Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3285, for Richard Mowlan, Maryland
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md
CONTENTS

Mowlan, Richard
Rachel

NUMBER
W3285
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631.
Pennsylvania Phila

Rachel Mowlan
widow of Richard Mowlan
who was a Private
MD
in the Md 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
29th day of June 1843
and sent to
Saml F Smith
Pension Agent
Philadelphia

{Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded in Book A.
Vol 1 Page 134
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Let to J. F. Rudolph, July 24
1837 Same Sept 14. 1837
do to W. Nowlan May 4. 1838
pr to w Mowlan May 4. 1838
Do to J. F. Rudolph July 20. 1838


Certification sent September 8th 1820 
to Rodney, Wilmington, Delaware

2977
Delaware
Dead 4

Richard Mowlan private
Maryland line 1777 3 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Subscribed on the Roll of Delaware
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on
6th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of September 1840
and sent to John Way Esqr
Wilmington Delaware 

Arrears to 4th of Septem 1818-39.73
4 mo 39/31
Semi-anl, all ending 4 March 1819 -40.
87.73

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

continued
Wilmington New Castle
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Richard Molan
Private

Delaware Roll
Apl 15th 1818
SB

Maryland Line

Adm 8

3 other cases
J. L. Edwards
Action for (illegible)
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On this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred & eighteen before the subscriber
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the
State of Delaware personally appeared Richard Mowlan
a resident of Wilmington in said State who upon his
solemn affirmation duly administered depose & saith
that he enlisted in the United States service in
April 1777 in Capt Farris's Company (belonging
to the sixth Maryland Regiment) in Baltimore
commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Ford and after
serving for the term of three years for which he was
enlisted, was regularly discharged at Morris Town
in the State of New Jersey in April 1880, That having
lost the certificate of his discharge he most respectfully
solicit the attention of the Secretary of War to the
Books of the war department for a confirmation of
his statement,  Said deponant further saith that
being always poor he cannot say his circumstances
are much reduced, but that the liberality of his
Country is most essentially necessary for his comfortable
support being now advanced to his 70th year
Richard Mowlan

Affirmed & subscribed before me the aforesaid Judge on
the day & year aforesaid
John Way
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To J. C. Calhoun Esquire
Secretary of War
for the United States

The subscriber one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Delaware.
Do hereby certify that I believes the foregoing
disportion of Richard Mowlan respecting his 
services in the revolutionary war to be substantially 
true and that his reduced circumstances is person
ally known to the subscriber.
John Way

State of Delaware
New Castle County ss.
I Joseph Roberts, Prothonotary, of
the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware 
in and for the said County of New Castle
do hereby certify, that the Honorable John
Way, before whom the foregoing deposition was
taken and who hath thereunto subscribed his
name, was at the time and is now one of the 
Associate Justices of the Court of Common Pleas
of the said State of Delaware, duly Commissioned
and sworn, and that full faith and credit
are and ought to be given to all such his acts
and attestations. In Testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at New Castle the 9th day of April A.D. 1818
Jos. Roberts Proth


(seal)
 Clk $0.75
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Richard Mowlan
2.977

iso. 25 Sep. 1818

C
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State of Delaware
New Castle County ss 

On this nineteenth day of
June 1820. Personally appeared
in open Court of Common Pleas of the State of
Delaware now sitting at New Castle in and for said
County being a Court of Record and so expressly
made and declared by the act of General assembly
of the said State which created the said Court
Richard Mowlan aged Seventy years resident 
in the Borough of Wilmington in said County of
New Castle who being first duly affirmed 
according to Law doth on his solemn affirmation
declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as
follows to wit -- in the sixth Maryland Regiment
in the Company Commanded by Captain Harriss
as heretofore declared in his original declaration
made on the Sixth day of April AD. 1818 - upon
which a Certificate for a pension was granted.
Which Certificate is numbered 2977- And I do
Solemnly affirm that I was a resident Citizen of 
the United States on the eighteenth day of March 
1818, and that I have not since that time by gift 
Sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or
any part thereof with an intent thereby so to diminish
it as to bring myself within the provision
of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide
for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval
service of the United States during the Revolution
War"" passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818
and that I have not nor has any person in Trust
for me any property or securities, contracts or
Debts due to me nor have I any income other
that what is contained in the Schedule hereunto
annexed and by me subscribed To Wit
Lands None   Public Stock  None
Houses None  Bank stock None
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Bond & Mortgages    None Household Furniture none
Book accounts None    Kitchen Furniture none

And further declare that my occupation has
been that of a Labourer and that I am now disqualified
and unable to pursue it owing to the infirmities 
of old age. And I do further solemnly
affirm that my family consists of a wife named
Rachel aged about sixty years, and a Daughter
named Rachel Ann aged thirteen both both residing with me.
That my said wife from the infirmities of old age
is unable to contribute to her or my support; that
my said Daughter is engaged in learning the trade
of Tayloring which is taught to her by a neighbour
from Charity; she therefore receive no wages and can
not contribute to her own or my support.
Signed
Richard Mowlan

Affirmed to & declared and
subscribed the day and year
aforesaid in open Court
attest
Jos. Roberts Prothonotary

State of Delaware
New Castle County
I Joseph Roberts Prothonotary
of the Court of Common Pleas of the said
State of Delaware in and for the County
of New Castle in the said State do hereby
Certify, that the foregoing affirmation
and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from
the Record of the said Court and I do further Certify that
it appears to the said Court by the affirmation of the 
Richard Mowlan that he hath no property of any kind
whatever. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at
New Castle the twentieth day of July in the our
Lord one thousand eight Hundred and twenty.
Jos. Roberts Prothoy
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Declaration of Mrs R Mowlan

Aug 6 1832
Philadelphia

Admitted
Pr 2 yrs $80

John F. Rudolph
No 47, South 8th St
Phil=
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State of Pennsylvania Ss
On this Sixth day of August Anno
Domini 1838 personally appeared before
the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the
Peace in and for the County of Philadelphia
Mrs Rachel Mowlan a resident of Southwark
in the County of Philadelphia aged Seventy
seven years who being first duly affirmed
according to Law doth on her affirmation make
the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the provision made by the Act
of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled
An Act granting half pay and pensions to
certain widows. That she is the widow of
Richard Mowlan who was a private in
the Sixth Maryland Regiment in the Revolutionary
war that she knows not the time he entered
the service nor any other fact connected with
the same but that he served to the end of
the war and that the accompanying papers
are all the documentary evidence she has in
support of her claim.  She further declares
that she was married to the said Richard
Mowlan on the Twenty fifth day of March
A.D. 1784 (as appears by her original
marriage certificate hereto annexed) that her
husband the aforesaid Richard Mowlan
died on the Twenty seventh day of February,
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Anno Domini 1822 - That she was not
married to him prior to his leaving the
service but the Marriage took place
previous to the first day of January
seventeen hundred and ninety four viz
at the time above stated.
Rachel Mowlan

Affirmed to and subscribed
on the day and year above
written before
Archd Randall

John F. Rudolph being duly affirmed says
that he knew and was well acquainted with
Richard Mowlan deceased that the
said Richard Mowlan died on the Twenty
seventh day of February AD. 1822 leaving
a widow Mrs Rachel Mowlan and that
his said widow has not since that
time been married to any other person.
John F. Rudolph

Affirmed to and subscribed  
the Sixth day of August
A.D. 1838 before
Archd Randall
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This one to Certify that on the 25th day of March AD 1789
Richard Mowland of the Township of Willistown & Rachel
Williams of the Township of Goshen & both of the County
of Chester & State of Pennsylvania, Were
Duly Married agreeable to an act of General assembly
of the said State in (illegible) of Providence
Before Thomas Cheyney one of the Justices of the Peace
of the said County and the witness Present.
In Confirmation which of the said parties have hereunto
Sett their hand.  She the said Rachal____Subscribing
her self by the name of her Husband, and the said Justice
have hereunto set his hand and Likewise the witnesses
Present have hereunto sett their hand, the day and year
There above written 1784
---
Tho Cheyney
Richard Mowlan
Rachel Mowlan
George Garrett
Israel Hooper
Ann Garrett
Hannah Garrett
Mary Cheyney
Betes Cheney
Thomas Cheyney Jr
Richard Cheney
Alice Cheyney
William Cheney
John Pool
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Newcastle County ss
Sept. 4. 1829 came before me
Thomas McDonell one of the Justices
of the Peace in and for said county, Richard Mowlan
and made oath that he is the same Richard Mowlan
that is mentioned on the pension list of the United 
States  that he served in the sixth Maryland
Regiment in the Revolutionary war; and by
act of Congress passed the 18th March 1818 is 
entitled to eight Dollars per month as his pension
and that he now resides in the Borough of Wilmington
in the State of Delaware
Rich, Mowlan

(illegible)  & Subscribed to
Sept 4. 1821 Before
Thomas McDowell
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By act of Congress the
arrears of pension
payable 1st to the
widow if there is
one. If the widow
is not living, then
the children, if any,
are entitled. If there
are no children then
the administrator
is entitled.  Arrears 
of pensions are not
liable for debts if
a widow or children
are living.
V. Ellis

Richard Mowlan

Mr. Dowell
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War Department
PENSION OFFICE, No. 2,977.
Sept. 8th 1820

Sir
You are hereby informed that the
schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary
of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension
Roll.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
J. L. Edwards

To Mr. Richard Mowlan,
Care of A. Rodney, Esqr
Wilmington, Del
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State of Pennsylvania
County of
Philadelphia ⎬ ss

I Edward D. Corfield Clerk of the
Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
in and for the County of Philadelphia do
hereby certify that the Honorable Archibald
Randall Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration
and deposition were affirmed to and subscribed
and who has subscribed his name
thereto is and was at the time of so doing
one of the Associate Judges of the said Court
duly commissioned and qualified and that
his signatures thereto subscribed are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the said
Court at Philadelphia this
Sixth day of August AD. 1838
Jas P. Bewley 
(illegible) Clerk
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W.  May 3
R. Mowlan
M % M

(stamp)
Baltimore MD
(date Illegible)

Commiss Edwards (illegible)
Washington City
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8285
Rachel Mowlan
Widow
Richard Mowlan
Pri Md Line.
Act: March 3d 1843
Index: - Vol. M, Page 59.
{Arrangement of 1870.]
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June 26/94 Mil Hist to 
C.M Williams, 212 Lt. N. W.
1896
Jan 27 Mil HIsty to
Mr. Sidney I Besse
City
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Rich'd Mowlan Sel. Act March 18,1818
to what time paid?
New offic
August 28, 1888
Decd 28th Feb 1822 paid to the period
JH
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Pennsylvania 
Rachel Mowlan widow of Richard Mowlan dec'd who was a pensioner under the act of 1818 and who died on the 28th February 1822 of Philadelphia in the state of Penna who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Farriss of the Regiment commanded by Col. Ford in the Md line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the roll of Penna at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of Aug 1838 and sent John F Rudolph No 4750 8th St Phila.  

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $160.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept $40.00
$200.00

{Act July 7, 1838}

recorded by D D Addison Clerk
Book A Vol 2 Page 158
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FREE
James L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington 
D.C.

(stamp)
Philadelphia PA
Sep 10

Sept 11
Mowlan
(illegible)
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Philadelphia Sept 8th 1837

Sir
Your letter of the 24th July was
duly received, together with the printed sheet.
Accordingly the widow Mowlin applied to
Mr. Thomas McDowall in Wilmington for her
husbands papers in whose hands they were and has
just received them, and on examining the papers we 
find the marriage took place in March 25th
1784 which was a few months after the time
Specified in the Law, the Alderman who was
to prepare the writing advised her not to go to
and expense till she had your advise on the
subject which will be thankfully received.

I am very respectfully
your obedient Servt
John F Rudolph
No. 47 South 8th Street

James L. Edwards Esq
Pension office
Washington D.C.
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Richard Mowlan
2977
March (illegible)

This (illegible) 27 Sept 1820
(12d Leher:)
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State of Delaware
New Castle County Ss

On this nineteenth day of June
1820 Personally appeared in open Court of Common
Pleas of the State of Delaware now Sitting
at New Castle in and for Said County being a Court
of Record, and So expressly made and declared
by the act of General Assembly of the Said State
which create a the said Court Richard Mowlan
aged Seventy years resident in the Borough of Wilmington
in Said County of New Castle who being 
first duly affirmed according to Law doth
on his Solemn affirmation declare that he Served
in the Revolutionary War as follows to Whit. in 
theSixth Maryland Regiment in the Company
commanded by Captain Harris as hereafore
declared in his original declaration made on
the Sixth day of April Anno Domini 1818
upon which a certificate for a pension was granted
which certificate is numbered 2977 - And I
do Solemnly affirm that I was a resident citizen
of the United States on the eighteenth day of
March 1818, and that I have not since that time
by gift, Sale or in any manner disposed of my
property or any part thereof with an intent thereby
So to diminish it, as to bring myself within the
provision of an act of Congress entitled "an act
to provide for certain persons engaged in the
Land and Naval Service of the United States during
the Revolutionary War passed on the eighteenth 
day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has
any person in Trust for me any property or Securities, 
contracts or Debts due to me nor have
I any income other than what is contained in
the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me Subscribed. 
To wit 
LandS
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LandS - none Public Stock None
Houses - None Bank Stock None
Bonds & Mortgages none Houses & old Furniture None
Book accounts none Kitchen Furniture None

And I further declare that my occupation has
been that of a Labourer, and that I am now disqualified
and unable to pursue it owing to the infirmities
of old age. And I further Solemnly affirm
that my family consists of a Wife named
Rachel, aged about Sixty years, and a Daughter
named Rachel Ann aged thirteen years both
residing with me, that my Said Wife from the 
infirmities of old age is unable to contribute
to her or my Support; that my Said Daughter
is engaged in learning the trade of tailoring
which is taught to her by a neighbour from
charity; she therefore receives no Wages and
cannot contribute to her own or my Support
Signed, 
Richard Mowlan
Affirmed & declared and . . .
Subscribed by the day and . .year aforesaid in Open Court
attest
Jos Roberts Prothonotary

New castle County SS  I Joseph Roberts Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas of the Said State of
Delaware in & for the County of New Castle in the
Said State Do hereby certify, that the foregoing
affirmation & the Schedule there to annexed are
truly copied from the Record of the Said Court & I Do also further
certify that it appears to the Said Court by the affirmation of
the Said Richard Mowlan that he hath no property of any kind
whatever. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
Set my Hand & affixed the Seal of Said Court at New Castle
the third day of July Anno Domini 1820. 
Jos. Roberts. Pro
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323
Samuel F. Smith
Pension Agent
Philad. April 11. 1843

Declaration of
Rachel Mowlan

Admit private $80
send as above

(illegible) Gamble
No 35 Wharton
(illegible)
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DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions for one year to
certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7, 1838.

State Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia ss

On this seventh day of April, A.D. 1843 personally
appeared before me, Peter Hay, an alderman of the City aforesaid
Rachel Mowlan, a resident of Southwark
in the county of Philadelphia aged
Seventy nine years, who being first duly 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 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary
war. That she is the widow of Richard Mowlan who was a
private in the Army of the 6th Maryland Revolution in the Regiment under
Captain Harris,
and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7, 1838, was
in Eighty-- dollars
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Rachel Mowlan

Affirmed and subscribed on the day and year above written before  
me, the 7th day of April, A.D. 1843
Peter Hay, Alderman

State of Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia ss
April 7th 1843
I, Peter Hay, a Magistrate in the city above named, do hereby
certify, that I have the most satisfactory evidence, viz, my own personal knowledge, that
Rachel Mowlan who this day appeared before me, and made oath to the truth
of the foregoing declaration, is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia
on the day and year above written.
Peter Hay, Alderman

Richard Palmer Esq Prothy or Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Philida county, certify that Peter Hay Esq.
is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and
subscribed my name, this eleventh
day of April in the year 1843
Richard Palmer in Prothy
per Joseph S. Tennery
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To the Honourable
J. Poinsett
Sect of War
Washington D.C.

(stamp)
Philadelaphia
(illegible)


R.652
24 July 1837
Pension Office

R. Mowlan
Del Wa 818
25 Sept 1818
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Philadelphia July 21st 1837

To the Honourable
W. Poinsett

Dear Sir
I have an aged mother in Law
who is the widow of Richard Mowlan of
Wilmington Delaware who served in
the Revolutionary war under Captain
Harris in the Maryland line and
received a pension untill his death which 
was in February 1822 and as she been informed 
that a law has been past for the widows to
receive a pension after the death of the
husband and as she is now upwards of 74
years of age and needy would pray you Sir
to have the goodness to give her the
necessary information and what course to
pursue and what proof is wanting that she
was the wife of Richard Mowlan.
She has her Marriage certificate which
can be sent on if this is sufficient and
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you will oblige your humble Servant
and confer a favour on the aged widow

John F. Rudolph
No. 74 South 8 Street
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension office
Washington
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Philadelphia August 27th 1838

Sir
I herewith send you the
papers respecting my pension,
which no doubt you will find 
correct as approved by the court.
your answer to this will be
thankfully received
I am very respectfully yours
Rachel Mowlan


As I have employed my
Son in Law as my agent
you will please to direct
to
John F. Rudolph
No 47 South 8th St Phila

J. L. Edwards Esq.
pension office Washington
-
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J.L. Edwards Esq.
Pension office
Washington D. C.

(stamp)
Philadeda PA
Jul 19

W. July 20
Rachel Mowlan
pa
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Philadelphia July 18th 1838

Sir:
I again take the liberty to address you in behalf of my Mother in Law Rachel Mowlan the widow of Richard Mowlan.
as Congress has by a late act extended the time of marrige to 1794 which will intitle her to the provision made by that Law.  I thank you therefor to have the Kindness to inform me whether there is any more direction nessesary than the pappers give which I have already recieved. 

I am very respectfully
Your obt Servt
John F. Rudolph
No. 47 South 8th Street
Philadelphia

J.. L. Edwards Esq
Pension office
Washington