Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10247, for John Stowell, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.H.
Vt.
Stowell, John
Joanna
NUMBER
R.10247
CONTENTS
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Vermont
1010
John Stowell
of Rockingham in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Flood of the Regt commanded
by Col. Bellows in the N.H. Militia
for 6 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 20 Dollars-- per an.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of October
1832 and sent to A. S. Campbell
Bellows Falls Vt
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832
30. 00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th March 1833  10.00
$40.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. M. Duffield Clerk
Book D Vol. 4 Page 84

10247
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No 1301
John Staels
Declaration
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress passed June 7 1832
State of Vermont Windham County SS On this 26th
day of July AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the
Probate Court for the District of Westminster in said State now
sitting John Stoel a resident of Rockingham in the County of
Windham and State of Vermont said Rockingham being in said Westminster district aged Seventy 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 act of Congress passed June
7. 1832 that he entered the service of the United States in the
Revolutionary War under the following named officers to wit
in September 1777 in Capt Flood, Company in Col. Bellon Regiment of Hampshire militia, he was drafted and marched
to Charlestown, thence to Saratoga, thence to Fort Edward, and remained
there until the surrender of Genl Burgoyne, then went to La
age and was discharged at that place he was in the service
the month and at Saratoga at this time
he did not have a written discharge he was discharged in Dec
1777 as he believes he had in Walpole NH when he was drafted and
he marched from that place, there is no person within his knowledge by whom he can prove this service
he was also died at Rockingham Vermont and served in
Capt Holtons Company in Col Hunts Regt of Vermont troops
in the year Royalton was burnt marched to Barnard Vermont and
remained there till December of the same year, was there dis
charged in this campaign he served three months he had no
written discharge, he was born 9th Feby 1762 at Wellington Co
but has no record of his age hid at Walpole when he first entered
the service and at Rockingham of the second time he served his hand
at sd Rockingham ever since the close of the war, & now lives there
he thinks he entered the service this year campaign about
the first of September and was discharged in the month of December but does not know what year, when 
he marched in this campaign he marched from Rockingham 
Vermont through Charlestown N. 4 to Barnard
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he knows of no person by whom he can prove this service he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except this present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid
The words "and a few days once" were interlined before signd or sworn to
Before [signature] Peter N Taft Judge
[signed] John Stowell

We Alexander  Campbell residing in the town of Rockingham Vermont and Samuel Adams residing in Rockingham hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Stowell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is reputed and 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 to the day & year aforesaid
Before [signature] Peter N Taft Judge
[signature] Alexander S Campbell
[signature] Samel Adams

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 S Campbell who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in Rockingham Vermont and that Samuel Adams who has also signed the same is a resident in Rockingham that both are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that no clergyman lives in the immediate vicinity of the said John Stocl
[signature] Peter N Taft Judge
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of Westminster aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Caadin the matter of the application of Tolin Stael for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the deal of said court this 25th day of July A.D. 1832
[signature] Asa Keys Es
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress the 7th July 1838 entitled award granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of Vermont
District of Westminster ss
On this 17thday of May AD 1843 personally appeared before the probate court for the District of Westminster in the County of Windom Joanna Stowell a resident of Rockingham in the county of Windham and State of Vermont aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of John Stowell who was a muale in the army of the Revolution and she refers to the application of the said John Stowell under the act of June 7 1832 now in the dispersion office together with the papers accompanying it for fact of her husbands service  she thinks he served six months or more his annual pension was twenty dollars
She further declares that she was married to the said John Stael on the 30th day of October in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven by the Revd Saml Whiting minister of the Gospel her husband the aforesaid John
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Stael died on the 22d day of July 1839 AD that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the 1st day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.
Joanna her x mark Stowell
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written  [signature] Ellory Atlbe Judge of Probate

State of Vermont
District of Westminster ss I James H Phelps registrar of the Probate Court for the District of Westminster aforesaid being a court of record  certify that Ellery Atlbe Judge of Probate above written is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 31st day of May 1843
[signature] James H. Phelps Register
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October thirtieth seventeen hundred Eighty
seven married John Stoel and Joanna Barry"
State of Vermont Windham County
certify that the above is a true copy of the record
of the Reverend Samuel Whiting formerly congregational Minister of the Gospel in Rockingham in said County now deceased with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in
fair legible figure as follows
" October 30, 1787.
[signature] Asa Locke Clerk

I Asa Lacke of Rockingham in said County depose and say that I am clerk of the Congregational
account and society in Rockingham in said
County that the records of said Church & Society
formerly kept by the Revd Samuel Whiting are
in my possession, and that the above is a true
extract from said records of the said Samuel
Whiting minister of the Gospel as aforesaid with
the exception above named as certified by me
[signature] Asa Locke

State of Vermont
Windham County S Rockingham June 26th
Then personally appeared (before me, Asa Locke
above named who is a credible person and made
oath that the foregoing affidavit by him but
scribed is true
Before me [signature] Alexander S Carle Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Windham County SS, County Clerks office
Windham County Court June 26th 1843
I Marshall Miller Clerk of said Court
certify that Alexander S Campbell is a Justice of
the peace within & for said County duly com
missioned and qualified that his commission
bears date Nov. 9th 1842 and will expire on the
both day of November 1843 and that his sig
nature within written is genuine In testimony
whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal
of said Court the day & year above willin
Attest [signature] Marshall Miller Clerk
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No 1301
Private 6 months
$20
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BRIEF in the case of John Stowell of Windham
County in the State of Vermont
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In a Probate Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he?
70 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[Chart]
Period.
In 1777 Sept
not stated

Duration of Service,
Years,
Months,
3
3
6 months
Days.

Rank.
As a
private
do

Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Drafted in the N.H. Militia
Capt. Flood, Col. Bellows
Vermont troops
Capt. Holton Col. Hunt

5. In what battles was he engaged?
None mentioned.

6. Where did he reside when he entered
the service?
Walpole N. H.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence,
by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By tradition

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

[signature] J. M. Duffield Examining Clerk
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v No 9172
Joanna Stowell
Vermt
Suspended
Let to AS Campbell Sep 5 43
do do Mar 28 '44
in A.S. Campbell Ou
30 1851
Same July 29 1853
10247
Act July 7 1838
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[stamp] REJECTED

Enlisted:
RESECTED
11247.
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Joanna Stowell
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
Recognized.
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18
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Cert. of Dis. Searched for
Contract.
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Bellows Falls Vermont May 11th 1853
Sir
John Stowell was a pensioner under the Act of June 7.1832 and died His services for six months in Capt Flood company Col. Bellows Regiment of New Hampshire Militia was proved by [illegible] when he was pensioned - His widow Joanna Stowell applied for a pension under the Act of July 7 1838 her proof [illegible] of a certificate from the Secy of State of New Hampshire of one month and one days served in said company and as no further record proof could be obtained her claim was rejected, it is believed there is another Roll of Capt Flood which would show 5 months additional service but it cannot be found
It has been decided by the Attorney General J.J. Mason Esq in his opinion of June 23d 1846 contained on page 157 of the abstract of pension laws published under the act of March 3 1849 that "a widow whose husband was in receipt of a pension til the time of his death is entitled to a pension by nature of the act of May 7 1846 unless the evidence or husbands service is rebutted by the Commissioner of Pensions by the applicant" and in addition to this at [illegible] the act of May 7 1846
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was unconditionally repealed by the Act of June 26 1848
I would therefore respectfully request that you reexamine the Declaration and proof in the case of Mrs Joanna Stowell and grant to her or her heirs a [illegible] if she or they are entitled to it under the laws of the United States upon that subject.
Joanna Stowell died on the 4th day of October AD 1847.
Very respectfully
yr obt servt
[signature] A S Campbell

Hon L P Waldo
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
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Bellows Falls Vermont July 12, 1851
Sir
John Stowell of Windham County Vermont
was a pensioner under the act of June 7th 1832 and
died, leaving Anna Stowell his widow, who has since
deceased leaving Betsey Stowell who is now 
living her only child a Anna Stael in her life
time made application for a pension under the act
of July 7 1838, her declaration & proof of Marriage
before 1794 is now in your office but her claim
was rejected for want of proof of service, It appears
that the evidence of service in the case is made sufficient by the Resolution of Congress of the first
of July 1848,
this being the case I wish you to do
me the favor to forward to me her certificate or
inform me what if any thing is necessary to be done
in order to obtain it I do not know now when and
Stowell died, but suppose it was before July 1848
I am very respectfully
Y Obt Svt
[signature] A S Campbell

Hon J E Heath
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
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Bellows Hall Vermont July 26th 1832.
Sir
I enclose the declaration of John Stowel for a pension. he states he served something more than six months in two campaigns but is not able to prove the service, He Stoel is a very conscientious and a very honest man and is Deacon of a church and can obtain such certificate, to his veracity as may be required  I suppose the declaration alone is difficult, if not I will endeavor to process such certificates as you may direct
I am very Respectfully 
yr obt servt
[signature] Alexander S Campbell
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Bellows Falls Sept 22d 1843
Sir
I have received your communication of the 5th and encloes the evidence required to support the claim of Joanna Stael for a pension.
I am very Respectfully,
Yr obt svt
[signature] A S Campbell
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Bellows Falls Vermont June 27. 1843
Sir
I enclose the application of Joanna Stowell for a pension under the act of July 1838 and March 1843 together with the proof of marriage
Very Respectfully
v
A.S. Campbell

Hon J.L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington City.
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IEdward Darby of Rockingham in the
County of Windham & State of Vermont testify &
say that I was well acquainted with John Stowell
late of said Rockingham deceased a Revolutionary pensioner
that the said John Stowell
died at four years ago leaving Joanna
Stowell his widow who is still living and
further testify that I am well acquainted with
the said Joanna Stowell widow of said
John Stawell and that the said Joanna has
not been married since the death of the
said John but continues single unmarried
and that she now lives in said Rockingham
Sept 1843
[signature] Edward Darby

State of Vermont
Windham County ss September 8th 1843
Then personally appeared the above named
Edward Darby who is a credible person and
made oath that the above affidavit contains
the truth
Before me [signature] Alexander S Campbell
Justin Peace
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State of Vermont
Windham County SS County Court Clerks Office
New Fane September 13th 1843
I Marshall Miller
Clerk of said Court certify that Alexander
Sharpe is a Justice of the Peace within and for
said County duly commissioned & qualified
that his commission bears date Nov 9 1842 and
will expire on the 30th day of November 1843
and that his signature William written is genuine

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand
and affix the seal of said Court the day year
above written -
Attest [signature] Marshall Miller, Clerk
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of
the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to
certain widows who have received pensions [illegible] act
of July 7 1838
State of Vermont
Windham County, SS
On this 12th day of May 1845 presonally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace
within and for the County of Windham in the State of
Vermont Joanna Stowell a resident of Rockingham in the County of Windham & State of Vermont
aged Eighty
years who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
provision made by the act of Congress passed on
the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widow of
persons who served during the Revolutionary War
that she is the widow of John Stowell
who was a private in the army of the Revolution in the New Hampshire troops
her husband in his life time and received an annual pension of 20 dollars and that she believes she is entitled to a pension under the
act of 7 July 1838, but has not yet received any
the further declare that she is still a widow

[signature]Joanna her x mark Stowell
Sworn & subscribed on the day and year above mentioned 
Before me
[signature] Alexander S Campbell
Justice Peace
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I certify that the within named Joanna Stowell
who has subscribed the within declaration is personally known to me
[signature] Alexander S Campbell Justice Peace

State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk of
New Fane June A.D. 1843
Marshall Miller Clerk of said Court certify
that Alexander S Campbell a Justice of the
Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission 
date November 9th 1842 and will expire on the
30th day of November 1843 and that his said
before written are genuine
In testimony whereof I hereunto set
my hand and and affixed the seal of said act
the day and year above written
[signature] Attest Marshall Miller Clerk