Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3704, William Fowler, S.C.
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SERVICE S.C.
Fowler, William
 Hannah
NUMBER R. 3704
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Illinois 26.241.
William Fowler  of Randolph Co in the state of Ill who was a pr in the company commanded by captain chambers of the regt commanded by Col Braton in the So Carolina line for militia
6 mo po $20.00
Issued on the roll of Ill at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Cetificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Ma
1834 Hon C Slade 
Arrears to the 4th of Mch  60.00
Seni-anl allowance ending 4 Sept 10.00
$70.00
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832}
Recorded by JT Sprague clerk
Book E Vol 8 Page 56
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Let to R B Servant
Oct 12th 1848
Let to Hon WH Bissell June 17 1852
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I agree to receive a pension for Six months Chas Slade
May 6th 1834
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State of Illinois Randolph County } Ss County Commissioners Court Special Term 1834
Be it remembered that this seventh day of April 1834 personally appeared in open court before Thomas Roberts and William G Hzenluf of the county Commissioners Court now setting William Fowler a resident now of the county and state aforesaid aged sixty nine years old on the eighteenth day of November last 1833 who being duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he was drafted and entered the army of the United States in the year 1780 or 82 at then Camden District South Carolina in what is now called York District South Carolina sometime in the summer I suppose I know that it was warm weather the month I do not now recollect I was enlisted or drafted as a private under the command of capt John Chambers under the command of Col William Bratton who commanded the militia the second Cals name was John Wallace at Orangeburg Town Orangeborgh District South Carolina From Orangeburgh District or Town I marched to Salt Catches in said state where I remained for some time say about three weeks during which time I was engaged in collecting cattle for General Greenes army from there I marched back to Orangeburgh and was stationed and rendezvoused at said Orangeburgh and in the immediate neighbourhood for the space of one year which time and time I was engaged on scouting expeditions under the command of the forsaid captain John Chambers where I was discharged from the service by my said captain I never received from my captain a militia discharge It has been so long since that I do not recollect of all the scouts courses and places when I where I was but
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I know that I was in the service for the space of one year I never was engaged in any battle, I was born in Mecklenburgh county North Carolina as I have been told on the eighteenth day of November 1764 I know of no public record of my age but I had given me a small book by my Father about the year 1799 which book was written by my Father in which book it was written that I was born on the 18th November 1764 is all the evidence I have my age I was raised principally in York District South Carolina and I left York District South Carolina in the year 1811 and went to Livingston County Kentucky where I lived until the year 1816 when I removed to the state of Illinois in Randolph county where I have lived since and where I now live I know of no persons now living by whom I can prove the rendering of my services to the United States I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any state in the United States 
Sworn and subscribed to in open court this 7th April 1834
James Hughes clk} Wm Fowler 
State of Illinois
Randolph County} Scs We Alexander Barber and Harvey Clendenin residing in the county of Randolph state of Illinois hereby certify that we  are well acquainted with William Fowler who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age on the eighteenth day of November last 1833 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
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sworn to and subscribed in open court on this 7th April 1834
James Hughes clk} Alexander Barber Harvey Clendenin 
upon which the following was entered on record (to wit) 
In the matter of the application of William Fowler for a pension and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Alexander Barber and Harvey Clendenin is residents in the county of Randolph and is credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit 
State of Illinois
Randolph County} Sct
I James Hughes clerk of the Randolph County Commissioners Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the copy of the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Fowler for a pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Kaskaskia County of Randolph state of Illinois this eighth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four
James Hughes clerk
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State of Illinois
Randolph County} SS
Before the undersigned is Justice of the peace within and for said County and state personally came William C Marlen Esqr and Reuben W Tindall both personally known to me to be gentlemen of character and veracity who being duly sworn according to law depose and say to wit: the said William C Marlen Esqr says that he know William Fowler and Hannah Fowler named in the foregoing certificate of the county judge of said county, to have lived together as man and wife in my immediate neighborhood for the period of twenty seven years and have never heard their marriage disputed by any one; that he had in his possession, the auchented family heard of the said William Fowler which he placed in the hands of RB Servant Esqr for the purpose of applying for an increase of pension and thus he has not had possession of it since but was informed by the said Servant that the said record was burnt by the fire which consumed the entire contents of his office on the 13th day of April 1850 and he verily believes that it was so consumed that the said record showed this the said William Fowler was married to Hannah Tindall who was the same Hannah Fowler before married in the
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state of South Carolina some time in the year AD seventeen hundred eighty eight and that the said record shewed that the same William Fowler was born on  the 18tj day of November 1764 and the said Hannah Tindall was born in February 1768
Wm C Marlen

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of April 1852
RB Servant
Justice of the peace
And the aforesaid Reuben W Tindall says that he has known the aforesaid William Fowler and Hannah Fowler as husband together as man and wife first in Chester Parish South Carolina fifty one years ago in Kentucky Livingston county thirty nine years ago and in this county thirty six years and lived within a quarter of mile of them in South Carolina and within two miles in this county and in Kentucky he was only on a visit when he saw them  
RW Tindall
sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th ay of April 1852
RW Servant Justice of the peace
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State of Illinois 
Randolph County} SS
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has the day been as hebetted before me John Campbell Judge of the county court of Randolph county and state of Illinois that William Fowler who was a revolutionary pensioner at the time of his death at the rate of twenty dollars per annum died on the 18th day of April AD 1846 leaving him survivors as widow Hannah Fowler and that the said Hannah Fowler widow as aforesaid died on the 29th day of March AD 1851 leaving her surviving Children Rachel aged fifty one years and Mary aged forty four years
I also certify that Harvey Leming is administrator of the estate of the said Hannah Fowler
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
John Campbell County Judge
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State of Illinois
Randolph County } Ss I James H Cole clerk of the county court of said county of Randolph certify that the Hon John Campbell is now and was the county judge of said county of Randolph and to all his acts as such full faith and credit should be given both in and out of court
In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said court at my office in Chester this 6th day of April 1832
Jas H Cole
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30.798
William Fowler
Illinois
Return
Adm 6 months 
$20.
Hon C Slade
House of Rep s
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
A STATEMENT, showing the service of William Fowler

Period when the      Duration of the       Rank of       Names and rank of the Field of-     Age at present,   Proof by which
service   was            claimant's service      the          ficers under whom he served.         place of abode.  the declaration
rendered.                Year Months Days     Claimant .                                                           when he entered    is supported 
                                                                                                                                                       the service
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1781 or 2                    1                                    Priv         Cap. Chamber                                        69 years          Traditionary 
                                                                                         Col Bratton                                             Orange
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                                                                                                                                                          Dist    
                                                                                                                                                          So Ca
 
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES  L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

(Note:)
The Claimant must Strictly Conform to the regulations
as pointed out in notes e.
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                                                      REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been constructed to extent, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State Troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, etc., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefit of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual
military service.  Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in the Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicants reside. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

                                                                   DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
                                            State Territory, or District of
                                             County of
On this             day of                                personally appeared (a) before  
          A B. a resident (b) of                              in the county of                        and State, Territory, or District of           aged (c)            years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)           , with.        and served in the                (e) regiment of the line,                under the following named offices:

(Here set forth the names and ranks of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service ; (and if he server under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particlar period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.)

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                                           A. B.
        (And then will follow the certificate of the Court.)

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I                                                                                     of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of                                                                       for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and seal of office (i) this 
                         day of                                          &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the name of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.

Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and the State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 

(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the                             and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
(And then will follow the certificate of the Court)
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Clerk of Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the orginal proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for pension.

 In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal
 of office, this day of &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the orginal discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath and will then procure, if possible , the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail hid personal knowledge of the service oh the applicant, and such circumstance connected therewith as may have a tendency to throw lightupon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all material facts, which can be used in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, it one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature ol his case.

 The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Reginents as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.
(To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
(To an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons-one of whom should be nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him; that they believe he is of the age he represents,
and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certity to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deened very important, in the absence of any direct proof except the declaration of the party.
And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general or whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.

Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the
Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of ofice, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genine signature.

No payments can be made upon account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case
of death subsequent thereto,and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so , he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldiers must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn depots and saith, that by reason of ld age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positive as to the precise length of his service; but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the period mentioned below, and in the following grades: ---For____year_____month____days, I served as a ______ for _______ months and ______ days, I served as a ________; and for such service I claim a Pension"
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant. served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. ome persons who apply for pensions mere state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must begin every case, be clearly shown under what officer the applicant severed; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corp called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed n any civil pursuit.
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must fix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certified officer, should accompany the papers.
                                                      
                                                                 Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certifing officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certiicate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

                                                                   Proof of Service

(j) In case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must verify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule is
note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k)This traditionury evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
(l) If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
(m) The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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March 5, 1937
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Mr. B. J. Walter                                      William Fowler, R,3704
Dept. of Military Records and               BA-J/ MOS
Graves Registration
American Legion,  Wabash Post 423
Mt. Carmel, Illinois


Dear Sir: 

Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War 
record of Willian Fowler who enlisted from South Carolina and later
lived in Randolph County, Illinois. 

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, R.3704, based upon the nilitary service of William
Fowler.

He was born November 18, 1764, in Mecklenburgh County, North
Carolina. The names of his parents were not given. 

He enlisted in Camden District, which was later called York District, South Carolina, in the summer of 1781 or 1782 and served
one year as private in Captain John Chambers' company in Colonel
William Bratton's South Carolina regiment. 

He stated that he was raised principally in York District, 
South Carolina, that he left that district in 1811 for Livingston County, Kentucky, where he lived until 1816 when he moved to Randolph
County. Illinois.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1834,
at which tine he was living in Randolph County, Illinois.

William Fowler died April 18, 1846.
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This soldier married in South Carolina, March 6, 1788, Hannah
Tindall who was born in February, 1768.

She died March 29 or April 1, 1851, leaving two Children, namely:
Rachel who was fifty-one years of age and Mary who was forty-four years
of age. 

In 1852 one Reuben W. Tindall (relationship to widow not given) 
stated that he knew the soldier in Chester Parish, South Carolina, fifty-
one years ago.

The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the
soldier's family.

Very truly yours 

A.D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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14812
Application for Revolutionary Pension
heirs of Hannah Fowler widow of Wm Fowler
Please Examine Report
Robert Smith 
Present
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Know all men by these presents that I Harvey Leming administrator of the estate of Hannah Fowler whose husband William Fowler was a pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint the Hon Robert Smith my true and lawful attorey for me and for the [illegible] of said estate and the estate of the said William Fowler to receive pension the commissioner of Pensions of the United States the remaining pension due the said William Fowler and his said wid are both deceased
Witness my hand and seal this 7th day of April 1852
Harvey Leming seal
sealed and inclosed [illegible] of Wm C Marlen
State of Illinois
Randolph County}ss
Be it known that on the 7th day of April AD 1852 before the subscriber a justice of the peace witness and for said county and duly authorized to administer oaths personally appeared Harvey Leming  above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorny to be his act and deed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year first above mentioned
RB Servant 
Justice of the peace
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Col RB Servant
Chester Ills
June 28th 1854
Answered & wrote 
court of Persons

Hon Robert Smith 
Illinois

[upside down
WH Bissell
Col R Smith
Alton
Illinois] 

[post marked 
WASHINGTON DC
NOV 
11]
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[upside down
Col RB Servant
Chester Ills
June 28th 1854
Answered & wrote
court of Persons

Hon Robert Smith
Illinois]


WH Bissell
Col R Smith
Alton
Illinois

[post marked
WASHINGTON DC
NOV
11]
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Chester Ills April 28th 1854
Dear Colo
Inclose a letter to refresh your memory in the case of Wm Fowler and by refering to say letter you will understand all about
The family record that I spoke of and to which you refer in the enclosed letter was burned in my office on the 13th of April 1850 and the fire which consumed the  building in which my office was included and several other buildings I lost every book and papers in my office at the time
I can make affidavit that the family record was destroyed 
I sent the Power of attorney &c as requested in your letter 
RB Servant
Col Ro Smith
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Alton June 28th 1854
Sir 
I had something to do while in Congress with this claim for pension for the widow & heirs of Wm Fowler Harvey Leming administrator and filed some additional papers in the 28th Aug 1852 Wm Fowler drew a pension & his widows name was Hannah & she applied for pension from Ills in 1848 or earlier The heirs write me to know the prospects of obtaining anything 
Will you please advise me as to the conclustion of the claim at your earliest convenience I am very respectfully your obt servt 
Robert Smith
Hon LP Waldo 
Court of Pensions
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Ho of Reps Washn
March 2 1832
Sir
Wm Fowler was on the pension roll under the act of June 7 1832 and drew his pension up to 1845 when he died His widow survives him Is she entitled to receive the pension or any part of it? Please answer
Respectfully 
WH Bissell
Hon HE Heath
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April 11 1848
RB Servant for Hannah Fowler wid of William
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Chester Ills March 28th 1848
Dear Sir
Will you at your earliest convenience, inform me what steps are to be taken to enable Hannah Fowler widow of the late William Fowler deceased, to enable her to receive the pension during her life to which her husband was entitled during his life
The family record now in posession of the widow shews that the late William Fowler was married to Hannah Tindall now Hannah Fowler on the 6th day of March 1788 She was born in 1768 and is now consequently 80 years old and is entirely suserdue ated and is not capable of making an affidavit and as they came into this new country some forty five years ago it will be impossible to establish their marriage except by the family record which record I have in my possession As the widow is very poor and her descandants perhaps still more so if possible you will render a service to humanely by giving me the desired information 
For my character and disinterested most which I neither
I refer you to the Hon Ro Smith Respectfully your ob svt RB Servant
JL Edwards Esqr
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March 4/52
Gng rel to Wm Fowler's widow
Hon WH Bissell
Hofkess
WH Bissell
Hon JE Heath
Pension Office
Washington DC
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March 4/52
Gng rel to Wm Fowler's widow
Hon WH Bissell
Hofkess
WH Bissell
Hon JE Heath
Pension Office
Washington DC
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No 14.812
Hannah Fowler dec
widow of William 
JA
Robert Smith Dec 23 1852
Garrie July 7 1854
Same Aug 7 1854
Robert Smoth 17 Oct 1854
3704
act 7th July 1838
act 7 July 1838 /c
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February 23, 1934 
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BA-J/MOS 
William Fowler, R. 3704 

Mrs. Mona Jones 
Sparta 
Illinois 

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War 
record of William Fowler, The data which follow are obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, R. 3704, based upon the military service of William Fowler. He was born November 18, 1764, in Mecklenburgh County, North Carolina . The names of his parents were not given. He enlisted in Camden District, which was later called York District, South Carolina, in the summer of 1781 or 1782 and served one year as private in Captain John Chambers' company in Colonel William Bratton's South Carolina regiment. He stated that he was raised principally in York District, South Carolina, that he left that district in 1811 for Livingston County, Kentucky, where he lived until 1816 when he moved to Randolph County, Illinois. He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1834, at which time he was living in Randolph County, Illinois. He died April 18, 1846. This soldier married in South Carolina, March 6, 1788, Hannah Tindall who was born in February, 1768.
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February 23, 1934 
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BA-J/MOS 
William Fowler, R. 3704 

Mrs. Mona Jones 
Sparta 
Illinois 

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War 
record of William Fowler.

The data which follow are obtained from papers on file in the 
pension claim, R. 3704, based upon the military service of William Fowler. 

He was born November 18, 1764, in Mecklenburgh County, North Carolina . The names of his parents were not given. 

He enlisted in Camden District, which was later called York 
District. South Carolina, in the summer of 1781 or 1782 and served 
one year as private in Captain John Chambers' company in Colonel William Bratton's South Carolina regiment. 

He stated that he was raised principally in York District, 
South Carolina, that he left that district in 1811 for Livingston 
County, Kentucky, where he lived until 1816 when he moved to Randolph County, Illinois. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1834, 
at which time he was living in Randolph County, Illinois. 

He died April 18, 1846. 

This soldier married in South Carolina, March 6, 1788, Hannah 
Tindall who was born in February, 1768.
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AMERICAN LEGION, Wabash Post No. 123 
MT. CARMEL, ILLINOIS 
(Logo)
February 12, 1937

(Stamp on upper right side of page:
RECEIVED
FEB 15 1937
MAIL SUB-DIV
VETS. ADM 
READER. 21 )

B. J. WALTER,
DEPT. of MILITARY RECORDS
AND GRAVES REGISTRATION

The Veterans Administration, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir:  (Note: M. C.S. 1837  Drawn Mar. 4)

Please furnish pension record and any other information available of a one William Fowler, native of South Carolina , from which state he served during the war of the Revolution.  

This soldier came to the State of Illinois about 1816, 
settling in Randolph County. 

Very truly yours,
B. J. Walter, 
Dept. Military Records and 
Graves Registration, 
American Legion, 
Wabash Post #423.

W:rpf
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(Stamp top left
Received
FEB 1, 1934
MAIL SUB-DIV
VET illegible) 

23 Sparta, Illinois 
January 29, 1834 

Director of Pensions 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sirs: 

Will you please send me the pension record and any information you have concerning WILLIAN FOWLER, Private, South Carolina Militia, who fought in the Revolution and later received a pension. He lived in Illinois after 1816. He died in Randolph County, Illinois, in 1846. 

Thank you very much. 

Respectfully yours 

(Mrs) Mona Jones
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State of Illinois 
Randolph County} SS
Before the undersigned a justice of the peace meber and for said county and state personally came RB Servant Esqr a reputable witness who being duly sworn according to law on his oath says that the family record of the aforesaid William Fowler named in the foregoing affidavit of William C Marlen was consumed by the fire of the 13th of April 1850 which consumed the entire contents of his office
RB Servant
sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of April 1852
Wm C Marlen
Justice of the peace
State of Illinois
Randolph County} SS
I James M Cole clerk of the county court of said county certify that RB Servant and William C Marlen Esqr are now and were at the time of certifying to the foregoing affidavit and Power of Attorney acting justices of said county and thus to their acts and attestations as such full faith
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and credit is and ought to be given in court out of court and thus their signatures thereto are genuine
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office in Chester in said courts this 7th day of April AD 1852
J M Cole
By TH Callaway Deputy
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RB Servant Chester Ill
Additional proof in the application of the adm of Hannah Fowler for arrears of pens
Ill sus 1838
Robert Smith
Alton
Ills
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State of Illinois Randolph County } SS 
On this thirtieth day of September Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty four before me James M Ralls clerk of the circuit court of said county of Randolph personally appeared RB Servant Esqr who is known to me & he a gentleman of character and veracity who being duly sworn according to law on his oath depose and says that he was intimately acquainted with William Fowler a pensioner of the United States and his wife Hannah from the year 1831 to the day of their deaths that of the former Occuring on the 18th day of April 1846 and that of the latter on the 1st day of April1851 that the fall of 1849 the said Hannah Fowler widow as aforesaid made application to this deponent to procure the arrears of pension to which she might be entitled to but owing & her of time old age about eighty ears she was so imbecille in mind that she was not capable of making an affidavit that as the same time she left with the said deponent the family Bible of the said William Fowler and that on the 13th day of April 1850 my office together with all its contents including said family Bible was consumed by fire that to the best of his recollection the record in said Bible was that the said William Fowler was born in the year 1764 and the the said Hannah in the year 1768 that the said William and Hannah were married in the state of South Carolina in the year 1788 that he always continued that the said Bible was realy and truly the family Bible of the said William Fowler and that the records of the births marriages and deaths therein contained entirely authentic
RB Servant
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of September [illegible] witness my hand and seal of said court the day and year [illegible] that I am in no wse interested
JM Ralls clerk
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REJECTED
3704
Hannah Fowler
Service widow William
Enlisted
Discharged
Application filed
Alleges
Re-enlisted
Attorney
PO 
Recognized Contract
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME  Fowles, Benjamin 

Grade Private

WARRANT
NUMBER  4116

ACREAGE  100

ISSUED   Mar. 25, 1790

(hand written Note: to ____ not shown)

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are 

registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.

Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.

Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.