Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19805, Alvin How, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass

[black star]
How, Alvin 
Mary.  

NUMBER                                            
W.19805

CONTENTS
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420
Massachusetts
Mary How
widow of Alvin How decd.
[crossed out:  who was a pensioner under the Act of]
and who died on the 17 May 1818
of Worcester ^Co.^ in the State of MS
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Cushing of the Regt commanded by Col______ in the MS line for 9 mos & 11 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Massa. at the rate of 31 Dollars 22 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Sept. 1838 and sent Austin, Flint Lancaster MS.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $78.05
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '39, 15.61
_______
$93.66
________
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk 
Book A  Vol. 1st  Page 94
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516
Mary How
Wid of Alvin'
Mass.
Act 7 July 38
Married 1779
Died 1818

Allow  9 mo 11 dy
[for?]  $31.22 pr 
ann.  Mass. 
Militia  Cat. Cushing
Col Ward

Austin Flint 
Leicester
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester: ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Ira Barton is the judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature to the proper hands annexed is his own genuine signature.
I, further certify, that Austin Flint is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signatures to the several papers hereto annexed are his own genuine signatures. 

In testimony whereof I also hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. 
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Worcester ss.

On this fifteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before Ira Barton Judge of the Court of Probate for said County, Mary How a resident of Spencer in said County aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress of July 7 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."

That she is the widow of Alvin How late of West Boylston in said County deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution and served as nearly as the declarant can state, as follows; he went into the service from the town of Shrewsbury in said County
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and at the same time she lived in the adjoining town of Worcester. Her knowledge of his service was derived from him; and she can only state, that she always understood that he was out eight months at the beginning of the war and one afterwards, but she cannot on oath, undertake to state the particulars of his services, but respectfully refers therefore to the depositions annexed and the rolls in the war department.
She further declares that her maiden name was Mary Willington, that she was married to the said Alvin How at said Worcester by the Rev. Mr. McCarty on the twenty first day of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine, and that her husband the aforesaid Alvin How died at West Boylston in said county on the seventeenth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that she has remained his widow ever since.  That she was not
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married to him previous to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety four, to wit at the time above stated as by reference to the papers annexed will appear.

[Signature] Mary Howe  X her mark
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid
Before me 
Ira Barton Judge of the Court of Probate for said County
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"The following Persons joined in marriage by Thaddeus Maccarty, Minister of Worcester." "April twenty-one, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-nine, Alvin How of Shrewsbury & Mary Willington of Worcester."

I certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows - April 21. 1779
C.A. Hamilton

I, Charles A. Hamilton aforenamed, depose and say, that I hold the office of Clerk of the town of Worcester, in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception aforenamed, and certified by me 
C. A. Hamilton
August 11. 1838. Sworn to before me -
Austin Flint - Justice of the Peace
I further certify that said Hamilton is a man of truth. Austin Flint. Justice of the Peace.
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I, Lydia Hill of Spencer in the Country of Worcester and State of Massachusetts do on Oath testify & say that I am the daughter of Alvin  How late of West Boylston in said country deceased. I was with him in his last sickness, and that he died in said Boylston the seventeenth day of May 1818 aged 66 years - that his last sickness was Epilepsy, that in his last fit he fell into the fire & was so badly burned that he lived but six weeks after, and that my mother is living with me in said Spencer aged 78 years, & is very infirm. 

[Signature] Lydia Hill

Worcester ss. August 15th 1838

Personally Appeared Lydia Hill the above testatrix and made Oath that the above is the truth

And I hereby certify that she is well known to me, and is a person of truth.

before 
[Signature] Austin Flint
Justice of the Peace
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I Jonathan Parks of North Brookfield in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do on oath depose & say, that I was a private in a company commanded by Capt. Job Cushing, in Col. Jonathan Wards Regt., in the eight months service ^in the revolution^ that I  marched from Shrewsbury in said Cushings Compy. of Minute men, on the 19th day of April 1775, after arriving in Cambridge, I enlisted for eight months. That Alvin How (then of Shrewsbury) was a private in the same Compy. & continued therein to the end of the term, & untill regularly discharged, & that he was then well known to me,
We were stationed a part of the time in Cambridge, & a part in Dorchester, both in the vicinity of Boston. -

I also testify, that in 1777 I was a private in Capt. Asa Rices Company & Col. Job Cashings Regt. at Bennington ^in VT^ & at Half Moon on the Hudson River, in N York, at the time of Bennington. battle so call'd; my term of enlistment was six weeks - and that Alvin How above named was a private in said Comp'y. with me, & was well known to me and that we served the full time out, & was regularly discharged -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
[signature] Jonathan Parks 
Worcester ss. June 16th 1838 Personally appeared Jonathan Parks, and made oath to the truth of the above statements by him subscribed. - Before me ---- Austin Flint
Justice of the Peace
And I hereby certify that the deponant is well known to me & is a man of truth. -
- Austin Flint Just. Peace
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Revy  Widow, & c.

File No.  19805

Mary How
widow of 
Alvin How
Priv. Rev. War.

Act: July 7th 1838
Index: - Vol. A, Page 348

[Arrangement of 1870.]