Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1317, Joseph Brown, N.H.

SERVICE
N 26.
Brown, Joseph Elizabeth
NUMBER
Reg 1317
CONTENTS
Res during Rev. Stafford Co. N.Y. In 1818 aged 65 yrs and res. of Starkborough, Addison Co. Vt. d. Feb. 19, 1833.
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State of Vermont Addison County ss
On this 22 nd Day of April 1810
Before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of Addison County Court personally appears Joseph Brown aged 65 years resident in Starksborough in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" That he the said Joseph enlisted at Fort Point in the State of New Hampshire in Nov r 1776 for nine months in the company commanded by Capt Caleb Hovey & Col. Mooney's Reg t serv'd his time out at Boston & in the year 1777 in the month of August he again enlisted in the Town of Madbury in said State of New Hampshire for one year in the company commanded by Capt McLee Col. Fash's Reg t serv'd at New York New Jersey &c: the whole of said term of one year & was duly discharged - & that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support - & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services -
Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid
Ezra Hoyt Judge
I Ezra Hoyt Judge &c: as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Brown did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding Declaration against the common enemy - & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary of War pursuant to the aforesaid Act of Congress - April May 2 nd 1810.
Ezra Hoyt Judge
And I do further certify that Jos. Brown the above applicant is poor & stands in need of the assistance applied for
E. Hoyt Judge

Joseph Brown
01.135 Jos Brown 22 April
Incompetible Not having service on the - patent Estates - Patent
H. Seymour - of Senate of U. States
State of Vermont Addison County } I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison aforesaid, do hereby certify that Ezra Hayt, who has made the within certificate, and before whom the within affidavit was made, was, on the day of the date thereof, one of the Judges of said County Court, and that his name thereto subscribed is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 12 th day of May A.D. 1818.
Sam d . Swift Clerk

State of Vermont County of Chittenden } } } }
On this twenty sixth day of August A.D. 1834 personally appeared before the Hon William P. Briggs - Judge of Probate within and for the District of Chittenden - Elizabeth Brown of Winesburgh in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont aged Seventy eight years - being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath declare that she is the widow of Joseph Brown late of Starksborough in the County of Addison and State of Vermont, who died on the nineteenth day of February A.D. 1833 - and in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - makes the following declaration - - that according to the best of her knowledge and belief the said Joseph Brown enlisted into the service of the United States as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army - in the year 1776 - and that he served at different periods of the war for the full term of two years - that she has no personal knowledge of his services as a soldier - but has from time to time for more than twenty years previous to his death heard him relate of having served as a soldier in the Revolution during the war for more than four years in all - but for proof of his services she relies upon the depositions of Joseph Robinson - Andrew Bickford - Jonathan Fogg and Thomas R. Sweet which are herunto annexed - and which were taken for the purpose of obtaining a pension for her late husband Joseph Brown - under the act of Congress passed the Eighteenth day of March A.D. 1818 - She hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a

pension or annuity except the present, and declares that according to her best knowledge and belief, the said Joseph Brown's name is not on the pension roll of the Agency in any State. She believes that said Joseph was eighty years old when he died. her Elizabeth X Brown mark Att W m Weston
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written - viz the 26 th day of August A.D. 1834 W m P Briggs Judge
And the said Court doth hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter that the above named Joseph Brown was a revolutionary soldier and served as set forth in the several depositions hereto annexed - and the Court further certifies that the said Joseph Brown died on the nineteenth day of February A.D. 1833 - and that the above named Elizabeth Brown is the lawful widow of the said Joseph Brown deceased the facts having been proved by evidence adduced in court to the satisfaction of said court.
W m P Briggs Judge

In reply to your request of _____, received for a statement of the military history of Joseph Brown a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. W. F. 5875
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June, 1776 2 Pri. Saml. Wetherbee ✓ N. H.   Oct. or Nov. 1776 1 " Oliver Ashley Benj. Bellows   Soon after 3 " Hayward Gilman   at various other times 17 days. Names of officers not stated.  
Battles engaged in, _____ ✓ _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Alstead, N. H.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 16, 1832. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Stanstead, Stanstead Co., Lower Canada.
Age at date of application, 76 yrs.
Remarks: He mar. Nov. 11, 1821, at Derby, Orleans Co., Vt., Weighty Hodges ; he died Jan. 21, 1839, at Derby, Vt., where she resided when on Apr. 7, 1853, at the age of 80 yrs, she made application for pension, which was allowed. There is no data relative to children.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

State of Vermont District of Chittenden ss 3
I David French Register of the court of Probate within and for the District of Chittenden do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Elizabeth Brown - widow of Joseph Brown for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court this 25 th day of December A D 1834 David French
Just San library eng Nov 76 n Reed Rep sd till 1782 - promtd Cas. Nov 30 '79

Hn Hallen

Joseph Robinson of Northwood in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hamp- shire - depose & say that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army in the Continental Service - That about the year 1776 I knew Joseph Brown then of Madbury in said State enlist in the Continental service in Captain Brewsters Com- pany in the Third Regiment under General Gillly for eight months and was discharged the fall of the same year - I also knew him enlist under Captain Cherry in the 10 th Third Regiment in the year 1777 and served at Saratoga Stillwater and Ticonderoga for eighteen months in succession or more - was myself a soldier in the same Regiment - And further saith not
Joseph his Robinson mark
Rockingham Co { Northwood Sep r 9. 1829 Then the above named Joseph Robinson personally appearing made solemn oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed is just & true -
Before me
Ebenezer J. D. Pease

This may certify that I suppose the within named Joseph Robinson to be a credible witness
Ebenezer Dyer Justice of the Peace
I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Ebenezer Dyer is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Rockingham and is by law empowered to administer oaths and take affi- davits - and that the signature to the foregoing certificate is in his own hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 16 th
day of December Anno Domini 1804
Peter Chadwick Clerk

I Andrew Bickford of Madbury in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire - depose and say that I was a soldier in the revolutionary Army in the Continental service - That I knew Joseph Brown of the same Madbury in the year 1775 a soldier in Col. Clark's Regiment and under Capt. Daniel Moore of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham in said State - That said Brown was at the Battle of Bunker Hill and that he was in the same Regiment with myself in the Continental service eight months when I returned home and left him in the Army.
I afterwards knew said Brown in Col. Faxon's Regiment and under Capt. McTee at Peekskill in the State of New York and in the same Regiment with myself where I left him in the Continental service
And further he saith not
his Andrew X Bickford mark
State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss
Madbury December 14 th 1829 Then the above
named Andrew Bickford personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above Disposition by him subscribed is just and true before me
James G. Dement (Justice of the Peace)

Strafford P.
This may certify that the character of the above Andrew Bickford stands fair for truth and veracity as any person in this vicinity
James G. Dementt Justice Peace
State of New Hampshire.
To all whom it may concern. Know ye, that James G. Dementt, whose proper signature may be seen above, was, at the time he placed it there, a Justice of the Peace for the county of Strafford in said State, duly constituted and sworn, and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of court, within and out of this State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, at Concord, this twenty eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, and in the fifty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
Dudley D. Palmer, Secretary of State

Joseph Brown 21. 135-
vs Jos. Brown
act 7. June 32 Vermont
1317
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I Jonathan Fogg of Pittsfield in the County of Merrimack and state of New Hampshire depose and say that I was a soldier in the Revolution my army in the Continental service - that I knew Joseph Brown then of Barnsted in the County of Stafford and state aforesaid and now in the state of Vermont and County of Adderson and state aforesaid in the yeare 1775 A soldier in said Army in Col. Starks Regiment and under Capt. Daniel Moore of Deere field in the County of Rockingham and state aforesaid - that he was at the battle of Bunker Hill - and in the same Company with myself in said service one year or more - We then Sep- erated I went to Tuckebuck with the northern Army and understood by my officers that he went to Still Water with the Southern army And always had the prais of being a good soldier
And further saith not
Merrimack ss. Pittsfield September 11th 1829. Then the above named Jonathan Fogg personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true
Before me Asa Sawyer Jus Peace

I Thomas R. Swett of Pittsfield, in the County of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire — depose and say that I was a soldier the revolutionary Army, and know Joseph Brown, then of Barnstead, in the County of Strafford, and State aforesaid, now of Vermont in the County of Addison, to serve as a soldier in said Army in the Year 1777, Nine Months — I left the Army about that time and left said Joseph Brown in the Army, then stationed at West Point. — He was as good a soldier, and as resolute a man as ever took a Gun in hand.
And further saith not. Thos R Swett Merrimack ss. Pittsfield September 11th 1829 — Then the above named Thomas R. Swett personally appeared, and made solemn oath to the above deposition by him subscribed as just and true.
Before me Asa Packer Jr. Penn This may certify that the above Thomas R. Swett is a very respectable Man, and that his character stands as fair for truth and veracity, as any man in this vicinity.
Asa Packer Jr.

This certifies that I have examined the within named Jond. Hogg, and suppose that the within deposition is just and true.
Asa Sawyer Justice of the Peace State of New Hampshire.
To all whom it may concern,
I, Dudley G. Palmer, Secretary of State for the State of New- Hampshire, do hereby certify,
that Asa Sawyer, Esquire, whose proper signa- ture is placed above, was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Merrimack and State aforesaid, when he signed the above certificate; that he has been a Justice of the Peace for said county ever since the sixth day of July 1827, and is now a Justice of the Peace in said State, duly consti- tuted and sworn, and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court, within and out of the State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, at Concord, this twenty eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight-

hundred and twenty nine, and of the Indepen- dence of the United States of America the fifty-fourth. Endrew S. Palmer, Secretary of State
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Hon. H. Allen H. R. 12 Jan'y 1838
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Dept of War Penna Office Jan 12/1838
Sir
I return the letter of Mr Bostwick upon the subject of the claim of Joseph Brown dec d in order to give you a better understanding of the merits of the claim, I have the honor to transmit a copy of a letter from the Office in March 1835, addressed to Mr Weston Esq, of Burlington N.J.
I am the honor
Genl. Allen A.R.
cc P. Judg

War Dept
P.O.
March 11 th 1835
Sir
The affidavits accompanying the claim of the widow of Joseph Brown state various services in the New Hampshire line of the Continental Army which are negatived by the rolls in this office and cannot be allowed. Recourse has been had to the original declaration of Joseph Brown made on the 22 d April 1818 before Ezra Hoyt Judge of Addison County and remaining on file in this office in which no such services are stated. He there claimed to have enlisted for 9 months in 1776 under Col. Morgan and in 1777 for one year under Col. Tash. There were militia officers under whom no services of such duration were performed. By the rolls of Col. Tash's Regiment called out on the 16 th Sept r 1777 to join the Northern Army it appears that Brown was mustered in Capt. Webster's company, and served one three months.

Col Mooney
The service stated under Col Mooney cannot be verified by the rolls. If he served in 1776 it was for a very temporary period - not sufficient to bring the claim within the act of 1832. Upon the proof furnished, contradicting as it is by cotemporary rolls this claim cannot be admitted. The papers remain on file.
Am. Weston
March 28 35
Q.C.
Wm Weston Esq
Burlington Vt

Mr. Slade returns herewith the papers in the case of Mrs. Brown, widow of Joseph Brown, for which he gave a receipt at shut time since, to the Pension office
H of R. Ap 23 1840.

Joseph Broom Wm W. Duffie's Co Cd Fork Regt mustered 16 Sept 1776

Rec d of J. L. Edwards Esq. the affidavits of Joseph Robinson, Jonathan Fogg, T. R. Swift Hendrum Bickford, in support of the claim of Joseph Brown for a pension July 13 1832
William Slade

copy
War Department,
Pension Office,
Hon. H. Seymour,
February 18, 1830.
Senate, U. S.
Sir:
The papers which you left in this office in the case of Joseph Brown have been examined and placed on our files. He alleges that he served in the regiment commanded by Colonels Mooney and Tash ( or Fash ) No such officers ever belonged to the continental army; and as the Act of March 18, 1818 provides for none who did not serve on the continental establishment, he is not entitled to pension. I return Mr. E. Hoyt's letter and in answer thereto, I have only to say none of the persons alluded to by him ever received pensions for service in militia of State regiments. If he will designate any particular person or persons state their residence and say at what time they were pensioned I can satisfy him that not one of them has received a pension for service in either of the above named regiments.
signed J. L. E.

Vermont Joseph Brown recited let Wm Newton H. M. Allen 1835 Jan 12 1835

Joseph Brown Revo. Vermont.
Rejected. See letter 18 Feb. 1830 to Hon. H. Seymour, Senate U. S.

Joseph Brown dec d app t of Eliz his und ad Ad 18 m .
H. Allen
Dec 30 th 1871

Burlington (Vt.) Jan'y 20. 1835.
Sir - I enclose the application and proofs of the widow of Jo d . Brown - for a pension
Be pleased to enclose to me the Certificate for the pension, when issued
I am very respectfully
Your obed t Serv t , Stephen Weston
Ja s . L. Edwards Esq. Com r . of Pensions

22 Jan 28.
Joseph Brown
James S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
FREE

1914. May 9. History to George S. Stewart. Lrr. Letter with { Cl. S. F. 18,358 Simeon Cobb.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5875
Weighty Brown Wid.
Joseph Brown Port. Rev. Wa
Act: 1832
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