, and that the signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at Office, this third day of June 1854. Tho C Fletcher Clerk

State of Tennessee County of Henderson
On this day 5 th of September, A. D. one Thousand eight hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and State aforesaid, Jeremiah Brooks, aged 58 years, a resident of Henderson county, who being duly sworn according to law, declares upon his oath, that he is the son of Thomas Brooks who was a private, in Captain Wilson's company of the 10 th Regiment, and served during the war. He further declares that his father died in the county of Wilson, in the State of Tennessee, in the year 1832, on the 13 th of June, leaving a widow Angeline Brooks to whom he was married, in the county of Rutherford, in the State of North Carolina. He further declares He further declares that his mother, Angeline Brooks, remained a widow until her death, which transpired in the county of Henderson, in the State of Tennessee, in the month of October, 1847, and it is believed on the 5 th day of that month, leaving four sons, to wit: Christopher, Hulbert, and Jeremiah, and Nidget. He further declares that his father Thomas Brooks enlisted in the State of North Carolina, and that he never received any pension nor his mother Angeline Brooks.
We make this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress of July 7 th , 1832, for himself and brothers.
Jeremiah Brooks
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and

year above written. And I hereby certify that Jeremiah Brasher is a good and credible witness.
Li Teague (B) for Henderson County
State of Tennessee County of Henderson ss
On this 5 th day of September, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and State aforesaid, Elisha O'Neal, a citizen of Madison county, in the State of Tennessee, who being duly sworn  deposed in according to law, declared upon his oath, that he is personally acquainted with Jeremiah Brasher, and that he was personally acquainted with his father Thomas Brasher, and his mother Angelica Brasher, and that they lived together as man and wife and were so regarded in the community where they lived. He further declared that after the death of Thomas Brasher, that Angelica, his widow remained a widow until her death.
Elisha O'Neal
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. And I hereby certify that the above affidavit of Elisha O'Neal was taken in

The presence of Jeremiah Brooks.
Eli Yeager for Henderson County
State of Tennessee Henderson County
I Jesse Taylor Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that Eli Yeager is an acting Justice of the Peace of said County duly commissioned and qualified according to Law. with the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such.
Given under my hand and seal of office at office September 2nd 1853 Jesse Taylor for Clerk
Oct. 1, 1853.
Appel. of John G. Rice
Brooks, etc. co.
Ward
for the
then present
term.
Act 1853
By order of the County Court Jesse Taylor Clerk 10 May 20, 1854 - Record returned to Jeremiah Brooks in absentia.
W. H. Talbot Atty
Livingston
1243 June
John G. Rice Spencer Creek Madison Co. Tenn.

State of Tennessee: vs  vs  vs County of Decatur
On this, seventeenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid Charles O'Neal, a good and creditable witness, who being first duly sworn, doth, on his oath declare that he is personally acquainted with Jeremiah Brooks who lives in Henderson county in the State of Tennessee, and that he is the son of Thomas Brooks, who formerly lived in the county of Hyde, in the State of North Carolina, and removed to Grant county in the State of Tennessee, and then to Wilson county in the aforesaid State, where he remained until he died. He further declares that the said Thomas Brooks, and Angeline Brooks, lived together as man and wife, and were so regarded in the community where they lived, and that from an acquaintance of thirty years standing he never heard one word to the contrary. He further declares that Angeline Brooks, the widow of Thomas Brooks, died a short time since, in the county of Henderson, in the State of Tennessee, and that she remained a widow until her death. Charles O'Neal
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. And I hereby certify that the above affidavit was taken in the presence

of Jeremiah Brooks P.W. Austin Esq for Decatur County
State of Tennessee Decatur County ss
I Samuel H. Blackburn of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid do certify that P.W. Austin Esq be sworn in the foregoing Declaration was made and was at the time thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County and duly authorized to administer oaths for said purposes.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at office in Decatur on the 18th day of August A.D. 1855.
Samuel H. Blackburn of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration was made and sworn to before me this 18th day of August 1855. Samuel H. Blackburn Justice of the Peace
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of August 1855. Samuel H. Blackburn Justice of the Peace

State of North Carolina Comptroller's Office
I William S. Clarke Comptroller of public accounts in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears of record in my Office among the payments made to sundry persons for Military services in the Revolutionary war as follows, to wit: "Thomas Brooks."
Printed Book Page 10 £ 103. 815. 29. Specie Book No. 1 " 1 £ 15. 84. Specie 1782 " " 2 " 36 £ 14. 89. 22 " 1782
Thomas Brooks also appears on the original roll of Maj. John Nelson's Company for the Month of February 1780. Mustered at Charleston South Carolina as having enlisted in the 1 st Battalion of North Carolina forces in the service of the United States, commanded by Col. Thomas Clarke on the 1 st day July 1777. for the period of three years.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Office
June 27 th
1854.
Wm S. Clarke, Compt.
Probably on page 3 Muster roll below

State of Tennessee
County of Decatur
On this 4 th day of November A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four personally appeared before me an Acting Justice of the peace within and for said County. Gustus Oneal of said County aged sixty two years who being first duly sworn accord- ing to law, declares upon his oath that he was intimately acquainted with Thomas Brooks from his boyhood and earliest rec- ollection up to the period of the old gentle- man's death, and also with his wife Angelica till the time of her death, and with the children of said parties, and that Stephen, Jeremiah and Midget Brooks are the only surviving children thereof. Affiant has always understood that the said Thomas Brooks was a revolutionary Soldier, that he claimed to have been such, and that affiant's own father John Oneal was also a Soldier in the same war and went from the same neighborhood in North Carolina that Brooks did. That Brooks said he got his monthly pay for said service. — That he resided in that part of North Carolina called Hyde County since his first recollection, at the time he enlisted and entered the service. — And that he enlisted for five years or during the war and actually continued in such service for the whole time and perhaps for sometime after peace was made, except for a short time when he was permitted

to return home on furlough after which he returned to Service again.
Although Affiant is not of sufficient age to prove the Actual Service of Thomas Brooks as a Revolutionary Soldier, yet he cannot doubt the fact from his long and close acquaintance with him and his family. — and that the Thomas Brooks he refers to as the husband of Angelica was the identical individual who served as a Continental Soldier and went from the particular part of the State of North Carolina already above indicated.
He is fully satisfied that the aforesaid Stephen, Jeremiah, and Midgett Brooks are the identical children of the said Angelica, who was the wife of said Soldier. Affiant further says that the said Thomas Brooks was living with him for more than two years before his death and that he died at his house, and that his wife the said Angelica also lived in his family at the time of her said husband's death and where she continued to reside the most of her time till her own death, about six years ago, the time not being definitely recollected, and not being at his own house he has not the advantage of records. But to conclude, Affiant furthermore states, that the Thomas Brooks now referred to, was the very Continental Soldier who did the Military Service referred to above, at any rate he always so represented it and such was the opinion of his wife, the said Angelica during life, and of all their children since the death of their said parent, and no one so far as he knows ever doubted.

The foregoing facts who had any knowledge of the family and circumstances connected with it, and that he has no pecuniary interest in the results of the case no question Attest W. B. Murphy Gabriel Scott      Charles O'Neal
Sworn to and Subscribed before me on the date and year above written and I hereby certify that Charles O'Neal the above Official is a good and credible witness.
Daniel H. Murphy (JP) for Decatur County
State of Tennessee County of Decatur ss.
I, Samuel A. Garbro Clerk of the County Court of County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Daniel H. Murphy Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Charles O'Neal was made, was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine In testimony whereof I have here unto Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of our said County at Office in Decaturville this 7 th day of November 1854. Sam A. Garbro Clerk of the County Court

Mary Merrill 109 Park Place New York Jan 10 1842 Miss Fanny Fanny 109 Park Place New York

Spring Creek, Dec 20th '53
Dear S. P. Waldo,
I addressed you to-day in regard to an application made by William Ester for the pension money due his mother-in-law Catherine Bridges. If Mrs Bridges failed to apply for the money due her during her life can not her children now obtain the same?
answered 1st Sec Com Pns 3/10/53
In regard to your letter of Oct 14th 1853. in forming me that the application of the heirs of Angelica Brooks, widow of Thomas Brooks, had been filed and would be taken up as soon as evidence of service was submitted. The heirs are satisfied that their father served, that he was in the continental line in the State of North Carolina and served during the war, and remained in service after hostilities ceased. Since they made application they remember much about his services, and although they have no discharge, they remember having heard him converse with old soldiers about his services. They differ about his Captain, some contend that he was with Mason for a short time others that he was not, but as he was in the continental service, I think his services could be established.
Yours obed servt George W. Talbot

Springbreek Nov. 24 th 1834.
Wm. L. S. Waldo
Sir
You will herewith please find additional proof in reference to the claim of Angelica Brooks, widow of Thomas of Tennessee. But when your letter of 20 th July last is considered, it seems scarcely worth while to offer any proof short of the testimony of contemporaries of the soldier, and who were present at his marriage at to claimant, and have known his widow and children from that till the present time. And if the literal requirements of that letter can neither be relaxed nor modified, in some degree, it is vain and unnecessary to offer such testimony as can be obtained at this period.
The letter referred to says, "There is no evidence on file to show that the Thomas Brooks who received these payments was the husband of Angelica Brooks of Tennessee, whose children are applying for the benefits of the Act of July 7 th 1835." This proof must be supplied by witnesses who knew that he did render said service. Now, in what way could this proof be supplied in the manner required, except by those who served in the revolutionary army with the said Thomas Brooks, and moreover, were present with him and witnessed his settlement with the Auditor of Public accounts in the State of North Carolina, and

have since that time been conversant with his wife and children? — Such requirements as those just referred to, without any sort of qualification, bears no resemblance to that spirit of liberality in which our Pension laws were made, and would seem to be designed to dispose of all cases of this class in the most summary manner, and without the trouble of enquiring into the nature and character of the circumstances connected with them.
A careful examination of the original declaration in this case and all the proof connected therewith, including the affidavit of Lester Ansell now offered, will put it out of the power of any man, to believe that the said Angelica Brooks was not the very person who was the wife, of the identical Thomas Brooks who was paid and served as a slave in the forerunners.
Jeremiah Brooks the son of these parties, and who is known to be a man of unquestioned veracity, shows that his father Thomas Brooks was a private in Captain Nelson's Company of the 10 th Regiment, and that he entered the service on the 1 st of July 1777, and first and last served in several Companies, and among the others he is of opinion that at one time he served in the Company of Captain Calib Mason, and at another time under Captain Wilson, who was perhaps the first Captain under whose command he did serve. He also informs us that his said father performed a part of his service in the state of South Carolina, that he belonged to the Continental Line, and continued in service about two years after the close of the war, in order to complete his term of enlistment.

The above Statements when applied to the payments received by the Brooks in question, taken in connection with the records of the Continental establishment & all the proof and circumstances belonging to the cause, cannot leave the shadow of a doubt, as to who was the rightful claimant. Augustus Ansell in his Affidavit informs us that he was acquainted with the said Thomas Brooks , from his earliest recollection to the period of the old gentleman's death, and that he always understood that he had been a revolutionary soldier — he mentions the name of the County in North Carolina in which the old soldier lived when he enlisted into the Service, &c. That this same Brooks was the husband of the said Angelica the mother of the identical children now applying for the Pension Money due her mother .
The fact of the Service of Thomas Brooks claimed to have been rendered, and the fact that the aforesaid Angelica was his wife, have been sustained by such a connected chain of collateral evidence, to say nothing of the other proof, and which circumstantial evidence could not have existed, except in connection with the revolutionary service claimed to have been performed by the said Brooks , and which it would seem should dispense with the requisition to make the proof in the direct manner required in your letter already referred to, and more especially where that has become impossible. The history of the times and the circumstances of this case fully settle the identity of all the parties. Neither the records of the Continental Line, or the Audits

Brooks in the State of North Carolina can show the name of any other Thomas Brooks, that could by any legitimate mode of construction, be applied to the Thomas Brooks we claim, as having been the husband of the said Angelica. And if this claim cannot be allowed on the testimony already offered we are unable to see how any claim of this class can be estab- lished for this late period, when there are so very few persons living who were cotemporary with the soldiers of those days. When and where allow us to enquire, can it be supposed that any one could find "witnesses who knew that he did render said service"; As this requirement any thing less than it would be to discover eye witnesses by whom to prove the actual terms of service? We are aware that it is your duty to be fully satisfied as to the merits of any claim, and that our views when not sustained by proof can make no difference in your action, but at the same time we must implore as much relaxation in your requirements as may comport with duty.
See opinion of acting Secretary D. C. Goddard 102—Page 533. Mayo & Monahan.
We are fully satisfied as to the justice of this claim and would not be willing to see it closed against the parties, without further efforts if required.
We are respectfully your Most Abt. Servant
Chas. C. Payne, For Claimant
Ann L. Spalding. Washington D.C.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before the court of the tenth Judicial Circuit, for the county of Henderson, in the State of Tennessee, by the affidavit of Midget Brooks, a resident of Henderson county, in the State of Tennessee, and who is entitled to credit, that Thomas Brooks a soldier in the Revolutionary war in the State of North Carolina died in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-two.
It is further certified by the affidavit of Augustin P. Lipscomb, a resident of Henderson county in the State of Tennessee, and who is entitled to credit, that Angelica Brooks, the widow of Thomas Brooks, died in the county of Henderson, State aforesaid, on the fifth day of September, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, and the children, - the offspring of the parties aforesaid now surviving, are Christopher Brooks, Stephen Brooks, Jeremiah Brooks, and Midget Brooks.
In testimony whereof I have set my hand, private and seal of having no seal of office office this twenty eighth day of March, in the year A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
R. B. Jones Clerk Circuit Court Henderson County - Tennessee
The 50 cts.

J.W. Talbot.
Oct 14/53.

Pension Office 319 Octr 14, 1853.
Sir,
The application of the Heirs of Angelica Brooks, widow of Thomas of Tennessee, has been received and filed.
Whenever there is any evidence of military service submitted, this case will be taken up for examination.
G. W. Talbott, Spring Creek, Tenn.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1243
SELECTED
R. O. Marcelia Brooks Widow Thomas Brooks
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
R. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Spring Creek, Tenn. May 17 th 1854,
Sir:
Enclosed is the family record of Thomas Brooks and his wife Aglaea Brooks. You will see on an examination of the record that the eldest child of the parties was born in 1785. This will establish the marriage prior to 1794.
Your obedient servt.
George W. Talbot
Dear L. M. Waldo, Washington City D. C.

616 Pension Office
Dec r 5-1852
Gentlemen,
I have re-examined the papers in the case of Angelica Brooks, widow of Thomas of Tenn under the Act of July 7 1838. And I confess that so far from perceiving "such a connected chain of collateral evidence" "which circumstantial evidence could not have existed, except in con- nexion with the revolutionary service claimed," I confess my utter inability to perceive any thing like satisfactory evidence in the papers, that her husband ever served a day. The dec- laration made in 1853 declares for service under Captain Wilson and to the close of the War, the record of service for a man named Thomas Brooks; indicates it is true, a long period of service, but does not show any service under a man named Wilson,

Indeed if it is true that he was a continental soldier, there is every reason to believe that the certificate of the Comptroller of the public in the papers does not refer to him at all, for the Comptroller's certificates indicate the pay of Militia and not Continental soldiers. No witness has testified to the service who could by any possibility know anything of it, - A man of her husband's name seems to have enlisted for three years in 1777, but he enlisted in Charleston S.C. under Col Thomas Clarke. In 1780, a man of his name was in service under Major John Nelson, none of this service was mentioned by the applicant, where then is this "connected chain of collateral contemporaneous evidence"? I still insist that the requirements of my letter of July 20 must be complied with,
See also p. 10
Messrs Talbot & Fayre Spring Creek Tenn

G. W. Valborn
Aug. 24/63.

Pension Office,
August 24. 1852
Sir,
I have received and considered your letter of the 11 th instant in relation to the claim of Angelica Brooks, widow of Thomas, for pension for his services in the revolutionary war. I can only say in answer that any evidence filed in the case will be carefully considered; but its effect cannot be anticipated.
Very respectfully DC
George W. Talbott Esq. Spring Creek Tennessee

10 11 20 30 40 50
July 20/54

63 Pension Office July 20 1854
Sir,
The certificate of the Comptroller of N C showing payments to a man named Thomas Brooks, has been received! but there is no evidence on file to show that the Thomas Brooks who received these payments, was the husband of Angelica Brooks of Iowa whose children are applying for the benefits of the act of July 7 1838 - This proof must be supplied by witnesses who know that he did render this service,
George W Talbot Esq Spring Creek Iowa

Tennic Office, May 30, 1854.
Sh
I have recd and filed the volume entitled "Fletcher's Appeal" and also the Record therein of the marriage of Thomas & Angelica Banks satisfactory to establish its date prior to 1784; and when the Record evidence of said Thomas is produced, we further consider the claim.
George W. Talbot, Esq., Spring Creek, Tenn.

Geo. W. Walcutt June 26/34

42W Pension Office
June 26, 1854
Sir
The additional proof in the case of Angelica Brooks, deceased, widow of Thomas of Seneca, under the act of July 7, 1838, has been received and filed; the credibility of the witnesses, not being certified.
No evidence of service has been filed.
Geo W. Talbot Springfield, Tennessee.

Decaturville, Tenn.,
May 13th, 1857.
Sir:
In reply to the enclosed circular, I would say that the heirs of Thomas Brooks applied in the year 1853 for the pension due their mother. They did not apply for Bounty Land , but for an unclaimed pension due their mother Angelia Brooks. At the time the application was made the parties resided in Henderson County in this State, but have since removed to Missouri.
Very Respectfully,
Your obed't Servt,
Geo. W. Talbot
Gen. Geo. C. Whiting, Washington City, D. C.

Sir,
PENSION OFFICE,
Apr 30 1857.
The frequent applications made to this office for information about particular claims for bounty land pending before it, render it proper to call particular attention to some suggestions, a careful observance of which, by those thus applying, is necessary to enable the office to give the information desired.
The system of the registration of such claims requires that both the name of the applicant for land and the number of his application be stated, in order that the office may readily turn to the papers in the files. In all acknowledgments of the receipt of applications at this office the number of each application is given, and by reference to those the numbers can always be ascertained. If, however, from not having received any such acknowledgment, or from having subsequently lost it, the number cannot be stated, the particular time—the month and the day of the month—when the application was forwarded to this office should be stated as nearly as may be.
Without these particular statements this office cannot undertake, with the force now at its command, to make those examinations for particular claims which are necessary in order to give information about them. The amount of time and labor which would be required in a general examination for a particular application among the over two hundred and thirty thousand now received, will readily be seen.
GEO. C. WHITING,
Commissioner.
Geo. M. Talbot Esq. Decaturville Tenn

Simsbury.
No. - 15,033
Angelia Brooks Widow of Thomas
B. B. Talbot as wife B. B. Talbot as wife married May 20/59 born Jan 26, 1854 died July 20, 1883 died Aug 24/89 buried in the Oct 1890

Letter to G. W. Talbot of the 30 th of May 1854, admits that the date of the marriage is wrong. - Record returned by request to Clerical Books, at Cottonwood Point - Pottawatomie Co., Missouri

Decaturville Tenn      Official Bureau April 20 th 1857
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting Comm. of Pensions,
Washington City D. C.

Decaturville, Penn.
April 18th, 1857.
Sir:
I am requested by Jeremiah Brooks to write to you and request that you forward the family record of his father Thomas Brooks, to his address, Cotton Wood Point, Pemiscot County, Missouri. The record was filed with the application of the heirs of Thomas Brooks who applied for the pension due their mother Angelica Brooks, for the services of her husband Thomas Brooks in the war of the revolution.
Very Respectfully, Your obed't servt, Geo. W. Talbot
Hon Geo. C. Whiting Washington City, D.C.

State of Missouri } Co of Jefferson }
On this 29 th day of April A.D. 1854, Personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid. Stephen Brooks aged sixty two years, a resident of Jefferson County, State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, declares upon his oath, that the book called the "Fletcher's appeal" containing the family record, of Thomas Brooks and his wife, Angelica Brooks, which he has forwarded to the Commissioner of Pensions for inspection, has been in his possession about twenty years, and that his mother Angelica Brooks, lived with him nearly twenty years previous to her death, and this affiant further states, that he does not know, who recorded the marriage of his Father & Mother in the Fletcher's appeal, and that the record as aforesaid was, between the pages of page ten and page thirteen of the Book aforesaid, and that the pages afore- said have been lost out of said book, and this affiant further states, that his Mother's death was recorded in his family bible, sometime in February last, by James R England, of Jefferson County, Missouri, and that his mother died September 19 th 1847, in the State of Tennessee
Sworn and subscribed to } his Stephen X Brooks before me, day and date } mark above written }
W m Hoxton J.P.

State of Missouri } p. County of Jefferson }
I Tho G Fletcher Clerk of the County Court within and for said County do certify that William Forster before whom the foregoing affidavit was made and whose genuine signature is thereto attached is and was at the date thereof an acting and duly Commissioned and qualified Justice of the peace within and for said County and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit
In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at office May 31 st 1854
Thos Fletcher Clerk
pr E F Honeg

Spring Creek, Tenn. August 11 th 1854
Sir:
It is impassible for the children of Thomas and Angelica Brooks to prove the services of their father by "living witnesses." At an early day Thomas Brooks, removed from North Carolina into East Tennessee, where he remained until about 1814, when he removed to Wilson county, in the Middle Division of Tennessee, where he died.
There are but few persons now living that was acquainted with the old man, and I have conversed with but one, and he informed me that he had heard the old man, (as he called Thomas Brooks) frequently speak about his services in the Revolutionary war.
I have the most satisfactory evidence of the service of Thomas Brooks, and it is this, in the month of June 1853, I met Bridget Brooks, a son of Thomas Brooks, near his residence in Henderson county, and I inquired of him if there were any of the soldiers of the late war in his neighborhood, or the widows of Revolutionary soldiers? he stated to me that his father was a Revolutionary soldier, and that his mother died without having received anything. I inquired of him the nature of his father's services and he informed me that he served in North Carolina and was in the regular service. In August following I was in Henderson county, and another son of Thomas Brooks, Jeremiah Brooks, called on me

and related his further services, which corroborate with that of his brother, who resided some twenty miles distant from him, and from whom he had not heard. He stated that several years previous he called on a lawyer to make application for the pension due his mother, and that the lawyer promised to attend to it. Now, the truth is, Thomas Brooks served, and he was a regular soldier, and he was at one time in the same company or Regiment with Caleb Mason. His children have heard them converse about their hardships frequently. Thomas Brooks said in 1811, 13 and 14 to his children and neighbors that if he had strength he would enter the service again, that he was through the entire war of the Revolution and he would like to enter the service again.
Thomas Brooks, the father of the parties who have applied, served, but his children cannot prove by "persons who were in position to know the facts about which they testify" because such persons are dead, and if such proof could have been made, a certificate would not have been purchased from the Comptroller of North Carolina. If traditional testimony will do that can be furnished.
Very Respectfully, Yours obedient Servt, George W. Yallock.
Angelica Brooks and Thomas
D. P. Waldy Esq. Washington City, D. C.

Spring Creek, Madison co., Tenn April 2nd 1854
Sir:
Enclosed you will find a certificate from the court of the tenth Judicial Circuit for the county of Henderson, State of Tennessee in the case of Angelica Brooks, widow of Thomas Brooks, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, in the Continental line of North Carolina. It is probable that the family record of the parties has been sent you before this, from the State of Missouri, which contains the record of their marriage and the births of their children.
The services of Thomas Brooks can be established by the records of North Carolina, and as soon as you are satisfied with the proof of marriage, dates of death, heirship, &c I will forward the certificate of my clerk.
Yours obedient servt. George W. Talbot.
Wm L. P. Waldo, Washington City

Spring Creek, Tenn Aug 10 1884
Sir:
Enclosed you have the certificate of the Comptroller in regard to the services of Thomas Brooks.
Having thus far furnished all you desired, in the way of evidence, I hope you will allow the claim.
Very Respectfully Your obedient Servt, George W. Talbot,
Mean L. P. Waldo, Washington City D. C.

Spring Creek Penn. May 14 th 59
Sir:
Enclosed I send you the affidavit of Stephen Brooks, Son of Thomas and Anglaca Brooks, who has kept the family record of the Pastors previous to their death and since. The record has been forwarded to your office, and I hope it will reach you Yours obed t serv t ,
George W. Talbot
Dear L. P. Waldo, Chair of Pension Washington City, D. C.

Spring Creek, Tenn. September 1 st 1880.
Dear L. P. Waldo
Dear Sir:
I send you for file with the application of the Brackets for a range of Penian and Miam.
Some six or seven weeks ago, I addressed you a letter containing several applications for bounty land also for a range of Penian and mailed it at Lexington in this State, from which I have received no answer. If you have received please let me know. I mailed one from the same place a short time since.
Yours &c
G. W. Salber

Spring Creek, Tenn., June 16, '34
Sir:
Enclosed you have additional testimony in the case of Angelica Brooks. I do not regard it of any importance, but as you require much testimony, and that every point should be covered, I have concluded to forward it. It was sent me some time since but did not have the certificate of the Clerk and his seal of office and I returned for proper authentication.
Your obed't serv't, George W. Talbot,
L. P. Waldo Esqr., Washington D. C.