Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1303, Isaac Brown, New York

SERVICE
New York
Brown, Isaac
NUMBER
R. 1303
CONTENTS
1841 in Hartford, Connecticut 1842 in New York 1843 in New York

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
State of New York Ulster County
ss On this 12 th day of September
A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster now sitting being a Court of record Isaac Brown a resident of the town of Rochester in the County of Ulster and State of New York aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers as herein stated, that he was born in the town of Cortland in the County of Westchester in the State of New York in the year 1761 but that he does not know from information or in any other manner the month or day of the month in which he was born. That he has no written record of his age but has always understood that he was born in 1761. That he first entered the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution as a volunteer at Cortland Manor in the County of Westchester aforesaid in the year 1777 as he believes in a company commanded by Captain James Crookhite in the spring of that year, that he cannot now recollect either the month or the day the the month that the said company belonged to the regiment commanded by Col Samuel Drake, that a person by the name of Benjamin Dikeman was recruited in said company. That when he entered the service he was taken to the North river about two miles from his residence to prevent the landing of the enemy, that after this time he was in said company and was out on actual duty two or three days in a week on patroling parties for the space of two years, that some times he was on the North river sometimes at a place

Second Statement called Continental bridge and at Pine bridge all in the said County of Westchester. That the South river was two miles and the Croton river was eight miles from his residence which were called the lines which the said Company had to guard. That during the above period he was at home generally a few days in each week but was not able to do scarcely any work for himself as he was worn down by fatigue and want of sleep as soon as he would recover a little he would be called out again, which continued for the space of two years from his first entrance into the service as aforesaid. That he was out every week for the above period two nights in each week, one night for himself and one night as a substitute for one Nathaniel Brown who belonged to a Company under the Command of Captain Boyd which belonged to the above mentioned regiment. That during the above period the enemy were continually effecting landings along the said North river. That he was out during the above period principally on patrolling parties on the North river and the Croton river and at the above mentioned bridges. That Captain Crookshanks was taken prisoner by the English at Crown pond in the County of Westchester. That at the time the Captain was taken he was out with him but made his escape. That the enemy surrounded the Captain and shortly after he was taken. he was exchanged and resumed the command of his company. That the Captain was taken prisoner the same season that a strong point on the North river was taken by the enemy. That after the expiration of the above two years he was still called out at the above mentioned places on duty as often as one day in each week for until near the close of the war. That

the whole time that he was out on actual duty at the places aforesaid at different times during the war was not less than eighteen months that all the officers above named are now dead that he cannot now recollect the names of any other officers belonging to the said Companies nor the regiment except those already named that he never was in any actual engagement with the enemy except at the time when Captain Cronkite was taken by the enemy as aforesaid there were a few guns fired that he always lived in the County of Westchester aforesaid from his birth until about six years after the close of the war when he moved into the town of Plattekill in the County of Ulster aforesaid and continued to live there until about eighteen months ago when he removed to the town of Rochester in said County of Ulster. That he has lately been to Westchester to procure evidence of his service and that he could not procure any other than what appears from the affidavits of John Lent and Isaac Lent both residents of Westchester and that he knows of no other person for persons now living that knows any thing whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service neither has he and that he has no documentary evidence of his service. 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. That he cannot without too much expense and inconvenience to him appear as a clergyman in court with whom he is acquainted
Sworn to before me this day and year above in open Court A. J. Harkness John A. Deyo John J. Lansing
Isaac G. Brown

We Abraham A Deyo residing in  the town of Plattekill in the County of Ulster and Levi  James Mackay residing in the town of Marlborough in the County aforesaid hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Isaac Brown who has subscribed and sworn to the above certify declaration: that we believe him to be seventy one years of age: that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Abm A Deyo Levi Mackay
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
Abm Hardenburgh Abm A Deyo John Jansen } Judges -
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 Court further certifies that it appears to them that Abraham A Deyo a resident of the town of Plattekill and Levi  James Mackay a resident of the town of Marlborough in the County of Ulster, who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
Abm Hardenburgh Abm A Deyo John Jansen } Judges
I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster in the State of New York do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac - Brown" for a pension -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this thirteenth day of September 1832.
Jacob Snyder

23,286 Isaac Brown, N. Y.
See let. to Hon. J. C. Brod. head, June 26, 1838.
" W. Sindermand Aug 20 1834.
to Hon. J. Van Buren 24. Aug. 1841
J. Parker April 28 th 1842
act. 7 th June 1832

13112
ELECTED
P. O. Isaac Brown
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: List of rejected claims printed in 1852, shows cause
re-enlisted: of rejection as follows: He did not serve six months in any embodied corps.
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Dear Sir,

9 P.M.
Isaac Brown 23280
1303
State of New York Westchester County
I Nathaniel Bayle Clerk of said County and State do certify that Hon. H Briggs Esq 2 before whom the within affidavit was taken is a Justice of the Peace in said County and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and believe the sig- nature subscribed to be his
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this 29 th day of Au- gust 1832
N Bayle Clk

State of New York } Worthester County } ss.
John Lent of Cortlandt Town in Worthester County being sworn faith that he is now in the eightieth year of his age, That during the Revolutionary war & ever since this deponent has resided in the town of Cortlandt afore- said, That he knows Isaac Brown now of Ulster County in said State and has known him ever since his childhood, That during the revolutionary war the said Isaac Brown lived in the said town of Cortlandt & County of Worthester That this deponent knows that said Brown served in the Militia of said State at different periods & times during said Revolutionary war, That deponent often saw him the said Brown out on scouting parties and as guard upon the lines, That deponent knows that said Brown belonged to the Company com- manded by Capt. James Crookshank in Col. Samuel Drakes Regiment That deponent always understood & believes the fact so to be that said Brown served the Country in the Militia upon the lines in Worthester from about the year 1777 to or near the close of the said war.
Subscribed and sworn before me
This 27 th day of August 1832
John Lent
Wm. H. Briggs, Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that I am, and have been acquainted with John Dunt, the within named deponent, for about Twenty years, and know that his character stands fair, and that he is a Deacon of a Respectable Church, and that full faith and credit should be put to his testimony.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand This 27 th day of August 1832
W m H. Briggs Justice of the Peace
State of New York (Westchester County)
I, Nathaniel Bayles Clerk of said County and State of New York do certify that William Brice the person before whom the within affi- -vit was taken is a Justice of the peace in said County and that I believe the signature subscribed to be his
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name this 29 th day of August 1832.
N Bayles

State of New York Sullivan County ss
On the 15 th day of July 1833 personally appeared
before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Jeremiah Drake of the Town of Neversink in said County to me known to be and being duly sworn, deposes and saith that he is well acquainted with Isaac Brinn of the County of Ulster now present that the Revolutionary War the said deponent and Isaac resided in the County of West Chester in the State of New York that in the year 1779. the said Isaac early in the spring season was a militia man in Colonel Samuel Dikes Regiment in Capt. James Keoks Company and served in said Company until late in the Fall or beginning of Winter his duty was patrolling and standing guard upon the American lines near the  Croton River in West Chester County the deponent saw said Isaac on duty as often as two or three days in each week during the season and one time the deponent and said Isaac was on duty together for more than a week with out intermission and said deponent further declares that the said Isaac continued to do the like duty in said Regiment for every succeeding season until the end of the Revolutionary War. and further that the said deponent is about seventy one years of age and further saith not
Sworn and subscribed before me the date above Jeremiah Drake written this 15 th day of July 1833 Author Grant Justice of the peace

Sullivan County ss.
I Certify that I am well acquainted with Jeremiah Drake of New-ark in said County the Maker of the within affidavit that he is a credible Witness and his affidavit entitled to the fullest belief
Given under my hand the 15 th day of July 1833. Nathan Grant J. P.

Tuthill 15th Augt }
Free
Hon. Lewis Cap Secretary of War Pension office Washington. City D. C

Hon. Lewis Cap.
Sir - Having procured an authentication of the pension papers of Isaac Brown according to directions from your office I again transmit them to you. after their return and after I had got them fastened by the ribbon in the manner you directed I mislaid them and did not find them until a few days ago much to the disappointment of the applicant. As being both old & poor he said he could not well procure other affidavits but I have fortunately found them and again forward them for examination. I also send with them another affidavit which was not before you before and which is not authenticated by the Clerks certificate yet it may be of some satisfaction to you. As the papers were mislaid after you returned them to me to have them authenticated according to your directions, I hope you will examine them as soon as convenient and let me know the result.
Your humble servant
Willett Sinderman
Tuthill. Ulster Co N York

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz :
  1781. May 17. Isaac Brown. Corp. 36 11 2   1782. May 23 " do 32 15 2 
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany,
April 9 th 1842.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 6. now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz :
   First—under Capt. George. Lamb. in Col. Regt.     Second, " " Jonas. Custer " " "   Third, " " " " "   Fourth, " " " " "   Fifth, " " " " "   Sixth, " " " " "   Seventh, " " " " "   Eighth, " " " " "   Ninth, " " " " "   Tenth, " " " " "  
Philip Phelps Ap Comptroller

11 West Ludlow Street Eng
August 20 1834
O C
MS. B. 1. 6. 33 p. 85

War Department Pension Office Aug. 20 1834
Sir The papers submitting of Isaac Brown have again been examined — In order to sustain this application The claimant should specify the duration of each term of a due service the place or places where performed and the names of his officers The case is suspended for the papers placed on file
Willie Landerman Esq Tadous Co of Ulster New York

Hon. J. Van Duren
24. Aug. 1841
Q. b

Penna Office
Aug 24 1841
Sir
In answer to your inquiry respecting the claim of Isaac Brown, whose papers are now upon our file I have the honor to state that satisfactory proof has not been furnished. Enclosed you will find a copy of a letter addressed to the Hon J C Brodhead 26 June 1838 upon the subject of the claim. I have the honor
Hon M c Van Buren H R
OC January 11 th 23286

Sen H
Apr 28 th 42
Sir
In the case of Isaac Brown the certificate of the Comp t . enclosed in your 14 inst refers to a different person - The claimant served down in Westchester in the neighborhood of his residence in local quar- -tering & patrolling under Capt. Cronkite & others of Drake's Reg t throughout the war, while the Isaac Brown named in the certificate was an enlisted soldier for 9 mos in the years 80 & 81. It is not believed that claimant's own statement that he served as much as 6 mos in an embodied corps in field or garrison
Jeremiah Parker Esq Bloomingburgh Sullivan Co - NY.

Ms. Augt 21 st 1841
J. S. Church Esq. General Post Office Bristol
Dear

Dear Sir
I am requested to ascertain the situation of the application of Isaac Brown for a pension under the Law of 1832 — he was supposed to have belonged to Capt Kronkite company — and that there is evidence sufficient in the department to sustain his application
I am Sir very resp y your obt St
John Van Buren
House of Rep. Bldg
20 th /41

Bloomingburgh Sullivan County Ny April 14 th 1842
Dear Sir
I send you the enclosed certificates of the Comptroller of New York as additional proof to support the application of Isaac Brown of Ulster County Ny Mr. Isaac Brown applied for a pension under the act of 1832 I am informed by J. C. Broadhead that he had the lease of Mr. Brown's farm and that he was a man of good character & that he had no doubt that his claim was just
Jeremiah Parker
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