Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,309, Henry Brees, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Bres, Henry
812309
carded
CONTENTS

New York 1178
Henry Bues
of Tioga in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Reily of the ... commanded by Genl. Mifflin in the New Jersey line for 3 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars ... Cents per Annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Octob. 1832 and sent to Mrs. Mary Bues
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $120 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar. '33 40 $160
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk Book D Vol. D Page 69
Letter to G. E. Stapler Adams Aug 30 1854
May 23/53

At a Court of Common pleas held at the Court house in the Village of Elmira in and for the County of Tioga in the State of New York commencing on the first Tuesday in September in the year 1832, the same being a Court of Record constituted such by virtue of the Constitution and laws of the State of New York, there being a Seal & Clerk. Present
Hon G. B. Balcom First Judge,
J. R. Drake, Darius Bentley, J. L. Darling, E. Shoemaker.
Esquires Judges.
State of New York
Tioga County ss
Personally appeared in open Court, before the above named Judges now sitting, on the 4 th day of September 1832. Henry Brees, a resident of the Town of Elmira in the said County of Tioga aged seventy eight years and upwards who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States and served in the manner herein stated; to wit: That at Backenridge, Somerset County New Jersey he entered as a volunteer in a Company of militia commanded by Capt. Platt Bailey, in which Jeremiah Dunn was Lieutenant, William Cummings ensign & Peter Van Deventer orderly sergeant, for the term of one year, in the fall of 1775, for defence of the State; that the British Troops were then in possession of  part of New York and during the said term were in various parts of the State of New Jersey, in consequence of which the said Henry Brees with the Company aforesaid was kept in constant service in various parts of the State & occasionally on the borders of the Hudson in the State of New York, until his said term of one year expired: After which during the remainder of that year (1776) and until the month of September 1778 he continued in like manner, in the defence of the State aforesaid under Capt's Kilpatrick Parker & Moffatt of the Jersey militia & he thinks one or two other officers. That on one occasion during his first year's service he was at Communipaw opposite the city of New

York when a considerable part of the city then in possession of the British Troops was burnt. That when Burgoyne was captured he was in service on Bugen Island, in Octr. 1777: That he cannot now recapitulate the various places at which he was employed, but can state generally that he was in constant service in & about the State of New Jersey under the before named officers from the fall of 1775 until the month of September 1778. a period of about three years - That he was with detachments of his said Company much employed in pursuit of deserters -
That in the month of September 1778 there was a great need of waggoneers for the service when one of his neighbors Henry Southard Esq. of Somerset County (the father of the Hon. Saml Southard late Secretary of the Navy) received orders from the Wagon Master General (he thinks Genl. Mifflin) to raise a Brigade of Waggoneers. The deponent accordingly in Sept. 1778 entered that service in a company of which the said Henry Southard had the command, (having furnished himself with a Wagon and four horses was engaged) in that employment for sixteen months . He was generally employed in transporting forage, clothing & provisions for the Continental forces between Trenton in New Jersey & Kingsbridge in New York. In the winter of 1779-80 he was engaged in the neighborhood of Morristown where the army then lay in winter quarters, in hauling wood from Kimball's mountain for forage & provisions for the army: after his said term of sixteen months had expired he retired from the Wagon Service and in Feb March 1780. After which he was again in the Militia service in New Jersey during the years 1780, 1781 & 1782 under frequent calls for short periods, but so often renewed as to make it almost constant service. The custom being for the militia to go out for a tour of two weeks, when they were relieved for the same period & then again called to relieve those who had been sent to take their places, thus alternating every two weeks during most of the three years last named

That in the last services he cannot state the names of the Captains under whom he served, as the militia were generally called out in portions from various Companies & organized under different officers, after arriving at the place of rendezvous - but that generally he was under the command of Maj. William Davidson in the Regiment, commanded by Col. Fred k Frelinghuysen, that during the last service he was at Westfield, Connecticut farms, & other places in the adjoining States where the ravages of the Enemy required troops to be marched for the protection of the Inhabitants - That on one occasion during the term aforesaid (the date he does not recollect) the British troops landed at or near Elizabeth Town N. J. from Staten Island, when the Troops in the neighborhood were called out & pursued the Enemy for several days up the Hudson.
That in the various services above enumerated he was engaged for more than three years, exclusive of his sixteen months in the Maggot Service -
In answer to the questions directed by the War Department to be propounded by the Court & not answered in the foregoing narrative he states, that he was born at Baskerville, County of Somerset State of New Jersey on the 29 th Aug 1753 as he has been informed & believes, and as appears from the record thereof kept in his family Bible - That he resided at the place of his birth during the revolution when not engaged in the public service, from which place he entered the service in all his various engagements, and continued to reside there until 1785 when he removed to Morristown N.J. where he remained until 1809 from whence he removed to Genoa in the County of Cayuga N.Y. & in 1817 he removed to the County of Tioga where he has ever since resided & now resides - That there are probably many persons in the neighborhood of his former residence still in the State of New Jersey, who if living could testify to his services. That he knows of no persons in the country where

he now resides, who can testify on the subject except John P. Brees of the Town of Elmira in the said County of Tioga, Samuel Moores of the County of Tompkins N.Y. and Abraham Wood and Mary his wife now of Lansing in the said County of Tompkins -
That for his general reputation & the neighborhood belief in regard to his services he would refer to John M c Connel, John Jackson & Jacob Westlake Esq rs of the Town of Elmira in the said County of Tioga -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. He further states a part of his wagon service was under Jonathan Pennington
Sworn to & Subscribed } the day & year aforesaid } Green M Tuthill Clk
Henry Brees
We Simeon R Jones a Clergyman of the Town of Southport in the said County of Tioga and Thomas Maxwell a resident in the Town of Elmira in said County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the above named Henry Brees who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration: that we believe him to be of the age he represents in the foregoing statement; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary Soldier, and that we concur in that opinion -
Sworn & Subscribed } the day & year aforesaid } Green M Tuthill Clk
Simeon R. Jones - Th. Maxwell

On the day and year aforesaid before the judges aforesaid personally appeared John P. Brees a resident of the Town of Elmira in the said County of Tioga who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he is of the age of fifty three years & upwards; that he was born at Baskingridge in the County of Somerset - in the State of New Jersey; that he resided in Somerset - County in the state aforesaid during the Revolutionary war: that he is well acquainted with Henry Brees who has subscribed to the foregoing Declaration and was old enough to recollect most of the events which took place at the close of  of the Revolution: that he recollects that the said Henry Brees was frequently in service of the country, and sustained the reputation in the neighbor- hood of his residence after the war, of having been a Revolutionary Soldier - That he has heard the foregoing declaration of the said Henry Brees read, & from his own general knowledge of the facts detailed as well as circumstances related to him when young by men in the neighborhood who participated in the war of the Revolution, & still within his recollection, he has no doubt of the truth of the foregoing state- ment -
John P. Brees
Subscribed from the day & year aforesaid In open Court.
Green M. Fithian Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. and the said Court further certifies that it appears to them that Simon R Jones who has signed the foregoing Certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Southport in the said County & that Thomas Maxwell who has also signed the same resident in the Town of Elmira in the said County and is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit -
J. B. B. al dwn Finb Judg
I Green M Tuthill Clerk of the said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Bross for a Pension - In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office the day of September 1832
Green M Tuthill

State of New York } Troya County } ss }
Samuel Mooers of the Town of Ithaca in the County of Tompkins State aforesaid aged Seventy Six years & upwards being duly sworn according to law doth on his oaths declare that he is well acquainted with Henry Brees now of the Town of Elmina in the said County of Troya: that he lived in Barnards Township Somerset County New Jersey in the commencement of the war, & afterwards in Woodbridge in Essex Middlesex County in the same state: and became acquainted with the said Brees during the war: and knew many of his family & connections, who lived in the said County of Somerset; that he sometimes saw him in service very frequently & knew that he generally had the reputation in the neighborhood of having served during a greater part of the revolution, having been out whenever calls for troops were made in his neighborhood. That he will recollect that the militia in the neighborhood where he & the said Brees lived during the war, were out the greater part of the time, as calls were so frequent, as to make their service almost continual. That he has heard the declaration of the above named Henry Brees read & from his own knowledge of his services & his general acquaintance with the events he relates he has no doubt of the truth of his statement.
Samuel Mooers
Sworn & subscribed } the 25 Augt. 1832 } before me — }
Ul. Maxwell Justice of the Peace Troya C.W.M.
William Maxwell Justice of the peace in & for the said

Said County of Tioga do hereby certify that the above named Samuel Mooers who has this day made & subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me is in my opinion a reputable & disinterested witness, and that his statement is entitled to full faith and credit. Aug. 25. 1832
W. Maxwell Justice of the Peace Tioga County N.Y.
State of New York
Tioga County Clerk's office }
I Green M Fathill Clerk of the said County of Tioga do hereby certify that William Maxwell Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Samuel Mooers was made was when the same bears date a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned, sworn & authorized by law to act as such. That I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice, and verily believe the signatures of "W. Maxwell," subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and the Certificate thereto annexed, are genuine, and in the proper handwriting of the said Justice. Witness my hand & the Seal of the said County the 5 day of September 1832.
Green M Fathill

Susannah Young for Henry Boers at 52 1/2
Ex by Mr Hassler Aug 1852

State of New York Chemung County ss. Thomas Maxwell of Southport  Elmira in the said County being duly sworn says that his age is Sixty years & upwards: that he was well acquainted with Henry Brees formerly a resident of said County (then County of Tioga): that in the year 1832 the deponent was engaged in the business of procuring Pensions for soldiers of the Revolution: that the said Henry Brees was placed on the Pension Roll of the New York agency under the act of June 7. 1832 at the rate of Eighty Dollars per year commencing on the 4 th March 1831 that his name appears on the Pension Roll of the County of Tioga in the State of New York as being placed on the roll on the 29 October 1832 at the rate above mentioned commencing on the 4 th March 1831 and that the said Henry Brees continued to draw the said pension until his death in the month of June 1835 - that Susannah Youngs of the Conhocton Steuben County was a daughter of the said Henry Brees so reputed & acknowledged by the family & that she is still living as deponent has seen her this day -
T. Maxwell
Sworn before me the 4 th June 1832 the said Thomas Maxwell being in my opinion a credible & disinterested witness -
Henry Potter justice of the peace in and for Chemung County
Chemung County ss. Elijah Jones of Elmira in said County, aged 65 years being sworn says that he knew Henry Brees above named in his life time, that he died in the town of Elmira about the year 1835 & was considered a revolutionary soldier; that Susannah Youngs above named whom he has this day seen was reputed to be a daughter of the said Henry Brees & he verily believes the

Same Sworn before me the 4 June 1852 the said Elijah Jones being in my opinion a credible & disinterested witness
Henry Potter "
Henry Potter justice of the Peace in and for Chamney County
Chamney County
Justices office ss
I Certify that Henry Potter Esq. above named before whom the foregoing Affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qualified & authorized to take the same, and that his signature above written is genuine
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County at Elkins, this 4 th day of June 1852.
W. P. Babcock Clerk
Chamney County

State of New-York, County of Steuben Before me Samuel G. Fowler personally appeared Susanah Youngs
a Justice of the Peace, duly authorised, por-
aged 56 years who being duly cautioned and sworn in due form of law, states that she is the daughter of Henry Brees who was a Revolutionary Soldier from the State of New Jersey and that her father died on the 3rd day of June 1835 and that her mother, named Ruth Brees , died on the 27 day of March 1833 and that they were married on the Spring day of 1774 and that they were residents of Elmira in the State of New York and that furthermore, she by these presents, constitutes, appoints and ful- ly empowers and authorises, irrevocably, and with powers of substitution E. Hassell of Washington D.C. her true and lawful Attorney, for and in her stead to examine into, to prosecute, claim, demand and receive her rights in all and any manner of claims that may be due her as daughter of Henry Brees who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, inheritance and equity she is enti- tled; and also with full power to appoint one or more agents to assist him in the above premises; and for his services, he shall be entitled to one half of all moneys collected by him or Revolutionary Bounty lands obtained by him, &c.
In Witness Whereof, she has hereunto signed her name and affixed her seal. Witness David Phillips  Susanah Youngs [L. S.] Witness C.D. Wisner
Signed, sealed and acknowledged and sworn to before me, on this the Tenth day of June 1852
Samuel G. Fowler
Justice of the Peace.
State of New York } Steuben County } ss. I Philo H. Hubbard Clerk of said County do certify that Samuel G. Fowler Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration was made was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State of New York and duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the County Court of said County at Bath this 17th day of June 1852 Phil H. Hubbard Clerk of Steuben County Court
Henry Brees served under Col. Henry Southworth Waggon master and was a witness for Henry Brees for pension

No. 10348
Henry Bree
admitted
2 years
$80
1882
53
79
Thomas Maxwell
Elmira
New York

No. 10348
BRIEF in the case of  Henry Brees of Elmer  County of Gloucester  in the State of  New Jersey  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Seventy eight years - 78  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Entered - In 1775, Fall of 1 - - Volunteer Gen. Capt. Platt Boiling Comdr New Jersey   after which during that year 2 - - continued as State troops - Lieut. General Duncan.   1776 & until September 1778 3 years - - Volunteer Major General Mifflin - Peter Van Brunt   in all about in the Company of Capt. Kirkpatrick, Pen.   Encampment in 1778 - Apr. 1. 4. - Volunteer Gen. Lord Howe - New Jersey Militia   1780. 81. 82 at various times in the Militia Service under different officers, not recalled  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Not any  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Raskenridge, Somerset Co. New Jersey  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses, by a clergyman, & by citizens residing in same town, whose character & credibility are certified to by Court under seal.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The want of the attests. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. L. Nixon Examining Clerk.

A. Adams North Cohoes - Steubenville Co Aug 7. 1854 - New York
Requesting to be informed whether the claim of Susan Youngs for a Pension due her father Henry Brace, for Revolutionary services, has been rejected
Respectfully referred to the Acting Commr of Pensions for answer.
Dept Int.
Aug 9/54
W. C. Livingston Chf Clerk
Pittsfield 7 Aug 1854

North Cohasset Aug 4 th 5-9
Secretary of the Interior Sir Sir
An application was made to the Pension Department for a pension on my father Henry Brace deceased a soldier of the Revolution enlisted in the State of New Jersey under Colonel Southard by Deborah Susan Youngs.
The agent at Washington to pre- sent the claim was F. E. Hasler who informs me that the claim was rejected. Please to inform me by letter whether such is the fact as I must and oblige
Yours Obediently A. Adams

Clerk
✓ 12309 INVALID.
File No. 12,309
Henry Brea Rev: Beer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 47
[Arrangement of 1870.]
✓
Mr. Colhoun President by Henry Brea Secretary of the Interior Washington D.C.

Pension Office 18 May '53
Albany N.Y. Rolls, act 7 June 1832 Henry Brees pri: $80 \frac{50}{100} pr. An. To what time paid?
Hanson
Died 2 d June 1835
Paid to his death, B.L.B. "
Maj: Bogan Think Adm l Office

John P. 10. 348 Henry Brew
Henry Brew Elmira N.Y. direct to Post office care Th s Maxwell agent

I hereby certify that Henry Bress late of the State of New Jersey belonged to the Brigade of teams of which I was Wagon Master (regularly and legally constituted and appointed) such by the proper authorities of the States in one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight and seven hundred and twenty nine of this I am confident as I have papers to verify my memory particularly his receipts among others for forage and for his team
Henry Southard
Sworn and subscribed before me this 24 day of August AD 1832
John Bress Justice of the peace and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Somerset
I hereby certify that Henry Bress late of the State of New Jersey was in the revolutionary Service with his team and belonged to the Brigade of teams of which Henry Southard was Wagon Master
Stephen Bress
Sworn and subscribed before me this 24 day of August AD 1832
John Bress Justice of the peace and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Somerset
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State of New Jersey Somerset County ss. I John M Mann Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County hereby certify that John Bree before whom the within Affidavits were taken was at the time thereof and now is a judge of said Court and Justice of the peace in and for said county duly authorized and empowered to Administer Oaths &c. and that the genuine signa- ture of the said John Bree is subscribed to said Affidavits. — In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & thirty two. J. M. Mann

Dec 13/52
Rec. to case of Henry Brewster
Y. E. Hapler Present.
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John Agnew 1832 32.842

Washington City, D.C. Decr 11. 1852 Honorable J. P. V. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Sir
By Virtue of a Power of attorney on file in your office, I respectfully ask a reex- amination of the Revolutionary pension papers of Henry Breeze, a pensioner on the N.Y. Rolls. on these grounds. viz That at the time he made his application for a pension, he stated that he had served in three capacities.
1st. In 1775. & 1776. in Capt. Platt Bailey
Sgt Jeremiah Dunn
believed to have been Express Rider
2d. In 1776. & 1778. under Capt. Kilpatrick,
Parker, & Moffat; =
3d. " Sept 1778, 16 mo. under Wagon Master
General. Mifflin - direct command
of Henry Southard, whose rolls will
doubtless show this teamster service and at the time the application was made the department had not as yet properly recognized the Teamster according to his rate of pay.
I hope the case will receive a reexamina- tion & claim be allowed. Yours respectfully
J. E. Hasker

Henry Brees Pined New York
Pined act 1832
Ex by Mr. Wade
Jan 17-52

North Amherst N.Y. Jan'y 2 d 1852
J. E. Heath Esq. Com d of Pensions, Sir,
This is to request that W m Wade of Washington D.C. may be allowed to examine the papers, filed in your Office by my father he was a pensioner at $80 per year — resided in Elma ira State of New York at the time of his first receiving a pension. Susan Young I am Respectfully Your Obedt Servt,