Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,646, Ephraim Bowers, Mass
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1776

Service
Mass.

Bowers, Ephraim Mary

Number
W. 23646

Contents
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7760
Connecticut
Ephaim Bowers 

Nin Millor in the state of Connecticut
who was a pruam in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Miston of the Connicticut
-ne for the term of 2 years 
Enscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 20 of June 1818.

Certificate of pension issued the 17 of March
and sent to David o Bard man
Nim Millora Cont

Arrears to the 4 of March 1850. 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending - 1850
8 11 4/ 30 35

67.96
48
115 96

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818}
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219

Connecticut
Mary Bowers 
deceased

widow of 
Ephraim Bowers
who served in the Revolutionary 
Mafs
war, as a Corporal In creased
to $96 end 19 Oct 1850

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars
-cents per annum to commence on the (strike 4th) first day of (strike March) July 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the tenth day of July 1851 and sent to 
H Fowler 
Hartford Connt. 

Record on Roll of Pensioners under Act February 2, 1848, page 26 2 Vol. 1
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Ephraim Bowers 
Private 
January 1777 to 1779

Weston Massachusetts.
Regiment
Armstrong
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219.
Connecticut 
Mary Bowers
widow of Ephraim Bowers
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a corporal 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
88 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
16 day of June 1848
and sent to 
Julias B. Harrison
New Milford, Connecticut
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848 259. Vol. 1
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Connecticut 2007(?)
Mary Bowers
Widow of Ephraim Bowers 
who was a Corporal 
in the Revolution 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of June 1843
and sent to [illegible] Perry 
[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1. Page 62.
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State of Connecticut 
I, John B. Robertson, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, 
That Julius B. Harrison 
is, and since the 20th day of June last past hath been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Litchfield in said State, duly appointed and commissioned having full power and authority by the laws of said State to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths to take Affiliations and Dispositions out of Court, and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations. 
And I further certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said Julius B. Harrison to be genuine!
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at 
New Haven this 23 day of May 
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred forty-eight.
John B. Robertson
Secretary of the State
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Payment to be made at Hartford
by
Horace Goodwin 2d[?] Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the
Agency of Connecticut
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 259 Vol. 1
Leo Jenkins
Clerk
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War Department.
Widow's Pension.
 I certify in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Mary Bowers, widow of Ephraim Bowers, who was a Corporal in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty eight dollars      per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this sixteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
W L Marcy  Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
By[?] F. S. Evans