Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,235, Jacob Brown, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
★ Brown, Jacob
NUMBER
8.39,235
CONTENTS
res at Milford, Conn. In 1822 aged 65 yrs and res. of Sharon, Windward, Conn.

12.0-15 R Vermont
Jacob Brown
Sharon in the state of Vermont who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Willis of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of June 1819 and sent to Hon: William Hunter Windsor Vermont
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar. 1819.  88. 23    Semi-anl. all'ce ending  Sep. 1819.  48. 00    10 Mo \frac{27}{30} 4.   $136. 23  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Information about Jacob Brown, Vermont

39235
Rev INVALID.
File No. 39385
Jacob Brown Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 59
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jacob Brown Private 177 to 80 Wylis Connecticut Regt.
Admitted
on Roll

State of Vermont } On the seventh day of April one thousand eight Windsor County ss } hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the judges of Windsor County Court Personally appeared Jacob Brown aged sixty five years resident in Sharon in the state of Vermont who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration In order to obtain the provisions made by the late 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 that in the year 1777 he enlisted into the continental service for three years in Col. Abbeys company and Col. Sam l Wells Regiment of the Connecticut line and was honorably discharged at the expiration of the three years - he also deposes and says he is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support and that he has not any any other evidence in his power of his said services Further declares that he now is and ever has been a Citizen of the United States
Elizer Dune Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court
State of Vermont } Windsor County ss }
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid - Now I Elizer Dune assistant Judge of Windsor County Court as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the S d Jacob Brown did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and that he has produced satisfactory evidence to me that he is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of as- sistance from his country for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the war department pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress - In witness whereof I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto
Elizer Dune Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court

State of Vermont } Woodstock County Clerk's Office Windsor County } January the 9 th A.D. 1819
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court, Do certify that Eliza Luce Esq. was at the date of the within Declaration one of the Assistant Judges of said County Court, and that the within signatures are in his hand writing —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court the day above —
Benj t Swan

18
Jacob Brown
12.015,
Sept 1819
W

STATE OF VERMONT, } At a special term of the Supreme Court of Judicature, begun and holden WINDSOR COUNTY....ss. } at Woodstock in the County of Windsor, on the last Monday in July, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty.
ON this Thirty first day of July 1820, being the first day of said term, personally appeared in open Court, (the same Court being a Court of record agreeably to the laws of this State, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) Jacob Brown aged Sixty five years, resident in Sharon in said County of Windsor, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: That at Somers Connecticut where I then resided, in the month of April 1775, I enlisted as a private capt. Solomon Willis Company in Col. Spencer's Regiment in Connecticut line, in April 1776 I enlisted as a Drummer in Capt. Elijah Dobbins' Company in Col. Samuel Mott Regt. in the Connecticut line - on the 28 th day of February 1777, I enlisted as a Drummer in Capt. Thomas Abbot Company in Col. Samuel Willis' Regt. in Connecticut line in the Continental establishment for three years, that I served the full term of my enlistment & received an honorable Discharge in 1780
That he made his original declaration on the Eleventh day of April 1818 has received a Pension Certificate, No. 12015 And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 18 th 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. vr
One Cow $ 14 - one plain Chest $ 2 - Six Kitchen Chairs $ 3 . . . 19. - one small stand 1.50 one Damaged Spail Kettle .50 . . . . . . 2. - one Dish Kettle .50 - one common Table 1.50 Knives & Forks .20 . . . 2.20 one pint Decanter , three Tumblers .12 - one Swine $ 3 - one Gun $ 5 $ 12 $ 31.32 I owe as follows vr To Mills May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. - To William Steel 15. - To Geo. Rice 5. . . . . . . . . . . . 20 To Nathan Spaul 1.12 To Chester Bayte 1.50 . . . . . . . . . 2.62 To David Child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. - $ 39.62
That my health is poor & unable to support myself by labour - my wife is of the age of Sixty one years - quite infirm -
Jacob Brown
Sworn to and declared on the Thirty first day of July 1820, before said Court.
Attest,
Benj Swan Clerk.
STATE OF VERMONT, } I, Benj Swan Clerk of the Supreme Court for WINDSOR COUNTY....ss. } the County of Windsor, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule 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 Nothing dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, this fifteenth day of August 1820.
Benj. Swan Clerk of the Supreme Court for Windsor County.