Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,091, Samuel Brown, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Brown, Samuel
NUMBER
S. 34091
CONTENTS
In 1818 res. Malden, Middlesex Co. Mass.

10.132
Massachusetts
Samuel Brown
A Malden in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brooks of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd of May 1819 and Lt Col Isaac John Davis Boston Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819  89. 29    semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819  48 00    11 mo 5/31  $137. 29  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Stephens Samuel Brown Massachusetts 1819

No 104. Samuel Brown 77 to 80 Brooks Maples Reg. Hamittad

I Samuel Brown of Malden in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts a resident citizen of the U.S. testify and say that I enlisted into the service army of the United States in the War of the Revolution in May seventeen hundred and seventy seven in the company commanded by Capt James Bancroft in the eighth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson to serve for the term of three years, that I continued to serve in said company & Regiment until within two months of the expiration of said term when I hired a person by the name of Jackson to serve the remaining two months in my stead and I was thereup- on discharged by my Colonel aforesaid. my discharge is mislaid or lost by accident that I cannot now produce it.
Samuel Brown

Mass Dist. Ct. Boston 31. March 1818
The within Affidavit sworn to before me
M Davis
Dist. Judge
Mass Dist. Ct.

To the Hon. John Davis Judge of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
We the subscribers Selectmen of the Town of Malden in the County of Middlesex Do hereby certify that Samuel Brown named in the foregoing Affidavit is an inhabitant of the Town of Malden and by reason of reduced circumstances in life stands in need of assistance from his country for his support. we also say that we have examined the foregoing Affidavit subscribed by said Brown and give full credit to the same.
Done at Malden the 30th March 1818
Ebenezer N. Dyer Uriah Cook } Selectmen James Brooks } of J. Hall. } the Town } of } Malden

with young 11. 1 m 11  Heikman
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston September 22 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Samuel Brown subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents, marked A together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M Dyer
} Judge of the District Court U.S. } Massachusetts District.

211.
Samuel Brown
Malden
10132
May 19
Meridene
Samuel

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820.
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Samuel Brown resident
Malden in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 10137 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Samuel Brown late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the thirty first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this third day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
1. Looking glass & desk & chest & bedstead & 4 chairs & 6 boxes & 12 bottles & 12 glasses & 12 plates & 12 cups & 12 saucers & 12 spoons & 12 forks & 12 knives & 12 forks & 12 knives & 12 spoons & 12 cups & 12 saucers & 12 plates & 12 glasses & 12 bottles & 12 boxes & 6 chairs & 4 chairs & 1 bedstead & 1 chest & 1 desk & 1 looking glass & 1 shovel & 1 long 125 3 75 1 table & 1 light stand 250 farming tools & 1 mechanic's donkey 7 50 Barrels & tubs & 125 water & 1 crockery & 125 5 50 Glass ware 75 125 6 75 Income from improvement of estate by interest 75 Samuel Brown Service to be declared before Mr. Wetmore Judge 25

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Melvaine a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
4 I, Samuel Brown do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me God.
Samuel Brown
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 182
Then the abovenamed Samuel Brown took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Wm Melvaine
Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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 twenty nine dollars fifty cents
besides an annual income of twenty five dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

This is to certify that Samuel Brown was a soldier in Captain James Bancroft's company, of the 8 th reg t of the Massachusetts line of the army of the revolution, & that he served faithfully for nearly three years, viz t from early in the year 1777, to the year 1780.
Medford March 30 th 1818.
J. Brooks, Lt. Col. of said reg t .

34091 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34,091
Samuel Brown
Dr Rev Wm
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]