Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19950, for Mowbray Owen, New York
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
New York [handwritten]

Owen, Mowbray
or
Owens, Mowberry
or
Mawberry [handwritten]

NUMBER
W. 19950 [handwritten]


CONTENTS
Mary [handwritten]
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15, 789 R [handwritten]
New York [handwritten]

Mowberrry Owens [handwritten] of Ulyses [handwritten] in the state on New York [handwritten] who was a Private [handwritten] int he regiment commanded by Colonel Van Cortland [handwritten] of the New York [handwritten] line, for the term of Six Years [handwritten]

Inscribed on the Roll of New York [handwritten] at the rate of 8 [handwritten] Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 [handwritten] of September 1819 [handwritten]

Certificate of Pension issues the 5 [handwritten] of Nov 1819 [handwritten] and Sent to John Ellis Esq. Ithica New York [handwritten]

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1819 45.83 [handwritten]
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Mo 18/30 4/31 $45.83

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
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245
New York Albany 
Mary Owens [handwritten] widow of Mowberry N.Y. [handwritten] who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private [handwritten] Died from H80 [handwritten]

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 [handwritten] Dollars 00 [handwritten] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848 [crossed out] 1 July 1848 [handwritten]

Certificate of Pension issued the 31 [handwritten] day of Dec 1830 [handwritten] and sent to Hon. H.S. Conger House of Reps [handwritten]

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 163 [handwritten] Vol. 4 [handwritten]
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State of New York 
Tompkins County

On this 13th day of September
AD 1819 - Before me John Ellis, One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Tompkins, Personally appeared Mowberry Owens Aged sixty five years the  15th day of Last [illegible]; resident in [illegible] of Ulyses in Said County, who being by me first of July Sworn accordingly to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the State and of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war. That the Said Mowberry Owens enlisted in the town of Warwick in the County of Orange in the State of New York in the month of February in the year 1777 - he think, in the Company Commanded by Capt Willett of the infantry in Col Van Cortlandt's Regt in the New York [illegible] during the war and that he Continued to serve in said Corps in the service of the United States, until the 8th of June 1783, when he was discharged the service from Capt Hamtramcks Company of Light Infantry in said Van Cortland's Regt at a place Called Snake Hill near Newburgh in The State of New York, that he was in the Battle of Yorktown in taking Cornwallis and in several skirmishes. That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for Support and that he has no other [illegible] now in is power [illegible] his said discharge which he [illegible] at the close of the war, which is herewith transmitted

Sworn and declared the day and year aforesaid
Before me
John Ellis, one of the Judges of Tompkins Common Pleas

I, John Ellis, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for the County of Tompkins as aforesaid, Do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Mowberry Owens, did
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serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy. And that I am satisfied the said Mowberry Owens is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance [illegible] his Country for Support. And now I transmit the proceeding and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress this 13th day of September, 1819—
John Ellis

State of New York
Tompkins County Clerks Office [squiggly ink line]

[faded stamp or sticker on left of page]

I George P. Frost Deputy Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that John Ellis Esq.. before whom the annexed proof or acknowledgement was taken was on the day of the date thereof a Judge of the Court of common pleas in and for the County of Tompkins, duly commissioned and sworn as such Judge, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said John Ellis, and verly believe the signature subscribed to the within certificate to be his proper hand-writing. In Testimony whereof, i have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 30th day of September 1819.

Geo. P. Frost.
Dep.Clk.
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5431 
Mary Owens
NY
Act 7 July 38
m 84
Admitted
2 years
Priv
$80 per an.


Arad Joy, esq
Ovid
Seneca C
NY

[Crossed out: Illegible name, Ithaca NY]
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State of New York
Tompkins County Up-on this fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before Amasa Dana Esquire [illegible] Judge of the County Court of the said County of Tompkins. [caret] Mary Owens aged seventy three years who being first duly [illegible] according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838.

[Illegible] granting half pay and pensions to certain widows: that she is the widow of Mowberry Owens who was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death, as [illegible] stated - that his name was placed on the Pension List Roll of the New York agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the thirteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred + nineteen for services rendered in the Army of the Revolution as appears by the [illegible] certificate of Pension of the War Department signed by the Hon. John C. Calhoun, the then Secretary of War, under his official Seal and dated at the War office of the United States the fifth day of November 1819. That as this [illegible] the evidence of his said services were on file in the war Department of the United States. She further declared that she was married to the [illegible] Mowberry Owens, on the ninth day of March in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty four by the Rev. M. Constant a Presbyterian Clergyman, at the dwelling house in the town of Bloominggrove in the County
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of Orange and State of New York. That the said Clergyman after [illegible] the said town of Bloominggrove to some place to
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Has sued over not registering of the ??

In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four we were joined together and in the same year the lord was pleased of his great mercy to call us from darkness into his marvellous light and from the power of sin to serve the Living god the Lord is still present
Mary Owen
Sworn to and subscribed in the day and year above written before Amasa Dana 
Judge of Tompkins County Court

I hereby further certify that I am acquainted with the above named Mary Owens widow of Mowbery Owens and I second that by reason of bodily infirmity she us unable to appear in the Court of [illegible]  Pleas of the said county for the purpose of making her declaration for a pension as required by the rules of the [said before? ] [illegible] and she is a credible person and she is  entitled to credit
Amasa Dana
1st Judge of Tompkins County Court
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Rev
Widow, &c
File no 19950
Mary Owens
Wid of 
Mowberry Owens
Priv Rev War
Act Feb 2nd /48
Index - vol M Page 107
arrangement of 1870
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The Honble D Woodcock. of Ithica, NY, informs me that this man is worth $10,000
J.L. Edwards
His name will not be contained on the List but by special  directions from the Secretary of War
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Mowberry Owens Private 77 to 83 Van Courtland N. York Regt Admitted
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5431. Let Love & Freer, Augt. 21 39 same Sept 7 '39 Act 7 July 38
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Mary Owen wid of Mobry Paid of N.Y. law '38 '48 former case of mine from Arad Joy
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7367 New York Mary Owens widow of Mowberry Owens who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 4th January 1832 [4?] of Tompkins Co in the State of N. Yk who was a private in the --- commanded by Captain --- of the Regt --- commanded by Col. Van Courtland in the N. Yk -- line for 2 years. Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars --Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836. Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of June 1843 - and sent to A. Joy [?] N. Yk. Whole amount due $400.00 [Act July 7, 1838.] Recorded by Nell Stewart Clerk, Book A, Vol. 2 Page 96.
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2364 
New York, Albany
Mary Owens
Widow of Mawberry Owens
who was a Private
in the NY Line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars -- cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843
Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd Day of Oct 1842 and sent to Pensioner, Ithaca, N York
[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A Vol 1 Page 110

Instructions under the Act of 1844 sent to John W Quigg, Ithaca NY 22d July 1844
Recd Oct 23
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245 
New York Albany
Mary Owens
Widow of Mowberry Owens
who served in the Revolutionary war as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars ---cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of June 1848 and sent to Hon W T Lawrence H of R
et to Hon HS Conger Dec 9, 50 Reported
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State of New York
County of Tompkins ⎬ss  Personally appeared before
the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County
Jaber Hanmer of Ulysses in said County aged 82, Eighty Two
years, who on first being duly sworn according to law
deposeth & saith that he is personally acquainted with
widow Mary Owen who is making application for a
pension as the widow of Mobry [Mowbray ?] Owen, that the said Mary
Owen was a pensioner of the United States; that this deponent
and the aforesaid Mobry Owen & his then wife the present widow
Mary Owen above named, resided in 1780 in the County of
Orrange & State of New York, that this deponent will
recollects that in 1784 Seventeen hundred & eighty four, the
above named Mobry Owen & the present & above named Mary
Owen were married & that they lived to gether to the knowledge
of this deponent as husband & wife ever since the time 
of their said marriage in 1784 to the day of the death of the
said Mobry Owen, that this deponent was a neighbor to them
in Orrange Co. N.Y. and is now a neighbor to them & that he
has been a neighbor to them in Orrange Co & in Tompkins
County for Sixty years last past, that the present widow 
Mary Owen who is applying for a pension as the widow of
Mobry Owen, is the identical person & widow of the above named
Mobry Owen who was a pensioner of the United States, & that 
she has not since his death married, but remains the widow
of the aforesaid Mobry Owen

Subscribed & Sworn before me }
this Sixth day of May 1843         }  Jaber his X mark Hanmer
Luther Lewis Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Jaber Hanmer is a
respectable person & that full credit is due to his deposition
Luther Lewis Justice of the Peace

Answers to  to the above Pension Paper - to be sent Arad J of Orid    Seneca Co.
Refer papers to  sent some time before in this case
Seneca Co
tion
R
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State of New York
Tompkins County ss: I Samuel Chittenden Jr. Deputy Clerk
of said County of Tompkins & of the County Courts in & for said County
do hereby certify that William Linn & Luther Lewis Esquires before
whom the preceding affidavits purport to have been subscribed
& sworn & whose names are subscribed ^ to the Jurat that thereto
& to the certificates thereunder written were respectively
at the dates thereof Justices of the peace in & for said
county duly commissioned & sworn. and I further certify
that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said
Justices & each of them and that their signatures to said
Jurats & certificates are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & seal of office at Ithaca this
12th day of May in the Year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred & forty three-
Saml Crittenden Jr
Depy. Clerk Tomp. Co
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State of New York
County of Tompkins ⎬ss  Personally appeared before the subscribed
a Justice of the peace in and for said County Britton Head of
Ithaca in said County aged Eighty years, who on being
duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he is personally
^ acquainted with widow Mary Owen who is making application for a pension
as the widow Mobry [Mowbray] Owen, that this deponent was personally
acquainted with the aforesaid Mobry Owen & his wife Mary
Owen more than fifty years since & as early as 1790 in the
County of Orrange & State of New York, & that this acquaintance
has ever continued & that he has resided a neighbor to
them & that he was & is a number of the same Christian
church & is personally knowing to the said Mobry Owen and
his wife Mary Owen living together as husband & wife for
the whole of this long acquaintence & for more than fifty years
& that the aforesaid Mobry Owen was a pensioner of the
United States & that the widow Mary Owen before named
is the identical widow of the said Mobry Owen, and that the
said Mobry Owen died on the 4th Jany 1834 and that the
widow Mary Owen has not since married, but remains
the widow of the said Mary Owen the aforesaid pensioner
Britton his X mark Head

Subscribed & Sworn before me }
this 8th day of May 1843 }
Wm Linn Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Britton Head is a
respectable person, & that full credit is due the above
deposition to which his name is affixed 
Wm Linn  Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Tompkins ⎬ss  Personally appeared before the
Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County
Mahetble Head of Ithaca in said county aged seventy seven
years, who on being first duly sworn according to law deposeth
and saith that she is personally acquainted with widow Mary
Owen, the widow of Mobry [Mowbray] Owen who was a pensioner of the
United States, that from her earliest recollection & more than
fifty years since in the County of Orrange this deponent
knew the aforesaid Mobry Owen & his said wife Mary
Owen in Orrange County New York & well recollects of their
being at that time husband & wife, that as early as 1790 this
deponent can recollect of their living together as husband &
wife & that the acquaintence has continued ever since
that time, that they are members, or were members of the same
Christian Church & that the said Mobry Owen &
his wife Mary Owen lived together as husband & wife as early
as 1790 and that they continued to live together as husband
wife till the death of the said Mobry Owen during the whole of
that time & that the said Mobry Owen died 4th Jany 1834
& that the aforesaid Mobry Owen was a pensioner of the U.S.
and that Mary Owen is the identical person & widow of
the said Mobry Owen, the aforesaid pensioner of the U.S.
and that she hasnt since his death
 married but is still his widow
Mahetable Head her mark X


Subscribed & Sworn before me }
this 8th day of May 1843 }
Wm Linn Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Mahetble  Head is a respectable
person & is entitled to full belief in her deposition above
Wm Linn Justice of the Peace
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Mrs Owens
Payment to be made at Albany by
Thos W. Olcottly
Agent for paying Pensioners,
Agency of New York
Payable on the 4th September and 4th
March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the
Roll of Pensioners under act February
2d, 1848, Page 163 Vol. 4
Geo Jenkins
Clerk

[handwritten right margin] 1849 [illegible] in Lansing
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2, 1848,
Mary Owens
widow of Mowberry Owens
who was a private in the revolutionary war,
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty
dollars [crossed out: and cents] per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United
States this sixteenth day of June
one thousand eight hundred and
forty eight
M. L. Marcy
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned,
JL Edwards
Commisioner of Pensions
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Payable semi-annually. The first
payment on this Certificate will be
made on the 4th of March
next, in the City of New
York, at the Branch Bank
the United States.

Recorded
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War Department
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Mowberry, Owens, of
Ulysses, State of New York,
--- late a private
--- in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed
on the Pension List, Roll of the New York ---
Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month to 
to commence on the thirteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United
States, this fifth day of
November, one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen.
JC Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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823 836
M of [illegible] 605

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Augt 28. 1828
Mowbray Owen, of Ithaca, in the County of 
Tompkins, in the State of New York, has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving
officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and
continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Hamtramck's company, in the second regiment of the New York
line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve
of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the
pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of
March, 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by
the records in his office.
[handwritten]By order of the Secretary
A Dukins [end handwritten]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
2nd September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has
been issued to Moberry Owens in the New York line
It further appears that Moberry Owens is now ^not on the pension
list of [crossed out: the] any agency, and has ^not been so since the 3 March
1826
Peter Hagner Aud