This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the County & State above written Mrs Eliza Lord residing in the Town of Wilmington N. Ca aged Seventy Five years who being first duly sworn according to Law—Testafies and says—That her sister Mrs Lucy Brown widow of Col Thos: Brown was married to him on the Thirteenth of January Seventeen Hundred & Eighty at the house of their father in the Town of Wilmington This affiant being present and acting as a Bridesmaid—after the marriage of Col Brown with the sister of this affiant, she as well as her father & family were forced to fly from Wilmington to his House in Bladen County for protection; and where she continued until the final evacuation of Wilmington by the British—She can fully testafy to the fact that Col: Brown was from the first of the year 1780 to the close of the war never at home but for short periods of a few days at a time until his release as a prisoner at the evacuation of the Town—He was constantly in command of troops protecting the country from parties out of Wilmington or from depredations of Tories from the Fayettvill settlement—and she can testafy to the hardships and privations of himself & family living as he did with him and participating in them—She well recollects when Col: Brown was wounded in the arm, which rendered it nearly useless to him the remainder of his life—She has a most distinct recollection of the period when he was taken prisoner in the month of June 1781—and to her personal knowledge he remained in confinement until the evacuation of Wilmington by the enemy—and she well recollects his return home—

In conclusion she testafies that to her personal knowledge Col: Brown was in active service from January 1781 up to the month of June 1781. When he was taken prisoner—and that he remained in confinement at Wilmington until the enemy finally evacuated the place—She also testafies that her sister Mrs Lucy Brown now applying for a Pension is the identical person married to Col Thos: Brown in 1780. Jay: 13th and that she is now a widow and has never married since the death of Col Brown.