Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10852, Solomon Howe, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass.

Howe, Solomon

NUMBER
S.10852
Carded
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CONTENTS
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Vermont 18,923
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Solomon Howe
of Rutland Co in the State of Vermont
who was a Pr. in the Company commanded
by Captain N Howe of the Regt commanded
by Col. Whitney in the Masstt's
Militia
2 Ys Private $80.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 80 Dollars [lined out: Cents] per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of October
1833 and Sent to George Folsom, Worcester, Mass.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 - 200.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch 1834 40
[total] $240.00

{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J.T. Sprague Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 70
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Declaration of Solomon Howe
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No. 3213
enls [enlisted] 8 July 1780 for 6 mo's
dis [discharged] 4 Decr 1780
4 m'o 26
Admit
2 y'rs
$80
Please to direct the Certificate, when issued, to Geo. Folsom, Worcester, Mass.
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STATE OF VERMONT,
Addison County ss. }

I, EDWARD D. BARBER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that the annexed documents contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application [of] Solomon Howe for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 4th day of Augt. A. D. 1832

[signed] Edward D. Barber Clerk
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State of Vermont }
County of Addison ss. } On the 5th day of July AD 1832, Personally appeard in open Court before the Judges of Addison County Court now sitting Solomon Howe a resident of Bridport in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged Seventy three years 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 June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and Served as herein stated. (Viz) In Capt Nathan Hows Company of Infantry in Colo Whitneys Regiment in the Massachusetts Militia [as a vo]unteer for the term of two months in the year 1776, and was stationed at Dorchester, that his place of Residence was then at Shrewsbury Massachusetts, and that he served the full term of two month for which he volunteered, and that said service was performed in the months of February and March, and that in July 1776 he the said Solomon Howe again volunteered into the Service of the United States for the term of four months in Capt Sawyers Company, in Colo Dikes Regiment of Massachusetts Militia and served at Dorchester point the full term of four months for which he volunteered Gen Ward was our commanding officer at that time, (and that he the said Solomon Howe performed two tours of Militia service at Rhode Island and served as a volunteer in both of s'd tours the terms of four month and was in the Massachusetts Militia, and was stationed at Providence & Newport Rhode Island and also when) and that he again in 1777, volunteered and performed one other tour of Militia Service of five weeks and marched from Shrewsbury Massachusetts to Bennington Vermont, under Capt Asa Rice, and Colo Job Cushing Regment
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and that in the latter part of May 1778, he the said Solomon Howe volunteered again into the service of the United States in the Militia of Massachusetts for term of Eight months in Capt. John Drury's Company in Colo Woods Regiment that he marched from Shrewsbury in Massachusetts to Peekskill and from thence to the white plains we were attached to Gen Nixons Brigade and that he served the full Term of Eight Months for which he the said Solomon Howe volunteered and then returned home to Shrewsbury aforesaid, and that in the year 1780, he entered the Service of the United State as a volunteer and marched from Shrewsbury aforesaid to West Point through Springfield, that at West Point he entered the Regiment commanded by Colo Timothy Bigalow [Bigelow] which was the 15th Massachusetts Regiment of the line, and that he served on s'd Regiment the term of Six Months part of the time at Orange Town in Newjersey [New Jersey] and the last part of the time in the State of Newyork [New York] at West Point at which place he was honorably discharged by Colo Bigalow and recvd [received] from him a written discharge which discharge was burned at the time his house was burned in Bridport about forty four or five years since that. his Captains name in Colo Bigalows Regiment was John Pierce [?], and that in 1781, he the said Solomon Howe at Shrewsbury aforesaid where he then lived volunteerd into the Service of the United States in the Massachusetts Militia for the term of three months in Capt Bowkers Company in Colo Webbs Regiment and marched to the North River at Gallows Hill and served in that vicinity the full term of three months and then was dismissed, that he has no discharge nor has he any documentary evidence, and that he movd from Shrewsbury aforesaid to Bridport aforesaid about forty five or forty six years line and that he now resides in
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Bridport afors'd 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

[signed] Solomon Howe

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afors'd
[signed] E. D. Barber Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states; and the Court also certify that, from personal acquaintance with the said Solomon Howe as well as with Daniel Newton and Thomas Hammond, whose affidavits are herewith transmitted, they consider them persons of veracity and entitled to credit; and that the affidavits aforesaid were sworn before persons having competent authority.

[signed] Edward D. Barber Clerk
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(C)
State of Vermont
Addison County ss. } Be it known that before me Udney H Everest one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Madison aforesaid Personally appeared Daniel Newton of Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid on oath doth depose testify and say, that he the said Daniel Newton was personally acquainted with Solomon Howe now residing at Bridport in the County of Addison and State of Vermont in the year one thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight while in the service of the Revolutionary War. I further say that said Solomon Howe served one Campaign of Eight months at the white plains in the State of Newyork [New York] and at Peekskill that he belonged to the Massachusetts Militia in Colo Woods Regiment, attached to Gen Nixons Brigade and further this Deponant saith not.

[signed] Daniel Newton

Sworn and subscribed this 5th day of July A.D. 1832
Before me Udney H Everest Just Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Daniel Newton aforesaid and that he is a credible witness

Attest Udney H Everest Justice Peace
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Daniel Newtons
affidavit
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ss
Be it known that before me Gordon Newell one of the Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid Personally appeared Thomas Hammond of Pittsford of the County and State aforesaid and on oath doth depose testify and say that I was personally acquainted with Solomon Howe now residing at Bridport in the County of Addison and State of Vermont in the year one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty while in the Service of the Revolutionary War I further say that said Howe served one Campaign of six months Part of the time at Orange Town in the State of New Jersey and the last part of the time in the State of New York at West Point and further say that the Redgiment [Regiment] in which he served was the 15th Massachusetts Redgiment under Cournel [Colonel] Timothy Bigelow and further this Deponant saith not

[signed] Tho's Hammond

Sworn to and subscribed this 4th day of July A D 1832 Before Me
[signed] Gordon Newell Just Peace
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Thomas Hammond's Affidavit
Sol. Howes Case

[written downward]
Solomon Howes Affidavit
Made By  T. Hammond
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss.

1'st I Calvin Sawyer of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of Lawful age to testify and make oath do say that in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy seven, commencing in the month of May I was in the service of the United States in the Massachusetts Militia two months in the Company under the Command of Capt Isaac Martin.

The name of the Col of the Regiment I do not now recollect. And that Solomon Howe then of said Shrewsbury now of Bridport in the County of Addison & State of Vermont served in the same Company with me the said [left margin: 2'd] two months & was then regularly discharged. And I further say that in the same year aforesaid, commencing in the month of August I was in the same service as aforesaid in the Company under the command of Capt Asa Rice in the Regiment under the command of Col Job Cushing and that said Solomon Howe served in the same Company with me for the term of six weeks, and then was regularly discharged.

[signed] Calvin Sawyer

Worcester August 3d 1832 Then the above named Calvin Sawyer personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the facts contained in the above affidavit by him subscribed, before me.

Nymphas Pratt Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss.
I Jonas Hastings of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusets of lawful age to testify and make oath do say that in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & seventy six, commencing in the month of February I was in the service of the United States in the Massachusetts Militia in the Company under the Command of Capt Nathan Howe in the Regiment under the Command of Col Whitney, and that Solomon Howe then of said Shrewsbury now of Bridport in County of Addison & State of Vermont served in the same Company with me for the term of two months and was then regularly discharged.

[signed] Jonas Hastings

Worcester ss
August 3d 1832 Then the above named Jonas Hastings personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the facts contained in the above statement by him subscribed before me.

Nymphas Pratt Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss

I John H Howe of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to testify & make oath, do say that in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and eighty one, commencing some in the month of September, I was in the service of the United States in the Massachusetts Militia in the Company under the Command of Capt Cutler in the Regiment under the Command of Col Luke Denny and that Solomon Howe then of said Shrewsbury now of Bridport in the County of Addison & State of Vermont served three months at the same time with me in the Company under the Command of Capt Daniel Bowker in the Regiment Commanded by Col Webb, and was then regularly discharged.

[signed] John How

Worcester ss.
August 3d 1832 Then the above named John Howe personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the facts contained in the above affidavit by him subscribed before me

Nymphas Pratt Justice of the Peace

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I Joseph S Temple of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to testify and make oath do say that in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred & seventy nine commencing in the month of October I was in the service of the United States in the Massachusetts Militia in the Company under the Command of Capt Moses in the Regiment under the command of Col Durfee and that Solomon Howe now of Bridport in the County of Addison & State of Vermont, then of said Shrewsbury, served in the Company with me two months & was then regularly discharged.

[signed] Joseph S Temple

Worcester ss August 3d 1832 Then the above named Joseph S Temple personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the facts contained in the above affidavit by him subscribed before me.

Nymphas Pratt Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester ss. I Abijah Bigelow, Clerk of the Judicial Court, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that Nymphas Pratt, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Calvin Sawyer, Jonas Hastings, John H. How, and Joseph S. Temple were made and sworn to, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, and that his signatures thereto appear to me to be in his own proper hand writing.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County Seal, this fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

Abijah Bigelow, Cler.