Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5295, Isaac Howel, Continental Penn.
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SERVICE
Continental Penn

Howel, Isaac

NUMBER R. 5295
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Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June of June 1832 - 
State of New York County of Sullivan Ss:
On this Tenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four before the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Sullivan in said state being a Court of Record came Isaac Howel of the Town of Liberty in said County aged seventy two 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832- That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1777 in the city of Philadelphia being then about fifteen years of age with Lieutenant Mc Culloch in Captain Taylors company - belonging to a regiment commanded by Colonel Johnston, it being the 5th Pennsylvania Regiment in General Wayne's Brigade - That there was also one Bowd a Lieutenant in said Company - That he served in said Company until the Battle of Brandywine in which he was wounded in the leg by a musket ball & received also a Bayonet wound in the thigh - Was taken prisoner and carried to Wilmington and confined on board of a prison ship - That he remained a prisoner in said ship and in Philadelphia until the next Spring when he was exchanged & then returned into service in his old company then commanded by Captain Bowd, Captain Taylor having left it as he understood in consequence of some derangement - That Lieutenant Mc Culloch was killed at the siad battle of Brandywine - That he, this Declarent [sic] remained in said company a short time & was then attached to General Washington's Life Guards commanded by Mayor Gibbs and Lieutenant Colfax & remained in service in said Guards until the year 1781 when he was taken a prisoner at the English neighborhood by a party of Tories and Refugees and carried to the Jersey Prison
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Ship lying near New York and remained there about Three months – He then enlisted in a British Corps in order to regain his liberty and deserted as soon as he had an opportunity and went to Rhinebeck in Dutchess County and resided there about five years – He then removed to the Town of Hinley in Ulster County and resided there until about four years ago when he removed to the said Town of Liberty and has resided there ever since.
That he was seventy two years of age on the Twelfth day of May one thousand and eight hundred & thirty four which is recorded in his bible and knows of no [illegible] of his services and never received any discharge.

That he served as a Private during the whole of the above periods, -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares, his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[signature] Isaac Howel
Sworn before me in Open Courth this 10” of June 1834
[signature] John M Foster Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he States:
I Jesse M Foster of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Howel for a pension – In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & Seal of office this Tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred thirty four.
Jesse M. Foster, Clk [signature]
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[SEAL]
I Jesse M Foster of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County do hereby certify that the within and foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Howel for a pension – 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this First day of September AD1834:
Jesse M. Foster, Clk [signature]

[written vertically on the left-hand side]
Isaac Howell
29264

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Randall S. Street
Monticello
N.Y.
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[STAMP] REJECTED
5295
Isaac Howell
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New York

Issac Howell
Suspended

See Let to R S Street
24th Sept 1834

Let to John Van Buren 2 July 1835
"    "   16 Sept

[Arrow pointing to date above: 24th Sept 1834]
This letter in Ezekiel Master, R. 7013

5295

Act 7th June 1832
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FREE
Revolutionary Pension office
War department
Washington
City

[written vertically]
June 22
NY
Isaac owell

[Round Postal Stamp] KINGSTON N.Y. JUN 19
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The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Sir
Mr. Isaac Howell now residing within this county about a year since in the county of Sullivan where he then resided, made his declaration before the Court of Common Pleas of that county in order to obtain a pension as a revolutionary soldier

Gen Street conducted his application, and Mr H. has in vain endeavored to ascertain from the Genl, whose business habits it is said have become [illegible] the result of his application.

In as much as Mr Howell’s age and necessities require the bounty of his country if he is entitled thereto I am desirous of ascertaining whether his papers have ever been forwarded to the office:
If so what was their fate?
If rejected was it for Informality or for what reason?
And What Steps if any can be resorted to, to renew the application

Respy Your ObSt
John Van Buren
Kingston Ulster Co. NY
June 18, 1835
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The War Department
Washington

[POSTAGE STAMP] MONTICELLO NY SEP 18
FREE

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Pension Office 
20 Sept 1834
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Monticello Sullivan County & State of NY

Sir
I have the honor of enclosing the Pension papers of Ezekiel Master, Wm R Conckling & Isaac Howell after a delay produced by various circumstances.

I am very respectfully
your obt Sevt.
Randall S. Street
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State of New York
Ulster County Ss.  Isaac Howell now of the town of Rochester in the County of Ulster and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposith and saith in addition to his declaration heretofore made in open court before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sullivan.

That he had lain for about three months in close confinement as a prisoner on board of the British Prison ship when as stated in said declaration, he [underlined] “enlisted then being a prisoner in a British Corps, in order to regain his liberty”

That he never was sent on actual service by the British but remained about two months on long Island anxiously watching an opportunity to effect his escape, and return to the American service,

That his deponent embraced the first opportunity that offered to desert from the British, and which occurred as follows towit,

That deponent, one John A Kirby whose father then resided in Catskill, one John Kemley who resided in one of the Eastern States, one Robert Otis, who resided in Connecticut, together with John or Jack Randall [inserted] an Irishman were sent as an advance guards to a foraging party. That their orders were to go as far as Harlaem heights,

That John Kemley was Sergeant and had the command of the party,  That after the party had passed Harlaem about one mile, this deponent who until then had rode in advance reared his horse back in line with Randall
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That deponent spoke to Randall saying are you going with us, he replied where, this deponent said to the Americans,  And that he answered he would not, That this deponent then seized the rein of his horse and directed him to dismount.
That upon is making a motion as if to Draw his Sword, this deponent struck him on the arm with which he held his bridle. Threw him off his horse, left him on foot and carried off his horse and accoutrements.
That deponent and the other three Americans put spurs to their horses and reached the American lines at Croton River, where the officer in command after an examination forwarded them with a sergeant to General Heath at Fort Constitution [Washington, crossed out] opposite to West Point.
That they are examined by General Heath, who gave each of them a pass with liberty to return home, to their respective families, and that this deponent afterwards held himself in readiness to have joined his regiment and which he presumed on account of the closing of the war he was never afterwards called upon to Do

Isaac Howel [signature]

Sworn this 17th day
of August 1835
Before me
P. V. Gaasbeck Jr. [signature]
J. P.

I Peter Van Gasbeck Junior of the town of Kingston Do certify that I have been acquainted with above named Isaac Howell for about thirty years, and that he is a man of truth and veracity & that I believe the facts above stated are true.
P. V. Gaasbeck Jr [signature]
J. Peace
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I Abraham Hasbrouck of the town of Kingston Do certify that I have been acquainted with above named Isaac Howell for about thirty years, and that he is a man of truth and veracity and that I believe the facts above stated are true.
Abrm Hasbrouck [signature]


State of New York
County of Ulster Ss:
I Charles W Chipp, clerk of the county of Ulster, and clerk of the court of Common Pleas of said county, Do hereby certify, that Peter Van Gaasbeck Junior who has subscribed the above certificates & before whom the preceeding [sic] deposition was taken, was at that time a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Ulster, residing in said county, and duly [illegible] and sworn. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice. I verily believe that the signature “P. V. Gaasbeck Jr” subscribed to this said certificates & deposition are genuine – 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county of Ulster & of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, the eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.
Cha. W. Chipp clerk [signature]
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FREE
George Wm Crump Esquire
Acting Com of Pensions
Washington City

[Postal Stamp] KINGSTON NY SEP 12

[handwritten vertically on left]
Sept 15
NY
Isaac Howell
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Sir
I enclose an additional declaration of Mr Isaac Howell, which I hope will satisfactorily explain, the circumstance alluded to in your letter to me of the 2nd of July last past – and lead to a favorable determination of his application

I am Respy Your ObtSt
John Van Buren
Kingston Sep 11. 1835