Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,344, Lemuel Howes, Mass.
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SERVICE  Mass.
Howes, Lemuel
Jerusha
NUMBER  W. 23,344
CONTENTS
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3463.
Maine.
Jerusha Howes, widow of Lemuel Howes, who died on the 21st November 1839, of Kennebec Co. in the state of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Gray of the Reg’t. commanded by Col: Freeman in the Mass’tts. line for 10 mos: & 26 days _
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 36 Dollars 20 Cents per annum, to commence on the 22nd November 1839. [crossed out: 4th day of March, 1831]
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Nov’r. 1840 and sent to George W. Morton, Augusta, Me.
Arrears to the 4th of March_’41  $59:77
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept:’41  18:10
[double line underscore drawn under numbers]
$ 77: 87
[double line underscore drawn under numbers]
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3rd}
Recorded by Wm. C. Lantzinger, Clerk,
Book C._ Vol. 1_ Page 8.
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18,016
Maine
Lemuel Howes of Kennebec in the in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Gray of the Regt. commanded by Col. Freeman in the Mass. [illegible] line for 10 mos. 26 ds.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 36 Dollars 20 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of pension issued the 20 day of July 1833 and sent to R. C. Voss [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  $72.40
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept_18.10
[double line underscore drawn under numbers]
$90.50
[double line underscore drawn under numbers]
{Revolutionary Claim, act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by
Clerk,
Book C Vol. 1 Page 21
[added text] Died 21 Nov. 1839_
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25986
Lemuel Howes
Private _ Mass'tts. troops,
Gray's Co: 2 months
Hamilton's Co: Marshall's regt.
Hodge's Co: 6 monthly 5.26
Freeman's regt } 2 "
Do.________ 1 month,
11 months as a private.
Proof by E.D. Bangs is a certificate of 5 m. 24 d.
applicant cannot produce other evidence.

Applicant infirm Certified by Judge on open Court April 4th, 1833.

33.33
2.86
_______
36.19
Admd
10 Mo. 26 Days. pri
R.C. Vose.
Augusta
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, KENNEBEC COUNTY, }SS.
On this Eighth day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun’r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Lemuel Howes a resident of Industry in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, aged Eighty 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1776 with captain Joshua Gray and served in Col. (not recollected) regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: viz. Army Capt. & he cannot now state the name of his Colonel. That he enlisted in that company in January 1776 as a private for two months, was stationed on Dorchester point, Mass. & after the British troops left marched into Boston & was there discharged in March of the same year.
That the last of March 1776 he enlisted as a private for six months in Capt. Micajah Hamilton’s company & Col. Marshall's regiment of the same troops. That this period he fully served out in Boston & the Islands in Boston harbour & was discharged in Sept. of the same year.
That in October 1776 he enlisted as a private for two months in Capt. Elisha Hodge’s company in Col. Freeman's regiment of the same troops. That this period he fully served out at Bristol ferry Rhode Island & was there discharged in November or December of the same year.
That in December 1776 or January 1777 he enlisted in the last mentioned company & regiment under the same officers as a private for one month. That this period he fully served out at Rhode Island and was discharged there at the end of his term of enlistment.
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And to [illegible] under the instructions [illegible] department he answers:
That he was born in the year 1752 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, where he promises his age is recorded & where his home was during his revolutionary services. That he afterwards removed to Maine in which state he has lived about forty two years, viz. at Farmington, Staubs, Hallowell & Castly at [illegible] Industry where he has lived about twenty years that he enlisted, was not drafted or received as a substitute & never received a written discharge. That he has named such officers as he now recollects & knows of no one who can testify to his services. That any of his neighbors, will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services the names the Rev. John Thompson & John Gowen, esq.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
8th Augt. Lemuel Howes
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before Nathan Weston Jr. [illegible] S.J.C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. Nathan Weston Jr.
State of Maine
April 4, 1833. It has been made to appear to my satisfaction that the above named applicant by reason of age & infirmity, cannot without prejudice to his health, appear in open Court to review his declaration & again to make oath to the same.
Nathan Weston [illegible] S.J.C.
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State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, SS. - I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the HON. NATHAN WESTON, Jun’r, be[illegible] whom the [illegible] proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Lemuel Howes for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this Eighth day of August A. D. 1832.
J. A. Chandler
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Jerusha Howes.
Widow of Lemuel Howes who was a pensioner
Act June 7, 1832
No 5203
[illegible]
M 73. d 39_
[illegible]
10 mo. 26 dy. pri
____
$36. 20/100
Died 21 Nov 1839.
Pen: Com: 22 _ 1839.
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Declaration, In order to obtain the benefit of the [illegible] section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836, and the joint resolution of July 7, 1838.
State of Maine
County of Franklin SS: On this twenty-ninth day of September 1840 personally appeared Jerusha Howes, before the Court of Probate for the County of Franklin in open court a resident of New Sharon (formerly of Industry) in said [crossed out: County] County and State of Maine aged eighty three years who being said duly sworn according to Law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made in it act of Congress passed July 4, 1836, and the passed resolution of July 7, 1838. That she is the widow of Lemuel Howes who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832 that his name was inscribed on the pension list, Roll of the Maine agency at the rate of thirty six dollars and twenty cents, per annum, that she refers to the declaration made by her late husband the said Lemuel Howes for his services in the War of the Revolution presumed to be in possession of the War Department, in support of her claim. She further declares that she was married to the said Lemuel Howes in the town of Yarmouth Massachusetts in that part of the town was called Dennis on the twenty fifth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and seventy three. That her husband the aforesaid Lemuel Howes died in the town of Industry in the County of Somerset and State of Maine the twenty first day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, and that she received the pension due her as the widow of the said
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Semuel Howes from the fourth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine to enlist terms her late husband has been paid, to the twenty first day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine the day of his death, and that she has remained a widow ever since that point, as wife more fully appears by reference to the proof here to annexed
[illegible] William Dickey   Jerusha Howes her X mark
Sworn and subscribed, on this day and here first before written, before Thomas Parker Judge of Probate Franklin County
State of Maine Franklin County SS
I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Franklin, do hereby certify that the Hon. Thomas Parker before whom the proceedings were had is the Judge of the Court of Probate for the said County of Franklin. I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Jerusha Howes for a pension. In testimony whereof I have presented [illegible] have and the seal of the said Court this twenty ninth day of September AD 1840
William Dickey
[added: seal of court]
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I Daniel Howes of New Sharon in the County of Franklin, and State of Maine. Of lawful age do declare and say that I was well acquainted with Lemuel Howes late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, that he died in the town of Industry in said County of Franklin in the month of November AD 1839, that his reported widow Jerusha Howes was a resident in the town of New Sharon in said State of Maine, with whom I am well acquainted, lived with the said Lemuel Howes as his reported wife from my earliest acquaintance with them till his [illegible], that they sustained good moral [illegible] and that she is entitled to full credit and belief, and that she has remained a widow unmarried ever since the death of the said Lemuel Howes.  Daniel Howes 2nd
State of Maine
Court of Franklin SS. On the twenty ninth day of September AD 1840 personally appeared Daniel Howes 2nd a person ever known to me as a credible witness and made oath in the form of law to the truth of the above affidavit by him submitted “November AD 1839” being firm [illegible]
Thomas Parker Judge
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary’s Office, Boston Oct. 22nd 1840.
[Commonwealth Seal and ribbon affixed]
I hereby Certify, That on the seventh of September eighteen hundred & forty Simeon Crowell 3rd was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Barnstable
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth the date above written.
John P Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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“Marredges [marriages] solminesed [solemnized] by the Revd. Nathan Stone”
“Lemuel Howes to Jerusha Sears Seventeen hundred and seventy three”
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 “1773”
Attest Simeon Crowell
State of Massachusetts
Barnstable SS.
Yarmouth September 7, 1840.
I, Simon Crowell above named, depose and say that I hold the office of town clerk in the county, town and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exceptions above named as certified by me
Simeon Crowell { Town Clerk
Affirmed to before me,
Simeon Crowell 3rd { Justice Peace
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So. Yarmouth Sept. 7th 1840
Mr. Morton
Sir; Yours of the [illegible] was recd. this morning and has recd. immediate attention, for which you will please send me, by mail postage paid one dollar as otherwise that amount would not cover all expenses. Yours Respectfully
Simeon Crowell
So. Yarmouth, Mass.
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So. Yarmouth Ms.
9 Mo - 7th –
18 3/4
Mr. George Morton
or Mrs. Jerusha Howes
Augusta Me.
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December 3, 1931.
Mr. Lorey M. Coffin
1027 2nd Avenue
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
RA-J/ILL
Dear Sir:
The data furnished herein relative to Lemuel Howes is obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 23344, based upon his service in that war.
Lemuel Howes was born in 1782 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, day and month not given.
While a resident of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, he served as a private in the Massachusetts troops as follows: from sometime in January, 1776, two months in Captain Joshua Gray’s Company; from the last of March, 1776, about six months in Captain Micah Hamlen’s Company, Colonel Thomas Marshall’s Regiment; from sometime in October, 1776, two months in captain Elisha Hedge’s Company, Colonel Freeman's Regiment, and from in December, 1776 or January, 1777, one month under these same officers.
After his services in the war, the soldier moved to Maine, living in Farmington, Starks, Hallowell and Industry, in that state.
He was allowed pension on his application [illegible] August 6, 1832, while a resident of Industry, Somerset County, Maine, where he had resided about twenty years.
He died November 21, 1839 in Industry, Somerset County, Maine.
The soldier married November 25, 1773 in part of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, which was later Dennis, Jerusha Sears.
Jerusha Howes, soldier’s widow, was allowed pension on her application executed September 29, 1840; who was then eighty-three years
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[added in margin, handwritten: “Mass. Sold. & Sailors” shows a Lemuel Howes & Lemuel Howes Jr. both having service in 1776 under Capt Meciah Hamlin. So evidently there are 2 soldiers by that name so used only soldier’s statement as to service as Mass. State report might belong to other Lemuel Howes.
W.e.s.
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December 3, 1931.
Mr. Lorey M. Coffin
1027 2nd Avenue
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
RA-J/ILL
Dear Sir:
The data furnished herein relative to Lemuel Howes is obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 23344, based upon his service in that war.
Lemuel Howes was born in 1782 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, day and month not given.
While a resident of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, he served as a private in the Massachusetts troops as follows: from sometime in January, 1776, two months in Captain Joshua Gray’s Company; from the last of March, 1776, about six months in Captain Micah Hamlen’s Company, Colonel Thomas Marshall’s Regiment; from sometime in October, 1776, two months in captain Elisha Hedge’s Company, Colonel Freeman's Regiment, and from in December, 1776 or January, 1777, one month under these same officers.
After his services in the war, the soldier moved to Maine, living in Farmington, Starks, Hallowell and Industry, in that state.
He was allowed pension on his application [illegible] August 6, 1832, while a resident of Industry, Somerset County, Maine, where he had resided about twenty years.
He died November 21, 1839 in Industry, Somerset County, Maine.
The soldier married November 25, 1773 in part of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, which was later Dennis, Jerusha Sears.
Jerusha Howes, soldier’s widow, was allowed pension on her application executed September 29, 1840; who was then eighty-three years
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[added in margin, hand written: “Mass. Sold. & Sailors” shows a Lemuel Howes & Lemuel Howes Jr. both having service in 1776 under Capt Meciah Hamlin. So evidently there are 2 soldiers by that name so used only soldier’s statement as to service as Mass. State report might belong to other Lemuel Howes.
W.e.s.
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of age and resided in New Sharon, Franklin County, Maine. The date and place of her birth are not [crossed out: are not] shown.
One Daniel Howes, 2nd, of Franklin County, Maine, appeared in behalf of the widow of the widow at the time she made application for pension, no relationship to soldier and his widow shown.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of the of person paid and possibly the date of death of Jerusha Howes, you should apply to the Record Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:
Jerusha Howes, widow of Lemuel Howes,
Certificate #3463,
Issued November 12, 1840,
Rate $[illegible]6.20 per annum,
Commenced November 22, 1839,
Act of July 4th, 1836,
Maine Agency.
Very truly yours,
A.D. Miller,
Assistant to Administrator.
2.
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[added in pencil: RWY] WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23344
Jerusha Howes
Wid. Of
Lemuel Howes
Priv. Rev. War
Act July 4th 1836
Index: Vol A Page 351
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Aug. 11. /97 Miss Lare  [after fold of page] ua Kelsey
Olean, NY.
1931 - Dec. 3 - Hist. to Leroy M. Coffin.
ILL.
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State of Maine. 
We John Thompson a Clergyman, residing in the town of Industry in the County of Somerset and John Gower residing in the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Lemuel Howes who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration; That we believe him to be eighty years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
John Thompson
John Gower
State of Maine.
Somerset, SS.- Sworn and subscribed this Eighth day of August A.D. 1832,
Before me, Joshua Gould Justice of the Peace.
Joshua Gould Esq is a Justice of the Peace. And the Rev John Tompkins Thompson is a clergyman residing in the town of Industry, and John Gower Esq a resident of the same town is a credible person and this statement is entitled to credit.
Nathan Weston Jr
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Agusta, Maine
October 24th 1840.
Sir
I herewith enclose the paper [crossed out: of] [illegible] Jerusha Howes, widow of Lemuel Howes, in order to establish her pension under the Act of July 4, 1836 etc. Lemuel Howes her late husband was a pensioner under Act of June 7, 1832 on the Maine Roll, at which agency he was last paid to Sept 4, 1839. Mrs Howes recd. the pension at the same agency from Sept 4th, 1839 to the 25th day of November 1839 the day her husband died. As his widow it is presumed the [illegible] will be deemed sufficient to entitle her to the pension. Should this be satisfactory you we respectfully request to send me a certificate for her
Very respectfully
Your Ob’t Serv’t
Geo. W. Martin

James L. Edwards Esq Comm. of Pensions Washington City D.C.}
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary’s Office, November 22nd, 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Lemuel Howes is borne on “An abstract of the company in the service of the State of Massachusetts in Col. Thomas Marshall’s regiment under the command of Capt. Micah Hamlen,” as having served as a private from June 6th to December 1st, 1776. & was paid for five months & 26 days of service and that there are no rolls of Capt. Gray's company for 1776, or of Capt. Hodges company in Col Freeman's regt. For 1776 or 1777 to be found in this office.
Edward D Bangs Scy
[added in margin: 5.26]
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[added in pencil: f] 16 Laurens St.
O.lean N.Y.
July 27-'97
Com. of Pensions [added in pencil: H]
Dear Sir:-
I am in search of the revolutionary records of Lemuel Howes of Tyringham or New Mulberry Bershire Co., Mass.
Family tradition says that at the close of the war he recieved
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as a pension a tract of land on the Mississippi River
Is there any record of the same in your department.
Hoping for an early reply, I am,
Respectfully
Larina Kelsey
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Cedar Rapids Iowa
Nov. 14, 1931
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Revolutionary Division
Dear Sir :-
Please send to me the war record and further information which you have of Lemuel Howes, born in Dennis Mass, March 26, 1752, died in Industry Maine Nov. 22, 1839. What was the date of his marriage to Jerusha Sears and her dates and places of birth and death, if you have the information?
Also please send to me what information you have of William Young(above: OK), who was born 1753, died in Starks, Maine, July 1842, also about his wife, children etc.
Yours truly,
Leroy M. Coffin
1027 2nd Avenue
Cedar Rapids
[stamped: BUREAU OF PENSIONS REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS SECTION NOV 17 1931]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51 12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans’ Administration Archives
NAME Howes, Lott
GRADE Sergeant
LINE Crane’s Continental Artillery (Massachusetts)
WARRANT NUMBER 4435
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED May 14, 1789
to -- not shown --
*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 issued to non-commissioned 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 fire 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.