On the 16th
day of August personally appeared in
open court it being a court of record
John Brown 4th aged fifty
nine years resident in Hampshire County,
Virginia who being just duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath
declare that he served in the
Revolutionary War as follows:
viz that he enlisted in
the year 1779 for the term of three
years in Westmoreland County Virginia in
a company commanded by Captain John
Mazardt attached to the regiment on
Continental Establisment command by Col
Thomas Marshall that he was in
the Battle of Camden when Gates was
defeated and at the seige of York at the
defeat of Lord Cornwall is that
he continued to serve in said regiment
for nearly two years and was discharged
at York Town in Virginia which will more
fully appear by his original declaration
filed in the war office dated the 15th
day of March 1819 upon which he has
obtained a certificate of pension number
12189; and he did solemnly swear that he
was a resident citizen of the United
States on the 18th day of
March 1818; and that he has not by gift
sale or in any manner disposed of his
property or any part thereof with intent
thereby to diminish it as to bring
himself within the provisions of an act
of congress...nor has any other income
other than what is contained in the
schedule hereto annexed and by him
subscribed
viz 2 horses worth
together $50.00, 9 small shoats worth
$7.00 about 50 bushels of wheat worth
$25, about 50 bushels of rye worth
$20.84, some household furniture worth
al 1 together $20. That he owes to
Thomas Taylor for rent $57.00, to
William Davy $13.00 the following is
a list of the members of his family,
Ann Brown his wife aged 57 years,
Margaret his daughter aged 18 years,
Richard his son aged 11 years,
John his son aged 17 years in
October next, Ann his daughter
aged 17 years in October next. That he
is a labouror and in consequence of his
advanced age and some bodily infirmities
is unable to support himself. |
