Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,198, Asa Brooks, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Brooks, Asa Betsey
No 16,198
CONTENTS

For Judges certificate of the circumstances of this Pension for Ellen Nelson's papers
Application of Asa Brooks for a pension for his wife Ellen Nelson. June 22, 1821. To Genl. Alexander, Esq.
5,119 New-York
Asa Brooks private
Connecticut Line
4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Decr 1818 and sent to David M c Cracken Batavia, Genesee, Co. New York
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 $ 25.99 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48.
Swift $ 83.99
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Thur years 1777-
30 May 33
Continued
Batavia Genesee Co. N.Y.

Albany 4587
Betsey Brooks, widow of Asa Brooks,
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818 and who died on the — May 1833 of Genesee Co., in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company, commanded by Captain Chapman of the reg't, commanded by Col. Swift in the Conn. line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19. day of Nov. 1839 and sent to H. H. Soper Batavia, N. Y.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept. '39 280.00 Semi-annual allowance ending March '40. 40.00 $ 320.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book A. Vol. 2, Page 68

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State of New York
Genesee County ss I Simon Cummings Clerk of the County aforesaid do certify that David McCracken before whom the within Proceedings appear to have been taken is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County acting under the Authority of this State and that the within are his signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the seal of said County this 22 d day of May A D 1818
S. Cummings
Chas. D. ... 2/11
Asa Brads, private
Swifts, Conn. T.
Reg c
April 20 1818
Found on the Rocks
See Judges letter,
Certifying Certificates, on file

610 Asa Brooks Inventory 91.28-5119
Sept 10 Mar 19
End
Cons See remarks on J. D. Hubbard's schedule
Saw. Lake, Dist. Batavia, N. York

At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court house in the village of Batavia in and for the County of Genesee, in the State of New York on the Eighth day of February 1821, being a Court of Record in pursuance of the 41 st article of the State of New York which has unlimited Jurisdiction keeps records of its proceedings, and has immemorially exercised the power of fine and imprisonment.
Present the Hon. Moses Hayden, Ralph Parker and Richard Smith Judges.
Genesee County ss. On this Eighth day of February 1821, personally appeared in open Court (being a Court of Record) Asa Brooks aged Sixty Six Years resident of the town of Batavia in said County who being first duly sworn according to Law on his oath declares, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows - Three Years enlisted 1777, and was discharged 1780. Served in a company commanded by Capt. Chapman in a Regiment commanded by Col. H. Smith of the Connecticut line and his original declaration was made April 20 th 1818, and
his Certificate is number 5119. And I 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 to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the 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 schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.
Schedule Real estate I have none. I am in possession of twenty five acres of Land, belonging to the Holland Land Company, Situate in the Town of Batavia for which I owe the Company about one hundred and thirty Dollars, and on which

there are three acres improved, and there are no buildings on the Land.
Personal Property.
  1- Poor old horse 16 years old $15.00   1- Cow 12.00   1- Year old heifer 4.00   2- Swine 3.00   6- Sheep 4.50   1- Large Chain $1.00. 4 Common do 25 3.00   1- pair of Shovel and tongs 75   6- plates - 2- Bowls   4- Cups and Saucers   4- Table Spoons   5- Tea Spoons   knives and forks - 8.75   1. 6 Gallon Kettle Broken 1.00   1- dish Kettle 1.00   1- Small do - 25   1- Skillet - 25   2- Small Pots one of them Broken 1.00   1- Flat Iron 25. one Shovel 75. 1.00   2- Old Axes poor. 1.00   1- Pitch Fork 25   1- Old Scythe 25   1- Tub 25- 3 pails 25. two Barrels $1.00. 1.50   2- Tables Old 1.50   1- Small Looking Glass 50   1- Pint Pail - 1 foot Glass 50   3- Bowls Common Earthen. 1 plate 37   1- Dummel 13   3 or 4- Pieces of old chains 75   1- Old Saddle and Bridle 5.00   2- Spinning wheels 50   61.25 
And the defendant further saith he has debts due him from Chester Brooks $1.00 " Ephraim Brooks. 8.00  9.00
And I am owing a debt to Charles Gould $4.50 And the defendant further says he is by profession a Farmer. but in consequence of a Break he is not able to do any thing of consequence. that he lives with his son Ephraim Brooks on whom he is dependent for a support.

that he has a wife named Betsey aged fifty four Years. not able to do much labor - one son named Charles aged 14 Years. and one Daughter named Phoebe. aged 11 Years which compose his family and further saith not. —
Asa Brooks
Sworne and subscribed in open Court this Eighth of February 1821.
Before me
R. C. Smead. Dep. Clk. —
I Simeon Cummings Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Genesee do hereby Certify that the foregoing Petition 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is sixty eight dollars — And also that Raphael C. Smead who administered the Oath to the petitioner above named is my Deputy Clerk duly au- thorized to perform such duties —
$68.00
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Tenth day of February
1821 —
S. Cummings Clk

State of New York } ss. Genesee County }
On this Eleventh day of February eighteen hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared before John Chatfield one of the Judges of Genesee County Court Betsy Brooks, a resident of the town of Batavia in said County aged forty two years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Asa Brooks who was a Revolutionary soldier and a Pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818 and that she cannot state the particulars of his services but relies upon the proof of his services on file in the Pension Department.
She further declares that she was married to the said Asa Brooks sometime in the month of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven, but the precise day of the month she cannot state and has no means of ascertaining that she was married in the town of Canaan, Litchfield County, Ct. That her husband, the aforesaid Asa Brooks died on the _____ day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three but did not reach the day of the month that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Betsy Brooks before me John Chatfield Judge of Genesee County Court

And I further certify that the said applicant is unable to appear in court, by reason of bodily infirmity. —
John Chatfield Judge of Monroe County Court
State of New York Monroe County
ss: I Horace M. Soper. Clerk of said County certify that John Chatfield was a Judge of said County at the time of taking the foregoing declaration and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates are his hand writing. —
Witness my hand and official seal this 1 st June 1839. — W. W. Soper. Clerk,
5546 Andrew Patsey Broker Declaration
55 v Ack. July 7. 1838
Married Nov 1787 Husband and May 1833
26. W. Soper Ag. Balam N.Y.
Admitted Pmtd 2 span

Abn Brooks Married in the year 1787 Betsey Born Jan 1788 Abby Born Dec 24 1789 Chester Born Feb 26 1791 Oliver Born Jan 21 1794 Ephraim Born Sept 3 1797 Edward Born Sept 17 1799 William Born Sept 30 1801 Frances Born Jan 29 1803 Charles Born Nov 11 the 8 1806 Abigail Born July the 26 1809

THE NEW TESTAMENT
Of our LORD and SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST,
Newly translated out of the ORIGINAL GREEK
And with the former
TRANSLATIONS
Diligently Compared and Revised,
By His MAJESTY's special Command.
Appointed to be Read in Churches.
EDINBURGH:
Printed by the ASSIGNS of ALEXANDER KINCAID, His Majesty's Printer.
MDCCLXXVIII.

Widow Betsey Brooks
Certificate of Court in case of as to time of death of Pensioner and his heirs
Miss Deborah A. A. J.
Batavia N.Y.

State of New York } ss. Batavia October 10 th 1839- Genesee County
I, Horace W. Tupper, Clerk of the County of Genesee and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, being a Court of Record and having a seal, which is hereunto affixed now in session and held at Batavia in and for the said County of Genesee, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Asa Brooks, died on the twenty third day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and that his heirs and only children now living, with their respective ages, and residences, are as follows.
Charles Brooks, of Rome, Lenawee Co. Mich. born Nov. 26: 1791 Oliver Gould, of Batavia, Genesee Co. N.Y. " Jan. 21. 1794 Ephraim Brooks, of Rome Lenawee Co. Mich. " April 5. 1797 William  Edmund D. Brooks. of Silver Creek, Cass Co. Mich. " Nov. 30. 1801 Francis Brooks, of Cambridge, Lenawee Co. Mich. " Jan. 29. 1804 Charles Brooks, of Batavia, Genesee Co. N.Y. " Nov. 8. 1806 and Phebe Brace, of Java " " " July 26. 1809
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court being my official seal, at Batavia in the said County of Genesee this tenth day of October A.D. 1839-
H. W. Tupper, Clerk
"William" written over "Edmund D'neant."
H. W. Tupper, Clerk

Albany
Asa Brooks act 1818 to what time since?
V.L.
- Dec 30 th May 1833 p d to that period 14 1834

Conn.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16198
Betsy Brooks
Wid of
Asa Brooks
Prim Rev War.
Act: July 7 th /38
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 88
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N. York Betsey Brooks M rs . to H. R. Soper 17 Sept. 1839
Act July 1838

Batavia N. Y. June 1. 1839
Dear Sir,
I enclose Papers for Pennie in case of Widow Benedict and Brooks. The Widow Brooks died in a few days after making her declaration. — as you will perceive from the papers. — There has been some delay in preparing Papers and the applicants are very anxious to have a hearing as early as convenient. —
Yours truly,
Ul. D. Soper
J. L. Edwards Esq.

Thiemo Petray Brooks Certificate
Declaration of —

I Benajah Douglas of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut do hereby say that I am the town clerk of said town of Litchfield & as such have the care & custody of the records of said town. I further state that I have carefully examined the records of marriages in said town & do not find any record of a marriage solemnized between Ann Brooks & Betsey Francis. I would however state that a large proportion of marriages solemnized in said town are not certified to me for record in consequence of the neglect of those whose duty it is to make such returns - And further I say not -
Benajah Douglas
State of Connecticut County of Litchfield Litchfield 30 January 1839 Personally appeared Benajah Douglas Esquire before me the above deposition & made oath to the same according to law
Samuel Colwell Just of Peace

Oct. 21. 1839
N.Y.
Hon J. J. Edwards Esq. Clerk of Supreme Court Washington D.C.

Batavia October 14, 1839
Dear Sir,
I herewith enclose your Certificate in the case of Widow Betsey Brooks, as required by your letter of the 17 th September ult.
I am Sir
Yr. Servt.
N. D. Soper
J. H. Edwards Esq.
Comm. Pensions
Washington

State of New York Genesee County
J. S. Mrs. Olive Gould, of the town of Batavia in the said County, being duly sworn doth depose and say that she is aged Forty Five Years and was born on the 21 st January 1794 as this Deponent has been informed by her parents and has always supposed. That this Deponent is the daughter of Asa Brooks deceased and Betsey Brooks, his present now deceased widow. That the said Asa Brooks and Betsey Brooks had three children older than this Deponent, who, as this Deponent believes, were born in lawful wedlock, whose names were Betsey, Polly and Chester Brooks, that said Chester Brooks only is now living. — And this Deponent further says that she always understood from her father that he was a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States and he was a Pensioner under the Act of 1818 and drew a Pension until the time of his death — That he died in May 1833 but this Deponent is not certain as to the day of the month but thinks it was on the 27 th May. — And this Deponent further says that the leaf annexed was cut from the Family Bible of the said Asa Brooks, in this Deponent's presence that the Record of the Marriage of the said Asa Brooks is in the hand writing of the said Asa Brooks, and that Deponent further says that she knows that the Bible from which the said leaf was cut was the Family Bible of the said Asa Brooks and that this Deponent had known it as such from her earliest remembrance. That the edition of the Bible appears to have printed in the year 1778 and this Deponent further says

That the said Betsey Brooks, the mother of this Deponent, has not ever married since the death of her husband and that she died on the 25 th day of February 1839 in the town of Batavia in said county - That this deponent, Chester Brooks, Ephraim Brooks, William Brooks, Francis Brooks, Charles Brooks and Phebe Brooks Brace are the only surviving children of the said Asa Brooks and Betsey Brooks - And this Deponent further says that the said Family Bible was in the possession of her parents, or of this Deponent, who had possession of the same about two years, until the time of the death of her father and that since the death of her father it has been in the possession of her sister Phebe Brooks Brace. -
Sworn and Subscribed this 28 th February 1839 before me by Oliver Gould, who is known to me to be a person of truth and veracity and entitled to credit.
Oliver Gould
James D Merrill J. Pierce

State of New York
Genesee County ss: Charles Brooks, of the town of Batavia in the said county, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is aged thirty two years and is the son of Asa Brooks and Betsey Brooks, both of the said town of Batavia and now deceased, that the said Asa Brooks was a Prisoner under the act of 1818 and died in the month of May 1833 but the day of the month he cannot recollect and left his widow Betsey Brooks, who remained unmarried until her death which was on the 25 th day of February last. That the only surviving children of the said Asa and Betsey Brooks are Charles Brooks, Ephraim Brooks, William Brooks, Francis Brooks, Phebe Brace and this deponent. That the leaf hereto annexed was cut from the Family Bible of the said Asa Brooks and Betsey Brooks. That said Record of the marriage is in the hand writing of the said Asa Brooks and this deponent has always known said Record to be the family Record of the said Asa Brooks and Betsey Brooks and further this deponent saith not. Sworn and Subscribed Charles Brooks this 3 d April 1839 before me by Charles Brooks, who is to me known to be a person of truth and veracity.
James P. Menier J. Pease.

State of New York Seneca County ss:
I, Horace M. Soper, Clerk of said county Certify that James D. Merrill was a Justice of the Peace of said County at the time of taking the foregoing affidavits and that the signatures to the foregoing certificates are his hand writing Witness my hand and official seal this 1. June 1839. W. W. Soper. Clerk
Widow Betsey Brooks Aff.