Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1305, Jacob Brown, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass
Brown, Jacob
R. 1305
CONTENTS
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No. 38241, Aaron Brown
Declaration
_____ do Jacob Brown
Mop.
June 7, 1832
Presented Aug 11/51
by
Tho. Ewing Jr.
Present

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston :
February 25. 1857 .
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Jacob Brown is borne on rolls of 8 mos. Service in 1775 in Col. Phippen's Reg't. as a Major, of North Yarmouth, enlisted April 24. on return of Oct. 1 st .
Also on a pay roll of Field & Staff officers of Col. Mitchell's Reg't. on expedition against Penobscot, as Major, from July 1779. 2 mos. 19 days. roll dated at N. Yarmouth.

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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Francis Waldo. Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, made by the son & heir of the party who rendered the service.
State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex Town of Waltham
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Isaac Brown in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Salisbury in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts
He enlisted from the Town of North Yarmouth in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine then part of Mass in the year 1775 or 1776 as a Major  in the Company commanded by Captain
Regiment of Foot commanded by Col. 2d Mass. Artillery  in the 18th Regiment and he served as follows, *viz:— he was in service during the whole war—was in the battle of Bunker Hill & Monmouth & others not recollected as at Lake George — Fort Vanderburgh & led the men who destroyed the British stores at Fort George near Lake George — he was much with Gen. Washington — near the close of the war he went home on furlough on account of sickness & shortly after  his return he was discharged & he did not return again to the Army & did not obtain any Discharge —
* Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank, &c. of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.

I am now 63 — years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, this 18th — day of February A. D. 18 57 . Sarah Brown
Signed by said Sarah Brown in my presence,
E. Pearson —
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
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I Robert Masfield of North Yarmouth in the county of Cumberland & State of Maine aged eighty nine years do testify & say that I was acquainted with Major Jacob Brown of North Yarmouth, that I was a soldier in the Continental army of the Revolu- tion, and was on Rhode Island with the army in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight & saw Major Jacob Brown there at the time & knew him to be an officer of the Continental American Army - and furthermore the deponent saith not
Dated at North Yarmouth aforesaid this twenty second day of May A 1851
Witness
John H. Gookin
Robert
his
mark
Masfield
Cumberland ss. North Yarmouth May 22 d 1851
Personally Robert Masfield and made out that the above deposition by him signed is true
Before me John H. Gookin Justice of the Peace

State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex
Ss: On this 15 th Day of July 1851 personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace within & for the County aforesaid Aaron Brown aged sixty three years a resident of Waltham in the County aforesaid Who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the son & heir of Israel Brown deceased who was a Major in the Regiment & under the Colonels as appears by the certificates of the Secretary of this State - & that he was a resident of North Yarmouth in the State of Maine during the whole of the Revolutionary war & that he served as in said certificate mentioned as he verily believes -
And he further declares that the said Israel Brown as he verily believes served as Major in Col. Phinney's Regiment in the same war in pursuance of and under the Commission hereto annexed & as he verily believes the proof of such service exists on the Rolls & other papers in the Proprietors Department at Washington & that he performed such service in each of the years of 1776, 1777 & 1778 - & that if he served in any other Regiment or in any other capacity in said years or in the years of 1775 or 1779 mentioned in said Certificate that if he performed any other service than mentioned in said Certificate the evidence of such service will also appear on the Rolls & papers of said Department as

he verily believes -
And the Declarant further states that he has been informed & believes that his grandfather served in the war of the Revolution more or less during every year during the course of the Revolution - that he was, Capt. in Col. Edward Newports Regiment and that he was for many Capt. of the same Company & on his promotion to the Command of the Regiment said Jacob Brown was elected Capt. of this area in the year 1781 -
The Declarant further states that his grandfather was in the service as he was informed & verily believes at or shortly previous to the close of the Revolution - that when news of peace arrived he was at home unfortnight on account of sickness & that this was the reason why he never received a written Discharge as he did not return again to the Army as his services were no longer needed & The Declarant further states that according to his best knowledge information & belief the facts above stated & also those stated in his Application annexed to the annexed or above mentioned certificate are true & he further states that he is at present unable to give further details of his grandfather's services than the above & annexed certificate the history of the war contains.
The Declarant further states that his grandfather according to his best knowledge information & belief never drew or received any pension or bounty under account of said services & that for much or a large

part of his said services he never received any compensation whatever & a large portion of what he did receive was continental money for which has entirely valueless to him.
The Deponent further states that he & his sister are the only heirs of his grandfather, & that his sister declines to take any part or share or trouble in this matter & surrenders her interest therein to him. That his said father died September 4th. 1832 leaving no wife or surviving children. That the continental money issued by him the said Jacob Brown was of the several dates following Nov. 29. 1775 $9.00 - July 17. 1776 $10.67 - May 9. 1776 $14.00 - July 22. 1776 $6.00 - September 26. 1778 $58.00 - That the above is all that can be found. Other bills have been lost.
That the Deponent makes this declaration to obtain such pension & bounty as he is entitled to under the laws of the United States - or absent of the services of his said father -
Jacob Brown
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 6 day of June 1841 E Pearson
Justice of the Peace

February 3, 1936
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1305 /MCS Jacob Brown, R. 1305
Mr. Frank Owen White Egypt Massachusetts
Dear Sir:
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, R. 1305, based upon the military service of Jacob Brown.
He was born in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. The date of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
While living in North Yarmouth, District of Maine, he entered the service on April 24, 1775, as major in Colonel Edmund Phinney's Massachusetts regiment and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. On January 1, 1776, he was commissioned major of Colonel Edmund Phinney's 18th Regiment of Foot and he was in the battle of Monmouth. In July, 1779, he was serving as major in Colonel Mitchell's Massachusetts regiment and went on the expedition to Penobscot. He was in service until about the close of the Revolution.
It was stated that Jacob Brown died September 4, 1832, leaving no widow.
He was survived by a son, Aaron Brown, who in July, 1851, was living in Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, aged sixty-three years, and he stated that he and his sister (name not given) were the only surviving children of Jacob Brown.
On July 15, 1851, said Aaron Brown applied for pension that may have been due on account of the military service of his father, Jacob Brown, but the claim was not allowed as he failed to make his application before a Court of Record and to furnish proof of the death of the soldier, Jacob Brown, and his wife, as well as the names and number of all surviving heirs.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Know all men by these presents, That I E. Pearson of the County of Suffolk and State of Mass have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint, THOMAS EWING, Jr., of Washington City, my true and lawful attorney, irrevocably for me and in my name to receive from the United States all such sum or sums of money as may be due me on any account whatsoever,
to prosecute the claim of the heirs of Major Isaac Brown dec d for a revolutionary pension to examine the papers and evidence now on file in the Pension Office in support of the claim and to receive such pension certificates as may be issued to them.
and in my name to execute such receipts and acquittances for the same as may be necessary, and generally to do all lawful acts and things touching the premises; and an attorney or attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid, to make and at his pleasure to revoke; hereby confirming all and what- soever my said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises, by virtue of these presents,
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 9th day of August 1851.
E. Pearson
***** * SEAL. * *****
State of Massachusetts County of Suffolk } to wit:
On this 9th day of August 1851, Elisabeth Pearson personally appeared before me a Justin Pease in and for the County aforesaid, and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein expressed.
Justin Pease J. P.
***** * SEAL. * *****
State of Massachusetts County of Suffolk } to wit:
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That Horatio Bigelow Esq., before whom the above acknowledgment was made, and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the _____ County for the County aforesaid, this _____ day of _____ 1851
Glenn

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, August 9 th 1851
S hereby C ertify, That at the date hereof Horatio Biglow is a justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, July 17 th 1851
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation E. Pearson was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex.
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Francis Walker, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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James Brown, Jr.
Oral
in 1957
Jan 7, 1952

Pension Office, Novr. 8, 1851.
Thos. Ewing, Jr., Esq. Present.
Sir:
The declaration of Aaron Brown, son of Jacob Brown, decd., claiming the benefit of the Act of June 7, 1832, for the services of said Jacob, having been made before a Justice of Peace, cannot under our rules be considered. It is, therefore, necessary that a new declaration should be made before a Court of Record and all the regulations on the accompanying printed sheet for carrying into effect the Act of June 7, 1832, strictly adhered to. Accompanying the new declaration there should a certificate from a Court of Record, showing the day of Jacob Brown's death as also that of his widow and the names and number of their children then surviving.
Very re.
J. W.
(Col. Wiles)

Washington City August 11 th 1851
Sir
I herewith enclose you the claim of Aaron Brown, son and heir of Major Jacob Brown decd. for pension due on account of the services of his father, under act of 1832.
I am very respectfully Your obt. Servt. Thos. Ewing Jr.
To James E. Heath Esq. Comm r of Pensions Washington D. C.

Augt: 14: 1857
Claim of Jacob B. Peterson, deed.
Thurs: Evening
Present
James E. Heath Esq.
Comr in Eq. Personal
Washington
D. C.

Act of 1832
Claim of Lewis & Jacob Brown Mop Militia Revolutionary War
Papers on file in Mop Land Office
— Can file by Mr Ewing & also by Mr —
Ja s G. Austin
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IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the United Colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, to Jacob Brown Esq.
WE reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, valour, conduct and fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Major of the 10. Regiment of Foot Commanded by Col. Edmund Phinnery
in the army of the United Colonies, raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. You are to be more carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Major
by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Major . And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior officer, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
Attest Chatham
By Order of the Congress.
John Hancock President
January 1. 1776

July 10, 1936
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BA-J/MCS Chas Jacob Brown, R.1305
Mr. Frank Owen White Eggy Massachusetts
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of June 22, 1936, in which you wish a verification of the date of death of Major Jacob Brown as given in the record which was sent you February 3, 1936.
The only reference to the date of death of Jacob Brown that is shown in the papers of pension claim, R. 1305, is that made by Aaron Brown in 1851 when he stated that his father, Jacob Brown, died September 4, 1832, leaving no widow.
You will note in the last paragraph of the letter that was sent you February 3, 1936, it was stated that one of the reasons for not allowing the pension claim of Aaron Brown was that he furnished no proof of the date of death of his father, Jacob Brown.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

February 3, 1936
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BBJ/mu/AF/MCS Moses Brown, W. C. 13959
Mr. Frank Owen White Egypt Massachusetts
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letters, one in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Major Jacob Brown of Colonel Edmund Phinney's Massachusetts regiment, the other in which you give further information in regard to Moses Brown, W. C. 13959, whose record was furnished you December 3, 1935, in anticipation that it will aid future research workers.
Your letter has been placed on file in pension claim, W. C. 13959, with previous correspondence, and likely will prove of interest to those interested in that soldier.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

FRANK OWEN WHITE
Egypt, Massachusetts. June 22, 1936.
BA-J/MCS Jacob Brown, R. 1305.
Veterans Administration, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen,
(1) Will the first reader of this letter please attach one of the pink slips which used to be available in the Solicitor's office, of the Internal Revenue Department, what time I was sort of acting under the said title, which bore the magic word:—"Expedite", or some similar term?
(2) Having done that, you may "get a kick" out of the following story---which is inserted here, of course, just for the purpose of putting you in a sympathetic frame of mind.
Many years ago my Grand-mother, in speaking of Major Jacob Brown, who fought as such at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and whose sword carried there, I now hold in custody for my eldest son as a transmitendum, told me that I should always remember that his wife, Lydia, was a sister of the Joe Weare ---as I find the name was spelled--who killed the Indians by inducing them to help him by pulling apart with their hands the log he was splitting with a wedge; whereupon, when they were all properly "set", he knocked out his wedge, and then carefully killed all six of them with appropriate remarks.
After a search lasting many months, I have recently found the printed account of this little episode, which I remembered reading as a boy in a school reader. It is in "Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine" a magazine published along about 1879 or so; and the "remarks" attributed to said Joe were:—"I'm Joe Weare dam you, I'm Joe Weare."
Now it would be just too dreadful, if I should get irked with you boys now in Washington, and deciding that you were all Indians, start to emulate Uncle Joe!
(3) Joking aside, under date of February 3, 1936, in a letter from your office, bearing the symbols above, you gave me some information about said Major Jacob Brown which was very valuable to me; and some which I think must relate to an entirely different person. The letter says:-
(A) He was born in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (This is O.K.)
(B) A paragraph starting with the statement that while living in North Yarmouth, District of Maine, he entered the service on April 24, 1775, as major in Colonel Edmund Phinney's Massachusetts regiment and was in the battle of Bunker Hill, etc., etc. (Entire paragraph is O.K.)
(C) "It was stated that Jacob Brown died September 4, 1832 , leaving no widow."
It is this last statement which I believe must be all wrong. Here are my reasons for thinking that a mistake has been made:---

(1) The Vital Statistics of Salisbury, Mass., printed by authority of the Commonwealth list two Jacob Browns who were born at such time that it would have been possible for them to have fought at Bunker hill, June 17, 1775; and only two, namely---
Jacob Brown, born Jan. 21, 1741/2, son of Joshua and Joannah (Morrill)
and
Jacob Brown, born July 24, 1720, son of Jacob and Mary (----)
If now, he died in September 1832, as stated by you, it must have been the first of these; for if he had lived to the age of 110\frac{1}{2} years, I should have heard of it, and so would almost every one else.
(2) The Town Records of North Yarmouth, now Cumberland, Maine, give as the date of birth for Lydia Weare, a sister of Joseph Weare, who was later known as 'The Indian Killer'; August 2, 1726; and further as the date of her marriage to "Jacob Brown"---July 13, 1743. Obviously she did not marry the man who was born in 1741/2, at that date.
(3) The "Jacob and Mary" parents of the one born in Salisbury in 1720, had other children born there in 1718, and 1722; but then apparently removed to North Yarmouth, Maine; for their names appear upon the records of that town as parents in 1731, '32, and '34.
(4) this removal of his parents to North Yarmouth, Maine, brings the Jacob who was born in 1720, into the same town where Lydia Weare lived, and there is no doubt at all but what she married a man of that name; also that she was the sister of the man who killed the Indians in the manner related above.
Now will you please take another look at the records in your custody, and make certain that the date of his death, which you report as September 4, 1832, does not more properly belong to some one else----possibly to
Jacob Brown Jr., a Drummer boy, born (as I recall the date) in 1759, probably a son of Major Jacob Brown, as he enlisted from North Yarmouth, Maine, and was listed on the Pay Roll of Capt. John Gray's Company in Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's regiment on the expedition to Penobscot in July to September 1779; the same expedition listed by your office as a part of the service record of Major Jacob Brown?
There was apparently still a third individual of that name in that locality who served in the Revolution; for I found a memorandum of the description of a Jacob Brown, age 47, in Capt. Trickey's company of Col. Illsley's regiment, under date of April 13, 1782, which would make this man born in 1735. He was from Cape Elizabeth, Maine, a nearby place.
I hope you are not bored to death by this long screed. You may not believe me; but I have tried to make it terse. And please don't forget to affix the pink slip mentioned in the first paragraph. I know you have not done it as yet; but please do.
Yours truly,
Frank O. White

FRANK OWEN WHITE
Egypt, Massachusetts. December 20, 1935.
Veterans Administration, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen,
Can you furnish from your records any information concerning the dates and places of the birth, marriage and death of Major Jacob Brown? He married a Lydia Weir, and entered service April 24, 1775, in Colonel Edmund Phinney's (31st.,) Cumberland--Massachusetts--(Maine) regiment. He was also 1st., Major in Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's (Cumberland County) regiment, and was discharged Sept. 25, 1779.
Of course, if answering this request is apt to cause the premature death of some clerk, from being smothered by the accumulated dust of ages resting upon the tomes containing the information, why just ignore this request.
Yours truly,
Frank Owen White
Frank Owen White.

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RECEIVED
P.O. Jacob Brown
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Blank filed too late to Re-enlisted: have cause of rejection entered on printed list of 1852.
Attorney: _____
P.O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

1936 Feb. 3. Invt. to Mr. Frank O. White. 16CS See Moses Brown. R. P. 139.59 for letter from Mr. White containing further data rel. to said Moses Brown.
1936 July 10. Mr. Frank O. White, inf. rel. to verification of date of death of Jacob Brown. R. 130.5-7 16CS.