Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1043-500, John E Howard, Md.
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Service - Md.                                                                                          
Howard, John E.                              
Number      B.LW 1043-500-Col.                                                                                                       Issued Oct. 18, 1796 
No papers
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Richmond, Ky.
April 18, 1928
Capt. Chancey O. Howard,
Librarian, Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,
Can you tell me what relation existed between John Edgar Howard (1752-1827) Gov. of Maryland, 1789-1792 and Benjamin Howard (1755-1835) [S 31138 resrch, handwritten]b. in Frederick Co., Md. died in Madison Co., Ky. married Rebecca Turner, (dau of Thomas Turner) in 1792, served in Rev. War in Rowan Co., No. Car.? He has been conffused with Benjamin Chew Howard, son of John Edgar Howard, b. 1791, d. 1872. I would judge from the dates that John Edgar and Benjamin if related at all must have been cousins or brothers, am I correct? I want the information for a friend who belongs to the Howard family and is trying to secure a D.A.R. line. Yours sincerely, (Mrs. B.A.) Anna D.R. Keith
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Central Missouri State Teachers College
Warrensburg, Missouri
Dec, 20 1925
Office of the Dean
Commissioner of Pensions:
Washington D.C.
My dear Sir:
Do you have any records of the family of John Eager Howard among your pension records? He had two sons who were in the war of 1812. George Howard, Battle of North Point, 12th September 1814. Benjamin C. Howard was the other one. He himself was Lt. Col in the American Revolution. He had a great grandson who came to Missouri when a young man Richard Scott Howard. John Eager Howard had other sons, William, James, and Charles and I should like to know from which son Richard Scott Howard descended. Yours Truly Mrs. Walter N. Parker 304 E. Culton
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July 16, 1938.
BA-J/ILL
John E. Howard
B.L. Wt. #1043-500 acres.
John Long
W. 3569 [See letter -handwritten]
Mr. Casper Schenck
Des Moines Building
Des Moines, Iowa.
Dear Sir:
Further reference is made to  your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John Dodson,  who was born December 25, 1752 in England and served in the 1st Maryland Regiment, General John Eager Howard of Maryland, Colonel Joseph Beavers of New Jersey, and John Long , of  Shelburne, Massachusetts, of the Medical Department of the Continental Army.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file which was made to the United States based upon service in the Revolutionary War of the John Dodson cited by you, nor of any Joseph Beavers. The record of John E. Howard is given herein as found in bounty land claim based upon his service in the Revolutionary War; the record of John Long, a surgeon of Shelburne, Massachusetts, is furnished also, as found in pension claim, W. 3569. John E. Howard.-Warrant #1043-500 [B. L. Wt. handwritten above Warrant]
The records of this office show that five hundred acres of bounty land were allowed on warrant #1043, which was issued October 18, 1796, on account of services of John E. Howard, Colonel in the Maryland Line, War of the Revolution. There are no data on file as to his family and no further data in regard to this officer, owing to the distruction of papers in bounty land claims when the War Office was burned in November 1800.
John Long-W. 3569. John Long was a physician by profession; he resided in September
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September, 1775, in Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; later in 1775, he resided in Shelburne, Massachusetts; He was referred to as a highly esteemed physician and surgeon of Shelburne .
Dr. John Long entered service sometime in 1775, as physician and surgeon, served in that capacity under Colonels Seth Pomeroy, Fellows, White, Rufus Putnam, James Wesson and David Wells, all of Massachusetts, through the year 1777, amounting in all to at least fourteen and one half months; during this service, he administered to the sick near Peekskill, at Danbury and at Morristown, New Jersey, was with the troops at Saratoga, amputated wounded limbs of the soldiers after the battles there, and inoculated many soldiers against smallpox. 
Dr. John Long resided in Shelburne, Massachusetts, after the Revolutionary War and until his death on January 24, 1805; he belonged to the Congregational Church of Shelburne. He married September 14, 1775, Miss Esther Haws, also a resident of Medway, Massachusetts; their marriage was recorded in that town. The names of Esther's parents are not shown. 
Esther Long, the widow of Dr. John Long, was allowed pension on her application executed September 1, 1837, at which time she resided in Shelburne, Franklin County, Massachusetts. February 5, 1844, she stated that she was then in her ninety-first year but did not give the date and place of her birth. She died May 3, 1844, in Shelburne , Massachusetts. 
Dr. John Long and his wife, Esther, reared a family of children; those who survived their father were given as follow:- Silas, Esther, Diana and Betsey. Only Esther and Silas survived their mother; said Esther died August 4, 1849.
In 1851, Dr. Silas Long was the only surviving child of Dr. John Long and his wife, Esther. He resided then at Big Rock, Kane County, Illinois. He had been a practicing physician for fifty years. On November 16, 1853, he stated that he was aged seventy-three years "this day". Reference was made to children of Esther, Silas' sister, but no names were designated as children and the name of her husband was not stated. 
Very truly yours, 
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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May 19, 1928
Mrs. Anna D. R. Keeth
Richmond
Kentucky
Madam:
In response to your letter address to Captain C.O. Howard which has been referred to the Revolutionary War Section of this Bureau for reply, I advise you that from the records it appears that five hundred acres of bounty land were allowed on warrant No. 1043, which was issued October 18, 1796, on account of the services of JOHN E. HOWARD, a Colonel in the Maryland Line, War of the Revolution. There are no data on file as to his family and no further data as to the soldier, owing to the destruction of papers in bounty land claims when the War Office was burned in November 1800. This Bureau has no general genealogical data in its files, hence no means of determining the relationship between the two soldiers whose histores are herewith furnished.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
February 2, 1926
Mrs. Walter W. Parker
304 E. Culton St.
Warrensburg, Mo. 
Madam:
I have to advise you from the records of this Bureau it appears that five hundreds acres of bounty land were allowed on warrant 1043, which was issued October 18, 1796, on account of the services of JOHN E. HOWARD, a Colonel in the Maryland Line, War of the Revolution. There is no data on file as to his family and no further data as to the soldier, owing to the destruction of papers in bounty land claims when the War Office was burned in November, 1800. 
Respectfully, W