Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,085, Samuel Brown, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Brown, Samuel
S. 34,085
CONTENTS
In 1822 aged 67 yrs & res of Middleboro gh. Plymouth Co Mass - wife Deborah

14.279 Massachusetts.
Samuel Brown,
of Middleborough in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th of Sept r 1819 and sent to Samuel Mitchell Esq East Bridgewater, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1819 17 mo. 27 1/2 d. 137.31 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1820. 48.00
Continued $185.31
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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Samuel Brown, Private, 1st Regiment, Mass. Line, for the term of one year. Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31st of March 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of Sept r 1819 and sent to Samuel Mitchell Esq, East Bridgewater, Mass.

John Phillips
Samuel Brown Middlesex 1776
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I Samuel Brown of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth wealth of Massachusetts now in the sixty seventh year of my age depose testify but forth and declare that I was in the heat of the revolution on the conti- nental establishment and entered the service in the Spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy five in Capt Samuel Stockbridges Company and Col John Bails regiment and Massachusetts line and served therein eight months. And afterwards in June 1776 enlisted into Capt Joshua Jacobs Company in Col John Bails regiment and marched to New York and served there twelve months. which time I served faithfully and was honorably discharged. I never received any written discharge nor have I any thing further to offer
Samuel Brown
And I the said Samuel Brown from my redu- ced circumstances need the assistance of my coun- try for support. — Samuel Brown
Sworn to before me
Valum Mitchell: Judge

Samuel Brown
[Signature]
14279
16 Sep 1819

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this 17th day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County Samuel Brown aged 60 years, resident in Halifax in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of twelve months in Capt. Jacob's Company Col. Jacob's Regt. Massachusetts and that he has received a pension certificate dated 16th Sep. 1819 and numbered 14,279 in pursuance of his original Declaration made 31. March 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of 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.
Real estate
House valued at $75
valued at personal estate 1 loom 1 whetstone 1 pig household
131.95 furniture tools of my trade farming tools.
I am by occupation a Cordwainer but owing to age
infirmity I am unable to do but little at that business
or any other - my family consists of a wife whose
name is Tabitha age 75 years born by the name of Robert
age 36 years 1 adopted daughter named Cynthia aged 16
I owe about $40 -
Sworn to, and declared, on the 17th day of July A.D. 1820
before Nahum Mitchell Esq. Justice of Court
I, John B Thomas clerk of said court
do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the 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 one hundred thirty dollars and 95 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty first day of July 1820.
John B Thomas
Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth

34085 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34,085
Samuel Brown
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
This may certify that the within named Caleb Gardner is a credible witness and the within named Daniel Lane Jr. is a Magistrate in our County of Plymouth and is authorized to take depositions. I am acquainted with them both; and although the certificate of the oath is without form , perhaps it is not void. —
June 4 1819
Nahum Mitchell: Judge

I do hereby certify that on the 25 th day of May 1819 Caleb Gardner of Abington in the County of Plymouth personally appeared and made oath being of good conscience that he was knowing that Samuel Brown of Hatties was in the French Service at New York in the year 1776 in Capt Joshua Gage's Company and Col. John Bailey's Regiment
before me Daniel Lane for Peace Caleb his Gardner Marks

I (Daniel Hartwell of lawful age do testify & say that Samuel Brown of Halifax formerly of Scituate  Middleborough in the county of Plymouth Mass. etc served as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution during the whole of the year 1776 in Capt. Jacobs Company & Col. Baileys Reg t in the Massachusetts line and was honorably discharged at Poughkeepsie in New York State. I was a soldier during the same year in Capt. Jacobs  Company and in the same regiment. ————— Daniel Hartwell
• Plymouth ss Bridgewater May 22 d . 1819. The above named Daniel Hartwell personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the peace for said county of Plymouth, and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed, and I do further certify, that I have personally known the said Daniel Hartwell for more than forty years, he having all that time resided in my neighbourhood, and I have always considered him as a person of veracity, and that his testimony may be relied on the truth. ————— Daniel Howard Just. of Peace
This may certify that the above named Daniel Howard is a respectable Magistrate in Plymouth County and the above is his genuine handwriting and signature. Nahum Mitchell, Judge etc.

I Benjamin Price of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I was a soldier in the Service of the United States of America in the late Revolutionary war with Great Britain. That I am acquainted with Samuel Brown now living in Halifax, lately of Middleborough in said County - That I knew said Samuel Brown in the army & that he belonged to the same regiment that I did viz Col John Baileys. That I frequently saw him when at West Cambridge and we were often on guard together - I do not exactly know when said Samuel Brown was discharged but have no doubt of his having served out his term of enlistment - He was a faithful soldier and I recollect of no charge or complaint whatever against him.
Benjamin Price
Plymouth ss. May 27. 1819. Personally appeared Benjamin Price and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him signed before me.
Bartholomew Brown Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the said Benjamin Price is respectable in society and a man of veracity.
Bartholomew Brown
Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the said Bartholomew Brown is a respectable Magistrate in the County of Plymouth ss and the above is his signature
Nahum Mitchell: Judge In

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Samuel Brown Middleborough
MacLins 2 d Col l Bailey Reg t 1776 - 1 st Year
The affidavits in this case being dated in May 1819... and the papers received at the Office 15 June 1819.... The probability is that the printed date 1818 remaining unaltered to the declaration was an omission... that it should be March 1819.... on this ground the papers are returned for correction in date of declaration. The seal of the Court or Clerk's certificate has been omitted
Omitted upon the testimony found

Samuel Brown
Mass.
July 17 th 1819.
There is no mistake in the date of the Claimant's Declaration - it was made when it purports to have been made, & was then certified in order to be forwarded - but pre- vious to its being sent, it was ascertained, that there were no rolls of service in 1775, & the Claimant was informed he must produce evidence of service, which has occasioned the delay - which has been the case also with many others. - some not being able to prove
Nahum Mitchell.
Their papers testimony have not yet been for- warded.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. Plymouth
ss. On this 31 st day of April  March 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Samuel Brown of Middleborough aged sixty seven years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by 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."
/ See his Declaration entered /
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And I the said judge am satisfied the said Samuel Brown from his reduced circumstances needs the assistance of his country for support. —
also
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Samuel Brown — did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com- mon enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above cer- tificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
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