Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10113, John How, Continental Virginia General Waynes Indian Campaign 1794. Enlisted In Maryland
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SERVICE
Continental
Virginia
General Waynes Indian
Campaign 1794.
CONTENTS
Enlisted in Maryland

How John
or 
Howe
Rachel

NUMBER
W. 10113
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Notification sent January 8. 1841 to
Benjamin Hardin, Hos of Reps U. States

10,787
Kentucky

John How
4
of Hardin Co. in the State of Kentucky
who was a Sergeant in the regiment of riflemen commanded by
Colonel Rawlings of the ____
line, for the term of 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 19th of September 1818-

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of May, 1819.
and sent to Alfred Metcalf, Esqr
Bardstown, NY.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 5.12/30.4/31  44.23
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48.00
$92.23

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Not entitled
Hardin County
-
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Rejected
Payable to
Jacob K. Hedden
Admin for the sole
use & benefit of
Sarah Hedden
Abraham Howe
David Howe
Isabel Thomas
Rachel Pindell
Eleanor Goodman
Isaac Howe
Jacob Howe
only living Children

Indiana 8444 N Albany
Rachel Howe (illegible)
widow of John Howe
Conn
who was a Sergeant
in the Revolution
Husband died16 May, 1836

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
120 Dollars ______
Cents per annum, to commence
the 4th day of March, 1843. and 
ending ?th Sept 1844 when she died.

Certificate of Pension issued
11th day of Dec 1848
and sent to J. P. Cooper esq
Present

(Acts of March 3, 1843, and June
17, 1844.}
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 218
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Nancy Sherly was born the 22d day of May 1814
James Howe was born the ? day of October in the year 1814
Isaac Howe was born December 26 1816
[illegible]
Elizabeth Howe was born the 25 of March 1821
How, John Cont No W10113
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Isaac Howe was born the 12 day of August 1797
Jacob Howe was born the first day of May 1799
David Howe was born the 27 day of January 1801
Eleanor Howe was born the 15 day of November 1802
Isabel Howe was born the 1 day of May 1806
Elizabeth Howe was born the 8th day of February 1808
was born second day of February 18
Moriah Howe was born November the 7 1815
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John Howe
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A
Sarah Howe was born the 6th day of August 1783
Anne Howe was born the 28th day of October 1785
Mary Howe was born the 7th day of November 1786
James Howe was born the 15th day of April 1787
Elizabeth Howe was born the 12th day of June 1789
Milcah Howe was born the 25th day of October 1790
Abraham Howe was born the [illegible] June 1792
William Howe was born the 25th day of June 1794
Rachel Howe was born March the 17 1796
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No 12,563
act 4 3 nov 43
Rachel Howe ded
widow of John
Ill
act 7 July 1838

Hon S. Breese
Senate NY
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State of Indiana
⎬
Harrison County Set. 

I Henry W Heth, Clerk of the Probate
court, of the County of Harrison, in the State of Indiana, do 
certify that administration of the goods, chattels, rights, credits,
moneys and effects, which were of Rachel Home late
of the said county, deceased, who died intestate, is granted
unto Jacob R Hedden, and the said Jacob R. Hedden
is authorized to administrator the same according to law
his having qualified and given bond as such 
administrator, at the Request of the heirs of said deceased.
Witness my hand, and the seal of said
court, the Eighteenth day of February
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-six.
W. W. Heth Clerk

State of Indiana
Harrison County SS

I Henry W. Heth Clerk of the Probate
Court in and for said County, do certify that Jacob R. Hedden
named in the above copy of his letters of administration, on the
estate of Rachel Home, late of said county, deceased, is duly
authorized to act in that capacity, on said estate; and that it
has been proved to my satisfaction, that the said Rachel Home 
is the widow of John Home, Deceased, late of Hardin County 
Kentucky & that she left the following named children, who are now
supposed to be living, viz. " Sarah Hedden, Abraham Howe, David
Howe. Isabel, Thomas, Rachel Pindell, Eleanor Goodman, Isaac
Howe, & Jacob Howe. Given under my hand this 18th
day of February A.D. 1846
H W Heth Clerk
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State of Indiana
Harrison County
On the eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six personally appeared before the probate court in and for the county of Harrison and state of Indiana (the court judicially sitting + being a court of record) Jacob R. WIdden a resident of the said county of Harrison, aged twenty six years past, who being first duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled " An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows", also the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed March 3, 1843 + June 17, 1844 amendatory and in continuation thereof. That he is the identical person and administrator of the estate of Rachel Howe, deceased, named and specified in the letters of administration hereto above attached issued by the probate court in and for the country of Harrison and state of Indiana. 
That the said Rachel Howe now deceased, was the widow of one John Howe, now deceased, who was a Sargeant in the army of the Revolution. That the said John Howe, as well as the declarant is informed and belonged to the Maryland troop with the regular Continental Line state troop. That the said John Howe enlisted in the early part of the Revolutionary War, he belonging in said troop to some for three years, from or about the 22nd day of July 1776 and as he [illegible] in the company commanded by Captain Alexr Lamson Smith, who appears to have been afterwards promoted to Assistant Commander of the remains of Rawlings Regiment of Riflemen and to which it is believed the said John Howe also belonged.
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That the said John Home, served his time out, under that
enlistment, & was discharged at Hartford Town Maryland
on or about the 29th August 1779 by the said Alexer
Lawson Smith.

That the said John Home, was a pensioner
of the United States, at the rate of $96 a year, as this
declarant is informed & believes, & was placed on the
Kentucky Pension Roll, in which state he resided at the
time: The said John Home's pension for some reason
unknown to this declarant, was stopped or suspended, And
that afterwards, viz, about the 1st of March 1824, he was
again restored to the Pension list, and drew his money
at Lexington & Louisville Kentucky, until the time of his
death, or newly so.

He further declares, that the said Rachel Home (whose
maiden name was Pindell) was married to the said
John Howe on or about the 26th or 27th day of July
in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two, by
publication, by one Mr Taylor, a Baptist Preacher, at a
place then called catfish Camp, now in Washington
County in the State of Pennsylvania.

That her husband the said John House, died on the 16th day
of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty in Hardin
County, in the State of Kentucky, as he is informed & believes
where he lived for several years before his death &
previous thereto he resided in Shelly County, Kentucky
formerly in Jefferson County, Kentucky, & previously
in what was called the Redstone Country in Pennsylvania
after the war & at, before & after his said marriage
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the
service; but the marriage took place previous to the first
of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four viz:
at the time above stated.
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He further declares, that the said Rachel Howe lived
& remained the widow of the said John Howe with
intermarriage until she died. And that the said Rachel
Howe, afterwards, died on the third day of September
in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four in
Harrison County, in the State of Indiana, where the
had lived, for thirteen years past, previous to her death 
& previously the resided in Hardin County, Kentucky 
after the death of her said husband, as aforesaid
That the said Rachel Home now applied for her 
pension, as the widow of the said John Home after
his death, & during her life of widowhood, as aforesaid
And that the said Rachel Howe never applied for her 
pension, as the widow of the said John Howe, after
his death & during her life of widowhood, as aforesaid.
And the said Rachael Howe died intestate, and
left the following named children, who are now beloved
to be living, to wit: "Sarah Hedden, Abraham Howe,
David Howe, Isabel Thomas, Rachel Pindell,
Eleanor Goodman, Isaac Howe & Jacob Howe.
This declaration is made to obtain the pension money due
the said Rachel Home Decd for the benefit of her said
children.  And that this declarant has no documentary
evidence in his possession of the proof of the marriage of the
said John Howe & Rachel Pindell, nor any family
record of their marriage or of the births of their children,
but is informed & believes there is a family Record of the
births of their children, in the possession of one John
Goodman in the state of Kentucky in Hardin County.
J. R. Hedden

Sworn to in open gent &
subscribed this 18th day of February
1846

W. W. Heth Clerk
Administrator
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State of Indiana ⎬
Harrison County

I Henry W. Heth Clerk of the
Probate Court, in and for said
County, do certify, that the
foregoing declaration of Jacob H. Hedden as administrator
of the estate of Rachel Howe decd contains the original
proceedings of said court, in the matter of his application
for the pension due the said Rachel Howe up to the
time of her death
In testimony whereof I have 
subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said court, at my
office at Corydon, this 18th day of
February A.D. 1846.
H. W. Heth
Clerk

State of Indiana
Harrison County
I Henry W. Heth Clerk of the Probate
court in and for the County of Harrison and State of Indiana
do certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited
& given to said court this day, (the same being a court
of Record & judicially sitting) that Rachel (illegible)
died on the 3 day of September 1844, in the said
County of Harrison, that she was the widow of John
Howe some who are named in the declaration of
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Jacob R. Hedden the administrator of the said
Rachel Howe, Decd hereto annexed, and that 
the said Rachel Howe, left the following named children
to wit, "Sarah Hdeden, Abraham Howe, David Howe,
Isabel Thomas, Rachel Pindell, Eleanor Goodman,
Isaac Howe & Jacob Howe.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name & affixed the
official seal of said court at my
office at Corydon this 18th day
of February A.D. 1846.
H W Heth Clerk
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State of Indiana ⎬ ss
Harrison County

On this 18th day of February A.D. 1846.
personally appeared before me Lewis Jordan one of the
justices of the peace in and for the said County of Harrison
William Crawford, a resident of said county, aged
Seventy four years past, who being by me first
duly sworn, according to law, upon his oath, says that he
Resided in the County of Shelby and State of Kentucky, in the
year 1790, and about that time became acquainted with
John Howe & Rachel Howe, the pensioner & persons
named in the declaration of Jacob R. Holden the administrator 
of the said Rachel Howe, decd, said hereto annexed, that he
became personally acquainted with the said John & Rachel
Howe about the year 1790, as aforesaid, & knew them
both well up to the time of their deaths: that the said
John & Rachel, as he then understood, had moved from
(illegible) in Pennsylvania, to Jefferson County Kentucky &
from there to Shelby County, Kentucky that they were then
living together as man & wife, & had when he first knew
the aforesaid at least four or five children; and that they
lived together as man & wife from that time continually on
up to the time of their deaths, and had served other children
while they lived together: That some of their children are 
dead & that there is yet living of their said children
as well as he is informed and believes, & which he personal
know, viz, Sarah Hadden, Abraham Howe, David
Howe, Isabel Thomas, Rachel Pindell, Eleanor Goodman,
Isaac Howe & Jacob Howe;
That the said John Howe drew a pension while
he lived, in the State of Kentucky, as he understood at
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Louisville & Lexington, at the rate of $96 a year
That the said John Howe died in Hardin County,
Kentucky, on or about the 16th day of May A.D. 1830.
That the said Rachel Howe, his widow, Remained his
widow & new intermarried; & that she removed to
Harrison County, Indiana about thirteen years ago last
fall; And that the said Rachel Howe, died in
Harrison County, in the State of Indiana, about the
third day of September in the year 1844.
William Crawford

Sworn to & subscribed before 
me this 18 day of February
A.D. 1846
Lewis Jordan J. P.

I Lewis Jordan the justice of the Peace before
whom the foregoing affidavit of William Crawford was
this day made, do certify, that the said William Crawford
is a person of truth respectability & credibility, and that
his statements are entitled to credit, which I certify from
my own personal knowledge.  Given under my hand
this 18th day of February A.D. 1846.
Lewis Jordan JP.
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State of Indiana
Harrison County.

Henry W. Heth Clerk of the
circuit court, in and for the County of Harrison and
State of Indiana, do certify that Lewis Jordan
whose official signatures appear to the foregoing affidavit
and certificate of credibility of William Crawford,
now is and was on the day of the date thereof an
acting justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly
commissioned & qualified, that full faith and credit
due his official acts. & that his said signatures
thereto are genuine.  
In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto subscribed my name ┃
and affixed the official seal
of said court at my office
at Corydon this 18th day 
of February Anno Domino1846.
H.W. Heath Clerk
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John How's
certificate
Sergeant
Col Rawlings Regiment
1776- 3 years
19th Sept. (illegible)

Admitted
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State of Kentucky
Hardin County
and Circuit. ss
On this nineteenth day
of September 1818, before me Alfred 
Metcalf Circuit Judge in and for the fifth 
judicial district of Kentucky, and sole judge
of the Hardin circuit court in said district
personally appeared John How aged sixty
four years resident in the County of 
Hardin aforesaid, who being by me first duly
sworn according to law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order
to obtain the provision made by the late
act of congress entitled "an act to provide
for certain persons engaged in the land
and naval service of the United States in
the revolutionary war: That he the said
John How, enlisted in the State of Maryland
in July 1776 in the company of riflemen
commanded by Alex Lawson Smith in
Rawlings regiment, and that he continued
to serve in said corps or in the service
of the United States until the 29th of 
August 1779 when he was discharged at 
Harford Town in Maryland by the
said Capt Smith & his discharge is hereunto
annexed; that he was in the battles at 
Hinton at the taking of the Hessians, at the 
Capture of Burgoyne & at Monmouth, that
he has never been allowed any pension under
any law of the United States; that he is in
reduced circumstances and stands in need
of the assistance of his country for support,
and that he has no other evidence in his power
of his said services is sworn to and declared
before me in the day & year aforesaid.
Alfred Metcalf
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I Alfred Metcalf Judge as aforesaid do certify
that it appears to my satisfaction that the said
John How did serve in the revolutionary war
as stated in the preceding declaration, against
the common enemy, for the term of three
years on the continental establishment
in continued service, and that he is in
reduced circumstances and stands in need
of the assistance of his country for support,
and I now transmit the testimony and
proceedings taken & had before me to
the secretary for the department of war
pursuant to the directions of the 
aforementioned act of congress - Given
under my hand this 19th day of September
1818-
Alfred Metcalf

I Alfred Metcalf Judge as aforesaid do 
further certify that this day Robert Kinkade
made oath before me that he served with
the said John How for more than two years
in the revolutionary war; that he is well
acquainted with said How & his 
circumstances, that said How is unable from
age & infirmity to labour & has not
sufficient property for his support.
Given under my hand this 19th day
of September 1818
Alfred Metcalf,
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I Samuel Hayescraft Junior Clerk of the Hardin Circuit
Court in the State of Kentucky do certify that Alfred
Metcalf whose signature appears to the foregoing
certificate, was at the time of signing the same and
still is Circuit Judge in and for the fifth Judicial
District of the State of Kentucky and Sole Judge of
the said Hardin Circuit Court in said District
duly appointed and qualified as such and
that due faith and credit is and ought to
be given to all his official acts as such as
well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere- In
Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Circuit all my office in
Elizabeth Town on the 19th day of
September 1878 in the 27th year of the
Commonwealth
Saml Hayescraft

I Alfred Metcalf Circuit Judge in and for the
fifth Judicial District of the State of Kentucky
and sole Judge of the Harden Circuit Court in
said district do certify that Samuel Hayescraft
whose signature appears to the above certificate
was at the time of signing the same, and still
is Clerk of the District Circuit Court aforesaid, duly
appointed & qualified as such, and that his
certificate is in due form of law and that full
faith and credit should be attached thereto
Given under my hand this 19th day of
September 1878 and 27th year of the
Commonwealth-
Alfred Metcalf
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John Howe
10.787
May '19

Not Entitled
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State of Kentucky
Hardin Circuit Sct June Term 1820
Ordered that the following schedule be admitted
to record the same having been sworn to in open

Court Schedule

District of Kentucky Hendin Circuit Ct
on this 15th day of June 1820 personally
appeared in open Court being a Court of
record for the said District John Howe aged
sixty six years resident in Hardin County in
said District who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath declare that
he served in the revolutionary war as follows
Viz in Col Hugh Stinsons regiment of riflemen
which was afterwards commanded by Col
Moses Rawlings in Captain Alexander Loson
Smiths company afterwards drafted in
Colonel Daniel Morgan's rifle company in
Captain Gabriel Longs Company the date of
the certificate is the nineteenth day of September
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
No 10787 and I do solemnly swear that I was a
resident citizen of the United States on the 18th
day of March 1818 and that I have not since
that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed
of my property or any part thereof with intent
thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself
within the provisions of an act of Congress
entitled an act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service
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of the United States in the revolutionary war
passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that
I have not nor has any person in trust for me
any property or securities contracts or debts due
to me nor have I any income other than what
is contained in the schedule hereto annexed
and subscribed by me viz 46 acres of 3d rate
land but the same is disputed and the
title is doubtful 3 horses five cows and three
calves and 4 yearlings two two
year old calves 20 hogs & 10 sheep my occupation
is farming and am really unable to pursue
that having had one of my arms broken my family
consists of my wife Rachel aged fifty eight years
and is a total cripple five years back one
son David aged nineteen also there daughters
Rachel, Eleanor and Isabella Rachel is 20
years Eleanor 16 and Isabella fourteen
all of which one tolerably healthy.
John Howe

The court is of opinion that the total amount
in value of the personal property described
in the foregoing schedule is $24 and it
appearing to the satisfaction of the Court
that the 46 acres is entirely covered by a
prior & better claim the Court is of opinion
that the Claim of said Howe thereto is of use
value whatever
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State of Kentucky
Hardin Circuit Sct SamI uel Haycraft
Clerk of the Circuit Court for the Circuit aforesaid
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and
the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied
from the record of the said Court, and I do
further certify that it is the opinion of the
said Court that the total amount in value
of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule
is Two hundred and fourteen Dollars.

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said
Court this 27th day of June
1820 in the 29th year of the
commonwealth.
Saml Haycraft by
John P Helm

(Seal)
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/ee1

April 15, 1929

J. Edwin Howe
Fulton School
Evansville, Indiana

Sir: I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim. W. 10113, it appears that John How or Howe was born, June 24, 1754, place not stated. He enlisted in the State of Maryland, July 22, 1776, and served as a sergeant in Captain Alexander Lawson Smith's Company, Colonel Hugh Stephenson's Rifle Regiment and Colonel Moses Rawling's Continental Regiment, was in the battle of Trenton, Princeton, Bound Brook, Placataway, and hustle when Burgoyne was captured, after which he was transferred to Captain Gabriel Long's Company, Colonel Daniel Morgan's Virgina Regiment, was in the battle of Monmouth, and was discharged, August 29, 1779, at Harford Town, Maryland, by Alexander Lawson Smith, Captain Commandant of the remains of Rawlings' regiment of rifleman. 

He stated that he was in thirty-two engagements and
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skirmishes and was wounded in the breast by a musket ball
at Chestnut Ridge.

In 1794, he was in General Wayne's campaign as adjutant
in Major Aquilla Whittaker's Battalion.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
September 19, 1818 at which time he was living in Hardin
County, Kentucky. He died there, May 16, 1830.

The soldier married, July 26 or 27, 1782, in Washington
County, Pennsylvania, Rachel Pindell.

Their children were:
Sarah  bers August 6. 1783
Mary " Oct 26, ____
James " April 15, ____
Elizabeth " June 12, ____
Mileah " October 25, 1790
Abraham " June 1, 1792
William " June 25, 1794
Rachel " March 17, 1796
Isaac " August 12, 1797
Jacob " May 1, 1799
David " January 27, 1801
Eleanor " November 15, 1802
Isabel or Isabella " May 1, 1806

The widow, Rachel, died, September 3, 1844, on Harrison
County, Indiana, leaving the following children:
Sarah, wife of John Hadden or Hedden; Abraham Howe,
David Howe, Rachell Pindell; Eleanor Goodman; Isaac Howe;
Jacob Howe.
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They were allowed the pension due their mother.
The following grandchildren are also referred to:
Elizabeth Howe, born February 4, 1808 and Moriah
Howe, born November 7, 1815.

Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commission
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1928-Nov. 24, Photos
to Miss Mae McMichael
M.E.E.

1928 - Dec 7, Photos mailed to
Miss Mae McMichael M.E.E.

1929. Apr. 15. Hist to
J Edwin Howe aug

Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 10113
Rachel Howe
Wid, of
John Howe
Sergt. Rev. War
Act Mch. 13 & June 17th (illegible)
Index: --Vol. A Page 344
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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10515
Indiana 
Rachel Howe decd
Widow of John Howe
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 16th May 1830
of Harrison in the State of Indiana
who was a Sergeant in the company
commanded by Captain _____ of the
Regt commanded by _____ in 
the Revolution for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New Albany
the rate of 120 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of
Dec 1848, and sent to J. P. Cooper
Present

Total amount, $600.00
(Act July 7, 1838.)
Recorded by Th Lumpkin, Clerk
Book D, Vol. 1 Page 425

Reported
Payable to 
Jacob K. Hedden
Admin. for the sole
use & benefit of
Sarah Hedden
Abraham Howe
David Howe
Isabel Thomas
Rachel Pindell
Eleanor Goodman
Isaac Howe
& Jacob Howe
only surviving
Children
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No 12565
Rachael Howe Decd
Ill
Let to Hon Sidney Breese
March 16 '46
same May 11th 1846
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$120 per ann
J.P. Cooper
Present
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Kentucky
John How Sergt
1776 for 3 years

Sched 15 June 1824
Real Estate - 462 acres
3d rate and title doubtful
Personal Property- Total
amt of Sched-- $214.00
the Court certifies that the
land is covered by a prior
claim.  Stock 3 hourse 12 head of cattle 20 (illegible
of hogs, 10 of sheep
stock
house-head of cattle

Sched under act Mar: 1820
to commence 31 Oct 1823
Personal Property $170.25
of which 3 beds are included
value $50.

It appears by a certificate
from the Governor of Kentucky
that the claimant has no
right to the Land given
in sched
over
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age 69 a Farmer
left arm broken & the
Wife 60 yrs
Cripple - 1 Daughter
Healthy son age
not given
-
Chas A Wickliff
Ho. Reps

Restored Mars
1824

Sep 19
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12565
Rachel Howe decd
$120 [illegible]
Set. to J. Cooper
May 27. '47
to same June 19. '47
Set to Ditto Nov. 6. '47
Set to Ditto Decr. 24. '47
t Hon. S Breese March 28 '48
let to J P Cooper Oct. 6. '48
Act 7th July 1838
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Harford Town Maryld [Maryland] 29th Aug 
I do certify that John How Sargeant [Sergeant], inlisted in my Company to serve three years from the twenty second day of July Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six, during which time of service, he behaved himself in such a manner as to gain the esteem of all officers that knew him, and I do Discharge him from all future Services
to the states under that Intestment
Alex Lawson Smith
Commandant of the Remainder
Rawlings's Regmt of the Riflemen
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State of Indiana } SS
Harrison County }
On this Twentieth day of April 1846
personally appeared before me Hugh Neeley one of
the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, Abraham Howe
a resident of said County aged fifty three years on the 1st day
of June 1845 past; who being by me first duly sworn according
to law upon his oath says, that he is the son of John Howe
& Rachel Howe that the said John Howe his father was a
Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, on the Kentucky
Pension Roll and agency & died in Hardin County Kentucky
on the 16th day of May 1830, & that the said Rachel Howe
his mother removed to Harrison County, Indiana, and died
there on the 3d day of September 1844, and remained the widow
of the said John Howe up to the time of her death.
That he is the eighth child of the said John & Rachel Howe &
that they are the same persons named in the declaration of Jacob
R. Hoddon, administrator of the estate of the said Rachel Howe
Deed made before the Probate Court of Harrison County, Indiana
on the 18th of February 1846.
That the following papers hereto attached
below are the two leaves of an old Arithmatic called "The school
masters assistant," which ^contains the^ family Record of the names, & births
of the children of the said John & Rachel Howe which said
Record was this day taken from said Book and hereto attached
and marked A and which said Book and Record therein has
been in the possession and keeping of this deponent for about
the last Sixteen years past; and which said family
Record is made by & in the hand writing of the said Pensioner
John Howe himself and was made about Thirty five
years ago, in the lifetime of the said John Howe while he
resided in Hardin County Kentucky; That the record hereto
attached was copied by the said John Howe, from an older
family Record of the said names & births of their children
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which said old family Record was in an ancient family Bible
& which was left in the possession of John Goodman in Hardin
County Kentucky about Twenty six years ago, But that
this said older Record is not now in existence, as this
affiant is informed and beleives: That the Record hereto
attached was [illegible]mously copied, as appears on its face & that the
said John Howe made the correction himself in the
figures, when the error was discovered at the time he
made the subsequent entries, which was more than thirty
years ago. And that the name of Isabel Howe in the record is the
last name of the children of John & Rachel Howe, the others are Grand
children.

[circular stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]

Sworn to and subscribed before }
me this 20th day of April 1846 } signed Abraham Howe
Hugh Neeley J.P. }

How, John
Cont-Va. 
W10113
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Oniet
I Hugh Neeley the Justice of the Peace before whom
the foregoing affidavit was made on this day, do certify, that
Abraham Howe, the affiant is a man of unimpeachable
character & of undoubted credibility, and that his statements
are to be relied upon and entitled to credit, which I certify
from my own personal knowledge.
Given under my hand this 20th day of April 1846.
Hugh Neeley J.P.
[circular stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]

State of Indiana } SS
Harrison County }
I, Henry W. Heth Clerk of the
circuit court in and for the said County of Harrison, do
certify that Hugh Nelly whose official signatures
appear to the foregoing affidavit & certificate, now is and was
on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in
and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such
that full faith and credit are due his official acts, and that 
the signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said court at my
office of Corydon this 20th day
of April A.D. 1846.
H. W. Heth Clerk
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State of Illinois } SS
Clark County }  On this 22nd day of November 1847 personally
appeared before me William Shook one of 
the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, Charles
Eastin, a resident of said county, aged 86 years past
who being by me first duly sworn upon his oath says
that he was personally acquainted with John Howe and
Rachel Howe his wife, in Jefferson county in the state of
Kentucky, first in the year 1795 or 6, that afterwards said Howe
and family removed to Shelby County, Kentucky where they lived
several years, and then removed to some other County, in
Kentucky which he understood was Hardin County, said
Howe was a Baptist when resided in Shelby County
And that said John & Rachel Howe were man and wife when
he first knew them, and then had a number of children, Boys
large enough to come to our Janyard, and from a comparison
of the ages of their children, with the size and ages of my
children, they must have been man and wife some ten
years, about prior to the year 1794; from the best of my
Judgement: Mr Howe, drew a pension, as he understood in
Kentucky, before I left there in the year 1827, to move to Indiana
Charles Eastin
Sworn to and subscribed before }
me this 22d day of Nov. 1847 }
William Shook JJ }

I William Shook, the Justice of the Peace before whom the
foregoing affidavit was made, do certify that Charles Eastin the
above affiant, is a man of truth and veracity, and that his statement
are entitled to credit, which I certify from my own personal 
knowledge. Given under my hand this 22 day of November 1847.
William Shook JJ
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State of Illinois,  Sct,
Clark County,  I, Darius Phillips,  Clerk of the County Commissioners Court in and for said county, do hereby certify that William Shook is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Clark aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified as such, that full faith and credit are due to his official acts, that his commission is dated on the 27th day of August A. D. 1847, and will expire on the 27th day of August A.D. 1849 and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of office, at
Marshall this 23d day of November A.D. 1847
Darius Phillips Clerk
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[illegible] Chambers
March 6. 1846

Dr Sir
Will you please give this
case of the Adm. of Rachael
Howe your earliest attention
yr. resp.
S. Breese
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Washington City
May 7. 1846
Dr Sir
Enclosed is some additional evidence
in the case
of Jacob R. Hadden Adm.
of the estate of Rachael Howe Widow
of John Howe a revolutionary pensioner.
It is important you should decide this
case as soon as possible and inform me
of your decision, so that if there be any
desput in the proof it may be applied
May I ask you early attention to it
Very respy
S. Breese

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
I enclose Mr. Cooper's letter
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House of Representatives
18th May 1846

Sir:
To fill the requisition of your letter of the 23d of February last
I enclose you the letter of Mr Johnson and the affidavit of two
Gentlemen who were near neighbours of Mr Johnson at the time
of her death and knew personally of its occurrence, and the date
not knowing personally the witnesses I have take the
statement of my colleague the Hon S Price, who endorses
their respectability-
I hope it may be found convenient to make up the 
Amt due to the heirs of Mrs Johnson for her pension, at an
early date.
Very respectfully
(illegible)
James H. Ralfe
James L Edwards Esq.
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
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Marshall Illinois.
June 5th 1847

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir
Yours of the 27th Ultimo
is Recd in relation to the arears of pension due to the
children of Rachel Howe of Indiana, and of John Howe.
I do think, that the more material part of the evidence
to support the marriage in this case is unintentionally
overlooked.  The Marriage took place in Pennsylvania,
state that has no laws requiring records thereof to be kept.
And if the papers in this case are carefully examined, it is
clearly, and beyond doubt, or cavil proven by the
affidavit on file, that John & Rachel Howe were
man and wife in Kentucky as early as the year 1791.
See the affidavit of John Crawford, William Cranford &
Nancy Crawford all very credible persons indeed, and the
Howes are highly so. And this has always been held and
considered as sufficient proof of the marriage, in the
absence of Record evidence.

The proof in this case, shows (Affidt of Abraham Howe)
that the family record of the births of children (to which the
whole objections rest) was made after the commencement
of the now present century, and not before the commenced.
as your letter of the 27th Ult, states; The Record objected to
is a copy of a former pension last Record, made about the
year 1888 or 1870 as previous, and that the year 1883, might
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might unconsciously be made erroneously, and unintentionally for
the year 1783, by a person not much in the habit of writing
or copying, especially when made more for pastime than
the solemn intention of purposely making a record to
perpetuate such events, in an old arthritic,  for unborn
generations: the fact is, the country is full of just such old
family Records, but very few at that day & age of this country
& very few yet are made by the great mass of the people in
permanent record, or careful style, with a view of their
being scrutinized in a public or official tribunal; And old
Mr. Howe certainly in this case, had no such view, but as
soon as he discovered the mistake, he made the alteration of the
figures, this 1883, for the 1st 6 entries, & then afterwards
continued it on regularly, with the other duties of his
children's birth, and evidently without any intention of "consorting
to means" of establishing this claim, or without intending to
misstate his children's births, & without caring enough about it
to again unite it out, on a new leaf in the old arthritic, 
which might not ever exist, & perhaps had no other Book or
Record to enter it in, at the time. 1808 or 1810.
It is very evident to the "senses" that if either the heirs
or myself, had intended "to resort to any improper means to
establish this claim", or to prevent "distrust of the genuineness
of the claim, we would not have presented or exhibited this
Record, in its support, to the eyes of the Comm of Pensions
which ought to detect impositions, but not misconstrue 
unintentional mishaps: I do think that taking the record & the proof
all together, that it is sufficiently proven & explained to admit
the genuineness of the Record, & establish the marriage either
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with, or without the record. From my knowledge & experience
in business life, it would be sufficient in any of the courts to
establish the marriage prior to the year 1794.

All the proof, and I hold a sufficiency of the proof proves and
confirms the marriage, & faith of the children, some 3. 4.25, to
have taken place prior to 1791. and continues throughout to
correspond with the whole line of the births of the children
& carries it each from last to first & vice-versa in 
number, dates of birth and ages, to establish the marriage
prior to 1794 & prior to 1791 & must have been prior to 1783.

I do not ask to be released from the requisitions
which the rules impose upon the claimants in these cases.
Mr Howes account of his family in 1820, I know
nothing about, but if he made a statement of his family
then, I suppose it was not a very material one & not
my accurately made, & he may have spoke of his family
without meaning his children, entirely, for from what
I have since known of his family, personally he must
have either made a misstatement, on alluded to his children
in part, & some adopted member of his family, either as
grand children, nephews, nieces, or others as 6 of them are
dead, viz, Anna, Mary, James, Elizabeth, Mileah, & William
& perhaps some others, not now recollected, consequently, it
cannot be well understood what children he alluded to.

The death of Rachel Howe having been on the 3rd Sept. 1844
so recent. & proven by those who had a personal knowledge
of it, ought to be sufficient. I am not yet advised, whether
there is any such proof in existence, as required viz, as
Clergyman, Physician, or undertaker, or the brook account of either.
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without being considered as impertinent, I again ask of your
Honor, the goodness to give this claim an entire examination
& Reinvestigation, coolly and dispassionately, without previous
prejudices, and I am inclined to hope, that it may then be
considered sufficiently established by the proof exhibited, in
connection with this review of the case, by way of argument
And that this review of it may be materially examined.
I am not, as not advised, whether it is in our power to
prove further evidence.

If In conscience it cannot be allowed
upon the proof submitted, I hope the rigidness required in
proof, may he relaxed, so as we can Reach it, for I am well
satisfied, beyond doubt, that in all the claims, of the kind, I have
had the honor to prosecute, this is among the most genuine.
Mr. Howe his wife & family are among the first class of People
any country, & would be the last to resort to any
improper means to procure any thing.

You can Reject the family Record entirely, forsooth. And I
believe the testimony as to the marriage, would be sufficient
And I am sure, the production of the Record, cannot be
unto the reasons, or as to be evidence of improper means being
resorted to, to sustain the claim; I ask, would not the with-holding
the Record, heard evidence of criminal precaution, instead of
improper means.

I hope to be pardoned, for this expose of the case
& its facts & circumstances & submit it again for your impartial
examination, with the hope of a belief you will do right.
And let me know early of the result
Yours Respectfully
J. P Cooper
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No 12566
Rachel Howe died
wid of John
Ill
act 7 July 1838
married before 1794
husband died 1830
widow died 3 Sept 1844
Adm. $120. [illegible words]
4 March 1836 to 4 March 1841
Payable to Jacob R. Hedden Adm.
for the sole use of Sarah Hedden,
Abraham Howe, David Howe, Isabel
Thomas, Rachel Pendell, Eleanor
Goodman, Isaac Howe, ^& Jacob Howe^ only surviving
Children of Rachel Howe dcd -
Widow Act 42144. $120 from
4 March 1842 to 3 Sept 1844 the date
of the death payable to Admr
use of children named above
J. P. Cooper Present
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Marshall, Clark County, Illinois
October 9th 1847

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Sir
I have the honor to
enclose herein to you, the further evidence in the claim
of the heirs of Rachel Howe Decd widow of John Howe
of Indiana in favour of the administrator for them
in accordance with your letters of the 27th May last
& June 19th.
I fair hope this evidence may be considered
satisfactory, it is as clear & specific as it can be made
at this late day in connexion with the Depositions of the
Crawford & Pindall's now on file, to which I again
refer you in connexion with these herein enclosed
All of which are of undoubted credibility.
If it can be done this claimants prefer it to be [illegible]
by the administrator named ^in &^ who made the declaration
as is certified in due form.
Please enclose to me at
this place ---
I have the honor to be very
Respectfully your most
obt. servant
J. P. Cooper
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John C. Calhoon Esq
Secretary of War

[written sideways - right margin: Mr Edwards]
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Feby 3d 1824

Sir
I have the honor of enclosing here
with the application of Mr Howe to be placed
upon the [illegible]. His services as recounted. recommend
very forcibly his claims upon the Bounty of his
Country.  The value of the Personal property as
stated I know nothing of Personally, but would
mark that in Kentucky a man is considered very
poor who has not more that he states in his
Schechule. Upon the subject of his land I discover
He claims under a Kentucky warrant which
has been surveyed within the Bounderies of Bill
claim (or copies of the Grants) By the act of the
Kentucky Legslature and authorising the powers of the
Land Warrant [illegible] prohibited to locate them
upon any law which had been previously appro
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(illegible) and consequently the claim is not only
voidable but void.
I am with great respect
Your Obt Sert
Charles S. Wickliffe
Page 54

Aaron
Howe
(illegible)

(all wirting struck out)

Invalid
Mr.
(illegible)
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prior befroe the first
day of March 1835
& submitted to pay to
John Ellis one Sent for
value received of him
as witness my hand an
seal the the 16 of
June Aaron
Howe John
How Jesisca Weays
you made
the rej  (illegible)
and all things there
BSD

Aaron
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War Department,
PENSION OFFICE, March 1 1824

SIR:
In conformity with the law of the United States, of
the 1st March, 1823, authorizing the Secretary of War to restore
the names of certain persons to the List of Pensioners, you are hereby
notified, that your name has been this day restored to the Pension
Roll of the Kentucky Agency, and that, agreeably to the
provisions of said act your allowance, as a pensioner, will commence
from the 31st of October 1823, the day on which the
evidence was closed upon which you obtained a restoration to the
List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards

To Mr. John Howe
United States' Pensioner.
Care of the Hon
Charles A Wickliffe
House of Reps
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Rachel Howe's case.
& Ann Herrin.
Mr. Heath Clark
Ben Adollott
Peter Kintner
Jacob Kintner
Arnold Leslie, near Lawin
Senator

Get P. Judges
certificate for in
this case

Mr - Lynn, is Probate
Judge of Harrison co. Ia.
Elected Aug. 1848, & resides
in Lanesville

J. P. Cooper on.
S Breese for
[illegible] 11th
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Pension Office
October 6th, 1848.

Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 10th April last
respecting the case of Rachel Howe, decd I have
to inform you that the evidence in support of her
claim has been again very carefully examined, and
the decision of this Office, heretofore communicated
to you, I am constrained to adhere to
An inspection of the paper purporting to be a
family record will shew, clearly, that the date 
of the birth of Sarah Howe was not changed from
1883 to 1783, but from 1803 to 1783. The same facts
appear also in the alleged dates of the births
of Anna, Mary, James, Elizabeth and Milcha
Howe.  The error could not therefore have
occurred in consequence of a mistake in the
Century in which the record was made as is
alleged by you in your communication. This
record cannot be received as evidence of the
marriage of these parties.  The other names upon that
record do not bear the appearance of having been
made as much as thirty years ago.
If the credibility of the several witnesses who
have testified in this case can be sustained
by persons of high standing, known of this Office as
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such, such as Members of Congress, Judges of the Courts &
may be again taken up and considered and all the
benefit and weight that their testimony thus supported
may entitle them to will be allowed
[illegible words] comply with your request to ask
ask the opinion of the Secretary of war in this
case.  Should you wish to take an appeal
from the decision of this Office you should direct
your communication to the Secretary himself
stating the grounds upon which your appeal is
based.  The papers will then all be laid
before him for his decision.

I am, very repectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
F. S. Evans
for Commr of Pensions


J. P. Cooper, Esqr
Marshall,
Illinois
Page 60

Mr. Edwards
Page 61

State of Kentucky
Hardin Circuit Lot
September Term 1823
Be it Remembered that at a Court continued
and held for the Hardin Circuit at the Courthouse in  Elizabeth Town on Thursday the 4th day of September 1823 It was ordered that the following declaration and Schedule be entered of Record and certified, To wit,
District of Kentucky Hardin Circuit Sct
On this fourth day of September in the year one thousand Eight hundred and Twenty three John Howe personally appeared in the Hardin Circuit Court in the State of Kentucky being a Superior Court of Law and Equity and of Record for the said Circuit and County of
Hardin and possessing authority to fine and imprison and declared on oath in said Court that he was sixty nine years of age on the 26th day of June last part, that he served in the Revolutionary war between the United States
and Great Britain as follows (To wit, as a Sergeant in Col Hugh Stenson (Alias Stevenson), Regiment of Riflemen which was afterwards commanded by Col Moses Rawlings in Captain Alexander Lawson Smith
Company that he was afterwards drafted into Coln David Morgans Rifle Corps in Captain Galesed Longs Company and served therein first as Orderly Sergeant untill the capture of Genl Burgoyne and his army and after that event was made Sergeant Major in the same
Corps. That he was in thirty two general engagements and Skirmishes in the said war, that he was one of the army of Genl Washington when he captured the Hessians at
Princeton that he was in the same and at the battle of Princeton that he was also in the battle of Bonbrook Near Middlebrook, that he was in the action of Piscataway near
Brunswick. That he was in Eight actions in nine days near Somerset- That he was in two general engagements and a skirmishes with the army of General Burgoyne that he afterwards joined General Washington in the
neighborhood
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neighborhood of Philadelphia and was sent under the command of the Marquis La Fayette into serving against and defeated a British Picket of 300 Strong That he was in the action at chesnut Ridge where he killed a British Major and where he was wounded in the Breast by a musket ball-- That he was in the battle of Monmouth and that he served as a mounted Volunteer in the army of
General Wayne in the year 1794 and acted as adjutant n that campaign in major Aquillas Whitaker Calation and that he was also honorably discharged from the service
on the 29th day of Aust 1779 at Hartford Town in the State of Maryland. The said Howe also declared on Oath in the Court aforesaid that on the 18th day of June 1820 he made his declaration in this Court which contained
Schedule of his property, and the personal part thereof was valued at $214 and the land he then lived on was adjudged to be of no value. That at the May Term 1822 of the County Court of the County aforesaid he made
another declaration containing a Schedule of his personal property which was valued at $116 but which did not include the land aforesaid that the difference between the first and second schedule and valiations 
arose from the fact one of the Horses had died another belonged to her son David Howe who left the family and carried the horse away with him one Cow One two year old Heifer and a yearling Heifer belonged to his daughter Rachel Howe who married and carried them away with her that when his daughter
Eleanor Howe married he gave her a three years old Heifer and a ewe  and that the said Horses cattle and ewe were included in the first Schedule and were not for the causes stated in the second Schedule. The said Howe also declares on oath that since his said first Schedule he was obliged to subsist in part of his stock some part has died and some part
has been killed by the wolves all which are the reasons which the said John Howe gives on oath for the variance between
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between this and his first and Second Schedules. The
Said Howe also declares on oath that he held the land
stated in his first Schedule under two Patents from the
State of Kentucky for vacant land the first 262 acres dated
the 4th day of August 1813 the other for 200 acres dated
the 25th day of August 1817 both of which are included
in the bounds of a patent for 75000 acres in the name of
Bell of Superior dignity and dated in the year 1793
That the said land has been patented before the origin
of the said Howes claim which were therefore invalid and
void that the said Howe has purchased the 462 acres
of the present proprietors of the said 75000 acres but he
has not paid for the same and is wholly unable to
do so and will be compelled to sell or abandon the same
Unless he can obtain the aid of his Government and that
he has given up the said land to his son David in
order to obtain from his assistances a security support that
when he the said Howe made his first Schedule he believed
that it was his duty to give in the property which
belonged as aforesaid to his said children and that
upon being placed upon the pension list the certificate
granted him was dated the 19th day of September 1818
See No 10787

And I the said John Howe do Solemnly
swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March 1818, that I have not since
that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed
of my property or any part thereof with Intent
thereby so diminish it as to bring myself within the
provinces of an act of Congress Entitled an act to
provide for certain persons in the land and Naval
service of the United States in the Revolutionary war
passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not
nor has any person in trust for me any property or
Securities or debts due to me nor have any income
other than what is continued in the Schedule hereto
annexed and by me subscribed to wit,
Over
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4
One Young black mare 3 years old _____$30.00
Two Cows and Calves ___20.00
8 Head of Hogs Old and Young _____11.25
4 Old Sheep and One lamb _____ 9.00
One Feather Bed and furniture_____20.00
Two Small ditto one very old _____30.00
One Cupboard ______ 11.00
One Old Bureau _____12.00
Residue of Household and the Kitchen furniture___12.00
Farming Utensils including an old Wagon. 15.00
$170.00

He the said John Howe also declares on oath
that he paid a debt due by him for work and labor
done and performed for him with one of the Horses
Stated and declared in his first Schedule aforesaid
that his occupation is that of a Farmer but is unable
thereby to obtained a livelihood owing to the infirmities
of his advanced age and the breaking of his right arm
and the fracturing the bones thereof about seven
in that arm and hand and owing also to the Palsy
years ago which has brought in the palsy in the left
arm and hand brought on by a Catarrh, that his
family consists of his wife Rachel aged about Sixty
years and a daughter Named Isabella Howe aged
about Seventeen years that his son David boards with
him and works for himself. That his wife Rachel
in now and has been a cripple for about eight years
and is unable to walk one step even with assistance
and there is no reasonable hope that she will ever
Recover and that his said daughter Isabella is
healthy active and industrious and is able to
maintain herself but her services are indispensable
in during and taking care of her said Mother
and in keeping house for him the said Howe and
that his said wife and that he the said John Howe
and his said wife could not keep house without
over

(hand written over the text)
1823
60
1763
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the assistance of their children and that were it not 
for their filial of piety and attention they the said John
and Rachel Would have to rely on charity or starve.
John Howe

Sworn to in open Court by the declarant on the day
and year aforesaid.
Saml Haycraft Clk

The Court is of opinion that the property contained
in the schedule aforesaid is worth the sum of One
hundred and Seventy Dollars and Seventy five cents
and valued the same accordingly and that the 462
acres of land aforesaid are worth the sum of Eight
hundred Dollars with a good certain and valid title
thereto and is valued accordingly with all the 
improvements thereon and it is also ordered to be certified
on Satisfactory proof made that the said 462 acres
within the bounds of W Bells Patent of Seventy
five thousand acres
Paul Booker

And now at this day (Towit), at the same
Court Continuance and held for the Circuit aforesaid
on Saturday the 6th day of September 1823.

One motion of John Howe who made his declaration
and subscribed his Schedule in this Court on the
fourth Instant and upon satisfactory proof made
it is ordered to be certified as an addition to and
on the said Declaration and Schedule and as a part
thereof that the two patents therein mentioned in the
name of the said Howe One for 262 acres and the
other for 200 acres did not in the opinion of this
Court convey a Right and title to him in the lands
therein described that such claims could not under the
laws of this State be entered surveyed and patented
on Lands previously appropriated by Patent
and that the said 262 and 200 acres held by the
said
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Said Howe by no other right than the said
Patents are in the opinion of the Court of No
certain or permanent value and ought not
to be regarded so as to increase the sum of $170.25
the value of his personal property mentioned in
the said Schedule.

State of Kentucky
Harden Circuit Sct
I Samuel Haycraft Clerk of the
Circuit Court aforesaid do certify that the
foregoing is a true transcript from the
Record in my Office of the Declaration
and Schedule of John Home, relative to his
services in the Army of the United States
during revolutionary war.

In Testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the seal
of said Circuit at my
Office in Elizabeth Town
on the 31st day of October
1823
Saml Haycrafolk

(seal)
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State of Illinois
Clark County ss
On this 5th day of January 1848 personally
appeared before me Hugh Malone, a justice of the Peace in
and for said County, Jane Unsel, a resident of said
County, aged seventy five years past, who being by me first
duly sworn according to law upon her oath says, that 
she resided in the Red Stone country in the Western part of
Pennsylvania from her early years before she was married
to about the year 1802 when they moved to Ohio. That 
she was personally and well acquainted in that part of
Pennsylvania with John House and Rachel his wife, who lived
near neighbors to her father's prior to her marriage; which
took place in Decr 1789 in the 18th year of her age, Mrs Howe 
was raised by a man by the name of Cherry, as she
always understood, who was them quite an old man who
and in that neighborhood, and was married at his
house; she well recollects of being at Mr Howe's house
a very short time before she was married to Unsel
who in the course of conversations there, said he 
had married Mr. Howe & his wife, which was some
years before that time, for they had at least 
3 or 4 children; this affiant was acquainted with
this Mr Taylor & always understood from Mr. Howe
and his wife that he was the minister that married them.
Mr. Taylor died there before we moved from there.
Mr. Howe was a Revolutionary soldier, as well as 
her husband Frederick Unsell, who she has often heard
speak of their exploits & warfare together; Mr. Home moved off down the Ohio River Louisville, Kentucky, as well 
as she recollects, about two years or so after this affiant was 
married:  Mr. Howe & wife was certainly married before
the year 1794,, from the appearance of their children.
her
Jane X Unsel
Mark

Sworn & resided to before me
this 5th day of January 1848.
Hugh Malone J.P.
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State of Illinois
Clark County ss
I Hugh Malone a Justice
of the Peace as before named do certify, that
Jane Unsell, the foregoing affiant, was
resident of this county, is a very credible and
intelligent person, and of respectable character
who is now a Revolutionary pensioner of 
this County, which I certify from my
own personal knowledge.  Given
under my hand this 5th day of January
1848.
Hugh Malone J P

State of Illinois Set
Clark County ⎬ 
I, Darius Phillips, Clerk of the County
Commissioners Court in and for said County, do hereby
Certify that Hugh Malone Esqr. whose signatures appears
to the within and foregoing affidavit and certificate now
is and was on the day of the date thereof, an acting Justice 
of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned
and qualified to office, as such; that he was commissioned
on the 29th day of August 1847, and will expire on the
27th day of August 1849, and that the foregoing
Signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at Marshall this sixth day of
January A.D. 1848. Darius Phillips Clerk
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Marshall Illinois, Jany 7. 1848

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions

Sir
Having been Referred to Mrs
Jane Unsel of this county, for proof in the case of
the claim of Mrs. Rachel Home of Indiana, I have
taken her affidavit & herein enclose it to you.
This evidence, most certainly, must be satisfactory of the
Marriage of John & Rachel Home, prior to 1794.
You will see by reference to affidavit & certificate
of the Magistrate, that Mrs. Unsell is a pensioner
whose papers are on file

I recollect in Mrs. Unsel's claim we could find
evidence of Marriages in the old Baptist Church,
in that part of Pa. where both these claimants
were married. in fact these churches, (Baptist) have
no Marriages celebrated in the church, nor do they
keep any such records belonging to the Church, nor are
there any other Record of Marriages in PA.

As before my suggested, please enclose to me at this place,
It will be most convenient if the administrator
can draw the claim for the use of the heirs proven
to be living, that were known.

I have the honor to be
Most Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
J.P. Cooper
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State of Indiana
Harrison County ss

We the undersigned resident citizens
of the county aforesaid, and have resided here for more
than twenty years past, do hereby certify, that
William Crawford & Nancy Crawford his wife,
James Pindell & Nancy his wife, and Abraham Howe of
all residents of the said County of Harrison, and Joseph
Denboard and John Crawford, of Crawford County
Indiana, all of whom have testified in the Pension
claim, of the children of Rachel Howe, Decd late of
said county of Harrison, widow of John Howe Deced
are each personally & well known to us respectively,
and that each of said witnesses, are persons of good
and undoubted credibility for truth and veracity,
and that their statements are entitled to full credit.
And that said witnesses have resided where they
no live for more than twenty years past.
And we further certify, that there is no Judge of
a circuit court, (President) or member of Congress
residing in this county, or within forty miles of this
(illegible) 1948.
W. W. Heth Clerk of the
Harrison Circuit Court

I am well acquainted with the
above named William Crawford &
Nancy his wife, James Pindell, 
Abraham Howe and Joseph Denbrand
know that they are persons of in
doubted credibility for truth and
veracity.
W. A. Porter

Jacob W Kintner as to all 
but James Pindell and wife
and Abam Howe whom I do 
not know.
L.S.. Crawford, Recorder
of Harrison County,J.C.
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Pension Agency
New Albany Aug 20-48

At the request of Mr. J P Cooper I do hereby certify
that I am well acquainted with Henry W. Heath, Jacob
W Kintner L S Leonard & W A Porter who are all
most respectable citizens of the County of Harrison
and to their certificate the most implicit confidence
ought to be given.
M. C. Fitch
Pen Agent

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted
ted with Joseph Denbo of Crawford County
Indiana on of the witnesses within named
that he has been an associate Judge of
said county for many years and is one 
of the most respectable men in said
County and is of undoubted credibility 
I am also well acquainted with
the Hon W. A. Porter Jacob W Kintner Henry
Heath who was Clerk of the Circuit Court
and the Hon L. S. Leonard late Judge of the 
Probate court of Harrison County who have
signed the within certificate and that they
are all respectable citizens of said County
of Harrison Indiana and to their certificate
the most implicit confidence ought to
be given.

Given under my hand at Washington 
City this 6th day of December
A D 1848
E. Embree
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State of Illinois
Clark County ss

On this 19th day of November A.D. 1847
personally appeared before me Hugh Malone
a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Hannah Miller
a resident of said county, aged seventy six years past, who
being by me first duly sworn according to law, upon her
oath says that she was personally and well acquainted with
John Howe and Rachel Howe his wife in the Western
part of Pennsylvania in what was then called the
stone county.  That the first became acquainted with
them was at a Baptist meeting in our neighbourhood
The said John and Rachel lined together then and were
then reputed and known as man and wife, and esteemed
as good respectable citizens, this was about as early
as the year 1789, Mrs. Howe then had an infant child
on her lap, which she afterwards learned was her third or
fourth child, is not certain which, and that about a year or two
after that, they moved from that country down the Ohio River
at or near the falls at Louisville, And in the year 1824.
we removed to Shelby County, Kentucky, where she frequently
saw said Howe, and understood that he was then drawing
a pension; she does not recollect whether said Howe then
lived in that county or not, but afterwards heard that the
old man died in Hardin County, Kentucky, about
six or seven years after we moved to Shelley County.
her
Hannah X Miller
mark

Sworn & subscribed to before
me this 19th day of November
Hugh Malone J P
1847.

I Hugh Malone the Justice of the Peace before whom
the foregoing Deposition was taken, do certify, that
Hannah Miller the above deponent is a woman
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of good reputation and character for truth and veracity; 
and as such generally known and esteemed in the County
which I certify from my own personal knowledge.
Given under my hand this 19th day of November
A.D. 1847.
Hugh Malone J P

State of Illinois Set
Clark County ⎬ 
I Darius Phillips, Clerk of the County
Commissioners Court in and for the County of Clark aforesaid
do hereby certify that Hugh Malone is a Justice of the peace
in and for the County of Clark aforesaid, duly commissioned
and qualified as such, that his commission is dated on
the 27th day of August 1847, and will expire on the
27th day of August 1849, and that full faith and
credit are due to all his official acts, and the foregoing
signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of office
at Marshall, on the 23d day of November
A.D. 1847.
Darius Phillips Clerk
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May 12 1847
Claims by Son
Rachael Howe

Additional evidence
claim of Rachael Howe's heirs
of Indiana

(seal)
Marhsall ILL
May 4

Official Business.
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
Page 75

Marshall, Clark County, Illinois
May 1st 1847.

Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Commsr of Pensions

Sir
Your letter to the Hon. S. Breese of
the U.S. Senate, of the 14th May 1846 was duly recd. in reply
to the additional evidence, Decd. in the pension claim of
Rachel Howe & widow of John Howe Decd. of Harrison
County, Indiana, to which letter, I wish to call your
attention again, and beg leave to refer you to it; and in
Reply thereto, are ready to say, that I am Responsible, and
Ready to answer for the character of the family Record saith 
& explained by the Deposition of Abraham Howe, to which
you allude under the act of Congress referred to
The Clerk who wrote out that letter, is more severe in his
insinuations and charges than the facts and circumstances
warrant:- no improper means have been taken
in the least to sustain this claim, nor was ever even
thought of the claim is too genuine, to require any unfair
means to be resorted to.

I do not think it is very "uncountabilities", for a man to
have made a mistake in copy a family record, some forty 
years ago, merely there, for pass-time, as much as for to
perpetuate the evidence of a family record, and especially
where made without any expectation of its use, in
the pension office, which was long afterwards first
established & long before widow's pensions were ever dreamed of.
The alterations made in the family, are in changing the
figure so as to make it read 17(illegible) in lien of the mistake
of 1833. which is yet to come & evidently made without any
intention of corruption for any purpose, when it then follows
on with the births of their other children, in regular
connection and Rotation to the last; the whole of which
Record is in the old man's own handwriting as proved
& done before the passage of the cases for widows pensions.
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I hope this explanation may be considered as sufficient when
taken in connection with the former & enclosed additional
evidence in relation to the marriage, which is all that seems
to be required.

There is no family record to be found in the
possession of John Goodman & wife in Kentucky, as was
supposed to exist there, nor any where else. And the
marriage having taken place in Pound where the laws
do not require Record evidence to be kept, in case 
only be proven, as for the circumstances of continued
silent permission, legal cohabitation & from the character
of the parties, is very strong in their behalf.

The service in this case for 2 years as a Serjeant is admitted
& the identity of widowhood with the pensioned husband
is also clear. & I think the enclosed proof, ought to suffice
as to the time of the manage the other proof being
sufficient.

And if it shall be so considered upon close
examination of the case, & reconsideration of the proof. You
will please enclose the certificate of pension to me
at this place:

It will be most convenient to have the
claim payable to the administrator, for the use of the
children living, as shown by the proof.

I enclose herein, the affidavits of John Crawford
of Crawford con IA  & of William Crawford & Nancy
Crawford of Harrison Co. IA from whose age & knowledge
the facts proven by them ought to satisfy all rational
conclusions.
Your most Obt. Servt
J. P. Cooper
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Marshall Illinois, Nov. 25th 1847.
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions

Sir
Yours of the 6th Inst. is Reced.
in relation to the claim of Rachel Howe of Indiana,
widow of John Howe Decd.
We had traced up two
witnesses, the oldest we can find, whose affidavits
I herein enclose to you in this case. I hope they may
be deemed satisfactory to their marriage prior
to 1794. The other points being satisfactory:
Please enclose the certificates to me at this place
if granted in favor of the administrator.
Jn. Howe was a Sergeant 3 years. as his discharge
will show on file.

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully,
your most Obt. sevt.
J. P. Cooper
Page 78

Gabriel Slaughter Esq Lieut. Gov. and acting Governor of the commonwealth of Kentucky. To all to whom those presents may come greeting
Know ye, That by virtue and in Consideration of Kentucky Land
office Warrant No. 1449. There is granted by the said Commonwealth
unto John Howe, a certain tract or parcel of Land containing two
hundred acres by survey bearing date the fourth of February one
thousand eight hundred and seventeen, lying and being in the
County of Harden, and bounded as follows to wit. Beginning at two
white oaks corner to his 262 acre survey thence S. 89. W. 48 poles to a stake
thence South 30 poles to two white oaks, thence S. 35 E 60 poles to two
black oaks, thence S 45 W 30 poles to a stake, thence N. 8 W. 38 poles
to a white oak thence S 35 W 40 poles to two black oaks, thence
S 39 E 120 poles to a large stone thence N 60 E 104 poles to a white
oak thence S 41 E 42 poles to a white oak standing near two
sink holes, thence N. 73 E 60 poles to a small black oak
thence North 100 poles to a flat rock, thence North 57 [crossed out: poles] W
one hundred and ninety six poles to the beginning--
With its appurtenances, to have and to hold, the said tract or
parcel of Land with its appurtenances to the said John Howe
and his heirs forever
In Witness whereof the said Gabriel Slaughter Esq Lieutenant
Governor of the commonwealth of Kentucky hath hereunto set
his hand and caused the seal of the said Commonwealth
to be affixed at Frankfort on the twenty fifth day of August
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, 
and of the Commonwealth the 26th
By the Lieutenant Governor Gabl. Slaughter
John Pope Secretary
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Isaac Shelly Esq Governor of the commonwealth of Kentucky
to all to whom these presents shall come greeting, Know ye, that by 
virtue and consideration of a certificate number 23) the state price paid
without Interest granted by the County Court of Hardin in July 1806
agreeably to an act of assembly for settling and improving the vacant lands
of this commonwealth, there is granted by the said commonwealth unto
John Howe Asst of Matthew Turner, a certain tract or parcel of Land, containing
two Hundred and sixty two acres by survey bearing date the twenty first
day of November one Thousand eight hundred and twelve, lying and being
in the County of Hardin, including a large spring and the place improved
by Matthew Turner now occupied by John Howe about one and a half
miles from where James Parsel now lives and bounded as follows to wit.
Beginning at three white oaks and hickory standing by a sink hole
Northeastwardly from where the said Howe lives, thence running N.
fifty one west one hundred and sixty poles to a stake and stone, thence
South thirty nine west, two hundred and sixty two poles to a white oak and
black oak near a small sink thence south fifty one East, one hundred and
sixty poles to five white oak, thence North thirty nine East two hundred
and sixty two poles to the beginning ---

With its appurtenances. To have and to hold the said part or parcel
of Land, with its appurtenances to the said John Howe and his
heirs forever ---

In Witness whereof the said Isaac Shelby, Esq. Governor of the commonwealth
of Kentucky, hath hereunto set his hand, and caused the
seal of the said Commonwealth to be affixed, at Frankfort on the
fourth day of August in the year of our Lord, one Thousand
eight hundred and thirteen and of the commonwealth the
twenty second 
By the Governor
Isaac Shelby

M.D. Hardin Secretary
Page 80

FREE free

Hon. Sydney Breese, S. M. S.
Washington City
D. C.
Page 81

Marshall, Clark County, Illinois.
April 28th 1846.

Hon. Sydney Breese
Sir
your presented for me the person claim
of Rachel Howe's heirs of Harrison Co. Va. & in reply the ┃
Department admits the service of her husband as a sergeant
for 2 years as satisfactory. & request that the family record
of the births of the children of the claimant should be
forwarded.

I herein enclose to you the family Record of
the births of the children. The family record supposed to
be in possession of John Goodman in Hardin Co. Ky
is not in existence, as he informs me by letter.
The Record I enclose you in the accompanying affidavit
herein, of Abraham Howe of Harrison Co, Ind is I
suppose sufficient, as it was made by the old pensioner
some 35 years since: By exhibiting this & the enclosed
proof to the Hon. M. Edwards Commr.  I think it will
suffice.

Will you please do me the many great favour,
to present this immediately for me to the commr. of Pensions
in person, & get the claim taken up & allowed forthwith
& enclose the certificates to me at this place as early as
possible; if you will do so, it will be of great advantage
to me indeed. I am going to Indiana in about 18 or 20
days from this date, & wish to obtain the claim have before
I go, so I can attend to drawing the money for the heirs
while there, without a second trip to do it. Please make
no mistake in sending to me:  you mistook this claim
before in last reply from Dept. of the 16th March last
& sent it to W. Masely, it is my claim, & I hope
you will retain this & send it to me certain.
Page 82

Please get the certificates under all the acts, viz, of July
7. 1838. March 3, 1843 & June 17. 1844.

I suppose a Sergeant will draw more than a private's
pay.

Your friend
J. P. Cooper
Page 83

State of Indiana }
Crawford County } Sct

On this the 23d day of April
1847 Personally John Crawford appeared before me
William L Temple one of the Justices of the Peace in 
and for said County said John Crawford aged 75 years
-- and past being a resident of said County of
Crawford who being by me first duly sworn according to
law upon his oath say that he was personally well
acquainted with John Howe and Rachael Howe his
wife and their family of children, that he first knew them
living together as man and wife about the year 1789
or 1790 in Jefferson County Kentucky that the said
John and Rachael came to Jefferson County Kentucky
from what was then called the Red Stone Country
in the State of Pennsylvania and then had their first
and oldest child Sarah who is now the wife of John
Hedden of Harrison County Indiana and that the said
Sarah Hedden their oldest child is now of the age
of 63 years and upwards, and P as to their other children's
names to Wit he Remembers Abraham & [Illegible] and
the Rest of the children's names he has forgotten that the
said John and Rachael Howe lived harmoniously
together as man and wife until the death of the said
John Howe which took place in Hardin County
Kentucky in the spring of 1830 - that the said John and
Rachael Howe lived first in Jefferson County Kentucky
where he first knew them next in Shelby County Kentucky
and last in Hardin County where he died and
that his widow the said Rachael Howe in a year
so afterwards then removed to Harrison County Indiana
where she lived without intermarrying as his widow
until she died in the forepart of September 1844.
that he was acquainted Personally with the said John
and Rachael Howe from as early as 1789 at least
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and from that time to the period of their deaths
their legality of marriage never was questioned nor
has it ever been questioned where they were known
the said John Howe was a very strict and Honourable
member of the Baptist Church from his first
acquaintance with him until his death as also his wife
John Crawford

Sworn to and subscribed }
before me this 23d day of }
April ,A D, 1847 }
W. L. Temple J P [looped circle: seal]

I, William L Temple the Justice of the Peace
before whom the foregoing affadavit was made do
certify that the said John Crawford is a credible
reputable citizen of the County of Crawford and
State of Indiana and that his statements are entitled
to credit, which I certify from my own personal
Knowledge 
given under my hand this the
23d day of April ,A D, 1847
W. L. Temple J P [looped circle: seal]
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State of Indiana }
Crawford County SS. ⎬ I Samuel Sands, Clerk
of the Circuit Court in and for the County aforesaid
do certify that William L. Temple, whose official
signatures appear to the foregoing affidavit and
certificate of credibility, now is and was on the
day of the date thereof, an acting Justice of the Peace
in and for said County, duly commissioned and
qualified, that full faith and credit are due his
official acts, and that the signatures thereto purporting
to be his are genuine

In testimony I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed
the official seal of said Court at
my office at Leavenworth, this
23rd day of April 1847.
Samuel Sands, Clerk
Page 86

Apl 21st 1848
J. P. Cooper
case of Rachel Howe
Wid of John
Page 87

Marshall, Illinois, April 10th 1848
Hon J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Sir
Your letter of the 28th March 1848.
is Received in the case of Rachel Howe, widow of John
Howe for a pension under the act of July 7, 1838, &c
This claim is still rejected upon evidence, which we
think should be satisfactory to its admission. The evidence
is clearly, (with the exception of an unreasonable objection
set up) doubly strong for its admission under all the rules
adopted by the Department, and being so sanguine of
the genuiness and justness of the claim & the strength of
the evidence submitted in support of the claim, we
now hereby pray an appeal from the commissioner
of Pensions, to the Secretary of War, with this claim
for a decision upon its merits, upon the proof exhibited
And hereby request of the Hon Commissioner of Pensions,
to transmit, upon the receipt of this letter.  The papers
in this case containing all the evidence in its behalf
on file, together with this letter, to the Hon. Secretary
of War, for examination and decision.
We make for the Secretary of War the following
points, in the claim & its proof to wit.
1st The service of the husband John Howe, is admitted
by the Com of Pensions for 2 years as a Sargeant.
and Have affidavits, on file of Pindell & wife of Crawford
& Danlin & wife of [illegible] Miller, Mrs. Unsell &
Mr Eastin, all show beyond a reasonable ^doubt^ & establish
the fact of the marriage prior to 1794, in all the
modes, & under all the Rules adopted by the Department
as to their being man & wife prior to that date, & that
their oldest child now 64 years past, was born prior
Page 88

to 1794. & from a comparison of childrens ages they must
have been married as early as 1783.
3rd all the evidence is satisfactory in this claim, excepting
the date of the marriage prior to 1794.
4th The marriage took place in Pennsylvania where
no record of marriages is required, & no church
Records can be found.
5th The only objection in the whole claim is a doubt
entertained by the Com of Pensions, on account of an
alteration made in the figure 7. in the family Record
submitted in this case of the births of the 6 oldest
children entered in the Record: This record is
proven to have been made, in an old Dilworth
arithmatic in 1808 or 10 by old Mr Howe, himself,
who having acquired then the habit of dating the year
1800, &c at that time, in entering the names of his
children in that book, (afterwards found by the
family,) in putting down the 6 first entries, all at
the same time & same hand & pen, as will appear
entered these 6 births as of 1883 & instead of entering
1783 &c:  and then altered, upon discovering his mistake the
year thus 1783 making the figure 7 on the figure 8.
Hence the great objection to this case.
Mr Howe, most certainly made a mistake & altered it as
the record shows without any intention of fraud, more 
than 35 years ago, & certainly then never dreamed of
his wife's pension under the act of 1838 & certainly no
man in his senses, can suppose, that a fraud was
intended near 40 years ago in mistaking 1883 for 1783.
& I cannot see how, the alteration of a date thus made
shows that a fraud was intended, by innocent hands
35 years ago, in the alteration of that particular figure
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in the hundreds, in that date; if either of the two latter
figures in the date of the year had been altered in the
family Record there would be some sensible grounds
of objection; for there the figures might be altered from
1800 or 1813 or any other 1800 date, but as the alteration
is these 1783 or from 1883 to 1783; at that time no
fraud could appear because the latter figures in the date
is not altered & the alteration of the first 8 to a 7 was
then, at that time, perfectly proper, as the year [illegible]3
is a period yet 35 years hence: And by an inspection
of the record, the dates of the childrens births, after the
first 6 entries, follow on in regular date, & show
all together a fair & legal entry of their births, as they
must have been, by the course of nature, & as proven to be.
Hence we hold the objection to the family Record is
untenable & unreasonable & ought not to preclude
the allowance of this claim, backed as it is by all the
other proof of the marriage, as having occured prior
to 1794 & by such other proof as the rules have decreed
satisfactory, as well as the practice of the Department,
And that the record itself, ought to be satisfactory, as
no tenable objection can be reasonably insisted upon
& from the whole transaction is a genuine record not
tainted with suspicion of fraud.

The claimants pray of the Hon Secretary of War, a full
& fair examination of the whole claim & its proof &
that such decision of its merits may be had, as to its
admission, as its true character & firstross deserves. And
will and pray &c.

J. P. Cooper, Atty
for claimants
Page 90

State of Indiana
Harrison County [Curly/indistinct]

On this eleventh day of September 1847 personally appeared before me WM (William?) C. Marsh a Justice of the peace in and for Said County

I ae of (OPindell ?) aged forty six years / & as a resident of Said County of Harrison who being by me first duly sworn according to the laws upon his oath says as follows to wit that he was present at and attend Rachel Howe ? in her last Illness death & funeral Services in the County of Harrison and State of Indiana and that she died in said county on the 3rd day of September in the year 1844 that the said Rachel Howe was the widow of John Howe Deceased who died in Hardin County Kentucky about the 16th day of May 1830 as he knows to his own Certain Knowledge once and that John Howe was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States  that the said Rachel Howe continued the widows of the said John Howe without intermarriage from the time of his death as aforesaid until she died as aforesaid and that she resided in the Said County of Harrison about thirteen years prior  to her death and that she formally resided in Jefferson County Kentucky and next in Shelby County and next in Hardin County Kentucky prior to removal to Harrison County Indiana.  And that the said John and Rachel Howe and their Family of Children are and were amount the most respectable citizens of the county where they resided and yet reside the said John Howe having been a Respectful member in good Standing in the Baptist Church for the last Forty years of his life and that Sarah Abrahams loved and
Page 91

Isabel reside in this County (Harrison) and that the said Sarah is the oldest child of the Said John and Rachel Howe and that she is now in the reputed [Sixtey] fourth year of her age which appears from the Statements of her parents and from the Statements of her family record having been born on the 6th day of August 1783 and from my own personal knowledge of John & Rachel Howe and their Family with whom I have been intimately acquainted for the last Forty years.  I readily suppose and firmly believe that the Said John and Rachel Howe must have been husband and wife some 11 or 12 years prior to the year 1794,

Sworn to and Subscribed 
before me this Eleventh Day           [Jae..?  Pindell ?]
of September 1847

W.C. Marsh  [initials  ? ]

I William C. Marsh the Justice of the peace before whom the foregoing affidavit was made do Certify that the above named affiant who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above affidavit is a respectable and creditable person resident of the County of Harrison and that his Statements are entitled to credit which I Certify from my own personal Knowledge given under my hand this Eleventh day of September 1847

W.C. Marsh  [Initials ?]
Page 92

State of Indiana
Harrison County

On this Tenth day of September 1847 personally appeared before me William C. Marsh a Justice of the peace in and for Said County Isaac Cooper a Resident of Said County of Harrison who being by me first duly Sworn according to law upon his oath says that he attended and was with Rachel Howe during her last Illness death and burial and that he was Employed in digging her grave and  and funeral Services in the County of Harrison and State of Indiana and that she died in Said County on the [   ] day of September [1844] and that the said Rachel Howe was the widow of John Howe Deceased who died in Kentucky and who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States as    he is Informed and Verily believes 

Sworn to and Subscribed
 before me this Tenth day of     Isaac Cooper
 September 1847

W. C. Marsh   (seal)    J.P.
                                          I William C. Marsh before whom the foregoing affidavit was made do certify that the above affiant who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above affidavit is a creditable and respectable person Resident of Said County of Harrison and that his statements are entitled to full credit which I
Page 93

certify from my own personal knowledge
given under my hand this tenth day of
September 1847
W.C. Marshh J P {seal} J P
State of Indiana
Harrison County
Sir
I Henny W. Heth  Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Harrison and State of Indiana do certify that William C. Marsh
whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit and Certificate of Credibility, now and was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned  and qualified and that full faith and credit are due his official acts and that the signature purporting to be his are
genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said Court at my office in 
Corydon this 18 day of September 1847
W. W. Heth Clk
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State of Indiana
Harrison County
Sir
On this Tenth day of September 1847 personally appeared before me Wm C. Marsh a Justice of the peace in and for said County John D. Weaver Resident of said County
of Harrison who being by me duly sworn according to law  upon his Oath says that he was the Physician who attended Rachel Howe 
in her last Illness Death and burial in the County of Harrison and State of Indiana and that she died in said County on the 3rd day of September 1844 that the said Rachel Howe  was the widow of John Howe who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States as he is Informed and believes
John Deaver M.D.
Sworn to and Subscribed
before me this Tenth day of September 1847
W.C. Marth JP

J. William C. Marsh before whom the foregoing affidavit was made do certify that the above named affiant who have subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is a creditable & Respectable man a resident of the county of Harrison that his statements are entitled to credit which I certify from my own personal
knowledge given under my hand this
Tenth day of September 1847
W.C. Martha J.P.
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State of Indiana
Harrison County
Sir
I Henry W. Heth Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Harrison and State of Indiana do certify that William C. Marsh whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit and Certificate of credibility now and was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due his official acts and that the Signature purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said Court at my office at
Corydon this 13th day of September 1847
W Heth Clerk
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State of Indiana
Harrison County ss
Sir
I Henry W. Heth Clerk of
the Circuit Court in and for the County
of Harrison and State of Indiana do
certify that William C. Marsh whose
Signature appears to the foregoing affidavit
and certificate now and was on the
day of the dates thereof an acting
Justice of the peace in and for said 
County duly commissioned and qualified
and that full faith and credit are
due his official acts and that the
Signature purporting to be his are
genuine

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed
the official seal of said Court
at my office in Corydon this
13th day of September 1847-
H. W Heth Clk
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State of Indiana
Harrison County   Set
On this the Twenty Sixth day of
April 1847 Personally appeared before Samuel S. Leonard Sole Judge of the Probate Court in and for said County of Harrison and State aforesaid William Crawford a resident of said County aged 76 years and past and
Nancy Crawford his wife aged 76 years and past both residents of said County who being by me first duly sworn in according to law upon their oaths say that they were personally well acquainted with John and Rachel Howe his wife and their family of children, that they
first Knew them living together as man and wife about the year 1783 or 1784 in Jefferson County in the State of Kentucky, that the said John and Rachel Howe came to Jefferson County Kentucky from what was then
called the Red Stone country in the State of Pennsylvania and there had in Jefferson County Kentucky their first and oldest child Sarah who is now the wife of John
Hedden of Harrison County Indiana and that the said Sarah Hedden their oldest child is now of the age of 63 years past and that their other children names are as follows to wit Abraham David Rachel Eleanor Isaac Jacob & Isabell all of whom are  living as well as they are informed and believe and that the other children are dead viz Anna Mary James Elizabeth Milcah and William, that the said 
John and Rachael Howe lived harmoniously together as man and wife until the death of the said John Howe  which took place in Hardin County Kentucky in the spring of the year 1830 that the said John and Rachael Howe lived first in Jefferson County Kentucky where they first knew them next in Shelby county Kentucky and last in Hardin County Kentucky where he died and that his widow the said Rachael
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Howe in a year or so after his death then removed to
Harrison County Indiana where she lived without in
intermarrying as his Widow until she died in the fore
part of September 1844 - that these affiants were 
personally well acquainted with the said John and Rachel
Howe from as Early as the year 1783 up to the time
of their deaths and that from a comparison of the ages
of the children of the said John and Rachel Howe with
the ages of the children of these affiants and these affiants
themselves-- the said John and Rachael Howe must
have been man and wife prior to the year 1794 and
as early as 1783 from which time to the period of their deaths
their legality of marriage never was questioned nor
has it ever been questioned where they were known. the
said John Howe was a very strict and Honorable
member of the Baptist Church from our first acquaintance
with him until his death as also his wife.

Both of these affiants say from the universal character 
and Probity of Old Mr Howe that any record of
his children from Sarah the oldest down to Isabel the
youngest written in the old fashioned hand writing of Mr
Howe is no doubt correct.

that the said John Howe was a revolutionary pensioner 
of the United States on the Kentucky Rolland
drew his money first at Lexington and last at Louisville 
Kentucky at the rate of ninety six dollars a
year as a Sergeant as they understood.
William Crawford
Nancy Crawford
(seal)

Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 26th day of
April 1847
Samuel S Leonard
Probate Judge ℗ (Seal)
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omi

I Samuel S Leonard Sole Judge of the Probate Court
in and for Harrison County State of Indiana before whom
the foregoing affidavits were made do certify that the
said affiants William Crawford and Nancy Crawford
are both intelligent and respectable persons residents
of the County of Harrison and State of Indiana
and that their statements are entitled to Credit which 
I certify from my own personal knowledge
given under my hand this 26th day of April 1849
Samuel Leonard Prob Judge
(seal)

State of Indiana
Harrison County ss
I Henry W. Heth Clerk
of the Probate Court in and for the County
of Harrison in the State of Indiana do certify
that Samuel S. Leonard whose official
signature appears to the foregoing affidavit
and certificate now is and was on the day
of the date thereof sole acting Judge of the
Probate Court in and for said County
Harrison duly Commissioned and qualified
that full faith and credit are due his official
acts and that the signatures thereto purporting
take his are genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto,
subscribed my name and affixed the
seal of our said Court at Corydon
this 4 day of April 1847
H. W. Heth Clk
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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE. 1-681 PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 28183

Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON 
CHIEF, Division of Publications,
Room G 137. December 1, 1928 192
Please furnish work specified below.

Bureau ordering PENSIONS Deliver to Room No. 5033

(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE,
EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)

Title and description of Job Photostatic copies of four (4) pages from Revolutionary
War pension claim of John How, Widow Rachel W.10113, three copies of each page.

No. of copies 3 of each page Shall for be kept standing? ____ ____ days
For further information see M.M.N. Finch Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541

Approved:
A.D. Wilkinson
Chief Clerk of Bureau
Margaret M H Finch
Chief of Branch

NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written
below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering

CHECK WORK DESIRED
[oval black stamp inscribed as follows: DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED DEC 3 - 1928]

Duplicate

Multigraph | single or double space? _____ Facsimile signature? _____

Mimeograph | one side or both sides? _____ Facsimile signature? _____

Folding | once or twice?

Assembling
Stapling | Once? ___ Twice? ___ Side? ___ End? ___
Electric typewriter | Fill in address? _____ Dated? _____

Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size _____ | _____ | Cards, size _____ | _____ | _____
Proof list _____ | _____ | _____ | Pay rolls _____ | _____ | _____
Labels (submit sample _____ | _____ | _____ | Corrections _____ | _____ | _____
Fill in letters _____ | _____ | _____ | Tabulation sheets | _____ | _____

Photostat X Size actual Official use? _____ Repay? yes $1.20
Blue Print Size _____ Official use? _____ Repay? _____ $ _____

Remarks 

(OVER)
Page 101

NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without (missing)
reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief of
bureaus.
_________________
( Date )

INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
Should read
On List:
___Make new addressograph platr
___ Change present addressograph plate
___Destroy present addressograph plate
as follows:
the above
Now reads
1 ____________________
2_____________________
3_____________________
4_____________________
5_____________________

Should  Read
1 ____________________
2_____________________
3_____________________
4_____________________
5_____________________

FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION

ADDRESSOGRAPH
The above change was made______,192
Operator ________
or to some

MULTIGRAPH
Operator _____ Date _____ Type set by _____ Date _____
Remarks _______________

MIMEOGRAPH
Operator _____ Date _____ Cut by _____ 
Remarks _______________
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PENSIONS  15822
Finance Division

Dec. 3, 1828
Chief Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
I have this day received from
Miss Mae McMichael
Cash in the amount
of $1.80, requesting
photostat copy as per letter herewith.
J. RANDALL
Chief, Finance Division
H.C.L.


To. C.C. ROOM
Dec. 2, 1928
Dec 7, 1928
Photos mailed and 
Finance Division Notified
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3-2833
December 1, 1928

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Sir:
Please furnish photostatic copies of four ( 4 ) pages from the
Revolutionary War pension claim of John How, Widow Rachel, W. 10113,
Maryland Troops; three copies of each page. Not to be certified.
Signed:
Miss Mae McMichael
3032 "O" St. N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Received payment:
One dollar and eighty cents ( $1.80 )
December 1, 1928
Maurice E. Emerick
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

Cash
$1.80
(stamp)
FINANCE DIVISION
BOOKKEEPER'S DESK
DEC 3 1928
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

(over)
Page 104

In taking the second page, turn the
two little leaves half back & cover with
plain paper so the word"= children" will
not be hidden & so the signature;
"Abraham Howe" & the words "Sworn
to etc." will show below.

Then for page 3 take the two
little records marked A as one page
& do not let the writing on under
page above & below show.

Then for page 4 take the back
of only one of the little slips marked
A, the one which begins
" Nancy Sherley" & do not
let any other writing show
around it.
Thank You

Make 3 copies of
each page described)
⎬
I am putting this here in order is know
next time what to do.  mmf
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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE. 1-681 PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 27890

Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications,
Room G 137. November 17 1928
Please furnish work specified below.

Bureau ordering PENSIONS Deliver to Room No. 5033

(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE,
EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)

Title and description of Job Photostatic copies of five pages (two copies of 
each page)from Revolutionary War pension claim of John How, Widow Rachel W.10113.

No. of copies 2 of each page Shall for be kept standing? ____ ____ days
For further information see M.M.N. Finch Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541

Approved:
A.D. Wilkinson
Chief Clerk of Bureau
Antonia W. Ford
Acting Chief of Branch
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written
below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering

CHECK WORK DESIRED
[oval black stamp inscribed as follows: DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED NOV 17 1928]

Duplicate

Multigraph | single or double space? _____ Facsimile signature? _____

Mimeograph | one side or both sides? _____ Facsimile signature? _____

Folding | once or twice?

Assembling
Stapling | Once? ___ Twice? ___ Side? ___ End? ___
Electric typewriter | Fill in address? _____ Dated? _____

Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size _____ | _____ | Cards, size _____ | _____ | _____
Proof list _____ | _____ | _____ | Pay rolls _____ | _____ | _____
Labels (submit sample _____ | _____ | _____ | Corrections _____ | _____ | _____
Fill in letters _____ | _____ | _____ | Tabulation sheets | _____ | _____

Photostat X Size actual Official use? _____ Repay? yes $1.20
Blue Print Size _____ Official use? _____ Repay? _____ $ _____

Remarks

(OVER)
Page 106

NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal
reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of
bureaus.
_________192__
(Date)

INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN
---
AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
ON LIST
___Make new addressograph plate
___Change present addressograph plate
___Destroy present addressograph plate
as follows:
Now reads
1____________________________
2____________________________
3____________________________
4____________________________
5____________________________
SHOULD READ
1____________________________
2____________________________
3____________________________
4____________________________
5____________________________

FOR USE OF DUPLICATION AND ADDRESSING SECTION
ADRESSOGRAPH

The above change was made _____192_____.
Operator ____________
Date.

MULTIGRAPH
Operator ______ Date _____ Type set by _____ Date_____
Remarks: ______________________________________________

MIMEOGRAPH
Operator ________________ Date ______ Cut by ______
Remarks: ___________________________________________
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15822

3-2233

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
No. 17. 1928
Chief Rev. and 1812 Wars Section 
I have this day received from
Miss Mae McMichael
Cash in the amount  
of $1.50 requesting
photostat copy as per letter herewith.

O. J. Randall
Chief, Finance Division
hbl

To C C Room
November 17, 1928
Photos mailed and
Finance Divsion
Notified Nov. 24, 1928

Cash $1.50
(stamp)
BOOK-KEEPER'S DESK
NOV 17, 1928
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
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November 17, 1928

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Sir:
Please furnish photostatic copies of five (5) pages (two copies
of each page) from Revolutionary War pension claim of John How or
Howe, widow Rachell, W. 10113. Not to be certified.

Miss Mae McMichael
3032 "O" St. N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Received Payment,
One dollar and fifty cents ( $1. 50 )
November 17, 1928
Maurine E. Emrick
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

Cash $1.50
(stamp)
FINANCE DIVISION
BOOKKEEPER'S DESK
NOV 17 1928
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
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EVANSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
FULTON SCHOOL
J. EDWIN HOWE, PRINCIPAL
Evansville, Indiana

317 Huston Ave.,
Sept. 10, 1928.

Bureau of Pensions,
Dept. of Interior,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen: --

I should like to have a copy of the pension application
of John Howe, Revolutionary soldier, Maryland line, who was granted
a pension in 1818. In 1821 it was taken away and restored in 1824.
He lived in Hardin County, Kentucky. I am looking for personal
information concerning this man and should you be able to suggest
other avenues, I shall be greatly indebted to you.
Very truly yours,
J. Edwin Howe

(stamp)
Pension Office US
Sep 12 1928