Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3061, Major Dowell, Va.
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(1776)
Va
SERVICE
CONTENTS
Dowell, Major
NUMBER
R. 3064
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W. 32217
Major Dowell
Virginia
Rejected
9 December 1834


Hon. Wm F Gordon
Lit. J.B. Watts 23 May 1853
Blacksmith
3061

Accts. 7th June 18__
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State of Virginia
County of Augusta
Be it Known, that on this 20th day of December A. D. 1852 before me, the undersigned, Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Simpson F. Taylor administrator of Major Dowell (& husband of Virginia, daughter only living descendent) resident of Stanton in said County, and made oath according to law that his said intestate father in law the same who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of _____
that he as administrator he is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
       John B. Walls

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint of the Corporation of Staunton, County of Augusta, aforesaid, to be my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of the said Mayor Dowell for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or
documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive
for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency;
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.
Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
           Simpson F Taylor

Sworn to, Subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I certify that I believe the said Simpson F. Taylor to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party
therein alleged the name of "John B. Watts & the words of the Corporation of Stanton & County of Augusta afore
said" interlined before signed
Robert G. Bickle J.P.


State of Virginia
County of Augusta
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been laid before me Deputy Clerk of said Court of said County that Simpson F. Taylor -
the party who has sworn to, and
acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the father in law of reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify that I Robert G. Bickle Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and
acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this Twentieth Day of December 1832)
         Wm D. Troutt D.C.
1. Claimant's name or names in full. -2. Post Office address.
3 "That he is the identical man, or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c.
4. Leave this line blank. -- 5. "He is." she is." or "they are." Revolutionary soldier's full name. Claimant's signature -- S. Claimant's name -- Magistrate's signature.
10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of." -- If Magistrate's name -- 12. Clerk's signature.
N. B. -- Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.
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Staunton,
22 Dec 1852

Dear Sir,
I here enclose you a power of
attorney, executed by Simpson F. Taylor, as
administrator of the late Major
Dowell, to me, empowering me to obtain for his intestate a claim due for revolutionary services. Major Dowell had
but two children of a son & daughter.
The son died without issue and unmarried
some seven years hence. The daughter is
living & the wife of said Taylor. So
Taylor is the only person entitled to
whatever may be recovered for the
decedents services.
Mr. Taylor recollects that the old
Gentlemen asserted his claim in his
lifetime, & that either General W F
Gorden, of Albemarle, or the late Judge
P. S. G. Barbour, or Governer TW. Gilmer was his counsel to obtain it for him.
Mr Taylor has recently been informed
that the claim may now be obtained
by employing a pension agent, quoted it
at Washington, to prosecute it.
He declines employing an agent resident at Washington upon the ground that he prefers encouraging home in duty & patronage. Be pleased to let me know what is wanting to complete the necessary evidence to justify the allowing of the claim, that I may supply it before going on to Washington.
The papers are on file in the proper
department.
Very Truely, 
              J B. Watts
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Rev.

Hon. AHH Stuart
Secy of Interior
Washington DC




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Administrator of Major
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State of Virginia, Albemarle County Sett
On this 5th day of Nov. 1834. personally appeared in open Court before the County Court of Albemarle now sitting, Major Dowell
a resident of the County of Albemarle and State of Virginia aged seventy-four 
 years, who being duly sworn, deposed and saith, and makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832.
The declarant says that he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers. He was in the service
at the Albemarle Barracks, under Capt. Burke, and was in service as well as now recollects one month, & further states that he was at the sam  battalion another time the precise period he does not recollect, he thinks less than a month, & further states that he was drafted in the County of Albemarle under Capt. Walton he thinks in the fall of the year 1780 and was marched to Richmond, at that place he was put under Bennett Henderson and marched about fifty miles below Richmond, there crossed the river and marched to Cabin Point and thence to Petersburg where the company was to discharged. This tour was about one month in duration. After this he was drafted again in the same County, and marched under Col. Lindsay from Albemarle to Richmond upon the old mountain road, thence to
Dandridge's old fields, thence to Scotch town, thence to Wilderness tavern thence to the Raccoon ford, from there by Brocks bridge to Browells ordinary along the Marquis Road to Alleges near Columbia, thence towards Richmond to the Burnt chimneys. New Kent Court house & thence to the Jamestown, thence to the Moren hills where the troops were discharged. This was a two months tour upon his return he was in
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service at the Barracks in Albemarle under George Rice (Capt) and James Hawkins manager where he was employed as a blacksmith for the period of about five months to the best of his recollection. This was in the
Continental line, the other drafts were in the State line. He further says that these make between nine and ten months, that he was born in Albemarle, resided there at the time he h was called into service and has continued in the same County ever since, was born in the year 1759.
Has no record of his age. That he never rec'd a written discharge as well as he recollects. That he is well known to John Goss a clergyman in his neighborhood, and to James Duke a neighbor who can certify as to his character
for veracity, and their belief of his service. He relies upon the affidavit of Daniel Maupin hereunto annexed as evidence of his service in the Continental service at the Barracks. That William Brockman whose affidavit is also hereunto annexed served with him for three months in two tours alluded to.
The declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on
the pension roll of any state.
                Major Dowell

Sworn to and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid.
            John Goss
We, John Goss, a clergyman, residing in the County of Albemarle and Danl F. Carr residing in the same County hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with Major Dowell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be seventy-four years of age that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
               John Goss
               Danl F. Can
Albemarle County Sett.
This day William Brockman appeared before me a Justice of the peace for said County who made oath that he entered the service with
Major Dowell and that he knows that he served three months in the revolutionary war in the State line as above stated. Given under my hand this 22nd day of November 1832
             William A. Bibb J.P.

Albemarle County to wit:
This day Daniel Maupin made oath before me a Justice of the peace for said County that Major Dowell was in the service at the
Barracks as blacksmith in the revolution as much as three months I found him there in the latter part of Sept. 1781.  I left him the latter
part of Dec. 1781.
Given under my hand this 2nd day of Oct 1832
                                        Jas Jarman

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the 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. And the Court doth further certify that the applicant is well known to the court as a man of good character and entitled to entire credibility, that he appears to be of the age stated in his declaration and that John Goss before whom the said declara
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tion was acknowledged is a legal authorized minister of the Gospel and a Justice of the peace of this County and that Daniel F Carr who certified the same is a man of high respectability and that William Brockman & Daniel Maupin who have testified as to the
services of the applicant are men of high respectability and entitled to full credit and belief
I, Ira Garrett, Clerk of the County Court aforesaid in the State of Virginia, do
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter
of the application of Major Dowell in said Court for a pension.
I further certify that William A Bibb & James Jarman Esqr before whom the affidavits of William Brockman & Daniel Martin were
taken, are now and were at the time of taking said affidavits, acting Justices of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned &
qualified as such & that full faith & credit are due to all their official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
said Court this 18th day of Nov. 1834
in the 59th year of the Commonwealth.
                                           Isa Garrett C. C.
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Act of July 1802, and March 3, 1873.
3061.
Major  Dowell


Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
REJECTED
Recognized.

Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for
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Declaration
of 32.217
Major Dowell
of
Albemarle
Rejected 
9 Dec 1834
Hon W. F. Gordon