Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31436, Solomon Trower, Va.
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SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Trower, Solomon. S. 31436
CONTENTS
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State of Kentucky [illegible] county } on this 18th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justice of the county court of [illegible] now sitting Soloman Trower a resident of sd county near Harrisburgh in sd state in the seventy sixth year of his age who being first duly sworn according to law doth [illegible] his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June 1832 viz
I solomon Trower state on oath that I am now in the seventy sixth year of my age, That I was born in the county of King William in the state of Virginia where I resided until about the year 1773 when I removed to the count of [illegible] of sd state when I resided when I was called into the service of the militia of the state of Virginia as follows viz in the month of April 1775 I volunteered in Capt Robert Harris company of Col White Regiment of the Virginia Militia for three months and marched to [illegible] against Lord [illegible] and in its [illegible] I served out my time and was honorably discharged and again early in the fall 1776 I was drafted in [illegible] Lewis Regiment in Capt Hunters company and marched to Hampton where and in its [illegible] I was stationed and served out another two or three months I recollect that while we were at Hampton the British was a Norfolk and I was discharged at the expiration of my time and again in the fall 1777 in September I was
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drafted in Capt White's company of Col Johnsons regiment this month and presented to Goodland
court house and there to South York and at
last, we was stationed at what was called the
half way house between Goodland courthouse
and South York, where I served and my tour
and was honorably discharged and again in 
the summer 1721 I was drafted in a company commanded at the time by [Liet Tallip?] and in Col
Lindseys Regiment of the Militia and marched to
Frederickburgh where I was stationed during another tour of three months and was discharged about
three weeks before Lord Cornwallis was taken, making
in the whole twelve month of actual service, I
further state that I was a soldier as a guard at
the Allenmeade Barracks but on account of
my extensive old age I was not able to specify
the names of all my officers, but I [solemnly?]
am that I performed services in the Militia of
Virginia as I have also stated and acted as a
faithful soldier, and I do not know any person
alive by whom I can prove my services and I
am so old and infirm that I cannot seek
after them, I further hereby relinquish all claims
that I may have to any pension or annuity to which I may be entitled, except the present and I am not now a pensioner of the United States or of any states
witness my hand this 18 August 1822 by
Solomon Trower
X mark
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Mercer County Viz This day Personally appeared n open court Mr Jesse Head a Clergyman residing in the town of Harrodsburgh and neighbor to the above Solomon Trower Senr - and Mark McGohan a revolutionary soldier and neighbor also, and John B Thompson A H Alexander
all residing in the same county certify that we believe that Solomon Trower Sen who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration is of the age he has stated and that he is reputed and believed in the neghborhood in which he resides (and in which we also live) to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we further Certify that he is a man of Truth and a respectable, honorable citizen in whose statements we have the fullest reliance in and we all concur in the above opinion Witness my hand this 10th day of August 1832-
John B. Thompson Jesse Heard
A H Alexander Mark Mcgohan x his mark
The undersigned have been acquainted with the above named Solomon Trower Senior many years the believe him of Strict honour entirely sober and a creditable man, He is at present and has been ever since our acquaintance and acceptable member of the Methodist E Church, and says he has been a member for Sixty one years
Chs Chime
John L Lindly
Elias Tompkins
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County Sct Augt. County Court 1832 
This day Solomon Tower H. Subscriber to the within Statement of Petition for a Pension and also Mark McGohan John B. Thompson A. H. Alexander Christopher Chinn John Lindley & Elias Tompkins who are [illegible] to the foregoing Certificates Came Personally into Open Court & made Oath to the truth of the statements by them Subscribed and Hereupon the 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 Solomon Trower was a Revolutionary Soldier & Served as he has Stated & the Court further certifies that said McGohan Thompkins Alexander Chinn Smedley and Tompkins who have signed the afore going Certificates are Credible Witnesses and that their statements are entitled to credit and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Jesse Head who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in Mercer County - and I Thomas Allin Clerk of the County Court afsd. do Certify that the foregoing Contains the Original Proceedings of the Said Court in the Matter of the application of Solomon Trower for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my office at Harrodsburg this 19th day of Augt. 1832
Tho Allin J.C.E.
$40 per ann
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., May 12, 1921

In reply to your request of ___, received __ for a statement of the military history of Solomon Trower a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1775
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
served at various times to close of War in all 18 mos.
RANK.
Pvt
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. COLONE.
Rob't Harris White
Jack Hunton. Lewis
White Lindsey
Coles
STATE. 
Va
Battles engaged in, None stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Albemarle Co., Va.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 10 1832 cl. al.
Residence at date of application, Mercer Co., Ky.
Age at date of application, 98 b. King William Co., Va.
Remarks:
No fam. data
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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495.
Kentucky
Solomon Trower
of Mercer Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Cole of the regt commanded by Colo Lewis in the Virginia Mila for one year, from 1775.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of September 1832 and sent to Robert B McAfee. Harrodsburg. Ken.
Arrears to 4th of September 1832 $60.
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 20.
$80.
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm S Allison Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 9 Page 62
let 3d Oct 26. J. L. Waugh.
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Rev + or
Dear Sir-
I am seeking information of Solomon Trower - soldier of the
Trower
Revolutionary War -
o none at all
and Christopher Trower of Allen's Company 7th Mass. Regiment served from Jan. 26 1777 to Sept 1777 - also Richard Trower of Buds Co Militia Maryland
Please send me all the data you

pension
p
Apr. 
20
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have concerning them.
Solomon Trower was a private in the Va militia - was placed on the pension roll Sept 11 1832 - (from Rev'y of War report in year 1835 - preserved in the Va State Library)
and also McAllister's List of Va Militia
Please let me hear from you as soon as possible.
Mrs. O. W. Walker
Shellyville
Illinois.
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Rev Sec
406 East 8th St.
Chattanooga Tenn.
Sept. 28, '22
Dept. of Interior Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Please have pension records examined for Rev. war service of Solomon Trower.
Very truly,
(Miss) Kate Cravens.

U.S. PENSION OFFICE O
SEP 30 1922
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INVALID.
File No. 31,436
Solomon Trower
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 425
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1921, May 12 hist to Miss O. W. Walker - EW.
1822. Nov. 1. Hist. to K. Cravens.
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State of Kentucky SS
Mercer County
On this sixth day of September AD 1836 - Personally appeared in Open Court before the worshipful Justices of the County afsd. Solomon Trower a resident Citizen of Mercer County and state of Kentucky, aged One hundred and four 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 provision, made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832 by way of amendments to his former declaration written out by Genl. R. B. McAfee, and now on file in the War Department of the United States,
That he entered the service of the United States at an early point of the war he thinks 1776 as a drafted soldier in Capt Whites Company for Three months service from the County of Albemarle and marched to Williamsburg and joined the Regiments the Commander he cannot now remember. where they were stationed until discharged he knows he served faithfully upwards of three in this Tour he was honorably discharged and returned home he does not now recollect the names of the officer by whom he was discharged
He was again drafted in Capt Cole's Company for a Tour of Three months and Joined Col Lewis Regiment and marched to Hampton a little town near Norfolk where they were stationed until discharged. when he returned home,
He was again drafted in Capt Jno Whites Company for a Tour of Three months and Joined the Regt Commanded by Col William White then stationed at New Kent Court house where he remained some time and we were marched from there on the Chickahomeny River, and from there onto James River and was discharged at Goochland Courthouse
He was again drafted in Capt Jack Huntons Company and Joined the Regiment under the Command of Col Lewis and marched through Orange County Fredericksburg crossed the Rappahannock and marched to the Potomac and back by Stafford Court house, to Fredericksburg where
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they remained untill discharged and he among many others returned home to albamare county where he remained for several months, planted corn and
He was again drafted in Cap Lee Harris' company and joined Col Wm Whites Regt and marchd on to James River, Lord Corn Wallis was then in the south and it was expected he would return to virginia we marched backwards & forwards through the County our principal station was at Goochland Court house at which place he was discharged after an absense from home upwards of three months
Some short time afterwards we received the news that the enemy had envaded [illegible] part of Virginia he was again called into the service he can not say positively whether he served more than two months in the tour or not he knows he was discharged a short time before Corn Wallis set down at Little York he was commanded by Capt Hunton & Col Lewis during this tour after his discharge and his return home the prisoners were arriving at collamarl barracks he was one that was detained as a guard to the prisoners at that place when he remained untill after the arrival of this prisoners taken at the siege of york, and untill they were all discharged, when when he was released he went home went to work and has been at it ever since He farther states in giving in his former statement or declaration of his services in the war of the Revolution to Genearl Mcafee he either himself forgot to detail a part of it or Mcaffee failed to put it down , for he solemnly sears that he served in actual service upwards of eighteen months in the army of the revolution a fact as certain to him, as it is that he now exists
He farther states that he now receives pay for twelve months service and that he is equally entitled to pay for eighteen months, for the services even actually performed by him. he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares
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That his name is not on the pension Roll of this agency of any state except the present which is for the sum of Forty Dollars
Sworn to and subscribed this day & year aforsaid He farther farther that all his services were performed from the year 1776 to 1781 he was more or less in the service for 5 or six years it is impossible for him to recollect the days months or years in which he served or all the County through which he marched his mind is yet pretty good but he cannot vinture to swear to duty but as to the length of time he was in actual service he is positively certain it was upwards of [illegible] months and farther not
Solomon his x mark Trower seal
I Thomas Clelland a Clergyman residing in Mercer County and state of Kentucky and Christopher Chinn residing in the County and state afsd hereby certify that We are well acquainted with Solomon Trower who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that he has for many years been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a man of strict veracity That we believe him to be in the on hundred & forth years of his age and that we know hi is reputed and believed in this the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we fully concur in that opinion; and we also state that when he received his pay certificate he complained and said that the secretary of war had only allowed him pay for one years service, when he was entitled to pay under the law for at least one year and six months service and has satisfactorily conversed with us since upon this subject.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Thomas Cleland seal
Chr Chinn seal
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State of Kentucky Mercer County Sct} At a court held for the County afsd at the Courthouse in Harrodsburg on Monday the 5th day of September 1836 This day Solomon Trower the applicant for an additional pension herein came into Court and subscribed & swore to the same Thomas Cleland & Christopher Chinn also came into Court and swore to & subscribed there statement annexed thereto And the said Court do herby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interagatories prescribed by  war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Cleland who has signed the preceeding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in Mercer County & that Christopher Chinn who has also signed the same is a resident in Mercer County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
I Thomas Allin Clerk of the Court of Mercer County do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Solomon Trower for an additional pension
In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 5th day of September 1836 Th Allen Clk Mercer County Co