Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1278, Jabez Brown, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Brown, Jabez Amos
R. 1278
CONTENTS
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1186,
New York
Jahuey Brown Private in
Captain Moad's company of the Regt Commanded by Col Waterbury,
Ratio of disability, Total — — — —
Date of discharge, 1 st Oct. 1775
Inscribed on the roll of New York at 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 27 March, 1826.
Certificate of pension issued the 3 of May 1826 and sent to Reuben Hasford Esq. P' Lexington Heights, N. Y.
Arrears to 4th Sept 1826 - $ 42.35
Semi-anl. all'ce ending
Act 10 April 1806,
See let. to R. Hasford, July (widow's)
24, 1837.

State of New York
Green County ss on the twenty fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas or County Court in and for the County of Green and State of New York personally appeared before me Jacob Brown of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York aged rising of sixty five twenty six the rest from New York who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declarati on in order to obtain the provisions made by the State act of Congress entitled an act to provide for persons who were disabled by wounds received in the revolutionary war passed the tenth day of April in the year the year one thousand eight hundred and six revived and continued in force for six years longer and by an act of the twenty fifth of April 1822 revived and continued in force for one year longer by the act of the fifteenth of May 1826 and again revived and continued in force by the act of February fourth 1822 that the said Jacob Brown swears on his oath that he enlisted a soldier in or about the last of May or the first of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five enlisted in the Town of Norwalk in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut enlisted for six months enlisted into the Company commanded by Captain Matthew Mead in Colonel David Waterbury, Regiment then went to

Howbun and from there to the City of New York and from there to Canada under the Command of General Montgomery and after arriving there about the first of September in the said year he with the Captain and his Company with others were sent out as an advanced party when they were attacked by a body of Indians at a place called the Granda Sand about three miles from Saint Johns and during the said action he received a wound from the Enemy or Indians by a bullet shot from one of their guns which entered the lower part of his body and went through the body of the the said deponent just in the lower part of his groin and cut of the great cord of his groin and wounded his private parts or took of a part of them and for the says that he was brought in a wounded man and con- tinued in Camp until discharged which was on or about the first of October in said year which discharge has been lost for many years which was given him by Gen Montgomery and all this was while he was in the service of the United States in said Company and while in the line of his duty and this deponent further says that in consequence of the said wound he has always been a cripple ever since to this day and always shall be totally unable to do any kind of labour for the support of himself and family in any degree and this deponent further swears that he has not on any pension list in the United States nor knew was and this deponent further swears that the only reason why he has not sooner made application to the board of war for a pension was that he did not know until some time before he first

Made his Application for a pension on account of services that there was never any such Law of Congress for relief of Invalids wounded in the revolutionary war that I have a family to support which is and has been supported by the Charity of his Children and friends I was formerly hired in Middlesex County Woodbury Middlesex County and have lived in Woodburn twenty years where I now live Green County and further south west sworn and subscribed the 24 th day of February 1826 before me William Root - one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Franklin Ohio
I do certify that Liberty Brown who has signed his name to the above affidavit is a Commaire a Respectable old man a man of truth and veracity William Root - Judge as aforesaid

Mr Brown
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NY 2188 July 3 rd 4 July '86 3 sec. Annis Brown widow of Ephraim Green Co. N.Y. M c Clusky Commission Merchant No. 100 State Street New York
alleged marriage 11/80 service and Sept. 2 '75 Annis date 11/86
NY 12/78
Annis Brown widow of Ephraim
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Declaration In Order to Obtain the benefit of the Section of the Act of the fourth of July 1836 and of the 3 d Section of the Act of the 3 d of March 1837.
State of New York
Green County ss On the twenty sixth - day of June 1837 personally appeared before me Henry Foster one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York Annis Brown widow of Jabez Brown deceased resident of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York aged Eighty - years old Who being first duly sworn according to Law with her oath make the following declaration In Order to Obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 and the Act Explanatory of the said Act, passed March 3 d 1837. That she was married to Jabez Brown, who was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War Her Husband Jabez Brown was an Enlisted Soldier in the Service of the United States In the Revolutionary War that she cannot be particular as respects the time of his Enlistment or Length of his Services but says that she was married to him and was his Sussell while he was a Revolutionary Soldier and she further says that Her Husband was a prisoner of the United States for some years previous to his death and was so at the time of his death, that Ruben Haysford Esquire Attorney at Law in Green County made out his application and proceedings for my said Husband and obtained a pension Certificate for him from the Board of War as her Husband had then informed her and believes the same to be true and the said Ruben Haysford informs me the said Annis Brown that all the paper proceedings relating to the Enlistment Services and receipt of the pension are now on the files of the War department and will be viewed as testimonial not only of his Services but as Evidence in support of my claim to a pension as the widow of your deceased Husband and she further says that since the decease of my Husband she has been informed that Her deceased Husband's pension Certificate had been sent back to the War department and believes the same to be true difference will be had to these paper proceedings now on the files of the War Office in support of my Claim and the said Annis Brown widow of the said Jabez Brown further says that she was married to the said Jabez Brown on the twenty fourth

day of February In the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty at The Town of Woodbury In the County of Guilford In the State of Connecticut - and that husband Joby Brown died on the twenty fourth day of August - In the year one thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Two - and that on that day she was his Widow and has always since remained his and now is his Widow that the Complaint in which she was exercised with and Enured his death was called Information on the Oaths - and she further swears that she was never married to any other man in life but to her deceased husband Joby Brown she says that she has four children all daughters the eldest is fifty six the youngest is thirty nine she further says that the Reverend Noah Benedict pastor of the Presbyterian Church in said Woodbury and she further says that he has been dead twenty years or more difference may be had to other proof herunto annexed sworn and subscribed on the day above for what she has sworn too written before me Henry J. Cooke Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Annis Brown and for the County of Green State of New York -
State of New York Green County ss Esther Robinson of the Town of Windham In the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn according to law do hereby depose and say that she is and has from before the revolution war been well acquainted with Joby Brown and Annis Brown his wife now his Widow she says that she has always lived near them ever since their marriage and she further swears that the said Annis Brown now Widow of the said Joby Brown deceased is her own natural sister she further swears that at the time the said Joby Brown was married to her sister Annis she was nineteen years old she swears that at the time they were married she lived with her sister Annis in her father's and mother's family that she and her sister Annis always lived at home together in my father's family she further swears that it was well known by her self and all her father's family that they they were going to be married and that with the consent of her and my parents and she further swears that on the twenty fourth day of

February In the year one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty The said Jabez Brown now deceased came to my fathers House where he and my Sister Annis informed me that she were going that night to be married I asked my Sister Annis In asking her to go and be married they went and my father and mother said that they had gone to be married they had my father and Mothers consent and I heard them published the Sabbath before their marriage by the Minister who married them In the meeting House and on the same Evening that they set out to go and get marriage they returned to my fathers House when they said that they were married and they slept together that night and that he continued to sleep with her In my fathers House until the next day then after when they moved away and the said Eliza Robinson says that their marriage was well known not only by the family and neighbours but by the people of the town and she further swears that they have lived together as man and wife until the said Jabez Brown death that she has always lived near them well knows that he and she have four children now living, well knows that the said Jabez Brown died on the twenty seventh of August in the year one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two See him alive she further swears that the said Jabez Brown was a Revolutionary Soldier and served before their marriage and that he served after the marriage as the said Jabez Brown always informed her and so has others
Esther Robertson
Sworn and Subscribed this 26 th day of June 1831 Before me Henry Gorlee me of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green State of New York

State of New York,
Green County ss. Clerk Swift of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath depose and say that he has been well acquainted with Jabez Brown now deceased and Annis his wife for forty years or more and for thirty three years past have lived a near Neighbour to them they always lived together as Man and Wife they were very respectable people they have four daughters he always understood from the said Jabez Brown that he was a soldier of the Revolution and that he served in the said service before he was married and after he was married during said Revolution well knows that he was a pensioner at the time of his death well knows that he died on the twenty seventh day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two see hims age further swears that the said Annis Brown is now the widow of the said Jabez Brown and has never been married since his death and he further swears that the said Annis Brown widow of the said Jabez Brown is a person of respectability truth and veracity and this deponent further swears that the said Esther Robinson who has made her affidavit is also a respectable person of truth and veracity and both of them are entitled to full credit as witnesses under oath
Sworn and subscribed this 26 th day of June 1835 before me Henry Goslee a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green State of New York State of New York
Clark Swift
Green County ss. Reuben H. Ford of the Town of Lexington in the County of Green State of New York being duly sworn according to Law on his oath deposes and saith that the above applicant is the widow of Jabez Brown whose pension proceeding I made out for him and sent on to the board of War and obtained a pension from the board of War for him and he further says that he has been informed that she is a very respectable person a person of truth and veracity.
Sworn and subscribed this 26 th
Reuben H. Ford

day of June 1837 before me Henry Goslee Judge of the Court of Common Pleas as aforesaid.
I do certify that the above persons who have made their affidavits on the above and within pages are persons of respectability truth and veracity and entitled to full credit as witnesses under oath.
Certificate of the Judge
I the said Judge as aforesaid do certify that it is my opinion that the said applicant by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to attend court. And I do further certify that the applicant is a person of respectability truth & veracity & is entitled to full credit as a witness under oath.
Henry Goslee Judge as aforesaid.
Hon. James S. Edwards will please to make his returns to Mr. Reuben Shepard
Respectfully your Obedt Servant Reuben Shepard
State of New York. Greene County ss. I William W. B. Hermance Clerk of the said county do certify that Hon. Henry Goslee before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to by the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature to said declaration & affidavits & the above certificate is genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of office this twenty Eighth day of June 1837.
William W. B. Hermance CLERK

Heirs of Widow Annis Brown
Application for Specimen
Act July 4. 1836.
Agent Wm. Pierce Albany N.Y.

Declaration In order to obtain the pension due Widow Annie Brown at the time of her death under the Act of July 11. 1836.
State of New York City & County of Albany 3f.
On this 2 nd day of May 1845, personally appeared before the following Justices Rebecca Hallam, A. White of Catskill Greene County, N.Y. aged 47 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension due her mother, Widow Annie Brown at the time of her death under the Act of Congress passed July 11. 1836.
That her mother the said Annie Brown died at Windham, Greene County, N.Y. on the tenth day of October, Eighteen Hundred & forty two. That previous to her death she employed one Reuben Hosford Esquire of Lexington N.Y. to obtain her pen- sion, and that said Hosford collected some funds but he died before he obtained the pension, and wheth- er he sent any of said funds to Washington Decla- rant does not know.
That her mother the said Annie Brown was the widow of Jabez Brown who died at Windham aforesaid on the twenty seventh day of August, Eighteen hundred & thirty two, and who was at the time of his death an invalid pensioner of the United States in consequence of wounds by him received during the War of the Revolution.
That her father the said Jabez Brown was a soldier during the war of the revolu- tion as Declarant has often been informed and justly believed. Declarant has often been informed

by her said parents and by other persons, that her said father David during said War upon numerous occasions both before & after his marriage to the said Annie Brown. That his first service was to Canada in the year 1775 under Colonel Watkyns (Was she born in S.D.). Captain Mead & that during this campaign he was wounded. That he afterwards served under other officers & suffered other injuries, but under what officers (Declarant cannot remember, nor other particular except that he was at the battle of St. Chest. White Plains in New York, and guarding the coast in Connecticut, but Declarant believes that the particulars of his service were set forth before said father in the matter of his original application for pension & she respectfully refers to his said papers in support of this claim.
And Declarant further saith that that her said mother's maiden name was Annie Johnson. That Declarant has always been informed & believes, that she was married to Declarant's father the said James Brown in the town of Woodbury. Litchfield County, Conn. by Rev. Noah Dine in the month of January or February Seven hundred & Eighty (1780). Declarant cannot relate the day of the month, but is well assured that it was in January or February 1780.
And Declarant further saith that her mother the said Annie Brown left the following children her surviving, who were the only children her surviving and who are still living and of lawful age viz Marietta Davis , living in said town of Woodham, Green County, N.Y. Annie Brown

Living in the same place & this Declaration of the Declarant unto not Glennah A. White
I hereby certify that the day & year aforesaid in your Court before me David Root Clark
And the said Court do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been adduced before them that Widow Annie Brown (named in the above Declaration) died at Windham Green County in N.Y. on the tenth day of October, Eighteen hundred & forty two. That she was the widow of Jabez Brown who also died at Windham on the 27th day of August, Eighteen hundred & forty two. That the said Widow left the follow- ing children her surviving, who were the only children her surviving & who are still living & of lawful age, viz. Marilla Swift & Eunice Brown, living in said town of Windham & Hannah A. White the above Declarant.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court this day of May
A.D. 1845
David Root Clark

Granite County ss. Annis White of Coatsdale in said county being duly sworn says that she is the daughter of Potter White, and grand-daughter of Jabez and Annis Brown, that she lived with her grandmother Brown several years after the death of her grandfather Brown, that a short time before the death of said Annis Brown this deponent saw the family record of the said Jabez Brown, in which said record the marriage of the said Jabez Brown to Annis Hudson was recorded, that she does not recollect the day of the month, but that it was in February in the year 1780.
Sworn May 19 1845
before me
J. A. Dubois Justice of Peace
Annis White

Greene County ss. Marilla Swift being duly sworn saith that she is the oldest child of Jabez and Ann's Brown that the Bible containing the family record of the said Jabez and Ann's Brown cannot be found but she recollects of seeing the marriage of the said Jabez and Ann- is Brown recorded and further recollects of hearing her Father & Mother frequently say that they were married in the month of February 1780. this deponent recollects of hearing her parents say that the Rev Noah Benedict married them in the Town of Woodbury Litchfield County in the State of Connecticut deponent further says that she recollects of hearing her father say that he was wounded in Canady in a skirmish with the Indians and that after that he and  now  now returned home and that as soon as he was able he again went into the service and that he was on Long Island and that he was driven off by the British the next that this deponent can now recollect hearing her father tell of his service in the revolution is that he was in the battle of White Plains deponent can recollects of hearing her Father frequently tell the names of the officers under whom he served but cannot now recollect of any except Captain Bostwick, thinks she has heard her Father say that he served under Captain Ho- ne this deponent further saith that she was born the  14th day of January 1781 and further that deponent saith not Sworn and subscribed this Marilla Swift 6 th day of May 1845 before me
Howland H. Acumter (Justice of the peace)

Hon ble James S t Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions City Washington

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Hon. Z. Pratt HR

State of New York
Greene County ss.
I William H. B. Hermance Clerk of said County, of Greene do certify that Henry Goslee Esq. before whom the annexed affidavits of Annis Brown Esther Robinson, and Minor & Clark Twiss were sworn. on the at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and that his signa- ture to said affidavits & to the certificate thereunder written is genuine
Witness my hand & official seal this fifth day of December 1837.
William H. B. Hermance Clerk

State of New York Green County ss
(Subs) Know all men by these presents: That I, the undersigned, of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn, deposes and says: That she is now Eighty years old and more. She swears that she is now the widow of Jabez Brown of Windham deceased, as she has previously sworn in her former affidavit for a pension. She further swears that she was lawfully married to the said Jabez Brown on the twenty fourth day of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty at the Town of Woodbury in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut. She was married to the said Jabez Brown by the Reverend Dea. Benedict of said Woodbury and she further swears that about the first of April or May in the same year that they were married he enlisted for the time of six months. The Captain's name that he enlisted and served under she does not remember. think he went and served at Stone Neck as she believes that he had a furlough for six days. This she believes that he came home just to see her and that he did not stay more than two or three days and then returned to the Army, and that he continued until his six months expired, that he came home on furlough about four months after he enlisted and went away. And she further swears that sometime in the Spring of the year 1881 my husband Jabez Brown was drafted for the time of three months under Captain Hine went to a place called Compo not far from Norwalk or Fairfield to guard the Coast did not return home during this campaign but wrote to me one letter during his absence and at the expiration of the said three months he returned home and related to me all his services, well knowing that he had been in the service long before her marriage as she was informed. And she further swears that she well knows from what her husband and others told her he was in the service about nine months. In the two years after their marriage that he was absent at these two times nine months and in the service as he said and told her that she is now the widow of Jabez Brown and has not been married since his death that her husband died on the twenty seventh day of August 1882 and I do further swear that he went into the service one year after I had a daughter born
Sworn and subscribed this 28 th day of November 1887 before me. Henry G. Gove a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green State of New York
Ann Brown

State of New York
Greene County ss. Esther Robinson of the Town of Windham in the County of Greene and State of New York being duly sworn according to law on her oath deposes and saith that she has sometime since made her affidavit for to send on to the board of war for to prove the marriage of M c Jabez Brown and Anna Brown now his Widow that in that affidavit she swore to all that she knew of their marriage and she now further swears that she well knows and that for certain that the said Jabez Brown was a soldier in the service of the United States two terms of service one of six months and one of three months after the said Jabez Brown and her sister Anna were married this I not only know from his absence the two times he went into the service but this he then told me after his return and I have heard others say that they were with him I also well know that the said Jabez Brown was in the service in the next year after they were married, were at Campo believe he served in Capt. Hines Company - She further swears that she see the said Jabez Brown when he returned after they were married, and during his six months term that he informed her all about his campaign and he staid three or four days and then returned to the army my sister Anna then informed her that he came home on furlough when she and her sister had together; I do further swear that he was abroad those two terms of service, after they were married, and that the said Jabez Brown and my sister Anna and many of my neighbours said that he was all this time in the service and I do further swear that after their marriage and on his return he came to my fathers and there staid the time he was on furlough and slept with my sister She further says that her father and mother all the neighbours said that he was in the service and I do further swear that my sister had a daughter born on the fifteenth day of January 1861 and I do well know that he served as he and others informed me one term after this child was born and she further swears that the neighbours were much displeased at their drafting and sending him away after the confinement of my sister Anna and birth of the child sworn and subscribed Henry Foster att her Roberson

This 20 th day of December 1837 Before Me Judge as aforesaid.
State of New York
Green County Esq Israel Munroe of the Town of Windham In the County of Green being duly sworn according to Law, on his oath deposes and saith, that he was born and brought up In the Town of Woodbury In the County of Ulsterfield In the State of Connecticut, was there and there always was acquainted with the said Jabez Brown, and since his Wife, before and always since their Marriage, well knows that they were Lawfully Married together on the twentyfourth day of February in the year 1780 he was not at the wedding but this was the General report of the family, and neighbours immediately after. He further says that he well knows that the said Jabez Brown was a Soldier In the service of the United States before, and after he was Married, to the said Annis Anderson, and I do further swear that I do well know that the said Jabez Brown, did serve two Terms of Service, one of six Months, and the other of three, the six Months Term was In the Spring after they were Married, and the three Months Term not until the Next year after they were Married, I do well know that the said Annis Had a daughter born before he went the last time into the said Service, all this I know and have heard them and other people say at that time almost Every person In Town will know that he was In Service before and after Marriage as well as we ever know that any one neighbour were In the Service from what we see and hear
Sworn and subscribed
Israel Munroe
This 28 th day of November 1837 Before me Henry G. Gove Judge as aforesaid.

State of New York
Green County ss Clerk I was of the Town of Windham In the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn according to law on his oath deponeth and says that some weeks since he had his Affidavit taken before his Honor Judge Gorce to send on to the Board of War for a pension for Mrs. Annis Brown. In addition to that he further swears that he was well acquainted with Mr. Joby Brown and Annis Brown something like forty years In Woodbury and In Windham has from that time been well acquainted with them and the last thirty four years I have lived a near neighbor to them entitled to rather and now lives as near to the Widow, And I do further say that during this time I have very many times, heard the said Joby Brown give a full History of the Revolutionary Services before and after he was married. I have very often heard him say that the Spring after he was married he enlisted and left his wife for a six months Campaign went into the Service I heard him say that during this six months Campaign, he got a furlow for a few days to come home and see his wife, and I do further say that I have often heard him say that after all this In the spring of the year 1781 he left her and served a rather lower of duty Soon after his wife had a daughter born, and I have often heard Mr. Brown say the same many times thirty years ago I do further say that the said Annis Brown is a very respectable Old Lady a woman of truth and veracity —
Sworn and subscribed this 20 th day of November 1837 Before me Henry Gorce Judge as aforesaid
Clerk I was
State of New-York } Greene County } ss.
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Annis Brown,

Esther Robinson, Isaac Minor and Clark Swift, who have severally subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavits, that they are respected & believed to be persons of truth & veracity in the neighbourhood where they reside and that I fully concur in that opinion, and I further certify that said Amos Brown the applicant is by reason of bodily infirmity unable to attend court.
Henry G. Lee a judge of said court.

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County Woodbury
Be it remembered that on the sixth day of November 1837 personally appeared before me the Subscribed Chas B Phelps a Justice of the Peace within and in the County of Litchfield Metitable Minor said Woodbury to me personally known mine whom I certify to be a credible witness and being first duly sworn and sworn on oath depones and says as follows.
I am twenty eight years of age and shall be twenty nine if I live to January 1838 I have lived in this Town since I was fifteen years old. Soon after I came here to live I became acquainted with Sally Jabez Brown of said Woodbury and with Annie Brown. They both lived in Woodbury. I remember their marriage. it was in February 1780 or the February of the next winter. I was at meeting in the First Presbyterian meeting house in Woodbury and heard the publication of intention of marriage between said Sally Brown and Annie Brown by the Reverend Noah Mudgett I saw her often after her marriage and know that Sally Brown & she lived together as man and wife from the month February 1780 until they removed from Woodbury

Annie Hudson and myself were intimate before her marriage and I remember at noon on the Sabbath she was published that myself and some other of our meetings take her in her house where she was to be married right away. She received it very joyfully but she was published that very afternoon
I am certain she was published in the month of February one thousand — Seven Hundred and Eighty, because I remember it was the hard winter
James Brown & Annie his wife were respectable people and respectable in character while they lived in Woodbury They have several children. one of these children died before they left. Some part of the time they lived next neighbor to us. and I was intimate with them so long as they lived in this place
Wahitola Minn
room before me
Rev B Phelps Editor of Pen

State of Connecticut
I hereby certify that on the last day of December 1837 personally appeared before me Charles W. Phelps a notary of the Peace in and for the county of Litchfield Benjamin Minor of Woodbury aforesaid to me personally known to whom I certify to be a credible witness and he being first duly cautioned and of him on oath before me saith as follows
"I was born in Woodbury and have resided in said place ever since and was twenty years of age in July 1837. I was from my infancy acquainted with Jabez Brown who moved from Woodbury to Windham New York. I was also acquainted with Annis Johnson of said Woodbury her father lived in the next house where I was brought up. I was brought up from six years old by Gilbert Minor and lived from that time next neighbor to Annis Johnson's father for some years
I remember the marriage of Jabez Brown and Annis Johnson my wife I was not present but know that I heard of it & that Brown came to the house of Annis Johnson's father to live soon after the marriage & during the harsh winter the

was married in the month of January February in March one thousand eight hundred and Eighty. I know this because I know it was the same winter they were married and it was the same year that Mallory family in Washington were murdered which I know was in one thousand eight hundred and Eighty
From the time of their marriage Brown was raised in the family of Mr Ingram his father. I was almost daily in the Ingram house. and remember they fled together. After Brown & wife lived together & kept house in the house of her father many years. and have several children. Their marriage was never doubtless in that place. They were respectable people and maintained good characters
I remember to have heard & only believe he was called out in force after the marriage. I remember he had a wound on the back part of the hip by a ball I saw the scar upon him.
Benjamin Miner
Yours before
Thos B Phelps Author of Peace

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County
Woodbury
As it remembered that on the fifth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Litchfield Jacob Pierce of Woodbury aforesaid who is a credible witness and to me personally known and being duly cautioned and sworn on oath deposes and says as follows.
I am forty five years of age in last Oct I was born in Woodbury aforesaid and have resided in said Woodbury to the time with the exception of five years from nineteen hundred and thirty to thirty five.
During the Revolutionary war and since I was twelve years old I have been acquainted with Abijah Brown who formerly lived in Woodbury.
I was also acquainted with Annis Judson of said Woodbury from the time I was ten years old. I remember they were married and know that I lived in the same house with them in the home house five years. They have several

children. They were married during the Revolutionary war. Said Brown was about in the army as it was said & as I believe before the marriage. He was also about after the marriage once was in service under Capt. Hine at Compton as it was then said & believed. They lived together in Woodbury as man and wife.
Jacob Brown
room before me
Thos B. Phelps brother of Peter

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County
Woodbury
Be it remembered that on this 10th day of November 1887 before me Charles B. Phelps a Justice of the Peace within and in the County of Litchfield personally appeared Nathaniel B. Smith Esq. of Woodbury to me personally known whom I certify to be a credible witness and being first duly sworn on oath before me and says as follows
"I am a resident of Woodbury Connecticut and have resided there all since my birth. my mother is the daughter of the late Reverend Isaac Dement of Woodbury now dead. He died about the year 1873 he was for more than thirty years Pastor of the Presbyterian or Congregational Church & Society in Woodbury."
Isaac B. Dement Esq. was his son and for Executor of his Estate. Isaac B. Dement died in 1881 leaving Harriet Dement sole Executor. without issue. The papers of the Reverend Isaac Dement went into the possession of his son Isaac B. Dement by permission of Mrs. Harriet Dement Executor of Isaac B. Dement than this day (10 Nov 87) examined his papers and the papers of the Reverend Isaac Dement. In the purpose of finding the entries of the Re: Rev. Dement of marriages by him

celebration. I have not been able after deligent search to find any book of entries of marriages or any memorandum of that kind.
The Reverend Samuel R Andrews is the possessor of the document in the ministry at the place. and is now pastor of the Church & Society. I have this day applied to him for a book of entries of marriages by my Friend but he since said now he has no entry of marriages before his settlement. He has a book of Church Records containing admissions to the Church and their votes & proceedings in which book is a list of Baptisms. I have examined it it contains no entry of marriages. This Record was ordered to him by the Church Clerk but no other book of entries is in his custody. He states at the time he read this book he enquired for other entries of marriages & deaths but could hear of none. application have been made to him for ancient documents of the first several times & has made repeated enquiries on the parish in the same but could hear of none.
I know of no other place where such entries can be found if any such exist.
Yours sincerely &c.
Nathaniel B Smith
Rev. A. Phelps, pastor of Rev.

State of Connecticut
Simsbury County
Is Woodbury
Be it remembred that on this tenth day of November 1837 personally appeared before me Elisha B. Rootes a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Litchfield personally appeared Charles B. Phelps of Woodbury to me personally known to be a credible witness and being duly cautioned and sworn on oath his proof and says as follows
I reside in Woodbury and am by profession an Attorney and Counsellor at law. I have been familiar with the Town Records in said Woodbury twenty years on the 8 instat a Mr. H. B. Rootes the agent of the Widow Annie Brown of Newbern New York applied to me to assist him in procuring proof of the marriage of said Annie with James Brown deceased. I have examined the Town Records in the Town Clerks office with the assistance of the Town Clerk. The Records of marriages are principally kept in a book with births and deaths. After a most diligent and particular search we are unable to find the entry of James Browns marriage

The names of James Brown & Annie Anderson do not appear in said Record in any form knowing the silence placed upon Record evidence by the prison Commissioners and the reluctance to secure secondary evidence I have taken pains to be accurate & thorough in the search.
Entries of marriages in the Records been a small proportion to births - deaths the earliest entry of marriage is in 1721 They are continuous with considerable regularity to about 1771. in 1772 they diminish in number being 13 In 1773 only five in 1774 — four     1775.  two    1776  Six    1777  Three    1778.  Three    1779  one    1780  one    1781.  none    1782  two    1783  two    1784  one    1785  Three    1786  none    87  one    88  one    89  one    90  none   
and no year after 1790 more than two until 1803. I find few entries to 1824. when a new enactment was made
The Rev Isaac Bennett was

was many years pastor of the Church in Woodbury. I have with Mr Smith examined his papers in the hands of the Quarters of his Executor and can find no entries of marriages.
I have also applied to the Rev S. R. Andrews now pastor and can find none.
I have no doubt such entries are now lost if they ever were made by the Rev. Isaac Pond. In my judgment they would be regarded by the present clergy as mere private entries. They were not public matters like a Church Record or County record.
I know of no other depository where they can be sought.
Walter B. Phelps
Sworn before me Gideon B. Rootford Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut
Probate Court
District of Woodbury
November 10, 1837
I Thomas Bull Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Woodbury hereby certify that Charles B Phelps Esq is a true copy of the Will attested for the County of Litchfield and that his signature as such to the annexed deposition of Nathaniel B Smith Benjamin Dyer and Isaac Dyer is his own proper and genuine hand writing
I also certify that A Elisha B Dyer Esq is a true copy of the Will attested for the County of Litchfield and that his signature to the deposition of Charles B Phelps is his own proper and genuine hand writing which deposition is annexed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court on the day and year above written
Thomas Bull, Clerk

2188 NY
Jan 29.
✓ Add. H.R. Annis Brown
Miss Annis Brown Concord, Mass. Massachusetts

State of New York Greene County ss:
I William T. B. Hermance Clerk of the County of Greene aforesaid. do certify that Henry Goslee Esq. before whom the annexed affidavits were sworn. was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County. and that his signature to said affidavits is genuine
Witness my hand & the seal of the said County this 24 th day of January 1838.
William T. B. Hermance Clerk

State of New York Green County ss Clerk I will of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn according to law, on his oath deposes and states as he has previously done, that he was born and brought up in the Town of Woodbury in the County of Ulster and State of Connecticut Where he will know Mr. Jacob Brown and his Wife, lived a neighbour to them, and he further says that while living there Mr. Brown always informed him and others that he had served as a revolution ary soldier in a number of military campaigns in the revolutionary war. He further says that he then and there often heard Mr. Brown give a History of all his services in the war often heard him say that in the first year of his service he was wounded and often seen the place in his hip he has often heard him say that after his wound got well and in the summer of the year 1776 he went into the service again at the he said that he was not really able to go but that he would go and did go that he went to the City of New York and Long Island, he said that he was on Long Island when our army retreated from Long Island to the City of New York in the night that they crossed in their boats with muffled oars and no man was allow- ed to speak one loud word, and he thinks that he heard Mr. Brown say something about being in a skirmish at Harlem and well remembers of hearing him say often say that he was in the battle at the White Plains and he has as often heard Mr. Brown say that he was out in two cham- pains after he was married and one after the birth of his first child this I have often heard him, and his Wife and others say so, and he further says that Mr. Brown always informed him while living in Woodbury and ever since he lived in Windham that ever since his wound got well he never could ride on a horse it hurt him so but that he could travel on foot as well as any man from state to state and this he knows to be true from his appearance always lived the next door neighbour to him since he lived in Windham and he further says that during this time he has laboured in company with him for hundreds of days in digging ditches and mowing grass and he says that he would do as much work as any man but that he always complained that he worked in fear but always informed me that walking did not hurt him believe all this to be true, and further saith he
Claiborne
Sworn and subscribed this 20 th day of January 1838 before me Henry Gorham one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster

State of New York
Green County ss. Israel Minor of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposes and saith that he has previously said that he was born and brought up in the Town of Woodbury, Sullivan County, State of Connecticut and that his neighbor Mr. Joby Brown and his wife Well remembers that Mr. Joby Brown was out a number of Military Campaigns in the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War and I can believe that Mr. Brown always told his neighbors that he was now dead that there was with him and the general say of his family, neighbors, and the neighbors of the town the same as that I have during the War often seen him when he informed me and those informed me that he was going and that you will know that he was abroad and always in time when he returned when he told me that he had been in the Service and I do further say that I have often heard a brother of his say while telling his War Stories that he served two Military Campaigns after he was married and one after the birth of his first child all this he swears to be true of which Mr. Brown and his wife and their parents and neighbors said was true the first time of duty he performed after his child was born he was drafted and was informed and forced into the Service a little time after he returned from his first Campaign when the family and neighborhood was highly displeased to have him away while his wife had been lately put to bed and was commonly known as this I do know to be true and that he did and as others said did leave her and went into the Service and I did see him when on furlough he soon after returned to him when he returned again I do well know that Mr. Brown was wounded in 1783 that he came home and was rendered in that Summer went again I do well know that the wound was so figured or altered in that after he got well he said that he could write as well as ever but that he could not ride on a horse without him he was able to carry all his work and could do as much as most any other man but always complained that he worked so hard and the more so in later years and he further says that he well remembers of hearing Mr. Brown say many a time while living in Woodbury that he was a soldier in 1768 at New York and

again I do well know that the wound was disfigured or altered his hair after he got well he said that he could walk as well as ever but that he could not ride on a horse. I asked him he was doing strong able man to Sabres and could do as much as most any other man but always complained that he worked in pain and the more so in cold years and he further says that He well remembers of hearing Mr Brown say many a time while living in Woodbury that he was a soldier in 1812 at New York and Long Island heard him tell of coming across from Long Island to New York with Buffalo Creek in their road and that he was in the battle of White Plains Sworn and subscribed this 26 th day of January 1838 Before me Henry Gorlee Judge as aforesaid
Isaac Mier
State of New York
John County ss. I, the undersigned of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York, being duly sworn, answer- ing to all in his right as for the said Isaac Mier as before said, that Miss Annie Brown is his sister, she further says that she has in her former affidavits sworn to all or the most of all that she remembers about Mr Brown's services, and marriage, but she further says that she will here repeat something that she has formerly sworn to, she further swears that she has heard Mr Brown and many others say that he had served a num- ber of years of duty in the Revolutionary War, well knows that Mr Brown paid his address to my sister Annie at my father's, well knows at the time mentioned in my former affidavit, I attended public worship on Sunday and heard the Reverend Deacon Benedict publish the intentions of marriage between the said Isaac Brown and my sister Annie, and I do further swear that at the time stated in my former affidavit, that Mr Isaac Brown came one evening to my father's house, when my father and mother, and the rest of the family were informed that Mr Brown and my sister Annie were that evening going to the Reverend Deacon Benedict to get mar- ried, which I did then and there assist my sister Annie in dressing her for to go to the wedding, they did go and after some time in the evening they returned from the wedding, and they both informed us that they were married, they both went to bed together and slept in my father's house and always after that when he was there slept together as man and wife and from that day to the day of the death of Mr Brown to my certain knowledge they lived as man and wife and I do further swear that Mr Brown served two years of duty in the service of the United States

In the Revolutionary War, as Mr. Brown Mr. Brown and others informed Her right well remembers the first time after his marriage that he came home and said that he had enlisted to go into the service again and that our family went immediately to visiting his mother and preparing him for to leave us, and that she does well know that he did leave his wife and our family for something like six months, and when he returned he informed me, his wife and my father's family that he had been in the service and the first two days that some little time after he returned from the Army and some little time after their first child was born was said by Mr. Brown and family and neighbours that Mr. Brown was drafted to go again into the service the family friends and neighbours, were very highly displeased at their drafting and forcing him away so soon from his family when he had been so lately in the service and when his wife had been so lately put to bed and was but poor and feeble, and she further says that he did go to a place as she was informed called Combs, and that after he had been absent something five or six weeks he returned home to see his wife, babe, and family, on a furlough for five or six days, that she saw and heard her sister Annie read that when some little time before his time expired he returned, she further says that she well remem- bers that Mr. Brown came home wounded in the fall or summer of the first year of the Revolutionary War, and that he got well of his wound that fall and winter and the next summer he went into the service again went to the City of New York and Long Island as he Mr. Brown and others informed me often in the time of coming of from Long Island to New York in the night in boats with the muffet cars well remembers of hear- ing him often say that he was in the battle at White Plains he was absent that summer from home said to be in the service and she further says that after he got well of his wound he could walk as well as ever he could but he always said that he could not ride on a horse.

well of his Wound he Could Walk as well as Ever he had but he always said that he Could not ride on a Horse.
It Hurt him So and further said that he Could do as much labour in a day as any Man but that he always worked in Spain have often heard him say so in Woodbury and since she further says that from the time he got well of his Wound it never disfigured or altered his walk no more than before he was Wounded.
Sworn and Subscribed this 21 st day of January 1838 before me Henry Gorlee Judge as aforesaid
Ester Robertson
State of New York
Green County ss Eunice Perry of the Town of Windham In the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn According to Law on her oath deposeth and saith that she is the sister of Mrs Annie Brown above named and she further swears that she has heard the Affidavit of her Sister Esther Robinson repeatedly read above written and swears that the same is all true to her certain knowledge as stated by her in every particular excepting such as hear there published in meeting
Eunice Perry
Sworn and Subscribed this
20 th day of January 1838
before me Henry Gorlee
Judge as aforesaid.
State of New York
Green County ss Potter White of the Town of Windham In the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn According to Law on his oath deposeth and saith that he has been well acquainted with Mr Jacob Brown and Annie his wife something more than twenty years always lived a very near neighbour to him until his death, have often heard him say that he went into the Service of the United States In the year 1813 to the Northward that he was there wounded and returned home and that In the course of the fall and winter he got so well that In the next summer after the battle of his country were so great that he volunteered his Service again although he did not then able to go as he Could have worked for that he went to the City of New York and Long Island was with the Army that retreated from Long Island
Sworn 1838 of the

To the City of New York In the night Come of In boats With Muffled bars and further said that they were not allowed to speak any sound word Well remembers that he often informed him that he was in the battle at White Plains and further says that More than twenty years ago he has heard him say that he served two terms of duty after he was married and one after the birth of his first child the one was by enlistment and the other by draft, Mr Brown has often informed him that after he got well of his wound he could walk and travel as well as ever but that he could not ride on horse it hurt him so he said that he ever since he got well of his wound he could work but always worked in pain from his old wound Sworn and subscribed this 20 th day of January 1838 before Mr Henry Gorlee Judge as aforesaid -
Porter White
State of New York
Green County of Judson Tabor of the Town of Windham In the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn according to law in his bath deposeth and says that he has been well acquainted with Mr Joby Brown and his wife always lived a near neighbour to him until his death I have now heard the affidavit of Mr Porter White read and repeated and I do swear that the same is true from my own knowledge from what the said Brown always informed me Sworn and subscribed This 20 th day of January 1838 Before Mr Henry Gorlee Judge as aforesaid -
Judson Tabor
I the said Henry Gorlee Judge as aforesaid do certify that I am well acquainted with all those persons who have
on the other side and on the above affidavit  affidavit  and do  do will know them to be very respectable persons all - persons of truth and veracity and well entitled to full credit as witnesses in law for the or otherwise Henry Gorlee Judge as aforesaid

Hannah A. White Power of Atty. to examine papers of Iabez & Annie Brown, & re- voking all other powers
By Francht Sylvester
Dec 1-1857

I now all men by these presents That I Hannah A. White of the Town of Cairo County of Greene and State of New York do hereby irrevocably make constitute & appoint Francis L. Sylvester of the City of Washington, D. C. my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive all papers from the Department of the In- terior of the United States relating to the Pension of Jacob Brown deceased and Annie Brown deceased widow of Jacob Brown and to attend to all business relating to the above claims. and for good and sufficient reasons do hereby revoke and countermand any and all other powers of Attorney or other authority that may have been given by me for any such pur- pose and vest the same solely and irrevocably in my said Attorney
In Witness whereof my hand & Seal
This 20 th day of September 1857
Attest
Hannah A. White
Catharine Hobbs
John Simon
State of New York
Greene County
On this 20 th day of September in the Year 1857 personally appeared before me Augustus Hill a Justice of the Peace duly authorized by Law to take acknowledgments in and for the County aforesaid Hannah A. White. Subscribed to the foregoing & acknowledged the same to be her act and deed for the purposes therein described
Augustus Hill Justice of the Peace

I further certify that Catharine Hotchkiss one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing, on an examination by & before me states that she was well acquainted with Sabra Brown & Annie Brown mentioned in the foregoing in their lifetime, & that she is personally well acquainted with Hannah A. White, who executed the foregoing, & that she was always called the child of the said Sabra Brown & Annie Brown.
Augustus Hill Justice of the Peace

I further certify that Catharine H. T. H. is one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing, on an examination by & before me states that she was well acquainted with Sabz Brown & Annis Brown mentioned in the foregoing in their lifetime, & that she is personally well acquainted with Hannah A. White, who executes the foregoing & that she was always called the child of the said Sabz Brown & Annis Brown
State of New York, Greene County Clerk's Office.
I, JACOB VAN ORDEN, Clerk of the County of Greene, do hereby certify that Augustus Hull whose name is subscribed to the certificate
of proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a person of the peace for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, and duly authorized to take the same. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said person and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine. And I further certify that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, the 23 day of
Sept r 1851
J. Van Orden. Clk

STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. GREENE COUNTY, }
I, CHARLES C. ABEEL, Clerk of Greene County, do hereby certify, That Munson Buel Esquire whose name is affixed to the within Certificate of and Swat on the annexed instrument or Affidavit was at the date of the said Certificate and Swat a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, duly commissioned and authorised to make such certificates And further, that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Munson Buel and do verily believe the signature of Munson Buel to be in his proper handwriting.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this Twenty fifth day of April 182
Chas. C. Abeel Clerk

Green County ss Harvey Camp and John Jones of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York on their several oaths depose and say that they are regular practicing surgeons and physicians in the said Town and County and they do hereby Certify on their oaths that Jacob Brown of the Town of Windham in said County and State a Soldier in the Company of Captain Matthew Mead in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel David Watbury in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war is rendered incapable of performing the duty of a Soldier by reason of wounds and other injuries inflicted while he was actually in the Service aforesaid and in the line of his duty viz By satisfactory Evi- -dence and accurate Examination It appears that on the fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five the said Jacob Brown being engaged in an advanced party at or near a place called the Crooked Pond near Saint Johns in Canada where he received a wound in his body by a musket ball shot by the Enemy which said musket ball entered his body at the posterior and inferior part of the pelvis on the left side and passed out through the right groin wounding the Scro- -tum at the same time the said Jacob Brown is now permanently disabled and he is hereby not only incapacitated for military duty but in the opinion of the undersigned is totally disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor in any degree whatever
Sworn and subscribed this
27 th day of March 1826 before me
Harvey Camp Surgeon
John Jones Surgeon
Munson Doolittle one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green State of New York
I do Certify that I am well acquainted with said Harvey Camp and John Jones know them to be true of truth and right and further do know them to be very respectable surgeons and physicians in said Town and County.
Munson Doolittle Judge as aforesaid

Given Cambridge 3 d p.m. I do hereby certify that I administered the oath to Doctor Harvey Camp and Doctor John Lewis Sargons and physicians to the within affidavits on the twenty seventh day of March 1826 as will there appear sworn and subscribed before me and on the same day I heard the testimony of all the affidavits to the application of Abby Brown for a pension Munroe Buel Judge as aforesaid

State of New York
Green County ss Potter White junior of the Town of Windham in the County of Green and State of New York on his oath deposes and saith that he has been acquainted with Joby Brown for many years has always understood that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war and was wounded there agreeable to his declaration in an oath for a pension has always known that he was a cripple in consequence of the said ball shot through his body that he is considered as a man of truth and frankness & a very honest man that he is very poor and has a family to support which he depends upon the charity of his children to support all this is to the best of my knowledge and belief and further saith not
Sworn and subscribed this 24th day of Feb. 1826 before Mr. Munroe Dool & judge of the county courts of the aforesaid county —
Potter White Jr JS
I do further certify that Potter White is considered to be a very respectable man a man of truth and honesty Munroe Dool — Judge as aforesaid

State of New York Green County -
10 Goodman Noble of the town of Cairo in the aforesaid county on his oath deposeth and saith that for some years previous to the Revolutionary War he was well acquainted with John Brown who is now about to make application to the board of war for a pension on account of wounds received in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War and further this deponent says that he well knows that John Brown aforesaid enlisted in or about the last of May or the first of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five in the company commanded by Captain Matthew Mead in Col. David Waterbury's Regiment and went to the provinces of Canada under the command of General Montgomery and that this deponent was acquainted with the said John Brown during the whole campaign and this deponent further says that in or about the fifteenth day of September in the said year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five there was a party sent out by the commanding officer to go to a place called Chambers about three miles from St Johns called the swampland at which place the said party was attacked by a body of Indians and during action the said John Brown received a wound by a ball which entered his body and land close and at his groin injuring his private parts that this deponent saw him after he was brought into camp wounded as aforesaid and that he continued an invalid until he had his discharge and this deponent further says that he has known the said John Brown ever since his dis- charge and that during said time in his opinion he has been a cripple unable to obtain subsistence by manual labor sufficient for self and family this deponent further says that the said John Brown is a very respectable man a man of truth and veracity that the said John Brown formerly lived in the county of Fairfield in Connecticut and that he now resides in the town of Windham in the county of Green aforesaid that he has worked at making shoes when he was able for a living that the said John Brown is an infirm old man and really stands in need of assistance for his support all this to the best of his knowledge and further saith not -
Sworn and subscribed this 24 th day of February 1826 before me Munnas Dool a judge of the county court of the county aforesaid -
Goodman Noble
on the other page

I do certify that Goodman Soble who has set his hands to the within affidavit I considered a very respectable man and a man of truth and veracity Munroe Root - Judge as aforesaid

State of New York
Green County ss Richard O'Connell of the Town of Cairo in the County of Green and State of New York on his oath deposeth and saith that for some years previous to the revolutionary war he was well acquainted with Jabez Brown who is now about to make application to the Board of War for a pension on account of wounds received in the service of the United States in the revolution- ary war the deponent says that he well knows that Jabez Brown aforesaid enlisted sometime on or about the last of May or the first of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five in the Company Company commanded by Captain Matthew Mead Isaac Doolittle in Colonel David Waterbury's Regiment and went to the northward into the province of Canada under the Command of General Montgomery that the deponent was in the same Regiment with the said Jabez Brown during the whole Campaign that the deponent says that on or about the fifteenth day of September in the said year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five there was a party sent out by the Commanding Officer to go a crop to go a crop to a place called Chambale at a place about three miles from Saint Johns at a place called the Grand Sand the party was attacked with a body of Indians and during the action the said Jabez Brown received a wound through the lower part of his body going through the same and through the lower part of his groin injuring his private parts that the deponent saw him and the wound when he was brought into Camp

a wounded man as aforesaid and Cantinued in Ionia until he had his discharge that he has been well acquainted with the said Jabez Brown ever since his discharge and before and since he left the service after he was wounded and well knows that he has been a Cripple ever since In consequence of the aforesaid wound and that he has been and now is in the opinion of this report Totally Incapable of obtaining a subsistence by any kind of manual labour to support himself or family This deponent further says that the said Jabez Brown is a very respectable man a man of truth and integrity that the said Jabez Brown formerly lived in Muburg in Fairfield County and his known him well for about twenty years since he lived in Windham this deponent says that the said Jabez Brown received his wound while In the service of the United States and while in the line of his duty - well knows that the said Jabez Brown has worked at making shoes when he was able for a living that he is very weak and infirm as well as a Cripple with a family to support and all this to the best of his knowledge
Richard Olney
Sworn and subscribed this 24th day of Feb. 1826 before me Warren Root a judge of the county court of the county of Ionia
He was a mason made his mark on the other side before the oath was administered
I do Certify that Captain Richard Olney who has above signed his name as Richard Olney to the above affidavit is a very respectable man a man of truth and integrity
Warren Root - Judge as aforesaid

Green County Ky I do Certify

May 24. Windham Center } Ky. May 21 } In at
Am.
J. S. Edwards Esq., Comm. of Pensions
Washington D C

Winsham Centre 21 st May 1839
J d Edwards, Com r of Pensions
Sir - At the instance of Judge Goste I write for information respecting the pension of Annie Brown. The business has so far been done by Warren Hasford a superannuated lawyer and is now near his end and no information can be obtained now from him what papers have been sent or what the deficiency is. We have had a copy of a letter to Mr Hasford through Hon A. J. Parker but that don't seem to put us on a proper understanding of what has been previously done. Will you have the goodness to state what points are established by the affidavit which Mr Hasford has forwarded and what other facts are necessary to be established in order that she may obtain a pension. We can then understand the matter fully. The anxiety of the widow is the only inducement to me to write you upon the subject. She is anxious to know whether there is any thing for her or not. Please favour me with a reply as speedily as possible.
Respectfully
Yours
Orrin Robinson

30 10 Wm B Pierce Esq Office N Pearl St corner of State street Albany

Catskill May 19 th 1848
Sir
After exhausting my own patience and probably that of yourself, with waiting, I send you enclosed the two affidavits. The other two that I spoke to you as being in the hands of Mr Pratt I could not obtain, he says they are either lodged at the pension office or with the clerk of the house of representatives, of which Mr Pratt was a member. D B French is the name of the clerk. Dependants names Israel Minor, and Esther Robertson. the latter since deceased, if there is any other information necessary you will of course inform me —
I am respectfully your Ob dt Serv t H A White
W B
Wm B Pierce Esq r Albany New York

Pen: to com: 27 March 1826 $8 per mo:
Mr. J. Jameson Washington D.C.

Sturminster Knight, From County, June 18 th 1846 Dear Sir,
Sir
Mr. Joby Brown has made application to me for to make out his proceedings to obtain a pension I have your letter to the Honorable Charles Estlin Esq. & I have also Mr. Estlin's letter to him, together with some documents you send for his situation I have made out the proceedings agreeable to your instructions I understand Mr. Brown has previously sent forward his application which you read and it was there to be found on your files as soon as may be I trust will your Honore make returns to me. Yours very respectfully R. P. Ricketts

Aug 14 Phila W. Line H. Count.
Miss James S. Edwards Esq. Principles of Punishment City Washington
free

Langton Knight, Esq., S. Hynde August 11 1835
W. M. James S. Edwards Esq. Sir
At the time that I enclosed the application of Mr. Harvey S. Johnson addressed to your Honour I neglected to enclose the affidavit of Mr. Orlando Sanderson of Pittsfield Commercial which then lay before me on my office table. Some two or three days after I noticed my neglect and enclosed the same in a letter addressed to your Honour will your Honour be so good as to inform me by two or three lines by the next mail whether the same has come to your hands and if so whether you received before or after your letter to me in the subject. I have written two letters on the same subject and with the same request. Have you had no answer from me you have not received them - The case of Mrs. Annie Brown Widow of Mr. Joby Brown whose explanatory affidavits were sent on to you some months ago I have heard nothing from since; The case of Mr. Aaron Sagona also I have heard nothing from I do hope your Honour will soon relieve the distress of that poor man and others now pending
Very Respectfully your Obedt Servt William Stafford
* The bear - will attend to the case of Harvey S. Johnson, Invalid.

State of Connecticut Comptroller's Office Hartford August 29 th 1851
Enlistments from May 12 th Dec. 1775.
I certify that on application for evidence of the service of Izaber Brown in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the Books and documents remaining in this Office relating to that war, and find the name of Izaber Brown in a Pay Roll under the following heading viz, "Pay Roll of Capt. Matthew Meads Col. in the Reg t of Forces of the United Colonies under command of Col. David Waterbury, rais d in the Colony of Connecticut, Commencing on the day in which they entered said Service, and ending with the time of their dismission, including time for the discharged to get home" and opposite said name are the following entries, Rank Private when entered the service, May 14 th when left the service Oct. 5 th Number of days in service 145. Wages per month 40 Total amt. of wages £9. 13. 6. 1 A.D. 1775.
I do not find any Pay Roll of Capt. Bostwick's Company in 1776, in which it is alleged that the said Izaber Brown served, but on the Books of the Pay Table Office, I find an account with Col. Gould S. Silliman Reg t raised in June 1776 for six months, in which is an entry to Capt. Bostwick as follows viz, 1 Bounty on enlisting £192, 1 Do on Equipping £69. 4. 1 Hospital Expense £16. 2. 3. Arms & Baggage taken & destroyed £42 2. 6. 1 Commission £64. 5. 1

Total £ 325. 13. 2.
I find also in the same Book an account with Col. Thaddeus Cook, Battalion raised in December 1776 for 3 1/2 months" in which is an entry to Capt. Benjamin Hine for Enlisting Bounty £ 148. I find no Pay roll of this service in this office.
A. G. Pinner Comptroller by Geo. Robinson Clerk.

Con Jan 27. 1841.
Isaac Brown N.Y. Ind. Mill
Rev. A. H. Sturges Clerk of Western Pres. B. Church Washington City

Dear Sir
Anne Brown, widow of Jakey Brown deceased wishes me to write to your department and ascertain under what act it was that her husband drew a pension. To the best of her recollection he commenced drawing about the year 1825 and drew $96. per year as an invalid pension. He resided in Windham Green County N.Y. & died 8 or 9 years ago - 2 o She wishes to know whether he was not entitled to such pension from the time his disability commenced until the time he commenced drawing, & if so whether his heirs would now be entitled to it. 3 o Was he not entitled to the benefit of the act of June 1832 until the time of his death in addition to his pension as an invalid, & if so whether his heirs are not now entitled to it -
Respectfully
Yours &c
A. Marks
Windham Green Co. N. York Jan. 21 st 1841
To J. Q. Adams Esq Clerk Pension

No 21 John Brown - act of 1836 - Additional Evidence of there is any fact in the 7 vols
Washington Jan 16 th House of Reps -
Sir
When I came here last fall I was intrusted with - one object to see - that the widow of Mr Brown Anna Brown or Agnes Brown - for her claim for a pension - with the Agent of Pension office inform me why Mrs Brown - has not obtained - a pension - and whether the affidavits of Jesse Goodell and Mr Linderly has been read at your office - also the testimony of Asa son G
- Mallery - I have no doubt - of the question of Edw. or Mrs Brown's claim - Yours Respectfully J. Pratt

May 12 45
Ind 8 Jabez Brown NY
J. P. Edwards Esq. Con't of Serials Washington D.C.

J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir,
About 18 months since, I forwarded to Col. L. Pratt, our M.C., papers in an application for the obtaining arrears of pension of Sabiz Brown , a revolutionary soldier - For the purpose of renewing the application, it is necessary that certain testimony, contained in those papers should be returned to me - I have called upon Col. Pratt, who thinks the papers are either in your office, or (as I think more probable), they went to the Committee on Rev. Claims -
In either case, he assured me that you would obtain them and send them to me, as a personal favor to him, to which you would add a favor to
Yours respectfully James D. Pinckney
Catskill, N.Y. May 9. 1845.
The reason why I wish the papers is, that the witnesses to the marriage have died since they were sent to Col. Pratt - Of course that testimony is all-important in renewing the application - J.L.E.

Albany Ms May 30, 1845.
Sir,
I am informed that Annis Brown (who died Oct 10, 1842) made application for pension under the Act of July 4, 1836, previous to her death through Reuben Hensford Esq. her atty. Said Hensford has since died, & the heirs are unable to inform me what proofs were filed.
Hannah A White a child (whose declaration is enclosed) now makes application for the pension due her mother the said Annis Brown , at the said day of her death. From her letter of the 19th Inst (also enclosed) it appears that papers in proof of marriage have been filed, either in your office, or with the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
What ever further proofs are required, please inform me, & I will enclose, if possible, & furnish them.
I am Sir
Very Respectfully
Your Obedt
Robt T. Pierce
As the enclosed affidavits are of little importance I have not thought it necessary to obtain the customary certification.
Ward L. Edwards Commissary of Pensions

Sept 2. 1840
Providence R.I.
My
Friend
Free
Dr. Elias S. Dole Am. Museum Washington City

Dear Sir
Mrs Annie Brown, widow of Galey Brown deceased has applied to me for some assistance in relation to her pension - I understand she employed Mr Reuben Hosford of Lexington Green County to assist her in procuring a pension & that he has forwarded her papers, but that there is still some difficulty or defect about them, but what it is she cannot inform me - Mr Hosford is a very old man & has recently been sick, & is very forgetful - If you would state to me the objections, if any to granting her a Certificate or return the papers it much oblige her
Respectfully
Yours &c
A. Marks
Dusham Green County N.Y. Aug. 31 st 1860

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Finat Jan 28
Anni Brown
J. S. Bachman Esq
Prison Office
Washington
Hon. C. J. Packer W.R.
See after Jan 3

House of Representatives July 26. 1839
J. S. Bondurant Counsel Sir,
I am requested to make enquiry in regard to the application for a pension of Annis Brown widow of James Brown - Will you inform me how the case is situated - and if the proof is defective, in what respect,
Very Respectfully
Yours
A. J. Parker

Washington Jan 26 1852
Sir
Enclosed you will find some proof in the case Mr. Deborah A. White, daughter of John Brown. late da r of W. whose widow has applied for a pension, but been denied. (ad July 7 1838).
John White was an invalid pensioner. Please examine the case and report to us
Respectfully Frederick Douglass
W. Heath Esq.
P.S. An Power of Atty will be found in John Brown papers Oct 1 1851.

War Department Pension Office
19. June 1838
Sir The additional evidence in the case of Mrs Annie Brown has been examined - It seems very doubtful whether the claimant's husband could have been in actual military service after the alleged date of the marriage; but in view of a satisfactory investigation the names of the  names of the regimental officers under whom the claimant's husband  he may have served should be given - If the claimant has any record of the birth  her first born birth of Children born since the about the period of her marriage it may serve as evidence is argued to the date of the marriage  in support of the claim
E
I Pratt Home Rep NCS

Reuben Hoosford,
August 22, 1838.
O. B.

War Department Pension Office
Aug. 22, 1838
Sir In reply to that part of your letter of the 10 th instant which relates to the case of Mrs. Annie Boston I have to state that in order to sustain the application direct proof of the military service of the claimants hus- band, is required. It is shown by the her husband's papers that he was a cripple from the time he was wounded. (Sept 1775) till the he made his application for a pension as an invalid. The it must therefore be
Reuben Hosford Esq. Lexington Heights New York

Orin Robinson, May 29, 1839.
O. G.

530 War Department Pension Office
29 May 1839
Sir
The claim of Maria Brown widow of Jabez Brown is for pension now alleged to have been rendered by her husband in 1775 in Capt Matthew Meads company Col Wolcott brig. regt. in the Northern campaign of that year - It appears from the statements of the witness accompanying his application for a pension as an Invalid that he was severely wounded at or near St Johns, and rendered unfit for service after that time and that  he was discharged soon after. If so he could not have served long enough to entitle his widow to a pension - If he was retained in the Hospital long enough to make his  by his wound in the  field 6 mos  from evidence then of may be found in the office of the Com- troller in the State of Connecticut - Of the date of the claimants marriage there is no satisfactory proof. That fact should be established by record evidence or in case that cannot be found the testimony of a credible witness who can specify the date of his or her own knowledge
Wm Robinson Esq Windham N.Y.

St. Marks, Fla.
March 30. 1841
G. L.

Pension Office 231
March 30. 1841
Sir;
In answer to the several enquiries made through you by the widow of Jabez Brown, I have to inform you upon that he drew a pension as an Invalid under the act of the 10 th April 1826; that he was not entitled to a pension from the time of his disability till the period when he was pensioned, and that he was not entitled to the benefits of the act of June 7. 1832.
A. Marks Esq. Durham, N. York

J. D. Pinckney May 12. 1845?
✓

Pension Office
May 12. 1845
Sir, In answer to your letter of the 9 th . inst. I have to state that the Affidavits of in the case of Annie Brown, to which you allude are not on the file, of this office.  in If however they were on file, we could not, consistently with the rules, return them to you
James D. Pinckney, Esq. Catskill N.York
2188, N.Y. 1036 Surf

449 Pension Office June 25 1845
Sir,
The declaration of Hannah A White as one of the heirs of Amos Brown has been filed with the other papers in this case.
This Claim has been the subject of much correspondence with members of Congress, and other Agents, since 1838, and Mrs Brown has not been able to establish her right to a pension, for the reason, contained in my letter to Miss Robinson dated May 29 1839, a copy of which is herewith enclosed.
W. P. Pierce Esq Albany New York

3 Sep. 1840
OL

Pension Office
Sept 13. 1840
50
Sir In a reply to your letter of inquiry under of the 31 st ultimo relative to the claim of Mrs Annie Brown widow of Jabez Brown you are referred to my letter on the Judges under date of the 29 th of May 1839  last  to addressed to Orin Robinson Esq a copy of which is herewith enclosed
? Marks Esq Durham New York

Wm. G. ...
3. Jan. 1838
OL

War Department Pension Office
Dec 1838
3 Jan.
Sir The additional evidence in support of the claim of Annie Brown has been examined - It appears from the papers of the applicant's husband that an invalid pensioner, that he was in the service in 1775 and in consequence of being severely wounded was discharged in the month of September 1775 -  It is proved by the witness that he was discharged by the witness that he was 1775 -  It is proved by the witness that he was discharged by the witness that he was It also appears by the witness whose affidavits accompany his application for a cripple in the study from that time up to 1825 he continued a  cripple pensioner. (Under the) These facts furnish so strong evidence an direct appeal to his pension having been in actual service after the that they should be rebutted by direct & positive proof - If no record of the marriage can be found the affidavit of a credible witness present on the occasion who can specify the date will be required
Respectfully
Hon L. Pratt House Reps DC

Dear J. Pratt
Feb 21. '45.

Pension Office February 4. 1845
Sir,
I have the honor to return herewith Mr. White's letter respecting respecting the claim of Annie Brown widow of Jacob Brown. This Claim has been before the Department since 1838, and a large amount of Correspondence has been held with yourself and other persons, but Claimant has been unable to shew that she was entitled to the benefit of the pension laws for the reason, contained in My letter to Miss Robinson, dated May 29 th 1839. A copy of which is herewith enclosed.
Hon G. Pratt House of Reps.

London - 1839
2. March 1839
OC

War Department Pension Office
2. March Feb. 1839
Sir For an answer to the inquiry in your letter of the 26 th January last. also respecting the claim of Mrs Annie Brown you are respect- fully referred to my letter on the subject addressed to Hon Agent R. Hoxford Esq., under date of the 22 d August last a copy of which is herewith enclosed
Hon A. J. Parker House Reps N.H.

Tenn. Office May 2, 1882.
Gentlemen:
I have filed the additional testimony submitted by you in the case of Annie Brown, who was an applicant for a pension under the act of July 4, 1836, with the other papers relating thereto; and you are informed that the on an application from re-opening the case by the next decision of the Secretary of the Interior, which decides that all cases, whether suspended, rejected or admitted, in which additional testimony material to the case has not been filed for four years, shall not be considered. No testimony in the case of Mrs. Brown has been  has been  transmitted by you  had been filed since the 12 th of June 1845, at which date W. B. Pierce, her attorney by this office in reference to it, Messrs. French & Sylvester, Present.

12787
RECORDED INDEXED
P. O. Anna Brown widow of James
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: List of rejected claims printed in 1852 shows cause
Re-enlisted: of rejection as follows: "Deficient in proof of six months service."
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

 2188 1278 N. York act July 4. '36 Innes Brown let to Hon. Z. Pratt 3. Jan'y '38. to same 14. June '38. to R. Hosford, 22. Augt. '38. do. to same Oct. 18. 1838 not for to Hon. A. J. Parker 2. March 1839 let to Orin Robinson, May 29, '39. to A. Marks 2. Sep. 1840 - do. to same March 30. 1841 - to Hon. Z. Pratt Feb. 24. '45. to J. D. Pynchey May 12. '45 Act. July 4. 1836  Let to W. B. Pierce, Providence Francis & Sylvester, May 1836

Lancaster Heights NY October 12
June
Attb.
Will James S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions.
Amos Brown
City
Washington

William James Edwards Esq (Sir)
Canterbury Knight's Green B 8.11. York Road N 1838
Some weeks since I received your Honour William Garrison's letter respecting the pension of Mrs Sarah Brown widow of the late James Brown a Revolutionary pensioner deceased, your Honour in your letter to the Col. Comr. of Pensions Testimony in proof of the services of the late James Brown after he was wounded Mrs Brown informs me that she has been to Woodbury where he then lived and that there is not any person there saying that served with him but that there are persons there and in Windham that lived neighbours to them that will know that he was and that in the service of the late James him say so and that that the general deputation there are some affidavits now before your Honour to that effect there are a number of persons in Windham who where then his neighbours at the time see him when he returned home from the army to visit his family and see him when he set off from home to join the army again heard him during his said say all this and also his family and the inhabitants of the town, and two or respectable women as may be in Windham to my certain knowledge have swore that when Mr Brown returned from Camp on parole that they see and heard his parole and some of those persons swear that after going to New York they heard him tell how privately they retreated from Long Island to New York in the night withuffled bars all these circumstances must be stranger than the pontive oath of any person whatever all this your Honour must know as well as my self, will you Honour take the more stock at the testimony and write me your further Will and pleasure by the next mail and send me the pension Certificate as the old Lady is poor and in full of wants and anxiety to know the certs,
I remain Honour'd Sir Very Respectfully your Aff Ruben Hoxford

St. Leon Hannah A. White application for pension of late L. Annis Brown
Sep. 30. 1887
Filed
Letter from St. Leon

Cairo Sept 27/51
Madam
Francis H. Sylvester I send to your office a Power of Attorney of Mrs Hannah A. White she is the daughter of John Brown & Annie Brown deceased. Brown died in 1842. Pension for wounds she was wounded in the northern campaign in the year 1775. John Brown died in 1832. his widow died in 1842. I wish you to examine the declaration of Brown & also the affidavits of Noble & Clement. These are the men that took Brown in to camp after he was wounded. Mr Brown stated his children that he remained in the Hospital until the next spring after he got able to walk. He entered in Capt. Backwick's Com. for six months & was in the Battle of Flatbush & also of White Plains. Mrs White's declaration was sent to Washington in 1845 for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty that her mother was entitled to. Brown said he served in Capt. Hines Com. I send you a Certificate of all the services that appear on the Records at Hartford. Brown & his wife were married in 1780. Papers have been sent to Washington in regard to the marriage. Please to examine the papers & let me know the result.
Yours Respectfully
John T. Morrison
I am as regards to her pension gave on the Hathaway claim Y. L. L.

I have a number of letters from the Compt of London on the subject of Binney & his officers services
Yrs S. L.
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Springton Heights, P. O. S. H. York Jan. 22 d 1838-
William James S. Edwards Esq d (Dear Sir)
Enclosed I send to you several Affidavits In support of the claims of Mrs Anne Brown, whose cause is now pending before your Honourable departments, and I do now flatter myself that they will carry a very convincing proof to your Honour's mind of the right of evidence, there is something very mystical in the process of this Case and others of a similar complexion that I have never struck deep enough into the fountain to understand your Honour's in your written communications informs me that where there is no record that the same may be proved by some person who was present to witness the ceremony, I would here beg leave to ask your Honour if by the rules of your Honourable departments you have not made the Widow a legal Witness, and as she has sworn in a lawful man and a lawful marriage with both of the marriage and her husband's services and in many other essential circumstances as to her evidence should now before your Honour uncontradicted, why should this poor woman I speak with difference, be called on for further proof, and I would here ask your Honour if the other Witnesses does not very fully demonstrate the same facts two of those Witnesses were as that they lived in their father's house well knew that Mr Brown paid his addresses to their sister Annis one of them swore that she was present at meeting and heard the Rev Clergyman publish their intentions of marriage and two of them solemn- ly swore that they both heard Mr Brown and sister Annis and the family say that they were that evening going to the Rev Noah Benedict's to get married that they both of them helped their sister Annis put on her Bridal dress for the marriage ceremony that they both of them went and returned again that evening and both of them informed the witnesses and their parents that they were married that they both went to bed together and slept together in their father's house as man and wife and they so continued to do until the death of Mr Brown. Now here ask your Honour if these facts had not been fully demonstrated by positive Evidence, whether that rule as respects marriages has not been departed from and passed by and reputation and cohabitation substituted in its place as a very wise and salutary rule in questions of this complexion, I conclude your Honour to have been of the degree of Councillor at Law and learned in the

Science of Signal Intelligence and being very capable of being my Counsel In the Science of Law, yet with your Honor's permission I will lean Authori- ty in support of my position In Thomas Parker's Compendium on the Law of Evidence on pages 11, 12 & 13. I might cite many more if it were necessary but I do think it not But I would here beg leave to mention to your Honor's while writing the first line in this page I have been obliged to stop but I will resume your Honor's Letter of the 3 d of the present month addressed to Mr. Stevens & Pratt thereby giving before me the same up and passed the same into his Hand which he did after briefly perusing the same and then laid down the same in my table and then said that the Honorable Commissioner at the Bureau of the Galt said something about further testimony about the marriage that was supposed to be proved by the first Evidence that I cannot think he will admit any testimony in that particular but that I believe that all he wants now is to know something more about his being a cripple, I will trouble your Honor but with few words more on this subject, I would only mention a few words personal to myself, I had some few days previous to my making out Mr. Brown's affidavit I think he called on me three or four times at the same time I do well remember that Mr. Brown unbuttered his clothes and shaved me the front of his old man's I say well remember that I was in particular in my Enquiries about his Wound and the Effect of his Wound I well remember that I was then very highly pleased with hearing the old gentleman give a History of all his services during the Revolutionary War I then thought that the old gentleman had not lost the true spirit of Y e . He informed me that after he was wounded that he returned home and had his Wound cured and that he again returned his services in the next year said that he was not as well as he could have wished but said In a very strong Soldier's language that he meant to have his revenge of them he further mentioned a number of campaigns that he was served after, I well remember that Mr. Brown informed me that after he got well of his Wound that he could walk as well as ever he could, but that he could never after ride on a horse that it hurt him so he said that he had worked and could work some but that he always worked in pain that mowing and such work so much pained him that he could take no ease in sleep I

Will know Mr Brown for many years Will know that he walked as Comely and Uprightly without any Limping or halting as any other man In Life but to believe he had suffered much of his wounds and more in his Salus & Life I do hope that your Honor will see the propriety of sending her her pension she is a very poor Woman living upon the Charity of her friends and neighbors who have all contributed in giving her so much money that she hired one of her neighbors to go down to Woodbury to procure Evidence which is now before you It cost her fifteen dollars as I am informed
I remain Hon Sir
Very Respectfully
your
Ruben Hapgood