Re: Jacob and John Brown-Jonesborough,Tn-Bedford CO,VA
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Jacob and John Brown-Jonesborough,Tn-Bedford CO,VA
Frank McClelland 6/20/04
Hello
I believe the attached below account is from the Joseph Brown (twin of Wm) that you are researching.Other than this affidavit, do you know if there were other Thurman connections to this line of Browns?According to John Thurman's affidavit, he fought with Joseph Brown in the Rev War.But I have not been able to find record of John Thurman's service.Do you know if there is any other record that the two men served together?
Thanks
Deborah Thurman Parks
Source: NARA Microfilm Number M804, Roll 372, File Number S17291, starting on page 0661
Isaac THURMON (17June1833) and Mary THURMON's (19June1833)
statements of witness for the Revolutionary War Pension Petition of Joseph BROWN of Lincoln County, MO
Page 0669:
State of Missouri
County of Lincoln
Be it remembered that on this Seventeenth day of June A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appears before me the undersigned, a justice of the Peace, written and for the County of Lincoln, aforesaid, Isaac L. THURMON, of said County, who being just duly sworn on his oath, says that he is thirty eight years of age - that he has been acquainted for seven of eight years with Joseph BROWN, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration for a pension, that he has often heard his father, John THURMON, in his lifetime, say that the said Joseph BROWN was a revolutionary soldier, that he as personally acquainted with said BROWN in the revolutionary war, where he the said John THURMON, was a soldier himself - that the said John THURMON has been dead about two years - and this affiant further states that he believes said Joseph BROWN was a revolutionary soldier, that he has ever been considered so in his neighbourhood and among his acquaintances since the affiant became acquainted with him, and that he has never heard any person express any doubt to the contrary.
(Signed) Isaac L. THURMON
Signed and subscribed to the day
& date above written
Charles WHEELER, Justice of the Peace.
State of Missouri
County of Lincoln
I so hereby testify that Isaac L. THURMON who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing certification is a creditable person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Given under my hand, this 17th day of June A.D. 1833
Charles WHEELER, J.P.L.C.
Transcribed from a microfilm copy of the original document on 22June2001, by Lyman Alan THURMON
Transcribers Notes:
Isaac L. THURMON "age 38" on 17June1833 yields a birth year of 1795.
John THURMON "been dead about 2 years" yields a death year of about 1831
Pension File of Joseph BROWN
Source: NARA Microfilm Number M804, Roll 372, File Number S17291, starting on page 0661
From Microfilm Pages 0670-0671:
State of Missouri
County of Lincoln
Be it remembered that on this nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appearing before me the undersigned, one of the Justices of the Peace written and for said County of Lincoln, Mrs. Mary THURMON, who being first duly sworn on her oath says that she was born in January 1760, four miles from a town called Woodstock, in the then County of Frederick, in the state of Virginia, that in the year 1770 her father, Jonas LITTLE, removed to within nine miles of Jonesborough, then in North Carolina, now Tennessee-that in March 1776 she first heard of Joseph BROWN, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration for a pension, and likewise of his brother William BROWN - that they then lived about four miles from her fathers, and were spoken of as soldiers, that she often heard her brothers, who were in the revolutionary war, say that both of the BROWN's, Joseph & William were excellent soldiers - her brothers names were George, John, and Benjamin LITTLE, and were all in the war, and now dead - that she first heard of Joseph and William BROWN in March in the year 1776 and recollect of seeing William BROWN then, and hearing of her brothers say that the two BROWNS, who were twin brothers, were always together, but does not recollect of seeing Joseph at that time - that Col. Jonathan TIPTON, who's name is mentioned in said Joseph BROWNS declaration, was her Uncle, and she recollects hearing him, Col. TIPTON, during the revolutionary war, speak very highly of the said Joseph BROWN & William as being as good soldiers as any in the world - that she does not recollect of seeing Joseph BROWN till since the war - that she has no doubt from what she heard at the time of the war and since from her uncle and brothers, and many others, that the said Joseph BROWN served as a soldier as he has stated in his declaration, or as long as he has stated if not exactly as he has stated - she thinks that he is mistaken where he says in his declaration that he served under Capt. John SEVIER, and that it was Capt. Robert SEVIER and from what she has heard her husband, John THURMON, in his lifetime say and likewise heard from her brothers, she thinks Joseph BROWN is two or three years older than what he has stated -that she never heard a word against the character of the said Joseph BROWN, that he has ever been considered very poor & very honest - and she believed from what she has ever heard and known of him that if he has made in his declaration, any misstatement, that it was owing entirely to the want of recollection, that his character always stood fair as to truth and veracity - andshe further states that she lived in Tennessee about fifteen years after the Revolutionary war, then moved to Kentucky & resided there twenty years, and came to Missouri about fifteen years ago, and now lives about with her children in Lincoln and Pike Counties, MO -- that she has lived in Lincoln Co. several years.
(signed) Mary THURMON
Sworn and subscribed to before me The 19th day of June A.D. 1833
(signed) Charles WHEELER, J.P.L.C.
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