Pension:Caleb Brown, 1833 :Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire

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Submitted by: Rick Giirtman rickman@worldpath.net
Date: October 3, 2000
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Caleb Brown
Revolutionary War
Pension Application

This abstract is from a book called "New Hampshire Revolutionary Pension
Papers, Vol. 4", abstracted & prepared by Mrs. Amos G. Draper 1917-1922
It is available at the New Hampshire Historical Society.


S. F. 12296
Mass. & N. H. Service.

Sept. 4, 1833, Caleb Brown, of Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire,
aged 74 years, deposed:

that he enlisted in May or June, 1777, from Hampton Falls, where he then
resided, under Lieut. Joseph Dow, as a corporal in a company of N. H.
militia, commanded by Capt. Joseph Parsons, of Rye, N. H., Jonathon Leavitt 
being Ensign; were marched to Portsmouth and attached to Col Senter's
regiment, Joseph Fogg being our Quartermaster; remained at Portsmouth about
one month, then marched to Rhode Island, serving until Jan. 1, 1778, "when
we were verbally dismissed."

July 15, 1778 orders came to the militia of N. H. to repair immediately to
R. I., under Gen. Sullivan and deponent, still a resident of Hampton Falls,
together with a number of others among whom he remembers Lieut. Joseph Dow,
Benjamin Dow, Simon Locke, Major Joseph Clifford, Dr. Rowe, all of whom are
now dead; served eight weeks.

In August, 1779, "being still a resident of Hampton Falls, and hearing that
they wished to hire and enlist some troops at Newburyport, Mass., in company
with Benjamin Swain, now of Gilmanton, N. H., Humphrey Flood and Isaac Shaw,
" went to Newburyport and enlisted in Mass. line under Capt. Lewis Jenkins,
of Newburyport; marched to Albany, N. Y., and thence to Hudson, N. Y., where
he served 3 months. "Received a thousand dollars for my three months'
service continental currency, which was not of much practical benefit to me"

In April, 1780, again enlisted as a private, one of the new levies as we
were then called, to fill up the continental regiments for the term of six
months; was enlisted by my father, Richard Brown, who was one of the
committee of safety for Hampton Falls. In June, 1780, with 15 others, 12 of
whom belonged to Londonderry, marched to West Point, New York. Four of us,
deponent among them, were put first under Capt. Robinson, where they
remained three weeks, then placed under Capt. Samuel Cherry, Gen. Poor's
Brigade. After a short time Poor's Brigade and one commanded by Lafayette
marched down the river into New Jersey, remained at Morristown until
November, then returned to Soldier's Fortune, not far from West Point, and
remained there until some time in December, when he was "discharged in
writing by Lieut-Col. Reid for want of clothes, my clothes having been
stolen from me, and my term of service was about finished, and the
commissary refused to furnish me with new clothes unless I would again
enlist." Has lost his discharge; "forwarded a copy of it, preserved among
my papers to the Secretary of War in 1832 and said papers are lost and I
have no other copy."
                                                   Caleb Brown.


Abraham Shaw, of Kensington, N. H., aged 77 years, Benjamin Swain, of
Gilmanton, N. H., formerly of Hampton Falls, aged 73 years, and Thomas R.
Swett, of Pittsfield, N. H., testified to service with Brown, in 1777, and
Swain with service in other enlistments, as stated.

Abraham Shaw testified that with Brown and himself were: Rowland Carr, of
Hampton Falls, Levi Blake, Josiah Lock, Joseph Palmer, Benjamin Dow and
Benjamin Swain, all of Kensington, Jeremiah Folsom, of East Kingston, 
Knowles, of Hampton, Corporal and Haynes, of Stratham.

Claim allowed and certificate 21613, N. H. Agency, was issued Oct. 2, 1833,
Act of June 7, 1832, for service as private and corporal.