Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,073, for George Owens, Maryland
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Service
Md.

Owens, George

Number
S. 14.073

carded
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14073
INVALID. 
File No. 14 073
George Owens
Priv. Rev. war
Act June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. 1 Page 282
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Rev War
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4690 
Kentucky.
George Owens 
of Callaway in the State of Ky.
who was a pr in the Compy commanded 
by Captain Winchester of the Regt commanded by Col. Gist in the Md. 
line for 6 mo: from 1776 

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky. 
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of Jan 33 
and sent Hon. R. M. 
Johnson, House of Reps. 

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832   30 - 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar:33   10- 
$40-
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832} Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk 
Book D Vol. 9 Page 53.
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to all of his official acts as such 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand and affixed the seal of said County this 
19th day of November 1832 
Wm Card

from 1776 
Private 6 mo.
$20.

[?] R M Johnson,
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Richard Card J L Murray & others will bear ample testimony 
to his character for veracity as well as to his reputation of having 
been a Revolutionary soldier 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or 
annuity except the present and declares that


State of Kentucky }
Calloway County ⎬   On this 29th day of October 1832 
personally appeare before me a Justice 
of the peace for Calloway County and State aforesaid, in 
his own house George Owings aged Eighty three years, who 
is a resident of the County & state aforesaid, who being 
first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the 
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of 
Congress passed June 7th 1832 
That he entered the service of the 
United States and served under the following named officers, 
as herein stated 
George Owings states that he was born 14th .
March 1749 in Baltimore County & State of Maryland, That 
he thinks in the year of 1776 he volunteered under Captain 
James Winchester of the same county & State & under him, Major 
Butler & Col John Gist he was marched to Morristown, Pennsylvania, 
and placed in the Brigade of General Gist.  Whilst 
lying here his Captain with Seventy five men, was sent to 
take a foraging party of the British, that they met and 
Winchester & all the men, except himself & 5 others were taking 
and those six only escaped by flying into a swamp. The 
British went to a house & commenced drinking and he
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Owings, proposed to one of his companions to take each 
a horse & fly for the American lines. It was so agreed 
and they were successful. He owings gave up his horse
a fine gray gelding for the use of the army. He was retained
in the service for six months and discharged, but who 
wrote he cannot now recollect. He has lost it but how he 
cannot state. Owing to his great bodily affliction, he
has lost this memory, and the incidents of former days have 
been pretty much forgotten. He states he never received any 
pay for his services, nor for the Gray gelding nor for any other 
of his service except twelve dollars, when an Indian Spy 
under General Wayne. that he is in very reduced circumstances, 
not having walked for four years and asks his 
country for his pension, and such further relief as the 
arrearage of pay for Horse & service will entitle him to, if 
any thing may be coming. He recollects none of the Regiments 
of the army except his own, nor any of the Officers of 
Maryland except those mentioned, nor any officers of the 
Army of the United States except Washington. 
He has no documentary evidence, nor living testimony 
that he knows of to testify to his service, but his neighbours 
and acquaintances towit Gabriel Washburn Edmund Card 
Henry Darnall James Ingram Thomas Grubbs Hugh Millikin
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Richard Card J L Murray & others will bear ample testimony 
to his character for veracity as well as to his reputation of having been 
a Revolutionary soldier 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension 
annuity except the present and declares that his name 
is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State whatever 
George Owens 
Subscribed and sworn to by George Owens 
the day and year and afsd 
Given under my hand this 29th Oct 1832 G W Frazer J.P.C.[?] 


We Richard Card a clergyman Residing in the said County of Callaway
and State of Kentucky and John L Murray also a resident of the same 
County and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted 
with George Owens who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration 
that we believe him to be eighty three years of age that he is reputed 
and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier 
of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion entertaining no 
doubt whatever of his having been such 
Richard Card
John L Murray
subscribed and sworn to by Richard Card and John L Murray this 19th day of Novr 1832 
And I the said George W Frazer the undersigned a Justice of the peace 
in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion 
after the investigation of the matter and after fully vetting the interrogatories 
prescribed by the war department that the above named 
applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And 
I also certify that the said George Owens is entirely helpless and that from 
his great age and bodily infirmity he is wholly unable to attend Court 
And I do further certify that it appears to me that the said Richard Card
who has signed the preceeding certificate is Clergyman resident in the
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County of Calloway and that John L Murray who has also signed 
the same is also a resident of the said County of Calloway and 
is a credible person and that these statement is entitled to credit.
Given under my hand and seal as a Justice of the peace in and 
for the County and State aforesaid this 19th day 
of Novr 1832 
G Frazer J F C C [handwritten] seal
State of Kentucky Calloway County Sct.
I William Card Clerk of the Calloway County Court do certify that 
George W Frazer whose signature and seal appears to the foregoing certificate 
is and was an acting [?] at the time of signing the same an acting 
justice of the peace for said County, duly commissioned and qualified 
as such and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to 
all of his official acts as such 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand and affixed the seal of said County this 
19th day of November 1832 
Wm Card


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from 1776
Private 6 mos.
$20.

[?] R M Johnson,