Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,931, Amos Brown, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass.) Brown, Amos S 36,931
CONTENTS
In 1821 aged 69 yrs. res. of Buckfield, Me. wife Hannah

13,716 2
District of Maine
Amos Brown 2 a / 11
of Buckfield in the state of of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shinnaj of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of May 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of Aug 1819 and sent to John Mufel Esq. Portland D of Maine
Arrears to 4th of Oct 1819. 31.51
Semi-ann. all'ce ending
3 Mo. \frac{25}{31} \frac{4}{30}
$ 31.51
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Hester sent to Robert Goodwin Esq 24 Sept 1821 Pension Maine

Amos Brown
Mass: line
Col. Phineas Root
1769-1777-
Admitted upon the evidence found
Admitted
6 May 1819
Amos Brown

I Amos Brown of Buckfield in the District of Maine aged sixty seven years being duly sworn do depose and say that I enlisted as a private soldier the first day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five the period of twelve months in Captain Wentworth's Company Colonel Edmund Phinney Regiment Massachusetts Line of the Continental Establishment at Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts, which period I faithfully served and was honorably dismissed the first day of January Seventeen hundred and seventy five at Lake George: that Josiah Jenkins was Lieutenant in said company during the whole period of my said service and that Archibald Lewis was the Ensign
That I am not borne on any Pension Roll and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of the assistance of my country for support agreeably to the provision of the Act of Congress passed the 18 th March A.D. 1818 entitled "An Act making provision for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War —"
Amos Brown
Subscribed and sworn to this sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Before me
Albion H. Parris
U. S. Dist. Judge Dept.

I John Mathews of Sumner in the County of Oxford Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby declare that on or about the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred & seventy six, at Windham in the County of Cumberland, I enlisted into the American Army and into the Company commanded by Captain Wentworth Stewart, of Col. Edmund Phinney's Regiment on the Continental Establishment and of the Massachusetts Lines, for the term of one year, which term I completely served through at Cambridge, Boston & its vicinity, at Deerfield, and at Fort George, at which last named place, I was disbanded at the close of my term of service - And I further say that Amos Brown, now resident in Buckfield in said County of Oxford did also enlist into the same Company about the same time and that he did serve the whole time with myself, being disbanded at the same time and place with me - John Mathews
of Massachusetts } by of Oxford } ss
Buckfield May 29 1819
Personally appeared the above named John Mathews, to me well known as a man of veracity, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed, taken at the request of Amos Brown, therein named, and to be used before the Hon. Abias H. Paris, Judge of the United States for the District of Maine, in an application by the said Brown made for a Certificate of his being entitled to a Pension agreeable to the provisions of an Act of Congress passed March 18. 1818. - done before me Saml F. Brown Justice of the Peace

I John Thurlow of Poland in the County of Cumberland and Commonwealth of Massachu- setts do hereby testify & say, that I am well acquaint- ed with Amos Brown of Buckfield in the County of Oxford, and that I was in the continental ser- vice during the Revolutionary War at the same period that the said Amos Brown, served, and was in the same Company & regiment with him and was mess mate & tent mate with him more than one year. And to my certain knowledge the said Brown served in the Company command- ed by Capt. Wendell Stuart, and his second ser. Capt. Jonathan Sawyer, in the Regiment under the command of Col. Edmund Phinney of the Massachusetts line in the Continental es- tablishment, twenty months. First eight months in Seventy five & then one year in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six. And to the best of my knowledge & belief the said Amos Brown served during the period for which he was enlisted & until he was hon- orably discharged
John Thurlow
Cumberland, May 8 th 1845
Then personally appeared the above named John Thurlow and made oath to the truth of the disposition by him signed
Before me Jacob Davis Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the writer named John Thur low who subscribes & made oath to this deposition and that his character for truth is good Jacob Leis Justice of the Peace

I John Thurlow of Poland in the Co of Sussex ~ ~ ~
I hereby certify that Amos Brown of Bucksport District of Maine, entered the service of the United States in the first eight months, and continued in said service the following twelve months, viz 1776 and I know of no impediment to deprive him of his pension
Josiah Jenkins } Capt. in Col. Penna Genl Staff Brigade
Forham Apr. 6 th 1819
Cumberland ss May 5 th 1819 Personally appeared Capt Josiah Jenkins of Goshorn and made oath to the above declaration and certificate by him subscribed, as just and true -
Before Jacob L. Smith just cause ex rel

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  nineteen , personally came Amos Brown the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the deposition of Josiah Jenkins (a commissioned officer in the revolutionary war) and of John Mathews and John Shurle , stating that at the time Amos Brown served as a private soldier for the period of nine months & upwards in continuation during the revolutionary war in the year A.D. 1776 in Col. Edmund Phinney's regiment of the Massachusetts Line which said depositions were duly taken before Jacob S. Smith , Jacob Hill & Samuel F. Brown Esquires, Justices of the Peace acting under the authority of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and whose signatures are well known to me
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said Amos Brown the applicant, served as a private in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my Official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
And I also certify that it appears to my satisfaction that said Amos Brown by reason of his reduced circumstances is in need of assistance of his country for support.
Albion H. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.

STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford ss... At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Paris within and for the County of Oxford on the second Tuesday being the twelfth day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benj Green Judah Dana & William  Wadsworth Judges of said Court.
ON this thirteenth day of June in the year 1820, personally appeared me  open Court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Amos Brown aged sixty nine years, resident in Bucksport in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Stewart & Sawyer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Colmen Thorney in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration made on the sixth day of May A. D. 1819, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 13716 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 18th 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 hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
Sworn to and declared, on the 13th day of June A. D. 1820. } in open Court before the above named judges
Amos Brown
Attest Rufus H. Goodwin Clerk  One of the Judges of the said Court
SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
No Real Estate whatever
Personal Estate viz
two Cows worth $20.00 One Swine worth 2.00
A small quantity of crockery, iron, wooden & leather ware worth perhaps ten dollars
Amos Brown
We certify that the above property is worth $32.00
Benj Green Judah Dana
Book 100 p 10 Not Official Book

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Amos Brown who, by occupation am a farmer which I am not able to pursue by reason of the shaking palsy which deprives me of all power to labor
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     My wife Hannah 61 years able to support herself and assist me some    (no other persons in the family)  Amos Brown   
STATE OF MAINE.
I, Rufus King Goodenow Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Oxford do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 thirty two dollars and twenty three cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty third day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty one  Rufus K. Goodenow Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Oxford
Amos Brown 2 o
13715
Con. J.L.G.

Hon. J. C. Calhoun

Paris Oxford Co. State of Maine, June 23 d 1831
Hon. John C. Calhoun Sir;
I herewith enclose the Schedule & certificates of Amos Brown, an applicant for a pension. Should he be continued on the pension list, you will oblige him, by transmitting his certificate to me at this place
I have the honor to be Sir your obedt Servt
Robert Goodenow

Free 33 3/4 Maine
Recd 9 July 1841.
Ev L.L.E. N.Y.
Paris Miss G July 2
The Hon ble John C. Calhoun
Secy Department of War Washington City

36 931 Rev  INVALID.  Rev
File No. 86,931
Mrs Brown Rev Wao
Act: 18 th March 18 83
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 585
[Arrangement of 1870.]