Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24452, Ichabod Howard, Continental (R.I.)
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Service
Continental (R.I)   
Howard, Ichabod   
Mary  

Number W.24452

Died July 1818 
Contents
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Rhode Island. 1416
Mary Howard
Widow of Ichabod Howard
Who was a Private
In the Revolution

Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 80 dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of pension issued the 8th day of August 1843 and sent to B. Cowell
Providence R.I 

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol 1. Page 89
Reported
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December 8th 1785 married Ichabod Howard and Mary Burbee 
Attest Benjamin Brigham

The above is a true copy of the town records of the town of Fitzwilliam State of New Hampshire 

Attest Curtis Coolidge Town Clerk of Fitzwilliam
State of New Hampshire 
Cheshire ss September 17th 1835.  Sworn to and subscribed before me Amos A. Parker Justice of the Peace.

State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County 
I Henry Coolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Cheshire, certify that Amos A. Parker was on the seventeenth day of September was and still is a Justice of the peace in said county of Cheshire, duly commissioned and sworn- and that his name above written is his genuine signature.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court at this twenty fifth day of September A.D eighteen hundred and thirty eight.

H. Coolidge Clerk
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Mary Howard
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Rhode Island District

On this 7th day of August 1838 personally appeared in open Court being the District Court of the United within of said [District?] 
Mary Howard now resident in Cumberland in the County of Providence & said District aged 82 years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provision of the act of Congress of July 7th 1838, viz. that she is the widow of Ichabod Howard formerly of said Cumberland who enlisted as a private for & during the war of the Revolution in a regiment of Continental Troops
of the Rhode Island Line Commanded by Col Israel Angell Christopher Green & Jeremiah Olney, successively And she further declares that he was
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married to the said Ichabod Howard on the 8th day of December AD 1785 at Fitz William in the State of New Hampshire as will appear by the records of said town that her husband the said Ichabod died on the 21 day of July AD 1818 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage
took plan previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred & ninety four viz at the time above stated
  Mary Howard her x mark
John W.
Smith
Witness to signature
of Mary Howard.

United States of America
Rhode Island District Ss.
District Court of the
United States
August Term AD 1838.
Sworn to in open Court
J.T. Pitman Clk
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I Welcome Weatherhead of Cumberland in the State of Rhode Island do certify & say that I am well acquainted with Mary Howard who has
signed & sworn to the preceding
declaration & was also well acquainted with
Ichabod Howard her late husband. The said Ichabod died in July 1818 or about that time
& since then the said Mary has remained unmarried
Welcome Weatherhead

United States of America
Rhode Island District ss
District Court
August Term AD 1838.
Sworn to in open Court
John T. Pitman Clerk
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 14452

Mary Howard
Wid. of
Ichabod Howard
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: Mar 3rd 1843.
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 354
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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2434
Rhode-Island
Mary Howard
widow of
Ichabod Howard Decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of _______
and who died in 1818-
of Providence Co. in the State of Ro. Island
who was a private in the __________ commanded
by Captain _____________of the Regt. commanded
by Col Angel in the Ro. Island line for 
2 years - private
Inscribed on the Roll of Ro. Island
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of April
1839 and sent to B. Cowell, Providence, Ro. Island
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 40-
$280.00
(Act July 7, 1838.)
Recorded by WMStewart Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2 Page 10
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Mary Howard
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Copy of Ichabod Howard
Discharge
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It appears by the Regimental Book, that Ichabod Howard, late of Cumberland in the County of Providence, now deceased, on the third day of April 1780 enlisted into the service of the United States a private Soldier to serve during the war: That he did serve in the character aforesaid from the time of his enlistment, faithfully, in the
Regiment successively commanded by Colonels, Israel Angell, Christopher Greene and Jeremiah Olney, in the Rhode Island Line on the Continental Establishment until the fifteenth day of June 1783 when he was furloughed in pursuance of the General order of the 2nd day of June 1783 and received a badge for long and faithful services--
Jno. Z. Dexter Major of
said Regt. at the end of the War.
Cumberland August 27th 1836.

Mary Howard, his widow
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1663
Mary Howard
$80 per anm
B. Cowell
Providence
R.I.
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STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
County of Providence
On this sixth day of April A. D. 1843, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace
in said County Mary Howard now resident in Cumberland in said County, aged 85 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress, passed March 3d, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, viz: That she is the Widow of Ichabod Howard
deceased, who served in said War as a private. That she received a pension under the Act of July 7, 1838, at the rate of $80 per annum, payable at the Agency for paying pensions at Providence.
attest Ariel Cook
J [illegible] Howard 
Mary Howard her x mark

Providence Sc. In Cumberland, April 6 A.D., 1843.
Personally came before me the above named Mary Howard and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by her signed and I further certify she is a credible person
Ariel Cook Justice Peace
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations.
Providence Sc.
I, Albert G. Greene, Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Providence, in said State, do hereby certify that Ariel Cook, who has signed the foregoing Certificate, was, on the day of
the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, within &
for the Town of Cumberland, in the County of Providence, in said State, duly elected.
In attestation whereof I
have hereunto set my hand,
and have
affixed the seal of
said Court, this 29th day of
May, A.D. 1843.
Albert G. Greene, Clerk
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2174
Mary Howard
Wid of Ichabod
RI
Ad July 7 1838
Married 1785
died 1818
Allow $80 per
ann.
B Cowell Esq
Providence RI
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United States of America
Rhode Island District Sc
Clerks Office District Court
At Providence September 27th 1838
I, John T. Pitman Clerk of said
Court do certify that the foregoing are the proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Howard widow
of Ichabod Howard for a Pension - And I do further certify that it was ordered to be certified by said Court that the several statements of said Mary Howard and Welcome Weatherhead are entitled to full credit.-
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and
the seal of said Court the day and year above
written
John T. Pitman Clerk