Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3762, Garrit Brass, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
NUMBER
W 3762
Brass, Garrit Garret n Lucy
CONTENTS

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1837 to the 25 Nov r 1837, the day of his death. Agent notified 114 July 1838.
Pittsburgh, Ohio 29.849
Garrit Brass
of Geauga Co. in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Banister of the Regt. commanded by Col. Newell in the Massachusetts line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of March 1833 and sent to Miss Perkins Osborn, Painesville, Ohio
  Arrears to the 4th of March 35.  320 00    Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 35.  40 00     $360.00  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D Brown Clerk, Book E 2 Vol. 5 Page 139

11484 Ohio  Pitts. Co
Lucy Bragg
widow of Garret Bragg
who was a Private
in the Mass. line
for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars —————
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of August , 1843 and sent to
of Muncieville, Ohio.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 4 . Vol. 1 Page 136
Let 62 C Pams of C 3 1844 arrears repd. 79 Apl 14th requested to deduct overpaym. Oct Aug 15

April 7 1834
Ohio. original
Given to Mr. ... under the seal of ... of the ...
Thomas ...
Secretary of State
Washington
D.D.
See

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.
The State of Ohio
Yankee County ss On this twenty ninth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty four personally appeared before me Simon Rosa an appropriate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Geauga and State of Ohio, and which is also a Court of Record. Gavit Beas a resident of the Township of Mentor in the County of Geauga and State of Ohio aged Sixty seven 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 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States, in the year 1781 and in Westfield Massachusetts with Captain Banister, and served in the press Company commanded by Captain Smith and of 5th Regiment commanded by Col. Root of the Massachusetts Line that he afterwards joined under Captain Hurdang, same Regiment, Col. Root commanding same Regiment. Major & stating that he served in Westfield Hampshire County Massachusetts where he enlisted, and does not recollect the names of the Company officers except Captains Root and Banister. Smith and Hurdang, and that he marched from Springfield to West Point on the Hudson River, from West Point he marched through New Jersey to Philadelphia, and then back again to West Point, and then went from West Point down the Hudson River in boat to Verplank's, or Hagg's Point, where he remained from Spring till fall, and from there he went up the River by land to New Windsor & vicinity there, and the next Spring returned to West Point where he remained until the 10th 11th day of December 1783 when he was discharged by the Honorable John Knox Major General Commanding the American forces on Hudson River, as appears by the discharge now in his possession and that he was not in any battle. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the pension, and he hereby declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any

agency in any State. George P. Ross
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Storm Rosa
Associate Judge
And I the said Storm Rosa associate judge as aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served in the States and I do hereby certify that the said applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend any Court of record in said County of Geauga
In testimony whereof I have set my hand at Mentor aforesaid this 29th day of March A.D. 1834
Storm Rosa Associate Judge
The State of Ohio Geauga County ss
W. S. S. Tichenor Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Geauga and State of Ohio do hereby certify that Storm Rosa Esquire before whom the foregoing application for a pension was made was at the time of the state thereof and still is an Associate Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and sworn and that said Court is a Court of Record. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Rosa and that the signature Storm Rosa above is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Chardon this 31st day of March 1834
W. S. Tichenor Clerk

Painesville Georgia County Ga. March 31 1832
Dear Sirs
Secretary of War Sir
We hereby forward the application of David Beap, of this County for a pension, and enclose his Certificate of Discharge. We request the favor of an early answer. Very Respectfully &c
William D. O'Brien
106 Sia and Gains

The state of Ohio
Guadalupe County ss. { On this 6 th day of December 1843. personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in & for the township of Clinton in the County aforesaid Lucy Bragg a resident of said Clinton, aged seventy three years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the amount of pension which she claims from the 4 th of March 1836 to the 25 th day of November 1837 - from which period she has been already paid under the act of the 7 th July 1838. And the declarant further alleges that she is still the widow of Garrett Bragg who was a private during the Revolutionary War, that her pension was allowed at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, and was paid to her at the Agency in Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania - and Note the declarant further says that her pension was paid up to September 4 th 1841, which should be deducted, if the Government credited the Agent with the payment made after 4 th March 1841, if not the amount should be paid to the declarant & by her refunded to the Agent - And further she saith not
Lucy Bragg
Sworn to & subscribed in the day & year above written before me
Samuel E. Stephenson Justin Root

The State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County ss.
I Reuben St. John Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County do hereby certify that James E. Stephenson is a duly qualified Justice of the Peace within & for the Township of Clinton in the County aforesaid
And moreover that his signature above written is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court at Cleveland the 15 th day of December 1843 -
Reuben St. John, Clerk
Lucy Page
Witness to the foregoing James E. Stephenson Justice

Town Clerks Office Chester 29 th Sept 1838-] Be it known, that I Otis Taylor of Chester in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, having examined the records in the Town Clerks office in said Chester, do find there a certain record in the words following (to wit)
"Chester April nineteenth Seventeen hundred ninety two, then was married by the Revd Aaron Bassett Mrs Garret Brooks to Miss Lucy Matthew both of Chester, - "David Shepard Town Clerk"
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss. 29 Sept 1838 }
I Otis Taylor above named do hereby say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town, County & State above said, and the above is a true copy from the Records of the Town of Chester, with the exception of the dates expressed in letters - the original being in fair legible figures -
Otis Taylor } Clerk of the Town of Chester
Chester 29 th Sept 1838 then the above named Otis Taylor personally appeared and made oath to the above
Before me - J. S. D. Mott Justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Hampden do certify that J. B. D. Wolf was at the date of the within certificate by him subscribed a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hampden duly commissioned and qualified under the Authority of this Commonwealth and that full faith, credit and credit are and ought to be given to all acts done by him in said capacity
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas at Springfield on this Ninth day of October A.D. 1830
John Ingersoll Clerk

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Garrit Brant a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. 77.3762
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Oct. 1780 3 years Private Smith & Hendin Northall Pa.   Oct. 1781 ✓ Joseph Rose Pa.   discharged Mar. 31, 1783  
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, _____
Residence at date of application, _____
Age at date of application, _____
Remarks: He was born at Chester, Pa. on Dec. 12, 1758. He died Nov. 25, 1837. His widow, Mary, filed an application for a pension on Dec. 20, 1838, while a resident of the City of Philadelphia. She said she resided at West Philadelphia. O. son having joined the army and being discharged.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

(No 1. Paine Painswick 8)
The State of Ohio } On this 12 th day of May Lake County ss. } 1843. personally appeared before me, the the subscribers a justice of the peace of said county, Lucy Bragg a resident of Chester in the county of Ashtland aged seventy three years, and to me personally known, who being 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 on the 3 rd March 1843. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Garet Bragg deceased who was a private in the army of the Revolution, that she received a pension under the act of July 7 th 1838, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum that she cannot state the Regiment or corps in which her late husband served, for want of recollection. She further declares that she is still a widow. —
Lucy Bragg
Sworn to, & subscribed on the day & year above written — Before me, Lewis Miller & Penn
The State of Ohio } Lake County ss. } I John M. Hovden Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County over

and State aforesaid. do hereby certify that the above named Lewis Miller is an acting justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid. and moreover, that his signature above written is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix- ed the seal of said Court at Pain- swille this 12 th day of May AD 1843. John W. Gandon Clerk By. C. A. Adams. Deputy

1397 Ohio (Sept 11) 7 July 1838 Mr Brap
James J. Schuch
Commissary of Arms
Washington City D.C.

Providence R.I. Sep. 4 th 1838.
I shall forward evidence of the marriage of Miss Mary Estlin with the Rev. John G. Nichols
Respectfully Grace Peabody Adkins

Ohio Jan 28 Mrs B. B. B. Forbes
May B. B. Ann B. B. Mrs B. B. B.
Edward B. B. Commissary Sergeant Wellington City D.C.
FREE

Winchester Va. January 21. 1839
Dear
Sir In the fore part of November last I forwarded to your office records proof of the marriage of Miss Lucy Braps to Ganett Braps in support of her claim to a pension under the act of July 7. 1838 which had been forwarded some time previous to that period. The records also in the case of Ann Forster to Samuel Forster has been forwarded from Braps all the records for some time they are poor widows and are inexpecting me to know the success of their application Thinking it time to review their certificates I am induced to write to the Department being aware at the same time that there is a great amount of business on your hands
I have the honor to be Respectfully
Ira C. Raine
Atty at Law
James Madison Esqr Washington City

Painesville March 7 th 1842
Sir Enclosed you will find a declaration of Miss Lucy Pratt for arrears of pension. A similar declaration was sent by her some months since, but I presume it never reached the Department, as it has never been heard from. The returns may be sent to me at this place, very Resp y your ob st Serv t
M a C. Paine
Daniel S. Edwards Esq. Washington D.C.

Chic. Nov 2. Dear friend Lucy B. Bap.
James J. Edwards Esq.
Com. prisoner of War.
Washington City
D. Green

Fairview Ohio
Oct. 25 th 1838
Sir
I send you herewith a copy of the record of the marriage of Miss Lucy Brap in 1792. It varies a trifle from the form adopted by the Department but I hope not sufficient to effect your decision upon her case as she has been at great pains and considerable expense in procuring the same from Mass. you will recollect it was laid aside some days since with surplussed cases. I am Sir with great Regard
Your obedt Servt
Ira C. Paine Atty at Law
James L. Edwards Esq. Washington City

March 30 1844
Sec Wilson
Lucy Brap Eliz Marshall Quart 505 1/2 J. B. ...
Can make ... Washington

Greensboro March 24 th 1844
Dr
Sir I do not know but you received your letter to me of Ap 13. 1843. a sufficient answer to the Application of Miss Lucy Braf for arrears of Pension under the act of July 7 th 1838. In that letter you are pleased to say "In answer to your letter of the 4 th inst. I have to inform you that there are no arrears of pension due under the act of July 7 th 1838. in the cases of Lucy Braf and Elizabeth Markell, the former pension Agent at Pittsburgh having paid each of them five years pension ." Now this is entirely a mistake, in neither of the cases alluded to were the applicants paid five years pension. Miss Markell's pension commenced May 25 th 1837. Miss Braf's commenced the 27 November 1837. From the 4 th March 1836. up to these respective periods, their pensions are yet justly & honestly due from the Government (except I believe that the Agent did pay each of them six months pension after March 4, 1841 contrary to the instructions of the Department). If the former Agent reported that they had been paid five years pension, it is an error as no such arrears can be pro-

Under, I have always drawn up the accounts of Miss Markell & Prof. & Annu. up to what time they were paid. I presume the false report of the former Agent will not curtail the rights of these par- ties. I know of no other reason why the certificates for arrears of pension, should not have been forwar- ded to them, having some weeks since rec d other certificates in which the applications were made long since, those referred to.
I am Sir, Resp. your ob st . serv t
Lt. S. Edwards, Esq r Comm d & c o
Ina C. Raines

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 10. 1838.
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 widow of Garrett Brase deceased a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburgh, Penn. Agency, at the rate of eighty Dollars and " " " " " " per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837 to the 25th Nov r 1837, the day of his death — Respectfully, yours,
Abd. K. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Lucy Broot Ohio
 suspended
 for 8 Oct 1838 J. C. Paine
Act 7 July 1838

Discharge 1 st December 1783. by Major Gen l Knox. as being enlisted for three years.
Discharge returned to Mr. Braps.

Act 7 June 1833 Garnet Prap. Ohio
Suspended
See letter 8 th April 1834
To Messrs Perkins & Osborn Jamesville Geauga Co Ohio.

When a pension Certificate for Annuity under Act 1838 shall be issued in this case, direct the Pension agent to deduct the over payment from 4 th March 1841 to 4 th Sept r 1841.
Garret Braps Chir. P.O. No 7 June 1832 to what time paid Pen Offic Act 6. 1838
• • Direct to the 1838 p th then paid H

32.859 Garret B. 1844 ap Ohio
f 1781 p 2 yr
p 80 Hon. J. S. Edwards Commission of Pensions
Washington D. C.
Mrs. Perkins Alm Painsville Ohio

The State of Ohio Guadua County ss.
Personally appeared before me Aaron Rosa the undersigned an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County and State. Gaveit Braff of Westport in said County, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, bodily infirmity, and consequent loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his service as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades. In the last part of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty, or some of the first months of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one I enlisted with Captain Banister's Muster Master for three years at West- field Massachusetts. Early in the Spring of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one I was ordered to Springfield, Massachusetts, where I remained under drill, and as the attendant and waiter of Captain Banister until some time in the fall of the same year, when I was ordered to West Point. The only circumstance by which I can determine the time is that when I arrived at West Point, the troops were just returning from the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown, by which I must have been with Captain Banister, five months at least, dating from the first enlisted until I arrived at West Point as before said as a private. The reason I remained so long with Captain Banister was that he wished me to remain and attend him as an assistant and waiter, which I did until I became weary of that kind of life, and declined doing so any longer. When I arrived at West Point I was furloughed, and entered the first Company now in existence Captain Smith in the fifth Regiment of the Massa- chusetts line commanded by Colonel Doolittle as a private. I cannot recollect nor state the period of my service in said Company under Captain Smith the same Company was afterwards commanded by Captain Wadsworth as a Quartermaster and the Regiment by Col. Joseph Doolittle. I served as a private in the same Company and same Regiment until some time in the month of December and I think the sixteenth of that month in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty three when I was discharged from the service as will appear by my discharge forwarded to the pension office with my application for a pension.

The whole period of my service I believe was about three years. and for such service I claim a pension.
Garret Braw
Sworn to and Subscribed this eleventh day of September A.D. 1834
Before me: Storm Rosa Associate Judge
And I the said Storm Rosa being a practising Physician and Physician do hereby certify that from the infirm state in which the said Garret Braw has been for some years past during which I have been acquainted with him, I have no doubt but that his memory has been very much impaired, and that he can not state more positively and definitely, the period of his service as a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. I further believe that there is no deception practiced by him in order to obtain a pension from the Government fraudulently; besides since his first application in 1828 there has been circumstances which were considered by him as insurmountable which has caused a delay until this last application — He is from bodily infirmity unable to attend court.
Storm Rosa,
The State of Ohio
Franklin County ss
I J. D. Aiken Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County and State do hereby certify that Storm Rosa Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was on the day of the date thereof, and still is an authorized judge of said Court duly Commissioned and sworn; that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge and believe the signature "Storm Rosa" above are true and genuine. In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Columbus in said County the 20th day of October A.D. 1834
J. D. Aiken, Clerk

Mansville Georgia Co Ohio Oct 18. 1832
Hon Jas. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Sir - We forwarded you in March last an application in favor of David Bragg of this County for a pension in which we carried your reply of the 5th of April last in which you say, He has stated that he entered the Service in 1781 but has omitted to state the time, this is indispensably necessary in order to determine the length of the Alledged Service. He must also give a very full and minute history of his Service showing all such Circumstances in relation to the Military movements of those times as may have any bearing on his case. The claim is considered doubtful, and the papers will remain on our files.
We now send enclosed the oath of Mr Bragg, showing it to be altogether out of his power, and wholly impossible to state more particularly than he has.
We had supposed Sir, that when the returns on file in the war office show the Service of the applicant, and more especially when the applicant has in his possession and forwards with his application his Discharge, that evidence of his identity would be all that the Department would require, as there can in such case be no room for the practice of any fraud on the Department.
Mr Bragg's name appears on the returns and books in the war office and he has forwarded his discharge, and you make no objection to the want of proof of his identity. Now Sir, when it manifestly appears that the Applicant can not by reason of his age and infirmity make any more particular statement respecting his Service and with all the evidence that could be required to substantiate a case in any Court of Justice you still deny him the benefit of the Law of Congress under which he applies we have only to say that we think you pervert the Law, and wholly evade its provisions by your unreasonable adherence to technical regulations calculated to prevent and detect fraudulent applications, and applying them to a case like the present which they were never intended for.
To our minds the fact stated in the discharge that Mr Bragg having enlisted for the term of three years was

Honorably discharged, is very good evidence of the time he served. Please advise us of the determination of the department in reference to Mr Bragg's Claim.
If the Claim should be disallowed please forward us the discharge of Mr Bragg.
Very Respectfully &c Perkins & Osborn
Edward M c Guire Kirtland
Washington D.C.

Letter to J. Aud & W. H. Denny Oct 11. 1842 " to D. C. Paine Apr 13. 1843
1737 Miss Pittsburgh Lucy Bragg widow of Janet Bragg
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 25th November 1837 of Geauga Co. in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Camps. commanded by Captain Bement of the Regt. commanded by Col. Howell in the U.S. line for Defenses
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh O. at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 1st day of March 1834. 25th November 1837
Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of July 1839 and sent to Payne Painesville Ohio
Arrears to the 1st of Sept 1838 $63.33 Semi-annual allowance ending 4th May 39 $40.00
$103.33
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by A. N. Adams Clerk, Book 4 Vol. 7 Page 215

Arrears 1737
Ohio Pittsburgh
Lucy Brax widow of Garret Brax
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 25 Nov 1837 of Geauga Co in the State of Ohio who was a priv in the Co. commanded by Captain Banister of the (Reg) commanded by Col B Finkel in the Mass line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. & ending on the 25 Novem 1837 the day of her death
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of Apr 1844 and sent N. Prine Princetown Ohio.
Total Amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J. Swann Clerk, Book N Vol. 2 Page 215
Arrear repd by letter to Pen. Agt Apr 19. 1844 Request to deduct overpaym t already made - J. L. S.

Received 24 Jan 1828.
To the Hon the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
Revolutionary Claims
Washington District of Columbia
Transferred to the War Department as requested 10 March 1835

For the purpose of Obtaining the Benefits of the act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" passed on the 15 th of May 1828 I Garrit Bragg of Mentor Township in the County of Geauga in the State of Ohio do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during three years immediately previous to the thirty first day of December Seventeen hundred and eighty three (as nigh as I can make out from the enclosed discharge) and continued in its service until the termination of the war, at which period I was a Private in Captain Smiths Company and in the 5 th Regiment in the Massachusetts line - and afterwards was continued a Private in the said Company under Captain Hox Dany (as nigh as I can spell his name) and was afterwards transferred into the 1 st Regiment of the Massachusetts Line. And I also declare that I have no recollection of having received certificates for the reward of Eighty Dollars under a resolution of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778.
And I further declare that I was not on the 15 th day of May 1828 on the Pension List of the United States -
Witness my hand this 14 th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight -
Garrit Bragg
Before me Warren Corning for a justice of the peace of Mentor township in the County of Geauga and State of Ohio personally appeared this day Warren Corning and Nathan Alamin - of the said County who did severally make oath that Garrit Bragg by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally related and believed to have been a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this fourteenth day of June in the year 1828.
Warren Corning Justice of the Peace
I David D Aiken Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Geauga in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that Warren Corning for before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace of Mentor Township in said County and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this sixteenth day of June in the year 1828.
David D. Aiken, Clerk.

Seretary of the Pres arer
Sir
If enclosed is suffi cient have the goodness to state what further is required? And have any relief, under any Law, by virtue of the within dis charge, and by the Public records at Washington, he obtained for a deserving Revolutionary Soldier in extreme indigence. Please direct to Stephen Matthews Esq
Painesville
Geauga Co Ohio.
and message 19

1 2 George Bragg, declara- tion for arrears of Rent in under the Act of July 7, 1838
W. H. H. H. H. Kingsville, Va.

On this 29 th day of February 1844, personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for the county of Geauga and State of Ohio. Lucy Brap resident of Chester in said county aged about 70 years, who being duly sw- orn according to law, doth on her oath make the fol- lowing declaration, in order to obtain the amount of Pensions which she claims from the 4 th of March 1836, to the 25 th day of November 1837 - from which period she has been already paid under the act of the 7 th July, 1838. And the declarant further alledges that she is then the widow of Garet Brap who was a private during the Revolutionary war; that her pension was allowed at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum and was paid her at the Agency in Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsyl- vania. And further she saith not
Lucy Brap
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before me
James E. Stephenson Justice Peace
The State of Ohio
Geauga County ss
I Reuben H. John Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Geauga & State of Ohio. do hereby cer- tify that James E. Stephenson is an acting ju- stice of the Peace within said for said County duly commissioned & qualified, and moreover that his signature above written is genuine
In testimony whereof I have here set my hand & the seal of said Court at Cleveland this 8 th day of March A.D. 1844. -
Reuben H. John Clerk By John French Deputy

VI 297
Lucy Bragg Ohio
admitted P. f 80
Ira C. Payne Painesville Ohio

the State of Ohio Geauga County } On this 20 th day of August personally appear- ed before the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio in and for said County Lucy Bragg a resident of Mentor in the County of Geauga aged sixty nine the 18 th day of April next who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision, made by the act of May 22 nd passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of the late Garet Bragg who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolu- tion and late a pensioner of the United States
This deponent says she cannot recall the well enough to relate the ser- vices of her late husband in the War of the Rebellion although she has often heard from him in his life a history of such service Genl. Knox was the commanding General from whom Garet Bragg received his discharge from the United States but upon the Department's request taken by him when his name was placed on the Roll of Revolutionary Pensioners were on file in the Pension Office at Washington
}

She further declares that she was married to the said Gamett Boap the nineteenth day of April in the year 1791- in Chester Massachusetts that her husband the aforesaid Gamett Boap died on the 25 th day of November 1837- that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place the previous to the first of January 1794 in the terms above stated - and that since the death of her said husband she has remained and still is a widow, and has not been married to any one since the period aforesaid.
Sally Boap
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before the Supreme Court of Ohio -
Attest J. P. Cliford, Clerk

The State of Ohio Geauga County } I Garry Brap of lawful age being duly sworn depose and say that I am the son of Gannet Brap and Lucy Brap who has subscribed and sworn to the above statement, and know her to be the widow of the late Gannet Brap of Mentor a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and that said Gannet Brap deceased on the 25 th day of December 1837 and that said Lucy Brap has none been married to any person since his decease — Garry Brap
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written in open Court before the Sup. Court. Attest J. D. Aikew Clerk,
The State of Ohio } I J. D. Aikew Clerk of the Geauga County } in &  Common  than for said Supreme Court of the County, do hereby certify that the fore- going contains the original proceed- ings of said Court on the applica- tion of Lucy Brap for a pension. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Chandow this 27 th day of August A.D. 1838 J. D. Aikew Clerk

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL K N O X,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Jonathan Brooks Solier in the First Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the 11th day of December
1783.
By the General's Command.
Knox M c Lean
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment.
Brigham H. Brooks Asst. Q.M.

Rev Sec
THE CENTRALIA DAILY CHRONICLE
Corner Tower Avenue and Magnolia
Centralia, Washington,
Post Box 10
Dear Sir:- I am a son of Thomas Donovan of the Interior Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:- Will you not give me the record of David Davis who served from Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War? I feel that he was a relative of mine. I believe that he was in
Yours truly
H. L. Bras.

Rev Sec 5
419 W. Locust St. Centralia, Wash. Aug. 18, 1919.
U.S. Pension Bureau Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I am a descendant of James Gilmore and Garrett Brass who served in the Revolution from Massachusetts. James Gilmore died in Chester Ohio and Garrett Brass in 1837 at Mentor Ohio, did either of them draw a pension? Please send me a copy of application.
Sincerely,
Natie Grover Gilmore, (Mrs. C.W.)

Address: "CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, WASHINGTON, D. C."
United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C.
IN YOUR REPLY REFER TO FILE NO. AND DATE OF THIS LETTER.
October 16, 1902.
Hon. E. F. Ware, Commissioner of Pensions.
My Dear Mr. Ware:
For the purpose of completing the Revolutionary history of the people of Lake County, Ohio, we are desirous of obtaining whatever information the Pension Office has relating to Thomas Brass, of Mentor, Ohio, and Benjamin Bissell, of Painesville, Ohio. Both were Revolutionary soldiers and pensioners. The wife of Thomas Brass, Lucy, was a pensioner. I do not know from what State he enlisted. Benjamin Bissell it is said obtained his pension but a short time before his death, in 1841. He enlisted from Connecticut.
Any information that the Bureau can furnish me as to these men will be highly appreciated.
Very sincerely yours,
James Rudolph Garfield
Bissell - 702-5825

Nov 11 - 1902 Hon. J. R. Garfield Civil Serv. Comr.
1919 Aug. 28. Wist. to Mrs. C. W. Gibbons. P. 1919 Sept. 24. To H. L. Brad. P.
Rev  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2762
Lucy Bragg Wid.
Daniel Bragg Prot. Heaphy line
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