Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,689, Amos Brown, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
Continental Mass.
Brown, Amos Hannah
NUMBER
W. 23,689
CONTENTS
In 1818 aged about 70 yrs. son of Lemuel & Abigail (Brown) Me. d. Dec. 5, 1827
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10,288
Maine.
James Brown
of Limn in the state  District of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon of the Mass line, for the term of three years .
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of May 1819 and sent to Isaac Dario Esq. Fryeburg, Maine
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 cont. 10/31  82.00 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819  48.00
$130:09
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Notification sent the 15 th June 1820 to John Mayhew Esq. Esq. Port Royal Maine Sept 15 th 1823

Maine - L 284
Hannah Brown,
widow of Amos Brown,
Mass who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th Mar '18, and who died on the 5 th December 1827 of Gout in the State of Maine who was a Pvt. in the Company commanded by Captain Lane of the Reg t commanded by Major in the Mass s line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Sep r '39, and sent to A. McCutcheon Esq. Me.
Arrears to the 14th of Sep r - $280.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 40.00
$320.00
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burrows Clerk, Book A Vol. 15 Page 3
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th Apr il 1838 from 11 th March to 27 th May 1846, age notified 21 st July 1841.
Dead

Moses Brown
Private Col: Weyans. Regt. Mass. June 1777 - to 1780 - dec: 27 th April 1838
On note
Conceit L

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Bedford - On this twenty seventh day of April A 1818. before me the Subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate and first Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Com- mon Pleas in said Commonwealth Amos Brown of Bir- mingham in said Circuit personally appeared aged about seventy years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the pen- sion made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war that he said Brown served in the revolutionary war on the Continental establishment between four and five years. that he entered for eight months, on the seventeenth day of May A 1775 into the company commanded by Capt. Pitkin in Col o Baldwin's Regiment, Gen. Israel Putnam being the Commander General - and served out that time and then entered for a year into the company commanded by Capt. Col. Robertson in Gen. Poore's Brigade, that he served out that time; and again entered into the company com- manded by Capt. James Lane in Col o Nixon's Regiment in Nixon's Brigade Massachusetts Line for three years that he served out the last mentioned time of three years & was regularly dismissed & discharged at King's Ferry on the Hudson River York State - that he kept his discharge for many years & that it is now lost & that he is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support -
and in addition the deposition of Capt. James Lane a credible witness states, that he entered said Brown into his said Lane's company in which he served as a soldier under said Lane's command for more than two

year, that said lone then left the company; but has no doubt but said Brown served out the full three years, the term for which he enlisted in sd company which was then in Col o Thomas Nixon's Regiment said lone deposition was taken by a magistrate duly authorized to take the same
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid - Isaac Dana Judge &c
I Isaac Dana Judge &c as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Amos Brown did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months , on the con- tinental establishment - and that he is reduced in his cir- cumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support - and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Hon. Secretary for the Department of war pursuant - to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and af- fixed the seal of said Court this twenty ninth day of Sep r - AD 1818
Isaac Dana Judge &c

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Effords
The subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in said county do at Fryeburg in said county on this first day of October A.D. 1818 certify and make known that the Hon. Judah Dana who signed the foregoing certificate is Judge of said Court of Probate & is first Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the First Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth and that said instrument is under the seal of said Court of Probate.
Attest Timothy Gage Reg. of Probate

N 49. Amos Brown
Gofy Limerick
(70.288)
Con. town
(Sept 1819)
10/8
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the ninth — day of June and by adjournment from day to day , on the seventh day of June — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS , Judge of said Court.
ON this seventh day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Amos Brown — aged seventy four years, resident in Limerick — in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private — in the company commanded by Capt. Jabez Lane in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Nickson in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 27 th day of April — A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 10.288 — was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; 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 so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Amos Brown
Sworn to and declared, on the seventh day of June A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Albion K. Parris
{ U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate — none
Personal estate — Two hogs — I have no income I live in a log house — very poorly furnished
Amos Brown
Sworn to
Before
Albion H. Parrish U.S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Amos Brown — who, by occupation am a laborer — which I am not able to pursue by reason of the infirmities of old age
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Wife, Hannah — 55 has the rheumatism   Desire — 17 able to support herself   Didama — 14 — able to work  
Amos Brown
Sworn to Before
Albion H. Parrish U.S. Dist. Judge

John Mussey Junr 1000 100 10 1 MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is sixteen dollars and no more  cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventh day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$16—

4072 Widow Hannah Brown's application -
4072 Hannah Brown
Me out July 38
x m 81 day some record reg d
adm d 2 yrs pri 80 P
No deduction
A. McArthur
A. McArthur Alfred
Me
Me
Widow Hannah Brown's application

STATE OF MAINE.
York
County of Somberland , ss.
On this third day of September A.D. 1838 personally appeared before William A. Hayes - Judge of the Probate Court for the county of York aforesaid Hannah Brown a resident of Litchfield in the County of York and State or District of Maine, aged seventy five 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 July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay, and pensions to certain widows." That she is the wid-
ow of Amos Brown late of Litchfield in the county of York aforesaid who was a private in the army of the Revolution in the Massachusetts line that according to declarations made to her by said Amos Brown he enlisted under Captain Job Dyer & says that he enlisted at three different times & served in the whole five years & eight months that he applied & obtained a pension for revolutionary services & continued a pensioner until he died which was on the fifth of December A.D. 1827 the number and date of his pension certificate I know not but think according to the best recollection that he was inscribed on the pension list of the Maine agency in 1818.
SHE FURTHER DECLARES, that she was married to the said Amos Brown on the eighteenth day of March in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one and that her husband, the aforesaid Amos Brown died on the fifth day of December A.D. 1827 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz. at the time above stated.
Hannah Brown
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
BEFORE me Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate York County Maine

Arthur McArthur Justice of the Peace
State of Maine York County ss. I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Arthur McArthur is an acting justice of the peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the eleventh day of December, A. D. 1834, and will expire on the eleventh day of December, A. D. 1841, and that his signature above written is genuine -
Given under my hand and the seal of said County this fourth day of September, A. D. 1834.
Jer. Bradbury Clerk

I Petetiah Brown of Simsbury in the county York & State of Maine of the age of fifty five do hereby testify & say that Amos Brown late of Simsbury in the State of Maine a pensioner for Revolutionary Services deceased & Hannah Brown now of said Simsbury widow of said Amos are, according to my belief founded upon as good evidence as any other men have of their nativity, my parents; that I am the oldest child of eleven children of said Amos & Hannah; that there was never kept any family record of the ages of the children to my knowledge that my father was illiterate & could not write that , that the ages of the children are only known by us traditionally; that I was told my age when I was quite young & there kept it as a by year in my memory since; that my father and mother Amos & Hannah Brown lived together as man & wife until he died; that I have heard the legality of the marriage of my father & mother as regards also the legitimacy of their children discussed; that my age is fifty five years according to my belief as above stated. Petetiah Brown.
State of Maine York ss: on this twenty ninth day of August A.D. 1839 the above named Petetiah Brown personally appeared, who is to me well known & sustains a good character for truth & veracity.

and made solemn oath to the truth of the above written deposition by him subscribed Before me Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace
City

I the undersigned of the County of York & State of Maine do depose, testify & say - that I knew one Amos Brown formerly a resident in this town. There is a record that he was a Pensioner of the United States - that during his life my father now deceased supplied the said Amos with necessaries for his family I held his pen- sion certificate as security - And that Han- nah Brown now resident in this town was the lawful wife of said Amos by reputation - that frequently during the lifetime of said Amos I have seen the said Hannah in company with him at my father's store for the purpose of pro- curing family necessaries - I also depose that one Pelech Brown a son of said Amos by the said Hannah now resides in this town - that in my opinion he is nearly fifty years of age - certainly more than fifty years - and must have been born as early as A.D. 1789 - and that I never heard that any suspicious was ever entertained as to the marriage of said Amos & Hannah or the legiti- macy of their children -
Abner D. Donald
State of Maine York ss on this twenty eighth day of August A.D. 1839 personally appeared

Moses McDonald to me will know & who sus- tains a good character for truth & veracity I read solemn oaths to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Before me Arthur W. Arthur Justice of the Peace

I William T. Harris of Simerick in the county of York & State of Maine do hereby testify & say that I was duly elected Town Clerk for the said Town of Simerick at their annual meeting for the choice of Town officers in April A.D. 1837 & have been elected in 1838 & 1839 following & have been duly sworn & performed the duties of said office ever since my first election & am now Town Clerk for said Town of Simerick and duly sworn & qualified by law to perform the duties of said office; that on the twenty eighth day of August A.D. 1839 I examined the records of said Town with a view of ascertaining the record of the marriage of Amos Brown with Hannah his wife and find no such record from the commencement of the record to 1820, that the Town of Simerick was first incorporated as a Town on 6 th of March A.D. 1787. that there are very few families in the said Town that have caused the birth of their children to be recorded & that the birth of the children of Amos Brown do not appear to be recorded, that it appears by said records that the Town of Simerick voted to exempt said Amos Brown from taxes in 1795 and that no record of marriages are to be found on the Town records previous to the incorporation of said Town, that there is no presumption to be raised by an examination of said records against an alleged marriage prior to 1794

in the town of Limerick.
William T. Morris
State of Maine York ss: On this twenty eighth day of August A.D. 1839 personally appeared the above named William T. Morris to me well known and who sustains a good character for truth & veracity & made solemn oaths to the truth of the above deposition before me subscribed Professor Arthur M. Austin Justice of the Peace

I Sally White of Parsonsfield in the county of York & State of Maine, widow of the age of seventy five years disrespectfully & very that I was personally acquainted with Amos Brown late of Limerick in the county of York & State of Maine & Hannah Brown his relict & widow and was acquainted with them both before they were married and Amos Brown aforesaid was married to Hannah Brown aforesaid by Elder Peletiah Tingley a Baptist Clergyman at Waterville in the county of York aforesaid on the eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & eighty one & I was present at the wedding & my first husband my first husband Ephraim Durgin was there with me & I do not recollect any other persons who were present. Said Brown was reported to be a revolutionary soldier & has since drawn a pension as I understand for revolutionary services and the said Hannah Brown's name was, before her marriage, Hannah Durgin & she was a sister to my first husband & she is now an applicant for a pension. The said Hannah Brown has continued a widow ever since and has not married again.
Sally White
State of Maine York ss On this fifteenth day of December A.D. 1838 personally appeared Sally

within named to me personally & will know and who disclaim a good character for truth & veracity & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition before subscribed
Before me Arthur M'Arthur Justice of the Peace

I Peletiah Brown of Limerick in the county of York & State of Maine of the age of fifty seven years do hereby testify & say that Amos Brown late of said Limerick deceased was my father he was reputed to be a revolutionary soldier & was pensioned for revolutionary services and that Hannah the wife of said Limerick a widow and an applicant for a pension was my mother & was the wife of said Amos & now his widow & a list of that said Amos Brown died at said Limerick on the fifth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty eight twenty seven. Peletiah Brown
State of Maine York ss: On this fifteenth day of December A.D. 1838 personally appeared Peletiah Brown known to me well known & who sustains a good character for truth & veracity & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed Before me Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace

V 4072
Maine
See A. Mearns, May 22 '39 - do. Aug 20. 1839
act 7 July 38

I Arthur McArthur of Simington in the county of York & State of Maine depose testify and say, that the marriage of Amos Brown formerly a pensioner for revolutionary services and late of Simerick in the State of Maine with Hannah Brown his widow now of Simerick in said State is alleged to have been solemnized by Rev d Petetiah Singley a clergyman of the Free will Baptist denomination long since deceased, and that I have no doubt but the marriage was solemnized as so alleged; that I was personally acquainted with said Singley and know him to be a respectable clergy- man & in the habit of solemnizing marriages, that he was a graduate of Yale College and was very aged exceeding the age of seventy years when he died, that he resided in the town of Waterville Maine, being the adjoin- ing town to Simerick, that at the time of the solemnization, as alleged, of said marriage neither the town of Waterville or Simerick of said were incorporated and of course have no town records prior to the incorpora- tion which incorporation of both towns was in 1787, that no record of the marriage afore- said can be found on the records of said towns; that I have made diligent search

and cannot find the records of the said Peterboro Tringley; that said Tringley was not the pastor of any particular church in his denomination but was but was ordained an evangelist or itinerant preacher, which is agreeable to the doctrines of that society which I believe are that all ministers should be so ordained and that hence is to be inferred the reason that his records are not lodged with any particular church or corporation but kept in his own immediate possession, that said Tringley being poor there was no administration on his estate and conse- quently his papers lodged with no ad- ministrator; that I am convinced to a certainty that no record evidence ex- ists of the marriage aforesaid except the record of the said Tringley and that I have made ample and thorough search for his said Tringley's records and cannot find them if they have an existence, that I have no doubt of the truth of the witnesses who testified of being present at aforesaid marriage whose deposition was sent with Mrs. Brown's papers to War Department, that I personally knew Amos Brown & Hannah Brown previous to said Amos

Proven death, that they lived together as man & wife & had a numerous family of children and that one of their children Deceased. My own by name alleged to be their son is apparently about fifty five years of age.
Arthur M c Arthur
State of Maine - York ss. On this eighteenth day of July A.D. 1839. Personally appeared Arthur M c Arthur to me well known and who sustains a good character for truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the above deposition. — Before me Abner Mitchell Justice of the Peace
Signature of the magistrate (Abner Mitchell) Justice of the Peace
State of Maine.
York ss. I Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate of the county and state aforesaid, hereby certify that Abner Mitchell is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the ninth day of March, 1837, and will expire on the ninth day of March 1844, and that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 18th day of July, 1839.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Reg. Prob. York Co.

Alfred Sept 4 1839
Sir, Indeed are the depositions of William T. Morris, Phebe Ann Morris & Moses McDonald to be used in the application of Widow Hannah Morris for a pension -
I am respectfully
Your H on ble Servt.
Hon James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
A. M c Arthur

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office, July 15 th , 1841.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The children of Hannah Brown, dec d , a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maine Agency, at the rate of Eighty — Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 24 th May 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Wilson N. Sapping
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

For James E. Edwards, Commission of pension Washington (D.C.)

Simington Dec r 18 th 1838
Sir,
Inclosed are applications of Lois Sutton, Hannah Brown, Sarah Bragden, & Mary Jewell for pension.
I am respectfully Your Ob t Serv t .
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
A. McArthur

Me. July 30
Hannah Brown
add. pr. [ ]
Springfield Me July 24
Hee
James S. Edwards
Commission of Pensions
Washington
(D. C.)

Linnington July 24 th 1839
Sir, Inclosed is my deposition to be used in the case of Hannah Mason applicant for pension - I have produced to the Department the best evidence, I think, that the nature of the case will admit of, which is all cumulative. The deposition on file in connection with my own interest, which I am necessarily compelled reluctantly to do, as I am the only person to my knowledge who has made the diligent search required in the deposition for the records of Rev. Belieah Young. He puts up no apparent doubt but when the strict but prudent rules of the Dept. as to the form of evidence are to be strictly adhered to & when the minimum grade of evidence is to be one competent witness of the marriage I have supposed that no greater higher grade of evidence than of the nonexistence of any other evidence of the fact than the witness would be required than what I have here produced if however it should be otherwise will you please to communicate it.
Hon James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
I am respectfully Yours ob t Serv t
A. McArthur

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23689
Hannah Brown
Wid of
Amos Brown
Brn Mass line
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:—Vol. A , Page 91
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Maine.
York, ss.—
I, JOHN SKEELE, Register of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of York, being a Court of Record, hereby certify that
William A. Hages is Judge of said Court of Probate and that Arthur M c Arthur is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and that the signatures to the papers hereunto annexed and purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty- eight.
John Skeele } Register of Probate York County.