Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22733, Zebulon Dow, N.H.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE                          |    NUMBER
N. H.      Dow, Zebulon   |    S. 22733

CONTENTS
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21.687
New Hampshire
Zebulon Dow
of Epping in the State of N. H.
who was a Private in the Company commanded 
by Captain Gordon of the Rgt commanded
by -- in the N. H
line for 7 months & 7 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 24 Dollars 11 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Oct
1833 and Sent Geo W
Plumer Epping N Hamp.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $60.28
Semi-an. allowance ending 4 Mar 34 12.05
$72.33
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by
D. D. Addison Clerk
Book E  Vol. 1st   Page 50
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Lt W B Parker from 53y
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I Peter Chadwick clerk of the Superior Court of Judge Calure for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do herby certify the George W Plumer before whom the written affidavits were sworn is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Rockingham and that I believe the signatures to the artifacts therein are in his own hand writing.  In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the said Court this seventeenth day of August (illegible) in 18?2.  Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County.  I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Joseph Burley & Samual Haley and that their characters for truth and veracity is good.  Geo W Plumer
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State of New-Hampshire.
County of Rockingham, ss.
ON this 17th day of August personally appeared, in open Court, before the Justices of the Superior Court now sitting at Exeter Zebulon Dow a resident of Epping in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire, aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service in the Army of the United States for the term of three months in the latter part of the fall of 1775 and marched to Great Island near Portsmouth NH and remained there a short time and from there marched to Winter Hill in Charleston Mss and remained there untill [until] my time was out I was in the Company commanded by Capt Elijah Dinsmoor Richard Hill was my orderly serjeant and is now a very aged man and incapable of giving his affidavit. I then entered the service in the latter part of the summer of the year 1776 in the Company commanded by Capt. Daniel Gordon, Lt Zebulon Gilman and Ensign Norris for the term of three months and marched to the State of New York and was stationed at Peeks Kill and Fish Kill and remained there untill [until] my enlistment was out and then returned to Epping NH I think Col Welsh had command of the troops a part if not all the time I was at Peeks Kill + Fish Kill I then entered the service as a volunteer in September in the year 1777 and marched to Still Water so called in N. York and remained there untill [until] Burgoyne surrendered and then returned home to Epping New Hampshire I was in Capt Zebulon Gilman Company during the time I was there and think I was out about five weeks at the times above described of entering the service I resided in Epping County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.				Zebulon Dow
Attest P Chadwick Clerk,
We Nathaniel Bachelder a Practising [practicing] Phisician [physician] and Portmaster in the town of Epping NH and Joseph C Plumer and George W Plumer all residing in Epping NH hereby certify that We are well acquainted with Zebulon Dow who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that We believe him to be seventy six 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.
Nat. Bachelder
J.C. Plumer 
Geo W Plumer
Rockingham Js Superior Court of Judicature
August Term1832
Personally appeared the above named Nathaniel Bachelder, Physician Joseph C. Plumer + George W Plumer both Justices of the Peace for said County and [illegible cut-off]
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Geo W Plumer
Rockingham Js Superior Court of Judicature
August Term 1832
Personally appeared the above named Nathaniel Bachelder, Physician Joseph C Plumer + George W Plumer both Justices of the Peace for said County and made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate by them to subscribed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and offered the seal of said Court. This seventeenth day of August Anno Domini 1832
P. Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rocking’m County
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And the said Court do hereby declare
their opinion that the before named applicant
was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as
he states

 I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior
st of Judicature for the County of Rockingham
aforesaid do hereby  certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Zebulon Dow for a pension

In testimony whereof of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this seventeenth day of August Anno Domini
1832
(signed) P. Chadwick Clerk of the
Court Rocking(ham) County


(sideways on record)  Zebulon Dow (illegible) 
(sideways on record)  3746 W. G.
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I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of
Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Joseph C Plumer and George W Plumer Esquires within named and that they are entitled to full credit for truth

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Seal
of said Court this 18th day of December
AD 1832

(signed)  P. Chadwick Clerk of the
Court Rockingham County
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3746
Zebulon Dow
E(xamine)d?   W.C.E

on Pay Roll of Capt(ain)
Gordon;s Company as having
(illegible)  £8:10:00

Private 7 Months 7 days

23.33
    .78
24.11       2
(sum) 48.22
12.06
(sum) $ 60.28

direct to 
Geo(rge) W Plummer
Epping N(ew) H(ampshire)
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3746
BRIEF in the case of Zebulon Dow
Epping (crossed out--of)  Rockingham by in the State of  N(ew) Hampshire
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in open Court
2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  ------
3. How old is he? 70
4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
(table begins)

Period.                           Duration of Service.
In 1775                           Years,  Months,  Days.
fall of (17)'75 -                  (---)      3           -
Summer of (17)'76              (---)     3          -
Sept(ember) (17)'77             (---)    1          7




            
Rank.
As a
private

Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen(eral)-
Capt(ain)  E. Dinsmoor
Capt(ain)  D Gordon
Capt(ain)     Gilman

(table ends)
5. In what battles was he engaged? none appear--

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?   Epping N(ew) H(ampshire) 

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses--traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
(left blank) 

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
(signed) W(illia)m. C. Easton
Examining Clerk.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.______________, 19____

S.F. 22733

In reply to your request of  (left blank). 
received  (left blank) for a statement of the military history of Zebulon Dow a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
(table begins) 
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
Fall 1775
Summer 1776
Sept(ember). 1777

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
3 mo(th)s.
3 mo(th)s
5 weeks

RANK,
P(riva)t(e)

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Elijah Dinsmore
Daniel Gordon
Zebulon Gilman

COLONEL.
(check mark)
Welsh
(check mark) 

STATE.
N(ew).  H(ampshire). 
(table ends) 

Battles engaged in,  (check mark) 

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Epping, 
Rockingham Co(unty). N(ew). H(ampshire).

Date of application for pension, Aug 17 1832 His cl(aim) was al(lowed)

Residence at date of application, Epping, 
N(ew). H(ampshire).

Age at date of application, 76 years.
,
Remarks: No data as to family

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

6 -- 2856
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(record contains only a stamp-- the stamp is split in two sections)

(Pension)
U. S, 
SEP(tember) 16 1915
Office
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Denver, Colorado
September 12, 1915

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,
Miss Grace M. Pierce Registrar-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution has requested me to secure from your office the pension record of my Revolutionary ancestor Zebulon Dow of Epping, New Hampshire, in order that she may file the same with my papers in Washington.

We should be greatly obliged if you would forward this information to me at your earliest convenience.

Very respectfully,
Nellie K. Bauserman
1252 Elizabeth Street
Denver Colorado
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(diagonally across record top left margin)
Revolutionary 

22733
INVALID.
File No.  22, 733
Zebulon Dow 
Pri(vate) Rev(olutionary) War
--------------------
Act: June 7th (18)'32"
Index: -- Vol. 2 , Page 110
[Arrangement of 1870.}

1915 Sept(ember) 22 Hist(ory) to
Mrs. Nellie K. Bauserman
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I Samuel Cooke clergyman in the Town of Brentwood New Hampshire hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Zebulon Dow who has sworn and subscribed to the above declaration that I believe him to be seventy six 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 I concur in that opinion and from a long acquaintance with him I have no doubt he has served the time he has stated and sworn to in his declaration for a pension in the Army of the Revolution.

Samuel Cooke
Rockingham [?] Dec 6th 1832
Personally appearing the above named Samuel Cooke and made solemn oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed before me

Geo W Plumer Justice (of the) Peace

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Samuel Cooke and that his character for truth and veracity is good

Geo W Plumer Justice (of the) Peace
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I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the state of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Samuel Cook within named is a clergyman of respectable standing in the town of Brentwood in the County aforesaid and is entitled full credit and to be respected as such. And I further certify that the town Brentwood adjoins the town of Epping in which the within named Zebulon Dow resides and in which town there is no settled and established clergyman.

And I further certify that George W Plumer before whom the within affadavit was sworn is a justice of the peace within and for said County of Rockingham and that I believe his signature to the certificate thereof is in his own handwriting

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 18th day of December Anno Domini 1832

P Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County
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Epping Dec 24th

Hon(ora)ble Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington C(ity)

Pension papers
Free

(sideways on record) 
Dec(ember) 31
N(ew) H(ampshire) 
Act?
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Eping  Dec. 21st, 1832