Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2775, John Dow, N.H.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE|[blank]|NUMBER
N.H.|Dow. John|R.2775
[blank]|Daw Rebecca|B.L.Wt. 6261-160-55
CONTENTS
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New Hampshire 30.734
John Daw of Strafford Co. in the State of N. Hampshire who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Worthen of the Regt. commanded by Col. Mooney in the N. Hampshire line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire at the rate of 20 Dollars ['[blank] Cents' crossed out] per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of July 1836 and sent to Hon. B. M. Bean, H.R. 
Arrears to the 4th of March '36, 100.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sep. '36 10.00
$110.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June ['7, 1832' crossed out] 28, 1836}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 1 Page 80
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[verso]
36.638 (Act Mar 3/55 Rec Apl 3/55.
Rebecca Dow wid of John Dow Private
Capt --
Col -- 
War of the Revolution 
Private Mooney's N.H. Regt
U.S. Pensioner under Act June 28 1836
[overwritten: wt no 6261 iss Sept 17/55]
Boynton
Adm'd 160 ac's Sept 11/55
Dodge
L. D. Stevens
Concord N.H. 
[margin note: Rev War]

[recto]
Cir. L. D. Stevens Aug 23/55
NH
June 32 - no 30734
Vol. D. 111.
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State of New-Hampshire.
County of Rockingham, ss. 
ON this Eight day of August Ad 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature now sitting at Exeter within and for said County of Rockingham John Dow a resident of Gilmanton in the County of ['Rockingham' crossed out] Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, aged Seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June  7, 1832:
That he enlisted in the Army of the United States on the first of July in the year One Thousand Seven hundred seventy nine and served in the Company commanded by Ezekiel Worthing (Worthen) and in the Regiment commanded by Archolous (Hercules?) Mooney the full term and period of six months at Rhode Island and was verbally discharged by the Col in 1780. at Providence in  said State of Rhode Island he further states that he was born in Epping in the County of Rockingham and State of Newhampshire and he enlisted and marched from Epping directly to Rhode Island and that he resided in Epping Sixty three years of his life Three years in Newmarket in said County of Rockingham and four years in Gilmanton his present place of residence ['four years' crossed out] Gilmanton is in the County of Strafford He also produced proof of service viz Josiah Clark and Jonathan King to the full satisfaction of the Court - having never had any written discharge
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State. 
/s/John Dow
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
Attest /s/P. Chadwick Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declair their opinion that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier as he states
I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court on the matter of the application of John Dow for a pension 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this ninth day of August Anno Domini 1832. 
/s/P. Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County 
[margin note: 2429 from John Dow]
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State of New Hampshire
County of Belknap ss. On this Twenty fourth day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me, Warren Lovell, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the State and County aforesaid Rebecca Dow a resident of the town of Gilford in said County aged seventy years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the law of the United States, passed February 3d 1853: that she is the widow of John Dow who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and at the time of his decease was in receipt of a pension from the United States at the rate of twenty dollars per annum under the Act of Congress passed especially for his benefit: that his name was on the Roll of the Portsmouth N.H. Pension Agency. 
She further declares that she was married to the said John Dow on or about the fifteenth day of September in the year 1815 in the town of New Market N.H.; that her husband aforesaid died on the fifteenth day of February
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in the year 1852: that she was not married to him prior to the second of January, eighteen hundred but at the time above stated. 
She further declares that she is now a widow 
/s/X her mark Rebecca Dow
Witness /s/Hugh Blaisdell
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first before written before me; and I certify that Rebecca Dow aforesaid by reason of old age and bodily infirmity is not able to appear in open Court. 
/s/Warren Lovell, Judge of the Court of Probate for the  County of Belknap
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[handwritten letter]
Newmarket Aug 17/54

Sir
I receiv'd yours of the 15th and have examined the records and cannot find the marriage of John Dow and Rebecca Knox recorded
/s/Paul Chapman Town Clerk
Benjamin Dow of Gilford made application for a certificate
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I Benjamin Dow of Gilford in the County of Belknap and State of New Hampshire depose and say that I am the son of John Dow named in the declaration of Rebecca Dow that I am forty seven years old that my mother died when I was eight years old that Rebecca Know came into my Father's family to work while my mother was  sick that after the death of my mother she still continued to work in my father's family for something  like one year when it was understood that father had married the said Rebecca Knox as as I recollect the neighbors told me that I had got a new Mother, that I lived with  my father till I was twenty one years old that I was then absent four or five years that with the exception I have always lived with and near my father that my father and Mother in law ever lived peaceably together and cohabited as man and wife and had five children that were considered as legal heirs and that there never was an intimation in my hearing by any one that they were not married And I  further say that my Mother in law had dower set out to her in my father's estate that my father died February 15th 1852 that I now live upon a part of the farm owned by my father
/s/Benjamin Dow
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State of New Hampshire
Belknap SS
Then personally appeared the within named Benjamin Dow and made oath that the above affadavitt by him signed in his belief is true 
Before me /s/Hugh Blaisdell Justice of the Peace
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I Mary Gale of Gilmanton in the County of Belknap and State of New Hampshire Aged Fifty four years testify and say that I was personally aquinted with John Dow named in Rebecca Dow's declaration for twenty five years previous to his death And that a part of the time above stated lived in the same house with him that wife's name was Rebecca Knox as I always understood previous to her marriage that they lived and cohabited together as man and wife and had five children as the fruit of their marriage and all considered lawful heirs and I have no doubt they were married 
And I further say that the said Rebecca Dow had dower set out to her from the estate of said John Dow And further say that he died February 15th 1852 that I now live forty or fifty rods from where he died and that I was with the family in his sickness and attended his funeral 
/s/Mary Gale
Belknap SS
Then personally apeared the above named Mary Gale and made oath that the above affadavitt by her signeed in her belief is true. 
Before me /s/Hugh Blaisdell Justice of the Peace
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State of New hampshire, 
Secretary's Office, Concord, 
Sept. 11, 1854. 
I hereby certify, That at the date of the annexed attestations Warren Lovell was Judge of Probate and Hugh Blaisdell was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Belknap in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court. 
[state seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written. - 
/s/John L. Hadley
Secretary of State.
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36.638
Rebecca Dow
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form of Declaration
To be made by the widow of a deceased person who has not had a Land Warrant.
State of New Hampshire
County of Belknap}ss.
On this twenty seventh day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Rebecca Dow aged Seventy One years, a resident of Gilford in the State of New Hampshire who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that  she is the widow of John Dow deceased, who was a private Soldier in the company commanded by Captain [blank] in the Revolutionary war ['regiment of [blank]' crossed out] commanded by [blank] ['in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812; that her said husband enlisted at' crossed out] and a pensioner of the U.S. by a special act of Congress at the rate of twenty dollars per annum that his name was placed on the Portsmouth Agency by said special Act passed June 28th 1836 [blank] on or about the [blank] day of [blank] A.D. ['for the term of [blank] and continued in actual service in said war for the term of [blank] and was honorably discharged at [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] A.D.' crossed out]
She further states that she was married to the said John Dow in New Market on ['the' crossed out] or about the fifteenth day of September A.D. 1815 by one Joseph Broadhead a Clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Rebecca Knox that her said husband died at Gilford on the fifteenth day of February A.D. 1852 and that she is now a widow 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855."
/s/X Her Mark Rebecca Dow
witness
/s/Jeduthan Gilford
/s/Zebulun Dow
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State of New hampshire,
Secretary's Office, Concord,
March 31, 1855.
I hereby certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Hugh Blaisdell was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Belknap in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to acts his and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
[state seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written. -
/s/John L. Hadley
Secretary of State.
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WE, Jeduthan Gilford and Zebulon Dow residents at Gilford in the State of New Hampshire upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Rebecca Dow in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. 
/s/Jeduthan Gilford
/s/Zebulun Dow
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
/s/Hugh Blaisdell Justice of the Peace.
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2429
John Dow
Private
on roll Capt. Worthen's Co Col Mooney's Reg't enlisted 14 July 1779 disch 9 Jany 1780 
5 Month & 27 days
Rejected
See letter 25 Oct. 1832 
Peter Chadwick Esq
Exeter N.H.
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BRIEF in the case of John Dow of Gilmanton in the State of N.H.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]
3. How old is he? 70 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
[column headings: Period.|Duration of Service.(Years,|Months,|Days.)|Rank. As a|Names of Generals and Field Officers under whom he served.Gen|]
In 1779 2 July.|([blank]|6|[blank])|private|Capt. E. Worthing (Worthen), Col. A. Mooney in R. Island|
[end of columns]
5. In what battles was he engaged? [blank]
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Epping.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? affidavits of Josiah Clark & Jon'a King. 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? [blank]
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
/s/Wm. Ward Examining Clerk.
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2775 [initials: own]
P.O. [blank]
Rebecca Dow
Service: widow of John
Enlisted: [blank], 18[blank].
Discharged: [blank], 18[blank].
[overwritten: REJECTED]
Application filed: [blank], 18[blank].
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No. 36638
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 3, 1855. 
John Dow
Rev. War.
Warrant No. 6261-160-55
L. D. Stevens
Concord N.H.
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New Hampshire
Rejected
See let to Hon H. F. Janes March 23, 1836
7 June 1832

6261 
160 Acres
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Rebecca Dow wid John Rej 3d Mar 55 no 366 in Sus 53 Boynton]
[postmark: CONCORD N.H. SEP 7] 
Hon Josiah Minot
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Rebecca Dow Boynton Rec'd Sept 14th NH]
[postmark: CONCORD N.H. SEP 13] FREE
Hon L. P. Waldo
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Concord N.H. Sept. 6, 1855

Sir,
I herewith forward the additional evidence called for by you in support of the claim of Rebecca Dow widow of John for bounty land No. 36638 
I am respectfully Your Obt Serv't  
/s/L. D. Stevens
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State of New hampshire. 
SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE. 
I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the war of the Revolution, which remain in this office, it appears that the name of "John Dow" is borne upon the Pay Roll of Capt/ Ezekiel Worthen's Company , as a "Private No. 19."in said Company, (Vol 3. Page 8. letter L.)
"Pay Roll for Capt. Ezkl. Worthen's Co. in Col'o Her'c Mooney's Reg't raised by the state of New Hampshire for the defence of Rhode Island 1779. allowed one days pay for every twenty miles travel home after the discharge at Newport. Time of Engagement - July 14, 1779. Time of Discharge Jan'y 9. 1780 (1779). Time in Service 5 Mo. - 27. - Rate per Month £12. - Amount of Wages £70.-16. - "
[state seal affixed] in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, this Sixth day of September 1855
/s/Lemuel N. Pattee Secretary of State.
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Concord N.H. Sept 11. 1854
Sir
I herewith forward you the
application of Rebecca Dow widow of John Dow
for Pension
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
L.D. Stevens
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C
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HR. 546
John Daw
act June 28, 1836.
$20 per annum. 
N.H. roll.
Hon B. M. Bean HR
Com: on Pensions
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[handwritten letter]
War Department
Pension Office
June 24, 1836

Sir, 
In reply to your letter of the 23d inst. I have the honor to state to you, that it appears from the rolls that John Dow served 5 months and 27 days. I enclose herewith a copy of my letter of the 23d of March last to the Hon. H. F. Janes, in relation to this case. I also return herewith the printed report which you enclosed. 
I have the honor to be very respectfully Your Obt Serv't 
/s/J. L. Edwards
Hon. B. M. Bean
House of Representatives
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I Josiah Clark of Epping in the County of Rockingham and State of Newhampshire depose and testify that in the year 1779 I was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution at Rhode Island in the Regement Commanded by Archolous (Hercules) Moony (Mooney) and in Capt Ezekiel Worthen's Company for the term of Six Months. I further declare that during all that time John Dow of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford and State aforesaid was in the same Company and Regiment a soldier with me. 
/s/Josiah Clark
State of Newhampshire
Rockingham ss. 
June 13th 1832} Then personally appeared the above named Josiah Clark and made oath that the above declaration by him subscribed to be just and true
Before me /s/Daniel W. Ladd } Justice Peace
I Jonathan King of Brentwood in the County of Rockingham and State of Newhampshire depose and testify that in the year 1779 I was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution at Rhode Island in the Regement commanded by Archolous (Hercules) Moony (Mooney) and in Capt Ezekiel Worthen's Company for the term of Six Months I further declare that during all that time John Dow of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford and State aforesaid was in the same Company and Regiment a soldier with me. 
/s/Jonathan King
State of Newhampshire
Rockingham ss. 
June 13th 1832} Then personally appeared the above named Jonathan King and did solomly affirmed that the above declaration by him subscribed to be just and true
Before me /s/Daniel W. Ladd } Justice Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Josiah Clark and Jonathan King Oaths is entitled to credit
/s/Daniel W. Ladd Justice Peace
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I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Daniel W. Ladd is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and that I believe that the signatures to the certificates of the within affidavits are in his own hand writing.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this tenth day of August Anno Domini 1832
/s/P. Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rocking'm County 
Avidavitts of Josiah Clark & Jon'a King to the Services of John Dow.
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Petition of John Dow praying for a Pension
March 1, 1836
Ref'd to the Committee on Rev'y Pensions
Apl. 12, 1836 - Bill No 546
refer to the Com'ee on Revolutionary Pensions - 
Bean -
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To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States of America now convened - 
Humbly Shows, John Dow of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford in the State of New Hampshire, formerly of Epping, in said State, that he enlisted as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution in the company commanded by Captain Worthen in Colonel Mooney's Regiment in the months of June, he thinks in the year A.D. 1780, for the term of six months and marched from Epping aforesaid to the State of Rhode Island and there stationed untill he was discharged the last of December A.D. 1780.
And that he made application to the Secretary of War under the provisions of the Act of Congress passed June seventh A.D. 1832, for a pension, but did not succeed, the Secretary of War says, the records at the War Department shew he was not in actual service six months wanting five days of less - 
Wherefore he prays that your wise bodies will have his case under your wise considerations and grant him a pension on the same rates for his services as is now allowed pensioners, who served six months or more, commencing on the fourth day of March A.D. 1831, as it would
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greatly relieve him in his indigent circumstances and old age, being that of seventy years - for proof of his services reference being had to his declaration with the accompanying affadavits retained at the Office of the Secretary of War - As in duty bound will pray
Gilmanton July 9th 1836 /s/John Dow
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[handwritten letter]
(Copy.)
War Department
Pension Office
March 23, 1836

Sir
In reply to your request to have the papers of John Dow forwarded to you, I have the honor to inform you that no claim has been asserted under that name from Vermont. There is a John Dow, of Gilmanton, N. Hampshire, and a John Doe, of Strafford, N. Hampshire; the first having served, by the rolls, 5 months and 27 days, and the other 5 months and 22 days. If you will be good enough to furnish a specification by which we may identify that case to which you refer, your wishes will be promptly attended to. 
I have the honor to be, very respectfully Your Obt Servant
(signed.) J. L. Edwards
Hon. H. F. Janes,
House of Representatives
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Priv 166
24th CONGRESS,
1st SESSION. 
['H.R. 546.
APRIL 12, 1836.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House tomor
Mr. JANES, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill: A BILL' crossed out]
An Act Granting a pension to John Daw.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of John Daw, of Gilmanton, in the county of Strafford, in the State of New Hampshire, on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, and pay to him twenty dollars per annum during his natural life, commencing on the fourth day of March, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. 
Approved 28th June 1836
A true copy compared with the Roll in this office. 
Dept of State
June 20th 1836} /s/Asbury Dickins chief clerk
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HR 546 H No. 546
24th CONGRESS,
1st Session. [Rep. No. 555.] HO. OF REPS.
JOHN DAW.
[To accompany bill H.R. No. 546]
APRIL 12, 1836. 
Mr. JANES, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following 
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to which was referred the petition of John Daw, report:
That it appears that the said John Daw, in the forepart of the summer of 1780, enlisted into the revolutionary service, for the term of six months, in the New Hampshire line, and was marched to the State of Rhode Island, and there served until honorably discharged in the month of December, of the same year - being, as the petitioner then supposed, the full term of six months. But having applied to the War Department for a pension, under the act of 7th June, 1832, his claim was rejected -the rolls of New Hampshire showing only five months and twenty-seven days of actual service, three days short of the provisions of the aforesaid act.
The committee are disposed to give a more liberal construction, and therefore report a bill as for six months' service.
Blair & Rives, printers.