Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File Bl Reg. 37252-55, Isaac Flowers, Conn.
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CONN.  FLOWERS, ISAAC  BL Reg. 37252-55

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Rev. War
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
BOUNTY LAND FILES
ACT OF 1855-Rejected-37-252
VETERAN Isaac Flower
1776
GRADE----
SERVICE Conn Mil
Pen [illegible]
CAN. NO. 1688  [BUNDLE?] NO. 125
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37.252

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FREE

[addressed to:]

Hon L. P. Waldo,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

[illegible received stamp]
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Act March 3 18[?]

37.252 April 3/55

Bathsheba Flower
Wid of Isaac Flower

Revolutionary War

Ohio No Papers
Boynton

Horrace Steele
Painesville Luke Co Ohio

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St. to H. Steele: Aug: 25/55
Ohio
No Papers
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37.252

Hon. L.P. Waldo
Commisr. [illegible]
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Painesville Lake Co. Ohio
March 31. 1855

Hon. L.P. Waldo 

Dear Sir, Accompanying this I send an application for a pension in behalf of Bathsheba Flower, and also an application, in her behalf for Bounty land. You will see that she is nearly a century old.  She was not married to nor acquainted with her husband Isaac Flower, till some ten or 12 years after the close of the war. It is presumed that no person can now be found who served with him and if there were any, it is extremely doubtful whether they would be able on account of their advanced age, to remember well enough to give any light on this subject.  All she knows about Mr Flower’s service is what he said in his life time, and this can be supported by the testimony of his neighbors to whom he made the same statement that is, that he was in Washington's army when they stealthily made good their retreat from Long Island to New York in the night, but she cannot tell to what comp of troops he belonged- whether he was in the regular army or the Connecticut State troops or Militia. That he was in the revolutionary service at that time there is not a doubt. I find on enquiry of her neighbors & friends, that she has always for half a century told the same story. Her mind is considerably shattered, and she soon forgets passing events & frequently blends things together which have no connection- but things that she 50 years ago the seems to have a clear idea of now.  She has been a very strong minded intelligent woman was a pioneer in New Connecticut, being the first white woman who ever set forth in the Township of Vienna in Trumbull County Ohio- and is the mother of the first child born in that town.  Soon after she came there, being annoyed by wolves, and her husband sick, she set a [illegible] trap & caught a very large wolf, which he killed herself, with a hand [illegible]. 
She would not knowingly state a falsehood for [illegible] pensions. She never knew that she was entitled to a pension till since the passage of the act of 3d March 1855. Had she known it at the time the act, granting pensions to widows, was passed, she might perhaps have proved the service of her husband. 
I have employed Mr. James E. Stuart of Washington, to search the records & endeavor to find the names of the officers under whom her husband served &c.  She is now dependant on her children for a support, and I hope & trust, her extreme age will induce the Department to relax their rules, and grant to her indulgence on account of her great age. Yours &c respetfully 
Horace Steele
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Claim of Bathsheba Flower
for Bounty Land
under Act of 1855

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37.252
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State of Ohio 
Lake County ss.
On this ___day of March AD 1855, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public, within & for the County of Lake & State of Ohio, Bathsheba Flower, aged Ninety nine years, a resident of Painesville in the County & State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Isaac Flower, deceased who served, she thinks one year as a private in the Revolutionary war, but cannot now tell, to what company or Regiment he belonged, nor the officers names under whom he served. She does not know whether he was drafted or enlisted into the regular army. He went from Hartland or Hartford Connecticut. She thinks it was in the years 1776 & 1777; that he was in actual service & with the army when they crossed over from Long Island to New York in the night & when but a short distance from the British army. He continued in actual service for over fourteen days, and was honorably discharged, but she cannot tell when or where, but thinks the rolls will show, to which she now refers for further testimony .
She further states that she was married to the said Isaac Flower, in Granby in the State of Connecticut by one Joseph Strong a Clergyman, on the 24th day of December AD. 1792. but she has no knowledge of any public or private record of her said marriage, and that her name before her said marriage was Bathsheba Foot, that her said husband died at Vienna in Trumbull County in the State of Ohio, on the 14th day of May AD. 1813, and that she is now a widow. 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved the 3d of March 1855. She also declares that she never received nor applied for any bounty land her under this or any other act of Congress 
Bathsheba Flower
[Her mark indicated by an “X”]

We Horace Steele and Lavinia F. Steele, both of Painesville in Lake County & State of Ohio, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed (over)
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and acknowledged by Bathsheba Flower, in our presence and that we believe, from the appearance & statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. 
Horace Steele 
Lavinia J Steele 

The foregoing declaration & affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day & year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, & that I have no interest in this claim
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State of Ohio 
Lake County ss.
On this 29th day of March 1855, personally appeared before me, a notary Public, within & for the County of Lake & State of Ohio, Lavinia F. Steele of Painesville in Lake County & State aforesaid and Roswell Lowry of Madison in said County & State, who being duly sworn according to law, depose & say that we were personally acquainted with Isaac Flower for about ten years before his death and also with his wife Bathsheba Flower, during the same time & know that they lived and cohabited together as husband & wife & were reputed be such, and we have no doubt that they were legally such. We further state that we personally know that the said Isaac Flower died at the time and place stated in the declaration of Bathsheba Flower hereto attached, and that we attended his funeral.
Roswell Lowrey 
Lavinia F Steele 

Sworn to & subscribed the year & day above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons,