Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,671, Samuel Brown, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Brown, Samuel Patience
W. 24,671
CONTENTS
res at end. Douglas Mass In 1830 aged 67 yrs & res of Newport, Hampshire Co. N.Y. when he died May 1, 1836

No. 10,994 New York.
Samuel Brown. 6
of Herkimer in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Waver of the regiment commanded by Colonel Reid in the Massachusetts line, for the term of One year from the year 1775 to the year 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st day of March 1823.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18. of Novr 1823 and sent to Samuel Ford Esquire Herkimer: New York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1828. 529. 06 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 218.. 1829. $747. 06
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }

Albany
act '44 no. 225. adm. no. 225.
1095
New York - Albany
Patience Brown widow of Saml Brown who was a Pilot. in the Revolution
husband died 12 May, 1836.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 67 Dollars 43 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of July, 1846. and sent to
Rev. C. S. Benton New York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book a 19th June '44 Vol. 2. Page 72.
Increased from $40. Deduct for other pay under 3 March, 1843.

Brown
5777
17/112
Samuel Brown, Herkimer County, N.Y. 20 th April, 1818.
Col: Joseph Reed reg t Maspach th line 1776 - 1 year.
The judge is desired to certify, that two or more persons, who have given, or may give their testimony, on oath, relative to the applicant's service, are disinterested and credible witnesses, and that they prove nine months service, in conti- nuance, on cont e establish d
David Holt, judge,
S. & L. Ford, agents, Herkimer, N. Y.
rec d 24. Feby. 1820.

17,412.
Samuel Brown, Herkimer Co. N.Y. Original declaration. 20. April, 1818.
Various services - Col o . J. Reed's reg t . Massachusetts line, one year, from Dec r . 1775.
Employed as a black- smith and gun- smith, part of the time of his service.
S. & L. Ford, agents, Herkimer, N. York 19. Sept. 1820.

Artificers not allowed pension, unless it be satisfactorily proved that the applicant enlisted as a non- Commissioned officer or private in the regiment to which he was attached - and that his em- ployment as an artificer was sanc- tioned by the Commanding officer of the regiment!
Brown

State of New York
Hutchinson Com 33 } ff. I know at present, being duly sworn saith that he is of the age of fifty years - That he is well acquainted with Samuel Brown whom de- ponent is now deceased, and has been acquainted with the said Samuel from the year 1775 - That this deponent, in the years 1775 & 1776 had his home near to the home of the said Samuel, although this deponent the said Samuel at that  during a part of that time belonged to the Army of the revolution - That in the year 1775 the said Samuel & this deponent were in the Army then stationed at Roxbury in the neighborhood of Boston - The said Sam- uel being attached to the Massachusetts Line & this deponent being attached to the Rhode Island Line - That this deponent well recollects that the said Samuel, after his first enlistment in the year 1775 had expired, again enlisted in the Massachusetts Line for one year, in a Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Warren, in a Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Reed - And this deponent further saith that after the said expirated enlistment of the said Samuel, he with his Regiment left Roxbury and marched to Providence & from thence to New York, as this deponent was informed & believes - That this deponent remained with his Regiment at Roxbury - And this deponent further saith that, after the expiration of the year for which the said Samuel Brown enlisted as last aforesaid, he the said Samuel returned to his home, in the town of Douglas, State of Massachusetts, this deponent then residing in the town of Williamstown and this deponent further saith that he was at that time well acquainted with the said Samuel if it was

a thing well known to the neighbors & acquaintances of the said Samuel that he had served out the whole year for which he enlisted, although this Defendant was not personally acquainted with the facts, every further than is above related - and this Defendant further saith that he is confident & certain that more than one year elapsed, after the said Sam had enlisted for the term of one year or of course, before he returned to his home as above stated -
Elkanah Spear
Sworn to August 8. 1870 before me
David H. Golt Judge of Stark Co. Court. Ohio
To all whom it shall come I certify that I have some acquaintance with the above Elkanah Spear, that I have known him for the years past, and believe him to be a credible witness. Dated Aug 8th, 1870
David H. Golt Judge Stark Co. Ohio

I Samuel Brown of the Town of Newport, County of Middlesex State of New York, do, according to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" make the following declaration under oath That is to say - I do solemnly declare that I am a resident Cit- izen of the United States born of the Town County of State afore- said and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support - I do further declare that I was a private Soldier in the War of the Revolution - and that I served as such on the Continental establishment for the space of one year & eleven months - That in the commencement of the month of May 1775 I enlisted as a private Soldier in a Company commanded by Capt. Edward Seagraves in a Regiment commanded by Col. Jo- seph Reed of the Massachusetts Line on the continental estab- -lishment for the term of Eight months - That the said Regi- -ment was then stationed at Roxbury in the vicinity of Bos- -ton - That after the expiration of the said term of Eight months I immediately after enlisted for a term of one year in the same regi- -ment in a company commanded by Capt. Samuel Warren That soon after my enlistment for the said term of one year I was appointed to work as a Blacksmith and commenced labor as such in a shop in Roxbury - That in the latter part of March 1776 the said Regiment marched from Roxbury

a thing well known to the neighbors, was to go to Boviden in the State of Rhode Island, and from thence to New York when we arrived in the month of April 1776 that the said Regiment continued in New York until the month of September 1776 when the American Army evacuated New York - That during the time the said Regiment was stationed at New York I worked as a Gunsmith in a shop under the superintendence of the officers of the Army That after the evacuation of New York I was engaged with the British in the Battle of White Plains - from which place the Regiment towards which I belonged proceeded to Palkill on the Hudson River in the State of New York from which place the said Regiment proceeded to New Jersey, and in the month of December 1776 I was in that part of the Ameri- can Army which captured the Hessians at Trenton in New Jersey - That after the affair at Trenton, my term of service having nearly expired, I proceeded to Palkill in the State of New York where I again enlisted for the term of three months in a Company commanded by Captain Laurens Reed, and returned to the State of New Jersey, where I was finally discharged from the service - And I do here- by declare that I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, or of any individual State - and further that I am and fifty years of age -

room to April 20. 1875 } and I do further declare that I have lost E. G. ... } all papers that I ever possessed in relation to my service as a soldier
Dav'd Holt Judge of Herk Co. Pleas
Samuel Brown
State of New York } Niagara County }
County ) Nathaniel Scott . Being duly sworn saith That he is well acquainted with Samuel Brown who signed the foregoing declaration - and was in the same Regiment with the said Samuel in the Revolutionary war. That this Deponent well recollects the enlistment of the said Samuel for Eight months mentioned in the foregoing declaration, in the Regiment to which this Deponent belongs - That this Deponent also well recollects that the said Samuel, after the expiration of his first aforesaid enlistment for Eight months, as a private Soldier, for a year in Col. Read's Regiment Warrenton Company and Massachusetts line and further out his term to the knowledge of this deponent, who was in the same Regiment and saw Samuel Brown daily. - That the several en- listments of the said Samuel aforesaid were in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment. Nathaniel Scott
all over the
Sworn 19 June 1878 Before me.
"as a private soldier &c. Interlined and sworn again Before me 20 Nov r 1820
H. S. Miller
H. S. Miller
First trip of the year
First Judge of Probate

State of New York
Onida County, ss
I Francis A. Bloodgood, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Onida & State of New York, do hereby certify that the known Dear Morris S Miller ————— Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the foregoing Declaration  of Waltham Sept 11 is one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, duly qualified commissioned therefor and that his name affixed to said affidavit is in his own proper hand writing and that the said Court is one of the Courts of Record of said State of New York. — Given under my hand & the seal of said Court at Utica this 29 th — day of April — 18 June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen — Francis A. Bloodgood Clerk

71 Hoboken County ss: Timothy Rawson being duly sworn saith that he this deponent is now aged seventy years. That in the year 1775 & 1776 this deponent resided in the town of Cambridge where he was drafted in the service of the Continental Continuation - That this deponent well knows that the said Cambridge entered the Continental Army in the year 1775 as mentioned in his said Declaration, and that the said Cam- bridge continued in the army until the subsequent year in the month of August 1776 when this deponent saw the said Cambridge about twenty miles above the City of New York, when the Regiment to which the said Cambridge then belonged was stationed - That this deponent knows from his acquaintance with said Cambridge at that time that the said Cambridge remained in the Army some months after this deponent saw him as aforesaid in the City of New York - That this deponent is now well acquainted with the said Cambridge resides near him, That the said Cambridge has no property of his own & resides with his son on whom he depends for his support -
Sworn to July 11. 1818 before me David Holt
Timothy Rawson
Judge of Warrenton Court

Samuel Brownis Pension Papers
pen: to com: 1 March 1823.
Sent to Laurens Ford New River. N.Y.
Witness my hand & seal of office at Steubenville April 10. 1823 Hezekiah Benkwith Clerk

Schedule.
State of New York
Herkimer County } ss.
on this sixth day of July 1820, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County said Court being, by the Laws of the State of New York, constituted a Court of record, Samuel Brown aged sixty seven years, resident in the Town of Newport, in said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows - to-wit - One year & eleven months in all, being the term of eight months in the year 1775 in a Company commanded by Captain Edward Scagrave in a Regiment com- manded by Col. Joseph Reed of the Massachusetts line - at the ex- piration of which term I enlisted for one year in a Company commanded by Captain Samuel Mann, in the same Regiment aforesaid that during the said year I was stationed at different times at Roxbury in Massachusetts, at Providence, Rhode Island, at the City of New York, at White Plains & in New Jersey, & was engaged in the battle of White Plains & in capturing the Hessians at Trenton in the month of December 1776. That during the term of my service I was, part of the time, employed as a Blacksmith & sometimes in the City of New York as a Gunsmith, that the date of my original dislocation is April 20, 1815. That after the last

your service above mentioned expired, I again enlisted for three months in Captain Samuel Reid's Company and served all that time in New Jersey, when I was finally discharged from the Army. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1815 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it, or to bring myself within the provi- sions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the 'Revolutionary War' pension on the 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereby annexed by me subscribed, _____ I have no Real Estate of any kind. I have no personal property of any kind, excepting my wearing apparel, and the wearing apparel of my wife, - I have no mechanical trade, but have followed the business of a Farmer for my support, until within the several years past, when I have been unable, from the increasing bodily infirmities produced by my advanced

age, to support myself. I have no family except myself & my wife - I reside in the family of my son and am depend- ent on his assistance for my support. The clothing which belongs to myself & wife is only such as is necessary for us without any articles of luxury or superfluity -
Sworn to & subscribed July 6. '80 before David Root a Not. of Hulkin Co. Pa.
Samuel Brown
The Court is of opinion that the property contained in the foregoing Schedule is nothing
David Root } George Roucrantz } John J. Prendugast }

State of New York
Herkimer County S. I. Abijah Beckwith, Clerk of said County do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true Copy of Declaration or Schedule, on file, amongst the Records of said office - That the original was filed on the 14 th day of July 1820, as appears by the Certificate or indorsement of the Clerk thereon - that the Court of Common Pleas of said County was in Session on that day that David Hall George Rombautz & John J. Pundgaard were then of the body of said Court then attending said Court, and that their names subscribed to the original paper is are in their own several proper hand writing - Witness my hand & Seal of office at Herkimer Nov. 10. 1820.
Abijah Beckwith Clerk

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the extra section of the Act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836 -
State of New York
Herkimer County: On this tenth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before Richard Hermsen a Judge of Herkimer County Courts
Patience Brown a resident of the Town of New Port in the said County of Herkimer State of New York aged seventy five years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836: That she is the widow of Samuel Brown (the late of the said Town of New Port in said County State deceased) who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution as hereinafter mentioned Viz: That the said Samuel Brown (the late and during the Revolutionary war resided in Uxbridge in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts; that the said Samuel Brown (the was drafted on or about the first of April in the year 1775 at the said Town of Uxbridge in the said County of Worcester in the State of Massachu- setts into the Company Commanded by Capt Knapp in Col. Joseph Reeds Regiment for nine months in the State service as this declarant was then & always understood & believes & that in the said Samuel Brown (the was marched in Capt Knapp's Company to Boston and was stationed there Roxbury near Boston

V1946 In the matter of the declaration of Patience Brown widow of Samuel Brown 6 th for a pension etc
Declaration & proofs
Return answer or Certificate of pension to Richard Arendeen Esq. at New Port Herkimer County N.Y.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836 -
State of New York
Herkimer County: On this tenth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before Richard Hermsden a Judge of Herkimer County Courts
Patience Brown a resident of the Town of New Port in the said County of Herkimer State of New York aged seventy five years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836: That she is the widow of Samuel Brown (the late of the said Town of New Port in said County State deceased, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution as hereinafter mentioned Viz: That the said Samuel Brown (the late and during the Revolutionary war resided in Uxbridge in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts; that the said Samuel Brown (the was drafted on or about the first of April in the year 1775 at the said Town of Uxbridge in the said County of Worcester in the State of Massachu- setts into the Company Commanded by Capt Knapp in Col Joseph Reeds Regiment for nine months in the State service as this declarant was then & always understood & believes & that in the said Samuel Brown (the was marched in Capt Knapp's Company to Boston and was stationed there Roxbury near Boston

the latter plan being in the possession of the enemy She was stationed at Roxbury, and served in Leapt Knapps Company in Col. Reed Regiment at Roxbury as far as this declarant was informed & believes, and that nine months and that he was then marched with Col. Reed's Regiment to New York as this declarant was informed & believes before and that in the said Samuel Brown 6 th Subis was marched to New York about January or February 1776 at New York  Roxbury into the Continental service for one year into the Company Commanded by Capt. Warren in Col. Reed Regiment as this declarant was informed & believes but she is not certain that Capt. Warren was the name of the Captain although she thinks that was the name and that the said Samuel Brown 6 th served was stationed & served at the City of New York for the term of one year in the regular or Cont- inental service as this declarant was also informed & believes, & that he was then discharged from the service sometime in the Spring of the year 1777 as she believes, & that he had a certificate of discharge in writing from the service & that she has frequently seen the said certificate and that the same was destroyed many years ago by one of her children; And this declarant further states that as she was informed and believes the said Samuel Brown 6 th while he was stationed at New York was marched to Trenton and he was with the body of troops under General Washington at the capture of the Hessians the night after Christmas in the year 1776 and that he then returned back to New York and that he was sometime after was discharged from the service as above stated and this declarant further

he was sometime after was discharged from the service as above stated and this declarant further
states that as she was informed by her said Samuel Brown 6th enlisted after the expiration of his year's service aforesaid at the City of New York into Capt Samuel Reed's Company but she does not recall the name of the Col of the Regiment sometime in the winter of the year 1777 for three months in the Militia or State service and that he was stationed and served the said three months in New York as she believes, and that he was discharged from said service after having served three months for which he enlisted & she has seen said discharge and the same was destroyed or lost many years ago and this declarant saw him the said Samuel Brown 6th sometime in April 1777 at Mendon in Massachusetts where she then lived and this declarant further states that said Samuel Brown 6th during the time he was in the service aforesaid served some part of the time in Capt Scragg's Company but she does not recall but she thinks it was at Roxbury where it was during his service at Roxbury or New York, and this declarant further states that she was born at Mendon in Massachusetts on the 17th day of November 1761 and that she the said declarant was intermarried with the said Samuel Brown 6th on the 6th day of May 1778 in the parish of Chestnut Hill in Mendon aforesaid and there became his wife and that she was married by the Rev Joseph Willard pastor of said parish and he then appeared to be about thirty years of age and this declarant supposes he is dead; that Polly Traft who subsequently married David Miller was present at the marriage of this declarant; and that she expects she can prove her marriage by Mrs Miller who is now living at Hudson village in the State of New York and that

She is declarant that her said husband always lived together as husband & wife until his death and that she had five children by her said husband four of whom are now living; that she knows of no other person living by whom she can prove her marriage except by the Mrs. Miller above named; and this declarant further states that after she was married to said Samuel Brown 6th as above stated the said Samuel Brown 6th entered the service in the United States and served as follows Viz; that the said Samuel Brown 6th was called into the service at Chestnut Hill in London in the State of Massachusetts about the time in first of July 1780 & was marched with the Company under the Command of Capt. Isaac Aldridge & in the regiment Commanded by a Col. whose name she does not recollect but Refers Aldridge was Major of the Regiment and as this declarant was informed & believes in the said Samuel Brown 6th went to New Port in Rhode Island and was stationed there and the Militia were called to Rhode Island at the time of the threatened invasion of that State by the British; that the said Samuel Brown 6th was gone in said service sixty days before he returned home and that he returned home the last of August or first of September 1780 and she does not recollect of ever seeing any Certificate of discharge of the said Samuel Brown 6th from said service - And this declarant further states that her said husband was a pensioner under the act of Congress passed in 1785 1818 & that that the statement & proof of his revolutionary service, are as she believes on file in the office of the Secretary of War at the City of Washington & to which she refers

for a more particular account of his Revolutionary services, and prays that the same may be referred to on this in support of this declaration — And this declarant further states that the said husband Samuel Brown 6th died at New Port in the County of Herkimer & State of New York on the first day of May now last past leaving her his widow him surviving and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herunto annexed —
Patience Brown
Sworn to, and subscribed on the day and year above written before. Richard Herndee Judge of Herkimer County Courts
State of New York Herkimer County, ss.
I the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Herkimer, do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Patience Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and do verily believe that she is not able to attend court on account of bodily infirmity, and do further certify that the said Patience Brown sustains a good and fair character for truth and veracity, and that her testimony is entitled to credit,
Witness my hand the day & year above written Richard Herndee

State of New York Herkimer County ss.
Samuel Brown being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is son of Samuel Brown 6 th Decendant, and that Patience Brown is a widow of the said Samuel Brown 6 th , and that the said Patience Brown is the mother of this deponent as he has been informed and believes, and this deponent further states, that the said Samuel Brown and the said Patience have lived together as man and wife ever since he can remember, and that this deponent is now fifty six years old and has lived in the family with the said Samuel Brown 6 th and the said Patience Brown his father and mother since the year 1823, And this deponent further states that his father Samuel Brown 6 th was a pensioner under the act of Congress passed in 1818, And that the said Samuel Brown 6 th died at Newport in the County of Herkimer & State of New York on the first day of May last past, and this deponent leaving the said Patience Brown his widow and that she has remained his widow ever since that period, And that the said Patience now resides in the town of Newport County of Herkimer & State of New York Subscribed and sworn this 11 day of March 1837 before me
Richard Harnedum Judge of Herkimer County Courts
And I hereby certify that the above named Samuel Brown with whom I am well acquainted, is a man of truth & veracity Richard Harnedum Judge of Herkimer County Courts

State of New York Herkimer County, } Jacob L Sherwood being duly sworn
doth depose and say that this deponent is well acquainted with Patience Brown Widow of Samuel Brown 6 th Decade, that this deponent has for many years past been the family Physician of the said Samuel Brown 6 th , and that the said Samuel Brown 6 th and the said Patience Brown lived together as man and wife, and that the said Samuel Brown 6 th died at Newport in the County of Herkimer and State of New York on or about the first day of May 1836, leaving the said Patience Brown his widow, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period; and this deponent further states that the said Samuel Brown 6 th was a Pensioner under the act of Congress passed in the year 1818, and that the said Patience Brown has always sustained a good and fair character for truth, and that her testimony is entitled to credence
Jacob L Sherwood
Subscribed and sworn this 2 nd day of May 1837 before me, and I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent, that he resides in the town of Newport & County of Herkimer, and sustains a good character and that his testimony is entitled to credit Richard Herndum Judge of Herkimer County Courts

Stearns County Clerks Office p: 3
and hence writing
I hereby certify that Richard Stearns was on the day of the dates of the several within affidavits and certificates by him severally subscribed a Judge of the Stearns County courts residing in said County, duly elected and qualified - And that I am well acquainted with him and do hereby certify that the said several signatures genuine.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said County this 16th day of May A.D. 1837 -
E. A. Munson Deputy Clerk for John Dygert Clerk

To the Postmaster of Albany Newport N.Y. In the State of New York

State of New York Columbia County
Polly Mellen Wife of Dr. David Mellen. Being duly sworn Depones and says that before her marriage her name was Polly Taft & Daughter of Daniel Taft. That she was born in the town of Mendon (Chernut hill Parish, in Worcester County, Massachusetts. that she lived in the House, together with Patience Brown Widow of Samuel Brown Deceased, that said Patience was the daughter of Daniel Taft Senior, and aunt of said Polly Taft (now Mrs Mellen) that this deponent distinctly recollects, that in the year 1778 (but what month does not say) she saw said Patience Taft married to said Samuel Brown. that the marriage ceremony was performed in her Father's House, in the town of Mendon aforesaid, and that said Patience, was the youngest sister of her Father Daniel Taft. Said Deponent further says that she was born in the year 1771 and that she was about 7 years old at the time of said marriage, of Patience Taft to Samuel Brown. Subscribed and sworn to this 13 th day of April 1837 before me -
Polly Mellen
James Rowley Commissioner of Deeds
Columbia County
Clerks Office
I James Storm Clerk of said County. do hereby certify that James Rowley before whom the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the said County - And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the signature "James Rowley" above written is in his proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto in the absence of James Storm set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County this 13 th day of April 1837
Richard Carringin Deputy Clerk
P.S. Mr. Sherwood for one reason that I have not forwarded such a writing before now was that I was impressed with an idea that it could not be finished for the benefit of any

By own till Congress met again, and I expected to pass along the Canal to get a further on the and Wednesday in May next. Then thought I would try to pass through New York to where Aunt Bessie lived & expected to be at New York on that day afternoon or evening, and should like to receive a line from her or her son informing us where we should leave the railroad to get where Mrs. Bessie lives, but now I think to write on the opposite leaf on this subject, please to forward it to her David Neblett
Mr. Neblett P.S. This letter came to me and on Sunday from that it was for you. I forward it to you as it will be for your pleasure to read it. I hope I return it to you. Yours truly David Neblett
after 11 AM New York New York

I find the following on the records of the town of Mendon. Under the head of the intention of Marriage.
No. 7 th 1777 Between Mr. Samuel Brown of (Dorchester) and Miss Patience Taft of Mendon.
Marriages returned by the Rev d Joseph Willard May 7 th 1778 Samuel Brown of (Dorchester) and Patience Taft of Mendon, Married.
A true copy of record. Attest Stephen Taft (Town Clerk) Mendon April 15 th 1837 S of Mendon
Worcester ss. April, 16. 1837. I hereby certify that the above named Stephen Taft is the Town Clerk of Mendon.
Charles L. P. Hastings. Justice of the Peace.

1403 3489 In the matter of the application of Patience Brown for a pension
Declaration of proof
Hon Court of Pension is referred to the proof of Mr Brown's marriage on file in his office
Admitted
Pvate 12 months
And Certificate granted to A. Nelson Little Falls
X X
Hon. A. Lewis W2

War Department, Pension Office,
October 24, 1837
Sir,
The supplemental affidavit of Patience Brown, widow of Samuel Brown, 6 th has been examined. The claimant states that the colonel under whom the tour to Rhode-Island in 1780 was rendered was Philip Amadon. But in this she is probably mistaken, no colonel of that name appears on the rolls of the Massachusetts militia in this office. The name of Philip Amadon, a captain, is borne on the rolls as having served in Rhode-Island, in 1781, but there is no evidence in the Department that the claimant was in service at all after the date of her marriage. To sustain her claim satisfactory evidence of her husband's revolutionary services after that time is necessary.
I have the honor to be,
very respectfully,
your ob t . serv t .
Geo. M c Crump
Hon. A. Loomis, Little Falls, Herkimer co. N.Y.

State of New York County of Oneida
3d: On this tenth  seventh day of January  February in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before Israel Hoadley one of the judges of the County Courts of the County of Oneida aforesaid the same being Court of record according to the Constitution and Laws of the said State. Widow Patience Brown a resident of the Town of Franklin  Franklin in the said County of Oneida and State aged sixty seven  seventy seven years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declara- tion in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of Samuel Brown 6th who was a soldier of the revolution and also a revolutionary pensioner of the United States before and at the time of his death on account of services which he had rendered to the United States in the war of the revolution and she is advised and believes that the declaration and proofs of the services of her said deceased husband are on file in the office of the Honorable the Secretary of War of the United States at the City of Washington and she prays leave to refer to the same in support of her claim to a pension as the widow of the said deceased under the above mentioned Act of Congress and she would respectfully represent that she applied for a pension under a previous Act of Congress, and caused her declaration

and proofs. Her forwarded to the Commissioners of Pensions of the United States and she is in- formed and believes that the same are on file in the office of the Secretary of War and her claim disallowed as she is informed on the ground that she failed in making proof of her marriage to her said deceased husband before the expiration of his last period of service and she further states that the proof of her marriage to her said husband was obtained by her and as she believes is filed with her said declaration in said Secretary's office and she solicits the the Honorable Commissioners of Pensions to refer to the said proof as evidence of her said marriage and she further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Brown 6 th on the day of May in the year seventeen hundred and that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Brown 6 th died on the first day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty six. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but her marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four N.Y. at the time above stated - And she further respectfully represents that she has been under the impression and did believe that her said husband was in the service after her marriage to him but she is informed and believes that there is no evidence in the War Department that her said husband was in the service after the date of her said marriage - It was her recollection that her said husband was in the service on a tour to Rhode Island in 1780 under Major Philip Arnold

as Colonel but she is informed by a letter signed "Geo W m Orms" dated Oct. 24, 1837 that no Colonel of that name appears on the rolls of the Massachusetts Militia in the office of the War Department - And she further writes that the name of Philip Farnsworth a Captain is on the rolls as having served in Rhode Island in 1781 - She further states that she has now no recollection of this service - She now states that she may have been mistaken in her recollection upon the subject of her husband's service after their marriage - She says that her memory is considerably impaired by age and she may be incorrect in her recollection that her husband served after they were married and she says that the letter of said G. W m Orms has induced her to believe she is mistaken and she therefore has herein stated that she was not married to her said husband prior to his leaving the service and she yields to this belief and has made this statement in accordance with the information contained in said letter which is hereto annexed -
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me,
Patience Brown
Israel Woodard Judge of Common Pleas - and I also certify that the above named Patience Brown is unable to attend to court on account of bodily infirmity
Israel Woodard Judge of Common Pleas

Clerk's office, Owens County, Ky.
vs. J. James Dean, Clerk of the said County, certify, that the Hon. Isaac Stoddard was on the 28 th day of November 1879, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, duly commissioned & sworn, and residing in the said County:— And that the signatures above, or within, written purporting to be his are genuine.—
Given under my hand and seal of office, this 1 st day of December, A.D. 1879.
J. James Dean Clerk

Ray
WIDOW, &c.
Am
File No. 24671
Patience Brown
Wife of
Samuel Brown
Ohio Rev War
Act: March 3/43 June 17th 1844.
Index:—Vol. A , Page 92
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Report
14.03
New York
Patience Brown Widow of Sam Brown the 6th who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 1st May, 1836, of Oneida in the State of N.Y. who was a Piv. in the Comp'y commanded by Captain Warren of the Regt commanded by Col Reed in the Mass. line for 20 mos. 7 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 67 Dollars 43 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of July, 1846 and sent to Hon. C. S. Denton, Sec'y of War.
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. Humphreys Clerk, Book D Vol. 1. Page 529
Increased from $40 per ann. Deduct all former payments under this act.

Reported Let to Hon C. S. Benton 15 th May 1846,
1095 New York, Albany Patience Brown
widow of Samuel Brown 6 th who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th day of July 1843 and sent to B. P. Johnson Rome, New York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A , Vol. 1 , Page 101 .

New York
Patience Brown
Susp d - Let to Han A
Mann Jp - June 9. 1837 let. H. A. Loomis, Oct. 24, 1837.

Albany 1,403
Patience Brown widow of Samuel Brown 6 th
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18. March 1818 and who died on the 1. st May 1836 of Onondaga in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Warren of the Regt. commanded by Col. Reid in the Mass. line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 40 Dollars ————— Cents per annum to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834. 2. May 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Dec. 1838 and sent to Hon. A. Loomis, H.R.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. '38 93.55 Semi-annual allowance ending 1 st Mar. '39. 20.00
$113.55
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2 Page 67

1261
May 24. 1843
My
Man 3 rd 1843
Patent Brown.
$40 per am
B.P. Johnson
Rome
N. York
Wm Lloyd Washington
Essex
John Smith

Home W.
May 17 th 1873
Dear Sir
In Enclosed I find you app r Patricia Brown for Kennia may I ask the favor of return as far as consistent with duties of yr office
Very Resp ly I have the honor to be
Yours R. H. Johnson

34489 Mabel DeLo
NY
7 July '38.
Patience Boorne
J. L. Edwards Esq
Mr. Adams on Mr. Adams No
Robbin Linnypson Newington

Washington Dec 8, 1898
I enclose Pension application of Patricia Brown - Have examined & communicate to me
Respectfully
H. Morris
Hon J. L. Campbell

Washington March 20 th 1824
Dr Sir
By the accompanying papers you will perceive that the War Dept. will not allow a Pension to Mr Brown until he pursues the instructions herewith forwarded.
Since receiving the papers from the War Dept. I called upon Mr Calhoun & stated to him that the papers of Mr Brown had been made out & regularly transmitted to his office, that they had been sent back to you for correction, & that they again had been forwarded to him, & were now either mislaid in the office, or miscarried, & that the affidavit now before him stated all the material facts necessary to establish his Brown claim. His answer was that it was unfortunate for Mr Brown, that Genl. could not be accountable for their misfortune & that it was absolutely necessary for Mr Brown to pursue the Rules laid down, - thus you see that that the whole of this business has to be done over again.
J. Ford Esq.
Very Respectfully Yours &c John Bell

Increase
Patience Brown widow of Samuel Brown 6 th NY
act 7 July, 1838
Adm d 20 mo 7 ds p/m $67 43 p m
deducting what has been paid at the rate of $100 00 per ann - to commence from 4 March 1836 -
Adm d 3 March 1843 $67 43 p m
deducting what has been paid at the rate of $40 00 per ann Hon C S Brinton share of Rebs

Frankfort 31 st May 1837
J. S. Edwards Esq
Sir
I am requested to forward to you the enclosed appli- cations emanating from very respectable sources to desire your favorable consideration & decision.
Yours Respectfully & truly J. Mann Jr.

Utica N.Y. June 15 th 1846
James L. Edwards Esq. Sir Sir
In compliance with yours of the 15 th ult in the case of Patience Brown I have the Honor to transmit herewith to you the Certificate of service rendered by said Brown in 1775 and will await the result which please communicate to the Hon Charles S. Buel
I have the honor to be very respectfully your obedient servant
Morris H. Cullen

Pension Office
May 15. 1846.
Sir,
I have the honor to return Mr. Cullen's letter in the case of Patience Brown, and in reply to state, that her pension was computed for her husband's service in 1770, established by the proofs filed in his application under the Act of 18 th March 1818, and will be increased by the amount of service which the rolls in the Office of the Secretary of Massachussetts, may show he served in 1775, under Capt. Seagraves.
I have the honor to be, very Respectfully Your old Servant. J. L. Edwards
Hon. C. S. Benton House of Rep s .

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Feb. 21, 1846.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the Name of Samuel Brown, is borne upon a Muster Roll of the Minute Men of Douglas, under Command of Capt Benjamin Wallis in Col Arnold's regt, as a private, from April 19, 1775. 7 days. Upon a Muster Roll of Capt Edward Seagraves Company, in Col Joseph Read's regt in the Eight Months Service, as a private from May 1 to August 1, 1775. 3 Months and 8 days, probably travel is included. As a private, upon a Return of same regt & Company, dated September 23, 1775. And upon an order of same for Military Coats dated, Nov 23, 1775. The name of Job Knap, mentioned in the annexed application, is borne upon said Capt Seagraves roll, as 1 st Lieut. The above is all the evidence of service, which can be identified with the individual described in the annexed application.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Parsons;
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, MADE BY THE Widow OF THE PARTY WHO RENDERED THE SERVICE.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of my husband Samuel Brown in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Douglas in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts . He enlisted from the Town of Douglas in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts in the year 1775, as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Job Knap in _____ Regiment _____ and he served as follows, viz:— Was at Roxbury New York, and Trenton N.J. when the Hessians were taken and also at the battle of White Plains. Said Samuel Brown 6 th served under various other officers and among others Col Seth Reed and of Capt. Segrave. Said Samuel Brown was also called into service a second time. Said Brown served in various other places and under divers other officers this his said Widow does not now recollect
I am now Eighty four years old, and my memory does not enable me to state my Husbands services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, at Newport this twentieth day of December A. D. 1845
Signed by said in my presence,
Patience Brown
patience brown
Jacob Ellison
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

Hobkirk Nov. 10. 1828
Hon. Secretary of War
Sir
The communication of Lieut. S. Edwards, from your office, under date of 4 th inst. respecting the Pension claim of Samuel Brown came duly to hand last evening. I now enclose a copy of the declaration of sd Brown made according to Law in 1820. I should have sent this copy with the other papers, but the original was an indorsement "copy delivered", from which I was induced to believe that a copy had been sent to your office in 1820. - This will complete all the papers necessary to procure the pension, as you informed me by sd Edwards, that upon the other points the proof was satisfactory according to Law. The only question will relate to the date from which the pension shall commence. I think there can be no doubt that the pension will commence as early as March 1. 1823. The proof was all complete as early as July 1820. and the delay which has happened in presenting that proof to the department cannot, I think, deprive the applicant of the benefits of the Pension from the date of the Act of 1823. By the most rigid construction that can be given to the third Section of this Act, the Pension is to commence from the time when the proof in each case shall have been completed, if this does not go back beyond the date of the Act. In the present case this proof was complete as early, at all events, as July 1820.

I presume that the construction of this Law, in cases similar to this of Mr Brown, has been settled at the Department, and that it would be, at least, useless, for me at this day to address to you any thing in the form of an argument upon it - I cannot, however, forbear to remark, that, considering the caution usually observed in arranging the language of Acts, passed by Congress, the third section of the Act of March 1. 1823, is unusually vague & indefinite in some of its terms, - The word "thereof" which is important in the construction of this section, cannot with propriety, according to the idiom of our language, be applied to the Law in which it is contained - If it is restrained in its construction to the Law of 1815 & 1820 - then there will be nothing to prevent the provision of Mr Brown taking its date from the last Affidavit which he has forwarded or at most from July 1820 -
Yours &c
Lauren Forster

Abstract of Papers in the Case of Samuel Brown an af- -fiant for a Pension under the act of 1818
1 st Original Affidavit made by Mr Brown Apr. 20. 1818 - 2. Aff t of Nathaniel Scott in support of Mr Brown, Aff t made June 19. 1818. Before Morris Miller First Judge of Pseudia County - the Certificate of Judge Miller properly authenticated by the Clerk of Pseudia County - 3. Aff t of Edward Spear made Augt John May Rawson, made July 11. 1818. .
Then on the papers, which were originally sent to the War Department and, the Aff t of Brown, & Rawson being properly verified by the Certificate of Judge Scott. The papers found a part of a package containing the Papers of Mr. Brown & others - The papers of Mr Brown were then returned for an additional Certificate from the Judge -
4. Afterwards the Affidavit of E. Spear was obtained, and the papers were forwarded again to Washington. They were again returned because it was supposed that Mr Brown might have existed as an artificer - The additional proof upon this point was then procured - being the second affidavit of E. Spear & the Aff t of Smith White - These last Affidavits have never been at the Department. After they are obtained, forward the papers

were supposed to have been lost, or mislaid in the war depart- ment - and a set of affidavits were made out & forwarded to Washington to the Com. of the House. John H. Harkness, who then represented this district in Congress, for the purpose of procuring for Mr Brown the Pension - on the account of the loss of the original papers - The reply of Lieut. Harkness, to my letter in- closing these affidavits, is herewith sent - The affidavits to which the letter alludes are probably on the files of the Department - In- -tion these facts, in order to account for the great length of time that has passed since these papers were made out - Mr Brown has given up all idea of recovering the papers and was preparing to renew his application through the agency of Mr Hoffmeyer, our representative in Congress, when by mere accident the original papers were dis- -covered -
In July 1820 Mr Brown made in open Court, his Declaration respecting his property, when the Court determined it to be nothing I saw on examining the original Declaration on file in the Clerk's office, that a copy was delivered July 14. 1820 - I presume it was given to me & has been forwarded to the Department, al- -though I am not certain on this point, not having kept an accurate memorandum of these matters -
I believe the papers must be entirely satisfactory, and the

only question will relate to the time when the Pension is to commence - I should hope that it would date from the original declaration in April 1818 - The doubt on the subject, to which the subsequent affidavits were procured, only related to the question whether Mr Brown entitled as a Soldier or an Artificer and did not affect the principal question - I should therefore hope he might receive it from the first date - At any rate I think there can be no doubt that it must date as early as Nov. 1820 -
The accidental loss of the original paper was probably owing to some inadvertence on the part of myself, my partner or any clerk - The package was found in a bundle of old office papers which were laid aside as useless - They were undoubtedly put there by accident and are found by me whilst searching for an old office paper to which I had occasion to refer -
Yours &c
Lauren Ford
Dear Sirs, in return to you at this place -
Hoboken (N. J.) Oct. 27. 1828 -

1261 In the matter of Patience Brown an applicant for Pension under act 1832,
1261
D. P. Johnson
Great Rome
Onondaga
11/29

DECLARATION ACT, 1843.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. ONEIDA COUNTY,
On this 29 th day of April 1843, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, personally appeared Patience Brown — a resident of the town of Goree in said county, aged 81 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1843, granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of Samuel Brown  6 th who was a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner of the United States, and a statement of whose services will be found on the records of the Pension office Washington
and that she received under the Act of July 7th, 1838, a Pension of thirty dollars  forty dollars per annum; She further declares that she remains a Widow, and has done so ever since the death of her husband.
Patience Brown
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. ONEIDA COUNTY,
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written, and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Patience Brown — and know her to be the person described in the above declaration, and who was a Pensioner under the Act of July 7th, 1838.
A. B. Hinkley JUSTICE.
I certify that the word forty was interlined before execution A. B. Hinkley Justice of the Peace
I J. Sheldon Root CLERK OF THE COUNTY OF Oneida do hereby certify that A. B. Hinkley Esq was on the date of the above certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly appointed and qualified, and that the signature above purporting to be his is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name, this 9 th day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
J. Sheldon Root CLK Mrs. F. Little Dep

Patience Brown.
Pension matter
affidavit additional
Pension office
Resides in
Ny.
Hon. A. Loomis H.R.

Further declaration of Mrs Patience Brown widow of Samuel Brown 6 th in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4 th July, 1836 - State of New York County of Oneida } "                    On this 7 th day of
On this 23 rd day of August - in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before me George S. Ferris Comr. of dets for one do ex Patience Brown lately residing in the Town of New Port in the County of Herkimer in said State and now residing in the Town of Florence in the County of Oneida in said State aged seventy four - years who being first duly sworn According to law doth on her Oath make the following further and additional declaration to the declaration which she caused to be transmitted to the Honorable Secretary of War of the United States and as she is informed and believes is now filed in the office of the War Department Pension Office in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836; That she is the widow of the said Samuel Brown the deceased and has never intermarried since his death; that her said husband served in Captain Sears Aldridge's Company at Rhode Island in the year 1780 as she stated in her first declaration in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel H. A. Midon of Mendon (Mass.) according to her best information and belief and that the other officers of said Regiment as she was informed and believes were Rufus Aldridge Major of Daniel Root Adjutant and further doth not Patience Brown
James H. Johnson Esquire then 23 rd day of August 1874 before me Geo. A. Smith County of Adams

Smith White of Milford in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. do Testify & Say That I Samuel Brown of Newport County of Warwicker, State of New York Blacksmith was in the Continental Service of the United States in the Revolution War in the year of Eighteen hundred & Seventy Six who enlisted under Capt Samuel Warren for one year in Col Joseph Reed's Reg't who served in the same Company with me during the year & when I was discharged I left him in the Service Said Brown joined the Service at Roxbury near Boston in State of Massachusetts & his year expired at P'keepsie in State of New York & I never knew of his leaving the Service during said Term but served faithfully during said Term according to the best of my knowledge Smith White
Worcester ss. November 6: 1820 Then the above named Smith White made oath to the above deposition by him subscribed before me Pearley Hunt Justice of the Peace
Worcester ss November 6: 1820 This may certify that the above named Smith White is a Respectable & Credible Witness - Smith Pearley Hunt Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester , certify, that Peabody Hunt, Esquire , before whom the annexed affidavit has been made, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this seventh day of November
A. D. 1820.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk.
App. tion of Sam l Brown.

State of New York,
Hutchinson County } } I. David Holt, one of the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas in & for the County of Hutchinson, do hereby certify that from the affidavits hereto annexed, I am satisfied that Reuben Hildreth, Samuel Brown, & William Dexter did severally serve in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy in the manner & for the terms stated in their several affidavits and I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Samuel Brown, Reuben Hildreth & W m Dexter, and know them to be destitute of property and in need of the assistance of their Country for their support - and that I am personally acquainted with each of the witnesses named before me for said Hildreth, Brown & Dexter, with the exception of L. Moffatt, and that they are credible witnesses.
Dated Feb. 15. 1820
David Holt
State of New York
Hutchinson County } } I Walter Fish, Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in & for said County, do hereby certify that David Holt is one of the Judges of said Court, that his name subscribed to the several affidavits hereto annexed is in his own hand writing, that said Court is one of the Courts of record in the State of New York.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office at Hutchinson the 15 th day of February 1820
Walter Fish Clerk

State of New York Herkimer County
Samuel Brown, being duly sworn, saith, that the former statement made by him in his original declaration, made on the 20th day of April 1818, and to which this affidavit is annexed, is true — and that his enlistment under capt. Warren, for a year, as stated in said declaration, was as a private soldier ; — that the said Samuel was enrolled and continued as a private soldier, notwithstanding he labored for a considerable part of the time as a blacksmith at Roxbury and as a gun smith in New York during his said years service — that he was detached as an artificer by his commanding officer, but that he never received any other pay than that of a private soldier, nor did he at any time consider himself as any other than a private soldier; and that his services as an artificer were rendered occasionally, as required by his officers, the said Samuel being subject at all times during his said years service to perform, and that he did perform all the ordinary duties of a private soldier, excepting when he was occasionally otherwise employed as before stated in the artificers shops attached to the army.
Samuel Brown
Sworn to November 24th 1820, before me
David Holt
Judge Herk Co. Pleas

State of New York Herkimms County } ss -
Elkanah Spear, being duly sworn, saith, That he always understood that Samuel Brown's second enlistment, for a year, in captain Warren's company, as stated by the said Elkanah, in his affidavit which is herunto annexed, was as a private soldier - That during the whole time when the said Elkanah personally knew the said Samuel to be in the service, in the years 1775 and 1776, the said Samuel performed duty as a private soldier, and that the said Elkanah knew the said Samuel to be on duty as a private soldier in capt. Warren's company, after the said Samuel's enlistment for a year, and previous to Col. Riedt's regiment leaving Roxbury, for between two and three months, ending in the month of March, in 1776
Elkanah Spear
Sworn to November 24th 1820, before me
David Holt
Judge Herk. Com. Pleas

Saul. Brown
Pension
Paper

State of New York }
Washington County } ss. I Abijah Burkwith, Clerk of said County do
hereby certify that on the 24 th day of November 1820
David Root was first deq of the Court of Common Pleas
in said County & that his signature to the Affidavit
hereunto annexed dated Nov: 24. 1820, is in his own hand writing. Witness
my hand & the seal of said Court at Washington Oct 27. 1828
Abijah Burkwith Clerk