Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16120, Joshua Fowler, Md.
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Md.     Fowler, Joshua            S 16120
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5094
Indiana
Joshua Fowler
of Floyd C. [County] in the State of Indiana who was a [] in the Company commanded by Captain Chaplin of the [] commanded by [] in the Maryland Mila for one year from 1780

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana as the [] of 45 Dollars - cents per annum [] on the [] day of March, 1931
Certificate of Pension executed this 4 day of February 1833 and sent to []

[] Sept. $67.50
[]              22.50
$90.00

[] As June 7, 1832
Recorded by Wm. Allison, Clerk
Book [] Vol. 9. Page 183
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Date of death
not av ab
Service Number
Md. Fowler, Joshua
S. 16120
Carded
Contents
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Joshua Fowler
21320
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Stand at New Albany for the County of Floyd within the State of Indiana continued and held by adjournment on this day the thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two before the Honorable Seth Woodruff sole Judge of the Probate Court.
The Declaration of Joshua Fowler in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Indiana [illegible]
On this thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Seth Woodruff sole Judge of the Floyd probate court now sitting at New Albany within and for the said Floyd
County Joshua Fowler a resident of the Said County and state, aged seventy three years and who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
Declarant entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as hereinafter stated to wit- In January 1781 having previously been drafted, declarant was called out from Washington County into the state of Maryland his place of residence, to Fort Frederick. He staid three months under this draft as a sargent [sic] Leonard Bilmore was his Captain, James Patterson his first  and his father John Fowler his second Lieutenant. One company of regular troops was also stationed at said Fort having Jack Reed for Captain, one Crampton Lieut and one Jacob's Ensign, Col Rollins of the regular army commanded the Fort at the
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time upwards of two thousand prisoners who had been taken (declarant believes) with Gen. Burgoin were guarded at this Fort . Declarant continued therein that service till near the end of the three months when the prisoners were removed to Little York in Pennsylvania; declarant's company and the aforesaid Company of regulars still attending them to within some twenty miles of little York when they were met by a relief guard.  The company of regulars however went no farther than Hagerstown when they were retrieved by a company of militia. Col. Samuel [Howes?] was in command at Hagerstown. At the close of this term of service declarant received a discharge but it was lost a long time ago.  About the last of April on the first of May 1781 at said Washington County declarant enlisted as a private for the term of nine months in Captn Joseph Chaplins company.  Thomas Hogg was Lieut. and Benoni Swangim, ensign. This company with Capt. Adam Ott's Company making together two hundred men dressed in yellow throughout and familiarly called the "yellow jackets" were employed for six months of this enlistment in said Washington County to guard and keep in check the tories They took in the mean time between two hundred and three hundred of them; to wit two Shockey's, Bambridge and one other were living at Frederickstown; eight were put aboard a French privateer and sent to sea: the remainder were fined and every eight of them compelled to find a substitute during the war.  The first fifteen days of this enlistment, declarant's company did duty on horseback
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During the last three months of the term declarant's company Cap'n Otts company and  others were stationed at Fredericktown Maryland under the command of Col. Thomas Bettis as a guard over the prisoners taken with Lord Cornwallis.  He thinks but is not certain that one Burgess was second in command there.  At the end of his enlistment declarant and his company were relieved in the duty by other state troops.  He received a regular discharge from Capn Chaplin which has also been lost.  Declarant stated also that some time in the year 1779 and previous to his first serves before mentioned, he was drafted and called out with nine others (he thinks) under the command of James Robinson on fatigue as it was then called. They went as a guard to a drove of beeves belonging to the United States from said Washington County to Carlisle in Cumberland County Pennsylvania.  He was upon this service 30 days. Declarant was born in the County of Ann Arundel and state of Maryland.  His occupation has ben that of farming, removed from said Washington County to the western part of the state of Pennsylvania on the Monongahela River where declarant married and shortly after moved to Jefferson County Kentucky and resided there until the year 1817 when he came to the state of Indiana and has ever since lived in the said Floyd County.  Declarant has no documentary evidence whatever of his aforesaid service nor does he know although he has made much inquiry of any person by whose testimony he can prove
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the same~ He Hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state of the Union 
x his mark Joshua Fowler

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year first aforesaid 
H. Scribner Clerk Floyd Probate Court Indi

We Frederick Reasor a clergyman and Philip Engleman both residing in the said Floyd County  hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Joshua Fowler who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed on the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion- Frederick Reasor
Philip Engleman

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid-
H Scribner Clerk
Floyd Probate Ind

And the said Court does hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states-Another said Court further certifies that said Reasor who is a clergyman and said Engleman who have signed the preceeding [sic] certificate reside in the said Floyd County, are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. And the said Seth Woodruff Judge of this Court who is also a clergyman residing
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in the said Floyd County hereby certifies that he is personally well acquainted with the said Joshua Fowler that he from his own knowledge of him believes him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and the said Woodruff concurs fully in that opinion-
I Harvey Scribner clerk of the Court of Probate for the County of FLoyd within the State of Indiana do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the applica of Joshua Fowler for a pension.
In Testimony where of I have hereto subscribed my name and affix the seal of said Probate Court at New Albany this 22 Day of November 1832
Harvey Scribner clk Floyd Probate Court

The department will please communicate with R. Crawford Esqr.  New Albany Indiana, on the subject of Mr. Fowler application.
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O. W. and N. Division.
3-525.
886.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
[Illegible] 16120
Bureau of Pensions,
[Illegible]
Washington, D. C.
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Joshua Fowler, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his
widow's [crossed out]) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Son of Joshua Fowler
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1779
Washington Co. Md
Jany. 1781
Aplor May 81
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
1 mo
3 mo.
9
RANK.
First
Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN
[Illegible]
CHANNEL
[Illegible]
STATE.
MS
Battles engaged in, V
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Washington Co. Md.
Date of application for pension, Mar 3. 1832.
Residence at date of application, [Illegible] Md.
Age at date of application, 73 yrs - [Illegible]
Remarks:
Very respectfully,
STATE.
20581b3m11-05
Commissioner.
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Josua Fowler

From 1781 private
12 months

Can Mr. Carr certify
that the declaration is
in the [illegible] of the clerk

Served 3 months [illegible]
9 mons Private 1 was doing [illegible]
not allowed
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joshua Fowler, which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
7 not answered
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For----year---months and---days, I served as a---. For---months and---days, I served as a---; and for such service I claim a pension."
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1906 Nov 27 History to Mrs. Louisa C. Davison.
1935 April 11 AD. Mrs. T. R. Conner to apply to C.Y. for date of [ ] death. Letter in care of Adam Hart, [ ] 46576 EES
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April 11, 1936

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Mrs.  V. H. Conner
311 Woodrow
New Albany, Indiana 
BA-J/EEL
Adam Hart-S. 46576
Joshua Fowler-S. 16120
Epaphras Jones-S. 16889
John Russell-S. 36878

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the death dates of Adam Hart, Epaphras Jones, Joshua Fowler and John Russell, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, who received pensions while residing in Floyd County, Indiana.
In the papers in the pension claim, s. 46576, based upon the military service of Adam Hart in the Revolutionary War, the date of death is shown as July 27th, 1847.
In the claims of Joshua Fowler, s. 16120, Epaphras Jones, s.16889, and John Russell, s. 36878, the dates of death of the soldiers are not shown. John Russell is erroneously listed on the pension list of 1835, issued by the Secretary of War, as of Floyd County. His name should have been borne on the Clark County list. 
In order to obtain the date of last payment of Pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioners, John Fowler (s. 16120), Epaphras Jones, (s. 16889) and John Russell (s. 36878) you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Joshua Fowler, Certificate No. 5094, issued February 4, 1833, 
rate $45 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Indiana Agency.
Epaphras Jones, Certificate No. 7556, issued April 26, 1833, rate $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Indiana Agency.
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John Russell, Certificate No. 18312, issued October 17, 1821, rate $8 per month, commenced August 23, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, Indiana Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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United States of America
The Space Above is reserved for Postmark.
Postal Card.
The Space Below is for the Address Only.

Pension Department
Washington D.C.
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Will you please give me the statistics in regard to Joshua Fowlers Revolutionary War- I suppose left Va for Ky and there to Indiana- supposed to be a pensioner-

Mrs Louisa C. Davison
Seymour
Jackson Co
Indiana
221 N. Chestnut
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P  16/20
INVALID
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File No. 16125
Joshua Fowler
Sergt Rev War
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Act: June 7 32
Index:- Vol. 1 Page 441

[Arrangement of 1870]
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1906 Nov 27 History to
Mrs Louisa C. Davison.

1935. Apr 11- Ad. Mrs VR
Conner to apply to C.Y
for date of sol. death. Letter
in case Adam Hart. S. 46576
EES