Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16371, Jacob Dowers, Penn.
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SERVICE   Penn.
Dowers, Jacob
NUMBER  S.16371
carded
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Date of death not on AB.
13854 
Indiana 
Jacob Dowers
of Ripell Co in the State of Indiana  who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Bartlett  of the regiment commanded by Col Johson in the line for 6 months Penn
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.  
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of April 1833 and sent to  S S Harding Versailles   
Arrears to the 4th of March, 40.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept  10 – 
$50 – 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded Daniel Boyd Clerk 
Book C Vol.  7 Page 109
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State of Indiana 
Ripley County} SS On this 23d day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Personally appeared before the Judges of the Ripley Circuit Court now sitting Jacob Dowers a resident the County of Ripley in the State of Indiana Seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the Month of August in the year 1780 with one Col Atley and served in the fifth Regiment of the Pensylvania line under the following named officers to wit General Wayne, Colonel Johnson, Lieutenant Colonel Minges Major Tuton Captain Bartley and Ensign Kilgrish  that he left the service some time in the month of February 1781. after service for six months or one term of enlistment. That he resided at the time of his enlistment in the Town of Lancaster in Lancaster County in the State of Pensylvania, He marched from Lancaster to the Sandy Ground at the Liberty pole in east Jersey from thence to Hackensack river from thence to Tappand from thence to the Whitehouse in the State of New Jersey, from thence to West point from thence to Tatacrary falls from thence three miles from Morristown to a place called Kimbles farms, there he got his discharge from Col Minges 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an 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 year aforesaid the day Before me David P. Shook Clk 
Jacob Dowers his mark    
And the said Court do hereby declare the opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. 
M C Eggleston Prest Judge  [seal]  A. H. Reed  Associate Judge [seal]  R. W. Todd Associate Judge [seal]
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I David P. Shook Clerk of the Ripley Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Dowers for a Pension- 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 30 day of August A.D. 1832 
David P. Shook Clk
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State of Indiana 
Ripley County } SS    Personally appeared before one of the Justice of the peace in and for said County Conard Dowers of Lawful age a resident of said County of who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with One Jacob Dowers who has applied for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832 and That he was well acquainted with said Jacob Dowers before the Revolutionary War and during the same. That he knows positively that said Jacob Dowers did enlist in the army of the States some time in the year of 1780 Served and that the Fifth Regiment in Captain Bartletts company of the Pennsylvania line that the said Jacob Dowers left the army some time in 1781. The precise time he cannot State, and that the said Jacob Dowers was duly discharged the said Col Minges. That the said Jacob Dowers Mother (is living has at this time the discharge aforesaid in York County Penn.  
Conard Dowers his mark  
Sworn to and subscribed this 18th day of December 1832  
John S. Craig J.P. [seal]  
And the said Justice further certifies that the above deponent Conard Dowers is a person of truth and veracity and is entitled to credit as such 
John S. Craig J.P. [seal]
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State of Indiana 
Ripley County }Sc 
I David P. Shook Clerk of the Ripley Circuit Court do hereby certify that  John S. Craig before whom the foregoing affidavit of Conard Dowers was taken, and who also has certified the foregoing certificate, was  at the time of taking and certifying the same an acting Justice of the peace within and for the said County of Ripley and State of Indiana duly commissioned as such; that full faith and credit are due all his official acts, and that the foregoing Signature is genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal office at Versailles this 15th of December 1832 
David P. Shook Clk
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Genl Wayne 
I knew Col. Johnson Lieut Col Minges, Major Tuton Adjutant Bartley the Regiment in which I and was the fifth Regiment of the Pensylvania troops - the general circumstances of my service are stated within,  Answer to 6th Quest I did receive a written discharge from Col Minges that discharge is accounted for in the accompanying affidavit (the affidavit)
Answer to the 7th Quest Evidence of John Hunter, William Laycock, William Skeene, Saml P. Shook &c &c 
I David P. Shook Clerk of the Ripley County Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the amendment of the original proceedings of the Ripley Circuit Court at the August Term 1832) in the matter of the application of Jacob Dowers for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto my hand and seal of office this 21st day of February Anno Domini 1836 which said amendment was made in open Court 
David P. Shook Clerk 
Jacob Dowers 4727.
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Has no written or documentary Evidence his discharge has not yet been found and his friends in  Pensylvania are all dead who if living could testify to his service) and he knows of no person except the one who has made the accompanying affidavit – 
Jacob Dowers his mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 21st  Febry 1833 David P. Shook, Clk 
We Meshack Hyatt a clergyman residing in the County of Ripley and State of Indiana and 
Azariah Dowers residing in the same County and State do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Dowers who has subscribed and sworn to the Declaration to which this is an amendment that we believe him to be seventy two 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. Sworn to and subscribed the 21st day of February 1833. 
M. Hyatt
Azariah Dowers  
And the said Court does hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department (which will be found [unreadable]) that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to him that Meshack Hyatt who has signed the preceeding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Ripley and state of Indiana and that Azariah Dowers who has also signed the same is a resident the same County and State and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
M. C. Eggleston Prest Judge [seal]
{ N.B. the President Judge in this  State without the associate forming a quorum} 
The following are the answers (made to the Questions prescribed by the War Department) of the above named applicant under oath in open Court 
Answer to first Quest. I was born in the City of Philadelphia in the year 1760 
Ans to Question 2.  I have no record my age only what my father told me. 
Ans to 3d Quest. I was living in old Lancaster Pensylvania, since the Revolution I have resided in the State of Maryland and Married. I now reside in the County of Ripley in the State of Indiana 
Ans to 4th Quest. I enlisted Answer to Quest 5th I can state that
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Genl Wayne I knew Col. Johnson Lieut Col Minges, Major Tuton Adjutant Bartley the Regiment in which I and was the fifth Regiment of the Pensylvania troops - the general circumstances of my service are stated within, Answer to 6th Quest I did receive a written discharge from Col Minges that discharge is accounted for in the accompanying affidavit (the affidavit) Answer to the 7th Quest Evidence of John Hunter, William Laycock, William Skeene, Saml P. Shook &c &c 
I David P. Shook Clerk of the Ripley County Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the amendment of the original proceedings of the Ripley Circuit Court at the August Term 1832) in the matter of the application of Jacob Dowers for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto my hand and seal of office this 21st day of February Anno Domini 1836 which said amendment was made in open Court 
David P. Shook Clerk 
Jacob Dowers 4727.
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4727
Jacob Dowers
Ripley Indiana
from 1780 private
6 months
11,12,13,14 & 20
Int. All
(Page 76)
Bartly
Johnson
See Let Nov 20 S.S. Harding
Versailles Inda.
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4727
BRIEF in the case of Jacob Dowers of Ripley County in the State of Indiana 
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? A Court 
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he? 72 years 
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
Period. Enlisted in August In 1780  Duration of Service.   left the service some time in February 1781, after serving for 6 months Rank.  As a Private   Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   5th Regt Pa  Colo Atley Genl Wayne Colo. Johnson Lieut Colo Minges Major Tuton Capt Bartley  
5. In what battles was he engaged?  
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Lancaster, Pennsylvania 
7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
8. ┃ Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
Examining Clerk.
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September 23, 1937  
Jacob Dowers 
S. 16371 
BA-J/AWF  
Mrs. Ira L. Cosby 
629 South Street 
Lafayette, Indiana 
Dear Madam: Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jacob Dowers private in the Virginia militia, listed as a pensioner in 1832 as of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. 
In the Report of the Secretary of War, printed in 1835, the soldier to whom you refer, was erroneously listed as of Tippecanoe County, and as having served in the Virginia troops. His service was in the Pennsylvania troops, he was a resident of Ripley County, Indiana when he applied for pension, and his name was Jacob Dowers. 
The record of Jacob Dowers follows as found in papers on file in pension claim, S. 16371, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. 
Jacob Dowers was born in the year 1760 in the City of Philadelphia, names of his parents not given. While a resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Jacob Dowers enlisted sometime in August, 1780, served in Captain Bartley's company, Colonel Johnston's Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, and was discharged by Colonel Mentges, after a service of six months. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 23, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Ripley
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County, Indiana. He lived after the Revolution, before moving to Indiana, in Maryland and Virginia. 
Conrad Dowers in 1832 was living in Ripley County, Indiana, and then stated that he was well acquainted with the soldier, Jacob Dowers, before and after the Revolution; and Azariah Dowers was a resident of Ripley County, Indiana in 1833, and well acquainted with the soldier. It was not shown that they were related to the soldier, or were related to each other. 
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and furnish the following data- 
Jacob Dowers 
Certificate # 13854 
Issued April 29, 1832 
Rate $20.00 per annum 
Commenced March 4, 1831 
Act of June 7, 1832 
Indiana Agency. 
Very truly yours A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Jacob Dowers
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jacob Dowers which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes 
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes 
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?  
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes 
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  Yes  
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes 
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes 
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes 
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes – 
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes & has a device.
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No 
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No 
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?   No  
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?   # not on Roll 
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? 
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes 
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?   No.
EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For year months and days , I served as a -. For - months days, I served as a and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. 
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being in properly attached to the certificate.
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October 15, 1935
Jacob Dowers-S. 16371 
BA-J/AWF
The Quartermaster General 
Memorial Branch 
War Department 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Jacob Bowers, soldier of the War of the Revolution in the Pennsylvania Line, died June 2, 1840 in Ripley County, Indiana. 
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 16371, based upon the service of Jacob Dowers in the Revolutionary War. 
Jacob Dowers was born in the year 1760 in the City of Philadelphia, names of his parents not given. 
While residing in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Jacob Dowers enlisted sometime in August, 1780, served in Captain Bartley's company, Colonel Johnston's 5th Pennsylvania Regiment, and was discharged by Colonel Mentges, after a length of six months' service. 
He lived after the Revolution in Maryland and Virginia. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 23, 1832, at which time he was living in Ripley County, Indiana. 
Conard Dowers in 1832 was living in Ripley
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County, Indiana and then stated that he knew the solider, Jacob Dowers before and after the Revolution, and Azariah Dowers was living in 1833 in Ripley County, Indiana and well acquainted with the soldier. It is not shown that they were related to the soldier or were related to each other. 
The application for headstone for Jacob Dowers is returned herewith. There was no correspondence enclosed.
 Very truly yours A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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RECEIVED AUG 27 1937 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS ADM READER # 23
Lafayette, Indiana 
August 24 - 1937
The Veterans Administration 
Washington, D.C. 
To complete a D.A.R. record, I would like to have the service Record of Jacob Dower, Private, Revolutionary War soldier- Virginia Militia.  He is listed for Pension in Tippecanoe County Indiana, 1831. Thanking you for any assistance You may provide  
I am Very Truly Yours 
Matilda E. Cosby 
Mrs.  Ira L. Cosby 
629 South St. 
Lafayette, Indiana
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16.371
INVALID
File No. 16,371
Jacob Dowers
Pri. Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:-Vol A. Page 107
[Arrangement of 1870.]
[unreadable] Oct 15 hist to [unreadable]
[unreadable] Sept 23 hist to Mrs. Ira L. Cosby AWF