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.