Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20,385, Thomas Howell, S.C.
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SERVICE                                NUMBER
S.C.   Howell, Thomas         R. 20,385
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I. Thomas Howell of the County of  Camden in the state of Georgia do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution for and during war and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain John Moore's Company in the  regiment of the South Carolina line.  And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of congress ratified the 15th of May 1778.
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States.

Camden County
Sworn to before in July 9th 1828.

Thomas Howell
Brown 
Mark
Witness
Noble A Hardee

Before me William M. Hunter a Justice of the peace in the County of Camden in the State of Georgia 
personally appeared this day Noble A
Hardee and Hugh Brown of the
said County who did severally make oath that 
Thomas Howell by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a private in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated Witness my hand this twelfth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
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I John Bailey Clerk of the Court of the County of Camden in the State of Georgia do hereby certify that Mr Brown and Mr Hunter before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time Justices of the Peace duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and and affixed the seal of the Superior Court this Twelfth day of July Eighteen Hundred and Twenty Eight.

John Bailey Clk
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Partial Form - some data missing

Rejected
Ex'r OLD WAR
File No. 20385
Thomas Howell
Pri
Capt. Moore
S.C. Line
Revy War

Evidence insufficient
Act of 1828
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Personally appeared before me Charles H. B. Collins one of the Justices of the Peace for said County Kinchen Holloman who after being duly sworn desposeth and saith that he [illegible] served a Regular enlisted solider in the army of the United States in [illegible] for a [illegible] in the Revolutionary War. Sworn to before me this 10th day of September 1827.
Cha H. [illegible]
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I John Bailey of the Superior Court of Camden County in the State of Georgia do hereby certify that Charles H.B.Collins before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time a justice of the peace in and for said county. Testimony whereof I have herby set my hand and affixed the selloff the said Court this fourth day of September in the year 1829.

John Bailey Clk
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OWRej
#20.385
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Thomas Howell _ Pob.
S.Car. line -
Evidence insufficient
Act 1828
Georgia no record
Los
Feby 10/81
Exd Act Ins. Ad Wids.
Rej -  &old Books -
See #5.300 Rej -
Dont file
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Thomas Howell 618,
913.2057.3369.3674.
Rec 17 Sept 1829
626
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Jefferson Camden County Geor
S D Ingham Esq     Sept 5 1829
Sir,
Under cover you have the testimony of Kincher
Holloman in support of my claim I do not find in 
the list of the officers and soldier who have been found
entitled to the benefits of the act of the 15 May 1828. The
name of a single individual with whom I recollect to
have been acquainted during the war.  I hope however
that the testimony of Holloman will be found
sufficient to enable the benefits of the act -  God
knows I am justly entitled to it.  The active years of my
life were spent in the service of my country for
which I have never received the smaller pecuniary
compensation. - I am now feeble old and poor and
[illegible] of live were it not for the charity of a friends
but thanks to [illegible] in whose hands are the essences
of life and death a year or so more since lay 
and buried bosom in the grave.
attest
Noble D. Hardee J.S.C.C.C      
I am very respectfully
You Obl servant
his Tobias E. Howell
mark
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Jefferson                          Free
20 June
To the 
Secretary of War
Washington City
District of Columbia

Thomas Howell 618.
913.2057
Rec 2 July 1829
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Georgia
Camden County
Before me, Rigdon Brown a justice
of the peace personally came Lewis Bailey who
being duly sworn deposeth and faith that he has
know Thomas Howell from childhood and that he
served with him in the Continental army during the
war & that they were discharged at the same time
Sworn to before me this 17 June 1829 
his Lewis Bailey
mark
R Brown JP
Georgia
Camden County
Before me Robert Paxton
a Justice of the peace for this
County - personally appeared Rigdon Brown 
Esquire, who being duly sworn deposeth and faith that the
abono named Lewis Bailey sworn before that said deposeth 
is a man of strict honesty & integrity, to the best of 
his knowledge -
sworn to before me this 7th June 1829
Robt Paxton JP.
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State of Georgia
Camden County I John Bailey clerk of the
county and state a foresaid do hereby certify
that Rigdon Brown and Robert Paxton before
whom the forgoing acknowledgment was
taken was at the time they tooke the same 
Justices of the peace for the county of Camden as aforesaid duly appointed and sworn and further that the signatures of the Said Rigdon Brown and Robert Paxton as Justices of the peace is geniune and in their own proper hand writings
In testimony whereof I have herunto affixed my hand and seal of the superior court this 17th June 1829
John Bailey Clk
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June 20th 1829
To the secretary of war 

dear sir

Your letter of 8 Dec was duly recieved
I wrote to the Governor of South Carolina to see if in any case any evidence of my having served in the continental army could be found in the archives of the State but have recieved no answer in the absence therefore of any other testimony I have provided the affidavit of Mr. Lewis Bailey who is the only individual I know to be alive in the regiment to which I belonged which you have under cover and which I hope will sufficient to establish my claim. 
I am very truly your most obedient and humb sert
Thomas Howell

PS if the above affidavit should be deemed insufficent you will do me the favor to have a catalogue made out and sent to me of the names of the indivduals together with the place of their residence who are known to be alive in the regiment to which I belonged
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618
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T. Howell

Recd 24 July 1828
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Secretary Treasury 
Wasington City

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To the Secretary of the treasury
Sir
I enlisted at the commencement of the war in Capt [??] Moore's company at Black Swamp South Carolina we where marched from there under the command of General Lincoln to Stono South Carolina after remaining encamped about a week 7 miles from Stono we whent down to Stono and engaged the enemy but where compelled to withdraw again to our encampment soon after this the enemy evacuated the place, and my company where marched to Savannah Georgia but I being sick with the yellow fever was let at the camp, with the sick and wounded under the care of four surgeons whose names I can't at this distance of time remember after i recovered which was 2 or 3 months after which I learned that Capt Moore was at Charleston to which place I remained and again entered the ranks our unit march was to Augusta Georgia after remaining say 2 months we returned to Charleston I do not recollect I long I remained in Charleston our unit march was to Santee where we remained only long enough to recover from the fatigue of marching when we where ordered to proceed to Camden where we again encountered the British my company where thus marched down the Santee to the Eutaw I was left at Camden to bury the dead and did not come up with my company until about two weeks after the Battle of Eutaw after this nothing of consequenses occured
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we where march towards Charleston where at the
close of the war I was discharged. In returning
to my home which was on Tar River Edgecomb
County N.C. when about 15 miles of Camden
was overtaken by a party of Tories, 25 or 30 in
number after stripping me of the little money that
I had my knife certificate and discharge
they eredited a gallows upon which they said
they intended the next hanging to hang myself and two others that they had with them when they over to me at
night I untied the rope with my teeth and
made my escape the other two prisoners I learned where
hung upon the gallows which had been erected
I do not believe that a any soldier who
served in Moores Company except myself is in existence
if there are any on the pension list and the evidence
which I herewith transmit is not considered sufficient
together with that afforded by the public records
at Washington and you will do me the favor
to inform me of it together with his name
and place of Residence I will endeavour to procure
further proof.  If General Butler of South Carolina
is alive he can swear that we went
together to the Camp at Black Swamp and that
I enlisted he would not enlist and only remained
with us about 3 months he raised a company
of Militia of which he became the commander
after which we of course where seperated
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To this statement I am ready at any time
to subscribe my oath should it be deemed
necessary
Thomas Howell
his x Mark
Witness
Noble A. Hardee
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618
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and
Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
5 September 1828

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Thomas Howell
under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a
request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any
records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive,
the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental line of the Army
of the Revolution.
Richard Ruths

The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.

So Ca Line

War Department
Bounty Land Office
15 Sepr 1828

Thomas Howell a soldier of the So. Carolina
line, is not returned as entitled to Land from
the U. States, or as a Warrant issued for him
E. Stephens
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607.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Aug. 9. 1828

Thomas Howell of Camden in the County of
in the State of Georgia, has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving
officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he
enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and
continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in Captain
Moore's company, in the regiment of the South Carolina line;
and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of
the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the
pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of
March, 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by
the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
A Dickens

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
12th August 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has
been issued to in the 
It further appears that is now on the pension
list of the agency, and has been so since the 
at the rate of dollars per month.

The name of Thomas Howell cannot be found
among those of the South Carolina line to whom certificates 
for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued
Peter Hagner Aud
(correct)