Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11,316, David How, Mass.
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(3-1776)

Service: Mass

How, David
or Howe, Sally

Number: N. 11,316
B.L. Wt. 19610-160-55

Contents:
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5215
[Illegible] Hampshire. Concord.
Sally Howe
widow of David Howe
who served in the Revolutionary
Mass
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 28th day of May 1855 and sent to S.D. Stevens
Concord N.H.
48
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 19 Vol A. 
149725
48
How, David
Mass W 113
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15.599
New Hampshire
David How
of Merrimack in the State of N.H. who was a private in the Compy commanded by Captain Putnam of the Regt commanded by Col Wood in the Massachusetts line for 12 mo private
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of June 1833 and sent to Hon. I.M. Harper Canterbury N.H.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 20.00
$100.00
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by J.W. Clagett Clerk,
Book E Vol 1 Page 90
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Vol. H.2. 56.

149725. Act March 3/55
May 23/
Sally Howe, widow of Savid Howe, Priv. 
Rev. War.
Capt Mass. Contl. line
Col. N.H. line (crossed out)
Lt.
Dis.
War Rev.
No 19 610 iss Mar 25/56
For a Pension of the U. States AD 160 [illegible] 22d/56
NH Feby 53- 5215

L.D. Stevens, atty
Concord,
N.H.
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David Hows
Declaration
23797
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DECLARATION

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832

State of New-Hampshire
County of Merrimack} ss

On this Fifth day of September personally appeared before the Judges of the Superior Court Judicature for said State & County David How, a resident of Epsom --in the County of Merrimack and State of New-Hampshire aged Seventy 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 spring of the year 1779 --with ------------and served in the ------------- regiment of the -----------line, under the following named officers:--------------
that is to say that he the said David How enlisted (when he was quite young) as he believes in the spring of 1779 in the Army of the United States in the War of the Revolution at Ipswich in the County Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he then lived, in the company commanded by Capt Putnam, and in the Regiment commanded by Col. Wood and the name of Lieutenant Colonel of said Regiment was also he thinks Putnam.  after enlisting he the said David How went to Rhode Island where he served six months under said enlistment and was honorably discharged. That he afterwards enlisted into said army of the United States I which aforesaid where his some then and in the spring (as he believes) of 1780 in the company commanded by Capt Francis and in the Regiment commanded by Col Tupper and marched to the Jerseys (meaning -----------)
he served six or eight months (he cannot now positively remember which) and after said Service was honorably discharged ----
But his discharges have long since been utterly lost or destroyed.-- And the said David further declares & says that he served under both said enlistments in the said Army  of the United States  according to the best of his remembrance fourteen months, but is positive that he served in said army at least one whole year. And that said
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(?)  And the said David further declares & say he served under both said enlistments in the said army of the United States according to the best of his remembrance fourteen months, but is positive that he served in said army at least one whole year. And the said David How further declared that he was born in Ipswich aforesaid in said Massachusetts, which he lived until he enlisted in the said service of the U.S. and after he left said Service he removed from said Ipswich to said Epsom in this state of New Hampshire where he has lived since.

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. 
David How (his signature)
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

I Moses Eastman Clerk of the Superior Court of Judication in said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David How for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Eleventh day of September 1832
Moses Eastman  (signature)
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No 23797
David How Merrimack County
New Hampshire
Private 12 Months
Hon I.M. Harper
Canterbury
N.H.
Philip Carragain (Port Wash) North [illegible] New Hampshire
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Brief in the case of [handwritten] David How [end of handwritten]
[handwritten] County of Merrimack [end of handwritten] in the State of [handwritten] New Hampshire [end of handwritten](Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or Judge? [handwritten] Court [end of handwritten]

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity ?

3. How old is he? [handwritten] 70 years [end of handwritten]

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Column Headings: Period., Duration of Service., Rank., Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.                                      
1. Entered Spring in 177 Entered Spring 1780

2.  Years, Months, Days. [handwritten] 6 [end of handwritten] [handwritten] 6 or [crossed out] 6 [crossed out] [end of handwritten] [handwritten] Three months of service [end of handwritten]

3. As a private private

4. [handwritten] Cap Putnam, Col Wood. [end of handwritten] [handwritten] Cap Francis, Col Tupper [end of handwritten]

5. In what battles was he engaged? [handwritten] None Stated

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? [handwritten] Ipswich Essex County Massachusetts [end of handwritten]

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? [handwritten] traditionary and one living witness - [illegible] Certificate He-

8. Are the paper defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? [handwritten] not properly attached [end of handwritten]

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

[handwritten] Rich Hez Watts [end of handwritten]  Examining Clerk.
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Sally Howe
[illegible] Sand
149725
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State of New Hampshire County of Merrimack ss
On this fifteenth day of May ---------in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the State and County aforesaid Sally Howe and seventy seven years a resident of Epsom in said County who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of David Howe who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty dollars per annum under the Act of June 7th 1832: that his name was on the Roll of the Concord N.-H. Pension Agency

She further declares that she was married to the said David Howe in the town of Epping on the fifth day of July A.D. 1805 by Rev. Peter Holt a Minister of the Gospel . that  her name before her said marriage was Sally Knowles: that her husband aforesaid died in the town of Epsom
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)n the tenth day of October A.D. 1840 and that she is now a widow.

she refers to the evidence filed in support of her claim for pension under the Act of Feb. 3, 1853 for proof of the facts stated in the foregoing declaration. 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3d  1855 - 
Attest
Jonathan Manden  Sally (x her mark) Howe

We Jonathan Manden and Lydia Manden residents of Epsom in the State of New Hampshire upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledge by the said Sally Howe in our presence; and that from the appearance and statements of the applicant we believe her to be the identical person
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Secretary's Office, Concord 
May 19. 1855
===========================
I hereby certify That at the date of the annexed attestation Matthew Harvey was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Merrimack

in the said State duly commissioned and qualified; and that to his act 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 State the date above written

John L. Hadley
Secretary of State

Stamp (ineligible)
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She represents herself 2 be

Jonathan Manden (signature)
Lydia Manden (signature)


The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and Subscribed before me on the day and year first before written: and I certify that I know the affidavits to be credible persons that the applicant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim

Matthew Harvey (signature)  Justice of the Peace
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Married 5 July 1798
12 Oct 1840 Dced

No 1225
Sally How- widow of David (pensioner) N.H.
Act 29. July 1848

Chs. L. Godfrey
Epping
N.H.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Office of Secretary of State.
I, JOHN L. HADLEY, Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that James H. Butler is an acting Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Rockingham duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 21st day of May 1852 and will expire on the 21st day of October 1881 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State, this 31st day of January 1853
John L. Hadley Secretary of State
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State of New Hampshire.
Secretary's Office, Concord.
January 31, 1853

I hereby certify That at the dates of the annexed attestations James H. Butler and George W. Lawrence were Justices of the Peace for the county of Rockingham in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and that to their 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 State, the date above written.
John L. Hadley
Secretary of State.
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State of New Hampshire Rockingham County on this 26th day of October in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two. personally appeared before me James H. Butler a judge of the Court of Common Pleas a court of record within and for said County of Rockingham Sally How a resident of Raymond in said County of Rockingham aged seventy six years, who being duty sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions by the ct of Congress passed duly 1848. 

That she is the widow of David How late of Epsom in the County of Merrimack in said State deceased - that she was married to him the said David How on the fifth day of July seventeen hundred and ninety eight - That her husband the said David How was a soldier in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain and was a Revolutionary Pensioner and drew his pension at the Pension Agency at Portsmouth New Hampshire agreeably to his certificate No. 151599 dated the twenty sixth day of June eighteen hundred & thirty three and received Forty dollars per annum.  That he resided at the time of his death at said Epsom where had always resided since his marriage. There said David How dies on or about the twelfth day of
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October in the year eighteen hundred and forth. She further swears that she was a widow on the twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and forty and has remained a widow ever since and is now a widow and that she never has before made any application for a pension or relief.
WitnessJames H. Butler
Sally How X her mark
James [illegible]

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me. I hereby certify that the said applicant Sally How by reason of bodily infirmity cannot attend in open court.
James H. Butler
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham
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State of New Hampshire, Rockingham County SS
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham, SS
State of New Hampshire, County of Rockingham and town of Raymond extract from record book No. one "This certifies that David How of Epsom and wife Sally Knowles of Epping were married July fifth seventeen hundred + ninety eight by me Seth Farnsworth Pastor of the Congregational Church"

I certify that the above is a true copy and extract of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures "July 5th 1798"
W.P. Worthley Town Clerk

I, William O. Worthley above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, County, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy and extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me. 
W.P. Worthley CLERK OF SAID TOWN.
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me this twenty fifth day of October A.D. 1852
Geo. W. Lawrence, Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire- Rockingham SS
I William B Morrill Register of the Court of Probate of said County hereby certify that, at a Court of Probate holden at Exeter in said County on the 12th day of January A.D. 1853, before the Hon Ira St Clair Judge of said Court it was proved to the satisfaction of said Court that David How was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty dollars per year, was a resident of Epsom in the State of New Hampshire and died at said Epsom on the 12th day of October A.D. 1840, leaving a widow named Sally How who still survives, has never intermarried, and now resides at Raymond in said State. 
Given under my hand, and the seal of said Court, at the Probate Office at Exeter in said County this 13th day of January A.D. 1853.
William B. Morrill
Register
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State of New Hampshire, Rockingham County SS
I James Rundlett of Raymond in said county having been duly sworn depose and say, that I well knew David How of Epsom who was a Revolutionary  Pensioner whose widow Sally How now applies for the benefit of the pension of the act of Congress passed July 29th 1848. That I knew him for more than twenty five years before his death, which occurred at Epsom about twelve years ago on the twelfth day of October eighteen hundred and forty. That I know that he died at that time because I attended his funeral and walked to his grave as one of the mourners I being a son in law to said David + Sally How.
That I have known his said widow from his death to this time, that she has remained unmarried and now resides with my son in said Raymond within one half of a mile from my residence. That I am [illegible]
James Rundlet
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this twenty sixth day of October A.D. 1852
James H. Butler Justice of the Peace
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Mass
Rev  WIDOW, &C.

File No.  11316
Sally Howe
Widow of David Howe
Pri  Rev Wat

Act;  Feb 3d/54
Index:  Vol. A  Page 344
[Arrangement of 1879.]
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Left page text follows first.

New Hampshire
Sally Howe
widow of David
who served in the Revolutionary 
war as a private
______________________________
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 
40 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 18
______________________________
 Certificate of Pension issued the
3d day of June 18 (remainder of date missing)
and sent to 
Pensioner
Chas. L. Godfrey
Epping N.H.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848   Page 16  Vol. A

Second page text:
311 (Sept) 1853
Draft from roll
from 3 Sept 1853

Fraudulent, see papers within


How, David
Mass - W11316
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19.610
Ending text is unreadable.
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Sally Howe
Wid of    No. 5725
Davi

Merrimack
N.H.
Act/?
$40/per Ann
Com. Febry 3 1853

?

S.D. Stevens
Concord, N.H.
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Hon. L P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.

Sally Howe and 
David Howe
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Sally Howe.
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Feb 3d 18__

Appl of Sally
How, widow of 
David
N.H. 

Act 29th July 1848

hs. S. Godfrey
Epping
N.H. 

Text written sideways:
Hon. I. ?  
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Town Rec: ma
10 Oct 40 ?
??
Signature
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Pen. Act
153 N.H. 
Signature - unreadable.
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Pension Office
May 22 1855

Sir
Please certify the time which the written named pensioner was pad on the date of his death. 

Very Respectfully

Signature unreadable
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Pension Office May 24 1855

Sir
Please certify the time which the within named pensioner was paid on the date of his death. 

Very Respectfully
Signature unreadable 


M. Poundally (?)
A. Kindson Esq
? Treasury

Written Horizontally on page:
David How paid to 4 Sept. 1849, and Sally How, 
Act 29 July 1848, paid to 4 Sept 1853(?) and dropped from the roll
Robt. J. ?
Auditor
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Affidavit of 
John G. Ordway
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List of Marriages ? by the Rev. Peter Nole of Epping 1804 July 5
David Howe of Efrom(?) and Sally Knowles of Epping were married. 
A true copy from the record 
Attest - John G. Ordway
Town Clerk.

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham Co. Epping Nov. 11 1853.
Then John G. Ordway, personally appeared & made solemn oath that the foregoing is a true copy and extract from the records of the town of Epping, now in his possession.

Before we
Wm. Foster 
Justice of the Peace 
throughout the State.
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149721
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Concord, NH  May 191855

Sir
Herewith forward the application of Sally Howe widow of David for bounty (?)  land under the 
Act of March 3d 1855. 

I am  respectfully
Your Obt. Servt. 
S.D. Stevens
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New Hampshire
Sally How - widow of David
Pension under act June 1832.  N.H. 

Act 29 July 1848
Admitted at $40 per annum from 
4th ? 1848


Certificate to be forwarded 
to Sally How
care of 
Charles S. Godfrey
Epping
N.H.
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Brief in the case of Sally How, widow of David
Rockingham  County and State of New Hampshire
act 29 July 1848
____________ - July attested 
 ________________________________
Claim (Original)
Proof exhibited (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or support by rolls"  If either, state the substance. 

Marriage proved by Town Record - July attested 5 July 1798
Death of David - by affidavit - Oct 12. 1840 - also by same
Identity - Identity also proved by fact of possession of pension certif of David How - under act June 7, 1832 at $40. per annum 

Deel(?) mad 26 Oct 1852
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?Power of Atty
Name and residence of Agent
Charles S. Godfrey
Epping, N.H. 

Dodge
Examining Clerk.
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Brief in the case of Sally Howe, wid. of David, Merrimac County and State of N.H. 
act 3d Febry 1853
_______________________________________
Claim, ("original,:)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is is documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, sate the substance.
Husband was pensioned under the Act 7 June 1832 @ the rate of $40 per Ann. Marriage proven by the town record thereof. 
Pensioner dies 12 September 1840, as per the Affidavits of two (/)
and report of the (/) Auditor. 

? identity is established withe the Affidavits of two credible officiants. 

If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

S.D. Stevens Esq. 
Concord, N.H. 
Name and residents of Agent

?
Examining Clerk.
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David How
Payments to be made at Portsmouth NH by the Pres USB Bank

Agents for paying Pensioners, the Agency of New Hampshire

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book E Vol. 1
Page 90 by I W. Clage(?)
Clerk.
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War  Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, David How of the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Forty dollars and cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year. 

Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty-sixth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty three

John ?
Acting Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned. 
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Epping New Hampshire  February 1st 1853

Sir
With this, accompanies, declaration of Sally How widow of David How a revolutionary pensioner, his pension certificate, proof of their marriage, proof of his death and proof of her identity. 

Said declaration was made for the purpose of obtaining the pension to which she is entitled by the Pension Laws of the United States. 
 
The said papers are duly authenticated and when her certificate is issued, you will please send same to us. 

We are very respectfully
Your truly
Charles S. Godfrey
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Concord N.H. May 191855

Sir
I herewith forward the application of Sally Howe widow of David for pension under the Second Section of the Act of Feb.3d 1853.

Mrs. How was one of the victims of one Charles l. Godfrey late of Epping N.H. deceased who as you are aware, was for some time engaged in prosecuting fraudulent claims. 

Through the instrumentality of Godfrey Mrs Howe was placed upon the Pension List of the Portsmouth NH Agency under the Act of July 29 1848. The money obtained was retained by Godfrey with the exception of about $80.  I have been applied to by the friends and neighbors of Mrs Howe to prosecute her claim for pension, but was reluctant to engage in it for the reason that fraud had been imployed heretofore.  After investigating the circumstances fully and from Mrs Howes appearance and statement as well those
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of disinterested persons who had known her for many years. I am full satisfied that she is entirely innocent of any fraud. Godfrey represented her ? he was making application for bounty land on account of the services of her father in the Revolution and she supposed that the money paid her was for the land which he had obtained. If necessary I can produce abundant proof that MR. Howe is a worthy woman and in no way cognizant at the time of the fraud which was perpetrated in her name. 

I am respectfully 
Your Obt Servt
S.D. Stevens

Hon L. P. Waldo
Court of Pension
Washington
D.C.
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Affidavit of 
Mary Dearborn
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I, Mary Dearborn, of Raymond in the County of Rockingham on oath say that I was present at the house of my husband, John Dearborn, in Raymond when Chas. S. Godfrey & Woodbury Gilman came there to see Mrs. Sally Howe about obtaining a pension for her. 

Godfrey asked Mrs. Howe her name and when she was married, by whom, who were present, when her husband died & many other questions.

Mrs. Howe told him that she was married by Rev. Peter Holt in 1895. 

He wrote something there, D. Woodbury Gilman was present during all the conversation. 

Signature of Mary Dearborn

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham  Nov. 10, 1853
Then Mary Dearborn personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit, by her subscribed, is true

Before me, 
Wm. L. Foster, 
Justice of the Peace
throughout the State.
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Affidavit of 
James Rundlett
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I, James Rundlett, on oath say that I was present at my house in Raymond when Chas. S. Godfrey * James H. Butler came there to see Mrs. Sally Howe about getting a pension for her. 

Mr. Godfrey asked her a great many questions and among others, when she was married to David Howe. She told him that she was married to him in 1805. He told her that she ought to have been married before 1800 & told she might not get so much pension as if she had been married before 1800. 

She told him that she meant to be honest if she didn't get anything & she hope he would. He wrote something which I supposed to be his statement. She made her mark & swoare to it, but it was not read to her. He asked me to sign the paper as a witness. I did so, but not read it nor hear it read. 

Signature of James Rundlett
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham  Nov 10 1853

then James Rundlett personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true. 

Before me 
Wm. L. Foster
Justice of the Peace 
throughout the State.
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Affidavit of 
Sally Howe.
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to have been married before 1800, & that I might not draw so much pension if I wasn't married till 1805:

I told him that I meant to be honest if I didn't get anything & I hoped he would

All this conversation was in the presence of Mary Dearborn & James Rundlett, and James Butler afterward came to the house when I ? over again. 

Godfrey wrote something on a paper the last time we came which I signed & swore to. He did not read it to me, but I supposed he had written it just as I told him. I never told him any other story than I have no related here. 
Sally X Howe
mark

Subscribed & sworn to 
before us 
Signatures of 
Wm L Foster
James Rundlett

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham  Nov 10 1853
Then Sally Howe personally appeared & made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed is true.

Before me
Wm. L. Foster
Justice of the Peace
throughout the State
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I Sally Howe of Raymond in the Co of Rockingham & State of N.H. testify and say that I was seventy six years of age last September; that I was married to David How at Epping by Reb Peter Holt of Epping on the 5th day of July 1805; that my husband drew a pension of $46.00 a year as I understood; that he dies at Epsom in the year 1840 - My maiden name was Sally Knowles. My husband was previously married to Hannah Marden who died Nov 11th 1803.. 

The records of my marriage with said David Howe & of his death were made in the family bible none in my possession, about the time when they occurred. 

Chas. L. Godfrey came to Raymond to the house of John Dearborn where I then was with Dr. Woodbury Gilman a year ago last October, and asked me a great many questions, & particularly about the date of mt marriage with said David Howe. He told me that I ought
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to have been married before 1800, & that I might not draw so much pension if I wasn't married till 1805;

I told him that I meant to be honest if I didn't get anything & I hoped he would. 
All this conversation was in the presence of Mary Dearborn & James Rundlett & James Butler afterwards came to the house when Godfrey and asked the same questions over again.

Godfrey wrote something on a paper which I signed & swore to. He did not read it to me, but I supposed he had written it just as I told him. 
I never told him any other story than I have now related here

Signature
Sally X Howe (her mark)

Subscribed & sworn to 
before us

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham  Nov. 10 1853

Than Sally Howe personally appeared & made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed is true. 

Before me 
Wm. L. Foster
Justice of the Peace
throughout the State
Signatures of 
Wm L Foster
James Rundlett
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Affidavit of 
Wm. L. Foster
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I William L> Foster of Concord in the County of Merrimack & Sate of New Hampshire on oath say that on this 10th day of November D.D. 1853, I made personal & careful examination of the records of the  town of Raymond in the County of Rockingham in said State (the town-Clerk of said Raymond being absent from the town) & that I was unable to find any record of the marriage of David Howe & Sally Knowles; I further say that on the 11th day of November 1853, I made personal examination of other records of the town of Epping in said County & there found, among the record of marriages solem(?) by Rev. Peter Holt in Epping aforesaid, a record of the marriage of David Howe of Epsom & Sally Knowles of Epping, July 5, 1805.

I further say that on the 10th day of November 1853 at the house of James Rundlett in Epping aforesaid, I made personal examination of an old & much worn bible in the possession of Sally Howe (whose affidavit accompanies this); that in the "family  record" in said bible
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were the following memoranda, apparently made many years ago, and corresponding in appearance with other hand writing of ancient records in the family record in said bible; to wit m=amont the "Marriages" 

"David Howe to Sally Knowles
July 5 1805

Amon the "deaths,"
"Hanna the wife of David 
Nov 11th 1803

William L. Foster

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack  Nov. 12 1853
Than Wm. L. Foster personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribe is true. 

Before me, 
John H. George, Justice of the Peace
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Sally Howes Declaration for Pension under
Act 3rddf Feb 1853
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State of New Hampshire. 
Secretary's Office, Concord
May 19, 1855

I hereby certify, that at the date of the annexed attestations George W. Laurence was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Rockingham and Jonathan L. Cilley was a Justice of the Peace for the county of Merrimack in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and thar to their 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 State , the date alone written

Signature of John L. Hadley
Secretary State
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State of New Hampshire
County of Merrimack SS.

On this fifteenth day of May A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me Matthew Harvey Judge of the U.S. District Court in and for the District of New Hampshire, Sally Howe, a resident of Epsom in said State aged seventy seven years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3rd of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served in the War of the Revolution = that She is the widow of David Howe who ad the time of his 
decease, was in receipt of a pension from the United States at the rate of forty dollars per annum under the Act of June 7th 1832; that his name was on the Roll of the Concord N.H. Pension Abency. 

She further declares that :  She was married to the said David Howe in the town of Epping in said State on the
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fifthe day of July in the year 1805 by the Rev. Peter Holt, a minister of the Gospel: that her said husband dies in said Epsom on the tenth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and forty: that her name before her said marriage was Sally Knowles: that she was not married to the said Howe prior to the second day of January Eighteen Hundred but at the time before stated: that she still remains the widow of the said David Howe. 

Attest
Signatures of 
Jonathan Morden
Sally X Howe
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State of New - Hampshire
County of Rockingham Ls.
Town - Clerk Office Epping N.H
January 30th 1855

"S[illegible] of marriages solemnity by the Revnd Peter Holt, of Epping. from the first of March 1805 to this date. 

805 
March 14. Nathaniel Durgin of Northwood and Polly Dow of Epping were married
March 17. Henry Gilman of Exeter and Nancy Wiggins of Epping were married.
April 24. Araon Page and Betty Cilley both of Epping were married.
July 5. David Howe of Epsom and Sally Knowles of Epping were married.
[Illegible] 10. Elphalet Chale and Rebekah Prescott both of Epping were married.

A true copy of the record,
Atten. John G. Ordway
Town Clerk of Epping

I John G. Ordway Certify , know, and say that I hold the Office of Town - Clerk in the Town, County and State above said. and that the records, of said town are in my possession and that the above list of marriages is a true copy and extract from said records.

Atten John G. Ordway Town Clerk of Epping.

Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written. 
Before Me, Geo W. Lawrence [illegible] of the Deacon
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I Jonathan Marden of Epsom in the County of Merrimack State of New Hampshire aged fifty eight years testify and say that I lived a near neighbor David Howe late of Said Epsom deceased and knew him well for forty years before his death: that he died in said Epsom on the tenth day of October A.D. 1849: that he left a widow whose name is Sally and she is still living and who remains the widow of the said David: that those known her for the last thirty years and know that she is the widow of the identical David Howe who was a Pensioner of the United States, that I have no interest in her claim for pension

Signature - Jonathan Marden

Sworn to and subscribed on this 18th day of (Febry?) A.D> 1855 before me: and I certify that I know the officiant to be a credible witness and that I have no interest in this claim. 

J. L (last name unreadable)  Justice of the Peace
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I Lydia Marden of Epsom in the County of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire testify and say that I lived a neighbor to David Howe late of Sail Epsom deceased for the space of thirty years or more before his death that I was present at his funeral and know that he did in said Epsom on the tenth day of October A.D. 1840: that he left a widow whose name is Sally who still livs & remains a widow that I know the said Sally to be the widow of the identical David Howe who was a Pensioner of the United States: that I have no interest in the said Sally's claim for pension, 

Signature  Lydia Marden
Subscribed & Sworn to on this  (/) day of May  AD 1855 before me: and I certify that I know the said officiant to be a credible person: that I have no interest in this claim. 

J.L(remainder of name unclear
Justice of the Peace
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Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D>C.  
March 31, 1896

Madam: 

In returning herewith your letter of March 23, 1896, you are advised that David Howe made an application for pension on September 5, 1832, at which time he was residing in Epsom, N.H., and seventy years of age, and his pension was allowed for twelve months actual service as a private in the Massachusetts troops, Revolutionary war: a part of the time served under Capt. Putnam and Col. Woods. 

No mention is made in his declaration of his having participated in the battle of Brandywine.

Very respectfully, 


Commissioner. 

Mrs. George M. Howe, 
149 Pine Street.,
Lewiston, ME.
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Philip Carrigains
Affidavit in 
support of David Howe
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I Philip Carrigain of Epsom in the County of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire Esquire do deplore & say that I am well acquainted with David How of Epsom aforesaid the same David How who is now applying for the provisions of the Act of Congress of June 1832 for the benefit of the soldiers of the Revolutionary Wars, and that I have known him for many years, as since I have resided in Epsom and Chesterton which is about ten years,  he has always within about two miles from my office, and I also knew him before I lived in either of these Towns. And I do farther testify that I believe the said David How to be seventy years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution . I perfectly concur in that (/) 

And I do farther depose and say that the said David How sustains, and always has sustain'd as long as I have known, or heard of him. The character of a man of strict, ? and ? , and that his
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and declaration are entitled to undoubted credit whether he is put on oath or not.

I have frequently known and have occasionally heard him the absence of the regular Clergyman preach to a numerous collection of People which is evidence that this standing in the Church & with the Publick is creditable. I believe therefore there is no doubt of the truth of his accompanying declaration as far as his memory serves him 

Signature of Philip Carrigain

State of New Hampshire
Merrimac Co.  February 22nd 1833

Sworn to before me,
LA Kimball Justice of the Peace

I also certify that said Philip Carrigain is entitled to full credit as a witness - L.A. Kimball
Justice of the Peace

Written sideways: 
Philip Carrigain 
Affidavit in support of David How

Merrimack Ss.  The State of New Hampshire
I Moses Castinan Clerk of the Superior Court of Judication within and for said County, do hereby certify that L.S. Kimball whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is a Magistrate within State and that the same is his genuine Signature. 

The testimony where of I have hereunto offered the Seal of said Court and subscribed the same with my own hand this twenty second day of February 1833. 

Signature of Moses Eastman
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Reverend James Md. Cutcheon's 
Affidavit in behalf of 
David How
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I James McCutcheon, an ordained Clergyman, and officiating & acting Minister of the Gospel, for the Freewill Baptist Society in the Town of Epsom, in the County of Merrimack, & State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that I have been long acquainted with David How, of Epsom, aforesaid, the same, and the identical David How who made the declaration before the Superiour Court of Judicature, for said State, in the County of Merrimack, at the September Term of said Court AD 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June (?) AD 1832 and that I believe the said David How (whom I will know) to be upwards of Sixty nine years of age and that he is reputed, and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that I concur in that opinion. 

Signature of James McCutchen

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss December 26th 1832.  Then personally appeared the said James McCutchen, and subscribed, & made solem oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition,

before me 
Signature of Philip Carrigain 
Justice of the Peace

I also certify that the said James McCutchen is an
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ordained Clergyman, and an acting and officiating Minister of the Gospel for the Lei will Baptist Society in said Town of Epsom, and that perfect & entire credence is due; and to be given the said Reverend James McCutchen's testimony on any subject

Signature of 
Philip Carrigain 
Just. of Peace

Merrimack ss. The State of New Hampshire
I Moses Eastman Clerk of the Superior Court of Judication do hereby certify that James McCutchen whose name is subscribed to the within certificate is a minister of the Gospel and therein states resident in Epsom in said Country - and that Philip Carrigain whose Name is subscribed to the within certificate is a Magistrate and therein stated, and that I believe the same to be their genuine signatures. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court and subscribed the same with my (?) hand this Twenty second day of February 1833. 

Signature of Moses Eastman
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I Daniel Foster of Newburyport, in the county of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts age seventy years, and upwards, on oath do testify  and declare, that I served in the army of the United States in the war of the revolution, in Massachusetts (?) in the year 1779 and 1780 - that I am (?) acquainted with David How, who (/) lives in Epsom, in the County of Merrimack, and State of New Hampshire; and who formerly lived in Ipswich n said county of Essex, and  I (?) that he the said David How, was a private soldier, and enlisted in Captain Putnams Company in the year 1779 for the regimen (?), and (next several words are unreadable) Lieutenant Gabriel's name also Putmnam, and that he served in said company at Rhode Island, Six months. 

I also know that the said Daniel How, was a private in the company commanded by Captain Francis, in (unreadable text)  and served therein Six months, in New Jersey in the year 1780.  I am not as certain as it respects the companies in which he served ,but am such knowing to his enlistment and service; as (next words are unreadable and covered by ink blot) and the said How at that time being every young, his parents and friends (inkblot) went to his enlisting which under my care, and I am therefore under circumstances to know his service and the two different enlistments (?) 

Newburyport July 18 1832

Signature of Daniel Foster

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss Town of Newburyport July 18th 1832. Then the (?0 named Daniel Foster Eqs who is personally well known to inc, personally came and made oath, in due form of Law, in the truth of the above written declaration by him subscribed in my presence do Certify, that said Daniel Foster is Credible witness. 

Signature of Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 Essex S.S. town of Newburyport  15 January 1833
I, John Porter, Notary (ink blot) for Newburyport, by legal authority appointed & sworn hereby certify- that William (?) Esqr. whose name is above signed in a Notary Public, Justice of the Peace residing in the town - and that to all his acts & uttestations(?) as given, both within and out of the state.

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand affixed my seal office the day your above written

Signature of John Porter, Not. Pub. & Just. of Peace
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Daniel Fosters Affidavit in support of David How
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 Philip Carrigain of Epsom in the County of Merrimack, and State of New Hampshire do depose & certify that the annexed certificate f the Governor of & under the Seal of the State of Maine was to prove that Nathaniel Sweat Littlefield within named, (and before shom, the annexed deposition of John Kilborn (of Bridgton in the State of Maine) withing named was taken and before whom the said John Kilborn was sworn to the truth, thereof is a Justice of the Peace, in & for the Country fo Cumberland in the same State of Maine, and that this said Governor's certificate was procured to support and to be annexed to this the said Kilborn, said Deposition and for no other purpose, and should have been (as intended) attached to said Deposition, but was omitted, either from the negligence, or want of knowledge of the Agent employed to procure the said Certificate of the said Governor ^ Secretary of the said State of Maine.

In testimony where of I have hereunto subscribed my name before the Court of Common Laws at (?) in said Country this thirteenth day of February in the year of our (?) one thousand eight hundred and thirty three 

Signature of Philip Carrigain

New Hampshire  Merrimack SS Feby 22d 1833
Sworn to before me. 
LA Kimball Justice of the Peace

I also certify that said Philip Carrigain is a magistrate in said Country of Merrimack, and is well known to me as a credible witness

L.A. Kimball 
Just. Peace
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Merrimack ss The State of New Hampshire
I Moses Eastman Clerk of the Superior Court of Judication withing and for said County do hereby certify that L.A. Kimball whose name is subscribed to the within certified is a Magistrate as therein State and that the same is hi genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and Subscribed the same in (?) hand this Twenty Second day of February 1838. 

Signature of Moses Eastman
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I John Kilborn of Bridgton in the Country of Cumberland, and State of Maine, aged seventy seven years, do testify, depose,(?) day that I was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary Army, and that David How, np\ow resident, as I am informed, in Epsom N.H. was in the service as a soldier with me.  In the month of June in the year 1780, said How left Ipswich, Massachusetts in company with me to join the army as Westpoint and did accordingly join said army soon after and How joined the same corps with me, to (?) Gen. Patterson's Brigade  Col. Benjamin Tupper's Regiment, and Capt Thomas Trainer's company. Said How remained a Soldier in said company six or eight months, I am positive that he remained six months and I think eight, but I cannot say positively that he remained more than six. 

Signature of John Kilborn

State of Maine, Cumberland ss July 14 1839 there personally appeared the above named John Kilborn and (?) solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing (?) by him signed
Before me, Nathaniel S. Littlefield
Justice of the Peace
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Samuel E. Smith, 
Governor of the State of Maine: 
To all who shall see these Present:
Greeting

Know Ye, That Nathaniel Sweet Littlefield of Bridgton, in the Count of Cumberland, is a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County or Cumberland.
Signature of Samuel E. Smith
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duly nominated an appointed, commissioned and qualified; 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 caused the Seal of the State to be here unto affixed. Given under my hand at Augusta, this twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, and in the fifty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America

By the Governor
R.S. Greene, 

Secretary of State