Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13458, Consider Howland, Mass.
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SERVICE: 
Mass. 
Howland, Consider 

NUMBER
S. 13458

carded
CONTENTS
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[left side]
8688
New York
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Consider Howland
[word cut off] Lisle in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain White of the Regt. commanded by Col Cotten in the Massachs. ma line for 24 mo.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Apl. 1833 and sent to A.G. Ransom Greene N.Y.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00
Sem-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 40.00
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$200.00
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk,
Book E Vol. 4 Page 59

[right side]
AB - shows
died Sept 1-1834
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3582
Consider Havland [Howland]
25 Oct 1832
retd with brief to
A.G. Ransom
Greene N.Y.
Letter.
10 Augt 1832
Recd 18 -
act 7 June 

P-2

admitted.
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24 mo Private.

5:14:16
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BRIEF in the case of Consider Howland
of Lisle in the State of New York
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? before the Nice Chancellor
of the Sixth Circuit of the State of New York

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? it does so appear

3. How old is he? Eighty one years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
_____________________________________________
 | Years, Months, Days. | As a | Gen.
May In 1775. . | . . . 8 . . . . | Private | Genl. Thomas - Col. Cotton
Decmb . 1776 ...| ... 3 ....| " | Col. Godfrey - Capt. Allen
Month or year}
Not remembered}...| .... 2 ....| " | Capt. Joshua White
some further Service is Stated
but totally undefined

5. In what battles was he engaged? None Stated

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Middleborough Masstts

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

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers
are correct in form and authentication

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
above mentioned. 

Wm. Gordon Examining Clerk.
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Pension Application 
of 
Consider Howland 
No. 3382

Admitted
24 mos. Private
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State of New York }
Broome County }

On the Sixth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appeared before (illegible) Robert Monell, Vice Chancellor of the Sixth Circuit of the State of New York, Consider Howland, a resident of the Town of Lisle in said County of Broome at the dwelling house of said Howland in Lisle aforesaid he being unable from old age & long bodily infirmities to attend in open court, who is aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. 

In the forepart of the month of May 1775 at Middleborough County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts & enlisted for eight months in a company of infantry commanded by one Captain Isaac Wood of Middleborough aforesaid in a Regiment commanded by Col. Cotton of Plymouth in the County last aforesaid and in the Brigade under the command of Gen. Thomas soon after my enlistment we marched to Roxbury 8 mo in the County of Norfolk & State of Massachusetts where I remained in the service as a soldier during the eight months for which I enlisted and was there honorably discharged but did not receive any written discharge.

In the month of December 1776, I again enlisted in a company of infantry commanded by Captain Nehemiah Allen of Middleborough aforesaid in a Regiment commanded by Col. Godfrey - I enlisted at Middleborough aforesaid for the term of three months soon after my enlistment I marched with the said company to Rhode Island and were stationed a part of the time at a place called Tiverton and a part of the time at Bristol in Rhode Island aforesaid and at the expiration of the three months were honorably discharged but did not receive any written discharge.
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I enlisted in a company of Militia at Middleborough aforesaid under one Captain Joshua White also of Middleborough for the term of two months & marched by land & water to Newport Rhode Island where I served out my two months & was discharged - I cannot now recollect the month of year of this enlistment nor can I recollect any other circumstances except as above stated -- I was several times out on duty as a Militiaman sometimes as a volunteer & occasionally enlisted during the Revolution not mentioned above but I am not now able to give the particulars as to times names of officers places or other circumstances.
I was attacked more than twenty years since with a disease which has rendered me wholly incapable of transacting business from the time of the first attack indeed for a greater portion of the time I have been confined entirely to my house & for the last five years I have not been able to get one half mile distant from my dwelling - I am the father of Eleven living children & feel much in want of a small annuity from my country. -

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declraed that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State. -
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Consider Howland
Robt. Monell
Vice Chancellor
Question 1. Where and in what year were you born?
In Middleborough Massachusetts in 1752
Question 2. Have you any record of your age & if so where is it? -
Has a record in the house of his age which was produced to the Court.
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Question 3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you live now?
Ans. In Middleborough - From there came to Lisle Broome County where he now resides -
Question 4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitution? And if a substitute for whom?
A. He enlisted as a volunteer.
Question 5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served: Such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstance of your service.
Answer - He cannot recollect of any of the regular officers or others there Some of his [illegible] regiments in [illegible] -
Question 6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what had become of it?
Don't recollect ever to have had a written discharge.
Question 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belie of your services as a soldier of the revolution.
Ansr. Revd. Seth Burt, Abiatha Briggs, Judge James Stoddard Abiatha Briggs Judge Pest Martin Cester Lisle
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We Seth Burt Minister of the Gospel of Lisle in the County of Broome & State of New York and Abiatha Briggs of the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Consider Howland who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty one years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution [crossed out: ary] and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed this day & year aforesaid.
Seth Burt
A. Briggs
Robt. Monell
Vice Chanceller

And the said Court does hereby declare this 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 this Court further certifies that it appears to him that that Seth Burt [crossed out: Minister] who has signed the above certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Lisle, Broom County State of New York & that A. Briggs who also signed
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[block of six lines of text crossed out at top:]
contained her Original proceedings of Howland Vice Chancellor Court in the matter of the application of Consider Howland for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of my office this ------ day of August 1832. [end of crossed out text]

the same is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit. And I do also certify that I called at the dwelling house of said applicant in Lisle aforesaid -  took his aforesaid examination & found him so feeble & infirm from disease & old age as to be wholly unable in my opinion to leave his house & attend in open Court. And I do also certify that the above nine lines were erased in my presence before the completion of this paper by me.
Robert Monell
Vice Chanceller

I Jonathan L. Woods Clerk of the court of the court of Chancery of the sixth circuit of the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Consider Howland for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two --
Jonathan L. Woods
Clk
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May 3, 1930

Mrs.. Edwin P. Smith
Sherburne 
New York

[illegible header]
Aideen Smith
S. 11419

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Moses Case, Consider Howland, Gideon Smith who was born in 1759, in 1934, New York, and Cornelius Jones who lived in the New Jersey and died in 1837.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based in the herewith as found in pension claims, based upon service of Cornelius Jones cited by you, or of any Moses Case. The records of Consider Howland and Gideon Smith are furnished herewithin. as found in pension claims, based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.

CONSIDER HOWLAND-S.13458
Consider Howland was born in the year 1750, in Middleborough, Plymouth Country, Massachusetts; the day of his birth, and the names of his parents are not shown. 

 While a resident of Middleboro, Massachusetts, he enlisted and served as a private in the Massachusetts troops, at different times, given as follows from May 8, 1775, eight months in Captain Isaac Wood's comany, Colonel Cotton's regiment; from sometime in December 1776, three months in Captain Nehemiah Allen's company, Colonel Godfrey's regiment; afterwards, two months in Captain Joshua White's company, at Newport, Rhode Island. He served also as private in Captain Abial Pierce's company, as orderly sergeant in Captain Job Pierce's in Captain John Cook's company and on other short tours, specific dates not given. 

The soldier moved from Middleborough, Massachusetts, to Lisle, Broome County, New York. 

Consider Howland was allowed pension on his application executed
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August 6, 1833, at which time he resided in Lisle, New York. 

The soldier stated in 1832, that he was the father of eleven living children; he did not state the name of his wife, the date and place of his marriage, nor the names of any of said children. 

Consider Rowland died September 1, 1834. 

In 1833, Samuel Howland, also of Lisle, New York, stated that he was out with Consider Howland several times during the War, but he did not state any relationship between them.

GIDEON SMITH 11419. 
Gideon Smith was born in the year 1759, in Bedford, Westchester County, New York; the day of his birth, and the names of his parents are not shown; however, his parents were living at [illegible] in the Revolutionary War. 

While a resident of Bedford, New York, Gideon Smith enlisted August 1, 1775 and served one month as a private in Captain [illegible] company, Colonel James Holmes' New York regiment, after which he hired a substitute to complete the six months for which he had enlisted in consequence of the importunities of his mother. He enlisted early in April 1776, served six months and fifteen days as a private in Captain [illegible] company, Colonel Weisenfels' New York regiment, during which he was stationed a part of the time near New York City, was in the retreat from Harlem Heights, and assisted in ferrying the troops across East River; he stated that his father took him home been of sickness; he enlisted in [illegible] and served nearly three months in Captain Hezekiah Gray New York Company, enlisted in August of that same year and served three months in Captain Richard Sacket's company, Colonel James Clintock's New York regiment. During his service, he was fired upon several times by the enemy.

After the Revolutionary War, the soldier resided in Dutchess and in Albany Counties, New York, later moved to Otsego county, that state.
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Gideon Smith was allowed pension on his application executed October 15, 1832, at which time he resided in Oneonta, Otsego County, New York. He made no reference to wife or children at the time he made application for his pension. 

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension etc. 

Very truly yours, 
[unsigned]
A. D. Hiller, 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

[in pencil]
See carbon of this last page in Gideon Smith - S11419
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1923 Nov. 14. Hist. to Hon. L. C. Cramton aw
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1938 May 3 - Hist to Mrs. Edwin P. Smith Illinois

Rev 13458 INVALID
file No. 13,458
Consider Howland
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832.
Index: -- Vol I, Page 180
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of New York
Broome County ss 

Samuel Howland of Lisle in Broome County being duly sworn saith that he knew Consider Howland who has made the annexed declaration and knew him in the war of the revolution that he recollects that he was out at several times with the Army and never by him going and returning but cannot say as to the particular times and dates but verily believes he was in [illegible] during the war equal to at least two years 
And further saith not 
Samuel Howland [signature]

Sworn & Subscribed this day & year foresaid
Robt. Monell [signature]
Vice Chancellor
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[crossed through "Samuel Howland
Affidavit of
Howland Leonard"]

Chenango County Ss: I do hereby certify that I
know Samuel Howland Who signed
& swore to the within affidavit & that
He is a respectable man & his statement
is entitled to credit.
October 31st, 1832.  Robt. Monell
Vice Chancellor
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Connor [Consider] Howland
Evidince of
Service
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I Philip Hathaway of Freetown in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Clerk of lawfull age do give evidence to depose and say, that Consider Howland and myself inlisted on the eighth day of May in the Year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and seventy five in a Company of Infantry under the Command of Capt Isaac Wood of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth aforesaid, which company was attached to and a part of the Regiment under the command of Colonel Cotton of Plymouth in said County of Plymouth; and the Brigade or Division under the Command of General Thomas; that after the said Consider Howland and myself inlisted as aforesaid, we together with the remainder of the Company were in a [illegible] days   marched from said Middleborough to Roxbury [crossed through "in the County"] the County of Norfolk in the Commonwealth aforesaid where we remained in the service in the army of the Revolutionary War during the term of eight months which was the term for which the said Consider and myself enlisted and we were then honorably discharged. - Said Consider when he enlisted as aforesaid lived in his native town which was Middleborough
aforesaid. About twenty years since said Consider removed from said Middleborough into the State of New York.

Sometime in the month of December (I am not certain what day in that month) in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and seventy six the said Consider and myself again enlisted in Company of Infantry commanded by Capt. Nehemiah Allen of said Middleborough which company was attached to a Regiment under the command, as I think (but am not certain of the name) of Col. Godfrey; I know he belonged to Taunton in the County of Bristol, I mean the Col. of the Regiment. -

Verry soon after the said Consider and myself inlisted we together with the others who composed the company were marched to the State of Rhode Island; when we served in the army of the Revolution during the time of three months, which was the period for which we enlisted, when we were honorably discharged. About half of this company we were at Tiverton in Rhode Island the remaining half at Bristol in the same State. - 
Philip Hatheway [signature]

Bristol ss. -
On the twenty ninth day August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty one the aforesaid Philip Hathaway was examined, and cautioned and sworn agreeable to law, to the deposition or affidavit aforesaid by him subscribed, and the said Philip Hathaway submitted the same in my presence. -
Elnathan P. Hatheway, Justice of the Peace [signature]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol ss. 
I, Ephraim Atwood, Town Clerk of the Town of Freetown in said County do hereby certify that Elnathan P. Hatheway, Esquire
before whom the within deposition or affidavit was made and taken is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Bristol, and that I know his name which is subscribed to the within magistrate, a certificate to be the said Elnathan's true and proper signature.-

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand on this twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty one -
Attest Ephraim Selwood Clerk of Freetown [signature]

Bristol ss. November 16th 1832 
I certify that Philip Hatheway who signed the within affidavit is a credible and person that his statement is entitled to credit -
Elnathan P. Hatheway Justice of the Peace [signature]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts-
Bristol ss.
I, James Sproat Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that Elnathan P. Hathaway by whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the third day of December Eighteen hundred and thirty two
James Sproat [signature]

[seal]
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An amendment of the declaration of Consider Howland of Lisle, County of Broome and State of New York

State of New York
Broome County } ss.
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace of the said County, Consider Howland who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades.
In addition to the thirteen months already allowed he served as a private in Captain Abial Pierce's Company of Militia at Weymouth, at another time served as an acting Sergeant in Captain Job Pierce's Company of Militia at Tivertown, another time as a private at Tivertown, another time at New Bedford, does not recollect under what officers he served the two last mentioned places, at another time served as a private under Colonel John Cook on Rhodeisland, does not recollect the precise length of time he served at the aforementioned places, but verily believes he served not less than eleven months and for such services I claim a pension
Consider Howland  [signature]

Sworn and subscribed this 9th day of January 1833.
before me.
James Stoddard Justice of the Peace [signature]
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State of New York
Broome County } ss: 
I Brazalla Marvin Clerk of the said County of Broome do certify that James Stoddard Esquire before whom the within affidavit
purports to have been taken, was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Broome and I also certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said James Stoddard and that I verily believe this name signed to the within affidavit to be his genuine hand writing.

Given under my hand and seal of Office this sixteenth day of January A.D. 1833.
B. Marvin Clerk [signature]

[seal]
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Mrs. Edwin P. Smith
Sherburne, New York
April 13, 1938

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Messrs:

Are you able to help me in my search for the records and parentage of the following men who served in the Revolutionary War.

Sgt. Moses Case. Tradition tells us he died at Valley Forge - Aug. 1777. Think he may have come from Conn.

Gideon Smith - OK - born in 1759 in Bedford, N.Y., Westchester Co.

Consider Howland - OK - born in Aug. 17, 1752  - died Sept. 1, 1834

Cornelius Jones - lived in New Jersey - died in 1827 - OK.
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     Would like their war records, etc., and would very much appreciate any information as to names of their wives, their parents' names, etc., as I am tracing my genealogy in several lines and have no further information about these men.

     Thanking you in advance, I am.

     Very truly yours - 
     Mrs. Edwin P. Smith

[DATE & TIME STAMP] 
Received 11:00, April 15, 1938 
Mail SUB-DIV
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LOUIS C. CRAMTON
7th DISTRICT MICHIGAN

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

House of Representatives U.S.
Washington, D. C. 

November 13, 1923

Commissioner of Pensions,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:

Unver date of November 10, I have the following from the Office of Adjutant General:

"Referring to your letter of the 8th instant, in which you request that Mrs. G. W. Paton, Almont, Michigan, be sent the military record of Consider Howland, born in Middleburough, Massachusetts, April 17, 1754, and said to have served as an officer in the Revolutionary War by enlistment from that place, and to have died in Leslie, New York, I regret to have to inform you that the name Consider Rowland has not been found on the records on file in this office of soldiers from Massachusetts or any other State in the Revolutionary War."

It is suggested that possibly your records might contain something in regard to the above, and I will be glad to be advised as to this.

Thanking you, I am

Yours sincerely,
Louis C. Cramton
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Rev. & 1812 Wars
Section.

Nov. 14, 1923.

Hon. Louis C. Cramton,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Cramton:

    In response to your letter of the 13th instant, I have the honor to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, S. 13458, it appears that Consider Howland was born in 1752, in Middleborough, Massachusetts and while living there enlisted in the Massachusetts Troops and served as follows:

     From May 8, 1775, for eight months as private in Capt. Isaac Wood's Company, Col. Cotton's Regiment.
     From December 1776, for three months in Capt. Nehemiah Allen's Company, Col. Godfrey's Regiment.
     For two months in Capt. Joshua White's Company; also in Capt. Abial Pierce's Company; Capt. Job Pierce's Company, as an Orderly Sergeant; Capt. John Cook's Company, and two other tours of services, no further details given.

     He was allowed pension on his application executed August 8, 1832, while living in Lisle, Broome County, New York, and he then had eleven children, their names and that of his wife are not on record.

     Sincerely,
     Washington Gardner, Commissioner.