Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,664, Thaddeus Brown, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
NUMBER
S 29,664
Brown, Thaddeus
CONTENTS
A. Oct. 23, 1760 at Stone, Mass. res. at eul, Harvard, Worcester Co. Mass. res. in 1832, Milford, Oxford Co. Me. & died there June 15, 1842
Thaddeus Brown, born in Stone, Mass. Oct. 23, 1760

Reported Set to A. McArthur 28 Sept 1849
Certificate issued Sept. 28 th 1849, in lieu of 12 th June last, including Daniel Brown, whose name was omitted in Certificate of the latter date -
Increase 18.136. Maine Thaddeus Brown enlisted in the State of Me. who was a Pri- in the Comfy commanded by Captain Moore of the Regt commanded by Col. Jacobs in the Regt Mass line for 8 Mo. 19 Cays
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 28 Dollars 76 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. and end on 71 st June, 1842 when the Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of June 1849, and sent to Arthur McArthur Arrears to the 4th of Pension allowance ending Increased from $26.66 Deduct former payment
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. D. Kimball Clerk, Book 8. Vol. 1 Page 6
Pay to Melbery Brown, Sabez own, Thaddeus Brown, Mercy Merrill & Mary Flint, only living Children!

Thaddeus Brown's Application for a Pension 904 3

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford - ss.
ON this 6 th day of August - A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, Thaddeus Brown - a resident of Waterford in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 71 - 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
In the Month of September - the day he does not remember - 1779 at Harvard in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts he enlisted in company with John Hill, Joseph Houghton Samuel Barnard, Daniel Knight, Nathaniel Hazelton and David Stone in a company commanded by Captain David Moore in Col. Jacob's Regiment - Whether in the Continental line or Massachusetts State troops he does not know - for a term of two months - He immediately marched to Providence in the State of Rhode Island - From thence he marched to Kingston in the same State and after the British had evacuated Newport in said State and about three weeks before his term of enlistment had expired he was ordered to the latter place - After faithfully serving out his term he was honorably discharged - In July - the day of the month he does not remember - 1780, the said town of Harvard was required to furnish he thinks about twenty men for a term of six months - He with John Houghton, David Stone, Amasa Hamlin, Abijah Lole, John Houghton, Benjamin Hale, Solomon Whitney, Oliver Haskell, Benjamin Bridge, John Scolly, John Warner, John Calkins, Joel Whitney, Jonah Whitney and Nathaniel Stone were of the number - They were ordered to Scituate in Massachusetts to camp there - There they were met and received by Continental Officers and immediately marched to West Point in the State of New York where they were placed into Capt. Hart  Howles Company, Col. Putnam's  Brigade and Gen. Glenn Brigade - During the said term they were stationed at various points on the North river and at the expiration of it he was honorably discharged - His regular discharge for the last six months service he has lost - whether he had one for the first term he does not remember -
Thaddeus Brown
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the sent, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
S. Thaddeus Brown Before Stephen Emery, Judge

where they were placed into Capt. Hollbrook Comstock's Company, etc. They  They were placed into Col. Hollbrook Comstock's and Gen. Glavin's Brigades. During the said term they were stationed at various points on the North river and at the expiration of it he was honorably discharged - His regular discharge for the last six months service he has lost - whether he had one for the first term he
He was born the 25 day of October 1760 in Storp Mass. where his birth was recorded on the town books - After the close of the War he lived at said Farmstead where he was called into service here about forty years ago when he removed to this town Watrous where he has continued to reside ever since He was a volunteer in the service at each time - Had only one written discharge which was for the six months service and signed by Capt. John Fowler and which he has lost He knows of no person except David Stone by whom he can make proof of service -

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. said applicant having adduced the deposition of David Stone - also the certificate of Lincoln Ripley, a Clergyman of said Watford, & Leander Gage, all in oath duly administered, said Ripley & Gage being well known to the Court as persons sustaining a good reputation for truth & veracity, & it being in convenient for them to appear personally in Court - in support of his own declaration.
Stephen Emery. Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thaddeus Brown for a pension.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this sixth day of August A. D. 1832.
CLERK
Joseph G. Cole Register

State of Maine Oxford County ss: On this fourteenth day of Decem- ber A.D. 1848 before Albert Barker Esquire one of the justices of the Peace in & for the County of Oxford in the State of Maine personally appeared Daniel Brown of Waterford in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832 entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution" that he is the child of Thaddeus Brown late of Waterford in said county deceased who was a soldier of the Revolutionary army & that Melbery Brown Jabez Brown, Sarah Brown Thaddeus Brown, Mercy Merrill & Mary Flint are all children & only children with himself of said Thaddeus Brown late of Waterford & for which children as well as for himself he makes this declaration; That said Thaddeus Brown enlisted as a private, as he believes, in Captain David Moore's company in Col. John Jacob's Regiment in 1779 in Massachusetts State Troops and served two months and seven days. And he believes that his said father enlisted and served as a private in Massachusetts Militia six months & twelve days in part of 1780 & 1781 among the men sent from Harvard

to serve in the Revolutionary War.
That the said Shaddeus Brown died at said Walnford on the fifteenth day of June eighteen hundred and forty two leaving no widow, that he was a revolutionary pensioner under the act of June 7 1832, at the rate of twenty six dollars and sixty six cents and this application is made for arrears of pension under said Act.
Daniel Brown
Witness Albert Barker
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year first above written
Before me Albert Barker Justice of the Peace. Oxford ss.
I hereby certify that the name of Levi Brown in the above declaration was erased before signing and that said Levi is deceased
Albert Barker Justice of the peace

9081.
Thaddeus Brown
12 th April - 1833
Exp. 14.16.
P. 333
Admitted
8 mo's
26.66
Claudian
Waterford Me

BRIEF in the case of Thaddeus Brown  of Waterford in the State of Maine  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? on in Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71 years  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.     Sept In 1779 - 2 - Private Gen. Col. Moore. Col. Jacobs   July 1780 6 - 4 " Col. Melbrook. Col. Shepard   Found on the rolls of Smith's  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Near in or at Old Point  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Living witnesses
Richard Cutts  Examining Clerk.

State of Maine. COUNTY OF YORK, ss.
Court of Probate,
Term, A. D. 1849
BE IT KNOWN, That on this first day of January A. D. 1849 it has been satisfactorily proved, in open Court, being a Court of Record, that Thaddeus Brown late of Waterford in the County of Oxford in said County, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, that he died at said Waterford on the fifteenth day of June A. D. 1842 and that he left no widow, and that Melbury Brown, Jabez Brown, Daniel Brown, Thaddeus Brown, Mercy Merrill, and Mary Flint, are the children, and only surviving children, of said Thaddeus Brown deceased.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF , I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this first day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty Nine
Wm Hammond
} Register of the Court of Probate, York County.

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND, January 6th A. D. 1849
I _____ Charles C. Mannan, _____
CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that _____
_____ Albert Barker is now _____
_____ Acting Justice of the Peace, _____
within and for the County of _____ Oxford _____ as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that _____ he is _____ DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the Commission of the said Barker is dated June 28th A. D. 1844, and will expire _____ June 28 A. D. 1851. _____
and that the _____ following _____ SIGNATURE purporting to be his are Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
Chas. C. Mannan CLERK.

Thaddeus Brown Mr acty due 1832 $26 66 pr.
To what time was he last paid?
G. C. A.
Died 16 June 1842 P er in full W. Tyson

20 ] Sec 7 of main certificate Aug 1847 Rev Dull 1847

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, Dec 7 1847.
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 Thaddus Brown is borne upon an Abstract of Pay due to Capt David Moore's Company in Col John Jacobs's Regt, for service at Rhode Island as a private from September 13 to November 16 1779, including allowance of 4 days for 30 Miles travel. 2 Months & 7 days. It appears from Certificate of Selectmen of Harvard to Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that Thaddus Brown and others served two months in Capt David Moore's Company Col Jacobs's Regt in the year 1779. Upon a Pay Roll of the 6 months men from the town of Harvard as a private from July 19 1780 to January 22 1781 including allowance of 8 days travel, 6 Months & 13 days. Upon a Descriptive List of the 6 months
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Men in 1780. as belonging to Harvard enlisted at the age of 18 arrived at Springfield July 22 1780
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 appli- cation, 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.
Wm. Tufts. Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Application of Daniel Mowr of Watford in the county of Oxford & State of Maine for evidence of the services of his late father Thaddens Brown in the war of the Revolution.
The secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his possession of the services of Thaddens Brown my late father in the army of Revolution.
My father was a native of Stone in Massachusetts where he lived till about eight years of age, & then moved to Harvard in the county of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts & there resided or had his home until after the revolutionary war.
My late Father Thaddens Brown served several tours of service in the revolutionary war as a private in the Massachusetts  line as I have heard him say - I believe he served one tour of service of eight months in the continental establishment in Massachusetts line & this was not in the eight months service of 1775 but at another period commencement of the war. I have heard him say he served other tours and some of which was in militia in Revolutionary war, which he did not prove when he made application for his pension under Act of June 7 1832. I do not recollect under what officers nor in what years he served Witness my hand this tenth day of November A.D. 1847. Signed by the said Daniel Mowr in my presence.
Arthur McArthur, Justice of the Peace.
Daniel Brown

Lewington Jan 25 1849
Sir,
I forward you the indexed certificate for amendment by inserting the name of Daniel Brown as one of the children of Thaddeus Brown deceased, which I think will conform to the evidence in the application - if however that name is omitted in the evidence attached to the declaration, you will please retain the certificate & confer a favor by rectifying one of the parts, upon which I will forward the evidence.
Will you please answer the following query? Can a widow who has made her declaration before a Court of Pensions to obtain the benefits of the act of July 7 1838 & the additional acts & proceeded her process to Comm. of Pensions, be permitted to make her amendments or additions to said declaration before a justice of the Peace, that being able by reason of bodily infirmity to attend Court? James L. Edwards Esq. I am very respectfully Comm. of Pensions Washington, D.C. Your Obt. Servt. Arthur M'Arthur

Watford May 2. 1833
Sir -
The Application of Ephraim Larned Thaddeus Brown Oliver Hale and David Stearns are herewith returned -
It is hoped that the regulations of the Dept. in these cases, are now complied with -
The applicants prefer that all communica- tions in relation to them, should be sent directly to me as they can get them with more facility -
Respectfully
Charles Whitman

Increase Thaddeus Brown as Mr act 7 June 1832
Adnd 8 mo 19 days in $28 75 per m
From 4 March 1831 to 15 th
June 1842, the day of his death payable to Melton Brown, Jacob Brown, Daniel Brown, Thaddeus Brown, Mary Merrill, and Mary Flint one during children of Thaddeus Brown after deducting what has been paid at the rate of 26 66 per Anm for the same time
Arthur M c Arthur Simington Mr

Increase Thaddeus Brown ad Mr act 7 June 1832
Adm 8 mo 19 days in $282 11 per An
From 4 March 1831 to 15 th
June 1842, the day of his death payable to Melvyn Brown, Jabez Brown, Daniel Brown, Thaddeus Brown, Mary Merrill, and Mary Flint one seventh share of Thaddeus Brown after deducting what has been paid at the rate of 21 11 per An for the Senior line
Arthur M c Arthur Livingston Mr

Ginnington Jan. 10 1849
Sir,
Enclosed is the application of Children of Theudeus Brown for allowances of pension. Theudeus Brown was pensioned under Act June 7 1832 at $26.66 per month service - The enclosed certificate of Secretary of Massachusetts shows service of 8 months & 19 days.
I am very respectfully Your Obedt Servt. Arthur M'Attum
James S. Edwards, Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C.

Payment to be made at Portland by Wm Woodbury Esq., Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of Maine.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol- ume 1 Page 6 by Th. Dampkin Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Claim for Military Service.
Increased.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, Thaddeus Brown, deceased, late of Maine, who was a Private in the Revolution, and died on the 15th June, 1842, is reinscribed on the Pension roll at the rate of Twenty eight dollars and seventy six cents per Annum, commencing on the 4th March, 1831, and terminating on the 15th June, 1842. He having already been paid at the rate of $26.66 per Annum, for the same period, the difference between the two amounts is due and payable to his only surviving children, Eliz. Mothery Brown, Sabaz Brown, Daniel Brown Thaddeus Brown, Mercy Merrill, and Mary Flint. Danl Brown
Given at the Department of the Interior, this 12th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
Examined and Countersigned. }

29664 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29,664
Shaddens Brown
His Rev Mrs
Act: June 7 n 89 n
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 58
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N o 1.8135 Maine
Thaddeus Brown of Waterford in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Moore of the Regt. commanded by Col. Jacobs in the Mas. Mil. time for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of July 1833 and sent to Claimant Waterford Me.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 53.32 Trans. allowance ending 6 th Sep r 1833 13.33
$ 66.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown
Clerk,
Book E.
Vol. 1
Page 4

Thaddeus Brown Chrysalis artificiale

We, Lincoln Ripley, a Clergyman, residing in the town of Watford, County of Oxford and State of Maine, and Leander Gage of the same Watford Physician, do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Chaddick Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion -
L. Ripley. L. Gage
State of Maine -
County of Oxford ss. - Subscribed & sworn to this 6th day of August A.D. 1832
Before me Charles Whitman, Jus. Peace
STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Charles Whitman Esq.
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of L. Ripley & L. Gage is a Just of the Peace in and for said county of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 28th day of August in the year A. D. 1832
RK Goodenow
Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

I Jonathan Houghton of Waterford, in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged seventy two years, do testify and declare, that I was present, at Harvard in Massachusetts, in the month of July - day of the month not particularly remembered - 1780, when Shaddeus Brown now a resident of said Waterford and myself with between 15 & 20 others enlisted in the Revolutionary service for a term of six months - We all marched and mustered together at Springfield in said Massachu- setts - I am positive that said Brown was attached to Capt Fowler Company and I think to Col. Wigglesworth Regiment, but am not positive - We were stationed together on the North River in the State of New- York - I did not belong to the same company with said Brown but very frequently saw and conversed with him during said term and recollect perfectly well of seeing the said Shaddeus Brown receive his discharge at the same time I received mine at the expiration of said six months service - and we returned to said Harvard together -
Jonathan Houghton
State of Maine -
County of Oxford ss - On this 25 th day of April A.D. 1833 personally appeared the above named Jonathan Houghton, whom I know to be a person of credibility, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed -
Before me Charles Whitman Justice of the peace

I David Stone of Sweden in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged seventy years do testify and declare that I was present at Harnad in the County of Hampshire Massachusetts Worcester and State of Massachusetts, in the month of September — the particular day I do not now recollect — 1779, when Shadrach Brown, now resident in Watertown in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, enlisted as a private for the term of two months — John Hill, Joseph Houghton, Samuel Barnard, Daniel Knight, Nathaniel Hazelton and myself enlisted at the same time and for the same term — We served said term faithfully at Providence, Swanton and Newport in the State of Rhode-Island in Capt David Moore's company and Col. Jacob's Regiment — The Corps belonged to the State troops of Massachusetts — After serving out this term we were honorably discharged —
I do further testify and declare that I enlisted in company with said Brown and I believe about seventeen others, at said Harnad, in the month of July — I do not remember the day of the month — 1780, for a term of six months; that said Brown served in a company commanded by Captain Fowle, in Col. Smith or Weggelworth's Regiment I think, in Genl. Gloyne's Brigade, which was stationed upon the North River in the State of New-York — I did not belong to the same Regiment myself, but did to the same Brigade and very frequently saw said Brown during said term and was knowing to his being honorably discharged at the expiration of it —
David Stone
State of Maine —
County of Oxford — On this 24 th day of April A.D. 1833 personally appeared the above named David Stone — whom I know to be a person of credibility, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed —
Before me Charles Whitman, Justice of the Peace