Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1186, Joseph Brewer, Mass.

SERVICE
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Mass
Brewer, Joseph
R, 1186
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Joseph Brewer deceased Maine.
Rejuled
Mrs. Florentine Anderson Nov 24. 1857
1186
Not June 7. 1832

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1186
P. O. Joseph Brewer
Service: REJECTED
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Camden, Me Nov 16. 1857.
Sir
Will you favor me with an Examination of the Rolls for the Revolutionary Service of Joseph Brewer, my late father. He is supposed to have been twice drafted. Each time for Nine months. That the first draft he hired a substitute, the last time that he actually served the Nine months. I forward any information to me at Camden, Maine.
Very Respectfully Florentine Anderson
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, November 9 th 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 Joseph Brewer is borne on pay roll of Capt. George Rogers Comp. Col. Jonathan Mitchell's Regt. at work on the Fort at Falmouth County of Cumberland, in Nov. 1775, 16 days as private.
Also on list of a Company appointed by lot to serve as a reinforcement to the American Army agreeable to a late act of the General Court. List dated North Yarmouth Dec. 3. 1776.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
D g J. Secretary of the Commonwealth.

87. N. & S. To the Hon. Secretary of the State of Massachusetts.
The undersigned Florentine Anderson of Camden in the State of Maine, and daughter of Joseph Brewer late of Freeport in the State of Maine, now deceased, I am requested to examine the revolutionary rolls in your office for the service of said Joseph Brewer in the Revolution, at the time of said service so Joseph lived in said Freeport, he was drafted twice for nine months each, tis supposed he served at Baggaduce near Castine, under the first draft he may have had a substitute, tis believed one of the officers under whom he served was a Col. Baily, he is believed to have served as a private. Please forward the result of your examination to me at Rockport, Me. in care of Mr. T. Talbot & Adelize Attest
William Bass
Very Truly Yrs Florentine Anderson
State of Maine
Holden, Nov 5th 1857. Then personally appeared Florentine Anderson, the above described, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing instrument, by her subscribed. And I certify that I am acquainted with her.

said Florentine Anderson. That she is a person of respectability, and veracity and that I have no reason to doubt but she is the person she declares her- self to be to wit, the daughter of Joseph Brown late of Frederick Maria.
Floriana Bass Justice of the Peace