Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22802, Jonathan Clower, Continental N.C.
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Service
Continental N.C.
Clower, Jonathan
Mary
Number
W.22802

This envelope includes 
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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3649
Anpauses LR
[Alabama Tuscaloosa - crossed out]
Mary Clower
widow of Jonathan Clower - NC
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private


Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 00
Cents per annum to commence on the [missing]th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of May 1837 and sent to [illegible] S W Harris M.C.
Wetumpaka Alabama

[missing] ded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
[missing] ary 2, 1848, Page 354, Vol. 3.

Let R. Lawing
May 26 '52

[swirl] se lttr [illegible] in case of Nancy Turner, Ala '38 suspended

Let to H S. W. Harris
Let stet 1853 [crossed out]  [illegible]
to Arkansas, L Rock
4 March 1837
1853 Jun 17 Let to laPage Tuscloosa + Little Rock 1855 May 24. Let to P. 119t. - 
1856 June 20 Let to P. 119t
John Clark + Co Aug'st 27 1856

Date of death not on AB
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Alabama 26.479
Jonathan Clower 
of Bibb Co. in the State of AL
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Donahoe of the Reg commanded by Col  Dillan in the - No. Carolina 
line for Militia - - - -
[illegible] $40.00

Inscribed on the Roll of NC at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10" day of July and sent to hon. S. W. Mardis, Monticello, AL
___________________________________________________
Arrears to the 4th of Mch '3 120.00
Semi-amt. allowance ending 4 Sept. 20.00 =
$140.00

{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{ Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by S. T. Sprague Clerk,
Book 6 - Vol. 8 Page 44.

Dead
Letter to J. M. McClanahan 21 January 1841
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of Dec. 6th April 1838
from 4 March to 18 Sept. 1837 Agt notified 11, June 1841.
__________________________________________________
Letter to Jos. Johnson
Sept. 27. 1850
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The State of Alabama }
Bibb County ss }
County Court
 August - Tenn the 14 day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before Thomas Crawford the presiding Judge of the County Court for the said County of Bibb now sitting Jonathan Clower a resident of the said State of Alabama and County of Bibb, aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn accordingly 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 the service of the United States under the following named officer and serviced as herein stated - the regiment to which he belonged was commanded by Col Dixon he believes his name was Hall, not positive also by Major Dixon christian name not recollected also he states his captains name  to be Dunahoe, his christian name not recollected the applicant States that he entered the service in the year eighty-one in the month of May and the 25th day of said month and was discharged from the service on the 25th day of May seventeen hundred and eighty two just twelve months from the day he returned the service he resided at the time he returned the service in Orange County North  Carolina. he states that he was drafted and entered ser. at Hills - Bonargh town the County town of, Orange County North Carolina from which place applicant states he was immediately marched to join  [illegible] Army on the high Hills of Santee South Carolina which place he reached commanded by the above officers a five days after applicant reached the above named placed he was detached from his own company and regiment and transferred with twenty four others from the same regiment to Col. Henry Lees light Infantry in which services he continued until discharged or released; applicant commanded by Col Lee was in the battle at Eutaw Springs after which this applicant was in a skirmishing fight at Dorchester town on Ashley river South Carolina - he states he was employed remainder of the time he was in service in skirmishing about  twenty five miles above Charleston South Carolina - applicant states that he received an honorable discharge from Col. Lee, that the discharge is either burnt or lost and he is not positive which
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he has no documentary evidence in his possession which will establish his service - that applicant believes that there is still living in the States of North Carolina and Georgia individual who, knew applicant in the army of the Revolution and who, were in the camps at the same time with applicant but applicant is old and poor and unable to procure the their testimony without incurring expenses and fatigue [wholy out of ch - crossed out] two great to be encountered by applicant.
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State or Territory.
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Jonathan Clower

Mr. Alfred Gaskill - a Clergyman residing in the said county of Bibb Alabama and William Beard - residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Clower, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age  that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - sworn to + subscribed the day and year aforesaid - Alfred D. Gaskill, William Beard in a [illegible] said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War  department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states - in a [illegible] court  further certifies that it appears to him that Alfred D. Gaskill who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the said County of Bibb and that William Beard who has also signed is a resident in the same County and is a credable person + that their statement is entitled to credit.
 Tho. Crawford, Judge Bibb County Court

I William  Caddel, Clerk of the County Court of Bibb County State of Alabama do hereby certify the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the month of application of Jonathan Clower, for a Pension,
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + seal of office this 14th day of Augt [183?]
Williams Caddell, clk

In 1 where and yr what year were you born
answer I was born in Burk County in Pennsylvania in the year seventeen hundred and sixty three.

2 Int. have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
answer I have a record of my age at home written in my Bible

Int. 3rd Where were you living when called in to the service; were you drafted did you volunteer or did you substitute; And if a Substitute for whom
answer - I was living in Orange County North Carolina, when I entered the service. I was drafted

[4th Int. How were you called into service - crossed out]

4th Int. where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
answer Immediately after the war I went to Pennsylvania and lived there from 84 to 92 from there I went to North Carolina from which  State I removed to the State of Georgia and from there to the County of Bibb Alabama, where I now reside

5th Int. State the names of some of the regular officers who were  with the troops where you,, served, such continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
answer - Col. Washington was with us at the Eutaw Springs and taken prisoner  Genl  Greene commanded at the above place Genl. Marion was also in the same engagement Col. Lee commanded on the right and Col. Washington on the left
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I was too much engaged to be able at this distance [of [illegible] - crossed out] to give a minute account of the positions occupied by the several officers engaged in this fight - applicant - will only add that he, will that the battle at the Eutaw Springs commenced about - Sunrise on the 8th day of September 1781 on Saturday. he says he has seen the day stated in some of the American Biography to have been the 9th but knows the Books to be incorrect

Int. 6th did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom, was it given and what has become of it
answer - I did receive a discharge given by Col. H. Lee, the discharge has been either burnt or lost and applicant does not know which.

7th Int. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as  a soldier of the Revolution
Answer -  I am known to many person in this county I will however name such of my neighbors as I see in the court and call John Henry, Esq. John Wallace Esq.  N. Coker, Esq and in deed the whole courtyard

Interrogatory to be answered by all the above named, persons

Int. by the Court - are you acquainted with the character of Jonathan Clower for truth and veracity if yea  is he entitled to credit when on oath and also is he reputed and believed by his neighborurs to have been a soldier of the Revolution and have you ever heard the fact disputed - 
Answers  - we are acquainted with Mr. Clowers general character for truth and veracity + believe  him entitled to the fullest - credit we know that he is esteemed and reputed by his neighbours a soldier off the Revolution and never heard it disputed

N. B. Coker  J Wallace

John Henry says that he is acquainted with Mr. Clowers general character + and thinks him entitled to the fullest credit knows nothing of his services in the Revolution.  John Henry
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Schedule of the property now in the possession of Jonathan Clower,
1 small horse worth ----$40-
4 head of cattle worth ---- 16-
15 head of hogs worth ---- 30-
1 part set blacksmith tools ---- 30- =
amt.----$116-

I am a Black Smith by trade but from old age, and infirmity I am unable to work at my trade - my family that resides with me, consist of a wife about fifty nine years, many infirm and unable to contribute much to her own support; I have living with me, at this home three children to wit, Jonathan S Clower, in his twenty first year, and about to leave my house J. L. Clower in his nineteenth year he is able to work his own support, also Daniel M. Clower fourteen years old, he is able to support himself.
Sworn to + subscribed before me in open court this 20th day of October 1831.
David L. Lincomb clk
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C26479   f 27.802 Mary
Jonathan Clower
Jacob Gibson
c30422 f10.744

Jan. 10, 1832
Ref.d to comm on Rev. Pensions
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No.12785
Mary Clower
widow of Jonathan
Ala
Act 7 July 1838

Richard Lanning
Sevierville
Tennessee
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 7th July 1838, entitled an Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows.
State of Alabama }
Shelby County }ss
On this Eighth day of November One thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County Mary Clower a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled and Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows. That she is the widow of Jonathan Clower who was a private soldier and volunteer in the Militia troops of North Carolina and entered the service in Orange County NC and served four tours, three months each, in all, twelve months, in the war of the Revolution for which he, the said Jonathan Clower drew a pension  under the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832, of forty dollars per annum. She further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Clower on the 25th day of October 1791 and her husband the aforesaid Jonathan Clower died on the 18th day of September 1836, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four and she still remains his widow. She further declares that she has no documentary evidence by which to prove the legality of her marriage, except, that of the family record, and that she does not at this time recollect the names Officer under whom he served except that of Genl. Greene, but that she has often heard him say in his life time that he was at the Battle of the Eutaw Springs and that he had marched to Raleigh and to Charleston, and diverse other places during the time of his service 
Mary (her Mark X) Clower
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above
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written before me a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid, and I further certify that the said Mary Clower is from bodily infirmity and old age unable to attend Court, and also that the family record attached to Mrs. Mary Clower's declaration was in her possession, and I believe it to be a true record of the births of the children born to Mary and Jonathan Clower.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 8th day of November 1844
James Cobb (Seal)
Justice of the Peace

State of Alabama } ss
Shelby County }
Personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Elizabeth Hucube and made oath according to law that she has been well acquainted with Mary Clower and Jonathan Clower for the space of fifty years and upwards and do certify that they have lived together as husband and wife ever since until his death, which took place the 18th of September 1836 - and that the legality of the their marriage has never been doubted in the neighborhood in which they resided.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of November 1844.
Elizabeth Knosche

James Cobb (Seal) }
Justice of the Peace }
I do hereby certify that Elizabeth Hubube whose name appears to the above certificate is a respectable person of Shelby County and of undoubtable veracity and credit should be given to any statement made by her in the above affidavit - 
Witness my hand and seal this 8th day of November 1844
James Cobb (Seal)
Justice of the Peace
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State of Alabama }
Shelby County }ss
December Term 1844 Orphan Court

The declaration of Mary Clower certified the 8th day of November 1844 by James Cobb a Justice of the Peace in and for said county being submitted to the said court,  the Court doth approve his proceeding and acts in said case, and hereby direct the Clerk to endorse the approval on the papers 
C.R. Gibbs (Seal)
Judge 10. C.S.C.

State of Alabama } ss
Shelby County }
I E.G. Lawley Clerk of the County and Orphan Court of Shelby County do hereby certify that the foregoing proceedings are original proceedings had and approved of by the Judge of the County and Orphan Court of Shelby County at its December Term 1844 relative to the declaration of Mary Clower to obtain the benefit of Acts of Congress relative to Revolutionary pensions - And I further certify that the aforesaid James Cobb is and was a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and qualified according to law - and that the signature pertaining to be his is genuine - 
In testimony whereof I have [fold in paper] my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Office in Columbiana this 3 day December 1844
E.G.Lawley CLK
of the County Court
of Shelby County
Ala
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Family Record

Births
Jonathan Clower was born in the year of our Lord December 3th 1763

Mary Clower was born In the year of October 1774

Names of their Children

Elizabeth Clower was born July the 16 1792

Catharien Clower was born November the 27 1794

Miriam Clower was born March the 23 1797

Mary Clower was born March the 4 1799

Rebeccah Clower was born May the 7 1801

Nancy Clower was born March the 7 1803

Delilah Clower was born April the 26 1805

Lurana Bush Clowers was born the 10 day of May 1807

Malinda Clower was born July 16 1809

Jonathan S. Clower was born the 10 day of July 1811

James Lawrence Samuel Butts Clower was born August the 24 1813

RR
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FAMILY RECORD

Marriages
Jonathan Clower and Mary Shuler was married October the 25 1791 in the State of Pennsylvania doffin County Middletown Parton Township (?) John Parthouse By Jonathan McClure Esq of said County
Jonathan Clower hid Book
February the 20 1826
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The State of Alabama
Shelby County
Be it known that before me John M McClanahan an acting Justice of the Peace and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Mary Clower and under oath in due form law that she is the Widow of Jonathan Clower & is now dead and to whom a Certificate of Pension was (?) which the following is a true copy viz - No 25479 -  War Department Revolutionary Claims
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Jonathan Clower of the State of Alabama who was a private during the Revolutionary War is Entitiled to receive Forty dollars and ___ Cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi annually on the 4th of March and the 4th of September in every year - given at the war office of the United States this 16 day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty four - 
Lew Cass, Secretary of War 
Examined and Certified signed
Geo Wm Crump (?)
for and in behalf of Commissioner of Pensions
Endorsed
Payments to be made at Mobile AL by First Br
State Bk Agent for paying Pensions in the Agency of AL - Recorded in the Pension office on Book E Vol Page 44 by J T Sprague Clerk that the deceased pensioner resided in Shelby County in the State of Alabama for the space of about six years before his death and that proving thereto his widow in Bibb County State of Alabama and that previous there to
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he resides in the State of Georgia
sworn & subscribed this
1st day of June 1841
before me
John M McClanahan
Justice of the Peace

Mary (her Mark) Clower

Know all men by these present that I Mary Clower of Shelby County State of Alabama in the said county of Shelby and state of Alabama Revolutionary Pensions of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Climent C. Clay my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the agent of the United States for paying Pensions in Tuskaloosa
State of Alabama the balance of said Pension from the 4th of March 1837 to the 18th of September 1837 the day of his death (?) my husband died this 1st day of June 1841
signed and sealed and (?) in presence of
John M McClanahan
Justice of the Peace
David N. McClanahan
Henry Harlowe
Mary (her mark) Clower
The State of Alabama
Shelby County
Be it known that on the 1st day of June 1841 Before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared the above named Mary Clower and acknowledges the foregoing power of attorney to be her act & did I have hereto set my hand and seal this 1st day of June 1841. Cast above matter In testimony there of - John M. McClanahan Justice of the Peace (SEAL)
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The State of Alabama
County of Shelby
I Noel Mason Clerk of The County Court of Shelby holder at Columbia in and for said County of Shelby and State aforesaid do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Jonathan Clower was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty dollars per annum was a resident of the County of Shelby in the State of Alabama and died in the County of Shelby and State of Alabama in the year 1837 on the 18th day of September that left a widow whose name is Mary Clower In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at offices in Columbiana this 1st day of June AD 1841
Noel Mason
Clerk of the County Court

The State of Alabama
Shelby County
I Noel Mason Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby Certify that John M McClanahan is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn - witness my hand and seal of office this 1st June 1841
Noel Mason
Clerk County Court
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Emb
No. 12.475.
by

Jonathan Clower
send. Tuskaloosaville
AL June 1832
(Widow of)
$21.64

11 June, 1841
___
12

Act 6 April 38

Reg. No 8289 dated 12 June 1841
Set to Treasury 14 June 1841
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For the U States
To the Widow of
Jonathan Clower
(?) Tuskaloosa (?)
(?) 7 June 1832 
For his pensions from 2 March
to 18 Sept 1837 the day of his
death 6 15/30 mo $40 
per annum (?) voucher
filed herein
$21.64
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[Written on header - see. let to him in George Clower dated Apr 14, 37]

November 5, 1936

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

BA-J/EEL [handwritten om]
Jonathan Clower - W.22802

Mr. George W Clower, Jr.
942 Juniper Street, N.E. 
Atlanta, Georgia

Reference is made to our letter in which you request information in regard to Jonathan Clower, a Revolutionary War soldier who died in Alabama.

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.22802, based upon the military service in that war of Jonathan Clower.

Jonathan Clower was born December 3, 1763, in Burke County, Pennsylvania.  The names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, Jonathan Clower enlisted May 25, 1781, [written in right margin - He said he thought Col. Dixon's Christian name was Rall. but as it was Henry I used initial only -] served as a private in Captain Donahoe's [written in left margin - could not identify] Company, Colonel H. Dixon's North Carolina Regiment, was soon transferred to Colonel Henry Lee's Regiment [written in right margin - He said Lee's light infantry but as Lee had cavalry [illegible] Cont. I said Col. Henry lee's Reg't], was in the battles of Eutaw Springs and Dorchester and was discharged at Charleston, South Carolina, by Colonel Lee, May 26, 1782.

Immediately after the termination of the war, he returned to Pennsylvania, where he lived from 1784 to 1792, then moved to North Carolina; thence to Georgia; thence to Bibb County, Alabama.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 14, 1832, while residing in Bibb County, Alabama.

He died in Shelby County, Alabama.  The date of his death, as given by his widow, was September, 18, 1836, and as shown on an official paper in the claim, September 18, 1837.

The soldier married October 25, 1791,in Middletown, Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Mary Shuler, who was born
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in October, 1774.  The place of her birth and the names of her parents are not shown.

Mary, widow of Jonathan Clower, was allowed pension on her application executed November 8, 1844, at which time she was a resident of Shelby County, Alabama. In 1851, her pension was transferred to the Little Rock, Arkansas Agency, however, her new residence was not shown.

The names of the following children of Jonathan and Mary Clower are shown:
Elizabeth Clower.......................born July 16, 1792.
Catharien Clower........................November 27. 1794.
Miriam Clower......................................March 23, 1797.
Mary Clower.........................................March 23, 1799.
Rebeccah Clower.......................................May 7, 1801.
Nancy Clower.........................................March 7, 1803.
Delilah Clower......................................April 26, 1805,
Lurana Bush Clower............................May 10, 1807.
Malinda Clower.........................................July 16, 1809.
Jonathan S. Clower...................................July 10, 1811.
James Lawrence Samuel Butts Clower..August 24, 1813.
Daniel M. Clower...............................about 1817 (exact date not shown)

In 1833, one Daniel Clowe made affidavit in Gwinnett County, Georgia, that he saw said Jonathan Clower while in the service. He did not state any relationship.

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 pensioner, Mary Clower, widow of Jonathan Clower (W.23802), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Mary Clower, widow of Jonathan Clower, Certificate No. 5649, issued May 6, 1851, rate $40 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848, Act of February 2, 1848, Arkansas (Little Rock) Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D . Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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January 16, 1926.
Kate C. Mitcham
Elk City,
Okla.

Madam:
I have to advise you that the data, this Bureau has concerning Jonathan Clower (W. 33802)
who served in Captain Dunahoe's Company, Colonel Dixon's North Carolina Regiment, is contained in the pension application made by him in 1832, while living in Bibb County, Alabama.

The records of Revolutionary War soldiers, as found in this Bureau, are filed according to the soldier's name and state troops in which he served, and not in any volume or book.

Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

February 18, 1925.

Honorable Thomas M. Bell,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Bell:
In response to your letter of the seventeenth instant, I have the honor to advise you that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services and a careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of Peter, Morgan, Jacob and Abraham Clower.

You are herewith furnished the records of the Revolutionary War pensioners, Daniel and Jonathan Clower. It is not stated whether they were brothers, nor are the names of their parents on record.

From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S.37865, it appears that Daniel Clower, while living in Orange County, North Carolina, enlisted in February 1780 and served one year as a private in Captain John Mill's Company, Colonels Archibald Lytle and Henry Dixon's
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North Carolina Regiment. He was in the battles of Lindley's Mills and Wilcox Iron Works and at the siege of Charleston.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 6, 1819, while living in Giles County, Tennessee. In 1831 he was living in Gwinnett County, Georgia, aged sixty-eight years, and his wife, name not given, was sixty-six years old. They had a son, John. There is no further data on file as to his family. The date of his death is not on record.

From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W.22802, it appears that Jonathan Clower was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1763, and while living in Orange County, North Carolina, enlisted May 25 or 26 1781, as a private in Captain Dunahoe's Company, Colonel H. Dixon's North Carolina Regiment, was soon transferred to Colonel Henry Lee's Regiment, was in the battles of Eutaw Springs and Dorchester and served one year.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 14, 1832, while living in Bibb County, Alabama.
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He died in Shelby County, Alabama, September 18, 1836.

He married at Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1791, Mary Shuler who was born in October 1774. She was allowed pension on her application executed November 8, 1844, while living in Shelby County, Alabama.

They had the following children:
Elizabeth    born    July 16, 1792.
Catharien           November 27, 1794.
Miriam               March 23, 1797.
Mary                   March 4, 1799.
Rebeccah            May 7, 1801.
Nancy                 March 7, 1803.
Delilah                April 26, 1805.
Lurana Bush       May 10, 1807. [o in1o changed to 10]
Melinda             July 16, 1809.
Jonathan S.        July 10, 1811.
James Lawrence Samuel Butts August 24 1813.
Daniel M            About 1817.

Very truly yours,

Commissioner.
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[stamp - RECEIVED OCT 21 1936 11:45
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VET. ADM READER: 36

FIRST NATIONAL BANK
ATLANTA, GA.

Oct 22, 1936.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

I will greatly appreciate any information you can give me of Jonathan Clower, Revolutionary soldier from North Carolina who died in Alabama.
Thanking you for any information of him and his family I am,
Very truly yours
George W. Clower Jr.
942 Juniper St. NE.
Atlanta, Ga
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Elk City Okla
Jan 10 - 1926
Bureau of Pensions
Washing DC
Please look up Volume & page numbers to my Great Grand Father 's war record as I want to become a DAR, and have all other information except this. He was Jonathan Clower Enlisted in Cap Donahoughs Co. Col Dixon Regiment North Carolina Volunteers in Revolutionary War.
Thanking you in advance
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and trusting I shall not put you to much trouble - 
I am sincerely - 
Mrs. Kate Clower Mitcham
Elk City Okla. Box 171
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(SEAL)
US Pension Office Mar 31 1904
Navy
Apr 1 1904 FIles
Temple Texas

E.T.Ware Comm
Department of Int. Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sir
Will you please look up record of __ Clower, husband of Mary Clower, who drew pensions for services rendered by her husband who was in Gen Daniel
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Morgan's Rifle Co. Said Mary Clower died in Drew Co. Ark about the year 1854.
There were three Clower brothers who served in the Rev. was. Daniel Morgan was brother of the said Mary Clower, who was widow of the Clower of which I want information. An early reply will greatly oblige - (Mrs) Mary Cochran 
Temple Texas
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Apr. 6, 1904 - His to
Mrs. Mary Cochran
Temple Texas

WIDOW, &C.
File No. 22.802
Mary Clower
Wid of
Jonathan Clower
Priv Rev war
Act: Feb Feb 2nd '48
Index - Vol A Page 139
[Arrangement of 1870]

1925, Feb 18 - Hist to Hon Thomas M. Bell. His let in cl. S37865,
Daniel Clower nm
______
1926 - Jan 16 - Kate C. Mitcham
inf. no volume but ref. appl (?)
_______
1936 - Doo 5 - Hist to NM
Geo W. Clower, Jr
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No .2785.
Mary Clower
Ala

Let. to Rick Lanning
April 3-1845

Hon. W. M. Cooke My 21, 1846

Oct 7 May 1838
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Wm E. Woodruff
Pension Agency Office, 
Little Rock, Ark.-
April 22. 1856

Enclosing copies of certain letters to 3rd auditor and late Comm.r related to disallowance of an amount of $60. paid by him.

Rec'd June 11." 1856

Left by Comm'r in person

Mr. Randall will please amend + report in this case  RJO

Mr. Randall
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Pension Agency Office,
Little Rock Ark's.
22 April 18456.

Sir,

Enclosed you will find copies of sundry letters from me to F Burt, Esq. late This Auditor, + L. P. Waldo, Esq. late Commissioner of Pensions, and of their letters to me, in the me in the year 1852, in relation to the rejection or suspension, by the This Auditor, of an item in my Account for the 3rd yr. of 1853 - being for $40, paid by me, under special instructions of J. E. Heath, the then Comm'r of Pensions, dated 11 Feb. 1853, to Mary Clower, a widow Pensioner, Act 2 Feb 1848, transferred to this office from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for 12 mo's Pension due to her from 4 March, 1851, to 4 March 1852.
You will perceive by the correspondence, that, after [underlined] the transfer was made to this office, and after [underlined] the Tuscaloosa Pension Agent must have received the usual notice merg, he, contrary to the usual instructions in such cases, paid her the Pension for the term above specified, and that the amount ha been admitted to his credit, while my Account ha been rejected or suspended for payment of the Pension for the same term, under [illegible] instructions from the then Comm'r of Pensions, + without notice that the payment had been previously made by the Tuscaloosa Agent - It is true, your im-[end of page 1]
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immediate predecessor apart that I was advised of that payment; by a letter addressed to me on the 17th June, 1853. - If such a letter was ever addressed to me, it never reached or came to my hands, nor has it to this day. - The only intimation I ever received [from [illegible] - crossed out] of such a letter having been forwarded to me, is through his letter of 22, May, 1854.
In his letter of that date, he authorizes me to retain the amount of the over-payment out of her subsequent Pensions, and suggests, at the close of his letter, that "no injury can result [to me] from [a little further delay - underlined].
To this suggestion I readily assented, in my letter to him of 14 June, 1854, and added, that "I do not waive or abandon my claim on the Department for this over-payment", that I was willing to wait a "reasonable time", +c.
Since the date of my last letter, I have made inquiries of divers persons residing in Ashley, Drew and [illegible] counties, (in the former of which, I believe, the Pensioner was residing at the time I made the payment to her), but can find no one who can give me any information about her - either of her whereabouts or whether she is still living. - The probability is, I think, that she is either dead or removed from the State.
As the ["little further delay" - underlined] suggested by your predecessor, has not extended to nearly two years, I think there can be no good reason for [ex-end of page 2]
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extending it any further - I therefore submit the case to your consideration, in the hope that you will, without further delay, direct the proper Accounting Officers of your Department to pay to my credit the $ 20 + my commission thereon which was rejected or suspended in the settlement of my Account for the 3rd yr. of 1853, for payment of Pension to said Mary Clower, from 4 March, 1851 to 4 March, 1852.
Hoping to hear from you on the subject, at your earliest convenience,
I am, very respectfully, yr. ob't. serv't

Wm. E Woodruff Agt.
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Hon S W Harris
Feby 11, 1853
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129
Pension Office
February 11, 1833

Sir,
Agrrably to your request, the name of Mary Clower, widow of Jonathan Clower, has this day been transferred from the Tuscaloosa, ALa. Agency to that of Little Rock, Arkansas, to take effect from and after the 4 March 1851

The letter of Misters Watrous & Stross is herewith returned.

Hon. S. W. Harris
H of R
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Columbiana Ala
April 16/57
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
City

April 25, 1857
Asking forms
J M McClanahan
Columbiana
Ala
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Columbiana Shelby Co Alaba
11 April 1851
Sir
Jonathan Clower a father of Revolutionary memory departed this life several years ago, who was a pensioner on the rolls of Alabama - his worthy (?) & widow who resides in this county desires to avail himself of the benefits of the liberal laws of Congress in such cases made and provided. Will you be so good as to send me the necessary forms & instructions to enable me to make application for a pension for her, & thusly greatly oblige her & gratify
Truly yr (?)
JM McClanahan
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Mary Clower, widow of Jonathan.

Ala - 27 1838
Av
Aa Pri. 1 yr $40 pension 
Claim from 4 March 1836, execute 2 years - 

sent to Hon. S. W. Harris
Watumpka
Ala -
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Tuscallosa. Ala. roll, Act 2 Feb. 1848
Mary Clower, widow of Jonathan, pri $40 per annum
To what time last paid?  Paid to 4th March 1851
BLB

Mary Bergan    Col.
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Ho Rip,
10 Feb 1853

Sir, I have the honor to enclose a letter to which I beg leave to call your attention, and to ask that the proper steps may be taken, to effect. the object alluded to - 
I hope the letter itself will enable you to turn to her name (at once) upon your books - She (Mary C) was a citizen of Shelby Co. Ala. and resided near Monticello in said County - So soon as the order is made to change the place of payment, please notify of the fact - 
Sampson H. Harris

Hon. J. E. Heath }
Commissioner }
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Col. James L Edward Commissioner Pensions

Sir, this is the widow of a Revolution Soldier request me to ask if [illegible] She is in title to the act of Congress 4 July 1836 + 1838 7th July She is the widow of Jonathan Clower whom died in Shelby County this State drew a pension of that County I presume that she has been swindled out of her pension though she makes the request I will be I will state the case as it is there was a man from the State of Pennsylvania that came and [illegible] on her which she gave  him the authority of Prosecuting her claim sometime she thinks in the year 1844 She has never heard from him since she made  him affidavit before Esq. Cobb of Shelby County You will please exam and inform me whether there has been a Surtifficate to him order or noted in form me at this office Jno. M. Rile Autauga Co ala  as it may be nesry I will give a copy of the family record you can this forgive me such information as you think nesry.
Very Respecdfuly yours +c.

Joseph Johonston
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Family Rechord

Jonathan Clower + Mary Shuler was married the 25ty day of  October 1791 in the State of Pensylvania in John Poore's house by Jonothan McClain, Esq. of said County Jonathan Clower was Born the 3rd day of December in the year of our Lord 1763 Mary Shuler was Born in the year of our Lord 1774 in October.

Childrens Names

Elisibth Clower Born 26th day of July 1792
Catharine Clower Born year of our Lord 27th November 1794
Monan Clower was Born 25"  of March 1797
May Clower Born 4th March 1798
Rebecca Clower Born 7th May 1801
Nancy Clower Born 7 march 1803
Delilah Clower Born 26th Aprile 1805
Lurana Bush Clower Born 10th May 1807
Molinda Clower Born 15st July 1809
Jonothan Clower Born 10 July 1811
James Lawrence B. Clower Born 24th august 1813

this old widow is very nedy You will please say wheth or not this is evilaba

You obainty +c.
Joseph Johnston

In host
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As Mr. + Sam troubling you I will submit a matter which I know will  enlist your sympathy said - Am Mary Clowers aged 78 years which of Jonathon Clowers has inquired what steps it is nasary for her to take, to get a pension - Having none of the acts of Congress in which I could give her no information - Her Husband was from South Carolina + served during the last 12 months of the revolution - A pension was granted him about the year 1833 + continued till his death - face of 1837 - They were married in 1791 + have Bible proof of the such - If there is much trouble about this matter please submit it to some assistant person who presents claims before the Department,  tho' the old lady can't afford a heavy fee

Yours very Respectfully
John S. Storrs

Hon S. W. Harris                
Washington
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This is to certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of William Caddelll, and know the  certificate above signed by him to be his own signiture + that he was at the time of making the said Clerk of the County Court of Bibb County + that Thomas Crawford was also Judge of said Court at the above date + that his name was written himself + that the said Court is a Court of record 
Given under my hand + seal this 21st day of Dec. 1833 Washington City - 

Sam W. Mardis [seal - handwritten and circled
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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 Johnathan Clower which require further proof or explanation. 

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
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 periods of the war when he served? yes

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? yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under who he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes

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? yes
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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? yes

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? yes

XIV. (+) If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?  Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 

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? yes

 XVII. Are the seen interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 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, ad 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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3
It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[15 - written in the left margin] (+) QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[13 - written in the left margin] (++) QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
[hand pointing right] In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Same objection as in the case of John Wallace
13 viz. The length of service alledged to be performed by declarant as a Malitia man is in consistent with the Military history of the revolution he must therefore prove his invoice: see note.
R McElroy
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War Department
Pension Office
31st Dec. 1833

Sir

The papers in the cases of John Neely, Jonathan Clower, Matthew Strand and John Wallace are - herewith returned. I feel it my duty to adhere to the former decisions in these cases.

Pension Certificates for John Ward, William Tabor and Lewis Turner, will be issued and sent to you.

I have the honour to be very Respe[missing}Your Obt. Serv't
J. L. Edwards

Hon. S. W. Mardis
House of Representation.
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State of North Carolina
Secretary of State's Office

I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid, do certify, that it appears from a list of settlements, of the account of the Officers and Soldiers of the Continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, that Jonathan Clower a private in said list was allowed for his services the sum of twenty two pounds three shillings and two pence (L22.32)
Given under my hand this 24th day of June 1834.

W. Hill
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Pension Agency Office,
Little Rock, Ark's.
14 June, 1854.

Sir,

Your favor of 24 [illegible] has been duly received, + contents noted.

In reply, I have to inform you that the letter never came to my hands, which you say was addressed to me, by your office, on 17 June last. "informing you [me] that Mary Clower, a Pensioner Act 2 Feb. '48, at $40 pr. annum (transferred from Tuscaloosa, Ala., to your [my] Agency, from from 4 March, 1851, by notification of 11 Feb. 1853), has been paid at Tuscaloosa, for the year ending 4 March 1852." - no such letter has ever been received by me, and the first intimation I had of her having been paid, by the Tuscaloosa Agt. for the year ending 4 March, 1852 was this a letter from the thin Auditor dated 15 Dec. 1853, informing me that the payment to her ,for that  year, had been disallowed in the settlement of my Account.

I admit that it "would be hard to throw the burthen of this overpayment upon the Tuscaloosa Agent." notwithstanding I presume he made it contrary to instructions usually given in cases of transfers; but it would be still [harder - underlined] for me to be the sufferer, when I complied with special instructions in making the payment, + without any advice or intimation that the Pensioner had been previously paid by the Tuscaloosa Agent. - It would be hard for either of us to bear the burthen of the loss; but, if either must bear it, I think it would be unjust to throw it on my shoulders, for obeying my instructions. - you are mistaken, I fear, in saying that the "remedy is still in your [my] hands."
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hands." - Mrs. Clower has not yet applied for payment of Pension due her since 4 Sept. 1853, and, having no knowledge of her whereabouts, or whether she is still living, it is very doubtful whether she will give me an opportunity to recover the overpayment I made to her, by retaining the am't. out of any subsequent pay't. that is, or may become, due to her.
I have no objections to the ["little further delay - underlined]," which you suggest, but in the meantime, I wish it to be borne in mind, that I do not waive or abandon my claim on the Dep't. for indemnity for this overpayment, and, if Mrs. Clower, shall not apply, within a reasonable time, for the payment of her Pension,+ as to enable me to retain the am't. overpaid to her, I shall insist on the am't. being placed to my credit, in the settlement of my accounts.
I am sir, 
very respectfully,
Yr. ob't. serv't.
Wm. E. Woodruff, Ag't.

L. P. Waldo, Esq.
Com'r - of Pensions, 
Washington City.
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Pension Agency Offices,
Little Rock, Ark's.
9 May, 1854
Sir,

Enclosed herewith I hand you a copy of a letter of 15th Feb.  last. addressed to me, by the Third Auditor, in reply to a letter of mine, to him, of 17th January last - a copy of which I enclosed so you on the same day, and to which I now again beg leave to call your particular attention .
In the 2nd paragraph of his letter, the Third Auditor says that I had been instructed, by you, "to defer amount future payments [to Mary Clower] until the amount erroneously paid has been deducted" - If you have forwarded me any such instructions, they have never reached me - indeed, I have received no acknowledgement by you of your receipt of my letter of 17 Jan. last) - but, whether you have, or not, is immaterial, so far as the overpayment is concerned, as it was made by me under the express instructions of your predecessor, dated 11 Feb. 1853, as stated in my letter of 17 Jan. last - Hence, the overpayment made by me, ought not to be deducted from my account, but, in justice, ought to be admitted to my credit, + charged to the Pension Agent at
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Tuscaloosa, Alab. , who ought to be the sufferer, if he had been advised of the transfer, as it is presumable he was.
I would have no objections to deducting the amount of the over-payment from the future payments that may become due to the  Pensioner, if she shall again apply to me to pay her Pension - but, another semi-annual payment became due to her on 4 March last, which she has not yet applied for, + I do not know that she ever will, for I have no knowledge of her place of residence, nor whether she is alive or dead.
This appears to be so plain a case, that I deem it unnecessary to enter into any argument in support of my claim. I therefore trust that you will immediately direct the proper accounting officers to do me the justice to pay the over-payment + my commissions thereon, to my credit, + let the loss if any shall finally accrue, fall on the Agent who really ought to be the sufferer
I am, sir, very respectfully, 
Yr. ob't. serv't
Wm. E. Woodruff. Ag't

L. P. Waldo, Esq.
Commis'r of Pensions, 
Washington City.
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STATE OF ALABAMA.
JOHN GAYLE, GOVERNOR OF SAID STATE,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME.
KNOW YE, That Thomas Crawford whose signature appears to the foregoing + annexed certificate was at the time of signing the same Judge of the County Court of Bibb County duly commissioned + authorized + that said court is a Court of Record and also that William Caddell whose signature also appears was at the time of signing the same Clerk of the County Court of Bibb County duly commissioned + authorized.

THEREFORE, all due faith, credit, and authority are, and ought to be had and given. [handwritten - to all their official acts as such.]

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the State to be affixed.  Done at the Capitol in TuscAloosa, this the 30th day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty-two and of the Independence of the United States of America the Fifty-seventh
BY THE GOVERNONR.  John Gayle
James I. Thornton  SECRETARY OF STATE.
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Columbia -1 June 41
J. M. McClanahan
Row 9
Am

FINAL-PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO

FINAL-PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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Columbiana Ala. }
June 1st 1841 }  Free

Peter Hagner, Esq.
3 Auditor's Office
Washington City

mail
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Columbiana Shelby County, ala
1 June 1841 - 

Peter Hagner Esq.
Inclosed please find Mrs. Mary Clower's application for Pension in right of her Deceased Husband. I have made it out as correctly as I can from the lights before me + hope it will be found correct. I was at a loss in regard to the appointment of an atty. though you will find that the Hon. C. C. Clay is named -  please address me at this place in regard to the matter.


I am Sir
Very Respectfully
your obt Sert
J. M McClanahan

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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(1.)  Pension Agency Office, 
Little Rock, Ark's,
17 Jan., 1854.

Sir,

Your letter of suit, has been duly rec'd, accompanied by a statement of Difference on settlement of my account for the 3rd Qr't. of 1853.
I have examined the statement and find that $40 of the amt. paid by me on voucher to Mary Clower, Act 2d Feb.  1848, has been [disallowed - underlined}, for the reason that this Pensioner had been paid at Tuscaloosa, Alabama to 4 March, 1852.
This disallowance in  my account is unjust, for the reason, that it was on the [first - underlined] payment made by me, under instructions from the Commissioner of Pensions dated 1, Feb. 1953, in which he expressly directs me to pay pension to Mary Clower, widow of Jonathan a Revolutionary Pensioner, Act 2d Feb. 1848, at $40 per ann. ["from and after the 4th March, - underlined] 1851."
When applied to for[payment of Pension - underlined] due to Mary Clower, I was ignorant of her having been paid at Tuscaloosa, Ala., for one of the years claimed of me and as in duty bound I obeyed my instructions + paid her the amount I had been ordered by the Comm. of Pensions to pay her. - 
I therefore respectfully [insist - underlined] on this [disallowance - underlined] of $40, together with my comm. thereon, being placed to my credit.
Hoping you will readily perceive + admit the justice of my claim, + advise me thereof on receipt of this.

I am very respectfully
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/duplicate.)  y'r ob't serv't.
Mr. E. Woodruff, Ag't.

F. Burt, Esq. }
3rd Auditor, }
Washington City }
________________
(2) Pen. Ag'y Off. Little Rock, Ark.
17 Jan'y 1854.

Sir, 

On next leaf I hand you a copy of a letter which I have this day addressed to the 3rd Auditor, + beg leave to call your attention to it, + to request that you will order my claim to be allowed by that officer.
The error is attributable to the Pension Agt. at Tuscaloosa, Alab., or to your predecessor in office; who ordered me to make the pay't, and not to me, for making the pay't as ordered.
I am, sir, vry resp'ly
y'r ob't serv't
W. E. Woodruff

L. P. Waldo, Esq'r. }
Comm'r of Pensions, }
Wash'g. City }
_____________________
(3.) Treasury, Department,
Third Auditor's Office,
Feb. 15, 1854.

Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 17th rec'd, in relation to an overpayment of $40 to Mary Clower, under act of 2 Oct. 1848, I have to inform you, that the accounting officers of the
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Treasury have no power to allow a double-payment in any case.
As you have been instructed by the Commissioner of Pensions, "to defer future, payments until the amount erroneously paid has been deducted," your recourse is to this expedient until you are re-imbursed.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) F. Burt, 
Third Auditor.

W.E. Woodruff, Esq. }
Pension Agent, }
Little Rock, }
Arkansas. }
_________________________________

(4.) Pension Agency Office, 
Little Rock, Arks,
9 May, 1854.

Sir, 
Enclosed herewith I hand you a copy of a letter of 15 Feb. last, addressed to me by the Third Auditor, in reply to a letter of mine, to him, of 17th January las -t a copy of which I enclosed to you on the same day, + to which  now again beg leave to call your particular attention.
In the 2nd paragraph of his letter, the Third Auditor says that I had been instructed, by you, "to defer future payments [to Mary Clower] until the amount erroneously paid has been deducted." - If you have forwarded me any such instructions they have never reached me; (Indeed, I have rec'd no acknowled't by you of your recp't of my letter of 17 Jan. last;) but whether
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you have, or not, is immaterial, so far as the overpayment is concerned, as it was made by me under the express instructions of your predecessor, dated 11 Feb. 1853, as stated in my letter of 17 Jan. last - Hence, the overpayment made by me, ought not to be deducted from my account, but, in justice, ought to be admitted to my credit, + charged to the Pension Agent at Tuscaloosa, Alab. , who ought to be the sufferer, if he had been advised of the transfer, as it is presumable he was. I would have no objections to deducting the amount of the over-payment from the future payments that may become due to the Pensioner, if she shall again apply to me to pay her Pension - But, another semi-annual payment became due to her on 4 March last, which she has not yet applied for, + I do not know that she ever will, for I have no knowledge of her place of residence, nor whether she is alive or dead. This appears to be so plain a case, that I deem it unnecessary to enter into any argument in support of my claim. I therefore trust that you will immediately direct the proper accounting officers to do me the justice to pay the over-payment and my commissions thereon, to my credit, and let the loss if any shall finally accrue, fall on the Agent who really ought to be the sufferer. I am, sir, very respectfully, Yr. ob't. serv't Wm. E. Woodruff. Ag't L. P. Waldo, Esq. Commis'r of Pensions, Washington City.
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(5.)   Pension Office,
May 24, 1854.

Sir, 
On the 17 June last, a letter was addressed to you from this Office, informing you that Mary Clower, a pensioner, Act 2d Feb. 1848, at $40 per annum, (transferred from Tuscaloosa, Ala., to your Agency from [4 March, 1851 underlined].by notification of 11 February, 1853) had been paid at Tuscaloosa, for the year ending 4 March, 1852. It thus appeared that the Tuscaloosa Pension Ag't. had anticipated a year's payment, which should have been made by you; 'but' as the pensioner was on your roll, + payable at your agency, my letter directed you to pay from 4 March, 1852, instead of 4 march, 1851, as before, or in case you should have paid for the same time with the Tuscaloosa agent, to reserve from future payments the amounts this concurrently paid.
I regret that you did not receive that letter. This remedy is still in your hands, and is the most equitable mode of settling the difficulty. We cannot control the officers of the Treasury, + it would be hard to throw the burden of this overpayment upon the Tuscaloosa Agent, who has not your means of indemnification, as the pensioner's transferred to your roll, + thus beyond his reach. As the pensioner was paid before for a year at one time, the next application will also probably be made for a full year, + then you will be safe from damage. At any rate, no injury can result from [a little further delay - underlined].
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I return the 3rd Auditor's letter enclosed in yours of the first to this office.
I am very resp'y
Your ob't serv't,
L. P. Waldo, Comm'r.

W.E. Woodruff, Esq. }
Pension Ag't,}
Little Rock,, Ark's }
____________________________________
(6.)  Pernsion Agency Office,
Little Roc, Ark's
14 June 1854.

Sir,
Your favor of 24th, has been duly received, and contents noted.
In reply, I have to inform you, that the letter never cam to my hands, which you say was addressed to me, by your office, on 17 June last, "informing you [me] that Mary Clower, a Pensioner, Act 2 Feb., 4'48, at $40. annu, / transferred from Tuscaloosa, Ala. to your [my] Agency, from 4 March, 1851, by notification, of 11 Feb 1853) had been paid at Tuscaloosa, for the year ending 4 March, 1852." No such letter has ever been received by me. + the first intimation i I ha of her having been paid, by the Tuscaloosa Ag't, for the year ending 4 March 1852, was thru' a letter form the Third Auditor, dated 15 Dec. 1853, informing me that the pay't to her for that year had been disallowed, in the settlement of my account.
I admit that "it would be hard to throw
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[to throw - crossed out] the burthen of this overpayment upon the Tuscaloosa Agent, "notwhithstanding, I presume he made it contrary to instructions, usually given in cases of transfers; but it would be still [harder - underlined], for me to e the sufferer, when I complied with special instructions in making the payment, + without any advice or intimation that the Pensioner had been previously paid by the  Tuscaloosa Agent, - It would be hard for either of us to bear the  burthen of the loss; but, if either must bear it, I think it would be unjust to throw it on my shoulders, for obeying my instructions. - You are mistaken I fear, in saying that the "remedy is still in your [my] hands" - Mrs. Clower has not yet applied for payment of Pension due her since 4 Sept. 1853, and, having no knowledge of her whereabouts, or whether she is    still living it is very doubtful whether she will give me an opportunity to recover the overpayment I made to her, by retaining, the am't out of any subsequent pay that is or may become due to her.
I have no objections to the [
little further delay - underlined]." which you suggest but in the meantime, I wish it to be borne in mind that  I do not waive or abandon my claim on the Dep't. for indemnity for this overpayment; and if Mrs. Clower shall not apply, within reasonable time, for the payment of her pension, so as to enable me to retain the am't over-paid to her, I shall insist on the am't being placed to my credit, in the settlement of my accounts.
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I am, sir,
very respectfully, 
yr. ob't. serv't.,
Wm. E. Woodruff, Agt.

L.P. Waldo, Esg'r, }
Comm. of Pensions, }Washington City, }
Page 70

Georgia }
Gwinnett County }

Came before me John Mills an acting Justice of the Peace for said County Daniel Clower who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that Jonathan Clower entered the Army of the United States as a Volunteer under Capt. Dunahoo (and Joined General Green at the Hills of Santee) in the month of May 1781 and served under said officers in said Army twelve months - and deponent further saith that he saw the said Jonathan Clower at Bacons Bridge S.C. at the time he was discharged and deponent further saith that said Jonathan Clower lived in Hillsborough, N.C. and entered the service of his Country at that place. 
Sworn to + Subscribed before me
this 24th day of June 1833 }
John Mills J. P. }
Daniel Clower }

Georgia }
Gwinnett County }

I John Mills an acting Justice of the Peace in + for said County hereby certify that Daniel Clower who made and subscribed the above + foregoing affidavit is a man of undoubted truth and veracity and that full faith + credit ought to be had + given to affidavit as such. Given under my  hand + seal this 24th day of June 1833. John Mills J. P. [Seal - in a circle]
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Georgia }
Gwinnett County }

I William Maltbie Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County hereby certify that John Mills whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit (made by Daniel Clower) is a subscribing witness ( and also to the foregoing Certificate of credibility for said Daniil Clower) is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County and that full faith and credit ought t be had and given to his attestation as such and that the same is in due form. Given under my hand + seal of office this 24th day of June 1833.
Wm Maltbie C. I. C.
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8990
Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Mary Clower
widow of Jonathan
who was a private in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued toe 6" day of May 1851

Hon. S. W. Harris N. C. 
Wetumpka Alabama
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book A Vol. 2. Page 230
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11.095
Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Mary Clower
widow of Jonathan
who died on the 18 Sept. 1836
of Shelby Co. in the State of Alabama who was a private in the --commanded by Captain -- of  the -- commanded by -- in the N.C line for 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Tuscaloosa at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents her annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6" day of May 1837 and sent to Hon. S. W. Harris M. C.  Wetumpka Alabama

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act July 7, 1838. }

Recorded by H. R. Weightman Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1 Page 329
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No. 3
Jonathan Clower
Declaration

Hon. W. Mardis
17 Dec 1831
Page 75

ORIGINAL CLAIM.

Declaration, in order to be placed on the Pension List, under the Act of the 18th March, 1818. The State of Alabama, County of Bibb ss.

On this 29th day of October 1831, personally appeared in open court, (a) being a court of record (b) for the [[district, circuit, county, or corporation, as the case may be,] - crossed out] Second Judicial Circuit Court of the State of Ala Jonathan Clower - resident in said county, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820; that he, the said Jonathan Clower enlisted (c) for the term of [illegible] months on the twenty eighth day of May in the yeat 1781 - in the State of North Carolina in the company (d) commanded by captain Dunaho in the regiment commanded by colonel Dixon in the line of the State of North Carolina on the United States land continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps [(or vessel) crossed out] until 26th May - 1782 - when he was discharged from  the service in Charleston district in the state of  South Carolina and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension: I was unwilling to ask my country to assist me so long as I was able by my own labour to make a subsistance. I am now so old and infirm that I feel myself unable to make a support by my labour. And, in pursuance of the act of the 1st May, 1820, I do solemnly swear, [(or affirm as the case may be)- crossed out] 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 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. (f) That, since the 18th of March, 1818, the following changes have been made in my property. (g) I have lost an horse and four head of cattle which died within the time stated period I have also [illegible] or furniture to my children that have since married . I have also surrendered to the government a half quarter section of land 
Sworn t , and declared, on the 20th day of October before (h) Reuben Saffold presiding judge in open court.
I David Lipscomb Clerk of of the Circuit Court do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Jonathan Clower - did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the
preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath, (or affirmation) 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 one hundred and sixteen dollars and -----cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 20th day of October 183[illegible] Reuben Saffold presiding judge  David S. Libscomb Circuit Clerk of the Court of the County of Bibb and State of Alabama
[Seal of the Court. in stylized square]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 12th, 1841.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Jonathan Clower, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Tuscaloosa, AL Agency, at the rate of Forty - Dollars and ---- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 18th September 1837 - 
 Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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Payments to be made at Mobile, AL by Post Br State BR Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of CH  Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book  Vol. 9. Page 44 by J. T. Sprague Clerk
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER Received from GAO
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832 Jonathan Clower of the State of Alabama who was a Private during the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive Forty dollars [and - cents - crossed out] per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 10 day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty four
Lew Cass Secretary of War

[covered by seal] and }
Counter signed. } Geo. Wm. Crump Chf. B for + in behalf of Commissioner or Pensions.

FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO