Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,141, Austin Brooks, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Brooks, Austin
NUMBER
S. 32,141
CONTENTS

3 2 141 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32, 141
Austin Brooks
Rev Rev Val
Act: June 1 st 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Illinois 36.983.
Austin Brooks of ... Co. in the State of ... who was a ... in the ... commanded by Captain ... of the ... commanded by ... Gray ... in ...
9. No ... 30.00
Inscribed on the Roll of ... at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the ... day of ... and ... 6 ... 34 ...
Arrears to the 4th of ... 00 Semi-ant. allowance ending ... 15.00
1.0 5.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by ... Clerk, Book ... Vol. ... Page ...

31, 641 Austin Brooks
Illinois
f 1778 p 9- p 30
on Roll
G. Forquer Springfield

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 State of Illinois Sangamon County }
In this 3 rd day of May, in the year 1834 personally appeared before me Am. Samuel D. Lee Revd. Judge of the Circuit Court in and for the County & State of Illinois, Austin Brooks a resident of aforesaid County aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law, took an oath and made the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832 that he entered the Army of the United States in the year 1778 with Captain Charles Cotton and the — Regiment of the Massachusetts Continental line under the following named Officers, To wit Colonel Grayson, Lieutenants Colonel (I think) Doring and a adjutant Cheney: Entered the service in March for nine months — at Springfield Massachusetts we were marched from Springfield to West Point in New York from where we were marched to the White Plains where we joined the Army under General Washington and were attached to the Brigade commanded by General Mifflin Colonel Putnam commanded a Regiment in the same Brigade — In the fall under the com- mand of General Mc Dougall we were marched into Connecticut and from thence into the State of New York in the Highlands between Poughkeepsie and Fishkill where we wintered. Here in the month of March we were discharged the nine months having expired. I received a written discharge which I have since lost, but by whom it was signed I am unable to state — Early in the fall of 1778 I re-enlisted. I served as a Private. I was never engaged in a battle — I hereby declare with every Admiration to a pension or an annuity.

except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Rolls of any Agency in any State
Given under my hand this 3 rd day of May 1834 Austin Brooks
affidavit of said in Open Court
Sam l Blackwood Judge
And the said Court does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and entitled as he states
Sam l Blackwood, Judge
I Charles R. Matheny Clerk of the aforesaid Court in and for the County of State do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Austin Brooks for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3 rd day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four
C. R. Matheny Clerk