Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2394, Noah Cowles, Conn.
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Service
Conn.

Cowles, Noah

Number
R. 2394
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The State of Ohio }
Ashtabula County }
On this 14th day of May AD 1838 Personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Commonpleas now in Session in & for said County Noah Cowles, a resident of Geneva in the County of Ashtabula State of Ohio, aged seventy three who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered in the Army of the United States in the year 1776 at Norfolk Litchfield County & state of Connecticut. And served under the following named officers and served as follows: I entered in May, 1776 under Lieutenant James Watson in the company Commanded by Captain Lacy in Col Heman Swifts Regiments for six months - I was then marched from Norfolk whence I enlisted to Benington in the State of Vermont from there to White Hall & from there to Mount Independence where we joined the army where I remained till the first of September 1776 where with the permission of my officers I then inlisted as a Marine on board a Gally called the Washington. Gally Commanded by Captain Thacker & Lieutenant Gould. I there enlisted as a Marine for during the war or as long as Marines were wanted on Lake Champlain but no particular time was agreed upon. I went on board the Gally as a Marine soon after or in September I think we sailed down the Lake & joined the American fleet where we lay till about the fifteenth of October of that year I think it was when the British fleet came up and attacked us. the American force was then under the Command of Genl Arnold. The battle continued through the day. at night Genl Arnold gave orders for us to sail up the lake & evade but the British [illegible] over took us and after an other Battle The Washington Gally on which I was, was taken by the British & we were all made prisoners of war. And soon after parolled on the condition of not taking up arms against his Majesty at all and to be at the call of any commanding officers of his Majestys Army until we were exchanged which was not till April 1781 by a cartel Letter in New York by Commissions for that purpose