Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,041, Daniel Howe, Continenltal Md.
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Service
Continental - MD

Name
Howe, Daniel

Service
S.7041

Carded
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Left Side Page

26,312
Penn Pittsburgh Agency
Daniel Howe
of Allegany Co in the state of Penn who was a private in the company commanded by Captain McGrady of the Regiment commanded by Col. Robings in the 4th MD line 
2 years $80.00

Inscribed on the roll of Penn Set at the rate of 80 dollars blank cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of May 1832, Hon H Denny H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of [illegible] $240.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept $40.00
Total $280.00

{revolutionary claim act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by JT Sprague - Clerk
Book C Vol 5 page 79

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Paid at the treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838.
from 4 March to 4 Sept 1837
Age notified 23 June 1838
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Application for
Pension
Daniel Howe

30.438

Hon. H. Denny
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny

On this first day of March AD 1834 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Allegheny and state aforesaid, Daniel Howe a resident of Deer Township in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania aged seventy years who being duly sworn according to law doth on is 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 enlisted in the army of the United States in Captain Nathaniel McGrudy's company Colonel Moses Rollings Regiment of the Maryland line in Price George's County in the State of Maryland April 1779 for three years and marched to Fort Frederick under said officers afterwards marched to Pittsburgh under Captain N McGrudy, Josiah Tonchill and Adamson Tonchill and Major Thomas Bell same year as private soldier and attached to General Broadhead's continental troops and served said commanders upwards of ten months and afterwards was attached to Captain Wm Bell's company of Infantry and served under him at the siege of Lord Cornwallis and after his surrender was taken by General Guess to the south and put under General Green and served under said General until the enlistment of three years was expired and in 1782 enlisted under Major Gaborough in the round O of South Carolina for the term of three years more in said continental army as a private soldier and afterwards attached to Captain Moses company, Major Joseph  Landourles Battalion of the Maryland line and afterwards marched under Major Joseph Marbury to Pittsburgh and discharged under Captain David Lucket in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1785 and that he left said disharge with Captain Richmond in the state house of Annaopis Maryland and that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the preset and that he declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of any agency of any state.

Daniel Howe
His X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Thos Gibson
Hervey H Peterson

State of Pennsylvania 
County of Allegheny

On the first day of March AD 1834 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Allegheny and state aforesaid John Clevindence a revolutionary soldier and resident of Pine Township and
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county aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is personally acquainted with Daniel Howe a Revolutionary soldier and [illegible] applicant for pension and that he first became acquainted with said Howe at headquarters on the North River in the state of New York as a private soldier in Captain Walter Moses company of the Maryland line in the year AD 1782 in the continental army and was personally acquainted with said Howe for nearly three years in the same battalion with him until discharged in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty five by Captain David Lucket and that he believed him to be an honest faithful soldier during said time.

John Clevidence
His X Mark

Sorn to and subscribed the day ad year aforesaid in open court
Thos Gibson
Hervey N Peterson 

I Abraham Boyd Clergyman residing in Deer Township Allegheny county state of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel howe who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that I believe him to be seventy years of age and that he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion.
Abraham Boyd

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court

Hervey N Peterson

Personally appeared also in open court James Speer who being duly sworn doeth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Daniel Howe who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that he believes him to be seventy years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution  and that he concurs in that opinion. 
James Speer

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 

Hervey N Peterson
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny

On the fifteenth day of March AD 1834 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Allegheny and state aforesaid John Bell a revolutionary soldier and a resident of Indiana township and county aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is personally acquainted with Daniel Howe a revolutionary soldier and within applicant for pension and that he first became acquainted with said Howe at headquarters on the North River in the state of New York as a private soldier in Captain Walter Muses company of the Maryland line in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two in the continental army and was personally acquainted with said Howe in Fort Pitt now Pittsburgh Pennsylvania under Captain David Lucket and that he the said Howe was in the battalion commanded by Major Joseph Lansville at headquarters Newburgh (West Point North River) as aforesaid and that he belieed him to be an honest faithful soldier.

John Bell

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court.

Henry H Parry
Hervey H Peterson

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed 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 that Abraham Boyd who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of Deer Township Allegheny County and that James Speer who has also signed the same is a resident in the city of Pittsburgh in the county of Allegheny and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
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Allegheny County

I H H Petterson Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County in the state of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Daniel howe for a pension. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 29th day of March AD 1834

Hervey H Peterson

SEAL

Application for 
Pension
Daniel Howe

30.438

 Hon H Denny
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30438
Daniel Howe
Penn

Adm 2 years
$80.00

Hon H Denny
House of Representatives
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War Department
Pension Office
18th April 1834

Sir:

The evidence in support of your claim under the act of June 7, 1832 has been examined and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist which must be removed before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: }). You will when you return your papers to this department send this printed letter with them and you will by complying with this request greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement showing the service of Daniel Howe
Age of person and place of abode when he entered the service: 70 years

I am respectfully
your obedient servant
James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Regulations Under The Act of June 7, 1832
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army and to include under the terms "Continental Line" "State troops", "militia", and "volunteers", all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, etc., Teamsters, Boatmen, etc. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4 Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War, exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of record.
DELARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of
County of 
On this blank day of blank personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of blank in the county of blank and State, Territory, or District of blank aged (c) blank 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. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) blank with blank and served in the blank (e) regiment of the blank line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles if any in which he was engaged and the county through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, etc.
Here hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in thes tate of blank.
Sworn to and subscribed the ay and year aforesaid. A.B. 
and the said court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I blank of the court of blank do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of blank for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this blank day of blank etc.
If on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A.B. a clergyman, residing in the blank and C.D. residing in the dame hereby certify that we are well acquainted with blank who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be blank years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the say and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court]
And the said 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 served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that A.B. and that C.D. who has also signed the same is a resident in the blank and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, blank Clerk of the Court of blank do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of blank for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this blank day of blank etc.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission but if neither of these can be obtained. the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith as my have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant if true or of detecting the imposition if one be attempted and unless therefore these are simply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to one of the declarations above provided according to the nature of his case.
The court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.

1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you voluntter, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier - did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
6. To an Officer - did you ever receive a commission and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in court if the same can be done in the opinion of the court without too much expense and inconvenience to him two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant and who can testify form their acquaintance with him that they believe he is of the age he represents and that he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of the persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important in the absence of any direct proof except the declaration of the party. And the courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in court by reason of bodily infirmity may make the declaration before required and submit to the examination before a Judge or Justice of a court of record of the proper county and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties which the court is herein requested to perform and will also certify that the applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend the court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done, by a Judge or Justice of a Court of record or by a Justice of the Peace the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County under his seal of office will be annexed stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record or a Justice of the Peace and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832 and in case of death subsequent thereto and before the declaration herein required is made the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure taken and authenticated before a court of record showing the services of the deceased the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services the title of the claimant and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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MMHF

Rev and 1812 War Section

April 18, 1925

Margaret H Rutherford
330 West Minn Ave
DeLand, Florida

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the revolutionary war pension claim S.7041 it appears that Daniel Howe enlisted in Prince George's County Maryland in April 1779 served three years as a private in Captain Nathaniel Magruder and William Beall's companies , Colonel Moses Rawlings' Maryland regiment and was at the siege of Yorktown.

He enlisted in 1782 under Major Yarborough as a private, was afterwards attached to Captain Walker Muse's company and served in said company and Captain David Lucket's company, Major Lansdale's Maryland Battalion and was discharged in 1785.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 1, 1834 while living in Deer Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Aged seventy years.

There is no data on file as to his family.

Respectfully

Wilder S Metcalf
Commissioner

Date of Death not found
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[illegible] 27 Mil Hist to
W A Stone H of R City
1925-Apr 18 - Hist to Maryann H Rutherford MMMF
1838 July 12 - List to Mrs Wm Mahaffey

Right Side Page
7041
Rev War
INVALID

File No. 7041
Daniel Howe
Priv. Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol [illegible] Page 177

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Pension Commissioner

Please let me have the information furnished by Daniel Howe when he applied for pension as a revolutionary soldier.
As I am his great granddaughter, I would like very much to obtain this information.

Thanking You
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I am sincerely

Mrs. William Mahaffey
3616 Fenwick St
Brentwood, Maryland

DATE STAMPS:
Received June 16, 1938 Mail Sub-Div
Vets Adm

Received July 7 1938 Mail Sub-Div
Vets Adm
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Treasury Department
Second comptroller's Office
June 20, 1835

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." Daniel Howe a pensioner on the roll of the Pittsburg Agency at the rate of eighty dollars and blank cents per annum under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department from the 4th of March 1837 to the 4th of September 1837.

Respectfully yours,

Albion K Parris

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Land Office, Annapolis, April 29th 1834
I certify that it appears by a pay roll remaining in the office that Daniel Howe a preivate received of John Hamilton, Agent of the Maryland line $78.00 in arrears of pay from the 1st of August 1780 to the 1st of January 1782, also $80.00 in pay from the 1st of January 1782 to the 1st of January 1783. also $43.30 of pay from the 1st of January 1783 to the 15th of November 1783, also $24.20 pay from the 15th of November 1783 to the 10th of July 1784 - Gratuity - Total received $225.50

George G Brewer

Reg. Land Office
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DATE STAMP: US Pension Office Feb 27 1925

De Land, Ala
320 W Minn Ave
2/22/25

Dept of Interior Bureau of Pensions
Commissioner - 
Gentlemen - I would like a little information to complete my D.A.R. papers. What year and where was Daniel Howe married? He was born 1764 in Maryland and married Hannah Day and died in Penna near Pittsburgh - also would like to know if Nathaniel
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Stowe or Joseph Howe - both born in Maryland - were in the Revolutionary War?
Will appreciate very much an early reply.

Yours sincerely

Margaret Howe Rutherford
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Veterans Administration Seal

Veterans Administration
Washington
July 1, 1938

Your File Reference:
In Reply Refer to:
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. William Mahaffey
3616 Fenwick Street
Brentwood, Maryland

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Daniel Howe, a Revolutionary War soldier.

In order to identify the record of the Daniel Howe in whom you are particularly interested, as much as possible of the following data in regard to him are essential - approximate dates of birth and death and places of residence at enlistment and after service.

Upon receipt of this information another search of the records will be made and a report furnished you. With your reply, please return these letters.

Very turly yours

A.D. Hiller

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

TIME STAMP: Received July 7, 1938
Mail Dub Div
Vet Adm Reader 6
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DATE STAMP: Received Jul 7 1938
Mail Sub Div
Vets Adm Reader No 6

A.D. Hiller
Dear Sir, 
The approximate birth date of Daniel Howe was 1764.
He must have been a resident of Maryland at the time of his enlistment as we have been told he enlisted in Prince Georges County Maryland.
He was still living in 1840, residing at that time in Allegheny County Pennsylvania and lived there until his death but the exact date of his death I do not know.
Thanking you again.
Sincerely
Mrs. William Mahaffey
3616 Fenwick St
Brentwood, MD
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July 12, 1938

BA-J/AWF
Daniel Howe
S.7041

Mrs. William Mahaffey
3616 Fenwick Street
Brentwood, Maryland

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the revolutionary War record of Daniel Howe, who enlisted in Prince Georges County, Maryland, and alter lived in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.7041, based on the military service of Daniel Howe in the War of the Revolution.

While residing in Prince Georges County, Maryland, Daneil Howe enlisted sometime in April, 1779, served as a private in Captains Nathaniel Magruder's and William Beall's Maryland companies, and in Colonel Moses Rawlings' regiment, was at the siege of Yorkton, length of service three years. He enlisted in the year 1782, served under Major Yarborough as a private, was alter attached to Captain Walker Musel's company, Major Lansdale's Maryland Battalion, marched to Pittsburgh, where he was discharged in 1785, then in Captain David Lucket's company.

He was allowed pension on his application.
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executed March 1, 1834, at which time he was aged seventy years, and living in Deer Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

The papers on file in this claim contain no data in regard to the family of the soldier, Daniel Howe.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C. and furnish the following data:

Daniel Howe
Certificate #26312
Issued May 3, 1834
Rate $80.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator