Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,020, Elijah Bowman, Continental (Penn.)
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(8-1776)
SERVICE | NUMBER
Continental (Penn.) | Bowman, Elijah | S. 40,020
CONTENTS
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3,997.
Pennsylvania.
Elijah Bowman private,
Colo. Proctor 
Pennsylvania line 77-4 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania 
at the rate of -8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th,, of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension  issued the 29th, of Oct 1818 and sent to the pensioner.
at Philadelphia. 
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818
4 [illegible] 39.73 
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4th Mar 1819 48.00
$: 87.73
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continental
City of Philadelphia.
[illegible] to D Caldwell 4 Oct 1821 Phila pa [written vertically]
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Elijah Bowman.
correct under the law,
Proctor's Regt. of artillery
-
Correct by [illegible]
[illegible]
of the act
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County
}Ss
Elijah Bowman of the City of Philadelphia Taylor being duly
sworn and examined doth depose and say. That he is a resident
Citizen of the United States and is by reason of his reduced
circumstances in life in need of assistance from his County for
support. That this deponent was a Bombardier in and
belonged to Captain Isaac Coren's Company of Artillery under the
command of Colonel Thomas Procter in the Pennsylvania
line on the Continental establishment. That this deponent
entered the service on or about the thirty first day of July 1777.
and was discharged at his own request on or about the twelfth
day of February 1881. after having served for three and an
half years in the war of the revolution.
That this deponent has never had any pension
allowed to him, by the laws of the United States, and that
his discharge accomanie's his present application for that purpose.
Elijah Bowman
And Andrew Crawford being also duly sworn and
examined doth depose and say. That he has for many years
known and been well acquainted with the before named
deponent, and is now in habits of intimacy with him;
and therefore verily believes that the facts by him set
forth are just and true
And [illegible] Crawford
Both sworn and subscribed
April 6th 1818. before me
William Moulder
Associate Judge of the Court of Common
Please for Philada County
And I do hereby certify, that from the foregoing
affidavits and also from the examinations, by me heard in
relation thereto, it appears to my satisfaction that the applicant
Herein named, served in the revolutionary war as aforesaid
against the common enemy. Witness my hand and Seal
the Sixth day of April 1818
William Moulder
Associate Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas for Philad County
Elijah Bowman, No. 33.
Cherry Street Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County Ss.
I, Joseph B. Norbury Prothonotary of the Court of Common
Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia do certify that the Honourable
William Maulder before thee whom the within affidavits were
made, and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time of
taking thereof and still, is an Associate Judge of the said Court duly
commissioned and qualified to all whose acts as such full faith and
credit is and ought to be given, as well in courts of justice as elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said court at Philadelphia
the sixth day of April Anno Domine one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen
JOS. B. Norbury
Prothy.
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Eastern District of Pennsylvania ss.
On this Sixth day of July A.D. 1821 personally appeared in
Open Court, being a Court of Record, for the said District, Elijah Bowman, aged Sixty
five years, resident in the City of Philadelphia, in said District, who being first duly
sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary
Army as follows: that he enlisted as a Soldier and served as a bombardier in
Captain Isaac Coren's Company of the fourth a Pennsylvania regiment of artillery
in the Pennsylvania Line commanded by Col. Thomas Proctor and refers to his
discharge, attached to his Original declaration, dated April 6. 1818, in pursuance
of which a certificate of the allowance of a pension issued, numbered 3997.  - 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 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 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 by me subscribed.
Schedule of Elijah Bowmans Property
One Bureau - appraised at - 7.00
Two Tables - 10.00
Eight Chairs - 4.00
Two Pairs of And Irons - 3.00
One Pair Shovel & Tongs - 0.75
Two Small Looking Glasses - 4.00
One ten Plate Stove - 7.00
Three Small Iron Pots - 1.50
Two Tubs - 1.00
Four Old Chairs - 1.00
Two Old Tables - 1.50
Two old Chests - 2.00
Six Knives & forks - 0.50
Twelve Plates - 0.50
one Coffee Pot - 0.50
One Tea Pot - 0.25
Twelve Metal Spoons - 0.75
one Lot of Crockery ware including pitcher - 2.00
$47.25
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The declarant add, as required by Law, that he is at this time favored, transiently
with the situation of Sexton to a Church with a Salary of L [symbol] 43. Pennsylvania Currency
besides small perquisites: but, being unable to perform all the duties of the station himself,
is constrained to hire assistance, whereby his pittance becomes so much reduced as to be
utterly insufficient, even with the rigid economy he is in the constant practice of, to
support his family, without the restoration of his suspended pension. Besides, he has
no certainly of retaining this humble station, it being elective annually; and should
he unfortunately be visited with sickness, he and family would be subjected to the want
of common necessaries, his little pension money not withstanding.
Names and ages of the declarants family, residing with him. His wife Margaret,
aged 64 years, much debilitated and weak, very little able to give any material
assistance towards gaining a livelihood.- Three Orphan grand children,
(both parents dead) totally unprovided for and destitute, except only such assistance
and support as the declarant may be enabled to extend to them viz. Sarah
Johnson aged 9 years. Thomas & Margaret Johnson (twins) aged 5 years.
The tender age of these, of course, preclude their contributing much, if at all,
to their support.
Elijah Bowman
Sworn to in open Court
July 6th 1821 -
D. Caldwell Clk: Dist. 6h
I, D. Caldwell Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify, that the foregoing
oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records 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 aforesaid Schedule is Forty seven Dollars
and twenty five cents.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this sixth day of July
A.D. 1821 and in the forty sixth year of the Independence 
of the said United States.
D. Caldwell - Clk. Dist 6.}
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delphia feb 21. 1781. Delivred three Days Station
for Mr. Henry Valentine AC.
Christ. [illegible} Ats.
Discharge
Elijah Bowman
1781
26
16-g
12
240 g
[illegible]
4-1-7
1 Shirt
1 pr Shoes
1 pr Overalls
Leaves [illegible]
[illegible]
Robt Ralston
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By Thomas Procter Esquire Colonel of
th or Pensylvania Regiment of [illegible] the Continental
[illegible]
Elijah Bowman late Bombarier . . . in Captian
Isaac [illegible] company
[illegible] Cumberland County -
aged twenty [illegible] years 5 foot 4 [illegible] high Black hair dark complexio
[illegible] by [illegible] Taylor - having served [illegible] years
and the [illegible] of time for which he was enlisted being duly expired.
[illegible] at his own request discharged as [illegible] further service in
the Regiment aforesaid
[illegible] Philadelphia
this twelfth day of February [illegible] Anno Domini One thous
seven hundred and Eighty one
[illegible] Procter
Col. P Artillery
BOWMAN,
ELIJAH S.40020
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april 30 To [illegible] 3 [illegible] $
1841
May 29 To [illegible] 3 [illegible]
June 30 To [illegible] 2 [illegible] 2
Cash paid for a [illegible] 
[illegible]
To one Quarter to the [illegible]
To [illegible] attendence on the Generel
Convention [illegible] Eight [illegible]
[illegible] convention Four [illegible]
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40,020 
INVALID
Revy
File No. 40,020 
Elijah Bowman 
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18"
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 58
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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423.
Rec. 10 July 1821.
Genl.
Con
Exd
To the honble
W. Calhoun - 
Secy of War
City of Washington
[stamp reading "PHIL 7 JUL"]
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Philada. 7th July 1821 -
Sir -
I am directed by the Judge of the United States
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
to transmit the inclosed Declaration of
his the Case of Elijah Bowman an
Applicant for a Pension, to give.
I am, with great Consideration,
Fuller
Yr: d: Serv:
D. Cardwell. Clk Dis 16.
Honble
W Calhoun