Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,652, Joseph Brown, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Brown, Joseph 1st
S 44,652
CONTENTS
In 1818 aged about 57 years and a resident of Orange Co. N.Y.

New York Rolls.
966
Joseph Brown, 1 st Capt Jackson Private 4 N. York line in 1777. 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Enscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. R. Riker, New York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
4 months 5/30
$33.33
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Col Van Rensselaer
Dead see roll
Orange Co.
See letter to Hon. G. Kemble Sept. 11. 1837
July 15 1819.

44 652
INVALID.
Rev
am
File No. 44 652
Joseph Brown
Pris. Rev. War
Act: 18" March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 61
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New-York.
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, ss.
I, BENJAMIN FERRIS, Clerk of the City and County of New-York and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said City and County,
Do hereby certify, That Richard Riker, Esq.
before whom the annexed affidavits were made, and who hath subscribed his name to the Certificate also hereto annexed, was on the day when the said Affidavits were made, and the said Certificate signed, Recorder of the City of New-York, and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, and duly commissioned and sworn. And further that the said Court is a Court of Record of the State of New-York; and that the signature of R. RIKER subscribed to the said Certificate is the proper hand writing of the said Richard Riker.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this first — day of May 1818
Benj. Ferris Clerk

Joseph Brown Soldier
4 New York Pkt. a Livingston.
correct

This is to certify that the Bearer Joseph Brown served as a soldier in my Company in the New York Line & in the Continental Army of Regular Forces in the American war with Great Britain upwards of six years, to the best of knowledge and belief - and during this period he was a good & faithful soldier as Witness my hand this 30 th day of April 1818 at the City of New York
Isaac Howker Lieut Capt - 1 st Regt

To the Hon. Richard Riker Recorder of the City of New-York, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a Court of Record of the State of New-York.
The Declaration under Oath of Joseph Brown formerly a soldier engaged in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, now a Citizen of the United States and resident of Orange the City and County of New-York, respectfully sheweth,
THAT the said Joseph Brown enlisted as a soldier sometime in the first of January 1774 in Captain William Jackson's company in the fourth New-York Regiment on the Continental Establishment commanded by Henry B Livingston for three years and actually served the said term and then engaged for the war and continued in the service of my country against the common Enemy until peace in 1783 and was then honorably discharged from the United States Service at New Windsor State of New-York by His Excellency General Washington and have lost it. I was at the action at Peekskill and I was at the taping of General Burgoyne, and I was at the taking of Earl Lord Cornwallis I am now about 57 years of age
And the declaration further sheweth, that the said Joseph Brown is now a citizen of the United States, resides in the city of New-York, and is, by rea- son of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for support
Therefore the said Joseph Brown conceives himself entitled to the benefit of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," approved 18th March, 1818, and requests your Honor will examine into the truth of the matter aforesaid, certify and transmit

the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the premises, as is by law in such case made and provided. And in support of the facts above set forth, the said Joseph Brown refers to James Seals who was in the same Regiment with me all the war and knew me well
City and County of New-York, ss.
Joseph Brown of the County of Orange of the City and County  and State of New-York, being duly sworn, saith, that the matters by him set forth in the foregoing Declaration, are in all respects just and true.
Sworn before me this thirtieth day of April — 1818, }
P Pike
Joseph Brown
Recorded of the City of New York
City and County of New-York, ss.
James Seals of the City of New-York aforesaid being sworn, saith, that he was well acquainted with Joseph Brown in the Revolutionary war under the Continental Establishment from the year 1777 in a Regiment commanded by Col. Henry B. Livingston , and that he was a good soldier to the end of the war, and that he was a good soldier as I was in the same Regiment with him a non-commissioned Officer
Sworn before me this thirtieth day of April 1818 }
P Pike
James Seals

City and State of New-York, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirtieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me Richard Piker Recorder of the City of New-York, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a Court of Record, personally appeared the aforesaid Joseph Brown —
who being by me duly sworn to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing Declaration and from the declaration under oath of James Scott who was a non-commissioned officer in the same Regiment and well known by me and entitled to due credit — and also by a Certificate from Captain Fowler of Respectable Standing in Society —
WHEREUPON I being satisfied that the said Joseph Brown did serve in the Service of the United States under the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and longer, to wit: for the term and the manner stated in the Declaration of the said applicant; and that the said applicant is fairly and justly entitled to the benefit of the Act aforesaid. THEREFORE I DO HEREBY CERTIFY and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, as before set forth, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War.
GIVEN under my Hand and Seal of the said Court, in the City of NEW-YORK, this thirtieth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
R Piker