Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5870, John Brown, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Brown, John Mary
NUMBER
W. 5870
CONTENTS
b. Sept. 1, 1747 at Staten Island.
Enl. in Lower Br. N. J. & res. there in 1832.
d. Sept. 11, 1836

9-4-69
New Jersey
John Brown 3rd
of Somerville in the State of N Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain McDonald of the Regt commanded by Col. Follinsbee in the N Jersey Militia time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of $9 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of May 1833 and sent J. A. Hartwell Somerville N.J.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $160.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1/2 p. 33 40 00
$200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk Book 6 Vol. 3. Page 102
Set. to Hon J. F. Randolph 4 Sept 1837.
To same March 7, 1838.
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Let. P P Runyon 20 May 1853
Date of Credit - new on 20
New Jersey 2,497
Mary Brown
widow of John Brown who was a Pensioner under act June 7. 1832 who died on the 11. th September 1836 of Somerset Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain W. Donald of the Regt. commanded by Col. Helinghuyzen in the N. Jersey line for 7. months
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annu to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. 12 th September 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 4. day of Feb. 1839 and sent to Hon. Jos. F. Randolph H. R.
  Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 38  46.15    Semi-annual allowance ending 4. Mar. 39  11.66     $ 57.81.  
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk Book A. Vol. 2 Page 124

Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832 State of New Jersey Somerset County ss. On this fifteenth day of August just- -ally appeared in Open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Bridgewater in said County John Brown, President of the County of Somerset, aged Eighty six years in February next - who being 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 th 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the follow- -ing named officers and served as hereinafter stated - He Entered at Blankam in this County in the year 1776 by volunteering under Captain McDonald - Marched to Bergen and served one month - He volun- -teered & served two months at different times on month service at Elizabeth - He was out another month - Marched to New Brunswick and Piscataway - He again volunteered and served one month - March- -ed to Communipaw - Saw the three British Ships Come into the North River - he was under Capt McDonald - He again volunteered and served one month Marched to Springfield - was there when it burnt & also at the battle - Capt J Van Eyck commanded this Company - He again volunteered & served one month under Capt Morgan - Marched to Amboy - He again volunteered and served one month under Capt Van Ruyl - Marched to the Arroyo Bridge was there when it was torn down - followed the British Army to Monmouth was there at the time of the battle - He was out at different times & at different places under Capt s McDonald, Deering, R. Schuyler - Fulk - Van Eyck Morgan - Van Ruyl - Col s Frilinghausen, Meddock Taylor, Neilson - Genl Dickerson & Hends - and Served in the whole at least 18 months - The names of the Continental Officers which he can Now recollect are Col Smallwood - Capt Parton Capt Pratt & Capt Hanson - He was born at Haddon

Islands. On the first day of February 1747 - He was about five years old when he came into this State in the County of Middlesex. He has since removed into the County of Somerset. He has ever since his removal from Staten Island resided in New Jersey. He has no other record of his age than that taken from his father's bible. And that he knows of no person except his twin brother Jacob Brown whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. He has no = of his services documentary evidence.
Sworn & subscribed in open court
This 15 th day of August 1832
John Brown
W. H. Gaston
We Ravand R. Rodgers a clergyman residing in the township of Bridgewater in the county of Somerset and State of New Jersey and Thos. A. Hartwell residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Brown who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about eighty six years of age - that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed this 15 th day of August 1832 in open court
Ravand R. Rodgers
Thos. A. Hartwell
W. H. Gaston

Declaration of Mary Brown, of New Jersey, in order to obtain the benefit of the 3 d section of the act of Congress of the 4 th of July 1836.
State of New Jersey Middlesex County 31. On this first day of Au- gust, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven, before the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, now sitting, personally appeared Mary Brown, a resident of the adjoining County of Somerset, in the seventy eighth year of her age, who being 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 4, 1836. That she is the widow of John Brown, who was a private in the militia of New Jersey in the service of the Revolution, and belonged, as she believes, to the company commanded by Capt. Lebrun. That as to this point, however, and all others, connected with her services, in the manner in which a detail is required, she does not feel competent to afford the ne- cessary testimony, and besides, deems it uncalled for, as her late husband drew a pension, and further furnished the statements and proofs required to support his claim. To the pa- per, then, in the Pension office she refers in support of this application.
She further declares, that she was married to the said John Brown, deceased, on the twenty fifth day of October, seventeen hundred and seventy five, by the Rev. Mr. Kennedy, who is not now living; that although she has no record testi-

136 triary of the marriage itself, nor any living wit- nesses of that marriage, yet that she has a re- cord of the birth of her children, the fruit of that marriage, which she herewith furnishes, in a leaf taken from her family bible, which record was made, the principal part of it, in 1791; that her husband, the aforesaid John Brown, died on the twelfth day of Sep. ten one thousand eight hundred and thirty five; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by re- ference to the proof hereto annexed.
Given and subscribed on the day and year above written, before
Peter B. Runyan                      Mary her Brown Judge of the D. Court                      mark
State of New Jersey Middlesex County, ss. On this 5th day of August, 1837, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Brown and Stephen Brown, known to me a credible person, whose testimony is indisputable, who being duly sworn, on their oaths, respectively, say, that they are sons of John Brown, lately of the County of Somerset, dec. who was a sol- dier of the revolution, and drew a pension as such - that John Brown is in the fifty first year of his age, and Stephen Brown, is in the forty second year of his age; that they know and state their ages from a record of their birth in a family bible, in the possession of their mother, Mary Brown; that this record, which contains the names and dates of the birth of none

children, they have always been instructed to believe, and do fully believe, to be the true record, according to its import: That their father, the aforesaid John Brown, departed this life on the twelfth day of September, 1836, and that their mother, Mary Brown, who is now applying for a pension, is still living in the seventy eighth year of her age, as they say, and they believe, the widow of the said John Brown, never having been married since the decease of their father, the said John Brown.  Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid, before me  John Brown Stephen Brown  Peter P. Henson Justice of the Peace
Middlesex County State of New Jersey  On this 5th day of August 1836, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county aforesaid, personally appeared Jacob Deproot known to me to be a credible person, whose testimony is implicitly to be relied upon, who being duly sworn, on his oath said that he is in the 88th year of his age; that he remembers John Brown, late of Somerset county, deceased (who was in the receipt from the U. States) from the period of the revolution up to the day of his death; knows that the said John Brown was married in 1775, to Mary Blew, now Mary Brown; that the said Brown died in September, 1836, and that the said Mary is still living, the widow of the said John, not having been married since her husband's death.  Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid, before me  Jacob Deproot  Peter P. Henson Justice of the Peace

The Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex New Jersey, express it as their opin- ion, that Mary Brown, the foregoing applicant for a Pension, is the widow & legal representative of John Brown late of the County of Somerset, N.J. deceased that the said John Brown departed this life on the twelfth day of September, 1836, at the said Mary's house.
I, Nicholas Borneau Clerk of the Court afore- said, do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of the Court, in the matter of the application of Mary Brown for a Pension. I further certify that Peter P. Runyon, whose signature is affixed to the foregoing affidavit in said case is a Judge of said Court, and also a Justice of the Peace, & that said signatures are in his own hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of Au- gust in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty seven.
N. Borneau Clerk

State of New Jersey County of Middlesex } J
On this twenty third day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas now sitting in New Brunswick in said County John Brown a resident of the township of Bridgewater in the County of Somerset and State of New Jersey in the sixty sixth year of his age 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 July 1 st 1848 That his father John Brown late of the said County of Somerset deceased was a Private in the service of the United States that he received a Pension as such from the 4 th of March 1831 to the 12 th day of September 1836 the day of his death at the rate of eighty dollars per annum as his certificate herewith will show that Mary Brown widow of the said John Brown applied for and made declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress of the 4 th of July 1836 that she received a Pension at the rate of twenty three dollars and thirty three cents instead of the sum of eighty dollars the amount which her late husband had received that the said Mary Brown widow of the said John Brown deceased departed this life on the 19 th day of October 1841 leaving four and only four children surviving her viz this declarant Susan who is now the widow of Philip Levison Stephen Brown and Benjamin Brown that this applicant for himself his sister Susan

Junison and his two brothers Stephen Brown and Benjamin Brown the only children surviving the said Mary Brown their mother asks the for the benefit of the foregoing act from the 12th day of September 1836 to the 19th day of October 1841 for the difference between the amount of eighty dollars per annum received by the said John Brown and the amount of twenty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum received by the said Mary Brown until their deaths respectively. For the evidence of the marriage of the said Mary Brown to the said John Brown this applicant would refer the Commissioner of Pensions to the declaration of the said Mary Brown now on file at the War Department. The certificate of Pension of the said Mary Brown deceased is herewith surrendered.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above mentioned
John Brown
Peter P. Humpson Judge
The Court are personally acquainted with the above named John Brown and believe the facts contained in the foregoing declaration are true
Peter P. Humpson Judge
State of New Jersey County of Middlesex ss I Nicholas Boorman Clerk of the Court of Sessions in the State of New Jersey, and of the Circuit Court in the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that the within copy is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office.

and of the board of Common Pleas in the Saucier County do hereby certify that Peter P. Kenny Esq. whose signature signatures appear to the foregoing declaration made by John Brown is and was at the time of signing the same a Judge of the board of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hall of said duly commissioned therefor; and that all his official acts as such are intended to pass forth and valid, and that the aforesaid board bears the records of recess having General Series section
Given under my hand & seal of office at New Brunswick this 10th day of December AD 1852
W. Woodhull Clerk

The Ages of the Children of John Brown and Mary his wife September 1 st 1791.
The 1 st Daughter Named Margret born March 15 th 1777 The second Daughter Named Nancy born February 10 th 1779 The third Daughter Named Susannah born August 25 th 1781 The fourth A Son Named Peter born February 9 th 1783 The fifth A Son Named John born August 29 th 1786 The sixth A Daughter Named Margret born May 13 th 1789 The seventh a Son Named William born April 30 th 1792 The eighth a Son Named Stephen born Sept r 6 th 1795 The ninth a Son Named Benj m born Nov r 26 th 1799.

Before Christ 170.
34 So every man praised toward the heaven the glorious Lord, saying, Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.
35 He hanged also Nicanor's head upon the tower, an evident and manifest sign unto all of the help of the Lord.
36 And they ordained all with a common decree, in no case to let that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day before Mardocheus' day.
37 Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that time forth the Hebrews had the city in their power. And here I will make an end.
Before Christ 168.
38 And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired: but, if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
39 For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone, and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste, even so, speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story. And here shall be an end.
The End of the APOCRYPHA.
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Handwritten initials or marks

August 5, 1936
Miss Josephine A. Brown 162 Broad Street Keyport, New Jersey
Jacob Brown-S.963 John Brown-W.5870 BA-J/AWF
Dear Madam:
The data furnished herein in regard to Jacob Brown were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 963, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.
from Staten Island
Jacob Brown was born February 1, 1747 on Staten Island; the names of his parents were not stated. He moved when about seven years of age to Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Jacob Brown volunteered in the year 1776, served as private in monthly tours at various times until in 1782, in the New Jersey militia, under Captains R. Sebring, Van Tuyl, Moffatt, Jacob Ten Eyck, McCoy, J. Sebring, and Colonels Neilson, Frelinghuysen, Middah; he was in the battle of Springfield, at the Drawbridge when it was torn down, and in the battle of Monmouth; the service amounted in all to two years and two months.
He applied for pension August 15, 1832, then living in Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey; he stated that he had lived in Somerset County, since the Revolution. The pension was allowed.
and previous to the Rev. he lived in Monmouth Co., N.J.
Jacob Brown died January 21, 1833, leaving no widow. The name of his wife is not given, nor are there any data relative to their marriage or to her death.
The following heirs at law of the above named Jacob Brown, in 1834 were as follows: Jacob Brown (son), John Brown, Stephen Brown, Sophia Brown, Susan Morford, wife

of Thomas Morford, Eleanor or Laney Bolmer, wife of Isaac Bolmer, and the following children of Oliver Brown- Margaret Brown, Jacob O. Brown, and Elias O. Brown.
John Brown, twin brother of the soldier, Jacob Brown, served with him in the Revolutionary War.
Elias Brown in 1832 was one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Somerset County, New Jersey. It is not stated that he was related to the family.
*****
John Brown-W. 5870
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, W. 5870, based upon the service of John Brown in the Revolutionary War.
John Brown was born February 1, 1747 on Staten Island, names of his parents not given. He moved when about five years of age to Middlesex County, New Jersey.
John Brown volunteered at Pluckemin, Somerset County, New Jersey, in the year 1776, served as a private at various times in the New Jersey militia, under Captains McDonald, Fulk, J. Ten Eyck, Van Tuyl, Morgan, J. Sebring, R. Sebring, Colonels Neilson, Frelinghuysen, Middah, and Taylor; he was in the battle of Springfield, at the Drawbridge when it was torn down, and in the battle of Monmouth; the service amounted in all to two years and two months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832, then living in Somerset County, New Jersey.
John Brown married, October 25, 1775, Mary Bleu?

The soldier, John Brown, died September 11 or 12, 1836 in Somerset County, New Jersey.
His widow, Mary Brown, was allowed pension on her application executed, August 1, 1837, then in the seventy-eighth year of her age, and living in Somerset County, New Jersey.
names
The following is a list of the children of John Brown, and his wife, Mary, are found in the claim-
  Margret born March 15, 1777   Nancy " February 10, 1779   Susanah or Susan " August 25, 1781   Peter " February 9, 1783   John " August 8, 1786   Margret " May 13, 1789   William " April 30, 1792   Stephen " September 6, 1795   Benjamin " November 21, 1799 
The widow, Mary Brown, died October 19, 1841, leaving four children. John Brown, a resident of Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey in 1852; Susanah or Susan, widow of Philip Tunison in 1852; Stephen Brown, and Benjamin Brown.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Twins brother of Jacob. The following is a list of the children of John Brown, and his wife, Mary, are found in the claim- The soldier, John Brown, died September 11 or 12, 1836 in Somerset County, New Jersey. His widow, Mary Brown, was allowed pension on her application executed, August 1, 1837, then in the seventy-eighth year of her age, and living in Somerset County, New Jersey.
Handwritten initials or marks.

Let. to Hon. J. F. Randolph
4 Sept 1836
To same March 7, 1838.
same Mar 17, 1838 enclosing
See the m. Lm 8. of 699 ff papers. Ralph van Delt
New Jersey
Mary Brown
negated - husband died after date of the
act July 4 th '36 Let to Hon. J. F. Randolph,
Sept. 5, 1838.

2497.
Mary Brown Widow of John. N. J.
July 11 th 1836.

80 $ Middlesex Co. John Brown 3 pri. 1 St. Jeney act 7. June when east fr 2 D
G. H. C. 5. March 1838
certificate dated - 20 May 1833 -
Paid to 4 th Feb 1836
2/4

August 5, 1936
BA-J/AWF
Miss Josephine A. Brown 162 Broad Street Keyport, New Jersey
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to the following Revolutionary War soldiers who served in either Middlesex or Somerset County, New Jersey- Abraham, Benjamin, Daniel, Jacob, James, John, Lewis, Peter, William Brown, and John Warne.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension or bounty land, which have been made to the United States, based upon service in that war.
A search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of any John Warn or Warne, or of Abraham, Benjamin, Daniel, James, Lewis, Peter, or William Brown, who served from either Middlesex or Somerset County, New Jersey.
The records of Jacob and John Brown are furnished herewith as found in pension claims, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator
See her letter re Jacob Brown S. 963

October 29, 1936
Miss Josephine A. Brown 163 Broad Street Keyport, New Jersey
Jacob Brown-S.963 John Brown-W.5870 BA-J/AWF
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you cite seeming discrepancies in the reports of Jacob Brown, S. 963, and John Brown, W. 5870, which were furnished you August 5, 1936, such as stories of those brothers (twins), when they left Staten Island etc.
Those two pension claims have been reexamined. Jacob Brown stated in 1832 that he "was born on Staten Island on the first day of February, 1747-his age -- in his father's family bible which is now in the County of Monmouth State of New Jersey", that he "moved from Staten Island when he was about seven years old", that "he has ever since the Revolution lived in the county of Somerset. Previous to the Revolution he lived in Monmouth County in this state". John Brown stated in 1832 in New Jersey, that he "was born at Staten Island on the first day of February 1747", that he "was about five years old when he came into this state in the county of Middlesex", that he "has since removed into the county of Somerset".
Old Revolutionary War soldiers made their affidavits from memory, before the courts, and in many instances discrepancies are found in their declarations, which were as accurate, however, as they could recall over such a long period of time.
See her letter to an account of these brothers in
Jacob Brown S. 963
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Rev WIDOW, &c.
1906 Aug 5 - list to Miss Josephine Brown. See her letter in Ja Brown S.963 Aug 1930 Oct 29 - Josephine C. Brown - Aunt "quoted report" - her letter to Jacob Brown S.983 Aug
File No. 5870
Mary Brown Wid. of John Brown Wt. S. J. Lisse
Act: July 4 th 86, Sec. 3 d
Index: - Vol. A , Page 83
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3598 Application of John Brown of Somerset County New Jersey for a pension
Amended
Forward certificate to T. A. H. North Somerville New Jersey

State of New Jersey Somerset County
Personally appeared before me Elias Brown one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County I said Brown aged eighty six years in February next was being too infirm to appear in open Court Who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he knows the within named John Brown to have been a soldier in the war of the Revolution - That deponent was with the said John Brown in the battles of Springfield and Monmouth upon the battle field. -
J. Jacob Brown
Sworn & subscribed before me this 18 th day of August 1832.
Sworn and Subscribed the day of year above written before me
Elias Brown
Personally appeared before me the subscriber W. B. Gaston providing in case of said Court John Brown the above named applicant who being duly sworn deposes and saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades For two years and two months I served as a soldier & for such service claim a pension
Sworn & subscribed this 19 th day of March 1833 before me
John Brown
W. B. Gaston

I William B Easton presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Somerset, hereby Certify that Jacob Brown who Subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing affidavit, was a person (now dead) of truth and Credibility whose statement is entitled to full credit and belief
W. B. Easton
William B Easton
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of February 1821
William B Easton
The foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 21st day of February 1821

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named Applicant is a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Reverend H. Bogus who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the Township of Briargrove County of Somerset and that Thomas B. Hartwell who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place, and is a credible person. And that this statement is entitled to credit.
W. H. Gaston
Rev. Vanderveen
M. J. Rootes
Dan H. Disbrough John Kirkpatrick
State of New Jersey I John M. Mann Clerk of the Court Somerset County ss of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Brown for a pension: In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two -
J. M. Mann

State of New Jersey } I John M. Mann Clerk of the Inferior Somerset County } Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing certifies the Original proceedings of said court in the matter of the Application of John Brown for a pension: and I further certify that William B. Gaston Esq. before whom the additional Affidavit of the said John Brown was made and by whom the additional Certificate was made yes at the time thereof and now is the Presiding Judge of said Court: And that the proper signature of the said William B. Gaston is subscribed to said Affidavit and Certificate -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Bridgewater this Eighteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and thirty three -
J. M. Mann

2553
July 1838
Admitted Private 7 months
Hon. Jos. F. Randolph A.R.

State of New Jersey.
Declaration of Mary Brown, widow of John Brown, of the County of Somerset, New Jersey, in order to obtain the benefit of the 3 d Section of the act of Congress of the 4 th July, 1836. and of the Joint Resolution of July 7, 1838.
State of New Jersey, County of Somerset ss. On this ninth day of January one thousand eight hundred & thirty nine, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, now in session, personally appeared, in open Court, Mary Brown, of said County, in the seventy ninth year of her age, who being first duly sworn, 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 4, 1836, and the Joint Resolution of July 7, 1838: That she has heretofore made application for the benefit of the act of the 4 th July, 1836, but that being informed that her case comes under the Joint resolution of July 7, 1838, and that a new declaration or application is required to entitle her to the benefit of that Resolution, she now accordingly renews her application in the form prescribed under that resolution, referring, as in her former application, in support of her claim, to the papers filed by her late husband, and upon which a pension was granted to him.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Brown on the twenty fifth day of October in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five that her husband, the aforesaid John Brown died on the twenty fifth  eleventh day of October  September one thousand eight hundred and thirty six and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof of her

Widowhood, which is hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed, on 3  her  Monday and year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine before me 3  Mary  Brown  Mark
W. B. Gaston
State of New Jersey } On this ninth day of Jan. Somerset County } ss. many one thousand eight hun- dred and thirty nine before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County her- sonally appeared Susan nah Garrison who being duly sworn upon her oath saith that she is the daughter of John & Mary Brown that she is in the fifty eighth year of her age that there were two children of the said John & Mary Brown other than herself viz Margaret and Mary that her father John Brown departed this life on eleventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty six that Mary Brown her mother is the applicant named in the foregoing declaration and the widow of the said John Brown her father and that she has not since been married but remains the widow of the said John Brown her said father
Sworn to and subscribed on the day 3 and year aforesaid in open Court Susannah Garrison
W. B. Gaston
State of New Jersey } ss. I John M. Mann Clerk of the Somerset County } ss. Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original

John Brown 3 o
Payments to be made
at Trenton
by D Dickinson Pres t Trenton Banking Company Agent for paying Pension-
ers, in the Agency of
New Jersey
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book 6 Vol. 3
Page 102 by
Geo. B. Whiting Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, John Brown (3) of the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Eighty _____ dollars and _____ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 20 th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
L. Wood
Secretary of War.
Approved and countersigned. }
J. L. Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.

Mary Brown
Payment to be made at Trenton by P. Dickinson, Esq. Agent for paying Pen- sioners, in the Agency of N. Jersey
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 2 Page 124 by
D. Brown,
Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT. REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Mary Brown, — of the State of New Jersey widow of John Brown — who was a Private in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty three dollars and thirtythree cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the twelfth of September 1836, — and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this fourth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.
J. P. Poinsett
Secretary of War.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
Examined and Countersigned. }

New Brunswick New Jersey Dec r 18 th 1852
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Please the declaration of Henry P. Van Brader for bounty a certificate of the marriage of Mary Jenkins widow George A. Jenkins and the application of John Brown on behalf of himself and brother and sister for the arrears of Pension claimed to be due them in right of their mother The early attention of the Commissioner is most respectfully solicited Please address the subscriber
With great respect to Peter P. Brumley
N. B. The application of Rachel Blackford for a Pension has been at the department since April last She is very aged cannot her application be passed before she dies P. P. B.
☞ Case of John Brown, only , enclosed. — J. T. Taylor

Received May 25 th 1838
J L Edwards Esq
Sir,
I sent you yesterday some previous papers in one of which there is an offi- =cial take before David W Vail judge & without a certifi- =cate of the Clerk as to that fact. I am personally acquainted with Mr. Vail & know him to be now in commission as one of the Judges of the Middlesex Plead. I also know his hand-wri- =ting. Have no doubt but the signature is his - this I believe under your rules will be an

sufficient substitution for a birth certificate, if not that may be furnished - I am also requested to call the attention of this Department to the cases of Mary Brown & Rachel Stewart , which have not been allowed but which I understand will come under the late act & may be allowed under it -
Yours &
J. H. Randolph