Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17951, Hill Gowdy, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn.
Gowdy Hill
Roxanna
NUMBER
W17954
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6017
Conneticut
Hill Gowd
of the State of Conneticut who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captian Pen Form of the Reg commanded by in the Connet.
line for Private 9 mo   $30.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Conneticut
at the rate of 30 Dollars _____ Cents per annum,
to commence the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Feb.
1833 and f
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2643     Revd

Connecticut
Roxana Gowdy
widow of
Hill Gowdy, Decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June, 1832, and who died on the 14th: December, 1837, Hartford Co in the State of Ct -
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Cone ["Conn." written above] of the Regt commanded by Col. Wells in the Cont. militia [text crossed out] for 9 Months

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 30 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the [text crossed out] 15th December, 1837 - 

Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of May 1839 and sent to Jesse Charlton, East Windsor Hill, Ct

Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839   $36.34
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept $15 -
                                                     $51.34

{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by W M Stewart Clerk, 
Book A - Vol. - 1 - Page 182
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Connecticut     )
County of Hartford       }  ss.
Probate District Enfield  )

On this 6th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before William Dixon Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield now sitting Hill Gowdy a Resident of the Town of Enfield in the County of Hartford aged sixty nine 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 & served as herein stated.  That in the year 1779 in the month of August according to the best of his recollection he was drafted from a Company of Millitia in sd Enfield to Serve at New London that he immediately proceeded to New London & served there three months under the command of Capt Cone.  That Jonathan Wells was his Colo  That Ebenezer Prior Aleadiah Prior & Sovill Shaffer Persons now living in sd Enfield served with him in the same Company & can testify to his [illegible]ain.  That in the year 1780 he served as a substitute for a man by the name of Holcomb then living in Simsbury in the state of Connecticut that in the month of May according to Best recollection he proceeded to Peekskill on the North River & there Enlisted upon
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sd S[illegible] in company commanded by Capt. David Parsons That the only Field Officer he recollects as belonging to the Regiment to which he was attached was Maj Walbridge of Stafford That he crossed the North River and was sometimes Engaged in Foraging in New Jersey.  That he was with the army when Arnold fled to the Enemy, and was present at the Execution of Major Andre That he was very young at the time and does not recollect the names of the General officers he saw Except Washington & St[illegible]  That he served full six months the term for which he Engaged & was then discharged. does not recollect that he had a written discharge.  He knows of no person living in this part of the Country who Served with him.  He has a brother by the name of Samuel Gowdy whom he believes to be living in Jefferson County in the State of New York who served with him in the same company & can testify to his service.  He was born in Enfield in the County Hartford & State of Connecticut on the 13th day of Feb 1763 has ever since resided in sd Enfield and still resides there  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity Except the present and[word crossed out] declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state
Hill Gowdy

Sworn to & subscribed the day  & year aford
Wm. Dixon, Judge

We Francis L Robbins a clergyman residing in the Town of Enfield in the County of Hartford & state of Connecticut and Lorrain T Pean residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
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Hill Gowdy who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion
Francis L. Robbins
Lorrain T Pean

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aford
Wm Dixon, Judge

And the sd Court do hereby declaim their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & Served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to him that Francis L Robbins who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in P Lawn of Enfield and that Lorrain T Pean who has also signed the same is a Resident in the same place & is a credible person and that their statement is Entitled to credit -  Wm. Dixon, Judge

I Alonzo Booth Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield in the County of Hartford & state of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the sd court in the matter of the application of Hill Gowdy for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this      day of August 18[rest of date blotted out]
Alonzo Booth Clerk
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I certify that Alonzo Booth who has signed the preceding certificate is Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield duly appointed & sworn according to Law -   Wm. Dixon, Judge 

I certify that Jacob Hills who has Testified to the [illegible]ain of Hill Gowdy & whose deposition is  hereto annexed is a credible person
Wm Dixon, Judge
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State of Connecticut  Hartford County  Probate District of Enfield  } ss

On this 29" day of January 1833 Personally appeared before me the undersigned Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesd Hill Gowdy, who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his Service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the [illegible]ad mentioned below & in the following grade  For nine months I served as a private & for such service I claim a pension.  he cannot give the name of the Regiment nor any further means of ascertaining it than is furnished by his former declaration  The name of his Captain of the Major who acted as commandant of the Regiment & the name of the General of the Brigade.  he mentioned in his former declaration the name of a Brother whom he supposed to be living in Jefferson County in the State of New York as the only person known to him who served with him in 1780.  he afterwards met on the day of making sd declaration with a person by the name of Jacob Hills who served with him in the same Brigade & Hills was well known to him before & since the Revolutionary War  he Certified to this deponents service & his deposition was forwarded with his former declaration
Hill Gowdy

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year afsd
Wm Dixon, Judge
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State of Connecticut           )
County of Hartford             } SS
Probate District of Enfield   )

On this 6th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before Wm Dixon Esq Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield now sitting Jacob Hills a Resident of Longmeadow in the State of Massachusetts who being first duly sworn according according to Law doth on his oath Testify & say that before & during the Revolutionary War he resided in Enfield Connecticut that he was then & is still well acquainted with Hill Gowdy a Resident of sd Enfield and and applicant for a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that in the year 1780 he frequently saw the sd Hill Gowdy in service of the United States with the main Army under General Washington at Peeks Hill & on the opposite side of the River & at various places in New Jersey that sd Gowdy belonged to General Huntington's Brigade in which the deponent also Served, that he does not know to what company or Regiment sd Gowdy belonged, nor how long he served.  Except he understood at the time he was to serve six months
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that this deponent served six months that campaign & he believes the sd Gowdy Served the same time & further he saith noth
Jacob Hills

sworn to & subscribed the day & year aford
Wm Dixon, Judge

No 1613

[seal stamped]  I, Thomas Day, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth & may concern,

That William Dixon Esquire, whose name is subscribed in his proper hand writing to the foregoing Certificate. and for more than six months last past, had  been, Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the Probate District of Enfield in said State, duly appointed,  commissioned and qualified; that said Court is a Court of record and consists of said Judge alone, having a proper Seal belonging thereto, with power to administer oaths to witnesses touching all matters cognisable by said Court, with power also to appoint and jurat a Clerk; and that full faith and credit may be and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Judge in Court
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[seal stamped] I, Thomas Day, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth & may concern,

That William Dixon Esquire, whose name is subscribed in his proper hand writing to the foregoing Certificate. and for more than six months last past, had been, Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the Probate District of Enfield in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified; that said Court is a Court of record and consists of said Judge alone, having a proper Seal belonging thereto, with power to administer oaths to witnesses touching all matters cognisable by said Court, with power also to appoint and jurat a Clerk; and that full faith and credit may be and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Judge in Court and Country.

In testimonies whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my hand and affixed The Seal of Said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand and eight hundred and thirty-three.
Thomas Day
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2597
Roxana Gowdy
Wid of Hill
Conn
Act July 7 1838
Married 1790; died 14 Dec 1837
Allow $30 per ann from 14 Dec 1837
Capt Cone
Col Wells COnn
Militia

Jesse Charlton
East Windsor Hill
Conn

Hill Gowdy was [remainder of text obscured by seal]
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Declaration
State of Connecticut  Hartford County  } Ss Enfield,

On this 1st day of October 1838 Personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield, in Hartford County & State aforesaid; Roxana Gowdy, a resident of said town of Enfield, aged 66 & 1/2 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 act of Congress passed July 7" AD 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows".

That she is the Widow of Hill Gowdy, late of said Enfield who was a Private Soldier in the Revolutionary War, for which he received a pension under the act of Congress of June 7th AD 1832.

She further declares, that she was married to the said Hill Gowdy, at Enfield aforesaid, by the Rev. Nehemiah Priddin, pastor of the Congregational Church in said Enfield on the 2nd day of December AD 1790.

And that her husband, the aforesaid Hill Gowdy, died at said Enfield on the 14th day of December 1837, & she remains still his Widow.  That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794, viz at the time above stated.
Roxana Gowdy

Before Wm. Dixon Judge of Probate for the District of Enfield  Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written }
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In testimony whereof, I James Dixon Clerk of the probate Court for the District of Enfield in Hartford County, and State aforesaid hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application Roxana Gowdy, widow of Hill Gowdy deceased, for a Pension.  Whereupon I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of said Court at Enfield this 1st day of October 1838.

James Dixon   Clerk of Probate for District of Enfield
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I William Dixon hereby certify that in the Town Records of the town of Enfield in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut there is in the records of Marriages an entry in its regular place, in the series of entries; and evidently in the hand writing of Eliphalet Terry who was town Clerk of said town of Enfield in the year 1790, the following record "Hill Gowdy & Roxy Mcgregory were joined together in Marriage Decemr second  Seventeen Hundred and Ninety;

The foregoing is an exact copy from said record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures as follows, "Hill Gowdy & Roxy McGrigery, were joind together in Marriage Decr 2nd A 1790.

I William Dixon, above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk, of said town of Enfield, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town; with the exception above named; as certified by me.
William Dixon, Town Clerk of Enfield Conn.

Sworn before me
Jesse Charlton a Justice of the Peace for said Hartford County & Notary Public for the State of Connecticut & as such I hereby certify that William Dixon Esq, who has signed & sworn to the foregoing certificate is a credible person is Town Clerk for the town of Enfield aforesaid, a Judge of the probate Court for the District of Enfield in Hartford County, & State of Connecticut.

In testimony whereof, I do herewith subscribe
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my name and affix my Seal of Office at said Enfield this first day of October AD 1838
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public
[seal stamped]

Declaration
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I, Robert Goudy, a resident of Enfield in Hartford County & State of Connecticut, hereby depose and say, That I am a brother of the late Hill Goudy of Enfield aforesaid: That I am well knowing to the fact that my said Brother was in the army in the Revolutionary War, for which he drew a Pension before his death.

And I am well knowing to the fact, the my said Brother, was married to Roxana McGregory of said Enfield; forty eight years ago, next December : viz December 2 AD 1790.  That he lived with her and brought up a family in this town and that he died December 14 AD 1837: And his widow is still living and she has never again married.
Robert S Goudy  his X mark

Dated at East Windsor
Septr 24th AD 1838.
State of Connecticut  Hartford County, } SS  East Windsor.  
[illegible note written vertically in the left margin]

On this 24th day of September AD 1838, personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton, a Notary Public of & for the State of Connecticut Robert Goudy, who has signed the foregoing certificate before me, and then & there made solemn oath, to the truth of the same, and he is a credible person.

In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, & affix my seal of office the day & year aforesaid.
Attest Jesse Charlton  Notary Public
[seal stamped]
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I, Content Gowdy, wife of Robert Gowdy of Enfield, in Hartford County & State of Connecticut, hereby certify, that I am well knowing to the fact that the late Hill Gowdy; who was a Brother of my husband, was married to Roxana McGregory, in said Enfield on the 2nd day of December Seventeen Hundred & Ninety: I was present at the wedding  They were married at the house of Mr. John Pease, her father in law: by the Rev. Nehemiah Prudden late pastor of the congregational Church, in said town: & I am also well knowing to the fact, that the said Hill Gowdy, died last December, the 14th day, viz. the 14th of December 1837.

He lived next door neighbor to us, & there he died, & his widow, has never again intermarried, & is still living, where her said Husband died; as I have said.

East Windsor  Sepr 24th  AD 1838.
Content Gowdy

State of Connecticut Hartford County, } Ss East Windsor,
On this 24th Day of September AD 1838, personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public of & for the State of Connecticut Content Gowdy, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing certificate before me; on the day & year aforesaid  In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, & affix my Seal of Office, this day & I certify that sd Content Gowdy is a credible person.
Attest Jesse Charlton  Notary Public,
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[The certification below has been laid on top of the document which appears as Document 21 in this folder.  Some of the text of Document 21 is visible beneath this certification.]

I certify that the within record was brought into Court by Mrs Roxana Goudy & her Son Henry Goudy, & cut from the old account Book as the original Record of the said Hill Goudys marriage; & the birth of all the young Goudys; being (if I count right) 14 in number; for which Mrs Goudy says she ought to have a pension & I believe for this & other reasons you will think so.
Jesse Charlton  Notary Public
Enfield Conn  Oct 1st 1838
[seal stamped]
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Our marrig day december 2d 1790

Roxy Gowdy and Clarasa Gowdy born December the 6th 1791
Hill Gowdy born September 8th 1792
Clarasa Gowdy born June the 10th 1795
Abiah Gowdy born January the 7th 1798
Elern Gowdy born July the 25th 1800
Loren Gowdy born December the 4th 1802
Loren Gowdy born April the 23d 1804
Alburt Gowdy born October 12 1807
Henry Gowdy born February 6 1809
Delina Gowdy born March 5 1812
Norton Gowdy born June 28 1814
Noron Gowdy born June 15 1816
Hill Gowdy born November 3 1818
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I Henry Goudy a Resident of Enfield in Hartford County & State of Connecticut hereby depose & say, That I am well knowing to the fact that the present widow Roxana Goudy is the surviving widow of the late Hill Goudy of Enfield aforesaid; that she lived with him as his wife for many years, & brought up a family of children: and that the said Hill Goudy, died at said Enfield on the 14th day of December 1837, the said Roxana still remains his widow and she has never again intermarried.
Henry Gowdy

State of Connecticut  Hartford County } Ss Enfield.
On this 1st day of October AD 1838, personally appeared before me, Jesse Charlton a Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut, Henry Goudy, who has subscribed the foregoing certificate, & he then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the same, [word crossed out] & he is a credible person.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name & affix, my seal of office, on the day & year above written.
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.

[seal stamped]
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In reply to your request of ................, received ............ for a statement of the military history of Hill Gowdy a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

W. File 17951
DATES OF                   LENGTH OF   RANK
ENROLLMENT OR       SERVICE.
APPOINTMENT
Aug 1779                     3 mos,          Pvt.
        1780                     6 mos.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM 
SERVICE WAS RENDERED              STATF.
CAPTAIN.          COLONEL.
 Cone             Jonathan Wells        Conn.
David Parsons  Major Walbridge

Battles engaged in,  [check mark]

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enfield, Hartford Co., Conn.

Date of application for pension, Aug. 6, 1832.

Residence at date of application, Enfield, Conn.

Age at date of application, 67  Feby 13, 1763 in Enfield, Conn.

Remarks: Sol mar Enfield, Conn. Dec. 2, 1790.  Roxana McGregory   he died Dec 14, 1837 at Enfield Conn. & she was alld pension her appl exec Oct. 1, 1838, while 66 1/2 yrs. of age & a res. of Enfield.  she died Oct. 7 1840 at Enfield, Conn.  Childn  No reference to father

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

31793b5m10-07
He stated that his brother Samuel Gowdy of Jefferson Co., NY, in 1832, served with him in 1780 - 
In 1838 Robert Gowdy & his wife Content of Enfield, Conn. testified to the marriage of his brother Hill Gowdy.
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Record Division.

November 6, 1911.

Mrs. J. T. O'Brien,
92 1/2 Walnut Street,
Binghamton, N. Y.

Madam:

In addition to the military history of Hill Gowdy, Wid. File No. 17,951, Rev. War, you are furnished the following family data from the papers in the claim.

Children of Hill & Roxana Gowdy

Roxy Gowdy   born December 6, 1791.
Clarasa Gowdy born [same as above]
Hill Gowdy         "      September 8, 1793.
Clarasa Gowdy    "     June 10, 1795.
Abiah Gowdy      "     January 7, 1798.
Elern Gowdy       "       July 25, 1800.
Loren Gowdy       "      December 4, 1802.
Loren Gowdy       "      April 3, 1804.
Alburt Gowdy       "     October 12, 1807.
Henry Gowdy       "      February 6, 1809.
Delina Gowdy       "     March 5, 1812.
Norton Gowdy       "    June 28, 1814.
Norton Gowdy        "   June 15, 1816.
Hill Gowdy              "    November 3, 1818.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.
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17.951
Rev
WIDOW, &c.

[The left edge of the document has been cut off, affecting some of the text.]

[word cut off]le No. 17.951
Roxana Gowdy
Widow of Hill Gowdy
Pri Rev War 

Act: July 7th 38
[word cut off]dex:-Vol. A, Page 281

[Arrangement of 1870.]

Apl 25 - 1901
Henry F Fletcher, [illegible]

1911 Nov. 6. To Mrs J. F. O'Brien ["c" with a line drawn through it]
1912 Dec. 11. Henry F. Fletcher. ["c" with a line drawn through it]
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Hill Goudy or Gowdy Conn.  Act June 7. when paid: $30
Died 14th. Decr. 1837 [illegbile] that [illegible] HHL
JH
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HENRY F. FLETCHER
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
HAZARDVILLE, CONNECTICUT

December 5, 1912.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:

Please kindly inform me if there is any record in the Pension Office of Samuel Gowdy of Enfield, Conn., a soldier of the War of the Revolution, who died in 1811.  His son, Hill Gowdy of the same place, was a soldier in the same war, received a pension and died in 1837.  Is there any statement in the papers of Hill Gowdy on file in your office as to who his father was in the War of the Revolution?

Very respectfully,
Henry F. Fletcher
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December 11, 1912.

Mr. Henry F. Fletcher
Hazardville.  Conn.

Sir:

The following is the only family data on file in addition to that contained in the accompanying circular letter relative to Hill Gowdy, W. File No. 17,951, Rev. War.

Children of Hill and Roxana Gowdy

Roxy Gowdy   born December 6, 1791.
Clarasa Gowdy born [same as above]
Hill Gowdy         "      September 8, 1793.
Clarasa Gowdy    "     June 10, 1795.
Abiah Gowdy      "     January 7, 1798.
Elern Gowdy       "       July 25, 1800.
Loren Gowdy       "      December 4, 1802.
Loren Gowdy       "      April 3, 1804.
Alburt Gowdy       "     October 12, 1807.
Henry Gowdy       "      February 6, 1809.
Delina Gowdy       "     March 5, 1812.
Norton Gowdy       "    June 28, 1814.
Norton Gowdy        "   June 15, 1816.
Hill Gowdy              "    November 3, 1818.

Soldiers brother Samuel Gowdy, aged seventy-two years and a resident of Martinsburgh, Lewis County, New York, in 1832,
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W. File No. 17,951. - 2

stated that he served two months from the last of July 1778, or 1779, under Captain Cone and Colonel Levi Wells, as a substitute for his father, but did not state his name.

In 1838, Robert Gowdy and his wife Content, of Enfield, Connecticut, testified to the marriage of his brother, Hill Gowdy.

Very respectfully,
J. L. Davenport
Commissioner.
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92 1/2 Walnut St Binghamton N.Y.   10/28/11

Commissioner Pensions
Washington. D.C.

Dear Sir:

In an application to the D.A.R. it becomes necessary for me to have copy of pension issued to Roxanna wife of Hill Gowdy who was a Revolutionary Soldier enlisting in 2nd regiment, Conn. Lines 1777 - 1781.  
Date enlistment Aug. 1st 1780
  "      discharge Dec 9th 1780

Pension list is of date 1832
Pensioner residing in Hartford County, Conn.

Yours truly,
Mrs. J. F. O'Brien
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17951
Hill Gowdy

Aug-6, 1832
Enfield Ct. 69

Born Feby 13, 1763
Enfield Ct

Aug 79  Enfield Ct
Capt     Conn
Col Jno Wlls
Pvt 3 m

Mar 80 - Capt David Parsons
Maj Walbridge
Pvt. 6 Mar.

No [illegible]
present at xecution of Maj Andre

Married Roxana McGregory
Dec. 2, 1790
Died Dec 14, 1837
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214 Delaware Ave., N.E.
Washington, D.C.

April 14, 1901.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.;

My Dear Sir,

Please kindly send me a copy of the record of service of Hill Gowdy in the War of the Revolution. Hill Gowdy was a volunteer from Connecticut.  The name may be spelled "Hills Goudy" and otherwise.

Also please state if either he or his wife Roxana Gowdy ever received a pension.

I am
Very Respectfully yours,
Henry F. Fletcher
214 Delaware Ave., N. E., City

U. S. PENSION OFFICE APR 15 1901

[largely illegible stamp with "APR 18 1901" the only readable line]
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State of Connecticut Hartford County SS
Enfield March 2nd 1844.

On this 2nd day of March 1844, personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the district of Enfield in said Hartford County, Henry Goudy a resident of said Enfield aged 35 years who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of Pension which he claims was due to his Mother, Roxana Goudy, from the 4th March 1836, to the 14 December 1837; from which period she had been already paid, at the rate of Thirty Dollars per annum, at the agency in Hartford, Connecticut.

The Declarant being one of the Children of the said Roxana Goudy, and Administrator on her estate, makes this application at the request of his brothers who are scattered in different States, that he may receive the money and account for it to them.  That their Mother the said Roxana Goudy, the Pensioner, died at said Enfield on the 7th day of October 1840 and, that she did not in her life time make any application for the amount of pension due her; from said 4th March 1836, to said 14th December 1837.  And further the declarant saith not.
Henry Gowdy

Sworn to and subscribed before said Court of Probate, on the day and year first written; and I certify that it appears of Record in this office, that the said Henry Goudy is the lawfully appointed Administrator on the Estate of his Mother, the late Mrs Roxana
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Gowdy of said Enfield, a pensioner of the United States under the Connecticut Agency, he having given due Bonds according to law.  And it hath been satisfactorily proved, before said Court, that the said Roxana Gowdy, Widow of Hill Gowdy (a pensioner for his services in the War of the Revolution; died in said Enfield on the 7th day of, October 1840 and that the Declarant is one of her Sons as he has stated in his Declaration.  And is also a fact well known to this Court.  In testimony whereof, I Hiram S Belcher ["Clerk" crossed out] Judge of said Probate Court, do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of said Court at Enfield in said District on the day and year first written.

Attest Hiram S Belcher  ["Clerk" crossed out] Judge
[seal stamped]
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East Windsor, Conn, March 27th, 1845.

Sir.

Permit me to ask your attention, once more, to the claim of the children of Roxana Gowdy, of Enfield Conn; for the arrear of pension which was withheld from her, when her pension under act of July 7, 1838 was granted.

I have before me, your letter to the Hon. T. H. Seymour, of March 14th 1845, respecting this case.  I know that the act of 30th of April 1844, prohibited a Widow from drawing a pension for the same period during which the husband was a pensioner; but does not the joint resolution of Jan 23, 1845, reach this case as one filed in the pension office at a period sufficiently early to have the benefit of the serving clause.  And in a form you sent me in 1843, for a Declaration for drawing or obtaining arrears of Pensions, there is the following note.
[drawing of a pointing hand]  N. B.  "In case the widow should have died since receiving the pension her children must make application for the arrears, &c &c", which I think was strictly complied with, in this case.
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I know, that I do not wish to press any claim, against law, and justice, but I cannot, for the life of me, see why this claim should be thrown out, as one barred by any rule, I am acquainted with:  have the goodness Sir, when you have ["a" crossed out] leisure to examine this case once more, & let me know the result.

I remain Sir,
with great respect,
Your Obedient Servant.
Jesse Charlton.


Hon. J. L. Edwards.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D C.
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Gowdy
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East Windsor Hill Post Officee
Hartford County
Connecticut
Oct 15th AD 1838.

Sir.

I herewith transmit the application of Roxana Gowdy; Widow of Hill Gowdy of Enfild Conn. under the act of July 7 1832 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."

And am very respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
Jesse Charlton


J L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.