Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1358, John Brownlow, N. C.

SERVICE
N. E.
Brownlow John
NUMBER _____
Y 1358
CONTENTS

John Brownlow for a Pension private, Pendleton dist. S. C.
29 th May, 1781, during the pleasure of the U. S. Col o . Mebane's reg t . North Carol a line - wounded at the battle of Haw river, &c. -
27. March, 1819.
Not mustered W. Hill Secy
Charles J. Colcock, Judge Pendleton, So. Carol a

The State of South Carolina Pendleton District } By the Honorable Charles J. Colcock Esquire one of the Associate Judges of the State of South Carolina.
To all to whom these presents shall come be seen or made known Greeting
Know Ye, That this day John Brownlow a citizen of Pendleton District did appear before me and made Oath, That on the 29 th day of May 1781 At a near Chatham Court House North Carolina he the said John Brownlow Entered the service of the United States of America as he understood during the pleasure of the Government of the United States, under Capt. Joseph Raper of Col. Robert Matary Regiment in the 2 nd Brigade of the N. C. Line.
He was in the Battle at Lindleys Mills on Cane Creek of Haw River, Orange County N. C. he was in the Vanguard and was wounded in three places in the skull, which was broken with a sword by one of the Enemy, He was many months unable to do any thing by occasion of his wounds during which time he lay at his Mothers near Chatham C.

C. H. A. C. And before he was fit for duty he received a verbal Message from Col. Robert Griffee, whose command he was, then under that his services was no longer required by the United States. After he got able to do any business or fit for duty (as he lay several months, confined to the floor, in the Battle having left him on the ground for dead) He that it unnecessary to be at any trouble to obtain a discharge as Peace was made between the United States & Great Britain before his recovery. This deponent further saith he has never received any Bounty, Pay or pension from the United States & from age & his infirmities he is unable to labour as heretofore & that from his reduced circumstance in life he stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
John X. Brown mark
In Testimony that the foregoing was sworn to & subscribed before me this twenty seventh day of March Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred & nineteen I have set my hand & the seal of the Court caused to be affixed. C. S. G. Cook the Judge of this State

The State of South Carolina & John T. Pudleton District } Lewis clerk of the court of Common Pleas and General Sessions in and for the district aforesaid do Hereby certify and make known unto all whom it may concern that Charles Jony Colcock Egerton whose attestation appears to the preceding writing is one of the associate judges of the State aforesaid and Presiding Judge at Pudleton Courthouse at a March Term 1819.
In (Testimony) whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court office at Pudleton Courthouse in the District and State aforesaid the twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and nine ten John T. Lewis C.C.P.S.

Proof of Service wanted - Judge must certify to the credibility of the witness
Pension Office Aug 20 1819

In State of South Carolina 3 John T. Lewis Pendleton District 3 and Samuel
Cherry two of the Commissioners named in the commission hereto prefixed, being first sworn agreeable to the instructions in the said Commission given after which they have proceeded to examine such witnesses as were brought before them touching and re- pecting the claims of John Brownlow of the District and State aforesaid to a pension from the United States—
John Brownlow.
On the 29 th day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and Eighty one I did enter into the service of the United States as a Volunteer under the command of Captain Joseph Raper of Col. Guilford Dudley's Regiment, the capitulation from Slaton Courthouse N o 6a against the Tories who were in Orange County N o Ca- under command of Col s Hector McNeil & David Fannin (both notorious in said State) The Battle in which I had the misfortune to receive my wounds took place between our party and the aforesaid Tories on the 13 th day of September 1781 at a certain

place in the said County of Bragg, Calcutta Lindley mill on Grave Creek — In the said Battle I received four wounds — Three Three of them on my head all of which broke the skull, and thirteen pieces of the skull bone larger & smaller were taken from one of the said Wounds on my head the other wound was on my wrist of the left arm which in a good measure disabled it. I was for twelve months in a desperate situation with the said Wounds and for most of the time was thought past recovery by my friends — On account of the Wounds in my head I am frequently rendered by my State of mind unable to attend to my domestic concerns though they are very limited, — and I have never yet received any compensation for service or any support from Government, though a very poor man, and rendered helpless by other infirmities than those arising from my wounds —
John Brown 10/10/93
Sworn and subscribed before me on this 11 th February 1893.
John T. Lewis
Samuel Cherry

Dennis Hall Esq.
In the year 1781 I lived within one mile of John Brownlow the deponent in the foregoing affidavit I know well of Brownlow going out in the expedition mentioned in his statement for I was with him on Sunday before the battle in which he was wounded, (at their camp) I saw him on his return from the battle and in the precise situation as to wounds as in mentioned in his affidavit - I was his neighbor until after his recovery and much of my time with him, and often assisted in dressing his wounds, and saw bone which came from the wound in his head. - I was very intimately acquainted with Brownlow both before and after he received his wounds, and it is my opinion and also that of many of his acquaintances that his intellects were impaired by his wounds. During my acquaintance with Brownlow he was reported a very fair character.
Sworn & subscribed before me 31 st Feb. 1813
John T. Lewis
Samuel Cherry
Dennis Hall

Dr William Hunter late a practising physician & Surgeon —
I have known John Brownlow for some years past, I have examined the wounds on his head which are numerous & must have been very severe, I am conversant with his neighbors and it is a general & received opinion among them that at times the said Brownlow is entirely unfit for any duty, owing to the situation of his mind, which has no doubt arises from his faculties being impaired by the wounds on his head — And from all appearances the being his present state his mental disorder must increase with age. — From my knowledge of Brownlow's character I have no doubt of the truth of his statement —
Sworn & Subscribed before me 11 th Feb. 1873
John T. Lewis Samuel Church
Wm Hunter
John Prince Jew.
I lived a neighbor to John Brownlow at the time he went against the Tories as mentioned in the foregoing affidavit of the said Brownlow he went out as he states, I was not with him in the battle nor did I see him before the fall after the battle, at which time he had not recovered of his wounds

RECEIVED 6
13518
P. O.
John Brownlow
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ ✓ _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Neck Spring January 31 st 1880 (Yours) W m Edwards will examine this coal and inform Mr. Dally the result Elias Earle E. G. H. has been Menil

My Dear Sir      Beaufort Jan 29 th Jan 1820
These 8 Bn's Companies Originally belong- ed to the 5 th S th Carolina Provincial Regiment commanded by Col l . Isaac Huger & as little as I recalled about the 5 th of February 1777 the Reg t was placed on the Continental Establishment when three two Companies were detached from the Re- giment & a new one raised commanded by Capt. John Moore they were called Indepen- -dent Companies & were to consist of 100 Men each They were detached from the line at the par- ticular Instance of Mr. John Rutledge who was then Governor & by whom the Officers were commissioned and under whose Com- -mandate Command and the Succeeding Gov- ernors of the State we continued to Act until the end of the War & such Gen l Officers as we were occa- -sionally ordered to obey, when we were taken from the line we were promised and did actually receive the same bounty of money & Land Re- -wards pay and Cloathing as the Continental Men Officers received subject to the same Articles of War and liable to discharge by any part of the Continent where we might be de- -tached by the Commander in Chief which was the case at the Siege of Savannah & on different Occasions After the Indians on the portion of Georgia be considered ourselves in all Intents and purposes on the Continental establishment but by being taken from the line

we lost our rank S d and here in rank in the Companies only and as an Incontestable proof that we have been commissioned as by the Con- tinental Officers Capt Bowies Company was on only once in Charleston one of the then rang- ing he ordered a 6 th Battery but there be- -ing only the other R t and myself he applied to the Col l of the Third S d Carolina Continental Reg t who sent a R t to take best of that Reg t to make up a Court upon the whole there my circum- stances such as to warrant an application for a pension I should consider myself much better entitled to it than many who get it, As to this particular man Clayborne I know nothing of his circumstances but this I know I enlisted him when I did so I promised him all that the Continental Soldiers received agreeable to my recruiting orders then this he did receive in the end of the War this I also know that for the three years he served there was not in the American army a more Old d Soldier I believe I can safely say he was then once under Guard, at the expiration of the three years he has with myself as a number of others Including Col l Pickens Reg t of 400 men surrendered by Gen l Moul- -trey to the Commanding Gen l to Gen l Burnside near Hatt l Davis at White Hall in Abbeville D o this statement which I am sure is a cor- -rect one you are at liberty to make public of your pleasure which will but tend for a continuation of your Health conclude me yours very truly Samuel Earle

PS Mr William Puller one of my Neighbours Made some proof before Judge Ghant last October has a Year for a prison confidence The papers to hadley Francis to be sent on to the War Office like you have the goodness to make some enquiry abt them he can get as yet no acc t of them since Francis took a charge of them
S. E

John Brownlow Papers
Lot Feb'y 12 1820 to Elias Earle

I have ever since my acquaintance with the said Brownlow believed him to be a man of probity, truth — and knew the said Brownlow to be frequently in a state of mental derange- ment which incapacitated him for any kind of business, arising I believe from the wound on his head, as he was never known to be in this situation before receiving the said wound — from Subscribed before me 11 th Feb. 1873 } as John Prince Jr John T. Lewis Samuel Cherry
John Saunders
I served with John Brownlow in the same com- pany in the expedition mentioned in his affidavit I was taken prisoner before the battle in which he was wounded, I saw him sometime after the battle and his wounds were desperate, he was for a long time in such a state with his wounds that his life was despaired of, I know that several bones were taken from his skull, I was his near neighbor before the battle took place in which he was wounded, and the said Brownlow was estimated before receiving the said wounds and he was accounted a man of sound intellects.
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 11 th Feb. 1873 John T. Lewis Samuel Cherry
John X Saunders mark

Reverend Jonathan Davis —
I have heard the Commission read the Statement of John Brown and made the foregoing entry and know that he was badly wounded in the said Battle named in his Statement as being on the Whig side
Witness my hand and seal before me this 7 th June 1813 John T. Lewis Samuel Cherry
Jonathan Davis
Testified June 8 th 1813
John T. Lewis
Seal
Samuel Cherry
Seal

The State of North Carolina Pittsboro District
Before me personally came John Sanders of the said District farmer, and made oath that in the Month of May in the Year A.D. 1781. at Chatham Court House North Carolina John Brownlow and this deponent turned out and went into the service of the United States of America as volunteers for the term of Two Months or until discharged, under Capt. Joseph Raper of Col. Robert Maban, Regiment of the 2 nd Brigade of the North Carolina Line. This deponent was long acquainted with John Brownlow before they went into the service, and this deponent does know that the said John Brownlow was wounded in the Battle at Cane Creek (Lindleys Mill) N.C. This deponent did see the said John Brownlow while his skull was broken & before it was healed, - during all their service this deponent does believe Brownlow found this own horse - This deponent knows that Brownlow

has always supported the character of a good honest Citizen - And that he is a very poor man - And that he is a man of truth. John his Landers Mark
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 23 rd day of March 1819
Before me Joseph Gusham Notary Public Pendleton S. C.