Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3705, for Daniel Mc Dowell, New York
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Service
New York 

McDowell, Daniel            W.3705
                  Martha           B.L.M. 30,933  160.55
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[left side]
Seth Ebbing March 1832
"         '         20 April  "

[Right Side]
20.808
New York 
Daniel McDowell 
of Cayuga Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp commanded by Captain Conklin of the Regt commanded by Col. Paulding in the New York line for 15 months ------

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 50 Dollars ----Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Oc. 1833 and sent to A. Gould
Auburn 

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 33                 $125
Semi-anl allowance ending [?] '36             25
                                                               $150

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Co C Stiles Clerk
Book 6 Vol 4  Page 69
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Sept 24/56.  Set to Agent [illegible] warrant.  not entitled - see for 160 acres - Caveat filed --[?]

May 29/57.  Set to Agt cannot will be withdrawn when No 26.373 for 160 acres.  Shale have been surrendered. --- D.P.P. 

Aug 17/58.  Set to same ----------D.P.P. 

June 28/60.  Set to [illegilble] Land office, Coneat [extension?], and E.W. Armas of Aurora N. Y. set information---------------D.P.P.
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174.430/Act  filed nov 3
June 21/55

Martha McDowell wid of 
Daniel McDowell / priv

Capt
Col
Act
[?] 

Revolutionary war
Pensioner

July 23, 1866
Attn: Hol A.C. [illegible] 18/56

Boynton


H.H. Bostwick
Auburn N.Y.
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1066
New York
Martha McDowell 
widow of Daniel McDowell 
NY
who served in the Revolutionary war as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 50 Dollars -----Cents per annum, to commence on the [struck: 4th day of March, 1848] 19th January, 1852

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Octr 1853 and sent to S.J. Bowen
[present?] 

Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act July 19, 1848, Page 79 Vol 16

[left side, vertical] 
Sent to Mrs. Proctor King June 21/60
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115018
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State of New York }
County of Cayuga} 

On this 23rd day of March , A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me James H. Worthey a Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid Martha McDowell aged EightySeven a resident of Ledyard in the County of Cayuga and State of New York, Who being duly sworn, according to law, declares that she is the widow of Daniel McDowell deceased, who was a [blank] in the War of the Revolution, and was Pensioned under the act of 7th June 1833 at the rate of $50.- per annum, and that she has been Pensioned under the act of 3rd Feb 1848, at the rate of $50 per annum, as the widow of the said Daniel McDowell deceased.  

She further declares that she was marred to the said Daniel McDowell in Wall Kill in the County of Orange and the State of New York [n {interposed:  or about] the 6th day of July 1782. 
She further declares that her husband, the aforesaid Daniel McDowell died in Ledyard in the County of Cayuga and State of New York on the 19th January 1852 and that she is still a widow.  That she has no public or private record of her said marriage or of her said husband's death But that for proof of the same Reference to the may be had to the Evidence on file in the Pension Office upon which her said Pension was granted.  She also declares that she has never received any bounty Land Warrant under this or any other Act of Congress nor made any application therefore. 

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land  to which she may be entitled under the act of march 3rd 1855. 
Martha McDowell
her X mark
"attest"

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written, before me, 
J.H. Worthey
Notary Public

We James H. Eager and Aaron Murphy, residents of Ledyard & [Locke?] Cayuga Co in the State of New York upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Martha McDowell in our presence, and that we believe, from both the apearnace and statementsof the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. 
James H. Edgar
Aaron Murphy

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be creditable persons; that the claimant is the person she presents herself to be, and I have no interest in this claim. 
J.H. Worthey 
Notary Public
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24552

Daniel McDowell 
Cayuga Co 
New York 

ef

Admitted
Private 17 months
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A statement, shewing the Service of Daniel McDowell, Cayuga Co New York 

Period when the Service was rendered.
July 1776 " years 9 months " days
Rank of the claimant
Private
Names and rank of the Field Officers under whom he served
Col Paulding
Col Conklin

Period when the Service was rendered.
Sep 1777  " years 4 monts  " days
Names and rank of the Field Officers under whom he served
Col. Snider
Cap Rose

Period when the service was rendered. 
Dec 1778  "years 3 months " days
Names and rank of the Field Officers under whom he served
Capt Clark 

Period when the service was rendered.
Sep 1779  " years 1 month " days
Name and rank of the Field Officers under whom he served
Cap Clark 

Period when the service was rendered.
Diff't times "years 2 months " days
Name and rank of the Field Officers under whom he served 
Different Capts

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service
75 years
Orange County N. York 
Proof by which the declaration is supported. 
Witness Jonathan Odell
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, 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 and who 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, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits 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 this 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 applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

[ centered on line "DECLARATION," ]
[ centered on line "In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832." ]
State, Territory, or District of  } ss
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 officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular 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. [ dingbat of a hand pointing to next sentence ] 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 named applicant 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 names 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 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 believe him to be      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 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 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. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the     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 the Court of     do hereby certify 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, this     day of     & c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original 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 the credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon 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 the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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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, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be exexpected [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 of 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 Regiments 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
the 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 certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving service is deemed 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
enquiry whether the belief is general, and 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 a 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 office, 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 genuine signature.
No payments can be made on 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
(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 or periods of 
the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier 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, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service [service]; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: __ For ---- year _____ months, and _____ 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 of 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 his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &C. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement, the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps 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 in 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 affix 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 certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers. In every 
instance where the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached hereto 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 a 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 certify 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 equally applicable to the cases of Militia  men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only.
(k) This traditionary 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.

Joseph Dalton
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Daniel McDowell 

Agent 
A Gould 
Auburn NY
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State of New York  }
Tompkins Count  } ss

Jonathan Odell of Groton in said County being duly sworn says that he is aged 74 years; is well acquainted with Daniel Mc-Dowell of Ledyard in [struck: said] the County of Cayuga and was well acquainted with him in the time of the Revolutionary war.  that he was a soldier in company with said Daniel McDowell in the performance of four terms of Service in said war and knows that said McDowell performed the following tours of Service.   In the month of July 1776 he enlisted into Capt John Conkins company of State troops in Col Levi Pauldings Regiment & continued to serve nine months.  In the month of Augst or September 1777 he was drafted and entered said Service in the Company of Militia commanded by Capt Rose in Col Henry Snyders Regiment & continued to serve four months.  In the month of December 1778 [struck: said] he again entered said service as a volunteer in the company of militia commanded by Capt Clark and continued in said service three months - and again he served one month in the following summer in the same company.  that he was with said McDowell during each tour and knows of his having performed them faithfully.  
Jonathan Odell

Sworn & subscribed the 25th day of June 1833 before me 
Silvanus Larned Justice of the Peace

I certify that said Jonathan Odell is a man of truth & veracity.  Dated June 28th 1833
Silvanus Larned Justice Peace

State of New York 
County of Tompkins ss
I Samuel Lowe, clerk of said county do certify that Silvanus Larned Esqr before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn [3 words struck] and also by whom the
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foregoing certificate purports to have been given was at the date of the Same a justice of the Peace in and for the said county and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that his name subscribed to said affidavit and certificate is genuine.  Given under my hand and Seal of office at Ithaca  June 18 1833. 
Saml Lowe
Clerk
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State of New York 
Cauyga  County ss

On this thirteenth day of September A.D. 1832 personally appeared [struck:  in open court; interposed:  [before Gershom Morse  a Judge of] before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of [blank] and state of New York, now setting, Daniel McDowell a resident of Ledyard in the County of Cayuga and the State of New York, aged seventy-five 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 7th, 1832:  That he entered the service under the following named officers and served as herein stated:  That on or about the 27th day of July A.D. 1776 he enlisted as a private soldier in the Company Commanded by Capt. John Conklin in the Regiment com-manded by Col Levi Paulding, that he continued to service in said company for a term of nine months from the time of said enlistment when he was dis-charged at fort Montgomery.  That at the time of Said enlistment he resided in the town of Montgomery in the County of Orange & State of New York.  that during said term of enlistment he was stationed at Kings Bridge in the State of New York until winter when he removed to fort Montgomery where he continued until he was discharged.  that he was in the battle of White Plains during said term. He further declares that during the Revolutionary war was and since after the expiration of the above term of enlistment and at the times & places under the command of the several captains hereafter mentioned he served as a private soldier in the New York Militia to wit. 
First.  In Captain Roses' Company until the death of said Captain at fort Montgomery after which said company was commanded by Lieutenant Hornbeck in Col.  Henry Sniders Regiment, from some time in the month of August or September AD 1778 until some time in the month of December of the same or January of the next year for a term of fourt months.  that [interposed:  most of] said Service was at Fort Montgomery during which term the said Fort was taken by the British Troops under the Command of General Clinton
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Second.  In Captain Clarks Company from some time in the winter about the month of December AD 1778 until the spring of 1779, being stationed and in ground during said time at Murderers Creek in the town of New Windsor in the County of Orange aforesaid, to watch the Chevaux de frise placed across the north side at that place; for a term of three months  And again under the command of the same Captain Clark from some time in the summer of AD 1779 at [Mance Cotton?] on the frontiers in the State of New York County of Ulster in an expedition against the indians for a term of one months. And afterwards under the command of different captains (whose names he does not now recollect) at different times as a relief or a minute man for two or three months at least, some times being out a few days and at three times a few weeks and was compelled to be always in readiness at a moments warning, that during said last mentioned terms he was stationed at forts Independance and fort Constitution [interposed:  and other places]  He further declares that he has no other proof of said services except the accompanying papers.  He hereby relinquishes every claim to an annuity or pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state or territory.  
Daniel McDowell 
his X mark

Gershom Morse a judge of the Cty Court House
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We, Isaac Smith - L. Chrisman residing in Ledyard in the County of Cayuga and Daniel Avery [struck: of the same town] residing  in the same town & County  [Viz?] hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Daniel McDowell who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration; that we believe him to be 75 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. 

Isaac Smith
Daniel Avery 
[name struck]

Sworn and subscribed [struck:  two lines and a signature] this thirteenth day of September 1832 before me.  
Gershom Lowe [rest of line illegible] 

I Gershom Lowe a Judge of the Court of Common Please for the County of Cayuga and [illegible] after the investigation of the matter, and after putting in interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And [interposed: I] {struck: the Court] further certifies, that it appears to them, that Isaac Smith  who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in Ledyard, County of Cayuga & State of New YOrk and Daniel Avery who has also signed the same is a resident in the place aforesaid and is a drecible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit; and that the same Daniel McDowell who has submitted the foregoing declaration is so unwell and infirm that he is unable to attest in open court without great trouble and inconvenience.  
Gersham Morse  Judge of the Cay Coun [illegible]
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Cayuga County 
Clerk's [illegible]


I, Michael S. Myers, Clerk in said County do hereby Certify that the Gershom Morse, Esquire heretofore [illegible] acting as Judge by their afficative in their affidavits was taken (before said McDowell) and the [illegible] certificates signed was on the thirteenth day of September 1832 of Judge Court of common pleas in and for said County - that a [illegible] accredited with his hound untrue and erify declare and signature to the said affidavits aid certificate to be genuine.  

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Official Seal this Seventh day of december A.D. 1832
M.S. Myers
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State of New York }  
Cayuga County     }  ss

Personally appeared  before me the undersigned a {struck: Justice] first Judge of the Court of Common Please [struck: peace] in and for said County.  Daniel McDowell who being duly sworn says that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear posibitely as to the precise lenght of his services but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grade. 
For one year na dfive months I served as  a private soldier and for such service I claim a pension.  In the above computation I have not included any service performed in shourt tours as a relief or minute man as mentioned in the last clause of my said declaration because I cannot remember when & where all of said tours of Service were performed. 

I was born in the county of West Chester in the State of New York April 16th 1757 and have a record of my age at home.  I continued to reside at that place until I was six years old when I removed to the County of Orange in said State where I continued to reside until the Revolutionary war, during said war and since said war until about twenty eight years ago when I removed to the County of Cayuga aforesaid where I have resided ever since

Isaac Smith who has subscribed the certificate accompany my said declaration is a clergyman [struck: and] a resident of Ledyard in Said County and Daniel Avery who has also signed the same is a resident of said town.  they are well acquainted with me and can testify & have testified as to their believe of my services as a soldier of the Revolution.  I never received a written discharge from service except from the nine months tour and I have lost that many  years ago. 

Whilst in said Service I saw and knew Gen George Clinton
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Clinton & Gen James Clinton and served frequently - Gen Washington, Gen Putnam - Gen Sullivan - Gen Heath & others.  I do not remember the names of my regiment & company officers further that stated in said document. 
Daniel McDowell 
his X mark 

Sworn & subscribed the 24th day of June 1833 before me 
J.L. Richardson 
[illegible] & Justice of the Peace

I certify my opinion that said Daniel McDowell is a man of truth & veracity   June 24th 1833
J.L. Richardson 
for Joseph [illegible]

Stae of New York  }
Cayuga County     } ss

I Michael S Myers Clerk of the Court of Common Please in & for said County do certify that Joseph L Richardson before whom the foregoing declaration purports to have been made was on the day of the date of the same first judge of said Court - that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said judge and believe his signature to said declaration and the above certificate to be genuine - witness my hand and seal of office the first day of July 1833
M.S. Myers
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State of New York  }
County of Orleans  } ss

Mahitable Davis of the Town of Ridgeway in said County, being duly sworn doth depose and say - that she is now seventy eight years of age and upwards - that she was well acquainted with Daniel McDowell in his life time and with Martha McDowell his wife, and has known them both from early life - that the name of the said Martha McDowell before her marriage with the said Daniel McDowell, was Martha Halsted - that this deponent was present and witnessed the ceremony of the marriage of the said Daniel McDowell to the said Martha Halsted - that said marriage took place at the Town of Wallkill in the County of Orange and State of New York on the 6th day of May 1789 - that said ceremony was performed by a Mr. Miller, a Presbyterian Clergyman of that place - and this Deponent further says that she has known the said Daniel & Martha to live together as man and wife from the time of their said marriage [illegible] to the time of the death of the said Daniel, which took place, as she has been informed and believes, on the 19th day of January 1852 at the Town of Ledyard in the County of Cayuga & State of New York - that this Deponent freuqently visited the said Daniel & Martha at their house, after thier said marriage & while they resided i the County of Orange, and also after they removed to the Town of Scipio & Ledyard in said County of Cayuga, which removal took place in about the year 1801 - and
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this Deponent further says that she is well acquainted with the children of the same Daniel & Martha - that she has known Phebe (now Phebe Van Marter) the eldest of said children from her infancy, and that she is now sixty one or sixty two years of age - that she was also well acquainted with Abraham McDowell, the second of said children who was killed in the war of 1812 on the Canada frontier and who was about two years younger than Phebe - and that she is well acquainted with the Eight younger children of the said Daniel & Martha, who are now all living, so fars as this Deponent knows and believes --
Mahittabel Davis

The above deposition was subscribed & sworn to by Mahitabel Davis before me this 12th day of January 1853 - and I certify that the said Mahitable Davis is a respectable, reputable & creditable witness - 
[remainder obscured by form]

State of New York  }
Office of County Clerk of Orleans}  ss
I hereby Certify that D.W. Cole Esq. before whom the above instrument was [proved?] and acknowledged, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and authorized to take same; and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe that his signature subscribed to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment to be genuine; and that said instru-ment is executed, acknowledged , and entitled to Record, according to the Laws of the State. 
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Offical Seal, at Albion, this 21st day of Jan'y 1853
C R Berry Dep Clerk
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this Deponent further says that she is well acquainted with the children of the same Daniel & Martha - that she has known Phebe (now Phebe Van Marter) the eldest of said children from her infancy, and that she is now sixty one or sixty two years of age - that she was also well acquainted with Abraham McDowell, the second of said children who was killed in the war of 1812 on the Canada frontier and who was about two years younger than Phebe - and that she is well acquainted with the Eight younger children of the said Daniel & Martha, who are now all living, so fars as this Deponent knows and believes --
Mahittabel Davis

The above deposition was subscribed & sworn to by Mahitabel Davis before me this 12th day of January 1853 - and I certify that the said Mahitable Davis is a respectable, reputable & creditable witness -
D.W. Cole  Justice of the Peace
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State of New York  } 
County of Cayuga  }  ss

On this 20th day of January 1853 personally appeared before me George Humphreys, County Judge of Cayuga County and State of New York, Martha McDowell, a resident of the Town of Ledyard in said County, aged Eighty Three years and upwards, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the privisions made by the ac of Congress passed July 19th 1848: 

I am Eighty three years of age and upwards - I am the widow of Daniel McDowell, Deceased, who was a Revolutionary pensioner under the act of June 17th 1832 at the rate of Fifty dollars per annum, payable at the Albany Pension Agency - My husband said McDowell served in the revolu-tionary army under Capt. Conklin in Col Pawling's Regiment of the New York Line, as I have been informed and believe to be true - I was married to the said Daniel McDowell at Walkill, Orange County, New York on the sixth day of May 1789 by a Mr. Miller, a Presbyterian Clergyman at that place - My name before such marriage was Martha Halsted - There is no public or private record of said marriage, nor has there ever been kept any family record containing the dates of the births of our children - I had ten children by said Daniel McDowell - the oldest of whom is Phebe Van Marter, now sisty two years old- the next was Abraham McDowell who was five years younger than Phebe and who was killed in the war of 1812 in the battle of Fort Erie -
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My husband, the said Daniel McDowell, died in the Town of Ledyard aforesaid, on the 19th day of January 1852, up to which time we lived together as man and wife - His pension certificate was sent to the Pension Agent at Albany by E.W. Arms Esq. of Aurora some time in May last, in order to draw the arrears of Pension due by said husband from September 4th 1851 till his death - I have never before applied for a Pension, and I am still a widow - 
Martha McDowell 
her X mark 

Signed in the presence of Geo. Humphreys

The above and foregoing declaration was sworn to and subscribed by the said Marth mcDowell before me on the day and year first therein written - and I certify tha tthte said Declarant is by reason of old age and godily infirmity totally [obscured] so as to appear in open court to make her declaration - 
Geo Humphreys
County Judge of 
Cayuga County 

State of New York 
Cayuga County Clerks Office ss:  I hereby certify that George Humphreys County Judge of Cayuga County was such County Judge at the time of taking the above affidavit and duly authorized to take the same and that the above is his genuine signature. 
In Witness Whereof I hereunto set my hand &  Seal fo Office this 21st day of January 1853
C. B. Marvin  Clerk 
Cayuga County /County Court
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Revolutionary War Records Section.  3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, 
Washington, D.C. {undated] 

W. 3705

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Daniel McDowell, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his 9or his widow's) application for pension on file in this bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
July  17, 1776
Aug' Setp 1777
Dec 1778
December 1779
[Afterwards?]

LENGTH OF SERVICE
9 mon
4 mon
[blank]
3 mon
1 mon
2-3 mon

RANK
Pvt. 
"
[blank
]"
minute man

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED 
CAPTAIN                                 COLONEL
John Conklin                          Levi Paulding
___ Rose                                  Henry Snider
[?] Hornbeck
[blank] Clark
on the [action] against Indians, no officer established
at Forts Independence & Constitution

STATE
N.Y. 

Battles engaged in, White Plains
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Montgomery, Orange Co., N.Y. 
Age at date of application born Apr 16 1757 in Westchester Co N.Y.  Residing June 191833 at Ledyard N Y 
Remarks:  Soldier mar. May 6, [interposed: 1787 or] 1789, at Wallkill, Orange County with Martha Halsted [illegigle] a epnsion on an appl. ex Jamy1853 while a resident of Ledyard NY aged 83 years.  There were ten children Phebe Van Marter (in 1853) Abraham who was killed in the Battle of Fort Erie & George are the only names stated. 
Respectfully, 
Commissioner
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[upper left corner}
1921 June 25 Hist to Mrs. Fred W. Mosher

[Right side]
Revy WIDOW, 7c

File No. 3705
Martha McDowell 
Widow
Daniel McDowell
Pvt. Rev. War 

Act:  Jun 29, 1848
Index:  Vol. M  Page 18

Arrangement of 1870
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26.373

160 acres
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30.933

160 acres
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Hon J. Minot
Clerk of Pensions

[Vertical, right margin]
Danl McDowell 
39303 - [illegible]
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Martha McDowell 
wid. of 
Daniel 
N.Y. 

Let:  to S.J. Bowen
May 30/53

29 July 1848
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Hon J. Minto 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.  

[Left side, vertical]
115018
Boynton
26373

160

26.373
160
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Hon George C Whiting
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C. 

[left, vertical]
Danl McDonald
dec
30933-160
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Hon L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C. 

[vertical, left]
174.430
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STATE OF New York 
Cayuga County Cler's office. 

I hereby certify that J.H. Wethey before whom the annexed Deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Notary public in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly elected and authorized to take the same, and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine. 

In Testimony Whereof, I hereto set my hand and affixe the seal of said county, and of the Court of Record thereof, this 4th day of April 1855. And I further certify that I an not interested or concerned in the prosecution or result of this case. 

E.B. Marvin 
County Clerk, of Cayuga County
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[left side]
115018  Act Mar 3
May 33

Martha McDowell
Wid. Daniel McDowell 

Rev. War
Revy pensioner 

W. 160 acr May 22d/ [55?]
Boynton

M.L. Murphey 
Locke, [rest is obscured] 

{right side is on next page]
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[top is on previous page]

April 9th 57 - Lett: to Comr Genl. Land Office entering caveat
- Party recd 30.933 for 160 lett: to agent Locke N.Y. recalling warnt for cancellation.     RDO

May 29/57.  Set to Agt to return Wt without delay   D.P.P.

[Janry?] 5/60  Letter [Carnes?] of Genl Land Office recallting Wt for [cercif] action.  D.P.P.

[obscured] 25/60.  Warrant [filed?] - D.P.P. 

March 22/60  Warrant cancelled and returned to Comm [faded, illegible] assignment forged, was assigned in the name of Martha "McDonald"  [P.L.?]
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Aurora Cay Co. NY. April 1, 1852

Commissioner of Pensions }
Washington}

Sir

Will you furnish me with a copy of the evidence upon with Daniel McDowell (a revolutionary Pensioner) was pensioned - he is dead and I want the evidence to assist in getting pension for his widow 

Respectfully Yours
E.W. Arms
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174430
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Aurora June 18/55

HH Bostwick Esq

Dr Sir- 

I herewith send you declaration Power Atty in the case of Martha McDowell claim for bounty land - 

It revokes the power heretofore given to Mr. Murphey.  That power to him was given under a mistake & contrary to the wishes of the old lady, as I am informed by her & by her son George, which whom she resides. 

Yours Truly
E.W. Arms

P.S. The Jacksons papers will be sent as soon as she receives answers to two letters she has written 

EWA
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Aurora Cayuga Co
NY. Apr 15/60 

Commissioner of Pensions, 

Permit me to call the attention of the Pension Office or land warrant Deparment to my case, which has been lying more than three years & should be disposed of - it is in relatin to Land warrant No. 30.933 issued to Martha McDowell & purchased by me in good faith & without notice that the department has issued one & 4 weeks pension to her.  My papers in relation to this matter were sent to the Department more than 3 years since & H H Bostwick Esq., Auburn  & my agent - nothing seems to have been done by the Department & I am lying out of the use of my money as a caveat is entered against my locating my warrant.
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The other warrant, if issued, is a base fraud- as the warrant I have is the only one Martha McDowell ever saw or assigned, or received any pay for or knew any thing about - 

Unless I am granted relief by the Department soon, I must apply to Congress & see what can be done with the facts there.   Trusting this matter will now receive prompt attention & hoping to be advised soon. 

I am Very Respectfully 
E.W. Arms
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Washington June 19 1860

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting

Dear Sir,

I send you the enclosed letter to ascertain whether you can interfere to aid in the matter referred to by my constituent? 

Respectfully, 
Preston King
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Auburn NY. May 14th 1857 

Hon. Geo C. Whiting
Comr of Pensions, 

Sir

Allow me to call your attention to my letter of the 27th March last, relative to Bounty Land Warrant no 30.933, issued to Martha McDowell, refer application No 174.403. 

Your early reply will be esteemed a favor. 

Yours truly 
H H Bostwick
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Auburn N,Y. June 18th 1855

hon. L.P. Waldo, 
Commissioner of Pensions: 
Sir:  Herewith I send application of Martha McDowell for Bounty Land.  Your early attention to the same will confer a favor upon 
Yours truly, 
HH Bostwick
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174.430
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In the matter of Martha McDowell 
Widow of Daniel N.Y. 

1.  Daniel was a pensioner under Act 1832 at $50 per annum. 

2.  Declaration declares applicant to be his widow and that pension due May 19, 182 - married May 6, 1789. 

3.  Mahitable Davis {interposed:  78 years old] says she witnessed marriage - it took place May 6 1789 - ceremony performed by Miller a Presbyterian clergyman - of Walkill N.Y. where marriage was perfored.  Has heard that Daniel died 19 Jany 1852.  Phebe Van Marter, the olders child is now 61 or 62 years old.  the second child was killed in the War of 1812.   Certified credible. 

4.  Ed. B. Morgan - Member of Congress elect. - certifies that he knew the clamiant from infancy - Their oldest child is now upward of 60 years old.
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174,430
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State of New York  }
County of Cayuga  } ss

On this 16th day of June A.D. 1853, before me, Charles Campbell, a Justice of the Peace within and ofr the County & State of record, personally appeared Martha McDowell, aged 84 years, a resident of the Town of Ledyard in the Coutny and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to lawd, declares that she is the widoe of Daniel McDowell who was a private in the Revolutionary War.  That she is now in receipt of a pension from the United States, on account of the Revolutionary services of said Daniel McDowell who was also a pensioner of the United States and that the following is a copy of the original certificate in her possession.  To wit: 

" Department of the Interior
"Widows Pension
"I certify that in conformity with the Act of July 29, 1845, Martha McDowell widow of Daniel McDowell 
"who was a private in the Revolutionary war, is in
"scribed on the pension list at the rate of fifty "Dollars, and cents per annum, commencing 
"on the 19th of January 1852 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 Department of the Interior
"this twelfth day of October One 
"Thousand Eight hundred and 
"fifty three.
"R McClelland
"Secretary of the Interior
"Examined & Countersigned
"L.P. Waldo
"Commissioner of Pensions. 
"Recorded in the Pension office on the roll of Pensions
"and Act February 2d, 1848, page 70 Vol. A
"G.S. Getty, Clerk
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and she further declares that she is the identical person named in said Certificate, that proof of her marriage to said Daniel McDowell, and proofs of his death, were made at the time of her application for the aforesaid pension, and filed in the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions - that she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of the said Daniel McDowell, that she now resides in the Town of Ledyard aforesaid and has resided there for the space of 32 years and that pervious thereto she residened in the Two of Scipio in said County of Cayuga & previous thereto she resided at Newburgh in the County of Orange & State of New York - 
She makes this declration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be engigled under the act approved the 3d day of March 1853.  

Martha McDowell 
her X mark 

We Ebenezer W. Arms and Daniel L. Avery resident of the Two of Ledyad in the County of Cayuga in the Stae New York, under oath declare that the foregoing Declration was signed and acknowledged by Martha McDowell in our presence and that from a long and intimate acquaintance with her and her family, we know that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that she is a widow.  
Ebenezer W. Arms
Daniel L. Avery 

The foregoing declaration & affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first here-ntofore written, and I certify that I know the affi-ants to be credible persons; and that from very own knowledge of her I know her to be the same person she represents herself to be; and I further certify that I have no interest in this claim. 
Chas Campbell   Justice of the Peace
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Power of Attorney

Know all Men by these Presents:  That I, Martha McDowell of the County of Cayuga in the State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint HENRY H. BOSTWICK, of the City of Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my behalf to prosecute my claim for whatever Bounty Land I may be entitled, on account of the military services of Daniel McDowell in the service of the United States; and to receive such Certificate or Warrant as may be issued, and appoint one or more attorneys under him, for the purposes aforesaid, hereby revoking any power of attorney which may have been heretofore given, and confirming all things that my said attorney, or attorneys, may lawfully do in the premises.  

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and sel this 16th day of June A.D. 1855. 
Martha McDowell 
her X mark 

Attest. 
Ebenezer W. Arms
Daniel L. Avery 

Acknowledge and subscribed fefore me the day and year last above written, 
Chas Campbell   Justice of the Peace

State of New York }
Cayuga County } ss
County Clerk's Certificate.  
I hereby certify that Charles Campbell before whom the foregoing acknowledgment Declarations and Depositions were taken at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly elected, and authorized to take the same, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine. 
In Testiony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said county and of the Cort of Record thereof, this 18day of June 1857. 
E.B. Marvin
Clunty Clerk of Cayuga County
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Martha McDowell 
Bounty Land Claim No 174,430
Act 3d March 1855
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Auburn NY. March 27th 1857

Hon Geo C Whiting
Commr of Pensions

Sir, 
On or about the 16th of June 1855, Mrs. Martha McDowell, widow of Daniel McDowell made application for Bounty Land.  Claim No 174.430 Act 3rd march 3, 1855 for Revolutionary Services.  Upon which Bounty Land Wart No 30, 933 for 160 acres was issued to her and sent to me.  And on the 9th of July 1856, I delivered it to E.W. Arms Esq. for her.  

On the 30th of Sept 1856 I recd a letter from the Pension Dept. bearing date Sept 24th, 1856 regarding the return of the warrant and stated that Warrant No 26,373 for 160 acres had previously been issued to her and sent to Mr. D. Murphey of Locke, NY. 

In reply I stated that the warrant No 30, 933 had been delivered to E.W. Arms on the 9th of July 1856.  

I have since made inquiries relative to the matter and learn that Mrs. McDowell sold the warrant to George McDowell for $160, on the 14th July 1856.  and that he sold it to E.W. Arms Esq. on the 9th Sept 1856.  

The assignment and acknowledgement are made on the Warrant in regular form, bearing date July 14th 1856  the name of the assignee not inserted but a blank left for insertion, as such assignement are usually made. 

I learn also that Mr. Murfey has in his possession Warrant No. 26,373, and that Mrs McDowell has refused to issue it on account of having receive Warrant No. 30,933.  And declares that she did not understand the interaction with Murfey as an application for Bounty Land, but supposed that it related to her pension.  I am satisfied that when she made the declaration forwarded by me she did not appreciate that she had made a previous application.  She is an old and infirm person and it is probable that Murfy did not explain the matter so as to make her understand it.  

Mr. Arms requests me to make this explanation and request this his rights and interest in the matter may be [legalized?] and allowed  and that the
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Caveat issued may be withdrawn, and the other warrant, No. 26,373 recalled instead of the one held by him which he purchased and paid for without any knowledg of any active warrant having been issued to her or her having made any other applications. 

it is a transaction in which all parties concnered were innorcent of any wrong intention, and I trust that under the circumstances mr. Arms will not be subject to any loss, and that the Caveat will be withdrwarn.  

Your early reply will be esteemed a favor. 

Yours truly, 
H H Bostwick
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Aurora Cayuga Co N.Y. March 13th 1852

Commissioner of Pension 
Washington 

Sir

Daniel McDowell of this Town, who has drwan a pension of $50 per annum for some years past, died on the 19th day of Jany last, leaving his wife, a widow, him surviving - she was married to the Decd prior to 1800 - 

Is she entitled to the same pension per annum from his death, under the acto fo 29th July 1848 - when making the necessary proof?  If not, to what pension & under what act is she entitled?  An early answer from your department will much oblige me. 

Respectfully Yours, 
E.W. Arms
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Jan 31/35
Martha McDowell, 
Widow of Daniel McDowell,
Rev. Pension 
N.Y. 
Act 20 July 1848

Jan 31/53
Cole
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Washington D.C. 
Jany 31, 1853

Sir, 
I enclose the  claim of Martha McDowell, widow of Daniel McDowell, for a pension under the act of July 29 1848

Respy &c
S.J. Bowen


Hon. J.E. Heath 
Com of Pension
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[illegible]
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Pension Office
October 10, 1853

Sir, 

Danl. McDowell - New York Rolls - Act June 7, 1832 - pensioned at the rate of $50 per Annum. 

Please state to what time paid and if dead. 

Very Respectfully
L.P. Waldo 
Commissioner
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Auburn NY. Sept 30th/56

Hon J Minot
Comr of Pensions, 

Sir, 
In reply to yours of the 24th inst relative to 160 acre Wt. No 30933 issued to Martha McDowell, widow of Daniel McDowell, requesting its return on account of Wt No 26373 having been previously issued, through the agency of D Murfey of Locke, NY.  I would say that I delivered it to E.W. Arms Esq. of Aurora, Cayuga Co NY on the 9th July 1856, at which place Mrs. McDowell resides. 

Yours truly, 
HH Bostwick
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Auburn NY. May 4th 1858

Hon Geo. C. Whiting
Comr of Pension 

Sir

 Mr. E.W. Arms has placed in my hands the accompanying proofs in the Case Martha McDowell, widow of Daniel McDowell, Bounty Land Claim No 174,430, Act 3 March 1855, with the request that I should forward them to be considered in connection with former com-munications upon the subject of the issue of two warrants in the case.  I am satisfied that a fraud has been practiced upon Mrs. mcDowell and the Department by parties having possession of the warrant issued through the agency of Mr. Murfey.  And that Mr. Arms purchased the one issued through my agency in good faith, and without any knowledge of the issue of another.  And I am informed that the one issued through teh agency of Murfey bears a date subsequent to that issued through my agency (notwithstanding the former bears the highest number.    With the proofs now presented and the circumstances before you I trust that the Caveat on the one held by Mr. Arms will be removed.   Yours truly 
HH Bostwick
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Brief in the case of Martha McDowell, wid. of Daniel, Orleans County and State of New York 
act July 29, 1848

Claim, ("original," or "for increase") 
Proof exhibited, (if original) 
Is ti documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  if either, state the substance.  

Daniel McDowell was a pensioner, under the Act of 1832 at $50 per annum.  He died as is shown by parol ev-idence and Auditors report on the 19th day of January 1852.  marriage proven by one witness who was present at the ceremony.  Hon. E.B. Morgan, M.C. Clerk, Certifies to an intimate knowledge of the parties & that their oldest child wsa upward os 60 years of age.  Pension allowed at the rate of $50 per annum from Jany 19, 1852 during widowhood.  Payable to widow.

A.H. Evans
Examining Clerk

Name and resident of Agent
J S Bowen
Present
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Martha McDowell 
widow of 
Daniel
N York

July 291848

Private - $50 per annum
From Jany 19th 1852
During Widowhood

Payable to claimant

J. S. Bowen 
Present
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Daniel McDowell Decd

Suspicious

From a lot of suspicious claims by same atty 

this warrant should be corrected before sent to G.L.O. 

[remainder too faint to transcribe]
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Mc
Miscellaneous
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GENERAL LAND OFFICE
Dec 22d 1859 

Sir:  In your letter of Apr 4/57 this Office is desired to without the Patent on Bounty Land Warrant No. 26373 for 160 acres, act March 3, 1855, in the name of Martha McDonald. 

I have therefore to state that the said Warrant is on our files, having been returned by the Register of the Land Office at Red Wing Minn as located by Eliza W Merrill of Goodhue Co., Minn, to whom it appears to hav ebeen regularly assigned.  

the Patent will be withheld until I am further advised by you. 

Very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
SA Smith, Commissioner

To: 
Geo C Whiting Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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General Land Office
March 2, 1864

Hon Jos H Barrett
Comr of Pensions - 

Sir- 
Under date of Jany 13/60  B.L. Wt Act/55 No 26373 for 160 acres, was enclosed to you for examination & action thereon as per your letter of Jan'y 5/60 & Caveat of Apl 9/57 on file in this Office.  

Said Warrant was returned as located at Red Wing, Minn. Nov. 11/56 & I have to ask an examination of the case & action thereon with a view to an early return of the warrant to the files of this Office. 

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J M Edwards
Commissioner
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Locke N.Y. 
May 4th 1857

Sir

I have just received your favor of 29th ult. I was abroad a short time the fore part of April last but on my return, I found your favor of the 9th which I immediately answered. to wit, on the 27th.  Why the same has not reached you I am ignorant of the Cause.   Again, I answer as before that said Warrant was delivered to the person to whom it was issued a very short time after it came into my hands, something like a year ago - she sold and duly conveyed the same as I supposed she had a perfect right to do, and knew nothing to the contrary until I receive yours of the 9th April in which you say that the [facts?] having subsequently received a Land Warrant of the same account on a different application.  I had sup-posed that where a Warrant is issued to an applicant entitled to a Warrant that Warrant should have preference over any subsequent issue - Am I not correct?
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i would cheerfully comply with your request by returing said Warrant were it in my possession or in my power to do so - 

I have the honor to be 
Most Respecgfully Your
Obt Servt
M.D. Murphey

To Hon
Geo C Whiting
Comr
Washington
D.C.
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Auburn NY July 5/58

Hon Geo C Whiting
Comr of Pensions

Sir

I am requested by Mr. E.W. Arms, to call your attention to the case of Bounty Land Warrant No 30.933 - 160 acres issued to Martha McDowell, in Bounty Land Claim No. 176.430 Act 3d March 1855, purchased by Mr. Arms of Mrs. McDowell, upon which a caveat was issued on account of another war-rant having been subsequently issued.  Proofs in the matter were forwarded to you by me on the 4th of May last showing that Mr. Arms purchased the warrant in good faith, and without knowledge of the issue of any other.   Notice of the issue of the Caveat was given by your on the 24th Sept/56. and information imme-diately given to you that the Warrant had been delivered to Mr. Arms on the 9th day of July 1856 and further communication was mad on the 29th March 1857.  Mr. Arms is desirous of learning your decision.  
Yours truly, 
H H Bostwick
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Locke, Cayuga Co NY 
May 26 1856

Sir
The application of Martha McDowell widow of Daniel McDowell deceased for Land bounty under the Act March 3d 1855  No. 115.018 has been suspended for Record Evidence of her dead husband's Service in the war of the Revolution.  Please have her claim [illegible] and with applicant the benefit of the Act of May 14, 1856 as she is a pensioner of the U.S. under the Act of 2nd February 1848 at the rate of Fifty Dollars per Annum.  I trust you will find her entitled to Land Bounty. 

When acted upon please forward the [illegible] to me - I am 
Very Respectfully Yours
M.D. Murphey

Hon J. Minot 
Comr of Pension 
Washington D.C.
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Martha McDowell 
Widow of Daniel 
McDowell, decd. 

Rev. Pension 
Act of 29 July 1848

Additional Evidence
S.J. Bowen 
Atty 
Present
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In the matter of the application 
of Martha McGowell, widow of Daniel mcDowell, deceased for a Pension under the act of July 29th 1848

State of New York  }
County of Cayuga  } ss

I, Edwin B. Morgan am a member of Congress-elect, residing at Aurora in the said County, do hereby certifiy that I was personally acquainted with Daniel McDowell in his life time, now decease, and also was personally acquainted with Martha McDowell his wife & now his widow - that I have known them both from boyhood - that they resided from my earliest recollection always about three miles of my residence - That I have known them to live and cohabit as man and wife during all that time - that I am well and personally acquainted with their numerous family of children, most of whom now reside in the said Town of Ledyard and the oldest of whom is now 60 years of age - that I know Martha McDowell, the applicant for a pension in this matter to be the widow of the said Daniel McDowell, Deceased, the latter having died at his residence in said Town of Ledyard on or about the 19th day of January 1852.
Edwin B. Morgan
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Washington City - D.C. 
Sept 17, 1853

Sir, 
Enclosed you will find certifi-cate of Edwin B. Morgan, Member of Congress from Cayuga District, in case of the application of Martha McDowell for a Pension under Act of July 29, 1848

Be pleased to have her claim acted on at your earliest convenience. 
Very Truly, 
S.J. Bowen
[prt?] M Garyenn


Hon. L.P. Waldo 
Co of Pensions
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State of New York 
Cayuga County 

I, Martha McDowell being duly sworn, do depose and say  - that I reside in the Town of Ledyard in the County of Cayuga & State of New York - that I am the widow of Daniel McDowell who was a private in the revolutionary war; and that I am the identical person named as the Grantee in a bounty land warrant issued from the Office of the Commissioner of Pensions of the United States to me, number 30.933 and bearing the date June 23, 1856 for one hundred and sixty acres of land - that said warrant was procured for my by my agents & attornies, EW Arms Esq. of Aurora and HH Bostwick Esq. of the City of Auburn in said County of Cayuga - that at my request and on or about the 9th day of July 1856, said warrant was delivered by said Bostwick to said Arms, who delivered the same to me - that on the 14th day of July 1856, I sold and transferred said warrant by an assignment in writing on the back thereof in due form of law, executed and acknowledged by me, to said Arms who [interposed: on or about the 9th of September 1856] paid me for the same the full market value thereof at that time - that I have never received
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any other warrant whatever, either from M.D. Murphey or from any other person.  That I have never sold or executed any assignment or transfer of any bounty land warrant either to J H Wethey or to any other person except to said Arms as before stated.   - And that I have never received any money or any other value whatever from said JH Wethey or from any other person, except said Arms, or a consideration for the assignement of a bounty land warrant.  That at the time of said assignment to said Arms, I had not seen any other bounty land warrant either in the hands of said Murphey or in the hands of said Wethey or in the hands of any one else, and I did not then know nor had I thn heard that any other warrant had been issude to me, nor do I believe that any other warrant had been issued - That some time after such assignment to said Arms and, as I believe in the month of September 1856, the said M.D. Murphey & J.H. Wethey came to my said residence & said they had got a bounty law warrant for me & I did not see it and told them I had got my warrant from Mr. Arms &
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Mr. Bostwick, and had sold an assignment, and that I had nothing to do with them in the matter, as I was entitled to but one warrant.  I did not then or at any other time, sell or assign any land warrant to either Said Worthey or Murphye - and if my signaure appears to the execution of the assignment of any bounty land warrant, except the said above named warrant number 30.933, which I assigned to said Arms, it was not put to such assignment by me or with my knowledge or consent. 

Martha McDowell
her X mark

Given this 4th day of March 1858 before me 
Chas Campbell Justice of the Peace of Cayuga County
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State of New York  }
Cayuga County } ss

Ebenezer W. Arms of Aurora in said County, being duly sworn, doth depose and say  - that on or about the 9th day of July 1856, at the request of Martha McDowell named in the foregoing affidavit made by her and which is hereto attached, this Deponent, as an agent of said Marth McDowell, receive of HH Bostwick Esq of the City of Auburn the land warrant numbered 30.933 bearing date June 23 1856 issued to the said Martha McDowell for 160 acres of land and procured for her by said Bostwick as her Attorney & agent for that purpose, as mentioned in the affidavit of said Martha McDowell hereto attached - that on the 14th day of July 1856 this Deponent delivered said Warrant to the said Martha McDowell at Aurora aforesaid - that on the same day, to wit July 14th 1856 the said Martha McDowell then & there executed an assignment of the same in due form of law and delivered the same to this Deponent in accordance with an arrangement between this deponent and the said Martha McDowell and her son, George McDowell - that on or about the 9th day of September, 1856, this Deponent paid to the said Martha McDowell the full market value of said land warrant at that time in pursuance of the said arrangement made for the purchase thereof when said warrant was assigned to him before stated - That said purchase was made in good faith on the part of this Deponent and on
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the part of the said Martha McDowell, as this Deponent fully believes - that at the time this Deponent purchased and took an assignment to him of said land warrant he, this Deponent, did not know and had not heard that any other warrant had been issued to said Martha McDowell - and this Deponent further says that he is now the owner & in possession of the said warrant number 30.933 - that said Martha McDowell of whom this Deponent purchased said warrant is wholly irresponsible and entirely unable to refund to this Deponent any part of the purchase money paid by this Deponent for said warrant, by reason whereof this Deponent will lose the whole of said purchase money if said warrant is not declared to be good & valid in the hands of this Deponent as a bona fide purchaser thereof - 

That this Deponent did not know, at the time he purchased said warrant, that any other warrant had been issued to said Martha McDowell, and that he never had any notice or knowledge that any other had been issued to her until after he purchased said warrant no 30.933 - and that he never had any such notice or knowledge until on or about the 1st of October, 1856, and not till after the 30th day of September 1856 - that this Deponent has since been informed that another warrant had been issued, of later date than the said warrant No 30.930, to the said Martha McDowell & sent to M.D. Murfey of Locke, N.Y. 

This Deponent therefore asks that the last
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mentioned warrant, if any such was issued by the Department, may be recalled - or that the caveat against this Deponant's said warrant No. 30.033 may be withdrawn, and said warrant be declared good & valid in the hands of this deponent as a bona fide purchase thereof - 
E W Arms

Sowrn this 27th day of April 1858 before me 
F. G. Day  Justice of the Peace of said County 

State of New York
Cayuga County Clerks office   Edwin B. Marvin Clerk of Said County do hereby certify that Charles Cambpell and F.G. Day Edquires were respectively at the time of talking the foregoing affidavits Justice of the Peace in & for Said County and duly authorized to take the same.  Also that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said justices and verily believe the foregoing to be their genuine signatures 
In Tetimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & official seal this 27th day of April 1858.
E.B. Marvin Clerk 
Cayuga County
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20 Arthur St. 
Binghamton, N.Y. 
June 11, 1921

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 

Can you give me any information regarding a revolutionary soldier?  I have all of this data from famiy words, but need reference to official records.  Kindly forward any reference to the above address.  
And oblige - 
Mrs. Fred W. Mosher
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Revolutionary Soldier
Daniel McDowell
Born. Chatham Corners, Dutchess Co N.Y. - 1756
Died - town of Ledyard, Cayuga Co, N.Y. Jan 19, 1856

At the age of 18 years, Daniel McDowell went as a volunteer into the army, serving under Washington and LaFayette, where he served for two years.