Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1164, Henry Brasted, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Drastad, Henry Molly
R. 11164
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1164
REJECTED
P. O. Wiley Branton
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

6. 734. V Molly Brasted, ded. N. Y.
Let to N. Leake, May 19, 1840.
1164
Act 4 July, 30.

Reputed Widow 1164 Molly Brasted
Office of Secy of State Trenton N.J.
Jan'y 3 rd 1846
Sir
I have rec d your letter of the 26 th ultimo In answer thereto I have to inform you that we have no Militia Rolls in this office. The 9 mos Rolls do not contain the name of Henry Brasted. Nor do the Indents or pay certificates for Militia Service in Sussex Co - from 1779 to the close of the war - Col Charles Regt (4 th ) of 5 th men have also been examined his name is not borne on said Regt Capt Hooker. Believing 86 Rolls are not in this office. Nearly all the Rolls for Militia Service in N.J. - were destroyed in the Treasury Building Washington - our charges are - one dollar for Search - in each name and - when Service is found - $1.50 for Search & Certify - I make no charge in this case
Your Obedt Servt Charles F. McChesney
A. J. Lyon Esq

STATE OF New York } COUNTY OF Albany } ss:
Be it known, that on this 22 d day of June , A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty two , before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Henry Brasted , a resident of Cuba in said County, and made oath according to law, that he is the son of Henry Brasted and Molly Brasted his wife whom at this time are both dead
that he is directly interested, as aforesaid, as a claimant, and makes this affidavit for the purpose of obtaining such amount of Pension as may be due under any of the Laws, Regulations, or decisions that have been or may hereafter be adopted. The said Affiant further declares that he hereby constitutes and appoints J. D. Addison
to be Attorney and Agent to prosecute said claim, with power of substitution, to examine all papers and documents in relation to it, and to do all things necessary and lawful in the premises; except drawing the money, which will be hereafter provided for.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me, Oliver Collins } J. Peace.
Henry Brasted
Oliver Collins I, Henry Stevens Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Henry Brasted , above named, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, as I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth, and acknowledges the above Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.
Oliver Collins J. Peace.
Oliver Collins In testimony that the above-named Henry Stevens was a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, at the date of the same, I hereby subscribe my name and affix the County Seal.
John J. Rockefeller County Clerk.

Holly Waste Co N.Y.
State of New York County of The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this day personally by _____ who is known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument.
Subscribed to me this day personally by _____ who is known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument.
Notary Public in and for the State of New York My Commission Expires _____
Notice of the foregoing instrument was filed for Record the _____ day of _____ A.D. 19____ at _____ o'clock _____ M. at the office of _____ a Notary Public in and for the State of New York.
A. Person
Notary Public in and for the State of New York
Notary Public

6. 734
Holly Brasted dec.
N.Y.
Act. 4 July 86

State of New York § Allegany County, 3 d §. On this 16 th day of December 1845, personally appeared before me Samuel C. Wilson Surrogate of the County of Allegany, being a Court of Record in and for said County, Henry Brasted, of the town of Cuba in the County of Allegany and State of New York, aged Sixty-one years, who, being first duly sworn by me according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4 th 1836; That he is together with Sarah McDonald, Isaac Brasted, Mary Hayden, Silas Brasted were the children and only heirs (living at the time of their mothers death) of Henry Brasted and Molly Brasted, deceased, and that they were all over the age of twenty one years; That his father the said Henry Brasted was a Soldier in the Army and war of the Revolution Enlisted or entered the service in the State of New Jersey, belies from the town of Hardystown or Hardieston in the County of Sussex, that he understood his father served some time in Captain Harker, Company, thinks that one of his colonels name was Martin, but is not positive and does not know the names of any others of his officers; That he served by tours, and that he stood as Minute Man ready to be called out at any time, understood he served about Eighteen months or two years, in all during the war; That his father the said Henry Brasted was married to his mother the said Molly Brasted, in the town of Hardiston or Hardystown in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey in the year 1773 - 1774, or 1775, thinks some time before the commencement of the war : That his mothers name before marriage was Molly Chamberlin; He further declares that his father the said Henry Brasted, died in the town of Genoa in the County of Cayuga in the State of New York in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty, on the 22 d day of March —, and that his mother the said Molly —

Brasted died in the town of Cuba in the County of Allegany and State of New York, in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine on the first day of July: And he further declares that Abraham D. Lyon of the town of Rushford in the County of Allegany aforesaid is the duly authorised attorney for all the heirs, to present their claim to Pension Office and receive stipends for them, and further this deponent saith not.
Henry Brasted
Sworn to and subscribed before me in open Court this 16 th day of December 1845.
Sam l C. Wilson Surrogate
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office at Rushford, in said County of Allegany the 16 th day of December A.D. 1845
Sam l C. Wilson Surrogate