Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24678, John Brown, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Brown, John Betsey
VP 24678
CONTENTS
born 1757 in Wells (later Kennebunk) York Co. Me. lived there to 1832. died April 9, 1811

Maine
11.548
John Brown
of York Co. in the State of Maine who was a Dr. in the Company commanded by Captain Parsons of the Regt commanded by Col Storer - in the Mass - line for Troops -
6 Mo. 26 Ds Pr 22.85
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 22 Dollars 85 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of May _____ and sent to _____ 1833 M rs B Palmer. Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1883 45.70 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 11.42 57.12
Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. D. Payne Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 1 Page 3

Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of July 1849 and sent to
E. C. Bourne Haverbrook Me
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act January 2, 1848, Page 4 Vol. 1

John Brown
No 65
No 65

Maine District } COUNTY OF YORK, ss.
State of Maine.
Special District Court
ON this Seventh day of August personally appeared before the United States District Court at Kennebec  at Kennebec  John Brown a resident of Kennebec in the county of York and State of Maine aged Seventy five years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the years 1777 and 1781 with Captains Nason and Reed and served in the Militia regi- ment of the  line , under the following named officers of Massachusetts .
In the summer of the year 1777 I enlisted into Copt Joshua Nason's Company for four months in Col Joseph Storer's Regt and marched to Saratoga in the State of New York where I served out the full period of my enlistment and was at the expiration of said enlistment discharged near Albany in the said State of New York. I was present with my company and Regiment at the taking of General Burgoyne's Army which I think was in October of that year. I think I was something more than four months in this service, but I enlisted for four months only and I claim no more than four months in computing my pay for it. About the first of September 1781 I enlisted again at a place called Camden in Maine into Copt John Reed's company of militia for three months and served out the full period of my enlistment, we were stationed at Camden a portion of the time and afterwards at a place now called Barnesboro eastward of the Kennebec River, as a guard. We marched to several other places a long shore during the time. Col Cobb or McCobb I think it was that commanded the Regiment. I was born in Wells now Kennebec in the year 1757 which has always been my place of residence.
I went voluntarily into the service and served as above stated. In the expedition of taking General Burgoyne's Army at the northward I enlisted at Kennebec then a parish of Wells. I went from Kennebec to the eastward before I enlisted into Copt Reed's company in 1781.
I cannot find or hear of any individuals living that was in the service with me, which  at the eastward . A part of Copt Reed's company was I think stationed east of the Penobscot River there were also some troops stationed at Portland then called Falmouth, at the same time of this service we were paid by the State and had higher than continental wages. We were discharged in December from the service last mentioned.
John F. Brown mark

enlistment, we were stationed at Camden and afterwards at a place now called Bainbridge eastward of the Kennebec River, as a guard - we marched to several other places a long shore during the time. Col. Cobb or Mr. Cobb I think it was that commanded the Regiment. I was born in Wells now Kennebec in the year 1757 which has always been my place of residence.
I went voluntarily into the service and served as above stated. In the expedition of taking Quebec Burgoyne's Army at the northward I enlisted at Kennebec then a parish of Wells. I went from Kennebec to the eastward before I enlisted in to Capt. Reed's company in 1781.
I cannot find or hear of any individuals living that was in the service with me, which  was at the eastward. A part of Capt. Reed's company was I think stationed east of the Penobscot River there were also some troops stationed at Portland then called Falmouth, at the same time of this service we were paid by the State and had higher than continental wages. We were discharged in December from the service last mentioned.
Yours John F. Brown mother
N.B. on the 24th of April 1781 - a Resolve of the Legislature of Massachusetts authorized the raising of troops for the defence of the eastern part of the Commonwealth - Col. Lord Cobb was appointed commandant - Genl. Wadsworth then a major

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any,) only on that of the agency in the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
his John X Brown mark
Before me, Warren just the kind of a man for the best of them.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I, John Mufsey Clerk of the District Court for Maine District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Brown — for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fourth day of January A.D. 1833.
John Mufsey Clerk

John Brown Declaration and Evidence of the service of John Brown
Admitted
6 mos 26 ds.
$22.85
This cov not before presented Jany 1873—
Declaration made in August last - 1872
Maj. B. Palmer Past

I Isaac Emery of Kennebec  Hobbs , in the county of York and State of Maine aged 76 years testify and declare that I am acquainted with John Brown of Kennebec in said County a revolutionary soldier.
Said John Brown was a soldier in Capt. Jonathan Nason's company in Col. Joseph Storer's Regiment enlisted for four months in the latter part of the year 1777, and was at the taking of General Burgoyne's Army in the state of New York near Saratoga in said year. Brown was four months in this service.
I know these facts from having been a soldier in the same company and served with said Brown, and from having known him from his youth, and indeed near to him. The said Brown was afterwards in the service at the Eastward before the close of the revolutionary war, but as I was not in that service can give no particulars of it. It must I think have been two or three years after the taking of General Burgoyne's Army before the service of said Brown last alluded to.
Isaac Emery
State of Maine
York ss January 4-1833 Then personally appeared Isaac Emery of Kennebec a credible and disinterested witness and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed. Before me Barnabas Palmer justice of the Peace.
Maine District
District Clerk's Office January 10 th A.D. 1833
In testimony that Barnabas Palmer Esquire is a Justice of the Peace and that the signatures above and to the annexed papers purporting to be his, are genuine I have hereto set my hand and seal of office the day and year last above written.
Orne Mufsey Clerk U.S. Courts

I Samuel Brown president of the same town and state of the within mentioned Isaac Emery and a brother to John Brown a revolutionary soldier and applicant for a pension named within, testify and declare that the deposition of Isaac Emery has been read to me, and I know the facts of the absence of the said John Brown from home in both the services alluded to in said deposition of said Emery. I know too that the said John Brown went to home in both cases with the avowed intention of going into the army and was in each case several months absent. John Brown is older than I am, I was not a soldier in the revolutionary war, but I was twelve years old or more when my brother John first went into the service. My Father had previously been a soldier, stationed on the sea board in the town where I reside -
Samuel his Brown Mark
York Jd
State of Maine
Kennebec January 4-1853. Then personally appeared Samuel Brown and made oath to the truth of above deposition by him signed - and I certify that the said Samuel Samuel Brown is a credible witness. Before me
Baronas Palmer justice of the Peace

Kennebec Barnes and Stowe We Joseph Fuller a clergyman of the town of Kennebec and James Osborne Jr Post Master of Kennebec on oath testify and say that we are acquainted with John Brown of Kennebec a revolutionary soldier. We believe him to be of the age he represents himself to be in his declaration before the District Court of the U.S. (viz seventy five years old) Said Brown is reported to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war and we are of the opinion that he was a soldier in said revolutionary war against the common enemy of the United States.
Joseph Fuller
James Osborne Jr.
State of Maine
York ss January 17th 1833 Then personally appeared Joseph Fuller a respectable clergyman of the town of Kennebec and James Osborne Jr Post Master of said town and made oath to the truth of the above declarations by them signed, and I certify that they are credible and disinterested witnesses - Barnabas Robbin Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Dec. 24 1832.
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 John Brown was a private soldier in Capt John Reed's company in Colonel Samuel Mcobb's Regiment. It appears that the said Brown enlisted on the fifth day of September 1781 - and was discharged the first day of December of the same year his services being in all two months and twenty-six days as appears from said Rolls - Edward D. Bangs. Secy

NO 13865- Betsy Brown. Wid of John Me
Act 7 May 1828 Married 1791 Husband died 1842 admitted -
Pn $22.85 per an. Act 3 March 1843 & subsequent acts. Com 4 March 1843.
husband died 9 th April 1842.
E. S. Bourne. Kennebec, Me

State of Maine York county ss.
On this fourth day of November 1840, personally appeared before the Subscriber, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of York, Betsey Brown, a resident of Kennebunk in the County of York, aged eighty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits 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 John Brown, who was a private in the Revolutionary war, and served as stated in his declaration for a pension under the Act of June 7. 1832. She further declares that she was married to said John Brown on the first day of April seventeen hundred and ninety one - and that her husband the aforesaid John Brown died on the ninth day of April eighteen hundred and forty one. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, or at the time before stated.
Witness,
W. C. Allen.
E. E. Bourne
Betsey
her mark. Brown
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written - the said declarant being

unable in consequence of age and bodily infirmity, to attend court,
Before me,
Mr. C. Allen,
Judge of the Court of Probate, York county, Maine.
State of Maine.
York county ss.
I William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the county of York and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that William C Allen Esquire is the acting Judge of Probate within and for said county duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature above writ- ten is genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this sixth day of November A D 1848
Wm Hammond
Register of the Court of Probate for said county of York

Extract from the Records of the Church of the First Congregational Parish in Kennebec, in the County of York and State of Maine under the head "marriages"
"April first Seventeen hundred and ninety one" "Jn s Brown and Betsey Cluff"
a true Copy from the Records of said Parish Church with the exception of date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows; immediately after the word "90. — "Ap r 1. 91".
att. Tim s Frost Clerk of the First Congregational Parish Kennebec.
I Timothy Frost above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk of the First Congregational Parish, in Town, County — and State, aforesaid and the above is a true extract from the Records of said Church, with the exception above named as certified by me,
Tim s Frost Clerk of said Parish.
Kennebec Nov r . 14 th . 1848. —
State of Maine
York County ss. Nov 14, 1848. Personally appeared Timothy Frost who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me
Edward E o Bourne Justice of the Peace

I John Brown of Kennebec in the County of York and State of Maine, aged sixty one years, do on oath testify and declare that my father John Brown, who was a Revo- lutionary pensioner died on the ninth day of April eighteen hundred and forty two - I was at the house the same day he died. I further testify that my mother Betsy Brown is still living and continues his widow, never having been married since his decease -
Witness E. P. Burnham
John Brown
State of Maine
York ss. Nov 10 1848 - Personally ap- peared Benjamin John Brown who is a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me
Edward E. Bourne Justice of the Peace

I Mary Drown of Kennebec in the county of York and State of Maine, aged forty six, do, on oath, testify and declare that I was a near neighbour of, and well knew, John Brown late of said Kennebec, a Revolutionary pensioner deceased - I further testify that I was present at his funeral - and that he died in the month of April eighteen hundred and forty two - I further testify and declare that Betsey Brown his widow is still living, never having been married since his decease. Mary Drown
State of Maine
York County ss Nov. 11 1848 - Personally appeared Mary Drown who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by her subscribed Before me
Edward E. Bourne Justice of the Peace

State of Maine. County of York - So
I William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of York and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Edward E Bourne Esqr is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly com- missioned and qualified and that his Commission was dated on the fifteenth day of June A D 1848 and will expire on the fifteenth day of June A D 1855 and that his signatures herein before written are gen- uine,
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this fifth day of Decem- ber A D 1848
Wm Hammond Register of the Court of Probate for said County of York

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24,678
Betsey Brown Widow of John Brown Rev Rev War
Act: Feb 9 th 1828
Index:—Vol. A , Page 92
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N 13865
Betsey Brown
Mr
Ldy to E. C. Brown
June 5 '49
a d 7 May 1838

John Brown Mr. act 7 June 1832, $22 85 per ann
To what time was the last paid? J.B.A.
Pension Office { paid to 4 th March 1842. May 31. 1849 { Correct. P. 4 th March 42, Wm Tyson Mrs Brown States that her husband died 1841

8599 Maria
Betsey Brown widow of John who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 22 Dollars 85. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of July 1849 and sent to
C. C. Bourne Haverbrook Me.
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 2 Page 1.

State of Maine.
YORK, ss.
I, James O'McIntire Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, do hereby certify that William B. Sevall of Kennebec in said County of York is a Justice of the Peace
in and for said county,
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is
duly commissioned and qualified to act as such; that his commission is dated March 6 1847 and will expire March 6 1854
and that the accompanying
signature purporting to be
his , is
genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this Sixteenth day of June Anno Domini 1849.
J O'McIntire Clerk.

I Edward E Bourne of Kennebec in the County of York and State of Maine, Enquire, do on oath, testify and declare, that I prepared the original declaration of Betsy Brown for a pension, whose application is now pending before the Pension department of the United States - and that John Brown, whose widow she declares herself to be, was the same person who was a Revolutionary Pensioner - I well knew said Brown, and in September eighteen hundred and forty one and in March eighteen hundred and forty two, at which time I went to his house, I administered to him the oath and took his acknowledgement, to his semi-annual pension power. I further testify, that said Betsy Brown, his widow, made application to me to assist her in obtaining her pension soon after his death - But that, I refused to take charge of the case under the rules of the Department then existing, not feeling myself bound to incur the risk of paying the charge of a judge, who lived twenty three miles from her, she being, on part, a pauper, and not able to pay any thing - I had also just finished a case which, with very reasonable charges had cost me over Fifty dollars - and no person was alive who was in the service with her husband - I fear

the testify, that the mistake in calling the year, of said Brown's death "Forty two one", instead of "Forty two" was not discovered until after the expense of the Subpoena Subpoena, had been incurred. That the widow stated that it was "seven years ago in April" - I prepared the declaration supposing that it was the last April, and not the April following. I presume the mistake was mine, and not hers. As it was corrected in the depositions, I did not suppose that the mistake would be of any importance. I further testify, that I have known that the said widow of John Brown was alive from the day of his death to the present, and, as soon as I saw the resolution of Congress, in reference to testimony in such cases, I called on her and told her that I would assist her in obtaining her pension.
Edward E Bourne
State of Maine
York ss. June 15 th 1849. Personally appeared Edward
E. Bourne, who is a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed.
Before me William B. Sewall, Justice of the peace, for said county of York

49 Kamebunkville Jun 18
Le G. Sir
In the case of Betsy Brown as plaintiff for Rev. Penson I send you my own deposition, which I trust will furnish satisfactory proof of identity —
Very respectfully,
Your obedt servant
E. E. Bourne
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Com. of Pensions

Kennebunk Me. Dec 5-1848
Le Sir
I herewith send you the necessary papers to establish the claim of Betsy  Abby Brown for a pension under the act of '38 and those subsequently passed - In explanation of the long delay of the application I have to say, and it is the only reason, the Agent of the Poor in this town applied to me soon after the death of the husband, to obtain the pension for the widow - I replied that I knew nothing about the case not having obtained the original pension of the husband, and that the expenses of getting it would be such that I was unwilling to set about - all the men who went from this neighbourhood, who knew any thing about his service being dead - I had been trying a whole year then to get a pension where I had incurred an expense of 40 or 50 dollars - and I would not attempt it unless some one would guarantee the payment. No one else here had been in the habit of doing business of the kind and the case was abandoned, until the

passage of the Revolution of the last long years making the former testimony conclusive —
The old lady or myself, I do not know which, it will be seen make a mistake in the time of the death of the husband — She says it should be seen years next life, and not the last. —
Respectfully —
Your Obedt Servant E E Bourne
Dear L. Edwards, born of Pennons Washington D.C.