Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5304, William Howlitt, Ga.
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Service                           Number
GA Howlitt, William       R5304
                   Elizabeth
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No 38. 274
Declaration of Elizabeth Howlitt for a Pension

Wm Howlett: decd
Ind:
Act 7 June 1832.

Sat Jany 3/ [crossed out]
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State of Indiana
Ripley County
On this 30th day of September AD 1851 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly authorised by law to administer oaths personally appeared Elizabeth Howlitt aged fifty five years a resident of Ripley County Inda. who being first duly sworn makes the following declaration in order to obtain a pension on account of the services of her late husband. That she is unable from sickness and debility to appear in open court and that she is the widow of the identical William Howlitt who volunteered in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Threadgill and in the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Threadgill his brother during the Revolutionary war. That he joined the company above named at Wadesboro in Anson County North Carolina as a private and that his father Thomas Howlitt was also in the same company, and that her husband served Nine months, being Employed along the line of the Great Pedee river in South Carolina in various skirmishes with the tories and British, and that after faithfully served nine months, he was discharged by his Captain Thomas Threadgill, and that said discharged was destroyed by a fire which consumed his fathers house in Anson County North Carolina where he then resided, And further that there is no one now living by whom she can prove her husbands services, and that her own memory of dates and events has greatly failed by reason of sickness and trouble in her family. And further that her name before her marriage with the said William Howlitt was Elizabeth Vanzant and that she was married to him in Dearborn County Indiana in the year 1813. by Joel De [illegible], and that her husband William Howlitt died in Ripley County Inda on the 13th June 1843 and was in his eighty fourth year when he died. That she [illegible] to the records of the War Deparment to corroborate her statement as to her husbands services and that he never applied for a Pension in his life time though
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often requested so to do by his old acquaintances who were acquainted with his military services and that she hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension and annuity except the present and that her name is the name of her husband is not on the pension Agency of this or any other State and that she has never since been married. Elizabeth X her mark Howlitt

Sworn in and subscribed before me this 30th day of September A.D. 1851 and I do hereby certify that the above named Elizabeth Howlitt is the widow of the late William Howlitt and that I was acquainted with him in his life time and have heard him recount his military services in substance as stated in the above declaration of Elizabeth Howlitt, and that the said William Howlitt had always in his neighborhood the reputation of being an old Revolutionary Soldier, and that it is my belief that the above declaration of Elizabeth Howlitt is fully entitled to credit. Given under my hand and seal this day and year above states. 
Philip Anthony 
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana
Ripley County
On this 11th day of October A.D. 1851
I do hereby certify that Phillip Anthony before whom the above [illegible] foregiving deposition has been taken was at the time of is  doing an acting Justice of the Peace [illegible] and for said County duly compensated and Sworn and that his signature the [illegible] is [illegible] given under my seal and hand as Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county aforesaid. 
John S.S. Gunter, Clerk.
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[illegible][Pen]sion on file in this Bureau. William Howlett Ref. 5304

Dates of Enlistment of Appointment| Length of Service| Rank| OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED./ Captain| Colonel| State

9mos| Pvt| *Thomas Threadgill| William Threadgill |Ga

*his father Thomas Howlitt served in same Co.

Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [check mark]
Date of application for pension, Sept. 30. 1851 
Residence at date of application, Ripley Co. Ind.
Age at date of application, 55 years
Remarks: Soldier married in Dearborn Co. Ind. in 1813, Elizabeth Vanzant and died in Ripley Co. Ind. June 13, 1843 aged 83 years.

The claim was not allowed as soldier's service was not proved and clmt was married subsequent to 1800, whereas the pension law required that she should be married prior to that date.

Very respectfully,
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1909 Jany 23 Hist. to Fred
C. Foster V.L.M.
Act of July 14, 1962, and March, 1873. [crossed out]
REJECTED
53.04
William Howlett
Service: Elizabeth
Enlisted: _______________,18
Discharged: _______________, 18
Application filed: ____________, 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney
[illegible]. O.
_________ Recognized. __________ Contract.
[illegible]. Searched for
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3-871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L.D.L [handwritten]
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier Wm Howlett [handwritten]
Service
Additional Service Rev. War [handwritten]
No ____ claim, State records _______, 190__
No claim, combination records _______, 190__
REMARKS:
No claim, except Rej. #5304 this one
ii #5305 Vt.
0-8  Chief Division
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No. 38. 274
[illegible]
Inda
Act 7th June, 1832
To [illegible] 1852
J 304
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Commissioner of Pensions
Sir  I enclose the Declaration of Elizabeth Howlitt for your examination. She applies for a Pension, and I would be glad to learn the result at as early a day as practicable.
Most Respectfully
J.H. Langtree
Napoleon Ind.
Oct. 13. 1851
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Copy [underlined]
Pension Office Jany 3. 1852
Sir: The declaration of Elizabeth Howlet wid of William
of Ind. for a pension has been examined and filed.
Having been married to her husband subsequent to the year
1800. She has no claim in her own right, but if he served as stated by her, he would have been enlisted under the act of 7 June 1832 up to the time of his death which amt she may recover if she can establish his service. It is supposed however that he did not perform as much as 6 mos. or he would have applied for a pension in his life time, having lived 11 yrs. after the passage of the law granting it to him. He could then probably have proved it by comrades who served with him. It cannot now be admitted without the proof required in all such cases.
I enclose instructions under that act, that you
may see the kind of evidence we require
with the remark that you may possibly find
some evidence of it from the Comptroller
of N. C.
The marriage must be proven.
J. H. Langtree
Napoleon, Ind.
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Div.
Ex'r.
No.
Co. Regt.
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Return this letter with your reply.
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C. 188
Copy of letter
to L. H. Langtree
Jany 3, 1852
188
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Rec [handwritten] Enc [handwritten]
F.C. Foster
Attorney-at-Law
613 Burr Blk.
Lincoln, Neb., 1/5/1909.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir:
I would like to inquire if your office has any record and if so what it is, of the service of William Howlett. He served in the revolutionary army under a Captain Threadgill. Threadgill seems to have Captain in the 3rd Georgia Regiment.
I am making this inquiry for my grand-mother who is a daughter of William Howlett.
Respectfully yours,
Fred C. Foster [handwritten]