This day personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the County above written Mrs Elizabeth Scott of the Town of Wilmington aged Eighty Three years—who being first duly sworn according to Law testafies and says—That she was born & raised in the Town of Wilmington and was present at the marriage of Col: Thomas Brown with Lucy Bradley now the widow of Col: Brown and applying for a Pension, this affiant well knows and recollects that the marriage took place long before the close of the Revolution the precise date she is unable to state but feels well assured it was in the first of the year 1780. This affiant well recollects that Col: Brown was an active officer and constantly ingaged in the service of the country—she well recollects his being wounded at Big Bridge and she also recollects that he was a prisoner of war for some time before the final evacuation of Wilmington at which time he was released—This affiant cannot state the precise periods or length of Col: Browns service but she can say that no officer of the Revolution in this section of country performed more active service than he did—She has read to her the declaration of Mrs Brown and from her own recollection has no hesitation that it contains no statement of service that was not rendered by Col Brown & if any thing it is, in her belief, short of the absolute service he did render. In conclusion she testafies that Mrs Brown has never married but is now the widow of Col Brown