Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,316, Caleb Howland, R.I. Vt.
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let to agent ordering resume [illegible] to pensioner 19 Feby 1835
W. G. Wade, Sept 27/52

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3339 - No. 3339
Vermont
Caleb Howland of Rutland Co. in the State of Vermont who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Blackmore of the Reg't commanded by Col. Lippet [Lippitt] in the Rhode Island line for 26 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of pension issued the 19th day of Dec'r 1832 and sent to R. Temple. Present
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Arrears to 4th of September 1832 120.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4.March 1833} 40.00
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$160.00
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book D. Vol. 4 Page 62
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[handwritten letter]

Rose, New York
July 20th 1832,

Sir, 
Caleb Howland late of Vermont was pensioned under act of 7th June 1832, it is believed by his children that he was justly entitled to  the benefits of the Act of 15th May 1828. - I request to be informed of the nature and extent of service claimed to have been performed by him, as set forth in his declaration. 
I am Respectfully, Your Obt Serv't
/s/W G Wade

Hon J E Heath Esq.
Com'r of Pensions
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Caleb Howland
Brandon
2 years as Private
July 27 1832
Pension Office}

Admitted Private 26 months
$ 80.00
R. Temple
Present
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STATE OF VERMONT
RUTLAND COUNTY, ss.} 
On this 7th day of July A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Rutland Dis't now sitting, Caleb Howland a resident of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 74 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. In Feb 1776 I resided in Glocester in the State of Rhode Island, when & where I enlisted into Capt. Blackmore: co. in Col. Lippet: Reg't of R. Island for one year, & served out my time. I joined my reg't in R. Island, & remained until Aug't & then marched to New York about the time the Army retreated from Long Island, & was stationed at Fort Washington a short time - from thence to White plains - from thence I marched thro't. Jany & back to Jamestown where I was discharged in Jan'y 1777. I rec'd no written discharge. I was in the battles of Princeton, Trenton, & in part of this battle at Whiteplains, this in the latter I was in a situation where we exchanged but a few shots only. - 
In 1778, in March I think, I again engaged in Capt. Tourtellot: company in Col. Crary: Reg't of Rhode Island Troops, to guard the coast, & served until March 1779, when I was discharged at Rivertown, R. Island - Gen'l Cornwall commanded. I served during this period in R. Island, marching from place to place to guard the coast & was part of the time in Gen'l Cornwall: guard. I made application for a pension under the act of 1818; but my application was rejected on the ground that my services were not continental. The testimony I submitted on that occasion I now send with this, & know of no other testimony I can procure, except that of Charles Seaman, Esq. who will testify to his belief of my services. I was born at Glocester, R. Island, on the 4. May 1758 - I know of no record of my age. Soon after my last services, I came to reside in Clarendon, Vermont, where I lived near twenty years, I know Col. Angel & Col. Hitchcock whose Reg't were in New Jersey when I was there. Gen'l Cornwall as a Lt. Col. in Col. Hitchcock's
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Reg't. Gen'l Lee commanded the division I was in in New Jersey & was taken prisoner. There is no clergyman of the Baptist Church to which I belong in Brandon, but I am known to most of the inhabitants of Brandon & Clarendon, any of whom I trust would testify to my good character
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
/s/X his mark Caleb Howland
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.} /s/R.C. Royce Reg'r
We Ira Ingraham a Clergyman residing in Brandon and Charles Seaman Esq. residing in Clarendon, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Caleb Howland who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. & s'd Charles says he saw s'd Caleb in service in May or June 1778 in Providence, R. Island.
/s/Charles Seamans
/s/Ira Ingraham. - 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.} /s/R.C. Royce Reg'r

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 served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Ira Ingraham who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident of Brandon and that Charles Seaman Esq who has also signed the same, is a resident of Clarendon and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I Rodney C. Royce Reg'r Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Caleb Howland for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 20th day of July A. D. 1832
/s/R.C. Royce Reg'r
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[typewritten letter]

September 25, 1938
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RA-J/MOS [initials: own]
Caleb Howland, S. 22316

Mr. Howland F. Atwood
Hartland Four Corners
Vermont

Dear Sir:
 Reference is made to your request for information relative to Caleb Howland, a Revolutionary War soldier who lived in Clarendon, Vermont. 
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 23316, based on the military service of Caleb Howland.
He was born May 4, 1758, at Gloucester, Rhode Island. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in Gloucester, he enlisted in February, 1776, served as private in Captain Nathaniel Blackmer's company in Colonel Christopher Lippitt's Rhode Island regiment, was in the battle of White Plains, in the first battle of Trenton, having crossed the Delaware River with General Washington the night before, was in the battle of Princeton and was discharged January 15, 1777. He enlisted in the fall of 1777 and served one month as private in Captain Wilmot's company in Colonel Brown's Rhode Island regiment and was General Spencer's Rhode Island expedition. He enlisted  in February or March, 1778, and served one year as private in Captain Abraham Tourtillet's [Tourtellot] company in Colonel Crary's Rhode Island regiment. Having moved to Clarendon, Vermont, in April, 1779, he enlisted in that month and served three weeks as private in Captain Sawyer's company was stationed at the Block house at Rutland. In 1780 or 1781 he served about one half month as private in Captain Robinson's Vermont copay and was stationed at Castleton. He was frequently out on alarms, one at Brandon when it was burned, one at Crown Point and one at Bulwagga Bay and scouted along Lake Champlain, this entire service amounting to at least one month.
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[typewritten letter]

Caleb Howland moved from Clarendon to Hubbardton and about 1812 he moved to Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 7, 1832, at which time he was living Brandon, Rutland County Vermont.
In 1835 his post office address was Whiting, Vermont. 
In July 1852, reference was made to the children of Caleb Howland who was then dead but the names of the soldier's children and that of his life were not given. In that year one Asahel Howland was living in Rose, New York, but it was not stated that he was related to the soldier. In 1820 one John Howland stated that he knew the soldier during the Revolution, relationship not shown. There are no further data relative to family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Caleb Howland, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of soldier's death, it is suggested that you address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., giving the following data:
Caleb Howland, Certificate 3339, issued December 19, 1832, rate $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Vermont Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Revolution 
22316
INVALID.
File No. 22,316
Caleb Howland Pri Rev War

Act: June 7" 32"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 190
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1932.Oct 25 hist. to Mrs. Gilbert P. Howland
1938.Sept. 23 hist. to Mrs. Howland F. Atwood.
M.C.S.
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I, Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the Court of the County of Rutland in the State of Vermont do hereby certify that Robert Temple before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of Peace for the said County, and duly empowered to administer oaths. And I further believe his signature to be genuine.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 30 day of Oct in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. 
/s/R. Pierpoint
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Nov 14. 1832

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State of Vermont
Rutland ss} 
On the 30. day of Oct. 1832, personally came Caleb Blanchard, who being duly sworn doth depose & say, that he has been acquainted with Caleb Howland for near 50 years - that he always told the same story in relation to his services in the revolutionary war, as well before the passage of the pension laws as ow - that he knows Col. Crary's Reg't was in service in R. Island in 1778 & 1779, & that he believes s'd Howland served in s'd Reg't & in Gen'l Cornwall: Brigade.
Sworn before me the day & year afore'd and I certify that said Caleb Blanchard is a credible witness
/s/R. Temple Jus. Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland ss - }
I Priscilla Seamans of Clarendon being duly sworn do depose & say, that I am acquainted with Caleb Howland of Brandon & was acquainted with him during the Revolutionary war. I further say that he enlisted into the Army went away & was gone about a year, and I understand he served one year in Col. Lippitt's Reg't of Rhode Island. He went away in 1776 & returned in 1777 - 
/s/X her mark Priscilla Seamans
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State of Vermont Rutland County ss
Personally appeared Priscilla Seamans and after being carefully examined ad Duly Cautioned made solemn oath that the within Depotition by her subscribed contains the whole truth and nothin but the truth before me 
/s/Horatio Beall Justice Peace
Clarendon Jany 6 1824
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State of Vermont
Rutland County } ss
On the 11th day of October 1832, personally came before the undersigned authority, Andrew Hewet Esq. to me well known, who being duly sworn doth depose & say, that during the Revolutionary war he lived in Voluntown, about 30 miles from Providence - that he was well acquainted with Col. Crary who was a native of Voluntown, & who moved to R. Island a short time before the war, & lived in Greenwich - that he knew said Crary when a Colonel, & thinks he was appointed to said office in 1777 & commanded a Reg't of State Troops in R. Island, & was in service as such two years or more. Several of the deponents neighbours & acquaintances were soldiers in said Reg't & served in R. Island whilst the army was in possession of Newport
Sworn before me the day & year afore'd and I certify that said Andrew Hewet Esq is a credible witness
/s/R. Temple Jus. Peace
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[handwritten letter]

Rose New York
July 19th 1852

Sir,
This is to certify that W G Wade, of Rose N.Y. is the Attorney duly authorized & requested to investigate the claim of Caleb Howland dec'd late a U States pensioner from Vermont, under act of 7th June 1832, 
Very Respectfully Your Obt Serv't
/s/Asahel Howland

Hon Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[handwritten letter]

War Department.
Pension office
Jany. 17. 1826.

Sir,
I return, herewith, the papers in the case of Caleb Howland. It appears from his Declaration that he entered the service, in the regiment commanded by Col. Lippet in the month of Feby 1776, and left it the fore part of Feby 1777. There is no evidence in this office, that Lippet's Regiment was placed on the continental establishment, previous to September 1776. Such being the fact,  he could not have served nine months, at one period of enlistment, on the continental establishment. The claim, therefore, is rejected. The case of Major Fuller, will be reconsidered towards the close of Congress, and the decision reported to you.
I am respectfully. yr. obt. Serv't
/s/J. L. Edwards

The Hon'ble R. C. Mallory
House of Reps
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State of Vermont
Rutland ss}
On the 20the day of Oct. 1832, personally appeared Caleb Howland, who being duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition that made before the Probate Court on the 7th July 1832 - to wit - that in the fall of the year 1777, in Oct. he thinks, as it was about that time Burgoyne was captured, he volunteered & served one month in Capt. Wilmot: company, in Colo Brown's Reg't. Lt. Col. Knight Maj Kimball, & served at Trenton & Howland's ferry, Rhode Island, under Gen'l Spencer, & was dismissed at Trenton. 
He further says that immediately after his services in 1779 as stated in said declaration, he came to Vermont, & arrived at Clarendon the 1. April - and about a fortnight after his arrival he volunteered & joined Capt Sawyer: Company at the Block house in Rutland & served there three weeks. The next year, or 1770, he forgets which, he volunteered & served about half a month at Castleton, under Capt. [illegible] Lt. Colonel at the Fort. He was also frequently out on alarms, & at Brandon where burnt by the enemy, & at Crown Point & Bullwagga bay & scouting along Lake Champlain, from 3 to 10 days at a time, amounting he thinks to at least one month. These services be prays may be considered by the Sec'y of War in granting his pension. 
/s/X his mark Caleb Howland
Subscribed & Sworn this day & year afore'd before me /s/R. Temple J. P.
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State of Vermont
Rutland ss}
On the 30 Oct. 1832 personally came Charles Seamans Esq. to me well known, who, being duly sworn doth depose & say, that he knew said Caleb Howland well during the revolutionary war - the deponent was out in service at R. Island in the fall of 1777 under Gen. Greene; and knows said Howland was out also, & believes he served one month as stated in the annexed affidavit - he also saw s'd Howland in service in May or June 1778 at Providence - that Col. Crary: Reg't was in service at the time & Capt Tourtellot belonged to said Reg't and he has no doubt that Howland served in said company & Regiment as stated in his declaration of the 7th July. The deponent was a neighbour of said Howland, & saw him at home once or twice during the year on furlough, when he wore his uniform coat. The deponent came to Vermont a few days after s'd Howland & arrived at Clarendon the 10. April 1779, & saw him in service immediately after at the Fort in Rutland - and im the year 1780 or 1781, he thinks the latter year, he was in service with s'd Howland at Castleton, & was also with him on alarms, & sentry duty several times, as stated by s'd Howland in the annexed declaration and further says not sworn before me the day & year afores'd the said Charles Seamans Esq. being a credible witness certified by /s/R. Temple Jus. Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland ss - }
On the 16th day of December 1820 before the undersigned authority came James Martin & John Howland, both to me known & credible witnesses who being duly sworn do depose & say, that they are acquainted with Caleb Howland, who made the annexed declaration, & were acquainted with him during the Revolutionary War - and know that he was a soldier in Capt. Blackman's Co. in Col. Lippitt's Reg't of Rhode Island one year from the fore part of 1776 to the fore part of the year 1777, and that he was honorably discharged in New Jersey - sworn before me
/s/R. Temple Jus. Peace

State of Vermont
Rutland ss - } I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Probate County Court do certify, that Robert Temple, before whom the above deposition was taken, was, on the 16 Decem. 1820, & now is, a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and that the above is his signature I further certify, that Horatio Beall, before whom the annexed deposition was taken is also a Justice of the Peace for said County, & that the foregoing is his signature.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court at Rutland this 6th day of January 1821
/s/R Pierpoint
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['Skinner & Buckley Joseph Hanks and Samuel Morrison} In Chancery Dec. 7. 1820' crossed out]
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Caleb Howland
Not on roll
Rhode - Island line.

Proof of services in Rev war is annexed
/s/R Temple

Rejected - did not serve nine months, at one period of enlistment on the continental establishment. Lippet was not placed on the con'l
estab't until Sept 1776
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To the Secretary of the department of war of the United States.
Caleb Howland of Brandon County of Rutland and State of Vermont Respectfully ['showeth' crossed out] applies to be placed on the pention list of the United States agreeable to the provisions of an act of Congress passed at their present session entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. 
/s/X his mark Caleb Howland
April 10th 1818.

I Caleb Howland of Brandon County of Rutland and State of Vermont of the age of Sixty years, do testify and say that I served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution in the Continental Establishment. I enlisted in the year 1776, in the Month of February into the commanded by Capt. Blackman and was attached to the Regiment Commanded by Colo. Christopher Lipit, in the Rhodiland lin, and did duty a part of the time in Rhodiland and in August went to New York, and was in the action at White plains. and was dismissed in the [illegible] the 15th of Jany 1777. and in the year 1778 I inlisted again for one year and served under Abram Turtolout in the Regiment of Colonel Crary in the State of Rhodiland
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and was discharged the 15th of March 1779. as I suppose honourably having faithfully served my county. for two years in the regular service and one year in the Militia I am very poor and indigent having no property of any kind to the amount of twenty dollars. my health is gone and I am wholly dependent 
Therefore I apply to the Department of War for the provisions of the act, 
/s/X his mark Caleb Howland
April 10th 1818
Subscribed & Sworn before me. .s.Thos Hammond Asst Judge of Pro. Co. Court
Rutland County ss} Brandon April 8th 1818.
We the subscribers having full knowledge of the above deponent, Caleb Howland do certify that he is in our opinion an [illegible] honest man and one who is extremely poor and we judge comes within the provisions of the act,
/s/Eben'r Eliot Just peace
/s/Justin Winston & [illegible]

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss} I Thomas Hammond one of the Assistant Judges of the County Court for the county of Rutland do certify that I am satisfied the foregoing named applicant for a pension served the United States in the revolutionary war as stated by him in the foregoing declaration, & that from his reduced circumstances [illegible] from his country for [illegible] in consideration whereof I certify & transmit the evidence in his case
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and the proceedings have thereon in conformity to an act of Congress of March, 1818
Given under my hand at Pittsford this 11th day of April 1818
/s/Thos Hammond

State of Vermont 
[court seal affixed] I Robert Temple Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify that the Herein Thomas Hammond who subscribed the above certificate is one of the Judges of said Court and that I have affixed the seal of said Court to these presents by order of said Judge this 13th day of April 1818 /s/R. Temple
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[addressed envelope]

Whiting Vt Feby 9th abt 6 Vt. 

Free

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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[handwritten letter]

Whiting Vermont February 9th 1835

Dear Sir
From information published in this section sent from Washington by Hon. William Slade Representative from this district, stating that all those pensioners who were placed on the pension list through the assistance of a certain Agent who has made out papers in a great many fraudulent cases considering ['of the' crossed out] that I am [illegible-damaged paper] has been suspended I write the following to obtain a continuance of my pension.
I enlisted in Gloucester, State of Rhode island in February 1776 my enlistment was dated the 15th of January previous I think. for one year in the R I State troops I was mustered at Providence ['following' crossed out] in March after my Capt was Nathaniel Blackamore + our Colonel was Christopher Lipitt marched from there on to Rhode Island from there in August we marched to fort Washington on york Island when we did not stay long from there we marched to White plains where we stayed until after the battle which was ['was' crossed out] fought. as that plan, in which I was not engaged within marched across the Hudson River in to the STate of Newjersey in Lee's division was taken prisoner being detached early the next morning, under a Capt to retake him but did succeed. we passed through several of the principal pla s in that State & crossed in to Pennsylvania & halted I think or some such name, we recrossed the delaware in the latter part of [illegible-damaged paper] fore part of January in the night there under the Command of Washington & was in the Battle on the following day. at Trenton when we captured a body of Hessians from there we marched to Princeton + took a body of British troops which was soon after the battle to trenton, from there marched to Morristown + was discharged soon after at that plane, stoped at Fishkill on the Hudson
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to receive our pay but did ['get it' crossed out] not get it received it at Providence after my return home.
I was drafted in the fall of 1777 + served one month on the coast as a guard under Capt Wilmot was not embodied in any Reg't + in February or March in 1778 I enlisted for ['a' crossed out] one year at Gloucester aforesaid in R I State troops served under Colonel Crary + Capt Turtilow mustered at Providence in the spring marched from there to Trentown from there we marched into Rhode Island in the month of August ['where we stayed' crossed out] + was not in the battle which was fought at ['place' crossed out] that place and time. I well recollect two Regt of Continentals at that place one of Clarks commanded by Green the other by Colonel Angel we retreated from that place under General Sullivan to Trentown where we stayed till March when I was discharged was a waiter the winter previous ie. a few months to Brigadier General Cornwall
I was was out two short tours in Vermont one at Rutland falls, the other at Castleton in the same of 1779 one of the Captains was [illegible-damaged paper] I do not recollect him Capt Robeson commanded at Castleton
I resided in Brandon Rutland County when I made application for a pension went before Mr Pierpoint Clerk of the County court to have my declaration taken Robert Temple did my business + obtained my pension I receive 80 dollars per annum received my last semiannual payment 4th September 1834
Respectfully /s/Harmon Strong for Caleb Howland

J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
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[handwritten letter]

MRS. GILBERT P. HOWLAND
6 MARBLE ST.
BRANDON, VERMONT

Sept 7th 1932. 

Bureau of Pensions
Washington. D. C. 
[receipt stamp: RECEIVED SEPT 29 1932 PENSION FILES SUB-STATION RECORD SECTION]

Dear Sirs: - 
give me such information as you can on the two men named herewith, whose names appear on the list receiving pensions under the act of June 7th, 1832.
Rutland County, Vermont.
Caleb Howland
Peter Reynolds
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[handwritten letter]

Thanking you for obliging
/s/Mrs. Gilbert P. Howland
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[typewritten letter]

Hartland Four Corners, Vermont
Aug. 19, 1938

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C. [initials: McS]

Gentlemen:
I am interested in obtaining some information concerning Caleb Howland of Clarendon, Vermont. Do your records give the date of his death, his age at death, his Revolutionary War service, and anything concerning his family?
Caleb Howland was born in Scituate, R. I. and came to Vermont around 1778. I know that he gave service in the Revolutionary War from Vermont, and one book says he was also a Private serving from what served he rendered there. He married Mary Simonds, daughter of John Simonds, at Clarendon, Vt., May 23, 1779. They had children: Samuel, John, Aseph, Hannah, Thomas, Charles, Ashel, Caleb, and James. 
Miss Abby Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer Vol III gives the following:
"A statement showing the names, rank, &c., of persons residing in Rutland county, in the State of Vermont, who have been inscribed on the pension list under the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832." Then an excerpt from page 1224 from a list in which appears the following:
"Caleb Howland, Private; annual allowance $80. Sums Rec'd $240; Rhode Island Cont'l line; Placed on Pension Roll Dec. 19, 1832, commencement of pension March 4, 1831; aged 76.
If you have any information which I have not given above, please let me know. The last date that a pension was paid should approximate the date when Caleb Howland died, if you do not have the exact date of his death. I will greatly appreciate anything you can do for me. 
Very truly yours,
/s/Howland F. Atwood
[receipt stamp: RECEIVED AUG 22 1938 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS. ADM. [illegible] #26]
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[typewritten letter]

October 25, 1932

BA-J/MCS
Caleb Howland,S.22316
Peter Reynolds,S.19051

Mrs. Gilbert P. Howland
6 Marble Street
Brandon Vermont

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of September 27, 1932, requesting information in regard to Caleb Howland and Peter Reynolds, soldiers of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 22316, based upon the military service of Caleb Howland. 
He was born May 4, 1758, at ['Glocester' crossed out] Gloucester, Rhode Island. 
While living there he enlisted in February, 1776, served as private in Captain Nathaniel Blackmar's Company in Colonel Lippitt's Rhode Island Regiment, was in the battle of White Plains, in the first battle of Trenton having crossed the Delaware River with General Washington the night before, was in the battle of Princeton and was discharged January 15, 1777. He enlisted in the fall of 1777 and served one month as private in Captain Wilmot's Company in Colonel Brown's Rhode Island REgiment and was in General Spencer's Rhode Island expedition. He enlisted in February or March, 1778, and served one year as private in Captain Abraham Tourtillot's Company in Colonel Crary's Rhode Island Regiment. Having moved to Clarendon? Vermont, in April, 1779, he enlisted in that month and served three weeks as private in Captain Sawyer's Company and was stationed at the block house at Rutland. In 1780 or 1781 he served about one half month as private in Captain Robinson's Vermont Company and was stationed at Castleton. He was frequently out on alarms, one at Brandon when it was burned, one at Crown Point and one at Bulwagga Bay and scouted along Lake Champlain, this entire service amounting to at least one month in all.
[handwritten note: See Vt. Rev War Rolls p. 302]
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From Clarendon he moved to Hubbardton and from there to Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont, about 1812.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 7, 1832, at which time he was living in Rutland County, Vermont. 
In 1852 and died reference was made to the soldier's children, their names not given. [Next sentence stricken by hand]  The soldier was then dead. In that year one Asshel
Howland was living in Rose, New York, but it was not stated that he
was related to the soldier. In 1820 one John Howland stated that he
knew the soldier during the Revolution but did not state that he
was related to him. The name of soldier's wife was not given.
sentence
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file
in the pension claim, S. 19051, based upon the military service of
Peter Reynolds.
Goldiers
death not
on A.B.
Very truly yours
He was born in North Kingston, Rhode Island, date not given.
He enlisted there in the spring of 1776 and served three months
as private in Captain Oliver Carey's Rhode Island. He
enlisted in 1776 as private in Captain Garzia's Company in Colonel
Elliot's Rhode Island Regiment and was discharged late in 1777,
having served eighteen months. He enlisted in August, 1779, in East
Hoosac, later called Adams, Massachusetts, and served as private in
Captain John Spurr's Company in Colonel Thomas Nixon's Massachusetts
Regiment, was wounded in the left hip in the battle of East Chester
and was discharged late in May, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 16,
1818, at which time he was fifty-seven years of age and was a
resident of Orwell, Rutland County, Vermont.
In 1820 he referred to his wife, Lucy, aged fifty-nine years.
and stated that he had the following children living with him:
Sophia, aged twenty-two years; Lucy, aged nineteen years; Peter,
aged eighteen years; Bostwick, aged sixteen years; and a daughter
who had four young children, names not given.
In 1823 the soldier, Peter Reynolds, was living in Sudbury,
Rutland County, Vermont.
Soldiers death
not on A.
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator