Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,057, James Bowen, Continental Md.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Continental
Md.

Bowen, James

NUMBER
S. 34,057

CONTENTS
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New Jersey Roll.
4,937
--
James Bowen,  of Trenton
N. Jersey, Private
Capt Howard.
Maryland line.
[illegible] 1780
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
--
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 25th of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of Dec. 1818,
and sent to James Ewing, Esq.
Trenton N. Jersey.
---
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818..... $42.86
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Mar.4.1819... 48."
Arr.A. 5 Mo. 7 /31
4 /30.
$90.86
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}


Cont
Col Maylan as
if such Dec 15th 1820
Hon J.J. [illegible]

Let to Hon J.C. Dodge
11 Augt 54 [number unclear]
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James Bowens
4937
March 1819

(next 3 lines are crossed out)

con

Hon. J. J. Wilson
Senate U.S.
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County ss:  In the Court of Common Pleas in said County of Hunterdon of the Term of August 1820 
Present { George Rea
                Thomas Capner
                and others  } Judges

On the first day of August 1820, personally appeared in open court being a court of records in and for said county so declared by the constitution and laws of this state, James Bowen of the city of Trenton in said County aged seventy years resident in said county who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War that he first enlisted in Capt. Howards company in Col. Hod regiment of Maryland troops early in the year 1776, that he served in the said regiment until the later end of that year and was in the battle of White Plains in the state of New York that early in the year 1777 he enlisted with Capt, Plunket in the 4th regiment of Horse commanded by Col. Stephen Moylan as a recruiting sergeant, that he served in that regiment two years and eight months, when in consequence of being rendered unable to do duty occasioned by his horse falling with him he was discharged in October 1780 that he wase in the battle of Brandywine and at Monmouth, agreeable to his original declaration acted about the 25th day Mary 1818 on which I obtained a Pension Certificate No. 4937.  And I do solemnly swear 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 under the provisions of the 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 e any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.
Jas Bowen

Schedule of the property of James Bowen of the City of Trenton
2 old walnut tables 1 rush bottomed chair              $1.10
6 old windsor chairs, 1 small looking glass, broken $1.00
1 Trunk, 1 Cupboard cost one dollar                        $1.00
1 tin plate store, middle plate broken                        7.00   
1 Iron Kettle 1 tea kettle 1 pr andirons                       1.50
1 Water Bucket, swill bucket & band                            .25
1 Barrel with 300 (illegible), 1 small pig                      3.00
1 Queens ware dish  5 plates                                        .20
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6 Queens ware cups and saucers                                    $ .15
2 small bowls 2 small pilchers                                            .10
1 glass tumbler 4 knives and forks                                     .25
3 Pewter Tea spoons & 3 Iron table spoons                       .08
1 old brass candlestick                                                        .09
I have an old tool chest containing 1 hand saw
1 Jack (illegible), 1 (illegible) (illegible), 1 foreplain
1 hatchet and 1 hammer                                                  2.50
                                                                                        ________
                                                                                        $19.14
I have one mans note for 20 Dollars  }
            one other        for   9 dollars  }  both hopeless
            one other        for   5 dollars  }
            and a debt of          2.50        } hopeless

I owe to one man               38.72
          to one man                 5.00
          to another                   4.00
          to another                   5.00
          to another                     .88
                                              ________  $58.10
I have a small stone house and lott (sic) in the city o
          to another                   4.50f Trenton for which I agreed about 12 or 14 years ago to give     $450.00
I have sold part of it and & paid                                     -100.00
                                                                                     -----------
                                                                                          350.00
of the remainder I have paid                                             250.00
                                                                                     -----------
The house and lott (sic) is mortgaged for                      $100.00
The house is ruinous and requires great repairs to make it habitable it is valued at two hundred dollars.  I am a carpenter by trade but from age loss of sight & other infirmities I am able to very little for my support.  I have no family residing with me but myself aged upward of seventy years and my wife aged sixty three years who is very infirm.
Jas. Bowen

Sworn and declared
George Rea

(Copy)
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I John T Blackwell Clerk of Hunterdon pleas do hereby
certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule
thereto annexed, are truly copied from the
record 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 Seventy
six dollars & four cents.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the said Court on this _____ day of
August eighteen hundred and twenty.
J.T. Blackwell Clk
H. C.B.
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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
ILL

May 28, 1930.

Mrs. Harry E. Mockbee, Sr.
1341 Meridian Place
Washington, D.C.

Dear Madam:

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, S. 34057, it appears James Bowen enlisted and
served as follows:

From early in 1776, eight months as a private in Captain
John Howard's Company, Colonel Hall's Maryland Regiment of the
"Flying Camp", and was at the battle of White Plains.

From the spring of 1777, as a sergeant in Captain David
Plunkett's Company, Colonel Stephen Moylan's Fourth Regiment of 
Light Dragoons, and was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown.
He was discharged in October 1780, his horse having fallen on him,
which rendered him unfit for active duty.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
March 25, 1818, while a resident of Trenton, Hunterdon County, New 
Jersey, aged sixty-eight years.

In 1820, soldier stated that he had no family residing
with his other than his wife, aged sixty-three years, her name
not given.

Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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Washington D.C.
March 26, 1930

Commissioner of Pensions, -
Dear Sir, -
Will you please give me
any records for the following
Revolutionary soldiers in the 
Maryland Regiments.
James Bowen
Thomas Bowen [comment in the margin: not as- Md]
William Mockbee [comment in margin: no]
Ninian Edmonston or Edmonson
Cephas Benson.
Thanking you 
I am very respfy
Harry E. Mockbee Sr.
1341 Meridian Place
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34057
Revy INVALID.

File No. 34,057
James Bowen
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 46

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right panel below]

1930 - May 28 - History to
Mrs. Harry E. Mockbee, Sr.
ILL.
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J.L. Edwards
Mr F. Wright.} Pension Office

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Hon. J J. Wilson
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Washington City,
Dec 10, 1820.

Sir,
Mr Wright having kindly
afforded me an opportunity of writing
you a note, and not knowing when
I shall be able to call on you personally,
I take the liberty of requesting
you to revise the case of James
Bowen, of Fenton, in New Jersey -
of what company or regiment I am 
unable to say, but of the Dragoons,
who informed me just before I left
home that he had received no renewal
of his certificate of pension, and who
I know to be in very needy circumstances,
and fairly within the meaning 
of the Pension Law. Could he be replaced 
on the list, I am convinced
it would be at once an act of
justice and of mercy.

Respectfully,
James J. Wilson.
J.L. Edwards, esq.}
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James Bowen
Not on the
Massachusetts
roll.
Virginia line
Admitted
(For seal see Jona:
Bryants declaration.)

CKfers 14 cts
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County Ss. 

before me James Ewing
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
in said County of Hunterdon, personally appeared 
James Bowen of the city of Trenton
in said County, a person to me well known
& worthy of credit who being duly sworn & deposeth
and saith, that he served in the United
States in the revolutionary War against the
common enemy upwards of three years
having first served for 8 months in what was
called the flying camp: in Capt Howards company
in the Regiment commanded by Col. Hall
of the Maryland line in the year 1776, that
after he was discharged from that service, he
enlisted in Capt David Phinket's company
in Col Moylan's Regiment. being the 4th Regiment
of light Dragoons, early in the Spring
of 1777 that he served two years and eight months
in the said Regiment and was discharged by
Col. NW White in consequence of his Horse having
fallen on him & disabled him from active
duty, he thinks in October 1780, but his discharge
was burned by accident some years ago,
that he served as a Sergeant in the said Company
and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of 
his country for support. -
James Bowen

Sworn at Trenton in said County}
March 25. 1818 before me}
Jas Ewing
[illegible]

I have been personally acquainted with the above
named James Bowen upwards of thirty years, he sustains
a good character, though in low circumstances, the
above deposition would be convincing proof to me that
he had performed the services there stated, but there
are a variety of circumstances with which I am acquainted
that fully corroborates the statement he
has made
Witness my hand March 25. 1817
Jas Ewing
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County JW. Before me James Ewing one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said
County personally appeared Peter Gordon of the
city of Trenton in said County [illegible], a person to me
well known and worthy of credit who being duly
sworn & did depose that he was quarter Master
stationed at Trenton [illegible symbol] in the year 1778. That
he perfectly recollects that the James Bowen
now of the said City of Trenton was then a Sergeant
in a troop of Horse quartered in Trenton, and
the drew forage for the troop of Horse as a
Sergeant.
Peter Gordon

Sworn at Trenton
April 8 1818
before me
Jas Ewing
[illegible]