Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8,494, for William Owen, Virginia
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va.

Owen, William
Tabitha

NUMBER
W.8494

CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses] 

[left side] 4494
Kentucky

Tabitha Owen
widow of Wm Owen 
who was a Private 
in the Virginia line 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence of the 4th day of March, 1843. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 19" day of January 1844 and sent to [crossed out - J. R. Underwood] Hon. H. Grider Ho of Rep 

Act of March 3, 1843 

Recorded in Book A 
Vol. 1 Page 172 

[right side] Rep 19 Jan 1844 
Date of death not on AB
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6457

Tabitha Owen of William Dec’d [deceased] Barren Cty [County] Ky

Hon. J. K. Underwood HR
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The Declaration of Tabitha Owen a resident of Barren County Kentucky taken at her own house in said County on the 16th day of May 1839 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838.

State of Kentucky Barren County Sct 

On this 16th day of May 1839 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Tabitha Owen, a resident of said County aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress pass’d [passed] July 7th 1838 entitled “an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows” that she is the widow of William Owen late of Barren County, who was a sargeant [Sergeant] and soldier in the Army of the Revolution, was in General Gates’s defeat [Battle of Camden SC, 16 Aug 1780], in the Battle of Guilford [Guilford Courthouse NC, 15 Mar 1781], and at the Siege of York & surrender of the British Army under Cornwallis [19 Oct 1781], and that he served in the Revolutionary Army for eighteen months or more, a part of the time as a substitute for his Father David Owen in Captain Winn’s Company – these statements of the services of her said husband (William Owen) are made from what she has often heard him say in his life time, She further Declares that she was married to the said William Owen on the 18th day of December in the year 1782 in the County of Lunenburgh [Lunenburg] in the state of Virginia and that her said husband (William Owen) died on the 27th day of March 1826 in the County of Barren State of Kentucky that she was not married to her s’d. [said] husband prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the 1st January 1794 Towit at the time
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and place stated on the other side of this sheet [above] She further states that her husband and all the family spell their names Owen, which is their true original name, but they are generally called and most people write their name Owens
Tabitha [her X mark] Owen

Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first on the other side written 
James Murrell JPBC

State of Kentucky} 
Barren County Sct} May term 1839. 
John Owen a resident Citizen of Barren County, aged 75 years and Joseph Owen a Citizen of Hart County aged 73 years came into Court and made oath to the following statements that William Owen late of Barren County was the husband of Tabitha Owen of Barren County that the said William Owen died on the 27th day of March 1826 in said County and that the said Tabitha Owen is the widow of said William Owen and is now living and resides in s’d. [said] County and that the said Tabitha and William Owen were lawfully married in the County of Lunenburg & State of Virginia in the latter part of the year 1782. They further state that the said William Owen entered the service in the army of the Revolution in the month of February or March in the year 1779 he joined Capt. Joseph Winn’s Company of drafted Militia men for a tour of six months and the company was organized at and marched from Lunenburg Courthouse. he served the tour of six months as a substitute for his Father David Owen, that he the s’d. [said] David Owen [sic] returned home from the Army to Lunenburg County (where he resided) some time in the month of August 1779 he was in the battle of Stono (as it was then called) [Stono Ferry SC, 20 June 1779] near Charleston while on this tour, that the next tour he served of six months he joined Captain Walkers [Sylvanus Walker’s] Company of Militia marched from Lunenburgh [Lunenburg] Courthouse in the forepart of the month of June 1780 and went to the South in this tour he was in the battle of Camden or Gates defeat as it was then called, he returned home in the month of November or December 1780. that the next service he rendered he started from Winninghams[?] Mills in Lunenburg County as a substitute for his Father David Owen in the month of February 1781. and he was at the battle of Guilford while on this tour of three months. the next service he rendered he joined Captain Joseph Knights Company of Militia the Regiment was commanded by Colonel David Stokes and he was at the siege of York and taking of Cornwallis, That the statements here made are all from their own knowledge except the statements about the s’d [said] William Owen having been in the different battles, they state this upon the information of the men and officers after they had returned from the different Campaigns
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I Thomas J Helm Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the records in my office that James Murrell as stated is a magistrate that the signature purporting to be his is genuine that John Owen and Joseph Owen is respectable citizens & entitled to full credit on oath. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office this 16th day of November 1839 
T J Helm CBCC

State of Kentucky Barren County Sct 
I James Murrell an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Tabitha Owen Subscribed and sworn to the Declaration contained on the foregoing pages before me at the time and place therein stated, and that from age and bodily infirmities she is unable to attend Court to make the Declaration, that she is the widow of William Owen, as stated and that she has never married since his death, and that I am and have been well acquainted with Joseph Owen and John Owen for fifteen years or more, and that they are highly respectable men & Citizens of first rate moral and religious Character, and that full faith and credit should be given to all of their statements upon oath. Given under my hand this 20th day of May 1839.
James Murrell J.P.B.C.
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state of Kentucky
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June 1840 [rest of line illegible]
to the following [illegible] to the
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the County of [illegible] and the [rest of line illegible]
1825 in the County of [rest of line illegible]
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December in the year 1782 in the County of 
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and family [illegible] before [rest of line illegible]
And in the [illegible] family [illegible] of William
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the following is a true [rest of line illegible]
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[note this sheet is very light and hard to decipher]

[Illegible several words] 1781 from which family record was cut from the s.d [said] Bible in my [Illegible] by the undersigned David Owen this 6th day of June 1840.
[signed] David Owen

Sworn to and subscribed before me the 6th June 1840
Jas Murrell
in presence of John Owen

State of Kentucky} 
Barren County Sct} 
I James Murrell a justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit of Tabitha Owen and David Owen are hereby subscribed & Sworn to before me on the 6th day of June 1840 and that I have known David Owen (above named) for Sixteen or twenty years, and that he is a highly respectable citizen in Barren County and that he cut from the Bible containing the [Illegible] the family record attached to his affidavit in my presence which family record is hereby attached, the following is a true extract from the same “A [Illegible] was born the 1st day of August 1785”
[Illegible several words] this 6th June 1840

Jas. Murrell JPBC
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Tabitha Owen additional proof to Declaration for Pension presented in Decr [December] 1839. 

Hon. J. R. Underwood HR
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State of Kentucky Barren County Sct 
I Thomas J Helm Clerk of the Court of Barren County do certify that James Murrell is a magistrate as above and foregoing 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office this the 10th day of June 1840
T J Helm
Clerk of the Court of Barren County

William owen [Owen] his book
fanney owen [Fanney Owen] was born the 15 day of febuary [February] 1784 
RiChard owen [Richard Owen] was born the 15th day of August 1785 
Sarah owen [Owen] was born the 12 Day of Mach [March] 1787 
[The following entry very faint] John[?] owen [Owen] was born[?] the 14[?] day of april [April] 178[?] the janawary [January] the 22 day 1792 
[first name illegible] owen [Owen] was born 
james owen [James Owen] was borrn [born] [the rest illegible]
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TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, Tranflated [Translated] out of the ORIGINAL GREEK: AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS Diligently Compared and Revifed [Revised], By His MAJESTY's Special Command. 
APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES. 
OXFORD: PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, By W. Jackson and A. Hamilton, Printers to the University; And fold at the Bible Warehouse, Paternoster Row, London. CUM PRIVILEGIO

[Illegible words written on the sides and bottom]
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b. June 

Jany [January] 22, 1792

29 Sept 17
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

for a statement of the military history of William Owen 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, Wid. F. 8494

[column headings:] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. STATE.
*Feb or Mch [March] 1779 6 mos. Pri. [Private] Joseph Winn [Captain] Va. [State]
June 1780 6 [months] “ [Private] Walker [Captain]
*Feb 1781 3 [months [ “ [Private]
1781 3 [months [ “ [Private] Joseph Knight [Captain] David Stokes [Colonel]

*substituted for his father David Owen 

Battles engaged in, Stono, Camden, Guilford, [Ramsey?]

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Lunenburg Co Va. 

Date of application for pension, May 16, 1839. Her cl. was. al. [claim was allowed]

Residence at date of application, Barren Co. Ky.
Age at date of application, 74 yrs.

Remarks: Soldier mar. [married] in Lunenburg Co. Va. Dec 18 1782 Tabitha --- He died in Barren Co. Ky, Mch [March] 27 1826 
Children: Fanny, born Feb. 15, 1784. Richard b. Aug 18, 1785; Sarah b Mch [born March] 12, 1787; record (illegible) of birth of three other children

Very respectfully, 2.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] Feb. 8 ’08 Hist. to Geo. Cushing Martin
Aug. 12 1910 To Mrs. Samuel Fischer ¢

[right side] Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8494
Tabitha Owens
Wid. of William Owens
Pvt. Va. line

Act: Mch. [March] 3rd/43

Index: - Vol. M, Page 107

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Tabitha Owen of William Kentucky 

Suspended 
let 14 Dec ‘39 Hon. J. R. Underwood 
let 20 June 1840 to do 

Act 7 July 1838
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

(5676.
Kentucky 
Tabitha Owen, 
widow of William Owen,
[crossed out - who was a pensioned under the Act of]
and who died on the 27th March 1826
of Barren Co in the State of Kentucky 
who was a private - in the Compy [Company] commanded by Captain Winn of the --- commanded by [blank] in the Virginia line for One year 

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 40 Dollars --- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of July 1844 and sent to Hon. J. R. Underwood Georgetown D of Co

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 $116.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. '40 20.00
$136.00 

{Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by Wm C. Zantzinger, Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 214.
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John Owen's 
affadavit [affidavit]
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State of Kentucky } 
Barren County sct } 
On this the 6th day of June 1840 John Owen a resident citizen of Barren County personally appeared before me James Murrell a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid and made oath in due form of law to the following statements, Towit, That he remembers that William Owen dec’d [deceased] late of Barren County the husband of Tabitha Owen served several tours of duty in the Army of the Revolution as set forth in his affidavit appended to the Declaration of Tabitha Owen for a Pension in the year 1839 he in said affadavit [affidavit] states that said William Owen performed tours of duty as a militiaman of Virginia six months duration, (he desires to explain) Said William Owen was out on duty the legth [length] of time stated in his affadavit [affidavit], but he Wm Owen after one tour of three months had expired, joined another company and served another tour making six months before he returned home, this is the reason he stated that he had served a six months tour [several illegible words] service of said William Owen was performed in the South in Carolina and he was some time getting to the place of rendezvous and also some time getting home after being discharged so that he cannot now state the prescise legth [precise length] of time he was in actual service He further states
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that said William Owen served about two and a half months in his last tour of duty, he the said William Owen joined the army the last tour of duty some time in the month of September and was discharged and returned home some time in the month of December following, that said William Owen was in service guarding the prisoners after the battle of Yorktown. 
[signed] John Owen

Sworn to before me the 1st day of June 1840
Jas. Murrell JPBC

State of Kentucky} 
Barren County sct} [note illegible paragraph – too light] Jas. Murrell JPBC

State of Kentucky Barren County Sct 
I Thomas J Helm Clerk of the Court of Barren County do certify that James Murrell is a magistrate as above. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my named and affixed the seal of office this 10th day of June 1840 
T J Helm
Clerk of the Court of Barren County
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State of Kentucky} 
Barren County Sct} 
July 14th 1840}
John Owen a resident citizen of Barren County aged 76 years and Joseph Owen a resident Citizen of Hart County aged Seventy four years, came personally before me and made oath in due form of Law to the following statements 
Towit That William Owen late of Barren County was the Husband of Tabitha Owen of Barren County that said William Owen died on the 27th day of March 1826 in said County and that the said Tabitha Owen is the widow of the said William Owen and is now living and resides in said County and that the said William and Tabitha Owen were married in the County of Lunenburg and State of Virginia in the latter part of the year 1782. They further state that the said William Owen, entered the service in the Army of the Revolution in the month of February or March 1779, he joined Captain Joseph Winn's Company of drafted men for a tour of six months, and the company was organised [organized] at and marched from Lunenburg Courthouse he served this tour as a substitute for his Father (David Owen) that he said William Owen, returned home from the Army to Lunenburg County where he resided some time in the month of August 1779, he was in the Battle of Stono (as it was then called) near Charleston, while on this tour. That the next tour he served, six months he joined Captain Walkers Company of Militia, and marched from Lunenburg Courthouse in the forepart of the month of June 1780 and went to the south
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in this tour he was in the Battle of Camden on Gate's defeat as it was then called he returned home in the month of November or December 1780. That the next service he rendered he started from Winningham's mills in Lunenburg County as a substitute for his Father David Owen in the month of February 1781, and he was at the battle of Guilford while on this tour of three months, the next service he rendered he joined Captain Joseph Knights Company of Militia, the regiment was commanded by Col David Stokes and he was at the siege of York and taking of Lord Cornwallis - that the statements here made are all from their own knowledge except the statements about the said William Owen's having been in the different battles, they state this upon the information of the men and officers after they had returned from the different campaigns The foregoing is what we state in open Court, in Barren County at their May term 1839. and we further now state, that from our recollection of the different campaigns he said William Owen served in, and the various officers he served under we can state that the said William Owen, was in actual service at least sixteen months, in the army of the Revolution - the name “William" blotted before signed or sworn to.

[signed] John Owen
[signed] Joseph Owen

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this 14th day of July 1840
Jas. Murrell JPBC
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Joseph Owen States and subscribes to what is stated in the foregoing affidavit, that the last mentioned service William Owen under Captain Joseph Knight, and Col. David Stokes, was a tour of three months that he is entirely certain that said William Owen was in actual service sixteen months or more.
Joseph Owen 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of July 1840
Jas Murrell J.P.B.C.

State of Kentucky 
Barren County Sct
I James Murrell a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavits of John Owen and Joseph Owen were taken subscribed and sworn to before me on the 14th July 1840, and that the said John Owen, and Joseph Owen, are respectable citizens and men of credibility. Given under my hand this 14th July 1840
Jas. Murrell JPBC

State of Kentucky Barren County Sct 
I Thomas J Helm Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that James Murrell who has signed the foregoing affidavits is and was at the time an acting Justice of the peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified, that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts that his signature is genuine & his attention in due form of law.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office this 15th of July 1840
T J Helm 
Clerk of the Court of Barren County
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7. 1838. 

State of Kentucky } 
Barren County Sct } On this 21st day of July 1843 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Tabitha Owen a resident of said County aged Seventy nine 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 provision made by the act of Congress pass.d [passed] on the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she is the widow of William Owen who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution who was at the battle of Yorktown and surrender of Cornwallis, and that she received a pension of Forty Dollars per annum under the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838. she further declares that she is still a widow. – 
Tabitha [her X mark] Owen
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me James Murrell JP BC

State of Kentucky Barren County Sct
I James Murrell a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Tabitha Owen Subscribed and sworn to the above declaration before me at the time and place therein stated, that I am personally acquainted with the said Tabitha Owen, and know her to be the widow of William Owen decd [deceased] and that she is the identical Tabitha Owen who drew a pension of Forty Dollars per annum under the act of Congress of the 7th
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July 1838, that she is still a widow and resides in Barren County Kentucky. Given under my hand and seal this 21st day of July 1843. 
James Murrell JPBC

State of Kentucky} 
Barren County Sct} I Thomas J Helm Clerk of the Court of Barren County certify that James Murrell is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this 3rd day of October 1843 
Tho J Helm CBCC

5087 
Tabitha Owen's 
Declaration 
1843. 
$40 

Hon. H Grider H. R.
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Free}
H. Grider}

[faint circular stamp]

J. L. Edwards, Esqr [Esquire]
Pension Agent
War department Washington 

[written sideways] Dec 26 1843
pa.
M. Bagby
S. Murrell
T. Owens

Hon. J. Grider HR
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Washington Decr [December] 25th 1843

J. L Edwards Esqr 

Dr Sir Allow me to enquire as to the condition & prospects of the pension cases & application of Matilda Bagby, Susannah Murrell & Tabitha Owen declarations made under the law of last session. Please let me, in my turn, hear & if you can send me certificates & accept many thank for the attention you have given my notes 
respecty [respectfully] H. Grider
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6457 
Tabitha Owen 
of William 
Kentucky

admitted 
Pr 1 yr [private for 1 year] $40 – 
Cap Winn, Col Va. Mila --- 

died 27 March 1826 

Act 7 July 1838 

Hon. J. R. Underwood
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[date stamped] AUG 6 - 1910 

Tunnel Hill Ky 
Aug 3, 1910 

The Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir – Petition of your letter of July 19, furnishing me the history of Wm Owens whose widow was pensioned No 8493 Revolutionary War, will say that I am justly obliged for Your kindness. 
I see however from the family history given in your letter that the Wm Owens referred to there in, is not my ancestor whose history I am trying to [find?].
I am verbally informed that my great grand father Wm Owens was a revolutionary solider, was pensioned on account of his service in the revolutionary war and was one of the first residents of Kentucky. I have his pension. If you have the history of any other Wm Owens resident of Ky. and pensioned on account of service in revolutionary war I would appreciate it very much if you would furnish me this history. 
Very truly
Mrs. Samuel Fischer
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[circular stamp] PENSION E AUG 5 1910 U. S. OFFICE