Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 960., Zadock Bowen, Navy New Jersey
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SERVICE ---------------NUMBER
Navy -- Bowen, Zadock -- S. 960
New Jersey
Privateer ------ carded

CONTENTS
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28.000
New Jersey
Zadock Bowen of Gloucester Co. in the State off N.J. who was a [illegible] in the company commanded by Captain Davis of the Regt commanded by Col ----- in the New Jersey Militia----

10 Mo [illegible] $33.33
N.J. Privateer, Navy June 26/05 Records completed

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Feby 1834 and Sent to - J.Smallwood, Woodbury N.J.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 83.32 1/2
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch '34 16.66 1/2
$100.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by J.T. Sprague Clerk, Book C Vol. 3 Page 103

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Order to pay 13 April 1829
Let. to H on A.C. Hodge 11 Augst 34
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
State of new Jersey
Gloucester County Ss

On this eighteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared, in open court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Gloucester, now sitting Zadock Bowen a resident of the Township of Galloway in the county and state aforesaid, aged seventy three years nearly, 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 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated,
In the Month of July 1776 he entered as a private in a company of Militia, commanded by Capt. Abraham Davis in Col. Richard Somers Regiment, the company paraded at Chesnut Neck on Little Egg harbour River, and went down the River from that place in Boats to a place called the Fox Boroughs, near the mouth
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mouth of Little Eggharbour Inlet, there we commenced building a small Fort, we remained at this place nearly or quite one month when some of the British Cruizers came in and drove us off, this was before the Fort was completed, and before we had any Guns - after the British left the River we were ordered back to the same place under the same officers, where we remained until discharged in September of that year after having served two months, we worked at the Fort this tour, until we completed it, this kept us about a week or ten days -
He next entered in the Month of November 1776 in the latter part of the Month, in a company of Militia, commanded by Capt. Zephaniah Steelman, the company Marched from Eggharbour to Haddonfield, where we joined Col. Joseph Ellis Regt. from Haddonfield we Marched to Mount Holly where we remained until driven out from that place by the Hessians, we retreated to Haddonfield and from Haddonfield we Marched through Moorestown to Bordentown, we remained at Bordentown till the morning of the Battle at Trenton, we marched to that place starting very early in the morning and arrived there before the Battle was over we
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we were in the Battle and a man named Forrest Belanger belonging to our Company was mortally wounded and died the night after the battle, from Trenton we Marched to Princeton and were in the Battle there the next day, these Battles happened the 2nd + 3rd days of January 1777 - after the Battle we quartered in the College of Princeton, and remained there perhaps a week or ten days. we then Marched to Somerset CourtHouse, where we quartered and remained until the last of February or first of March when we were discharged and returned to our homes, after having served at least three Months, during the time we lay at Somerset we had frequent skirmishing with the Enemy, this declarant was in one, and the whole party very narrowly escaped from being taken prisoners -
He next entered in the Month of November 1777 in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. George Payne, the company Marched from Eggharbour aforesd to Woodbury, from  Woodbury to Sandtown, from there to Red Bank, there we had orders to repair to Gloucester on the River Delaware about four miles below Philadelphia, we Marched to this place
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and remained there a few days and then Marched to Haddonfield and joined the main army there, in three or four days after this time, we had a fevered skirmish with the Enemy near Gloucester aforesaid in which Lieut John Lucas was killed and Ensign John Tilton wounded, both these men were from our neighbourhood, Lucas commanded our company at that time, Capt. Payne having gone home the day before to collect more men - after the Battle we returned to Haddonfield, the next day we Marched to the Battle ground the Enemy had left there in the morning before we arrived, we pursued them to Gloucester, but the British Ship Vigilent was lying near the Wharf at that place and fired upon us and obliged us to retreat - This declarant entered under Capt. Payne for one month, in a few days after this skirmish his time expired -
He next hired as a substitute in a Company commanded by Capt. Joseph Estell, this was at Haddonfield and before he went home Capt. Estell's Company was attached to Col Ellis Regt and we were stationed at Haddonfield aforesaid.
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aforesaid, where we remained until discharged in the month of January 1778 - This declarant does not know for whom he served this tour, at the expiration of their tour under Captain Payne they were preparing to go home, Capt. Estell's company having arrived to relieve us - before we had started Capt. Estell called upon several of us who were together and wished us to hire with him for one Month, he said that a Number of his Men had refused to come with him, and that his company was not full. this declarant told Capt. Estell that he would stay but that the shirts that he brought from home were pretty much worn out, and he had no money to buy. Capt. Estell said if he could stay that he would furnish him with money for that purpose. He then hired with him, he did give  money and he purchased linen and a woman named Judy Scull made the shirts for him - Capt. Estell promised that he should be paid for this service but he never rec'd any thing but the money with which he purchased the shirts - at the expiration of this tour the company was discharged and we all went home -
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He next entered in the Month of March 1778 as a private in a company of Militia commanded by Lieutenant Joseph English of Capt. Zephaniah Steelman's company, the Captain was not out this tour, the Company Marched from Eggharbour to Haddonfield aforesaid, where we quartered and remained till the early part of April when the British army came in and drove us away. they took Major Ellis and his Guard, who were then standing Guard at Coopers Ferry, we retreated to Mount Holly where we remained about one week, we Marched back to Haddonfield, and remained there until discharged. This service was for one Month and was performed in Col Ellis Regiment -
He next entered in the Month of August or September 1778 as a private in a Company commanded by Capt. George Payne in Col. Taylor's Regiment, the company paraded at  Wrangleborough on Little Eggharbour River and marched from there to Chesnut Neck, when we arrived there the British were Landing at that place, a skirmish then commenced between us but they had come up in their tenders and Row Gallies and were enabled to Land their Troops under
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under cover of their guns from these vessels, and we were obliged to retreat, whilst there they burnt all the houses at Chesnut Neck, all the vessels, that were then in port, and the Barns, Hay Grain etc., after they had left, our Company was ordered to Chesnut Neck where we remained about two weeks, from there we Marched down to Leeds Point where we remained until discharged which was in about two  weeks after we arrived there, the main Body of the Troops Marched from Leeds Point to Somers Point, but our Company did not go there - we remained in the service this tour, one Month at least - This was the last service he performed as a soldier during the War, the whole length of time that he served during the War, as a soldier, and whilst engaged in a Regularly Organized body was nine Months, during all which time he was in actual service either in the field or in the Garrison and that during the said time he was not engaged in any Civil pursuit, and during all which time he served as a private.
In the summer of 1779 he went out privateering, was taken prisoner, and sent to Bermudas, he was then exchanged or put into cartel and sent on to
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to Philadelphia to be exchanged, as we were coming into Cape May we fell in with the United States Schooner, Eagle, Capt George House, he boarded us and asked if any of us would ship with him, the Captain of the Cartel made objections, said he was bound to deliver us up to the agent for receiving prisoners in Philadelphia - Captain  House told him that he was agent enough for that, and that if we would go he would take us, and four of us went with him, he gave the Captain a Letter to the Agent in Philadelphia Certifying that he had rec'd us on board of his vessel, he then told us to jump in the Boat with him and that he would bear all the harm, the next day we ran into Sandy Hook and took a Pilot Boat belonging to New York, we then proceeded on our Cruize a storm came up and we put into Little Eggharbour Inlet, we laid there several days then went to Sea - we fell in with a Fleet of Medeira Shipping, we took one of them a Top sail Schooner. She was loaded with wine. We took her into New London, we might have taken others but we had not men to put
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put on board of them, we had only twelve Seamen on board besides the officers and two prize masters, the whole number was less than twenty - after we had taken this Schooner into New London she was sold, the captain paid us off, that is he paid us our prize money and gave us discharges - John Morris and this declarant then walked to Philadelphia, we arrived there in fourteen days after we had started, there was a good deal of Snow on the ground and kept us longer on the road then we otherwise should have been, the Captain was married two or three days before we started - This service was commenced sometime in the latter part of November 1779 and ended between Christmas and New Years, making at least one Month service during which time this declarant served as Common Seaman in the United States Schooner Eagle Capt. George House - And this declarant claims a pension for nine Months service as a private in the Militia of New Jersey and one Month as a Seaman on Board the said Schooner Eagle making ten Months in all - He has no Documentary evidence and the only evidences of
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of his services are to be found in the affidavits hereto annexed -
"He was born in the Township of Galloway in the County of Gloucester, New Jersey in the year 1761"-
"He has no Record of his age at present, he has seen the Record of his age many times, it was in his father's bible, but he does not know where that is now. When he was at Sea he got a ship mate to put upon his arm the initial of his name and the year in which he was born, that is plain on his arm."
"He lived when called into service in the Township of Galloway in the County of Gloucester, New Jersey and has lived since the Revolutionary War in the same Township County and State, and now lives at the same place." -
"He volunteered the first time that he was called into the service - he was drafted sometimes after that and he served as a substitute under Capt. Estell at Haddonfield, and he thinks that he served as a substitute when he was at Trenton, but is not certain whether he served as a substitute or whether he volunteered, he knows that he was there, and that men were much wanted to go on this tour, he never knew for whom
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whom he served under Capt. Estell, he was hired by Capt. Estell after he had arrived at his quarters"-
"Col. Proctor was with the Troops where he served at Chesnut Neck and Leeds Point, Count Pulaski was there at the same time, he saw Regular Officers at the Fort at Red Bank all the time, he was there under Capt. Payne, he also saw Regular Officers at Haddonfield at the time he was there  under Capts. Payne, Estell, + Lieut. English - part of a Continental Regiment lay at Haddonfield at the same time, some of Morgan's Rifle Corps was also there, Col Proctor Regt of Artillery or some part of it was at Leeds Point and Chesnut Neck when he was in the service there, he saw Gen'l Washington's Army at Trenton and Princeton but he never saw Gen'l Washington that he knows of - he saw Col Ellis Regiment of Militia at Haddonfield, Col. Taylor's at Eggharbour." -
"He never received a written discharge from the service, except from Captain House for his services on board the Eagle that has been lost a  great while ago."-
"He is acquainted with Jesse Smith Esquire lately Sheriff of the county
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"County of Gloucester, Michael Fisher one of the Judges of this Court, Matthew Collins Esquire, Capt. John Endicott, Joseph Garwood Esquire, and may other in his neighbourhood." -
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 rolls of the agency of any state.
his X mark
Zadock Bowen

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Ephraim Miller

We Jesse Smith and Michael C Fisher Esquires residing in the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Zadock Bowen who has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy two  years and upwards, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur with that opinion.
Jesse Smith
Michael C.Fisher

Subscribed and affirmed in open court the date above
Ephraim Miller
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And 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 was a Revolutionary Soldier and serves as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jesse Smith and Michael C. Fisher Esquries who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the said county of Gloucester in the state of New Jersey, and are persons of Credibility, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Ephraim Miller

I John C. Smallwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the state of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matte ro fo the application of
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of Zadock Bowen for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twentieth day of November AD Eighteen hundred and thirty three
Smallwood clk
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The State of New Jersey
Gloucester County Ss

On this seventh Day of November 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County, personally appeared Edward Dowers of the said county aged eighty years and upwards, a person of credibility whose statement is entitled to full credit and belief, who being first duly sworn according to Law saith that he is well acquainted with Zadoc Bowen and that he has known him since the commencement of the Revolutionary War, and this deponent further saith that he very well remembers that the said Zadock Bowen was at Trenton and in the Battle at that place on the second of January 1777. he this deponent was there at the time in a Company commanded by Capt. Zephaniah Steelman, he is not certain whether the said Zadock was in Capt. Steelman's Company or in a Company commanded by Capt. George Paine, and this deponent further saith that he and the said Zadock Bowen performed another Tour of duty together at Haddonfield in the Month of November 1777. the said Zadock was under Capt. Paine and
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he this deponent was in Capt. Samuel Snell's Company in Col. Ellis' Regiment, during this tour we had a severe skirmish with the enemy near Gloucester in which Lieut Lucas was killed and Ensign Tilton wounded this happened in the latter part of Nov. 1777, and this deponent further saith that he remembers that the said Zadock Bowen was at Mount Holly in December 1776 at the time the Hessians Drove us from that place and he remembers seeing him at Moorestown as they were going to Trenton immediately before the Battle. this deponent was at all the above mentioned places with the said Zadock Bowen and saw him frequently and talked with him, and Messed with him some part of the time
his X mark
Edward Dowers

Sworn and Subscribed date above before
Michael C. Fisher

Gloucester County Ss: On the eleventh day of Novem 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Please of the said County, personally appeared Samuel Sooy of the
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said County, aged Seventy Seven years and upwards, a person of credibility who being first duly sworn according to law, saith that he is well acquainted with Zadock Bowen, and has known him since the commencement of the Revolutionary War, and this deponent further saith that he and the said Zadock Bowen performed a Tour of duty together at a place called the Fox Boroughs, this was in the summer and fall of the year 1776 during this tour they built a small Fort at the Fox Boroughs, and during the time, the British came up the River to the Fort and drove us away, after they had left the River we were ordered back to the same place where we continued until discharged, we served in all about two Months at this place, perhaps a little longer and this deponent further saith that he and the said Zadock performed another tour of duty together in December 1776 and until the spring of the year 1777 during which time we both belonged to Capt. Steelman's Company and were during this period at Mount Holly
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Mount Holly and in the Battle at that place in Decem 1776, at Trenton and Princeton in the Battles there in January 1777 and at Somerset where we remained till discharged in March 1777. -
And this deponent further saith that they performed another tour of duty together in Novem 1777 at Haddonfield he was in Capt. Paine's Co. this deponent is Capt. Steelman's Co. in Col. Ellis Regt during this tour we had a smart skirmish with the Enemy near Gloucester in which Lieut Lucas was killed and Ensign Tilton wounded, and this deponent further saith that they performed another Tour of Duty together at Haddonfield aforesaid he was then under the same Capt. Paine this deponent under Capt. Steelman, this service commenced in March 1778 and ended in April 1778 and this, as well as the last service, was for one Month, in Col Ellis Regt - during the last mentioned service Benjamin Endicott, Patrick McCollum and others were taken prisoners at Coopers Ferry while standing Guard there, we had an engagement with them, the British, at the same time at Haddonfield they drove us away from there, whilst in Haddonfield the British broke open the
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the Desk of John Gill who had some public monies in his possession and took it from him, so he heard at the time.
Samuel Sooy

Sworn + subscribed the date above before
Michael C. Fisher

Gloucester County Ss: On the twenty first day of November AD 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Gloucester personally appeared Henry Davis [illegible] a resident of the said County aged Seventy two years and upwards, a person of credibility, whose statement is entitled to credit and belief, who being first duly sworn according to law saith that he is well acquainted with Zadock Bowen and has known him Since the commencement of the Revolutionary War, and this deponent further saith that he remembers very well that the said Zadock Bowen performed a Tour of duty during said War at a place called Hadddonfield in the County of Gloucester New Jersey in the fall of the year 1777 in a Company commanded by Capt. George Payne in Col. Ellis' regiment, and that he was in a  skirmish with the Enemy near Gloucester in which Lieutenant Lucas was killed and Ensign Tilton wounded - this deponent
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deponent was in the service at the same time and this deponent further saith that he remembers that the said Zadock Bowen served another tour of duty at Chesnut Neck on Little Eggharbour River in the years 1778 in the fall of that year, under Captain George Payne aforesaid, and that he remained in the service at that time more than one month, this deponent was there at the same time in a Company commanded by Captain John Davis - Col. Procter was there with a part of Regt of Artillery --
his HD mark
Henry Davis [illegible]

Sworn + subscribed date above before
J.K. Cowperthwait

Gloucester County Ss: On the twenty first day of November AD 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of CommonPleas of the said County of Gloucester personally appeared John Tilton of the said County, aged Seventy Eight years and upward a person of credibility who being duly affirmed according to law saith that he is well acquainted with Zadock Bowen and has known since the early part of the Revolutionary War, and this affirmant further saith that he remembers that the said Zadock Bowen performed a Tour of duty at Haddonfield
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in the fall of the year 1777 and that he was in an Engagement with the Enemy near Gloucester, this affirmant was there at the same time, and was wounded and this affirmant further saith that he remembers that the said Zadock Bowen performed another Tour of duty at Chesnut Neck in the fall of the year 1778, this affirmant was there at the time - the first tour which the said Zadock Bowen performed was under Capt. Payne in Col. Ellis Regiment -
John Tilton

Affirmed + subscribed date above before
Daniel Baker

I John C. Smallwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Gloucester in the State of New Jersey, do hereby Certify that Michael C. Fisher, John K. Cowperthwait, and Daniel Baker, Esquires, before who the foregoing affidavits of Edward Dowers, Samuel Sooy, Henry Davis and John Tilton were made, were at the doing thereof Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that their signatures above written are genuine - Witness my hand and seal of office at Woodbury this twenty third day of November AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Smallwood clk
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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel

January 26, 1929

Alfred R. Justice
1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sir:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.960, it appears that Zadock Bowen was born in 1761 in Galloway Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.
While residing in said Township, he enlisted and served as a private with the New Jersey Troops as follows:
From July, 1776, two months in Captain Abraham Davis' Company, Colonel Richard Somers' Regiment; from November, 1776, three months in Captain Zephaniah Steelman's Company, Colonel Joseph Ellis' Regiment and was in the battles of Trenton, Princeton and a skirmish at Mount Holly; from November, 1777, one month in Captain George Pain's Company, Colonel Ellis' Regiment and was in a skirmish near Gloucester; one month in Captain Joseph Estell's Company, Colonel Ellis' Regiment and was discharged in January, 1778; from March, 1778, one month in Captain
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George Pain's Company, Colonel Ellis' Regiment; from August or September, 1778, one month in Captain George Pain's Company, Colonel Taylor's Regiment and was in a skirmish at Chestnut Neck.
In the summer of 1779, he went on a privateer, was taken prisoner and sent to Bermuda, on his return to Philadelphia to be exchanged, they went into Cape May, and in November, 1779, he shipped as a seaman on the United States schooner, "Eagle", Captain George House; they captured a vessel from Madeira and took her into New London, where he was discharged, having served about one month.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 18, 1833, at which time he was living in Galloway Township, New Jersey.
A son is referred to in 1854, his name is not given and there are no further details as to family.

Respectfully,

Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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Rev War

INVALID.

File NO. 960
Zadock Bowen
Priv. N.J. Mil.

Act: June 7 1832

Index:- Vol. a, Page 36

[Arrangement of 1870]

N.J. Privateer Navy Jan 26/29
Records completed

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1929-Jan.- 26 - Hist to Alfred R. Justice - atty.
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Stamp Enclosed
" returned

Phila 4/14/1928

U.S. Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.

Gent

Have you any records concerning Zadock Bowen of ? Stow Creek. Salem Co. N.J. According to Stryker, he was a Revolutionary soldier, either Zadock or his brother John was killed at the engagement at Quintons Bridge, leaving an only child Joseph Bowen about 6 months old when his father was killed. I have been through all the wills administrations + Deeds of both Salem and Cumberland Counties + cannot find any record concerning him.
The child Joseph married Anne Reeves + her husband Joseph dying, she married (2) Bacon Bowen, who in his will names Zadock Bowen.
Thanking you for any information you can supply,
I am yours Resp
Alfred R. Justice
1300 Locust St
Historical Society of Penna

Perhaps his wife's sone by her former husband
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Morton Banks
Pension Office
April 10, 1839

Sir

The enclosed voucher of Zadock Bowen requires your special direction for payment.

I am very respectfully
Your obedient Servant
W. P. Hunt Jr.
P.D. President
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Senate, Aug. 8th 1854

Mr. Waldo
Comr Pensions

Sir: 
Can you from my friend's Bowen's letter, cause a search to be made for the Land + Pension to which his father's heirs are entitled
and very much oblige
A.C. Dodge