Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 14072, for Elisha Owen, Vermont
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Vt  
Owen, Elisha or Owens
S14072
carded
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18758
Vermont 181788
Elisha Owens 18758
Chittenden in the state of Vermont  he was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Allen of the Regt. commanded by Col. Sawyer in the Vermont Ma for 8 months

Enscribed on the Roll of Vermont the rate of 26 dollars 66 cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued this 8th day of  September 1833 and sent to pensioner Milton, VT
Arrears to the 4th day of Sept 1833  $66.65
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 March '34    $13.33
$ 79.98
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by El. Brown, Clerk
Book E, Vol 3, Page 82
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8688
Elisha Owens

14.16
Admit
8 mos

Claimant  Milton, Vt
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Brief in the case of Elisha Owens
County of Chittenden in the State of Vermont
(Act 7th June 1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a court or a judge?  County Court
2. If before a judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 72
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period, Duration of service, Rank, Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
In 1778, 6 months, Private, Gen Ethan Allen / Capt. Ebeneezer Allen
Oct 1779, 1 month, private, Capt. Hotchkiss
1780, 1 month, private, Capt. Sawyer

5. In what battle was he engaged?  none
6. Where did he reside when he entered service? Rutland County Vermont at Poultney
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by transitionary evidence, by incidental evidence? - living witnesses

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication and if so, in what respect?  The papers are not attached as required by the regulations but in other respects they are authentic.
*Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Sam J Potts, Examining Clerk
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State of Vermont, Chittenden County
I Nathan B Maswell, clerk of Chittenden County court do hereby certify that Boyd H Willson Esq and Ephraim Herrick Esq were each of them Justices of the Peace duly qualified acting under the authority of this state, on the days they [illegible] to have done the official acts to which they have set their names on the documents hereto attached marked in Red Ink No 1 and 2 and I believe the same to be their own proper signatures.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Burlington this 10th day of August AD 1833
Nathan B Maswell
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State of Vermont, Chittenden County
On the 6th day of Sept AD 1832 personally appeared before the court of the said county of Chittenden Elisha Owens a resident of Milton in said county of Chittenden in the State of Vermont aged seventy-two years who being first duly sworn according to [illeg] on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. to wit:
That he enlisted in the Army of the Revolution in the year 1778 in the service of the United States in the State of Vermont. He enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Ebeneezer Allen at Poultney in the county of Rutland in this state, but the company did not belong nor was it attached to any regiment.  The period of my enlistment was six months. We marched first to Rutland and afterwards to Mashoba [Neshobe] now Brandon in Rutland County, and remained there until my term of enlistment was expired and was then dismissed.  Our garrison at Rutland and Marshoba consisted of two companies, the other was commanded by Captain Isaac Clark presumably known for the part he acted at the Battle of Bennington the year before. Our garrison was kept up for the purpose of guarding the frontiers against the depredations of the British and Indians the former whom has the command of Lake Champlain and could make incursions  where they pleased. There were no other continental troops in the neighborhood of Mashoba, nor do I know whether I was enlisted under any orders from Congress or not but suppose my Capt acted by this authority I think I was enlisted about the first day of March 1778 and remember that
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it took nearly all my bounty money to purchase a gun and entered the service about the same time.  I have no written or documentary evidence in my possession or within my knowledge by which I can substantiate the above facts, and there were no discharges expected when we were dismissed but every man went his way. I never [illeg] any pay except the bounty money.
I have the evidence of Elisha Ashley who was Sergeant in my company, and who knows of my enlistments and service for six months. His affidavit is herewith enclosed.
In October I think in 1779, the county was put in commotion by what was called the Great alarm & I volunteered, and [illeg] at Castleton in Rutland County where there were three regiments of militia assembled under the command of General Ethan Allen, and after staying about ten days it was concluded to disperse & the troops mostly returned home.  Before this, however, General Allen had advised that a company of about 100 men should remain in camp.  He accordingly beat up for volunteers but was unsuccessful whereupon he mounted a stump, made a speech, and the hundred men volunteered immediately among whom I was one.  This company was commanded by a captain Hutchins whose Christian name I do not recollect - we remained in the service one month and were then dismissed
In 1780 I volunteered again and served under Captain Sawyer who was stationed at Rutland one month longer, half the time being spent on a scout from Rutland to Pauton in the county of Addision.  This will make
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eight months service besides volunteering a great number of times upon sudden alarms and being absent but a few days at a time of which I make no account. I have a word of my age a copy of which is  hereunto annexed
The applicant 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 if any) that of the state of Vermont.  (last phrase crossed out)
His Mark X Elisha Owen
Heman Allen, A.G. Whittmore
I hereby certify that I am and have been long acquainted with Elisha Owens whose signature is above written an believe him to be a man of truth, that he is reputed and believed to be 72 years old and to have been a revolutionary soldier   Heman Allen M.C.
Burlington  6 Sept 1832    A.G. Whittemore, States Attorney

And the said court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the investigations  prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served the United States and that Heman Allen whose signature above affixed is now a member of Congress from the 4th district in Vermont and A.G. Whittemore is States Attorney
Attest Eli Brownson and John Vanserkle, Judges of the Chittenden County Court
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County
I Nathan Warnell Clerk of Chittenden
County Court do hereby certify that the
foregoing untoins the original
proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of Elisha Owen
for a Pension.  I further certify that Boyd
H. Willson and Ephraim Herrick Esqr
before whom the annexed affidavits were
taken was at the time thereof Justice
of the Peace duly qualifed acting under the
authority of this State and that the names thereto subscribed I believe to be their own proper signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at
Burlington this 14th day of September AD 1832
Nathan Braswell
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14072
Invalid
File No. 14072
Elisha Owen
[illegible] Rev. war

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 282
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To Hon. William L Marcy Secretary at War

The undersigned, Elisha Owen, of Milton in the county of Chittenden State of Vermont aged eighty five years on the 5th day of October last represents and declares that he is now in the receipt of a pension of $26.66 for services in the regular army of the United States during the revolutionary war, the certificate of which pension is dated Sept. 30, 1833 and recorded in the pension office in Book .E. Vol.3 page 82 by Eb Brown clerk. That when he applied to the war department for said pension he was advised by the late Hon Herman Allen then [illegible smudge] of congress from the state, to make an application for a pension for services in the militia of Vermont tho the applicant when insisted and believed that he ought to have done so. He complied with the advise and did not include in that declaration any such claim. Some years ago the declaration on which the above pension was obtained, I made another application for pension for militia services and accompanied the declaration with the affidavit here with transmitted of Alpheus Hall, Bulah Ashley, and [illegible] of Julius Owen but without the certificate from the State department of this State which is now forwarded- The war department
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refused to grant the pension as I was informed partly from the indefinite character of the affidavit, and partly because nothing was said in the first declaration about militia services.
I now state and declare that I served in the militia of Vermont during the years 1778 1780 & 1781 the [eligible] periods mentioned in the certificate of the Secretary of State of the State of Vermont accompanying and attached to this declaration that is to say ten days in the [illegible] at Castleton in the 1781.
Twenty-six days as a volunteer in the month of October 1780
Eight days from the 7th day of Nov AD 1778
Two days in the [illegible] at Castleton in AD 1781
Besides the above period which I admit I could not at this remote time have specified without the aid of the said certificate, I served in the militia during the years 1779 1780 1781 a great number of times which I can not now remember. Those periods of service were from 4 to 14 days at a time. Capt. Zebediah Dewey's company stood as minute men during those years and as I belonged to that company I was subject to be called away from home into active service at a moments warning. The alarms
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were very frequent and this service was severe in that part of the state which was then new with bad roads, few inhabitants, provisions & clothing poor and scanty and [illeg] county skirted with British and Indians. This I can not now state all or even a principal part of the service I Performed yet I can remember some of it. In 1780, I was sent with others by Capt Dewey upon a scout to old [?] about thirty miles through the woods without any road. we were on this service 6 days
On another occasion I went with a scouting party from Poultney to reconnoitre Skenebore (now WhiteHall) which we did from the top of the rock mountains east of the village and there returned to our company at Castleton. This service was performed in one day and one night. I remember that not an alarm was given. but I repaired to Castleton the appointed rendez vous about six miles and always staid till the alarm was over & the men discharged or sent home
his mark X Elisha Owen
Signed in the presence of A.G. Whittemore
State of Vermont, Chittenden County, Milton 22 Dec 1845 then personally    appeared Elisha Owen who subscribed the above declaration in my presence and made solemn oath there the same is true according to his best knowledge  A.G. Whittemore, Justice  Peace
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Elisha Owen
[faded / illegible]
8688
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I Naomi Soper of Milton in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say that in the fore part of October in the year 1779 an alarm came to Poultney that the army was approaching near the frontiers and Elisha Owens and some others turned out to go for the purpose of opposing the enemy to Castleton and my husband Mordecai Soper and some others returned in the course of twelve or fifteen days and I do not recollect Elisha Owens having returned until some time afterwards.  I was living at that time of the alarm in Poultney now in Rutland County, State of Vermont and Elisha Owens was living in the same town about three fourths of a mile from me and further you - [illeg] saith not - Naomi Soper (her Mark X)
State of Vermont Chittenden County
Milton  August 9, 1832
There Naomi Soper of Milton in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont personally appearing and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by her subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth.     Before Ephraim Herrick, Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont Chittenden County
Milton   August 8, 1833
I hereby further certify that Naomi Soper whose signature is above by her affixed is a person of truth & veracity and a credible witness.
Ephraim Herrick, Justice of the Peace
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The within deposition was taken and [illegible] of by me.

Ephraim Hemrick Justice of the Peace
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Elisha son of Elijah Owen and Olive his wife was born October 5, 1760.

October AD 1775 A true copy of Salisbury Records
---Hutchinson Town Clerk

The Christian name of the town clerk is torn off and lost.
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E. Ashley
Deposition
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I Elisha Ashley of Milton in the county of Chittenden and state of Vermont of lawful age testify that in the year 1778 I was a sarjeant in the army of the revolution in a company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Allen. That in the month of March of the same year I enlisted Elisha Owens, now of said Milton, into said company. That he served in said company as private soldier [illegible] for the term of six months. Another company commanded by Capt Isaac Clark served in connection with the one to which said Owen and myself belonged. We went from Rutland in said state to a place now called Brendon where said Owen's term of six months expired.
Elisha Ashley
Subscribed and sworn to this 25th day of July AD. 1832 at said Milton. 
Boyd H. Wilson Justice Peace.

State of Vermont
Chittenden county}Milton 5 Aug, 1866
I hereby further certify that Elisha Ashley whose name is above by him Subscribed is a man of truth and veracity and a credible witness.
Boyd H. Wilson Justice of the Peace
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House of Representatives
Feb 2 1846

Sir

I enclose hereinwith certain papers belonging to the application of Elisha Owen for an increase of his Pension together with a litter from A. G. Whittemore from on the same subject.

The decision of the office, when  made, may be communicated to me.
I am, sir, very respectfully yours.
George S Mensh

[signed] [illegible] Stedward,
Comm [illegible]
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Rej. File 7841
Elisha Owen or Owens

Not on file Oct. 5 1877
" " " [indicating 'Not on file' copied from line above] Sept 17, 1906

Not other Inv. and not Wid claim for Elisha Owens from Vt.
M. Rice

Sept. 17, 1906
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[centered][underline] State of Vermont [end underline][end centering]

[right justified] Secretary of State; Office
[underline] Burlington Dec 1- 1845 [end underline][end right justified]

I [illegible] Shafter Secretary of State of Vermont hereby certify that upon an assigned Pay-Roll of Revolutionary Service of Capt. Zebediah Dewey's Company [illegible] and in this office occurs the name of Elisha Owen with an allowance to him for ten days service in the alan[illegible] at Castleton. October 21 - 1781.

I also further certify that upon another like Pay-Roll of Capt Isaac Clark's company occurs the name of the said Elisha Owen with an allowance to him for twenty six days service as volunteer in the month of October 1780.

I also further certify that upon a like Pay-Roll of Capt Z. Dewey's company on record in the office occurs the name of the said Elisha Owen, with an allowance to him for eight days service from the 7th day of November 1778.
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I also further certify that as a [illegibile] Pay-Roll of Capt. Z. Dewey, company are record in this office exist the name of the said Elisha Owen with an allowance to live for two days service in the [illegible] at Castle ter June 10th 1781.

I also further certify that each of the foregoing Pay-Roll have been accounted by a committee acting on behalf of this state that that the same have been paid by the state. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of this office Burlington [illegible] this first day of Dec, D 1845.

[signed with underline] 2. [illegible] Shafter

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