Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,430, James Brooks, Va.

SERVICE
Var
Brooks, James
NUMBER
S. 36,430
CONTENTS

Kentucky. 13 69% JR
James Brooks
of Indiana Dist. in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bowman of the Virginia line, for the term of 2 Yrs 29 mos.
inscribed on the roll of Kentucky at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of Augt. 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of Nov r 1819 and sent to John R. Oldham, Esqr. Bardstown, Ky.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819 - \frac{25}{30} 6. 66 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1820 - 40. 00
$54. 66
Dis - { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued. Notification sent to Genl. Harrison Esqr. Bardstown Ky. 21 Feb. 1820.

James Brooks priv!
Col. Bowman's
Virginia Regt.
1777 2 yrs. 9 mos.
10 Aug. 1819.
Admitted.

State of Kentucky Nelson County Set
I James Houghton Clerk of Circuit Court for the said County do hereby certify that John Oldham who has subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is Image in and actual district of Kentucky and sole Image of the Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Circuit at Bardstown this 10th day of August 1819 James Houghton
Oliver Brooks Esq.
Col. Bowman
W. Virgin Esq.
1772 2 yrs 9 mos
10 days 1819
Admitted

No. 68. Canaan Brook, Co. Pittston 15,697.
NOT
NOT
Struck off, October 31 st 1820.
Benjamin Hardin, Bairds town, Ky.

State of Kentucky
Nelson Circuit Court
June Term 1820
James Brooks this Day produced in Court a Certificate in order to obtain the provision made by an Act of Congress &c which on his motion is ordered to be recorded; which Certificate  shall is in the words and figures following to-wit
Original
District of Kentucky
Nelson Circuit Court
In pursuance of the Act of the 1 st of May 1820 I do Solemnly Swear That I was a Resident Citizen of the United on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift Sale or in any manner disposed of any property thereby 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 18 th 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
then

Then what is contained in the Schedule herewith annexed, and by me subscribed to wit Fifty acres of land four Negroes two houses nine head of cattle thirteen head of hogs that he has a wife about fifty four years old three children living with him, that his trade is that of a farmer and that he is able to follow it.
James Brooks
Nelson Circuit Ct
Sworn to in Court July 15 th 1820.
Attest S. H. Slaughter Clerk
The property is worth $700.
State of Kentucky Nelson Circuit Ct
I James H. Slaughter Clerk of the Nelson Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing copy of the Schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the Records 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 seven hundred & sixty five Dollars.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court this 12 th day of August 1820 James H. Slaughter Jr Clerk Nelson Circuit Court

Restore.
Restored 1 July 1826 & the Notepack sent to the Hon C. A. Wickliffe. Pur. Commg 16 Nov 1825-
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Louisville July 26 th 1819
The bearer James Brooks engaged as a Soldier in the service of the United States upon Continental establishment some time in the year 1777 and continued in Service until about the time commencement of the siege of Charlestown in the year 1780 when he received his discharge. The undersigned has a distinct recollection of the the said Brooks when in the service, and so far as his his conduct is recollected it met the approbation of his Officers generally.
Given under my hand the date above Rob t Breckenridge formerly a Lieut 5 in the 8 th Virginia Regiment.
The above statements were sworn to by Robert Breckenridge the 24 day of July 1819
John Bell D.P.C.

36 430
Rev INVALID.
File No. 36 430
James Brooks Rev Mr
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 579
[Arrangement of 1870.]

March 1823. Kty. James Brooks. Hon. C. Nicholson Barnes & Co. Recd. 21st Feb. 1825
Recd. April 21. 1825.

Barnstable April 10 th 1825
Dear Sir.
Enclosed you have some papers. which have for their object to ascertain. some points upon the Pension Roll. You will oblige me by an early decision upon them.
Very respectfully E. A. Mitchell

Sent this back. before W.H.
Hon. C. A. Wickliffe H. R. recd Feb. 17. 1827

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
State of Kentucky
County of Nelson
ss.
On this first — day of February 1827, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Nelson — personally appeared James Brooks who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain James [blank] in the regiment commanded by Colonel James [blank] in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Kentucky that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the 25th — day of August — 1824, at or near
Northtown he lost or the same is destroyed he knows not when it is certainly he never saw or transferred it
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.
his James Brooks mark
James Brooks a Justice of the Peace for Nelson County Ky
NOTES.—The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate and now wishes to obtain one."
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be.
When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a Pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above.

State of Kentucky Nelson County set
This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace for Nelson County. Bailey S. Kenall and made oath that he knows James Brooks to be the identical person described in the foregoing affidavit given under my hand and seal this first day of February 1827.
H. B. H. H.
State of Kentucky Nelson County set
I Henry Bell a Justice of the peace in and for Nelson County hereby certify that Bailey S. Kenall the deponent in the above certificate is a man of veracity given under my hand and seal this 1st day of February 1827.
H. Bell Justice of the peace for Nelson County Ky
State of Kentucky Nelson County set
I Thomas Grayson clerk of the County Court of the said County do hereby certify that the foregoing certificate is a true and correct copy of the original as shown to the County aforesaid and by Commission to discharge the duties of his office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and sealed the same the first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven.
Thos. Grayson

We the undersigned state that we are personally acquainted with James Brooks, who is now applying to be reinstated on the Pension list and further state that the property so far as it comes within our own knowledge contained in his former schedule at the time he was stricken off the Pension list has been disposed of in the following manner and purposes (to wit) One Negro woman was sold to James Rogers of this county about the year 1820 for the sum of $350. and that the money was principally disposed of to pay sundry debts which he had previously contracted for sundry provisions for the support of his family which would be difficult at this time to enumerate and set forth as he was at that time so superannuated as not to arrange his business with any kind of system and the vouchers could not now be procured that he had incurred debts in various stores, grocery shops & taverns and that he concerning various persons were indebted to him sundry sums of money both in this county & others which was not a fact and that he expended considerable sums of money in prosecuting suits against said persons without being able to recover any thing from them the money for the aforesaid purposes principally exhausted in the manner above stated. In the year 1823. he had become indebted in part for articles for the support of his family and had no means of paying the same without selling some of his property he then sold a Negro boy aged about 4 or 5 years to Paul Brantley of this county for the sum of $120. with part of the proceeds of said boy he purchased

from Isadora Osburn of this County for the sum of $76.00 the Balance of the money was disposed of to pay other debts he had contracted and to furnish necessaries for his family. He was then destitute of money and lived upon a small poor Farm with but little assistance to cultivate it and was compelled to incur debts for the support of himself and family to a considerable extent in the fall of 1824 his wife was taken sick and continued so for some time under the attention of two Physicians of which disease she died. The Farm he resided in his former schedule reverted then to the heirs of his wife he having only an interest of his wife's life in the Land at which time he was considerably indebted to merchants, doctors &c and it was thought advisable for his friends to sell his property he then had on a credit to meet these demands in order to avoid a sacrifice of it at a forced Sale. It was therefore sold on a credit of nine and twelve months. Toward one Negro Boy aged about seven years for the sum of $406 in the spurious currency of the country which was estimated at 203. bank and Robert Warden of this County became the purchaser. His other property sold for about the sum of $160 in like currency estimated at $80. in cash which said amounts both he successfully exhausted after paying all the debts he now owes he has now on hand one superannuated Negro Man aged between 70 & 80 years which is rather a tax than otherwise.

The foregoing contains a true statement of the property contained in his former schedule as it came within our knowledge and we further state that we have been acquainted with Sam Brooks for 15 or 20 years or upwards and that we know of no person who has in such estate or debts of any kind by which he will derive any profit nor have ever heard of any such thing. He has any species of property in common with others than heretofore described I set forth and that he is now upwards of eighty years of age and so deep is annuited to be entirely incapable of transacting any kind of business and that he is the same Sam Brooks who applied some years since to government for a pension and obtained it and was afterwards stricken off the pension list on account of the excess of his property not coming within the provisions of an act of Congress regulating pensions. We would further state we know of no connections he has in this country except his wife children in law and that they are able to support him and that unless they do it he will become a public taxation therefore pray for interposition of government in his behalf. given under our hands this 14 th day of November 1825
Isaac M c Donnell (Sec)
B. A. H. (Sec)
Sworn to before this 14 day of Nov
1825
Walter Weddell & P. M. State of Mississippi.

Be it remembered that heretofore to wit at a circuit Court held for the County and Circuit of Nelson at the Courthouse in Bard Town on Thursday the 31 st March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five.
James Brooks exhibited in Court a petition and affidavits in order to have his name reinstated on the pension Roll of the United States he having has heretofore been stricken off which is in the words and figures following to wit,
Kentucky.
Nelson Circuit Set March Term 1825 This day James Brooks came into Court as being a Court of Record for said County and States in open Court upon oath. That he is the same James Brooks who was heretofore on the pension Roll of the United States and was stricken off under the provisions of an act of Congress requiring all who were pensioners to give in a schedule of the estate they held and owned for his services and other particulars he refers to his original declaration on file in the pension office. In the schedule made out and forwarded was contained the follow- ing property then all he had in his posses- sion and claimed by him fifty acres of land four negroes two horses nine head of cattle 13 hogs. The land he then held in right of his wife she is now dead and it has reverted back to her children she only

owning a cover Estate in it Two of the negroes has been sold by him to pay his just debts and to support himself and family since he was deprived of his pension one other was mortgaged by him and has been sold to his Trustee to pay for the visit of his Physician who attended his wife in her last illness The other son is still with him he is about 70 years of age is of no value and is an incumbrance and expence the hogs are all used up in support of his family the same head of cattle have been disposed of in the same way the horses were sold some time ago for the same purpose he has not disposed of the property as usual fraudulently or with a view to be reinstated upon the pension list but has any pension any Estate in trust for him There will be due him in the present year about two hundred and twenty dollars equal to $100 per annum which will not more than support him the present year he has no family and he is about 82 years of age he resides in Nelson County State of Kentucky and further states that the facts stated in his former applications are true Sepe McDermott James X Brooks mark Bards Town Ky March 30 th 1825
Sepe McDermott deposeth and saith that he has seen and examined the statement of James Brooks in which he shows the disposition made of his legacy property that

he was in possession of when he was Stricken off the Pension list and says he knows the Statement as it respects the disposition of the property to be correct and that he has been personally acquainted with him for twelve or fifteen years and that he is the same James Brooks that applied to some years since for a pension as a revolutionary soldier and that he received it for some time and was afterwards Stricken off that list and further states that he is now eighty years of age or upwards and that his mind is so deranged at this time as to render him unable to attend to any business. Levi McDonnell Samuel Selman deposes and saith that he is acquainted with James Brooks whom he is applying to be reinstated on the pension list and that one of the negroes a woman named in his schedule of property formerly was sold for the purposes contained in his statement made part hereof and that he has been ac- quainted with him for ten or twelve years and that he is the same James Brooks who formerly applied for a pension and received it for some time and that he is now about eighty years of age or upwards and his mind so deranged as to render him unable of trans- acting any kind of business March 30 th 1823
Levi McDonnell further states that he has examined the statement of S d Brooks and refers to here before that he from his knowledge

of the situation of Mr. Brooks' affairs for some my years believes the same correct he believes that Mr. Brooks has no estate real or personal other than what is stated in Mr. Statement this day filed in court
Wilson Circuit Set
Sworn to in Court by Samuel Belman and before McDonnell this 31 st March 1825.
I thought I did
Copy of form of Petition
Wilson Circuit Court June Term 1820
James Brooks this day procured in Court a certificate in order to obtain the provisions made by an act of Congress &c. which on his motion is ordered to be received which Petition is in the Words and figures following vizt
State of Kentucky Wilson Circuit Set
In pursuance of the act of the 1 st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resi- dent citizen of the united states on the 18 th 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 therewith to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for a system engaged in the land and naval service of the united states in revolutionary war passed on the 18 th 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 to me subscribed containing fifty acres of land, four negroes, two horses, nine head of cattle, thirteen head of hogs. That he has a wife about fifty four years old, three children living with him that his trade is that of a farmer and that he is able to follow it. Witness my hand at
James Brooks Sworn to on Oath July 14 1820 James Houghton Clerk property worth $765 in the opinion of the Court
State of Kentucky Fourth Circuit Court
I James Houghton Clerk of the above Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing petition of James Brooks are truly and correctly copied from the Records in my Office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of the said Court this 16 th Day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty and And in the 33 rd Year of the Commonwealth James Houghton Clerk

for the women and children who are in our house here with us in the house

The undersigned certify that we have been customarily acquainted with Larry Brooks who was formerly a United States Pensioner and was disbursed off and is now applying to be recert- ified and that he is the same Larry Brooks who was formerly a Pensioner and that he is now a Superannuated Pensioner upwards of Eighty Years of age and that his funds are principally exhausted and that he is inca- pable of transacting any kind of business given under our hands this 14 th day of November 1895
J. P. McCormack
Samuel Bralmar
James Langhlin
B. A. Kennebec

Duplicate certificate issued 22 Feb. 1827, & sent to Hon. C. A. Wickliffe. N. R.
Claim James Brooks Hon. C. A. Wickliffe H. Re Read letter partially
Recd Dec 31. 1827
By my order P. M. in office
Dec. 31. 1827

Superior Court
Dec 29th 1825
D. G.
You requested my statement of facts in reference to the application of James Brooks to be reinstated upon the previous Roll.
I was in court when the effort was made to procure his declaration upon oath. Owing to a partial derangement of his mind when he was called upon to state that the schedule contained a true list of all debts due to him refused and proceeded to state that persons claiming of them, owed him large sums. which was known by many to be incorrect and the effect of a malady of the mind. I have no doubt from my personal know- ledge of Mr Brooks situation. that the facts stated in his Declaration of 1825. and testimony by the affidavits of Miss. Belman & are correct. The court did not grant the usual certificate

under the opinion that they were not authorized to do so. unless the applicants themselves to the said. Hence I advise the taking of the affidavits. (accompanying) as to substance of the veracity and respectability of these gentlemen I can give to the Agent. the fullest assurance If Mr. Brooks be arrested I advise that his certificate be so modified that the pension maybe drawn for his use by Miss. Alonzo I must solicit yr early decision and to suggest that Mr. Brooks Pension should commence from the month of March 1825.
I return herewith the Papers furnished
On.
I am with due regard
yr ob. Serv.
E. A. Wickuffe