Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23313, Uriah Howard, N.H. Vt.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.H.
VT

Howard, Uriah
Lydia|

NUMBER
W.23313

CONTENTS
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Howard, Uriah
NH-Vt W23313
Uriah Howard
Private - New Hampshire troops
Paine Capt. Whitcomb Maj, 6 months
Private - Vermont troops
Nelson's Co; Waite's Regt, 6 months
No 1659.
12 mo private
No proof of this
$40
R. C. Vose
Augusta, Me.
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE,
KENNEBEC COUNTY, } ss. 
On this Eighteenth day of July A. D. 1282 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Uriah Howard a resident of Phillips in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, aged sixty eight years, who being first duly ['sworn' crossed out] affirmed according to law, doth on his ['oath' crossed out] affirmation make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1781 with Captain Samuel Paine and served ['in Col.' crossed out] under Major Whitcomb ['regiment' crossed out] of the New Hampshire line or troops under the following named officers: viz Paine Capt. & Whitcomb Major, That he enlisted in said company at Lyme, N.H. sometime in May 1781 for the period of six months, was stationed at Stratford on Connecticut river, & after serving out the full term of his enlistment was discharged at Haverhill N.H. During said service he was under the command of Maj. Whitcomb.
That he again enlisted in May 1782, at said Lyme for six months, in Capt. Charles Nelson's company in Col: Benjamin Waites reg't of the Vermont line or troops, that he was stationed at Corinth, Vermont. & after serving out the full term of his enlistment was discharged at what was then called Mooretown in the same state - That during the latter period he served as a sergeant, & was discharged as such.
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And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers: That he was born at Hebron in the State of Connecticut in the year 1763 & presumes his age is there recorded. That during his Revolutionary services his home was at Lyme aforesaid, that about thirty five years ago, he moved from there to Winthrop Me. lived there abput ten years & then moved to said Phillips where he now lives. That he enlisted into the service was not drafted or received as a substitute, That during his first service Nathan Barlow was Ensign in Capt. Paine's company That during his second service Safford was his Major, & he thinks [illegible] was one of Capt. Nelson's Lieutenant's & Smalley another. that from [illegible] service he was verbally discharged. That from his second service his [illegible] was written on the back of his warrant as a sergeant & he thinks was signed by his Colonel. this paper is now lost. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his revolutionary services & he names the Rev. Joseph Dyer & the Hon Joel Whitney. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim 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.
18 July /s/Uriah Howard
Affirmed ['Sworn to' crossed out] and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, the applicant being [illegible] about taking an oath. 
Before /s/Nathan Weston Junr Just S.J.C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
/s/Nathan Weston Junr. 55
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss. - I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Uriah Howard for a pension. & that Sam'l Blake Esqr. is a Justice of the Peace, 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 18th day of July A.D. 1832
/s/J. A. Chandler
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4505
Maine
Uriah Howard of Phillips in the State of Me who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Paine of the Regt commanded by Col. Whitcomb in the N.H. ['line for' crossed out] troops for 20 mo and Vt. aw
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Inscribed on the Roll of Me at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Jan'y 1833 and sent to B. C. Vose Augusta Me
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832  $60
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 20
$80
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by E.D. Bullock Clerk
Book D Vol. 1 Page 64-
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1075
Maine
Lydia Howard widow of Uriah Howard NH who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 38 Dollars 54 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of August 1848 and sent to G. W. Morton Augusta Me
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 13 Vol 1.
Reported
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Lydia Howard
widow of Uriah 212 NH 
act 17 June 1844
married 1783
husband died 9 July 1845
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Declaration. In order to be pensioned under the Act of Congress of June 17, 1844.
State of Maine.
Franklin County SS.
['February' crossed out] On this sixth day of Feby A.D. 1846 personally appeared before me, Judge of the Court of Probate for the said County of Franklin, Lydia Howard a resident of Phillips in the County of Franklin and State of Maine aged seventy nine years, who being sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 17th June 1844 relating to the widows of the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution: That she is the widow of Uriah Howard deceased, who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832 that he was allowed a pension under the said Act of Forty dollars per annum payable at the Maine Agency, where he was last paid up to March 4, 1845. from which time to the 9th day of July 1845 the day of his death, it was paid at the same agency to her as his widow, and that she refers to a declaration made by him of his services in the Revolution on which his pension was founded in support of her claim, which she presumes is in the possession of the war department. She further declares that she was married to the said Uriah Howard on the twentieth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three in the town of Dorchester in the State of New Hampshire
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that her maiden name was Lydia Rice, that her husband the said Uriah Howard died in the town of Phillips in the County of Franklin and State of Maine as before mentioned on the ninth day of July 1845. that since his death she has remained a widow and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz at the time above stated.
/s/X her mark Lydia Howard
Attest /s/Darius Howard
Sworn to and subscribed in the Open Court of Probate for Franklin County, State of Maine, before me the sixth day of February A.D. 1846
/s/M. Sherburne {Judge of Probate Court County of Franklin State of Maine
State of Maine
Franklin County, ss. I the subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate for the said County of Franklin hereby certify that the Hon. Moses Sherburne is the Judge of said Court, and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lydia Howard for a pension.
[court seal affixed] I witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this sixth day of February A.D. 1846.
/s/J.D. Prescott Register of said County
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State of Maine,
Franklin County ss. 
Be it known that it has been satisfactorily proved in open court of Probate for the said County of Franklin, it being a court of record, that Uriah Howard was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, that he died in Phillips in said County at Franklin on the ninth day of July A.D. 1845 and that Lydia Howard a resident of said Phillips is the widow of the said Uriah Howard deceased.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set the seal of said Court and subscribed my name the sixth day of February AD 1846.
/s/J.D. Prescott Register of said Court
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Sibbel (Sybill) Howard was Born Sept 26 1784 - 
Roswell Howard Born November the 11 - 1786
T. George D. Charles was Aug't the 17th 1789
David D. Howard was September the 11 1790
Lydia Howard was born march the 20 1793
Daniel Howard was Born March 14 1796
Wate B. Howard was Born November 21 1798
Uriah Howard was Born August 22d 1801
Adoline Howard Born December 13 1803
Delinda Howard Born [illegible] 21 march 1806
[the above bible leaf was copied over the following declaration, found in its entirety on p. 14]:
I Sybill Clough of Phillips in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, depose and say that Uriah Howard who died in said Phillips in July 1845, a pensioner of the United States was my father. Lydia Howard of said Phillips is still living & is my mother. I was born on the 26th day of September 1784, being sixty one years old the 26th day of last September. and from my earliest recollection, the said Uriah Howard and Lydia Howard constantly lived together as husband & wife until his death in July last. I never had a doubt nor heard a doubt that they were legally married prior to the birth of any of their children of whom there nine still living, including myself. the annexed is a leaf of a bible purchased by my father (the said Uriah Howard about forty four or forty five years ago. The memoranda upon the annexed lead contains the date of the births of myself & my brothers and sisters written with my said fathers own hand. The births of such of his children as were born ['at' crossed out] prior to the time of his purchasing said bible were written down by him im-
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[margin note: huldah Born febury 20 1811]
THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, Translated out of the 
[margin note: Lydia married November 10 1812]
ORIGINAL GREEK: AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS 
Diligently Compare and Revised, By His MAJESTY's Special Command, [margin note: Darious Howard was Born December the 11d 1808 - ]
APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES
[margin note: Sybil was married April the 9d 1809]
OXFORD
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY W. DAWSON, TO BENSLEY, AND J. COOKE
PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY 
And sold by W. Dawson, at the Oxford Bible [illegible] noster Row, London, [illegible]
CUM PRIVILEGIO,
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I Sybill Clough of Phillips in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, depose and say that Uriah Howard who died in said Phillips in July 1845, a pensioner of the United States was my father. Lydia Howard of said Phillips is still living & is my mother. I was born on the 26th day of September 1784, being sixty one years old the 26th day of last September. and from my earliest recollection, the said Uriah Howard and Lydia Howard constantly lived together as husband & wife until his death in July last. I never had a doubt nor heard a doubt that they were legally married prior to the birth of any of their children of whom there nine still living, including myself. the annexed is a leaf of a bible purchased by my father (the said Uriah Howard about forty four or forty five years ago. The memoranda upon the annexed lead contains the date of the births of myself & my brothers and sisters written with my said fathers own hand. The births of such of his children as were born ['at' crossed out] prior to the time of his purchasing said bible were written down by him im-
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mediately after he purchased it, being copied from a still older bible which was afterwards given to me by my said father when I was married and which has since been destroyed by the burning of my husbands house. The date of the births which took place after the purchase of the bible from which the annexed leaf was taken were written down by him om said leaf at or near the time of the births. The bible from which the annexed was taken was used in ['m' crossed out] my said fathers family for a family bible till about the year 1832 when he purchased another and gave this one to my sister Adoline Howard (then Adoline Whitney. The annexed leaf was cut from the bible by me. I have seen it often during all the time since it was first purchased by my father. 
/s/Sybill Clough
Feby 17. 1846
State of Maine, Franklin County ss. On the seventeenth day of February AD. 1846, Personally appeared Sybill Clough above named with whom I am personally acquainted and who is entitled to full credit and belief and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by me subscribed,
Before me, /s/M. Sherburne Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
County of Kennebec ss
I the undersigned Clerk of the Jud. Courts for the County of Kennebec hereby certify that Moses Sherburne Esq. is a magistrate for the County of Franklin as within said, and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine. 
[court seal affixed] Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this nineteenth day of February Anno Domini  1846.
/s/Wm. M. Stratton
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In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Uriah Howard a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (['or' crossed out] & his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W. File 23,313
[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.|LENGTH OF SERVICE.|RANK.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.(CAPTAIN.|COLONEL.)|STATE.|]
May 1780|6 mos.|Pri.|(Samuel Paine|Maj. Whitcomb)|N.H.|
May 1781|6 mos.|Sergt.|(Charles Nelson|Benj. Wait)|Vt.|
[end of columns]
(office note: Dates on Orig. appln. accepted to agree with Rept. Secty & Vt. book N.H. vol. 3 shows Capt Paine's co. raised in 1780 - )
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Lyme N.H.
Date of application for pension, Apl. 22, 1818. Allowed.
Residence at date of application, Phillips, Somerset Co. Me.
Age at date of application, Born in 1763 at Hebron, Conn.
Remarks: Sol. mar. Dorchester, N.H. May 20, 1783 Lydia Rice he died July 9 1845 Phillips
srv. was all'd pen. on an appl executed Feby. 6, 1846 al 79 res Phillips
ch - Sybil b. Sept. 26, 1784. Roswell b. Nov. 11, 1786 George & Charles b. Aug. 17, 1789. David D, b. Dec. 11, 1790. Lydia b. Mch. 20, 1793. Daniel Apl. 14, 1796. Wate B. b. Nov. 21, 1798. Uriah b. Aug. 22, 1801 - Adoline b. Dec. 13, 1803. Delinda? b. Mch. 21, 1806. Darius b. Dec. 11, 1808. Huldah b. Feb. 20, 1811 [margin note: 1832 bro Jos al 74 testified]
Very respectfully,
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[verso]
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23313
Lydia Howard wid of Uriah Howard Priv Rev War
Act: Feb 2nd 1848
Index: - Vol. A, Page 351
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[recto]
1909 Apl. 16. Hist. to Mrs. F. H. Wilbur
1920 Dec 10 Hist to Mrs. S. R. Child.
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✓ No 212
Lydia Howard
Let. to Hon L. Severance
March 7th 1846
act 17 June 1844
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206.
Maine
Lydia Howard widow of Uriah Howard who was a Private in the Revolution.
husband died 9th July '45
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 38 Dollars 54 Cents per annum, to commence on the ['4th day of March, 1844.' crossed out] 9th July 1846.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of June, 1846 and sent to Hon. Luther Severance Hos of Reps
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 4
Reported
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Capt. Paines rolls, filed in Dr. Cramps Room 
Uriah Howard enlisted June 18 discharged 17 Nov 1780 
6 mo service admitted
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Uriah Howard
1781 6 mo (at Stratford) Capt. Pain Major Whitcomb
1782. 6 " (at Corinth Vt) Capt. Ch's Nelson Col Wait
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I Joseph Howard of Phillips in the County of Somerset & State of Maine, aged Seventy four years, do upon oath testify & declare, that in the year 1781 I lived at Lyme in the State of New Hampshire, in the same family with my brother Uriah Howard now of said Phillips an applicant for a pension, & well knew that he enlisted as a private soldier in a company of State troops commanded by Captain Samuel Paine & detachment commanded by Major Whitcomb, that he was absent from home six months being the time for which I then understood he enlisted. I do further testify & say that in the year 1782 I was present & saw my said Brother Uriah Howard enlist in the State troops of Vermont in a company commanded by Capt. Charles Nelson in Capt. Benjamin Waite's regiment for the term of six months that he marched away with the company and returned home after his term of enlistment had expired. That during his absence I received a letter from him which was dated at Head Quarters Corinth Vermont
/s/Joseph Howard
State of Maine
Somerset, ss: ['July 30 1832' crossed out] Sworn to & subscribed this thirtyeth day of July A.D. 1832, the deponent being a credible witness.
Before me /s/Sam'l Blake Justice Peace
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Phillips July 12th AD 1832
This certifies that Mr Uriah Howard a resident in the Town of Phillips with whom we have had many years acquaintance and as far as has ever come to our knowledge or information is a man of truth and veracity and sustains a good Moral character - 
/s/Asa Robbins jr }
/s/Caleb Sylvester } Selectmen of Phillips
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Uriah Howard
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I Uriah Howard of Phillips in the County of Somerset and District of Maine, in the fifty sixth year of my age, a resident citizen of the United States, desiring to obtain the provision made by the law of Congress, entitled "An Act to  provide for ceartain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," and to be placed on the pension list for the District of Maine, do, on oath testify & declare - That I was born at Hebron in the State of Connecticut, that at the town of Lyme in the State of New Hampshire, sometime in the month of May, Anno Domini, 1780 I enlisted as a Soldier for the term of six months, in Capt. Samuel  Paine's company; I faithfully served for said term of six months in said Paine's company, and was stationed at Stratford on Connecticut River, and the troops were commanded, during said term, by Major Whitcomb. In the month of May 1781, at said Lyme, I again enlisted for six months, in Capt. Charles Nelson's company, in Col. Benj'n Waite's regiment, and faithfully serve during said last term of six months, in said company & regiment, stationed at Corinth in the State of Vermont. I consider both of said terms of service to have been on the continental establishment, I was verbally discharged at the end of each of said terms. I am very poor, and by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my Country for support. I have not now in my power any further evidence of my services, in this District
/s/Uriah Howard
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Second Eastern Circuit.
On the twenty second day of April, A.D. 1818, the aforesaid Uriah Howard, having been duly cautioned and examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed: 
Before me, /s/Josiah Stebbins, a Judge of the C.C.C.P. for said Circuit.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
[court seal affixed] I the subscriber, being a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Uriah Howard, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Phillips, in the said County of Somerset, in the District of Maine, on the twenty second day of April, A.D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed March 18, A.D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, this 27th day of July in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
/s/Josiah Stebbins.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC. SS. 
I, the Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuity Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand: - Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this Twenty seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
/s/John Davis
[margin note: 1831-88=63]
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I Joseph Howard of Phillips in the County of Franklin and State of Maine depose and say that I was eighty eight years old last November, that I have resided in said town of Phillips for fifty years now last past, that Uriah Howard who died in said Phillips in July last, a pensioner of the United States, was my brother. At or near the close of the revolutionary war, the said Uriah Howard was said to have been married to Lydia Rice in the town of Dorchester in the State of New Hampshire. I was not present at the marriage ['[illegible]' crossed out] ceremony but lived at the time in the adjoining town of Lime. They commenced housekeeping immediately after as husband and wife, and lived in that relation for some time at my house in Lime. I have been intimately acquainted with them during the whole time from that time till the death of the said Uriah in July last, having myself moved into this State at the same time they did. 
I know personally that during all that time they lived constantly together as husband & wife, that they have raised up a large family of children, many of whom are still living, & I never heard a doubt expressed of their being legally married. The said Lydia Howard is still living in said town of Phillips, is un-
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married and has always sustained the reputation of a virtuous ['woman' crossed out] and honest woman. 
/s/Joseph Howard
Feby 17, 1846
State of Maine.
Franklin County ss. On the 17th day of February A.D. 1846, Personally appeared Joseph Howard above named with whom I am personally acquainted and who is entitled to full credit and belief, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed, 
Before me, /s/M. Sherburne Jus of Peace.
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I Isaac Davenport of Phillips in the County of Franklin and State of Maine depose and say that for forty years I lived in the same neighborhood in said Phillips with Uriah Howard and his reputed wife Lydia Howard, that he to my knowledge was a pensioner of the United States and died in said Phillips in the month of July 1845; that from my first acquaintance with them till his death they lived together as husband and wife, were of unimpeachable character, brought up a large family of children, nine of whom survive him; That the said Lydia is a person of truth and veracity, and I have no doubt was married at the time alledged by her, the 20th day of May 1783. There never was a doubt expressed by any one in the neighborhood of their being married to my knowledge. 
Feby 17. 1846 /s/Isaac Davenport
State of Maine, Franklin County ss. On the seventeenth day of A.D. 1846, Personally appeared Isaac Davenport above named, with whom I am personally acquainted and who is entitled to full credit and belief, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed,
Before me /s/M. Sherburne Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine.
We Joseph Dyer a Clergyman, residing in the town of Phillips, in the County of Somerset and Joel Whitney, residing in the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Uriah Howard of Phillips ['who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration;' crossed out] that we believe him to be sixty eight 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. 
/s/Joseph Dyer
/s/Joel Whitney
State of Maine.
Somerset ss. - Sworn and subscribed this Second day of August A.D. 1832 - 
Before me, /s/Sam'l Blake Justice of the Peace.
Samuel Blake Esq is a Justice of the Peace. And the Rev Joseph Dyer is a clergyman, residing in the town of Phillips - and Joel Whitney, a resident in the same town, is a credible person, and their statement is entitled to credit. 
/s/Nathan Weston Jun
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Burlington May 21 - 1846
I J. McM Shafter Secretary of State of Vermont hereby certify that upon an original pay-roll of revolutionary service of Capt Charles Nelson's company on record in this office occurs the name of Uriah Howard with an allowance to him of £1-2-8 from the commencement of the campaign to the 30th of June 1781.
I also certify that upon another like recorded roll of the same company occurs the name of the said Uriah Howard with an allowance to him for seventy three days service from "July 1st 1781 to the commencement of an"other [margin note: 2-12/] certain pay-roll of the said com"pany for the said year AD 1781."
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[official seal affixed] In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of this office, this 21st day of May 1846.
/s/J. McM Shafter
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G. W. Morton Esq} Burlington May 21, 1846.
Read yours this evening and answer it immediately, I wrote you the service was 158 days - it is 162 days.
The service of £1-2-8. is equal to 17 days. As the regular price (of which the Dep't takes notice) was 1 shilling and four pence per day.
I was called out of the state about the first of April last, as a witness at a Circuit Court in N.Y. & was unexpectedly detained a long time. Upon my return I took up my official business & dispatched as soon as possible. Yours in its turn. 
There was a long delay, but I trust you will consider the above sufficient explanation. 
Yours truly 
/s/J McM Shafter
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[addressed envelope]
FREE
Hon. Luther Severance M. C.
Washington City D.C.
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Augusta, May 26, 1846

Sir
The papers in the case of Lydia Howard (widow of Uriah Howard) are on file in this Office of the Comm'r of Pensions in his letter to you dated March 7, relating to her claim for Pension, which you sent me. she states that the date of the marriage is satisfactorily established but that the services of her husband must be proved by records in the Offices of the Secty of State of new Hampshire & Vermont.
I herewith enclose the certificate of the Secretary of New Hampshire to a copy of the muster roll & Pay roll of Capt Paine's Co - from ['which' crossed out] the former it appears her husband enlisted for 6 mo. from the latter that his pay reduced to quad money was £10-4-5 which would be for 5 mos 3 dys service certificate of the Secretary to have been 162 days or 5 mo 212 dys. Her husband was allowed 12 mo service viz 6 mo in New Hampshire & 6 mo in Vermont troops, whether the certificate will be deemed sufficient to establish the service of N. Hampshire line for 6 mo as he enlisted for that period I don't know, the certificates exhibit all the evidence she is able to furnish and on which her pension will be computed. Please have the goodness to to her claim. 
Very respectfully Your obt Servt
/s/Geo. W. Morton
Hon Luther Severance Washington }
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No 212
Lydia Howard widow of Uriah per act 17 June 1844
admd 11 mo 17 day pr $38.54 per ann from 9 July 1845
Hon Luther Severance
House of Reps
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Lydia Howard
All 206-44
admitted
Geo W. Morton
Augusat Maine
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DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848, entitled "An Act Making further provisions for the Surviving Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF MAINE,
COUNTY OF Franklin} ss. 
On this eighteenth day of July A.D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, Lydia Howard a resident of Phillips in the County of Franklin aged eighty one 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, passed on the second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Uriah Howard who was a Private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Uriah Howard at the rate of Thirty eight dollars and fifty four cents per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine. She further declares that she is still a widow. 
/s/X her mark. Lydia Howard
WITNESS:
/s/Darius Howard
/s/H Clay Church
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, 
BEFORE ME, /s/Charles Church Jr Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.
/s/Charles Church Jr Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE,
KENNEBEC COUNTY, }ss.
I, William M. Stratton Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that Charles Church Jr is a Magistrate as above, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this 26th day of July in the year 1848.
/s/W. M. Stratton} Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec  County.
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Uriah Howard
Deposition of Joseph Howard Taken at the Request of Uriah Howard
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Know all men by these preasents that Joseph Howard of Phillips in the county of Somerset and State of Maine yeoman of Lawfull age do testify and say in the year 1781 I lived in the town Lime (Lyme) in the state of New Hampshire ['near the' crossed out] in the same family with my Brother Uriah Howard and was knowing that he enlisted as a private Soldier in a comany of State Troops Commanded by Capt Samuel Pain (Paine) and was absent from home Six months which was the term he inlisted for and further more in the year 1782 I was present and saw Uriah Howard enlist as a Private Soldier in the State Troops in a company commanded by Captain Charles Nelson for the term of six months and Marched away with the company and Returned with ['with' crossed out] them after after their time for service they inlisted had expired and in his absence I received one Letter dated at Head Quarters Corinth, Vermont
/s/Joseph Howard
Somerset ss
July 13-1832
Personally appeared the above named Joseph Howard and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition - by him Subscriber before me
/s/Sam'l Blake Justice of the Peace
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3-871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L.D.L.
Claim No. [blank]
Certificate No. [blank]
Claimant [blank]
Soldier Uriah Howard
Service N.H. 
Additional Service Rev. War
No[blank] claim, State records [blank], 190[blank]
No claim, combination records, [blank], 190[blank]
REMARKS:
No claim except W #23313
[blank] Chief Division
O-8
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Revolutionary War - 
Luther Russell = Conn. line of Ohio - 
Uriah Howard - N.H. line
Zebulon True ['Maine' crossed out] Mass line.
Martha Canada True, wife - 
[receipt stamp: RECORD DIVISION APR 16 1909]
Send reply to Miss Myrtle Moulton
Stationery Section
Pension Office
Through Mr. C. F. Tansells Desk
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our certain knowledge the pensioner, [Here state the full name of pensioner.] [blank], therein described, was living on the [blank] day of [blank], 190[blank], and resided (or was confined) in [Here state place of residence or name of institution in which confined and its location.] [blank]that our means of knowledge of the facts is our personal acquaintance with the pensioner by reason of being [Here state whether neighbors of the pensioner, or officers or attendants at the institution in which the pensioner is confined.] [blank] that to the best of our knowledge and belief the pensioner did not serve in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during any part of the period for which pension is claimed as specified in the accompanying voucher, and that we are without knowledge or information of his death at any time since
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[handwritten letter]
Mr. V. Warner
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington D.C.
[margin notes: Rev Ewc]
 Dear Sir. - 
Will you kindly send me the record of Uriah Howard, soldier and pensioner of War of Revolution? I have the following data concerning him. He lived in Conn. and also in Lynn, N. H. Must have moved to Phillips Maine about 1810 or 1812. He married Lydia Rice. At time of
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[handwritten letter]
enlistment he was sixteen. Is believed to have been a drummer.
He may have lived in Winthrop, Maine before moving to Phillips but died in Phillips, a Revolutionary pensioner
Respectfully
/s/Mrs. F. H. Wilbur
4740 Fremont Ave, So.
Minneapolis Minn.
Mar 23 - 1909.
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE. A MAR 25 1909]
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Nov 15 Child
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[handwritten letter]
[margin notes: Rev Sec CSW ✓mk 2¢ enclosed]
Mnpls Nov 11th 1920

Dear Sir - 
Uriah (or Urijah) Howard a Rev'y Soldier, who enlisted at Lyme N.H. & is said to have married Lydia Rice & to have had thirteen children is also said to have had a Pension.
Please send me a copy of any & all data you have concerning him or his family. Hoping to hear from you soon - I remain
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[handwritten letter]
/s/Mrs S. R. (Alice W. Child)
914 Kenwood Parkway
Minneapolis Minn.
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFIC A NOV 15 1920]
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[typewritten letter]
Rev. War Section.
December 10, 1920.

Mrs. S. R. Child,
914 Kenwood Parkway,
Minneapolis, Minn. 

Madam: 
In addition to the military history of Uriah Howard W. File No. 23,313 Revolutionary War you are furnished the following data as to his children:
Sybil  born September 26, 1784, (married April 9 1809 (----Clough.
Roswell  "  November 11, 1786.
George & Charles " August 17, 1789.
David D.  "  December 11, 1790.
Lydia  "  March 20, 1793.
Daniel  "  April 14, 1796.
Wate B.  "  November 21, 1798.
Uriah  "  August 22, 1801. 
Adoline  "  December 13, 1803. married --Whitney
Delenda?  "  March 21, 1806.
Darius  "  December 11, 1808.
Huldah  "  February 20, 1811.
Very respectfully, 
[facsimile signature] F D Byington
Commissioner.