Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8231, Joab Bowers, Conn.
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Service Number
Conn. Bowers, Joab N. 8231
Elizabeth BLNA 30-60-55
Contents
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Notification sent to the care [illegible]Thompson 
Thompson near Monticello Sullivan? N. York
16.669 
New York 

Joab Bowers of Sullivan Cy in the state of New York who was a fifer in the regiment commanded by Colonel Durkee of the Conn line, for the term of 1780 war.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of Apl 1820 sent to Honble J. W. DeWitt HR

Arrears to 4th of March 1820 182.36 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1820  48 $230.36 5.33

{82136 Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 

Continued
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Michigan 4,546
New York A
Elizabeth Bowers widow of Joab Bowers who served in the Revolution ary war, as a fifer  

Inscribed on the Roll at rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853. 

Certificate of Pension issued 3rd day of Oct 1854 and sent to A. W. Gangewer Present. 

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 89 Vol. A 1857 April 9. 

1859 April 9 [illegible] 
"  " From Abany NY to Michigan, fr 4 March 1856 {illegible] to 1 A Harwell

1859 May 9. Pension Agent Town 
Examined with Orig. Rolls Sept. 1883. M.G.
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24,185 Act 3 Mar [illegible]
[illegible] 30/55
Elizabeth Bowers widow of Joab Bowers dec'd fifer
Revolutionary Pension 
Act March 1818 $80.
Capt Warner
Col. Wally, Regt-CtiConel line 
Admit 60 [illegible] Aug. 3 55.
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Joab Bowers
Fifer
Sullivan County, NY
2 years in Col 
Durkee's reg.' Conn.
line.
1780-war
11 April, 1818.

The certificate of the Indy?
as to the [illegible] circumstances
of applicant is wanting.

Admitted
Darius Martin, judge
Neversink,
Sullivan County, N.Y.
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State of NewYork
Sullivan County
The humble Petition and applica-tion of Joab Bowers of the Town of Neversink in the county of Sullivan and State of NewYork (Laborer) a private Soldier of the Revolutionariy continental Service of the United States to be placed on the pension to receive the bounty intended by an act of Congress passed the 18th March 1818 as a provision for soldier who were engaged in the Revolutionary and who are in in-digent circumstances taken on his oath the Eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Darius Martin one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County.

The said Joab Bowers the above named Applicant on his oath says that he inlisted in the foot service of the United States under Capt Robert Warner in the Town of Chatham in County of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut. That he belonged to the first company in the first regiment in the Connecticut line under Brigadier General Parsons that he enlisted about the last of July or first of August [1780] and Continued in the service of his Country doing duty under Colonels Durkee [Grosvenor] Buller and [Huntington] until the Peace or conclusion of the war. That he was then honorable discharged by General George Washington which discharge was also signed by Lebbeus Loomis the then exiting adjustant.
And further this applicant saith that his discharge he delivered to William Parks [Esqr] of Neversink together with other papers to be sent on to Washington under the expectation of
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of receiving Bounty Land and that he does not know what has become of it. This applicant on his said oath further saith that he is not possessed of any real estate nor personal property enough to satisfy his debts. That he has a wife living and six children four of them small for which he has to provide. That he is about fifty years of age and is not able to procure subsistance for himself and family and considers he is fully entitled and deserving of the provision which the benevolence of Congress has thought fit to bestow by the late act which has recently Passed.
Joab Bowers

Subscribed and sworn this Joab Bowers this 11th Day of April 1818 before me Darius Martin one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County.

I, Darius Martin, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Sullivan County State of New York do certify that it appears to my satis faction that the said Joab Bowes did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned Act of Congress.

Darius Martin



Pensioner: Elizabeth Bowers
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State of New York 
Sullivan County}
I, John P Jones, Clerk of the County of Sullivan and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Do hereby certify that Darias Martin within named and before whom the annexed affidavit was taken was at the time of the taking of the same (and still is) duly commissioned and sworn as one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Davis Martin & verily belive the foregoing Certificates & signature to be his own proper hand writing & signature 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the seventh day of May AD 1819- J

J.P. Jones Clk

I, Darius Martin, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do certify that I have been acquainted with the within named Joab Bowers for at least ten years and am satisfied that he is in such reduced circumstances that he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support 

Darius Martin
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Joab Bowers 
16.669 Cont'd  
Sept. 1820 
Notification of continuance issued 11 Oct 1825 & sent to the are of W. A. Thompson Esqr Thompson near Monticello Sullivan Co N York
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Northern District of
the State of New York 
Sullivan County 

On this thirteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of said County being a court of Record for the said County of Sullivan Joab Bowers aged fifty five years and nineteen days resident in the town of Neversink in said County who being first duly affirmed according to Law doth affirm and declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows two years and ten months as a fifer in the first regiment of Connecticut standing troops commanded by Colonel Dungee and in the first company of said regiment under the command of Captain Robert Warner in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental Establish ment. That the date of his original declaration was the eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. That he has been placed on pension list and the date pension certificate is the tenth of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty and the number of said certificate is Number Sixteen Thousand six hundred and Sixty nine. And I do solemnly affirm that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the Eighteen th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. And that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish within the provisions of an act it as to bring myself of Congress entitled ""an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed
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on the Eighteenth day of March one Thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. Real Estate I have none either in possession reversion or expectancy - Personal Estate - One Cow, Seven Sheep, one yearling heifer one calf - Two Shoats. One old ox chain. Two hoes one good and two poor axes. one cross cut saw, Two Sickels. One Scythes and tackling drawing knife and [how] two pitch forks one square and auger- one Spike gimblet two small do - One loom and tackling two spinning Wheels one table six old chairs one trammel one fire shovel one by one small pot and two dishkettles one large iron Kettle one tea kettle. frying pan two tubs two old chests three earthen plates six small plates three large and three small tin pans Two sets teacups and saucers Sugar cup milk cup three punch bowls one set knives and fork one dozen pewter spoons one tea canister one candlestick pair of Shears one wooden bottle-griddle two hymn book one hair sift-- one pickle tub, one churn one tight barrel two dry barrels- a book account against Samuel Kenton for three dollars fifty cents, do against such [illegible] three dollars. James Lorton one dollars seventy five cents Joab Bowers
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And this affirmant doth further declare that his occupation is that of a Farmer and that he is unable to support himself and family by labor on account of settled infirmity this affirmant having a burst on each side- That the names and number of his family residing with him are as follows to wit-- his wife aged fifty years on the tenth day of November last his children Martha Benton (a Widow) and her three children the said Martha aged thirty two years her children [clarissa?] aged twelve years-- Daniel aged about Seven years-- Lewis aged five years. His son Abel H. Bowers aged nineteen years Justus B. Bowers aged fourteen years Silas B. P. Bowers aged twelve years Levi Bowers (a cripple) aged six years that his wife is infirm and wholly incapable to contribute to the support of the family-- That Martha Benton and her daughter Clarissa are able to support themselves but are incapable of contributing to the support of her other children who are also unable to contribute to the support of themselves or the family-- That Abel H. Bowers Justus B. and Silas B.P. Bowers are able to Support themselves and nothing more. That Levi Bowers is an infirm cripple wholly unable to support himself or to contribute to the support of the family- 

Joab Bowers

Sworn to and declared on the  thirteenth day of June 1820 in open Court before me J. P. Jones Clk
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I John P. Jones Clerk of the County of Sullivan in the State of
New York do hereby certify that the foregoing affirmation
and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from
the records of the said court and I do further certify
that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total
amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid
Schedule is ninety three dollar and thirty
cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this
27th day of July 1820.
J P Jones Clk
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State of New York
Chemung County
On this the 26th day of September
A.D. 1854 personally appeared before the County Court of
the said County of Chemung and State of New York, at a
Term of said Court held in and for said County on the day
and year aforesaid at the Court House in the village of
Elmira, Elizabeth Bowers, a resident of Horse Heads in
said County and State, aged Sixty one years, who first
being duly sworn according to law in open Court, doth
on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 8th day of February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war- That she is the widow of Joab Bowers who was a fifer in the Connecticut line for which service he was pensioned at the rate of Eight dollars per month, under the act of Congress passed 18th March 1818, & for further particulars of his service she refers to the evidence and papers on file in the Pension office with his application
She further declares that she was married to the said
Joab Bowers on the 3d day of June 1843, at Neversink in the County of Sullivan and State of New York, and that the
marriage ceremony was performed by William M. Hall Esquire then a Justice of the Peace whose affidavit thereof is hereto annexed, and that there is not to her knowledge or belief, any public or private record of their said Marriage: That her said husband Joab Bowers died on the 8th day of January 1849, at Neversink in Sullivan County New York. That she was not married to him prior to the Second day of January Eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow and has so remained since the death of her said husband as aforesaid
She further declares that she is unable to surrender the
pension certificate, which issued to her said late husband, as it is not in her possession, but in the hands of her step Son
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State of New York
Chemung County ⎬ SS.
On this twenty sixth day of September
1854 before me personally appeared Richard Brewer
and Anson Brewer both residents of the town of
Horse Heads in the County and State aforesaid, who
doth each for himself being first duly sworn according to law depose and say that they are well acquainted with Elizabeth Bowers, who made the foregoing declaration, and
whose signature thereto is genuine, and that they
have known her for over forty years, and that
they also knew her late husband Joab Bowers in
his lifetime; that he was a pensioner of the
Revolution, and that he and the said Elizabeth
Bowers lived together as husband and wife, and were
so reputed: That said Joab Bowers died at Neversink
Sullivan County New York on or about the 8th day of
January 1849, and that said Elizabeth Bowers is
now a widow. They further declare that they are
disinterested witnesses -
And the said Richard Brewer, doth for himself
further say that he was present, at the time the
said Elizabeth and the said Joab Bowers were
married by William M Hall Esq a Justice of
the Peace at Neversink, Sullivan County New York
on or about the 3d day of June 1843, and
that the said Elizabeth and Joab, continued to
live together as husband and wife from that
time until the death of the said Joab Bowers as
aforesaid -
                                                         Richard  X  Brewer
                                                            Anson X  Brewer
Sworn to and subscribed this 26th day of September
1854 before me the undersigned-
And I certify that Richard Brewer and Anson Brewer
who made the above affidavit are credible witnesses and entitled to full belief and further that I am not interested in said claim or concerned in
its prosecution
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Ariel S. Thurston
Chenung County Judge
Chenung County
Clerks Office
I certify that Ariel S. Thurston before whom
the two foregoing affidavits were taken, to wit, Elizabeth Bowers
Anson Brown, Anson Brewer and Richard Brewer, was at the time of taking the same County Judge in and for said
County, duly qualified and authorized to take the same, 
and that I am well acquainted with the
hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe
that the signatures to the said certificates or affidavits
are genuine
 In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the Seal
of said County, at Elmira this 27th
day of September 1854
A. P. Babcock, Clerk
Chenung County
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State of New York
Sullivan County ⎬ SS.
On this 22 day of August 1854
before me personally appeared Charles Harmes of
the town of Neversink in said County and State
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth
depose and say that he is well acquainted with
Elizabeth Bowers, relict of the late Joab Bowers of
Neversink Sullivan County New York, deceased, and
that he has known her for at least ten years and
that he also knew her said late husband Joab
Bowers in his lifetime; that he was a pensioner
of the Revolution, and that he and the said Elizabeth
lived together as husband and wife and were so
reputed, until the death of the said Joab
That deponent knows of the death of the said
Joab Bowers as deponent assisted to prepare his
body for interment and was present at his funeral
That he died at Neversink, Sullivan County New York
on or about the 8th day of January 1849
and that deponent is informed and believes the
said Elizabeth is now a widow. He further declares
that he is a disinterested witness-
Witness Stephen Andrews
Charles Harmes
Sullivan County
sworn to and subscribed this 22 day of August 1854
before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and
for said County. And I certify that Charles Harmes who
made the above affidavit is a credible witness and
entitled to full belief, and further that I am not
interested in said claim or concerned in its prosecution
●
Stephen Andrews a Justice of the Peace in and
for said County
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State of New York, Sullivan County fs: 
Wm J Groo Deputy, [I, RANKER WARING] (struck out), Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that at the date of the certificate of proof or acknowledgment to which this is subjoined the said Stephen Andrews was a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the  hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, this 13 day of Sept A.D. 1854 

W.J Groo? Dep Clerk
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State of New York 
Sullivan County SS} 

On this 31st day of August 1854, before me personally appeared William M. Hall a resident of the town of Fallsburgh in the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that he is will acquainted with Elizabeth Bowers, late of the town of Neversink in the County aforesaid but now residing in the town of Horse Heads Chemung County County New York That he has known her for at least twelve years and that her maiden name was Brewer - That on the 3d day of June 1843 at the town of Neversink in said County of Sullivan deponent was an acting Justice of the Peace, duly authorized to solemnize the marriage ceremony, that on the said 3d day of June 1843 deponent united in Marriage the said Elizabeth to Joab Bowers of the same place That deponent knew the said Joab Bowns for a long series of years, and that he was a revolutionary pensioner, and deponent drew his pension for him at the New York agency several times between the years 1838 & 1842; And deponent further says that the said Joab, and the said Elizabeth continued to live together as husband and wife from the time deponent so as aforesaid, united them in marriage until the death of said Joab which took place at Neversink in said County of Sullivan, on or about the 8th day of January 1849 - And that the said Elizabeth is now his widow. 

And deponent further says that as the agent of Palum Bowers, the son of the said Joab Bowers & Step Son of the said Elizabeth- he, deponent holds the pension certificate of the said late Joab Bowers, which is dated on the 10th day of April 1820- and signed by


Pensioner: Elizabeth Bowers
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J. C. Calhoun 
Secretary of War and Co
 
That there are Arrears of pension due on said certificate from Sept. 4th, 1848, to January 8 1849- that being the time of the death of the said Joab Bowers, and that the said Patrick Bowers claims to be the owner and justly entitled to the amount due on the said Pension Certificate, for which reason it is held by the said Palmer Bowers- 

Deponent further declares that he is a disinterested witness- 
Wm M. Hall 

Sworn to and subscribed this 31st day of August 1854 before me the undernamed Justice - And I further certify that William M. Hall who made the above affidavit is a credible witness and entitled to full belief and further that I am not interested in said claim or concerned in its prosecution- 
Milton Kanken 
a Justice of the Peace in said County, 

State of New York, 
Sullivan County, 
 
I Wm J. Groo Deputy Deputy Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that at the date of the certificate of proof or acknowledgment to which this is subjoined, the said Milton Van Keuren- was a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said 21 day of Sep 1854
W. J. Groo Dep Clerk.
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24.185
Elizabeth Bowers 
Bounty Land Application 
James A. Christie of 
Horse Heads Chemung CO, NY, 
Atty & Solicitor for Applicant-
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State of New York
Chenung County SS. ⎬ On this twenty sixth day of March
in the year A.D. 1855, before me, a Justice of the Peace in
and for the County and State aforesaid, personally
appeared Elizabeth Bowers, aged sixty one years, a resident
of the town of Horse Heads, in said County and State
who being by me duly sworn according to law, says
that she is the widow of Joab Bowers deceased, who was a
fifer of the Connecticut Line in the Revolutionary war
for which service he was pensioned, at the rate of
Eight dollars per month under the act of Congress
passed the 18th day of March A.D. 1818, and drew his
pension at the New York Agency, and for further proof
of the particulars of the service, discharge &c of the said
Joab Bowers, she begs leave to refer to the papers on file
in the pension office with his application.
She further declares that she was married to the said
Joab Bowers on the 3d day of June 1843, at Neversink in the
County of Sullivan, & State of New York. That her name before such marriage was Elizabeth Brewer, and that the marriage ceremony was performed by William M. Hall Esquire a Justice of the Peace of Neversink aforesaid, and that there is not to her knowledge or belief any public or private record of said marriage; but full proof thereof is on file in the department as hereinafter stated. That her said husband died at Neversink in
said Sullivan County, and State of New York on the 8th day of
January 1849. She further declares that she is at the time of the
execution of this declaration, the widow of the said Joab
Bowers; and as such widow has been pensioned, and now
draws Such pension, under the Act of Congress approved
February 3d 1853, at the rate of eight dollars per month, and for further proof of the particulars of her marriage with the said Joab Bowers, of his death &c. She refers to her application for such
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pension, and the accompanying papers, filed in the Pension
office in 1854, under which application she was inscribed on
the Revolutionary pension list, and draws her said pension at the Albany Agency.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the
Bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act
of Congress approved March 3d 1855-
She further declares that she has never received,
nor applied for bounty land under this nor any other act
of Congress.
Witnesses present De Witt C. Curtis
John F. Dear
 Lewis Brewer                                                   her
                                                           Elizabeth  X  Bowers
                                                                        mark

                                                     Wm De Witt C. Curtis
and John F. Dean and Lewis Brewer residents of Horse
Heads, in the County of Chenung and State of New York upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Bowers in our presence, and that we believe, and are fully satisfied, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
De Witt C Curtis
John F Dear
Lewis Brewer
The foregoing declaration & affidavit were sworn to and
subscribed before me on the day and year first above counted.
And I certify that I believe and am fully satisfied the claimant
to be the identical person she represents herself in the foregoing declaration, and I further certify that I know the affiants De Witt C. Curtis, John F. Dean, and Lewis Brewer who reside in said County, and that they are credible & respectable persons will worthy of belief, and that I have no interest in this claim
Cyrus Barlow
Justice of the Peace
of Chenung County
N Y.
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State of New York
Chenung County
Clerks Office.
I, Albert F. Babcock
Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Cyrus
Barlow Esq before whom the foregoing declaration
& affidavit was taken was at the time of taking
the same a Justice of the Peace in & for said
County, commissioned & sworn & duly authorized
to take the same, that I am well acquainted with
the hand writing of such Justice & verily
believe that the signature of the said declaration
& affidavit is genuine
In Witness Whereof I have hereto
subscribed my name & affixed my
seal of Office at Elmira this 27
day of March 1833
Uriah S. Lowe Dep. Clerk
Chenung County
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
FORM VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Bowers, Joab GRADE Private LINE Connecticut

WARRANT NUMBER 5248 and [unreadable] No. 30-60-55 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED [unreadble] 19, 1790 To --- not shown ---
Official note: "Under the Massachusetts Head, issued to Joab Bowers of the Connecticut Line."

"The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issues to non-commisioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fired of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.     3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. ____________________________,  19 ________
In reply to your request of --------, received ________
for a statement of the military history of Joab Bowers
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (and/or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
DATE OF ENLITMENT	LENGTH OF	RANK	OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED		STATE
 OR APPOINTMENT	SERVICE		                                CAPT		COL		
							
July or Aug 1780
to June 1783		Fifer	                                                    Robt Warner	Jno Durkee		                       Conn

                                                                                                                       Thos Grosvenor
                                                                                                                        Butler
                                                                                                                        Huntington
Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Chatham Conn.
Date of application for pension, Apr 11 1818 her cl. was al
Residence at date of application, Neversink Sullivan Co NY
Age at date of application, b May 24 1765 d. Jan 8 1849 at Neversink NY
Remarks: In 1820 soldier referred to his wife name not stated who was born
Nov 10. 1769 and to his children Abel H.ag. 19 - Justus B. 14, Selas B.P. 12, Levi 6 and
Martha Kenton 32 a widow with her children Clarisa 12. Daniel 7 and Lewis 3. There
was a son Palmer also his age is not stated. Sol mar. June 3, 1843 at Neversink
NY.  Elizabeth Brewer he was at pers, on her at W. Sept 26 1854 while
living at Horse Heads Chenung Co. N.Y. Aged 64
is not stated that she had any children
Respectfully,
5- 2856                                                     Commissioner.
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I Jeremiah Goodrich of Chatham
County of Middlesex & State of Connecticut, 
aged Seventy Six years, Do testify &
say; That
Joab Bowers, was indented as an
apprentice to me, in the year of our Lord,
One Thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty Eight
to live with me till Twenty One years of
age, that he in the year 1780, (enlisted) in
the month of August, enlisted in the
Company commanded by Capt. Robert
Warner, in the Continental army, to serve
during the war, That in year 1783 in the
month of June, he was discharged & re-
turned to my service, & that he lived with
me till he became of age. That I have
seen the discharge which he received
& that it discharged him as having
fully served the time for which he entis-
ted. That he is a poor man & that he is
entirely destitute of property
And further saith not
Jeremiah Goodrich
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State of Connecticut ss Middletown
County of Middlesex
On this first day of February in the year of
our Lord, one thousand Eight Hundred &
Nineteen Before me M. A. Andrews, a Justice
of the peace, personall appeared Jeremiah
Goodrich, a person to me well know to be
worthy of belief Signer & Sealer of the
foregoing deposition to made oath that the facts therein
contained are true.
A                                  M Andre Andrew
                                        Just Peace
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I Robert Warner of Middletown County of
Middlesex, state of Connecticut, do tes-
tify & say that in the month of August
1780 Joab Bowers, enlisted into my com-
pany & in the regiment then commanded
by Col John Durghee and after his death
by Coll Thomas Grosvenor for the term till the end of the war, & that he served till the end
of the and was discharged in the month
of June 1783 with honor having served out the time for
which he enlisted as a good & faithful soldier
And further saith not
Robert Warner
State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex    Middletown
On this 1st day of Feby in the year of our
Lord 1819 personally appeared Robert Warner
to me well known to be a man of probity and
made oath that this declaration by
him subscribed is true
73                     Before me
                         M Andre Andrews
                         Just Peace
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I John Fisk, Clerk of the County Court
for the County of Middlesex, do certify, That
M. A. Andrews Esquire, is a Justice of the
Peace in & for said County is that his name
subscribed to the preceding depositions, mar-
ked A. B. is his own proper hand writing
In virtue whereof I have hereunto put my
hand & affixed the seal of the Court at
Middletown this first day of February in
the year of our Lord 1819
.
J. Fisk Clk
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Montville                        182
Cert
J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington
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              Thompson Oct. 2. 1820
Dear Sir
47 No
 
A Mr Joab Bowers
of Sullivan County lately
placed on the Pension
Roll is in the opinion of the
Com pl of our county on
object contemplated by the
late act of Congress, as his
poverty and wont are notorious
He has requested me to
solicit that you would
send him the returns whenever
you may think propper
to make
this with Respect
I am resp  yourr
Wm A Thompson
J L Edwards Esqr
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Council Bluff s May, 21 1859
Geo C Whiting
Com of Pen
Washington DC
Dear Sir
Mrs Eli. Bowers widow of
Joab Bowers who served in
the Revolutionary war, has
made application to the
Pension Agent of this State
for her unpaid dues. Her
last pay was drawn as
Detroit Mich before removing
to this State. She finds
it necessary to get a transfer
from your office which she
was not aware of at first
Will you send the necessary
balances  & instructions
Yours Truly
A Cochran
for Mrs E Bowers
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Agents Office  Ottumwa
Iowa May 3 1859,

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Sir,
Application has been made
to this Office for pension in favor of Elizabeth
Bowers, widow of Joab Bowers, at the rate of
ninety six dollars per annum, commencing
February 1853, The name of said pensioner is
not on my Roll, having received no notice
of her transfer to this Agency.
Most Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
Paul C. Jeffries
Pen Agt.
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                    Albany Pension Agency.
                                             April 10th 1857.                       

Geo. C. Whiting
Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions:
Sir-- In reply to your letter of the 9th inst. -
I have to state that Elizabeth Bowers
a Pensioner under the act of 3d February 1853 at
Ninety Six Dollars per annum was last paid
to the fourth- day of March - 1856.
I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant,
Isaac Vanderpool.-
Pension Agent.
by Cornelius Glen
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Eliz R Bowers
Transfer to Detroit
when cn  and
Thomas H Hartwell
Detroit
Mich
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Detroit April 3 1857
Hon G C Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
W. D. C.
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you
papers prepared by Mrs Elizabeth
Bowers to procure a transfer from
the Albany N.Y. Agency to the
Michigan
Please transmit
notice of transfer to me if granted
at your earliest convenience
Yrs vy Resp
Thomas H. Hartwell
Page 38

in Capt Grays

Joab Bowers
270
 41
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3:11

Ash Gangener
3:11   Atty
Present
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War Department, No 16.669
PENSION OFFICE,
11th Oct: 1820.
SIR:
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your
property has been examined; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
You will be paid at the next semi-annual payment in March
next. Funds for that purpose will be transmitted at that time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards

To Mr. joab Bowers
care of Livingston Billings, Esqr
Monticello, N. York
Page 40


Brief in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Bowers widow of Joab
Chemung County and State of New York
act of February 3, 1853
Claim, ("original, for increase.") Allowed $96 per annum to Feb. 3- 1853
Proof exhibited, (if original.) Documentary & Parol.
commence ┃
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under act of March 18, 1818 at
$96 per annum & paid to 4th Sept. 1848,
& died on the 8th day of January 1849
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Marriage proved by four credible witnesses one of whom
was present at the ceremony
Death of husband proved by four credible witnesses
Identity & Widowhood proved by four credible
Witnesses
Papers properly attested
Name and residence of Agent
A. W. Gangewer Esqr
Washington
ADC.
Examining Clerk.
J L Gray
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No 5059
Elizabeth Bowers,
widow of Joab Bowers, decd
claim for Pension
Act 3d Feby. 1853
Allow $96 per an
to commence Feb 3 1853
unnue Feb 3, 1853
Boynton
Sept 29 /54
A M Gangewer
Atty
Present
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Washington City DC
Sept 29, 1854
Sir,
Enclosed you will find claim
of Elizabeth Bowers, widow of Joab
Bowen, decd, a Pensioner under Act of 187
for Pension under Act of 1853, with proof
of death of said Joab Bowers in 1849, of
the marriage of said Elizabeth to said
Joab in 1843, of her widowhood, etc.
Be pleased to have her claim acted
at your earliest convenience
Yours truly
A M Gangewer
Atty
Hon L P Waldo
Com of Pensions
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Monticello
July 28. 1820
NY LN '47
Secretary of war
Pension office
Washington Dist Col
Page 44

Sir
I enclose  the Clerks certificate & in the case of
Joab Bowers a pensioner. Be pleased to commun-
icate your answer to me addressed to this place
Yours in
Livingston Billings
Monticello Sullivan Co. N.Y.
July 28. 1820
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Horse Heads
Chenung Co NY.
March 26th 1855
Sir,
Please find enclosed application
of Mrs Bowers for Bounty land, as
the widow of a Revolutionary
Soldier-
She is now drawing a pension
under the act of Feb. 3d 1853-
If the papers are correct
please send in the Warrant
as soon as issued, as she
wishes to locate at once. & settle with
her family
Yours &c James A. Christie
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Horse Heads
Chenung Co NY
October 15th 1855.
Sir,
I had supposed that, under the act of Congress
approved March 3d 1855, the widows of Revolutionary
Soldiers were entitled to one hundred and
Sixty acres of land
Section 8 of the act provides that the
officers & soldiers of the Revolution, their widows
and minor children shall be entitled to the
benefits of the act
Under the impression that widows of
Revolutionary soldiers were entitled to 160 acres
under that act I made application for one
Elizabeth Bowers, (widow of Joab Bowers, a
fifer in the Revolution,) who is now drawing a
pension at the rate of $96. per ann. And the
Department have sent me a Sixty Acre land warrant
No 30, dated 29th Sept 1855. The widow informs
me that she is not aware that her husband ever
applied for or received any Bounty land.
Please inform me in relation thereto and
oblige
Yours very Respectfully &c
James A. Christie
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Pension Office
Sept 30? 54
Sir:
Please report time,
last payment
to or death
of within named pensioner,
Yours &c.
R.J. Atkinson Esq
& and S. Cole
for Counsel
Present

Joab Bowers paid
to 4 Sept 1848
R J Adamson
Auditor
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Pension Office
Sept 30 1854
Sir,
In accordance with your request I
send you the declaration of Mrs. Sarah Bumpkins that
you may obtain the certificate of the Judge
that the intestinations upon it, were made
before the signing & attestation thereof
Yours etc. etc.
Page 49

24125
Elizabeth Bowers
widow
Joab
FREE
ad for 60 acres no 30
Boynton
for: A Christie
HORSEHEADS
N.Y.

Pension Office
Department of Interior
Washington
D. C.
Page 50

Pen act /53, NY.
Boynton
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Rev/W   2ct-stamped
envelope enclosed
315 S. 15th St.
Fort Dodge, Ia
Nov. 10, 1921,

CHIEF'S DESK
RECORD
NOV 12 1921
DIVISION
U.S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Pension Dept. Washington D.C
I am looking
for information in regard to my eligibility
to the Daughters of the American Revolution
I know myself to be eligable through
my maternal grandfather who drew a 
Revolutionary pension. I have forgotten
his first name but he had sons whose
names were Noah, Justus Abel, Levi and
Palmer Bowers all living at one time in the town of Never
Sink, Sullivan County New York where the
pension was drawn. Late in his life he was
remarried to one Betsy Brewer H Sullivan
County, to whom the pension was transferred at his death and who drew that pension as late as eighteen hundred seventy, we think
My great grandfather enlisted when a
very young man and was a fifer, and
was stationed at least some of the time
near West Point,
Page 52

With this information, can you find the
pension record of this man? If so, will you
and me his record if it can be looked up
Hoping that I may get this information I
in enclosing a self addressed envelope. We
think it possible that this pension may
have been paid at Monticello, the county
seat of Sullivan County
Yours truly
Leone Wright

CHIEF'S DESK
NOV 12 1921
DIVISION
U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Page 53

1921 Nov. 26. Hist to Leone Wrighten
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8231
Elizabeth Bowers
Wid:
Joab Bowers
Fifer Rev. War.
Act: Febry 3d 1853
Index:--Vol. A, Page 72
(Arrangement of 1870.}
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State of Michigan
County of Allegan,
Elizabeth Bowers being duly sworn
on her oath says that she is now
a resident of Michigan and intends to remain there
and wishes to (the) be transferred to the Agency
for paying pensions in the State of Michigan
at Detroit from the Albany N.Y. Pension
Agency.
Sworn & Subscribed    Attest                          her
before me this 30th   Sam D Foster     Elizabeth X  Bowers
day of March 1857    John Ripley                    Mark

STATE OF MICHIGAN
COUNTY OF Allegan
I Henry C Briggs Clerk of said
County of Allegan
DO HEREBY CERTIFY that Sam D Foster Esq whose name is subscribed to the Certificate or proof of acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and therein written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly elected and qualified, and duly authorized to take the same; And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such
Justice and verily believe that the signature to the
said Certificate or proof of acknowledgment is genuine: I FURTHER CERTIFY, that said Instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of this
State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, at Allegan this 30th
day of March A. D. 1857.
Henry C Briggs Clerk
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State of Michigan
County of Allegan ⎬ Be it Known that
before me Samuel D Foster a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County & State
personally apperd Elisabeth Bowers Widow
of Joab Bowers and made oath in due
form of law that she is the Identical person
named in an original certificate in her
possession of which I certify the following
is aTrue Coppey Department of the Interior
Widows Claims
I certify that in conformity with the 2d Section
of the act of Feby 3 1853 Elisabeth Bowers
Widow of Joab Bowers, who was a fifer in the
Revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension
List at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per annum
Commencing on the 3d of Feby 1853 and Continuing for
life unless she should again marry in which
case the Pension is not payable after the time
of such Marriage
Given at the Department of the Interior
this third day of October one thousand Eight
hundred and fifty four
R McCleland

Examined and countersigned Secretary of the Interior
L P Waldo
Comsr of Pensions
That she now resides in Pine Grove Van Buren County
Michigan and has resided there for the space of
five months past and that previous thereto she
resided in the Town of Horse Head Chemung County
State of New York and that she has not been employed
or paid in the army or Navey or marine service
of the United States from the fourth day of March
1856 to the fifth day of March 1857
                                                                            her
                                                             Elisabeth  X  Bowers
                                                                           mark 
Sworn and subscribed  
this fifth day of March 1857
before me
Samuel D Foster Justice of the Peace
John Ripley, Witness to signature
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resided in the Town of Horse Heads Chemung county
State of New York and that she has not been employed
or paid in the army or Navy or marine service
of the United States from the fourth day of March
1856 to the fifth day of March 1857
                                                                         her
                                                        Elizabeth    X    Bowers
Sworn and subscribed                                    Mark
this fifth day of March 1857
before me
Samel D Foster Justice of the Peace
John Ripley Witness to signature
know all men by these presents that I Elizabeth
Bowers of Kalamazoo County Michigan
pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute
and appoint Thomas H Harterdell my true
and Lawfull attorney for me and in my name
to receive from the agent of the United States
for paying pensions in the State of Michigan
at Detroit my pension from the fourth
of March 1856 to the fourth day of March 1857
Witness my hand and seal this fifth day of
March 1857    Attest                                        her
                                                         Elizabeth    X   Bowers
Sealed & Delvd in presence of                     Mark
Saml D Foster
John Ripley
State of Michigan
Allegan County ⎬ Be it Known that on this fifth
day of March 1857 before me the Subscriber a Justice
of the peace in and for said County personally appeared
Elisabeth Bowers above named and acknowledged
the foregoing order of Atty to be her for act and
Deed and I further certify that Elizabeth Bowers
stated in my presence that she could not write
her name because she had never learned to write
Intestamony whereof I have unto set my hand
the day and year last above written
Saml D Foster
Justice of the Peace