Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8730, Allen Howard, N.C.
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[printed form completed in handwriting]
(3-1776)

Service
N.C.

Born in N.C.

Howard, Allen

Number
S. 8730

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North Carolina  23.587.
Allen Howard
of Greenville in the State of N Car
who was a pr in the Company commanded 
by Captain Gilliam of the ~~~~~ commanded 
by ~~~~~~~~~~ in the No Car 
line for 6 months
Died June 7, 1835 see Agency Book
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 20 Dollars _____ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of Mar: 34
and Sent to Wm. M. Sneed
Oxford - N. Car
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833     50 -
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar:34  10-
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$60 -
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Nath: Rice Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 1/2 Page 56

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Cannot find this letter
Decd
Pen. Agent May 19, 1837

Died 7 June 1835
(widower)
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State of North Carolina
Granville County          ⎬ Superior Court of Law Fall Term AD 1832
On the 5th day of September AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable James Martin one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Law and courts of Equity of said State now sitting for said county at Oxford Allen Howard a citizen of Granville County born on the 16th February A.D. 1763 according to a register of my age made in my fathers family Bible which I transfered to my own, who was born and raised in said County and has continued to reside in it from his birth to the present day who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June AD. 1832.
That his first service in the army of the United States during the Revotionary War was by draft from Granville County on a tour of three month duty. His Captain was William Gilliam and Isham Harrison was Lieutenant, and Peter Badgett was ensign-From Oxford we were marched to Hillsborough and joined the ballance of the detachment when we were all put under the command of William Moore as Colonel, Elijah Moore as Major and the whole detachment was commanded by General Butler who marched us to Salisbury where we were put under the command of some other officer but who I cannot recollect under whom we were marched to Charlotte and placed under the command of Genl Davidson - During this tour we were stationed at six mile creek about sixteen miles from Charlotte on the road that leads to Camden where the British were then stationed- Here we rendezvoused for about ten weeks. But our service
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service was in all the country round about some times in South Carolina and sometimes in North Carolina-- During my service here I was in no action or engagement, but repeatedly out on parties and expeditions for various purposes-- A short time before my term of service expired, our company was marched to Salisbury and upon its full completion we were discharged- That is we came in company with our officers but had left our arms in Salisbury - without pretending to be possitive, I think we were discharged on the 15th day of December having served as well as I recollect and believe, from the 15th day of September. This was in the year 1780- This service can be proved by James Terry who was in duty in the same campaign but in the light Horse-- He is now living within a few miles Sowell Fraizer a Citizen of Stokes County was a private in the same company with me and of my own mess - He can also prove this service- If ever I obtained a written discharge I have lost or mislaid it.- I know they were all written & put into the hands of our Captain, but have no recollection of receiving mine --- 
Directly after the Battle of Guilford in the month of March 1787 a Company of volunteers was raised in Granville County for the purpose of catching fish in Roanoke River within the State of Virginia. The company was commanded by Peter Bennett Captain and Thomas Grant as Lieutenant. The whole was under the Command & direction of Drury Smith I volunteered and joined this company on a tour of three months service --- our company was kept on duty the full term of their engagment, and performed a very fatiguing & Laborious service- At the expiration of our service our
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company was discharged and we all come Home - James Terry Senr a Citizen of Granville and neighbour to me, and Sowell Fraizer a Citizen of Stokes County North Carolina, were both volunteers in the same company of performed duty in this tour and can prove my service in it - I received a written discharge upon the expiration of my service but it is lost or mislaid as I never considered it of any value-
The next service I engaged in was under Joshua Coffee as Captain - The duty required of us was to press and take possession of one fifth part of the Dry cattle owned by the Inhabitants of Island Creek and Spewmarrow District in Granville County & to keep & take care of them for the use of the Army - our term of service of was on two months but as I fo[hole in page] own Horse according to a rule and general principle established in the country during the war a soldier who found his own Horse and performed a tour of Service of two months was entitled to a discharge for a three months service. This duty was diligently & faithfully performed by me for two full months- My Captain lived in the immediate vicinity of the Pasture over which I had command and direction, and I think I never received any discharge for this service. I am unable to prove this service by any person living that I know of, except some of my brothers who have removed to the State of Tennessee and by Grant Allen who if alive lives in the same State-
The next and last service in which I engaged was in the early part of the
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Down left side margin:
7331
1 ton cattle [illegible]
9 mos pri inf
2 mos pri cen
deduct  11-3=8

month of October 1787- I volunteered for a three months tour and was placed under the direction of Colonel Robert Burton and Anderson Smith who were stationed at Williamsborough in Granville County- The duty required of me was to carry expresses to all parts of the Country, and when not on this duty to attend to the public property, there stationed - I had charge of the corn, fodder & provissions that was then stored for the use of the Army. The Public Horses there stationed was also attended to by me-  when the army was disbanded after the Surrender of Cornwallis at York. The Regiment of Col White passed through Williamsborough and It was my duty provide & deliver to his office provissions for his horses. Shortly after the Departion of Col. White, Genl St Clair with two or three thousand men passed on [hole in paper] to per[illeigble] the same service for them. While in Service on this duty I travelled to sundry various parts  of the country-- While in service on this tour a man who appeared to have been a soldier come to Williamsborough. He was a very large stout man, and was riding a very indifferent Horse was was dressed in the Uniform of Tarltons Dragoons. His name was Alexander Shannin his dress and other circumstances had excited Suspicion and he was arrested and kept in confinement for about a week - Col. Burton sent for Col. Phil Hawkins to come & assist him in the Examination of said Prisoner. upon this investigation and by his own statement which I heard, it appeared that he was a Native of Guilford County North Carolina- That he had left home and went to the British on the Catawba in the fall of 1780 immediately after the defeat of Genl Gates - That he joined them and being a large likely man, he was
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placed in the top of Dragoons commanded by Col. Tarlton - That he was in the action at the Battle of the Cowpens.-- That he was also an duty with the enemy of the battle of Guilford. That he marched with the British after that Battle through North Carolina and into Virginia by Petersburg and Richmond to York town - That he was with them during a part of the seige of that town, but finding that the British were declining in strength, and likely to be overpowered by the Americans, he repented that he had forsaken his own countrys cause, and taken up with the enemy, and determined to desert from them. An apportunity soon offered to effect this purpose and he succeeded in making his escape to the American Army what induced some of the American officers to do it. I do not now recollect, but he had a written permit purported to be signed by some of them, giving him licence to travel to Guilford County the place of his nativity. News of the Capture of Cornwallis at York reached Williamsborough having the day that I was to start on Express to Guilford on public business and the said Prisoner was by Col Burton put in my charge to carry & deliver him to the command officer of that county accompanied by a letter to that officer - I accordingly took him in charge and coned and delivered him and the letter to the Sheriff of that County as Col. Paisley the commanding officer of the County was out on duty at that time on an expedition toward Cross Creek. It seems that Shannin had been recognised by some person, for after he & myself had lain down to sleep a party of men
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came and waked us up & learning who Shannin was, immediately took him out of Bed & bound him securely hand and foot, and declared he should die before sunrise. A little before day they left the house I remaining until I got my breakfast.-- They took the prisoner with them, and between day break and sunrise I heard the Report of guns- The Sheriff soon returned & informed me that Shannin was killed - After breakfast I went on my way home & passed a party of men who sound the body of Shannin then lying dead on the ground where he had been shot. This circumstance is stated, inasmuch as I now consider, that I made a fortunate escape. Shannin was a large and very able bodied man, and I was but a shipling weighing perhaps not more than 120lbs. I returned home and continued on duty until after Christmas, when my Term of three months service being fully ended I was discharged- If I received written discharge for this service I have last this also with my others.
I am not able, that I know of, to prove this last tour of service by the Testimony of any person now living-
He 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 the Agency of any state or Territory-
Sworn to subscribed the day of year aforesaid
Allen Howard
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We James Terry Senr, James Downey Senr, Esquire, Zachariah Hester all of the County of Granville and Sowell Fraizer a Citizen of the County of Stokes and all of the State of North Carolina, being duly sworn according Law in open Court, doth testify and declare as follows viz. The said James Terry declares that he was a soldier in both the first Tours of duty named in the foregoing declaration of Allen Howard. That this affiant was a soldier in both these tours of duty with the said Applicant & knows of his own knowledge that the service stated by him two tours was duty & faithfully performed-
And the said James Downey declares that he was a soldier in the first campaign as stated in the foregoing declaration upon the Catawba River, that said applicant performed the duty as by him stated. 
And Sowell Fraizer declares that he well knows that Allen Howard the applicant in the foregoing declaration performed the duty as therein stated by him In the two first Tours of duty for he was himself a private in both of them, and was a messmate in that to the Catawba.
And Zackariah Hester declares that although he does not know of his own knowledge that Allen Howard did perform the Tour of duty as stated by him in the foregoing declaration at Williamsborough, yet he has ever since the remarkable occurrence mentioned in said statement of conveying Shannin to the County of Guilford heard and understood that that service was performed by the said Allen Howard and was so universally understood and believed in Granville County since that Period -
And they all write the declaration that said Allen Howard has ever
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supported the Character of an honest and Honorable men and of Strict veracity, that the statement made by him performed was truly honestly & faithfully performed, according to his said Statement
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year above stated-
Jas Downey Sr.
James Terry
Zackariah Hester x his mark 
Sowell Frazer


And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter that the said Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the Court further Certifies that James Terry Senr. James Downey Law. Esqr Sowell Frazer and Zackariah Hester are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit. Also that the subjoined affidavit of Richard Glasgow is entitled to faith & Credit as he is represented to her as a credible person
James Martin  JPCL&E

Richard Glasgow makes oath that he served with Allen Howard in the tour mentioned by him in the foregoing declaration and he believes he served the whole tour and knows that he served a part of it of
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Richard Glasgow makes oath that he served with Allen Howard in the tour mentioned by him in the foregoing declaration and he believes he served the whole tour and knows that he served a part of it of his own knowledge, in the manner
has std. viz. The tour when he was engaged in pressing cattle in Granville County for the use of Genl Greenes army subscribed & sworn to in open Court 4th day of September A.D. 1832
Richard Glasgow x his mark 


State of North Carolina}
Granville County}
I Sandy Harris Clerk of the Superior Court of Law for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Allen Howard for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this the 14th day of September 1832
S. Harris Clk.
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October 5, 1937
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Allen Howard, S. 8730
BA-J/ MCS
Iola Dunning
510 Fourth Street
Marysville
California
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Allen and Grove Howard.
The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford any information relative to Grove Howard.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 8730, based upon the military service of Allen Howard, the only soldier of that name that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Allen Howard was born February 16, 1763, in Granville County, North Carolina. The names of his parents were not given.
While a resident of Granville County, North Carolina, he was drafted September 15, 1780, served as private in Captain William Gilliam's company in Colonel William Moore's North Carolina regiment and was discharged December 15, 1780. He volunteered in March, 1781, served about three months as private in Captain Peter Bennett's company under command of Drury Smith in the North Carolina troops, their duty being to catch fish for the army. He next served two months in Captain Joshua Coffee's North Carolina company and was engaged in caring for cattle for the army. He enlisted early in October, 1781, served three months in Colonel Robert Burton's North Carolina regiment, a part of the time as express rider.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, while a resident of Granville County, North Carolina, where he
had always resided.
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Allen Howard died June 7, 1835.
In 1832 Allen Howard referred to his brothers who moved to Tennessee but he did not give their names. There are no further data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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1928 May 2, Hist to Mrs Neva J Croft
M.E.E.
1937 Oct. 5 hist to Iola Dunning M.C.S

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Rev War [noted in margin]
8730
INVALID.
File No. 8730 Allen Howard
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. [illegible], Page 178
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Allen Howard
No. Car.
Admit as private
mo. $20
Wm. Sneed Oxford No Ca
Fishing not allowed
Hon W.S. Hawkins
N C
Act June 7 1832
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[handwritten]
Onford NC Pension Papers
June 6

Jmue Co

Free

The Honorable
Secretary of War

Washington City

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N.C.
WN
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Honl Com of Pensions
Oxford N.C. June 4th 1833.
Dear Sir, 
The papers of Mr Allen Howard are herewith returned at his request. Then is also sent a certificate of a most respectable man W. Daniel Gooch who served with Mr. H in the fishing tour-- this affidavit is designed to operate for his benefit as also to sustain the claims to Pension of James Terry & Seawell Fraizier whose papers are on file in your office - this thought extremely [illegible] them that as they were regularly organized for service in the Military establishment and detatched [detached] on a most fatiguing and laborious service, to provide the [illegible] of subsistance for the army then in the field, that they should be denied the bounty of their country because they obtained no discharge from their commanding office for his discharge were produce [paper torn]
[page cut off] to as to allowing
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then in the field, that they should [be] denied the bounty of their country because they obtained no discharge from their commanding officer 
For if a discharge were produce there would be no question as to allowing them for this Tour of Duty. 
Any communication in relation to the claims of Allen Howard or James Terry may be addressed to me 
your Obt. Sert.
Wm Sneed
P.S. I returned the pension certificate of Lemuel Goodwin a month ago, to have recorded by inserting the Christian [name] of Lemuel instead of Samuel
Be pleased to forward it to me.
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Wm Sneed
July 26 1833
P.C.


Re vol 9
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Depart of War
Pen. Off
July 26 1833

Sir:

The papers in relation to the case of Allen Howard have been examined, and the claim for military services found unsupported.

The kind of service performed by the applicant does not appear to have been what would be termed military, within the meaning of the Act of June 7 1832.

The claim is therefore rejected, and the papers placed upon the files in the Officie.

I am, 

Wm Sneed Esq
Oxford
NC
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State of North Carolina}
Granville County}
Personally appeared before me William M Sneed a Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid, Daniel Gooch Sr. who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath testify and Declare as follows viz 
That he is in his seventy seventh year, that he is a native of the State of Virginia, but was living & resident in Granville County, State of North Carolina in the year 1781. That in the month of March of that year and he believes in the Early part of that month a Company of Militia was required to be organised and a Draft was about to be made, but sooner that submit be organised and a draft was about to be made, but sooner than submit to draft, the Company was made up by the men as volunteers. The Company was commanded by Peter Bennett as Captain, the other officers this affiant does not recollect- But he remembers that the Detachment when organized was placed under the Control and direction of Drury Smith-- As soon
as the company was organised they
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were marched to and Monforts fishing place on the Roanoke River in the State of Virginia - our duty was to Catch cure & barrel up Fish for the use of the American army then retreating before the British after the defeat on the Catawba 
This affiant was a private in Capt. Bennetts company and there were three other men now living, privates in the same who performed the same tour of Duty viz. Allen Howard, James Terry Senr. both now residents of Granville County and Seawell Fraizer a resident of Stokes County and State of North Carolina. 
This affiant certifies that these men faithfully performed their duty in this tour which commenced early in March and was still kept on duty, he feels well satisfied until some time in the month of May - The tour was for three months but we served more  than two months but not quite as much as three months, he thinks probably as much as two & a half months
The company was formed in the usual way that the Militia was called into the service of the United
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State of North Carolina}
Granville County}
I Stephen K Sneed Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County & State aforesaid, do hereby Certify that William M Sneed Esq whose signature
appears to the foregoing certificate bearing date the 4th day of June AD 1833 is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County and State and that full faith and credit should be given to his official acts as such 
Given under my hand & seal of
Office at Office in Oxford this
the 4th June AD 1833.
Stephen K Sneed Clk
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status at that eventful period
No discharge was granted to this applicant.
subscribed and sworn to this 8th May AD 1833
Daniel Gooch


State of North Carolina}
Granville County}
I William M. Sneed do certify that Daniel Gooch who subscribed and sworn to the forgoing affidavit is a man of high character for integrity and truth and that the   was duly executed as stated on this day it bears date
Witness my hand & seal this 4th 
June 1833
William M Sneed JP
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State of North Carolina}
Granville County}
I Stephen K Sneed Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County & State aforesaid do hereby Certify that William M Sneed Esq whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate bearing date the "4" day of June AD 1833 is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County and State and that full faith and credit should be given to his official acts as such.
Given under my hand & seal of
Office at Office in Oxford this
the 4th June AD 1833.
Stephen K  Sneed Clk
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Chicago Ill.
July 29, 1927. 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Have you in your files any records of Groves Howard and Allen Howard, soldiers of the Revolutionary War from Granville Co. N.C.?
I am anxious to obtain copies of the records of these men and will greatly appreciate any assistance with which you can favor me.
Thanking you for your kind consideration, I am
Yours truly,
(Mrs) Neva J. Croft.


ADDRESS-
5212 CORNELL AVE
CHICAGO, ILL.
Apt. 204
[stamped US  PENSION OFFICE AUG 1 1927]
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Marysville, California, September 17, 1937.
United States Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
Can I procure the data of the pension of Allen Howard and of his father, Grove Howard, who were in the Revolutionary War? I want these especially  for filling  application for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Very truly yours,
Iola Dunning
Marysville, California.
510 Fourth Street.
[stamped RECEIVED SEP 21 1937 MAIL SUB.DIV. VETS ADM. READER NO. 3]
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copy.

War Department
Pension Office
Dec. 26, 1832.

Sir: 

The claims of William Taburn, Allen Howard, [Lewell] Seawell Frazer, Fowler Jones and James Terry transmitted to this Dep. by W. M. need have been examined, and the papers of Taburn and Howard herewith returned accompanied by a brief in each case. The objections are contained in the negative answers in red ink, given to the questions. The three months tour of service performed by Howard in the spring of 1781 in catching fish, cannot be taken into consideration in the investigation of his claim, said service not having been in the performance of military duty Seawell [Lowell] Frazer performed one tour of three months in the performance f duty with Howard in catching fish and as he performed only one other tour of three months his claim cannot be allowed.

The service performed by James Terry and Fowler Jones having been for a less period than six months their claims cannot be allowed. The Revolutionary pension laws provide for none who did not perform an actual service of at least six  months.

Their papers will remain in the files of this office.

Hon. A. H. Shepperd.
H. R.
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
Madam:
M. E. E.
May 2, 1928.

Mrs. Neva J. Croft,
5212 Cornell Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
Madam: 

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 8730, it appears that Allen Howard was born February 16, 1783 in Granville County, North Carolina.

While a resident of Granville County, North Carolina he was drafted September 15, 1780, served as a private in Captain William Gilliam's Company, Colonel William Moore's North Carolina Regiment and was discharged December 15, 1780.

He volunteered in March 1781, served about three months as private in Captain Peter Bennett's Company under command of Drury Smith in the North Carolina troops, their duty being to catch fish for the army.

He later served two months in Captain Joshua Coffee's North Carolina Company, caring for cattle for the army.

He enlisted early in October 1781, served three months in Colonel Robert Burton's North Carolina Regiment, a part of the time as express rider.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832 while a resident of Granville County, North Carolina where he had always resided.
It is not stated whether he was ever married. He died June 7, 1835.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Groves Howard.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.