Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23177, Phineas Cowles, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE                               NUMBER
Conn.      Cowles, Phineas.    S.23177
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CONTENTS
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1105
Vermont
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Phineas Cowles
of Irasburg in the State of Vermont
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Bartholomew of the Regt commanded
by Col. Sherman in the Continental
line for 9 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 30 Dollars  ~per an.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of October
1832. and sent to Pensioner
Irasburg Orleans Co. Vt.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832                        45.00
 Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th March}     15.00
                                                      1833}                                                             
                                                                    $60.00 

                                { Revolutionary Cl[?]}
                                {Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by Wm Duffield Clerk,
Book D Vol. 4 Page 51

[opposite side of page]
Letter 24 April 1837 - Pen Agent
do--  do--  George Nye
Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of the 6. April
1838 from 4 Sept 1838 to 22
July 1839. Agt Notified
┃ 20 Decr 1839
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State of Vermont}
Orleans District }
At a Probate Court holden at Barton
within and for the County ^ & District of Orleans
on this 27th day of July 1832 Present the Hon. John Kimball
Judge personally appeared in open Court Phinehas Cowels
a resident of Irasburgh in the County of Orleans and
State of Vermont aged seventy 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 I entered
into the service of the United States Army at Woodbury in the State of Connecticut in the Malitia as substitute for Teluh Barnum on or about the first day of June 1779 and before
I had arrived to sixteen years of age marched to horseneck under the
command of Capt Luther Bartholomew
where I continued five weeks then returned home and
being sixteen years old was immediately drafted and returned
to horseneck where I continued five week more under the command
of the same Capt. Bartholomew then returned home, and was
called out in those alarms the same season making the
whole of my services in the army for that year three months-
that about the last of June 1780 I enlisted at Woodbury aforesaid into a company commanded by Lieut. Benton in Col.
Isaac Shermans Regiment in Gen Persons Brigade in the
Connecticut line for the term of six months Joined the
army in a few days afterwards at Nelsons point near
West point we were marched over Kings ferry into
the State of New Jersey to Orange Town thence back
across Kings ferry to a place between West Point
and Fishkill for winter quarters where I was discharged
after having served out my six months enlistment but
did not receive a written discharge I further state that I do not
know of any person who I can obtain except John Adams that  I is knowing to any of my ^ actual services (although some may be living) as I left Woodbury (the place of my birth which was on the 4th day of June  1762) came to Claremont in the State of Newhampshire at
21 years old ^ where I lived twelve years at 33 years old removed to Cornish where I lived 10 years then removed to Plainfield where I lived 12 years then
removed to the place where I now live-- I hereby relinquish
every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare
that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency in any State-
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Phineus Cowels [signature]
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and the said rent thereby declare their
opinion after investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories under
by the War Department, that the within
named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier
and served as he states. And the Court further
certifies that it appears to them the Elisha
H. Starkweather and Joseph Chapman
Esq. who have signed the accompanying
affidavits reside in Irasburg in Orleans County
and are credible persons-
[ words"In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand" lined through]
I John H. Kimball Register of the Probate Court
for the District of Orleans do hereby certify
that the foregoing and the accompanying
affidavits of [illegible lined through] Elisha H. Starkweather
& Joseph Chapman contain the original
proceedings of the Court in the matter of the
said Court in the matter of the application of
Phinehas Cowls for pension-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office
this 27th day of July 1832
J H Kimball Register
[seal affixed lower left]
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1534
Vermoule
admitted
Private. 9 mon
        $30:-


send to Pensioner
        Irasburgh
             Orleans Co
                        Vt.
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Brief in the case of Phineas Cowles
of Irasburg, Orleans Co in the State of Vermont
(Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
70 Years.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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|Period.|
|June In 1779|
|July       1780|

|Duration of Service.|
|Years,    Months,   Days.|
|  --              3       --       |
|  --              6      --        |   
| --               9 mo.  --     |

|Rank.|
|As a substitute & drafted|
|Enlisted Private |

|Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.|
|Gen.|
|Cap L. Bartholomew|
| Lt Benton. Col J. Sherman|
|Genl Pearson's Brigade Continental Troops|

5. In what battles was he engaged?
   None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
 Woodbury, Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
 Living Witness as to the service of 1780, traditionary as to the rest
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
 They are not
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
   Robert Cowles [signature]
Examining Clerk.
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23144.
Revolution   INVALID.
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File No. 23,177
Phineas Cowles
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7" 32"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 78
 [Arrangement of 1870]

Examined by Capt Godar
War rev. 21592
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
Decr 11th, 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States." The childn.. of Phineas Cowles, decd,
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Vermont Agency,
the rate of Thirty
Dollars [words "and -- Cents" lined through]
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, have
been paid at this Department, from the
4th of Sept. 1838,
to the 22d February 1839, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris  [signature]
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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I John Adams of Bartin
in Orleans
County and State of Vermont of the age
of sixty nine years do depose and say
that I served in the army of the United States
six months in the summer of
1780 in a company commanded his
Lieutenant Benton in Col Isaac Sherman's
Regiment in Gen Persons Brigade in the
Connecticut line That during said
term of six months, Phinehas  [ name"Cole"lined through]^Cowls ab marching in said [ word"marching" lined through] County
served in said Company as a private
and I further certify that the aforesaid
Phinehas Cowls or Cole is the identicle [identical] Phinehas
Cowls who has [illegible crossed out] made his declaration
in the Probate Court for Orleans County
for the purpose of obtaining or pension
John Adams [signature]
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After Probate Court holden at Barton in the
District of Orleans in the State of Vermont
on the 13- day of August 1832 personally appeared
in said Court the within named John Adams
and made solemn oath that the facts set forth
in the written affidavit by him subscribed
are true - and the Court further certify
that the said John Allan is a credible witness
In testimony whereof  I John H Kimball Register of said Court
have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court
on the day & year aforesaid
John H Kimball Register
[ circular seal affixed at left of page-illegible]
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Phin's Cowles Apl.8 
 Vt [illegible]
No.1105 
[above written vertically in the left margin of the 
page]

Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D,C
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Irasburgh 29 March 1837
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir enclosed is the Voucher
for one years Pension due to Phineas Cowls- which
I am informed by the Agent at Burlington must
be forwarded to you, and a special order received
from you before payment can be made. I have not
seen the instructions, but suppose, the Agent has given
me correct directions notwithstanding it appears to me
same what singular that the Agent at Burlington
should not be as well qualified to judge of the
genuineness of signatures and papers he as- the
authorities at Washington, and I am not informed
where or how I am to get the pay whether the order
is given to the Agent or the papers returned to me
and as the old man (Mr Cowls) is actually in want
of the little sum-- I must beg leave to request you
to give me as early information as is possibly 
convienient-
I have the Hon to be
Verry Respectfully
Yours &c
Geo" Nye
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State of Vermont}
Orleans County Vt }

[seal affixed to the left of the page]

I Ira H. Allen Clerk of
Orleans County Court do
hereby certify that Joseph
Chapman and Elisha H Starkweather before
whom the within affidavits were taken a Justices of the peace
within and for said County of Orleans, and the
signatures to the within certificates purporting
to be theirs I believe to be genuine.
Ira H. Allen Clerk
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 I Elisha H. Starkweather of Irasburgh in the County
of Orleans & State of Vermont do testify & say that
I am well acquainted with Phinehas Cowles of
Irasburgh aforesaid and that I believe him to be seventy
years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the
neighbourhood when he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and I concur in that
opinion-
E. H. Starkweather
27 July 1832
Sworn to before me
Joseph Chapman Justice of Peace

I Joseph Chapman of Irasburgh in the
County of Orleans & State of Vermont do
testify & say that I have had some acquaintance of late with Phinehas Cowles of
said Irasburgh & that I believe him to
be seventy years of age or thereabouts that
he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood
when he resides to have been a soldier in
the Revolutionary war and I concur in that
opinion
Joseph Chapman
27 July 1832
Sworn to before me
E. H. Starkweather Justice of Peace