Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,665, Henry Brown, Continental (Penn.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Penn.) Brown, Henry
S. 34,665
CONTENTS
Subj. of [illegible] [illegible] In 1820 [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]

2975.
Maryland
4
Henry Brown private Capt Corn Pennsylvania line
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 d of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of Septm 1818 and sent to Thomas Bailey esqr Baltimore
Arrears to 4th of Septm 1818 $ 35.20 4 mo 12/30 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 March 1819  40.
$ 75.20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Three years 08 mo City of Baltimore
Henry Brown Revolutionary War Pension Act 18th March 1818 City of Baltimore

State of Maryland
City of Baltimore, Sc. 3
On this twenty third day of April in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen, personally appeared before me the undersigned, Henry Brown, residing in the City of Baltimore, aged about fifty nine years, an applicant for a pension under the late Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" and then and there made the following de- claration on oath by me administered - "that he was enlisted at Carlisle in the State of Pennsylvania, in Captain Isaac Herrs Company, Col Proctor's Regiment of Artillery on the Continental establishment about the Month of Aug. t 1777. that his said Company soon after was placed in the "Laboratory" at Carlisle, where they were engaged for a consid- -able time, - When the Regiment was ordered and marched to Philadelphia, after which time, the said Company, deponent was attached to, was placed in the Laboratory, in that City, where they continued to work until he was Honorably discharged on the 12 th Feb y 1781 - after being in the service of the United States three years and six months. - that his name hath never been inscribed on any pension list, therefore hath none to relinquish - that from his reduced circumstances he

needs the assistance of his Country for support Subscribed and sworn to before me - Francis Brown N. Brier Chief Judge Mch. City Court
City of Baltimore ss I hereby Certify that From the foregoing declaration, made this day before me on Oath, appears to my satisfaction, that the said Henry Brown is did serve in the revolu- tionary war, against the common enemy, on the Continental establish- -ment and is entitled to a pension, agreeably to the late Act of Congress. -
N. Brier Chief Judge Mch. City Court
23 rd day of April 1818

State of Maryland
City of Baltimore Sc.
I Thomas Harwood Clerk of Baltimore City Court, do hereby Certify that the Honorable Nicholas Price Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings were taken and Certified and who has thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of taking and Certifying the same and still is Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court, duly Commissioned and qualified, and to all his acts as such Full Faith and Credit is and ought to be given - In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty third day of April One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen
Th. Harwood Clerk
Baltimore City Court
Sir, When the certificate is issued, please direct the same to be forwarded through the Post office care of "The Bailey Esq: Bait."
Witness
I have the honor to be with an respect Thomas J. Bailey
Your obed Servant J. S. Jones

King's Bench
Application
for
Summons
Hon J. / when you are pleased to issue a pro. sico. certificate please forward the same to the undersigned

Henry Brown
2:975
Con March 1819.

SCHEDULE.
United States of America
(A.) Maryland District _____ SS.
ON this fourteenth day of September 1820, personally appeared in open court (*) being a court of record, (†) (B.) in the District in and _____ for the said (C.) District of Maryland
Henry Brown _____ aged Sixty one years, resident in the City of Baltimore in said (D.) District
who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he served
in the Revolutionary War, as follows: (E.) Enlisted in Carlisle in the State of Pennsylvania sometime about the month of September 1777 in Captain Isaac Corn's Company in the Artillery Regiment Commanded by Col Thomas Proctor for the term of 3 years and continued in same Company and Regiment in the service of the United States on the Continental establishment for about 3 years and six months in continuance and discharged at Philadelphia by said Col Proctor on or about 12th February 1781. That he made his original declaration before the Honorable Judge Bice at Baltimore on or about 23rd April 1818 and was placed on the pension list Role of the Maryland Agency at the rate of $8 per month as will appear by his Certificate bearing date 25 Septem 1818 and numbered 29/5
and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

(F.) Property none except a Bed, 2 pots, 4 Chairs and some other trifling articles not worth enumerating the whole including bedding not worth ————— $20.
That he is by trade a weaver, but by loss of eye sight advanced age and in a deep decline is unable to do any kind of business, That he hath a wife named Elizabeth aged 57 years and upwards and nearly blind unable to support help herself and that he is in such reduced as to require the assistance of his Country for support in fact even with his pension unable to support himself except by public or private Charity —
his Henry X Brown mark
SWORN to and declared on the 14 th day of September 1820
BEFORE, the District Court aforesaid
I, Philip Moore ————— Clerk of the said Dist t Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Twenty ————— Dollars and ————— 12 ————— Cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said court, on this 21 st day of Septem r 1820
Philip Moore
Clerk of the court for the Dist t of Maryland

* The whole of the form prescribed in the first section, to verify the amount of property of the applicant, the oath of the party, and the certificate of the clerk excepted, must be done while the court is in session.
† All are courts of record, within the contemplation of the Act of Congress:
1st, Which are expressly made courts of record by the laws of the State which create them; 2d, Which have been solemnly adjudged, by the tribunals of the several States, to be courts of record; 3d, Which proceed according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount; 4th, Which have the power of fine and imprisonment;
And courts which proceed according to the civil and canon law, having neither of those attributes, are not courts of record, although they may keep a registry of their proceedings, and possess a seal. The court should, in every instance, state, on the face of the proceedings, that it is a court of record, and state why it is such.—( Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States. )
DIRECTIONS FOR FILLING UP THE BLANKS.
A. District,—circuit,—county, or corporation, as the case may be. B. State why a court of record. C. After repeating the district, circuit, county, or corporation, insert the declarant's name. D. District, circuit, county, or corporation. E. Here set forth the regiment, company and line; or ship, corps or vessel, and the date of the original declaration; and if he has received a pension, the number of his pension-certificate should be inserted. F. Here enumerate each article of real and personal estate, necessary bedding and clothing excepted, and subscribe the same. The declarant must also mention his occupation, his ability to pursue it, the number and names of his family residing with him, their ages, and their capacity to contribute to their support, in order that the department may be enabled to decide whether the applicant is in such indigent circumstances as to be entitled to the pension. It is the opinion of the Attorney General, that the words of the third section of the Act of the 1st May, 1820, "in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country," comprehend those only, who are incapable of supporting themselves without the aid of the government, except by private or public charity.
Extract of a CIRCULAR LETTER from the War Department, to the several Agents for paying pensions, enclosing the foregoing Form.
"For the guidance of persons already on the pension list, or who may hereafter make application for that purpose, it may be proper to state, explicitly, that, as experience has proved the necessity of a rigid adherence to particular forms in such cases, no instrument of writing drawn up contrary to this form can be admitted as a proper voucher."

34 665 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34,665
Henry Brown Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 479
[Arrangement of 1870.]

FREE
Mr. Poe
To the Hon. W.
Admitted J. C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary of War City of Washington