Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7037, William Howell, New Jersey Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE: New Jersey, Penn.
Howell, William
NUMBER: S.7037
Carded
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CONTENTS
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See letter to James Scholl, Pen
Agent, 28. March 1837
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do to Ephraim Pollock Phila
28 March 1837.
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26.317
Pennsylvania
William Howell, dec of Lycoming in the State of Pa. who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Giles of the Regt commanded by Col Martin in the Pennsylvania
 line for Militia
Certificate issued to Nathaniel
Wm Howell & to Hannah Brinten
daughter of Decd for 6 Mo service
Inscribed on the Roll of Penn at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of May 1836 and Sent to Hon J.B. Anthony, H.R.
Arrears to the [word crossed out] 20th March 1853 the time of his death-
$41.77
Revolutionary Claim, Act of June 7, 1832. ]
Recorded by J.T. Sprague, Clerk
Book E, Vol. 5 Page 24
N.J. and Pa. July 26, 1904
Records completed
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State of Pennsylvania, County of Lycoming SS
On this 21st day of September, AD 1832, personally appeared before John Cumming Esq., one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Lycoming, William Howell, resident of the Township of Moreland, County of Lycoming & State of
Pennsylvania, aged Eighty-two years, who being first 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 11th, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as hereunto Stated.
When I was called into service, I resided in the County of Sussex & State of New Jersey. About the first of August 1776, I was drafted for one
month. I marched to Amboy under Captain Dudder and placed under General Messer.
Some time in October following, I was drafted one month and marched to South Amboy under Captain Shaver and Colonel Thomson's regiment.
  Sometime in February following, I was drafted for one month to go to Springfield under Captain Allen in Colonel Martin's regiment. While there, I went out in a scouting party under Cap Allen between Spanktown and
Elizabeth Town. We met with a party of the British and had a smart engagement. We took about thirty prisoners and took them into camp, and the next day took them to Morris Town.
 In May following, I was drafted for one month to Pompton and served under Cap Shaver and Colonel Soward's regiment and General Heard's division.
A few days after I returned home, I volunteered
for one month to go to Peramus [Paramus] and served under Capt. Cartright and under Cornel [Colonel] Die General Heard's Division.
I was sent out as one of a party under Lieutenant Aste's
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State of Pennsylvania
Lycoming County SS
I, J. Wood Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Lycoming, do certify that the Honorable John Cummings, before whom the within proceedings purport to have been taken, was at that time & now is an appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Lycoming, duly commissioned & qualified agreeably to Constitution & laws of Pennsylvania, & that full faith and credit are due & ought to be given to all his official acts, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County
Williamsport the 6th day of October A.D. 1832
J. Wood, Prothonotary
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to Hackensack and Bergin [Bergen] and we took three prisoners.
In September following, I was drafted for one month and marched through Trenton to Whitemarsh in Pennsylvania under Cap Giles Colonel Hankison's regiment, General Furman's
Division and lay there a few days until the Battle at Germantown, in which I was engaged.
Some time in December following, I volunteered to drive team under John E. Haslet, Wagon Master, at the Valley Forge in Pennsylvania under Cornel Biddle, and most of the time were employed Between Wilmington,
the head of Elk, and the Valley Forge.
After the above time expired, I volunteered under John E Haslet for one year to drive team, and we were sent to Sussex Court House in the State of New Jersey, and we mostly carted between Easton & New Windsor for about two months. Then we were stationed at Trenton under Major Gorden and most of the time between Trenton & New Windsor.
I was sent one trip up the Delaware river above the [Blue?] Mountain on the frontiers with arms ammunition and clothing
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
William Howell  his X mark 
Sworn and Subscribed the 21st Day of September 1832
J. Wood, Proty

We, Henry Funston Esquire and William Farr, residing in the County of Lycoming, hereby certify that we are well-acquainted with William Howell, who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be 82 years of age, that he  is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides
to have been a Soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Henry Funston
Wm Farr
Sworn and Subscribed the 21st day of September 1832, J Wood, Proty 

And I, the said Judge, do hereby declare my 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 & served as he states, and I further certify that it appears to me that Henry Funston Esquire & William Farr, who have Signed the preceeding certificate, reside in the County of Lycoming, are credible and that their statement is entitled to credit
John Cummings
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1  where & in what year were you born
     I was born in the State of New Jersey in the year 1750
2 have you any record of your age
and if so, where is it
     I have in the family bible at my Son in laws
     Nathaniel Brittains in this County

3 where were you living when called in to Service where have you lived Since the revolutionary war and where do you know live
     when called into Service I lived in [illegible] County in the State of New Jersey untill after the war when I Came to Lycoming County where I now reside
4 how were you Called into Service were you Drafted did you volunteer or was you a Substitute for  & whom
     I was Drafted and volunteered, as is stated in my declaration hereto annexed
5 State the names of Some of your officer who were with the Troops where you Servid [served] Such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recalect [recollect] and the General circumstances of your Service
     Generals Sherman Musser & Herd Carnels [Colonels] Menten - Die Hankison & Biddle as I have hereintofore stated ~-- ~--  ~-- ~-- ~----
State the names of persons to whom you are Known in your present Neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your Services as a Soldier of the revolution, To this I answer that I am known to Henry Funston ^Esquire and William Farr, both long resident inhabitants of the neighborhood in which I live --, whose certificates are hereto annexed
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No 24334
Wm Howell
Lycoming Co
Pennsylvania

Adm 6. Months
Claimant decd = the
papers within for
the heirs _____
With New proof


Hon. J. B. Anthony
HR
[the remaining script is crossed out and hard to read]
H Funston
[illegible] Pa. Office
Lycoming Co.
Pennsylvania
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Sir:
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,
183
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
___________________________________________
A Statement shewing the service of Wm Howell Lycoming Co Pennsylvania
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[the following is a printed chart with the information written in:]
Period when the service was rendered.|Duration of the claimant's service.Years.|Months.|Days. | Rank of the claimant. | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the services. | Proof by which the declaration is supported.
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drafted Aug 1776 | - | 1 [checkmark] | [blank] | Private | Captn Dudder | 82 Years | living witnesses  traditional evidence ---
drafted Oct~ 76 | - | 1 [checkmark} | [blank] | Genrl Messer | [illegible] 
drafted Febry 77 | - | 1 [checkmark] | [blank] Captn Shaver | Co H. Londey {blank}
drafted May 77 | 1 [checkmark} | blank | blank] | Col Johnson | [blank} | [blank]
Vol.  _ _ | [blank] | Captn Allen |[blank] | [blank]
Col Martin
drafted Sept 77 | - | 1 [checkmark] | [blank] | [blank} | Captn Shaver | [blank] | [blank]
Vol Dec 77 |time not stated | Teamster | Col Seward | [blank] | [blank]
vol _ __ | 1 [checkmark] | [blank] | [Blank] \ [blank] | Genrl Heard [the remaining names are all in the column entitled "Name and rank of the field officer under whom he served.":]
Captn~ Chartright
Genl Hand
Capt~ Giles &
Col Hankison
Genrl Ausman 
     I am, respectfully,
     Your obedient servant, J. L. EDWARDS,
     Commissioner of Pensions. 
John Haslet Waggon Master,
Col Biddle
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2 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, etc., teamsters, boatmen, etc. 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, mucicans or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a court of record where such applicant resides. And every court having by law a seal and clerk is considered a court of record.
Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. State, territory, or district of, county of ss. 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 © years, who being first duly sworn, according to the 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:
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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 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, 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 service, and if so, by whom, 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 in 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 opinions of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -- one of whom should be the nearest clegyman, 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 certiy, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
     The traditionary evicence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declarations of the party. And the Courts re 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 service of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832, and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

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     [a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
     [b] The declarant mush make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient for not conforming to the rule.
     [c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
     [d]
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7037.
Revo War [checkmark]  INVALID.
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File No. 7037
William Howell
Priv. Rev. War
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Act:  June 7th,, 1832

Index:-- Vol. 1 st , Page 177

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Philadelphia. March 4th: 1837

Sir,
     Pleas to send to me the nessessarey [necessary] order for drawing the enclosed pension, as objections is made more than six months having elapsed since application,  see date of certificate
     Direct to the Case of Thomas Sutter 3d-.. & Vine Sts-.. Philadelphia as soon as posable [possible] & oblige 
your Obedient Servent [Servant]
Ephraim Pollock
Commissioner }
of Pensions    }
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I J Wood Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Lycoming do Certify that I am personally acquainted with the persons whose names are signed to the written Certificate & that they are highly reputable Citizens whose assertions are entitled to full credit
Williamsport Dec. 3rd 1832          J.Wood
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We the undersigned inhabitants of Lycoming County and living in the neighbourhood of the above petitioner (William Howel) for upwards of twenty years past, have no hesitation in certifying that he is a man of Steady habits & his veracity has never been disputed in the neighbourhood where he resides and that we concur in the above declaration as we have heard him relate the Same year ago

Moreland Township
october 1st 1832
Richard B.. Farr
Moses Crawford
John D Smith
William Chamberlin
Johathen Smith 
Isreal Ludlow
Henry Funston
Jacob Snyder
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Collumbia County SS
     personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of he peace in and for the County of Columbia ~ Peter Sorter an aged and infirm Man, who upon his Solemn oath doth Depose and Say that to the best of his Recollection he was in company with William Howel the above aplicant [sic] at Pumpton [Pompton] in the State of New Jersey and at Germintown [Germantown] battle, Pennsylvaniia and the said aplicant [applicant] had just left Parramas as this Deponent arrived there, & the two first named plus [?] were both in the Service of the United States together  & further this deponant Saith not:
Peter Sarter
Sworn and Subscribed 
before me the 8th day of
October A.D. 1832

State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County Ss  I Jacob Eyerly Prothonotary of the Court of Commpleas [Common Pleas] in and for said County DO Certify that John F. Derr before whom the above affidavit was made and whose name is thereunto subscribed is now and was at the time of his taking said affidavit an acting Justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified as such for said County to all of whose acts full faith and credit is and of right ^ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and Subscribed my name the nineteenth day of February A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three
     For Jacob Eyerly, Proth y
          David Peterkin
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Lycoming County Pa
     Personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid Henry Funston Esqr.. [illegible] on his oath Saith that he was acquainted with Wm.. Howell, an applicant for a pension, and the act of June, 1832 for the last thirty years before his death that he died the 20th.. March 1833~ that he has left no widow, but has two Sons, Nathaniel and William, and one daughter named Hannah Brinton, and further Saith not ---
     Sworn and Subscribed}
before me this 22nd day}    Henry Funston
of April A.D. 1834 ----}
P Vanderbilt Jr   J.P.

State of Pennsylvania}
Lycoming County }  SS: ---
     I, Joseph Wood, Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid, hereby certify that Peter Vanderbelt Esq. is a magistrate as aforesaid and that the above Signature purporting to be his is genuine
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my ["hand" is crossed out] name and affixed the Seal of he Said Court this 22nd.. day of April Anno Domini 1834 -------
   For J. Wood Proty.
   R McClintock
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I J B Anthony do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Henry Funston Esq within named & know him to be a gentleman of truth & veracity & believe his statement entitled to full faith & credit.  
JB Anthony
Washington City
April 30th. 1834
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State of Pennsylvania }
Lycoming County    }    Ss
     Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, Henry Funston Esquire, who on his oath doth depose and Say that he drew up the declaration of William Howell, (which was forwarded to the war department, in 1833, and returned in the [illegible] of Same year in consequences of want of precision in the Statement of the different times of said applicant's Service __ and after the death of the applicant who died in March of Said year) and that the applicant before writing Said declaration, gave him a history of his Services, and all the particulars of which he took notes, and afterwards wrote Said declaration from the notes --that after the return of the declaration from the pension office he referred to the notes and found on them a particular Statement of the length of time he was in  Service each particular period _ and from his own recollection he found that it was an error in him that the length of service was not stated with certainty as it had been clearly related by the applicant ___ and from his notes and recollection he is [aithy?] answered the objections forwarded from the Department with the Said declaration as follows _ that - in 1777, December ^the applicant volunteered as a teamster for one month under John C. Hasslet waggon master at Valley forge in Penna. under Colonel  Biddle, and was detained Six Months
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between Wilmington, the head of Elk River and Valley Forge ---
    In answer to Second objection he Says that applicant Said he volunteered again after the expiration of the above times, in June 1778 for one year to drive team under the Same John C. Hasslet - and was sent to Sussex Court House in New Jersey and mostly carted between Eastern Penna. and New Windsor N.J. - For two months he was stationed at Trenton under Major Gordon, but most of the time between Trenton and New Windsor- he was sent one  trip up the Delaware River above the Blue Mountain over the frontiers with arms and ammunition and Clothing - and that he served out the full time of one year in different places Making all the time of his Service during the Revolutionary War amt to two years
Sworn and Subscribed } 
before me this 26th day }   Henry Funston
of March A.D. 1834   }
Peter .. Dimm
State of Pennsylvania}
Lycoming County  }  Ss
I, Joseph Wood, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid, hereby certify, that "Peter Dimm, Esquire , is a magistrate as aforesaid and that the above Signature purporting to be his is genuine 
     In testimony whereof I have herewith
     Set my hand and affixed the 
     Seal of the Said court this 
     day of March A.D. 1834 -----
          J. Wood Prothy.
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26.337
[stamp] PHILADA Mar 4 [illegible]
Wm Howell Jr
[Mark Pardi?]
Commishoner [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington City