Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2191, for Amos Stow, Vermont
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SERVICE Continental, Vt. | 

Stow, Amos
Sarah 

NUMBER W. 2191 

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CONTENTS
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In the matter of
Amos Stow
a pension 

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Declaration

15965

Please send certificate 
to Carleton Towner
Batavia, Genesee Co., N.Y.

Admitted
2 years [illegible]
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State of New York  }
County of Genesee }  s.s.

On this 16th day of October Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-two personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court Common Pleas of the County of Genesee now sitting Amos Stow a resident of Town of Batavia in the county of Genesee and State of New York aged seventy two years the 12th day of November last, 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 7th 1832.  That in the month of March 1776 according to his best recollection he enlisted into the service of the United States as a fifer in the in the company commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Burrows, in Col. Seth Warner's Regiment for three years.  That he continued in said service in said Warner's Regiment until (as near as he can recollect) about a month after the Battle of Hubberton in Vermont in 1777. When he was transferred from the said Warner's Regiment to Colonel Seth Herrick's Regiment of Vermont Militia Troops in Capt. Allen's company in whose Regiment and company the said Amos continued in said service till sometime in the month of December, according to his best recollection on 1778, when he was discharged from said service by order of the said Herrick at Castleton, in the State of Vermont.  At the time of his said enlistment, the said Amos resided at Scarborough in the State of New York.  He joined his Regiment at Mount Independence in Vermont.  From that place he marched to Hubberton in Vermont thence to Fort Castelton, in Vermont, at which place he was transferred from the said Warner's Regiment, into which he first enlisted, to the said Warrick's Regiment, as aforesaid from Fort Castleton the said Amos marched to New [illegible] in the State of Massachusetts thence to Bennington in Vermont; Thence to Saratoga in the State of New York, from thence to Rutland in Vermont, thence to Castleton in the said state, where he was regularly discharged from the said service by the order of the said Col. Herrick as before stated.  During the time of his said services under this engagement, the said Amos was in the battle of Hubberton under the command of the said Col. Seth Warner and Capt. Jeremiah Burrows; in the Battle of Bennington under the command of the said Col. Seth Herrick and Capt. Parmali Allen, and at the capture of General Borgoyne at Saratoga under the command of the said Herrick and Allen. The said Amos was acquainted with General Schuyler and and St. Clair of the Regular service, and also with Col. Ethan Allen, and saw several times General's Gates and Arnold and Col. Morgan. He saw the [illegible] last a number
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of times at the taking of General Burgoyne at Saratoga.
The said Amos further saith that he again entered said service under an enlistment for nine months in the corps of militia troops called Vermont nine months men, commanded by Colonel Wait (the Christian name of whom he does not recollect) the fore part of April in the year 1779 at Rockingham in Vermont and continued in said service under the command of the said Wait & Green until some time in the month of December of the same year, when he was regularly discharged from said service by the order of the said Col. Wait. The said Amos joined the said corps at a placed called Town No. 4 on the East side of the Connecticut River in the State of New Hampshire from thence he marched to Bethel on White River in Vermont. Thence to Barnard in Vermont with a detachment of men under the command of the said Lieut. Green who was sent to that place to guard the frontiers against the incursions of the British, Crews and Indians; where he remained until a few days prior to his discharge, when he marched back to Betul aforesaid where he remained until he was discharged by the order of the said Wait as aforesaid.  During the continuance of his service under this last engagement the said Amos says he formed no acquaintance with any of the officers of the Regular army whose name he can state, except those before named, Wait and Green.  The said Amos further states that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services aforesaid, nor has he any documentary evidence thereof other than the affidavits of Henry Watkins, Joseph Farnsworth and Joseph Dutton herewith accompanying all of whom are now dead.  That the whole of the time the said Amos was in the said service as aforesaid was three years and three or four months of thereabouts.  That the discharge he received from said Col. Herrick was destroyed in October 1799 by [illegible].  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not in the pension Roll of the agency of any State.

Amos Stow

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year in open court.
Timothy [illegible], Clerk
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Supplementary to the foregoing declaration and in answer to the special interrogatories propounded to him by the said court pursuant to the instructions of the Secretary of War, the said Amos Stow further states that he was born in Louden in the State of Massachusetts the 12th day of November 1759.  He has no record of his age.  He lived at the time of being called into said service as before stated, at the place before stated as his place of residence vis Skenesborough, N.Y.  He resided since the war at Skenesborough now called White Hall Washington Co., N.Y. according to his best recollection about 6 years.  From this place he moved to Westfield, Washington Co., N.Y., where he resided about 17 years.  From this place he moved to Scipio, Cayaga Co. N.Y. when he resided about 1 year.  From this place he moved to Batavia, Genesee Co. N.Y. where he has since resided, & where he now resides.  He arrived at Batavia the 1st day of April 1806.  he received two written discharges from service, one from Col. Seth Herrick which was destroyed as stated in the affidavit of Russell Stow, herewith accompanying. The other was from Col. Wait (whose Christian name he does not recollect) which he has lost.  That Phineas L. Tracy, Daniel H. Chandler, Timothy Fitch & Richard Smith of his present neighborhood are known to him and can testify as to his character for veracity and this believe of his services as a soldier of the revolutions.  That there is no clergyman in his present neighborhood with whom he is acquainted except Seymore Ensign, and in consequence of his [illegible] his attendance at court cannot at this time be procured without much trouble and inconvenience - 
Amos Stow

Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court.
Timothy Fitch, Clerk
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We Daniel H. Chandler, a Supreme Court Commission residing in the town of Batavia in the County of Genesee and State of New York and Phineas L. Tracy - residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Amos Stow who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two 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.
Daniel H. Chandler
Phineas L. Tracy

Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court
Timothy Fitch, Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare the 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 Daniel H. Chandler who signed the preceeding certificate is a S.C. Comm resident in the town of Batavia - in the county of Genesee & State of New Your, and that Phineas L. Tracy - who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Batavia in said county and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Isaac Wilson
William Mitchell
Robert [illegible]

I, Timothy Fitch, Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Amos Stow for a pension - 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this sixteenth day of October 1832.
Timothy Fitch, Clerk
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4678

New York

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Amos Stow of Genesee County in the State of New York, who was a fifer in the Company commanded by Captain Burrows of the regiment commanded by Colonel S. Warner in the line for 2 years 

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Inscribed on the Roll of New York, at the rate of 88 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of January, 1833 and sent to hon. P.S. [illegible].

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Arrears to the 4th of Sept, 1832.        $ 132.00
Semi-anl allow ending 4 '33                    44.00
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                                                            $ 176.00

{Revolutionary Claim, }
{Act June 7, 1832.       }

Recorded by Ino. Cornwell Clerk, 
Book D Vol. 5  Page 207
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549
New York

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Sarah Stow widow of Amos Stow
who served in the Revolutionary war, as
a Fifer

N.Y. 

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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars  00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 26th day of Dec. 1848

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Certificate of Pension issued on the 20th day of April 1831 and sent to

S.A. Brown
Jamestown, New York

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Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act [paper fold] July 29th 1848

Book A [paper fold]
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State of New York  }
County of Chautauqua } s.s.

On this 2nd day of July 1849 personally appeared before the Judges of the Supreme Court  at a personal [illegible] thereof held at the court house in the village of Maryville, in and for the county aforesaid, the same being a court of Record Sarah Stow a resident of the town of Sherman, in the county of Chautauqua aforesaid and State of New York, aged eighty eight years, [illegible] first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 9 day of July 1848, entitled an act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary War - that she is the widow of Amos Stow who was a fifer in the army of the Revolution, that she does not know in what state her husband served, excepting from hearsay, she did not know him which he was a soldier, that he was a pensioner under the act of
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June 7th 1832 while they resided at Batavia, Genesee County and State of New York.

She does further depose and say she was married to said Amos Stow at the town of [illegible], in the county of Washington, and State of New York, on the third day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven by the Rev. Hokestill Bigelow a Baptist clerfyman of Skenesborough in the County of Washington aforesaid that they lived at Fort [illegible] aforesaid and [illegible] there for about 12 years, that they made a number of moved and said but a short time in each place, that in 1806 they moved to the town of Batavia, Genesee County, New York that they left Batavia about 12 years (it was in Batavia that her husband was [illegible]) that they lived in [illegible] for a few years, and came to [illegible] in the County of Chautaugue aforesaid about six years ago, they lived in [illegible] 2 or three years, and then moved to [illegible] a town adjoining said [illegible] where
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they lived till the death of the said Amos Stow, which happened on the 26th of December 1848 at the town of [illegible] aforesaid.

That she has had sixteen children, five of whom only are living, the said Amos Stow have ever cohabited and lived together as husband and wife from their marriage till the day of her husband's death, she has not married since the death of her husband, but she remains the widow of the said Amos Stow, she cannot write her name as she never learnt to write, that her maiden name was Graham.

She does further depose and say that she has no [illegible] that there is any documentary evidence of her marriage. She further says that her husband near a mill night, that when she lived in Batavia aforesaid her husband can account back, that he began to make [illegible] in said book in 1810, that there is an entry in the [illegible] of said [illegible] in the
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handwriting of the said Amos Stow, which [illegible] was made in early 1810 or 11, in these words & figures - "Amos Stow was married to Sarah Graham June the 3 AD 1747.  That the said books also contains the births of all their children, and the deaths of those which are dead.

Sarah Stow
[Her mark X]

Sworn & subscribed
in open court the day
and year aforesaid
R. Green, Dept. Clerk

Same a Brown witness to Sarah Stow's [illegible]
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State of New York  }
Genesee County  } s.s.

Benjamin Graham, of the town of Batavia, Genesee County duly sworn doth 

[image is very light, as to be impossible to transcribe]
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happily together
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Chautauque County, s.s. 

Henry Stow of Shearman in said County being duly sworn, doth depose and say - that he is fifty years old, as he verily believes, that he is the sone of Amos Stow deceased, late of Shearman aforesaid - who was a pensioner, that he has heard the declaration of his mother Sarah Stow, in order to obtain a pension, read and knows the contents thereof, that all the facts set forth in said declaration which have occurred within his recollection are true, that the account hereto mentioned in the declaration of the said Sarah Stow, is not in the possession of his mother, who resides with this deponent, that said book was left by his father while he lived, that this deponent recollects said book and knows that the entry of the marriage of his father and mother as stated by his mother on her declaration, was made as early as 10 or 11, and as stated by her, also the birth of their children.  He does further depose and say that he is their eight child, that the oldest of the family would now be sixty one years old if living, that his father and mother cohabited together as husband and wife and raised a large family of children and he never heard the validity of their marriage questioned.
Henry Stow
his mark  X

Sworn and subscribed this 26th day of August 1849

Before the J.H. Jonas, J. P.

I, certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent Henry Stow and believe him to be a person of truth and veracity, and that full faith and credit out to be given to his testimony. 
Samuel Bligh,  J.P.
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Chautaugau County, s.s.  }

I, George A. Keeber, aged fifty one years being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he has resided about 20 years in the County of Chautaugau, and during the greater part of the time in the town of Shearman, and that he now resides in said tows, that for a number of years past he has been well acquainted with Amos Stow, who was a pensioner, and who lived a part of that time in the towns of Elymer and then moved to the adjoining towns of Shearman, where he died also with Sarah Stow his wife (now widow), and application for a pension, and a portion of their family, that from his acquaintance with the said Sarah Stow and her son Henry Stow the above deponent he believes them to be persons of strict truth and veracity, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to their testimony, and further that he believes that the said Sarah Stow is of the age she represents herself to be (88 years), that he knows that the said Amos and Sara cohabited together as husband and wife, that they raised a large family of children, and that he never heard the validity of their marriage questioned, as far as she can [illegible] a goo good moral and chaste character, and universal reputation, he confidently believes that they were lawfully united in the bands of wedlock as Mrs. Stow states in her declaration, and have ever since lived together in that honoracble connection.
George A. Keeler

Sworn and subscribed
this 27th day of August 1849

Before me
J.H.  Jones  J.P.
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I certify that I have been well acquainted with George Keeler, the above deponent, for a number of years, that he is a farmer, and once of our earliest and most respectable citizens, maintaining a high character in the Church society, and that full faith and credit out to be given to his testimony.
J.H. Jones, Justice of the Peace
Dated August 27, 1849

Chautaugau County, s.s. - 

Samuel, A. Browne, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is 64 years of age, that for 32 years he has practiced law in Jamestown in said County, that a few months ago he became acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Stow and Henry Stow the above deponent of the town of Shearman (which is about 30 miles from Jamestown) that from information derived from respectable citizens he believes them to be persons of strict truth and veracity and further that he has been intimately acquainted with George A. Keeler one of the above deponents for many years, that he knows him to be one of our most valuable and respectable citizens and of the strictest integrity, he does further depose and say that the account mentioned in the declaration of the said Sara Stow was produced at Court in July last, that it has every appearance of being
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genuine, and of the age (1810 or 11) the witness represents to be, that the event of said marriage (and birth of children aforesaid) to be genuine and is correctly copied from said book - that the affidavit of the said Benjamin Mouham was procured by this deponent from Batavia, and was affixed as well as the affidavits of the said Henry Stow and George A. Keeler to the declaration of the said Sarah Stow by him. 
Samuel A. Brown

Sworn and subscribed this 4th day of October 1849. 

(Before me
R. O. Green, Dept Clerks
of Church County } 

State of New York  }
Chautauque County } s.s.

I, Matthew P. Bemus, Clerk of the County of Chautaugau aforesaid, and Clerk of the [illegible] Court ex officio, do hereby certify that Richard O. Green, was Deputy Clerk of said County on the second day of July 1849 and on the fourth day of October 1849, that as such Deputy he had a right to administer oaths, and that his signature to the above declaration of Sarah Stow & the affidavit of Samuel A. Brown, R.O. Green dept Clerk is genuine, and further that J.H. Jones and Samuel Bligh were on the 26th day of August last [illegible] Justices of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and have been such Justices since, and that the signature of said "J.H. Jones, J.P." to the above affidavit of Henry Stow and George A.
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Keeler is genuine, and also that the signature of the said Samuel Bligh, J.P. to the above certificate in regard to the moral character of Henry Stow is genuine, and further that full faith and credit ought to be given to the official acts of said Jones, Bligh and Green.

[seal]  In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Mayville this fourth day of October 1849.

M.P. Remus, Clerk
of Chautaugau County Court
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544  A

Sarah Stow
widow of Amos Stow
New York.

Married before 1800
husband died 21 December 1848

[illegible]  88.10 p.an.
from 24 December 1848

29 July 1848

S.A. Brown
Jamestown

Act 29 July 1949
N.Y.
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Chautaugau County, s.s. 

I, Henry Stow, aged 51 years being duly sworn doth depose and say in addition to his former oath, made before J.H. Jones, August 16th 1849, that the original account book mentioned in his mother's declaration, as well as his affidavit made before the said J.K. Jones, is not by him handed to and delivered to Samuel A. Brown of Jamestown, that he knows that said account book was commenced by his father in Batavia, in 1810, and continued to be his father's regular account book from that time until he ceased to [illegible] accounts on account of old age and withdrawing from all business on account of old age, that said account book was his only account book, that since [illegible] has been left in his family and this deponent has been familiarly acquainted with it ever since it became to be used, this deponent does further depose and say that the entry of his father's marriage is made on the cover of the book at the [illegible] end of said book, that he believes that the entry there made is in the hand writing of his father, that he knows that said entry has been there for many years, and nearly as early
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as his father began to use since birth, and further this deponent saith not. 
Henry Stow
His mark X
James A Brown, witness to Henry Stow's mark

Sworn and subscribed and mark this tenth day of December 1849 - 

Before me, R.O. Green Dept Clerk of Chautaugau County

I certify that the above deponent Henry Stow is a person of strict truth and veracity
R.O. Green, Dept. Clerk of Chautaugau County

Chautaugau County, s.s.  }

Samuel A. Brown of Jamestown being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is the same Samuel A. Brown mentioned in the above affidavit of Henry Stow that the identical accounts book mentioned in the declaration of Sarah Stow, made on the 20th day of July 1849 was handed to this deponent by the said Henry Stow on the tenth day of December instant, that this deponent has cut from said account [illegible] the two first leaves of said book, that the first entries in said book were
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entered on the front cover of said book and appears to have been commenced in 1810, that said book is a foliobook and contains about 300 leaves.  That 44 of the [illegible] leaves are filled up and the accounts of Amos Stow are brought down in said book to 1844, that the rest of the book is clank, excepting 5 or 6 of the last pages in the book that this deponent in addition to the two first leaves above mentioned has [illegible] of said book the last leaf in [illegible] has cut off the last or [illegible] the same, all of which are fastened tog ether for the purpose of transmitting the same to the pension office agreeable to latter service, from said office, bearing date the 12th Nov. 1849.
Samuel A. Brown

Sworn and subscribed this 31 day of December 1849

Solomon Jones, Justice of the Peace
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affirmations, and I do further certify that Solomon Jones, Esq. was on the 31st day of December 1849 a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn and that his signature to the [illegible] to the affidavit of Samuel A. Brown is genuine.

[seal]  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
R.O. Green, Dept. Clerk
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[page is cluttered with various notes in various directions]
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Names of My Family  the year
Russell Stow born September the 14 year 1789
[illegible] Stow born September the 10 day year 1791
[illegible] stow born December the 6 day year 1792
Seth Stow born on September the 3rd day year 1794
[illegible] Stow born April the 2 day year 1796
[illegible] Stow born May the 1 day year 1797
[illegible] Stow born September the 8 day year 1799
[illegible] Stow born March the 24 day year 1802
Abijah Stow born May the 24 day year 1804
Susannah Stow born November the 16 day 1808
Dewitt Clinton Stow born March the 9 day 1810
Huwey Stow born September the 17th 1812
Charles Stow born March the 16th day 1817

Robert Chase married [illegible] Culdey Stow on Friday May 22 [illegible]

Sarah Graham was born February the 8 day and she was [illegible] years the year 1823 the
8 of February same year.
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This day of [illegible] May
Age which was 53 years the twelve day of November in the year 1815 Amos Stow

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Amos stow [illegal] married Mary Whiton July the 4 day year 1818.

Lydia Lorenzo Stow born [illegible] December the 22 day year 1819

[illegible]
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[image is blurred and in many areas illegible]
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Batavia February the 4 1811
[illegible]

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[illegible] th 2 AD 1811
[illegible] 
[illegible]  32 feet [illegible]
[illegible] is paid X
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Batavia October the 16 AD 1811
[illegible]
[illegible]  paid X
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Russell Stow [illegible] with Williams
served till the last Monday of   X
February [illegible] in the year 1813  X
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August the 31 AD 1813
Bennet Backus Dr for 145 feel of two 
inch thick plank  $ 2 - 12.00
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Batavia May the 16 1811
James N. Johnson   Dr 800
[illegible] for 2 pcs yd at 1/3 = 10
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Batavia May the 12 of 1811
Mary Brainard Dr + 8=
Dr for [illegible] 0 - 12 paid
$20 dr for one bed this is paid 2 = 50
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Batavia May the 20 AD 1811
had of [illegible] at twice of [illegible] $98
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Williams Woodand [illegible] 
for saving 66 [illegible]
[illegible]  $ 2=51
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Batavia May the 2 AD 18[illegible]
A bill of goods / [illegible]
this bill amounts to [illegible]
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Another bill - [illegible]
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May the 16 = another bill X [illegible]
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May the 12 1811 [Bat of Comp] on the [illegible]
[illegible]
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August the 15 AD 1811
for 7 [illegible] 4/[illegible] | 3 = [illegible]
on quart whiskey | 0 = 31
for [illegible] paid  | 0 = 12
Batavia [illegible]  1811  | 3 = 9.4

Dr to mo books [illegible]
logging [illegible]
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November the 5 1812 - 
Daniel Voil dr  80.00
for six days work at his mill  07.50
three dollars in beef - paid  3.00
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Batavia August the 2 AD 1813
this day tuck in [illegible]
[illegible] X  paid
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[illegible] Williams
D. Attica May
Baston [illegible]
Batavia May the 13 AD 1811

Batavia May the 13 AD 1811
Mary Branard Co   paid
[illegible] 14 yd clothes 
this is paid X  1 = 25
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November the 11 AD 1812
Mr. Valis + 80.00
for 75 cents pound beef  +  3 = 00
for 4 beef  + 0.0.29  paid
November the 2
Mr. Vales
for six days work at ten [illegible] paid
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November the 13th AD 1812
James Buchanan -- 80.00
for 7.2 days work at this mill 7.50
one & a half a day  1.50
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October the 9 AD 1810
Elijah [illegible] | $ 0
Megan [illegible] | 2.00
[illegible]  one day  1.00
[illegible]  one day loggin | 0.88
[illegible] days loggin | 2.0
Amos Stow one day & one laundry | 
  house logs | 1.0
  for [illegible] | 0.50
  for washing two shirts | 0.13
  for washing one shirt | 0.06
  For washing one shirt | 0.06
  For washing one shirt | 0.06
  For washing one pair of [illegible] | 0.13
  For washing two shirts | 0.13
  For washing two shirts | 0.13
  For washing one pair of trousers | 0.06
  For washing one pair of sheets | 0.13
  For washing one shirt | 0.06
  For washing one pair of trousers | 0.06
  For washing two shirts | 0.13
  For washing one shirt | 0.06
  For spinning and [illegible] one pare of slacks  18 [illegible]  |  0.52
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For dressing bone | $ 8.95
Nine Weeks | 2.00
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Mr. [illegible] fr
  for sawing one log 208 feet | 1 = 14
  for saw one ask log 225 feet | 0 = 80
                                            $ 13=19
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Batavia September the 16 1814
Isaac Roberson and [illegible]
  for one [illegible]  |  0.00
  for making a [illegible] | 03.50
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November the 25 AD 1816
Davie Meracken 
  for work at his mill 
  7 days and a half  |  09.00
  for Amos two days | 2.00
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Amos Stow

Admitted

Hon. 
P.L. Tracy
H.R.

Carlton [illegible] 
[illegible]

Batavia
Genesee by [illegible]
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BRIEF in the case of Amos Stow of Batavia County of Genesee in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832) 

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court. 

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
 
3. How old is he? 72 years.
 
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed [table follows] 
Period | Duration of Service Years | Months, | Days. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served 
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[First entry]

Enlisted March 1776 till sometime in December 1778 | 2 years and [illegible] | Fifer |  Col. Seth Warner, Captain Jeremiah [illegible] Mt. [illegible] Treaty
Col. Seth Herrick, Capt. Parmuli Allen | Vermont Militia

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[second entry]
[illegible] part April 1779 |  9 months | -- | Col. [illegible] - Lieut. Green | Vermont Militia

5. In what battles was he engaged? Hubberton, Bennington, Saratoga

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Skenesborough, New York

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses and by traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? not properly attached

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
Charles G. Wilcox, Examining Clerk
20 January 1833
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January 15, 1910

Honorable I.J. Dickinson
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Dickinson:

In response to your letter of the 14th instant, in which you request information for Mr. N.B. Stow, of Port Dodge, Iowan, regarding the Revolutionary War record of Amos Stowe, Junior, I have the honor to advise you that you are herewith furnished the history of the only soldier names Amos Stow or Stowe found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

From the papers in the pension claim, W. 2191, it appears that Amos Stow was born, November 12, 1759 at Londen or Louden, Massachusetts.

While residing at Skenesborough, New York, he enlisted in March, 1776 and served as a fifer in Captain Jeremiah Burrough's Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment and was in the battle of Hubbardton, Vermont, after which he was transferred to Captain Parmelee Allen's Company, Colonel Herrick's Regiment of Vermont Militia. He was in the
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battle of Bennington, capture of Burgoyne, and was discharged in December, 1773. He enlisted at Rockingham, Vermont, in April, 1779 and served to December, 1779 as fifer under Lieutenant Beriah Green in Colonel Wait's Vermont Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 15, 1832, at which time he was living in Batavia, Genesee County, New York. He died, December 26, 1848, at Sherman, Chautauqua County, New York.

The soldier married, June 3, 1787, at Fort Ann, Washington County, New York, Sarah Graham.  She was born February 8, 1762.

She was allowed pension on her application executed July 2, 1849, at which time she was living in Sherman, New York.  The widow stated in 1849 that she had had sixteen children, only five living at that time.

The following are the only names of the children as found on the family record that are decipherable:

Russell  born  September 14, 1789.
Heman  Born  September 10, 1791.
Offeman born December 6, 1792.
Simeon and Seth  born December 25, 1794.
Amos  born April 2, 1796.
Amos  born May 1, 1797.
Henry born September 8, 1799.
Salla born March 24, 1802

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Abijah born May 26, 1804.
Susannah  born November 16, 1908
Dewitt Clinton  born March 9, 1810.
Milday born September 17, 1812
  married Robert Chase, May 22, 1829.

The following also appears on the family record:

Amos Stow, Junior, married Mary Wheaton, July 4, 1810; Lydia Lornoay or Lorrenay Stow was born, December 27, 1819; Martha Ann Stow was born March 2, 1822.

Very truly yours,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Amos Stow, Genesee Co. Albany Appnay  NY
Act 7 Junse 1832 p. 88 pam

To what time was he last paid
G.C.A

Pension Office }
April 17 1850  }   ans. Sept 4, 1848.
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Sarah Stow
widow of Amos Stow
New York

Let to D.A. Brown Nov. 13/49

Act 29 July 1848
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[illegible]

WIDOW, &c

File No. 2191
Sarah Stow,
Widow,

Amos Stow,
Fifer, Rev. War

Act. July 24, 1848
Index : -- Vol. M, Page 238

[Arrangement of 1870]

[marginal note]
1929 Jan. 15 - Hist to Hon. S.J. Dickens
[illegible] for H.W. Stow Esq
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Commission of Pensions,
Washington City

Sept. 24, '49

4678
Amos Stow
N.Y. 32
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Fredonia, N.Y. Sept 19, 1844

Sir,

Amos Stow, whose Pension certificate is numbered 4679, and whose pension commenced on the 4 March 1831, says that his proof was completed in June 1822, and believes that his pension ought to be allowed from that time, viz. June 1822.  I know not the proof upon which he obtained his Certificate - but informed him that I would write and ask your opinion, whether he is, or is not entitled to that allowance - and will thank you for an answer as soon as may be convenient.

I have not received returns in the case of Mrs. Hannah Williams and Mrs. Ester Standish, who have applied for pensions.  

Yours very respectfully,
Jacob Houghton

J.S. Edwards, Esquire,  
Comm of Pensions, 
Washington City
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JACOB KIRCHNER

STOWE & KIRCHNER
LAWYERS
304-365-366 Snell Building
FORT DODGE, IOWA

November 30, 1928.

Bureau of Pension,
Revolutionary War Record Section,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Could you kindly furnish me with a certificate showing the Revolutionary War Record of Amos Stow, Jr. only who was a private in Capt. Asahel Wheeler's Regiment; marched February 4 (?). Also list of drafted men from Concord Town Company in July, 1777, and also belonged to Concord Town Company in 1778; his service being shown in Mass. Soliders and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 15, Page 147, and oblige.

Yours very truly,
Stowe & Kirchner,
By: H.W. Stowe

HWS: E.
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Joseph Dutton
Affidavit
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State of New York  }
Genesee County  }  s.s.

Joseph Dutton of the town of Stafford in said county being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was in the regular service of the United States under the command of Lieut. Beriah Green, in the year 1778 and that Amos Stow was at that time with him in the town of Bernard in the State of Vermont - that during the time of six months or more the said Amos Stow served as a fifer the party was a detachment from Colonel Wait's Regiment of Infantry to guard the frontiers - and further this deponent saith not.
Joseph Dutton
His mar  X

Sworn and subscribed the 10th day of Sept. 1827 before me Stephen Griswold, J. Peace

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the character of Joseph Dutton, the person who has affixed his name to the above affidavit that he is a member of the Presbyterian Church in this town, and as a brethren and member of the Church his character is unimpeachable.
Stafford, Sept. 10th 1827

Stephen Griswold  J.P.
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State of New York  }
Genesee County, s.s. }

I, Ralph Coffin, Clerk of the County of Genesee do hereby certify that Stephen Griswold before whom the within affidavit appears to have been made was in the day of the date thereof as Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Genesee acting under the authority of the State - and that the name subscribed to the same is in his own proper hand writing -- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said county and subscribed my name this 11 day of September AD 1827
RCoffin, Clerk
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Joseph Fonsworth
Oath
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State of New York  }
Cayuga County  }

Joseph Fornsworth by me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he is personally acquainted with Amos Stow now a citizen of Genesee County that he first knew him while a soldier in Capt. Parmelee Allen's company in Col. Herrick's Regiment in the year 1777 that he served in the said company till about the year 1778 where he was honorably discharged by Col. Herrick at Castleton Vermont.

Joseph Fonsworth
His mark  X

Sworn to and subscribed before me at Aurelius this 9th day of June AD 1822
Daniel Calkins  Justice Peace

This may certify that I have been acquainted with Joseph Fonsworth the above subscribing witness for about 15 years and he is a man of good standing and of good moral character.
Daniel Calkins, J.P.

Aurelius  June 30, 1822

-------------------------------------

State of new York,
Cayuga County }
Clerks Office  }  s.s.

I certify that Daniel Calkins Esquire, was on the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Cayuga, duly commissioned and sworn as such Justice --- and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity.  I further certify, that I am acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice --- and verily believe the signature to the annexed affidavit "Daniel Calkins" to be his.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court of common pleas of said county, and subscribed by name this Sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two.

Gen. B. Thromp, Clerk
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This is informal. I wrote it for a form and [illegible] has made use of it.

S. Lake
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State of New York  }
Cayuga County  }  s.s. 

Henry Watkins being by me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath sad that he is personally acquainted with Amos Stow now a citizen of Genesee county that he first knew him while a soldier in Capt. Allen's Company in Col. Herrick's Regiment in the year 1777.  that he served in the said Company [words crossed out.  until the last of the year 1779 or the beginning of the year 1780 when he was discharged the service as Castleton in the state of Vermont]
Henry Watkins
His mark  X
Sworn and subscribed this 30th day of May 1822 before me Josiah [illegible] J. Peace

If Mr. Watkins cannot state all the above facts have him state what he knows, and be sure to have the affidavit state more than nine months service and that you was discharged - also prove by as many witnesses as you can that your discharge was may [illegible]

[new note]
State of New York
Cayuga County }
Clerks Office } s.s.

I Certify that Josiah Bower, Esquire was on the thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two a Justice of the Peace - in and for the county of Cayuga, duly commissioned and sworn as such Justice and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity.

I further certify, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe the signature of Josiah Bower, to the annexed affidavit to be his.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court of common pleas of said county, and subscribed my name this Sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty two.
Geo. B. Throop, Clerk
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I do hereby certify that Henry Watkins is a man of good standing and of good moral character in this neighborhood he now lives.
Josiah Bower, J. Peace
Signed May 30th 1822
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Hon. J.L. Edwards
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Jamestown N.Y. January 5th 1840

Hon. J.L. Edwards

Sir

Your letter of the 13 of November requiring the leaf containing the entry of the marriage of the widow Sarah Stow, to be sent to your department was duly received.

Mr. Henry Stow met me at Mayville, our county seat, and brought the account book mentioned above with him.  The entry of the marriage is to be found on the last cover of said book, the leaf of which I could not separate from the cover, and therefore am obliged to send the cover itself. I send the two first leaves of the book, also the last two leaves as well as the cover. By sending the leaves and cover, you can judge yourself of the antiquity of the book, as well as its genuineness.  The cover is a [illegible] article to send, but I see no other way to comply with your requirements.

Mr. Amos Stow was not a very neat, finished accountant as the book he left many years shows, but that it is genuine and true I think no one can doubt.  Books or original entries made at a time, and on subjects, were the writer had no inducement to make false entries, always have much weight in our courts, besides a man must
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be a brute indeed who would in his own hand writing make an entry of his marriage and the births and deaths of his children, when the same was false.

In my letter of the 8th of October last, in Mrs. Stow's case, I sent you a brief of the laws of this state in regard to the evidence of marriage, which was probably unnecessary, as Mr. Benjamin Graham who was [illegible] swears positively to the marriage of his sister Mrs. Stow.

Yours very respectfully
Samuel A. Brown
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[stamp]
Jamestown. N.Y.
Oct. 9

October 16th, 1849
Decl.
Sarah Stow and Amos
N.Y.

Free
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
City of Washington
Act 29 July 1848
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Jamestown, N.Y.   Oct. 8, 1849

Hon. J.L. Edwards,

Sir - 

Enclosed I send you the papers of Mrs. Sarah Stow an applicant for a pension. Her declaration was made in open Court before the Judges of the Supreme Court, at a regular term of said Court.

The affidavit of Benjamin Graham her brother to prove the marriage, was drawn by Dr. Giles, formerly Post Master of Batavia, and when it was sent to me I hardly knew whether it was more prudent to send it back and have it written over again with black ink or let it remain.  I finally concluded on the latter course - I think every work and figure can be read, so that there is no chance or opportunity of deception or fraud being used, and therefore hope it will pass at your Department.

The affidavit of Henry Stow given up and sent to Shearman, but did not know what Magistrate he would [illegible] before, but assumed he went before Esq Jones, who administered the oath and as he was not "well acquainted" with Mr. Stow, as they lived six miles apart, Stow went to Elymer an adjoining town, where Esq. S. Aleph, a Justice resides, and who was a near neighbor and had long known Mr. Stow (and) who certifies as to his character for truth and veracity - This I suppose is a little out of the general routing of business, but as I am satisfied that your Department always looks to the rights of the claimant, I have concluded to
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send this affidavit on as it is, without sending it back to Clymer for the oath as well as the certificate to be made before Esq. Bligh.

Mrs. Stow swears that she does not know that there is any documentary evidence of her marriage - I wrote to Dr. Thomas Biglow at grandson of the elder who married them, and she lives at Hartford, Washington County, hear where his grandfather lived, and who informed me that the Elder has been dead about 58 years, and that no record can be found of marriages which he solemnized. 

Probably you are aware that until recently, no law of this State has required an entry or registry of marriage or even that there should be a witness. I has  been regarded as a civil contract only - v. B.F. Butter Atty; Gen: opinion  to [paper folder] Pointsett [illegible] of War, Aug. 18. 1837.  Documents [paper fold] 1846, p.72.  The Judges of our Supreme Court sayeth of John: Reports, p. 54 case of Fenton [illegible] that "A marriage may be proved in other cases [bigamy & criminal conversation and the only exception cases] from cohabitation, reputation acknowledgement of the parties, reception in the family, and other circumstances, from which a marriage may be enforced" This seems to be the English Common law, 4. Burrows References p. 2057.

I hope the positive testimony of Mr. Benjamin Graham, together with the declaration of Mrs. Stow who is a very reputable woman, together with the evidence to be found in the Day Books, an entry made long before any pension law was thought of together with the evidence of cohabitation will be satisfactory to your honorable department.

Yours very Respectfully
Samuel A. Brown
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L.J. DICKSON                                 MEMBER
10th District, Iowa       Appropriations Committee

Room 262
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING

RESIDENCE:
ALGONIA, IOWA

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

Jan. 14, 1929.

Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary War Section,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

I am advised that Mr. H.S. Stowe of the firm of Stowe and Kirchner, Lawyers, Fort Dodge, Iowa, addressed you under date of November 30, 1928, with reference to certain information to show the Revolutionary War record of one Amos Stowe, Jr.

Mr. Stowe is anxious to have a reply in this matter and I will appreciate your advising me whether or not this information can be furnished him.

Thank you for your courtesy in the matter.  I am

Very truly yours,
J.L. Dickinson

LCD/J
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State of New York  }
County of Genesee  } s.s.

Russell Stow being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the sone of Amos Stow the applicant for a pension named in the declaration herewith accompanying that he well recollects of having frequently seen in in the possession of the said Amos Stow a discharge form service in the revolutionary war, signed by Colonel Seth Herrick.  This deponent further says that sometime in the month of October 1799 according to the best of this deponent's recollection the said discharge together with a number of other articles deposited in a chest belonging to the said Amos Stow were consumed by fire.
Russell Stow
His mark  X

Subscribed and sworn to the first day of October 1832 before me
Timothy Fitch,
Justice of the Peace

State of New York  }
County of Genesee Clerk's Office  }  s.s.

I, Timothy Fitch, Clerk of Genesee County before whom the above affidavit was sworn was at the time of taking said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and sworn and acting as such and authorized to administer the same, and that the signature to the said affidavit as such Justice of the Peace, is my signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Genesee of which I am Clerk, this 18th day of October AD 1832.
T. Fitch, Clerk