Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,292, Joshua Brown, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. H.
Brown, Joshua
S. 12,292
Carded
CONTENTS
In 1832 aged 76 years, res. of Chester, Rockingham Co., N.H.

State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham
I John Kelly Register of Probate for said County and Clerk of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Joseph C. Plummer is a justice of the Peace for said County and that his signature to the within and annexed papers is as I believe his genuine signature in his own hand writing -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court of Probate this twelfth day of December Anno Domini 1832
John Kelly Register

I John D Norris of Epping in the County of Rockingham & State of South Hampshire of lawful age depose and say that I am well acquainted with Joshua Brown of Chester and that he is a man of truth & veracity -
John D Norris
And I Bendick Mundlet of said Epping of lawful age depose and say that the said Joshua Brown is a man of truth and veracity -
Bendick Mundlet
State of South Hampshire Then John D Norris & Rockingham ss of Bendick Mundlet made Nov 6 th 1872 | Clate that the above affidavits by them respectively subscribed are true -
Before me J. B. Thorne Jrs. Pean
I hereby certify that the above named John D Norris & Bendick Mundlet are men of truth and veracity -
J. B. Thorne Jrs. Pean

State of New-Hampshire.
County of Rockingham, ss.
ON this twelfth day of December 1882 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Justices of the Hon. John Harvey Judge of Probate for said County of Rockingham -  now sitting  in session in said County  Joshua Brown a resident of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire, aged Seventy Six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832:
That he did in the year 1775 enlist and serve in the Revolutionary war under Capt. Cutting Biley and marched to Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire for the term of fifteen days. Also in the winter of 1775 or 1776 I enlisted and served in said war under Capt. Thomas Bartlett and marched to Boston Mass. on Winter Hill and served the full term of two months and was then discharged.
Also I enlisted and served in said Revolutionary War under Capt Robert Pike in the Regiment commanded by Col. Lenten for the term of six months commencing on the first day of July 1777 - and ending on the first day of January 1778 - I was a part of said six months at said Portsmouth and marched from thence to Rhode Island and served the full term of six months and was then discharged.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Joshua Brown
John Harvey Judge of Probate

I Theophilus Muntlet of Walden in the State of Vermont depose and say that I served in the Revolutionary War in the Company commanded by Capt Robert Pike in Col. Lunkins Regiment from the first day of July 1777 to the first day of January 1778 and that I am knowing that the within named Joshua Brown served with me in said Company the full term of six months as within stated by him the said Joshua Brown -
Theophilus Muntlet
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss Epping November 6 th 1832 - Then the above named Theophilus Muntlet made oath that the above Affidavit by him subscribed is true -
Before Me J. G. Kimball Jus. of the Peace
the said Court hereby declares the opinion that the above named Applicant Joshua Brown was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
John Harvey Judge of Probate
I John Kelly Register of Probate for said County of Rockingham and Clerk of said Court of Probate etc hereby certify that the foregoing contains the origi- nal proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application Joshua Brown for a pension
John Harvey Judge of Probate Rockingham 22149
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twelfth day of December Anno Domini 1832
John Kelly Reg. Probate
Attest Joshua Brown Chas. Atte

John Kelly Belle N.Y.
$23.88
2.33 2330
22149
Jan 17 th 1892
Adelma Brown N Hampshire

60  BRIEF in the case of Joshua Brown,  of Rockingham in the State of N.H.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     In 1775 entered (en role 15. private Gen. Gage   " " 2. " Gen. Gage   July 1777 5. 8. " Gen. Gates Col. Benton   per Role of Service  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional one living witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  The Witness is not Corroborated by Credible 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.

Reborn
12.292 INVALID.
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File No. 12,292
Joshua Brown Dis New Mar.
Act: June 1 st 32
Index:—Vol. 2 Page 47
[Arrangement of 1870.]