Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,748, Sebastian Bowers, Md.

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40748
INVALID
[illegible]
File No. 40748
Sebastian Bowers
Pvt Rev War

Act 18th March 18th
Index:-Vol. 8, Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sebastian Bowers-[illegible] Act March 18, 1878
Be pleased to say to what time he was
last paid.

[illegible] Office}
May 26, 1840.}

[illegible] 4 March 1828-
died 13 April 1828
JH

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19:307.
[First column]
Pennsylvania            
R.                                 
Sebastian Bowers
of Kittaning Township, in the state of Pennsylvania
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Steell, of the regiment
commanded by Colonel Gunby, in the Maryland
line, for the term of 9 mot in 1778-79.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on
the 18th of June 1823.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of July 1824
and sent to J. E. Brown, Esq.,
Kittaning, Pa.

Arrears to 4th of 4th March 1824 68.49
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1824 48.00
P Mos 13/30 2/31 $116.49

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Acts, March 18, 1818,}
{and May 1, 1820, and
1st March 1823

Armstrong C, [illegible]

[Second column]
Dead - Let to Hon W. Beatty
May 26, 1840.

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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, 26 January 1824

I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster rolls remaining in
the Auditor's Office, that Boston Bower
enlisted as a Private in the Seventh Maryland
Regiment, on the first day of June 1778
and was discharged on the 1st April 1779.

Thos. Karney Auditor General,
State of Maryland.

It is the opinion of the auditor that the
name of the applicant is spelt wrong on
the muster rolls, it appears he served in Capt.
Steells Company in the Regt. Comd. by Col. Gunby.  J.K.

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[illegible] County Ss:

Personally appeared before me, William
Jones of said County [illegible] township, and after
being sworn according to law, doth on this oath say
that he is well acquainted with Sebastian Bowers, that
the said Bowers [words scratched out] enlisted for the
term of nine months in the year seventeen hundred and
seventy eight at Hagerstown in the State of Maryland
in Capt. Danl. Steell's company in the regiment commanded
by Col. Gunby, in the line of the State of Maryland
on the continental establishment, and this deponent
further says, that he knows that the said Bowers was
in actual service for nine months before his discha-
rge-that he this deponent was unlisted at the [illegible]
time and place and served in the same company
with the said Bowers, until he was discharged.

Wm Jones [Signature]

Sworn and subscribed before
me the 23rd Aug. 1823
Wm Crawford a Justice of
the Peace in and for said
County

I do certify that I am acquainted with William Jones
the above deponent and have known him for more than twenty
years, that he is a man of good character and of truth
and veracity.

Wm Crawford

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Venange County Ss}
I Alexander McCalmont Prothono-
tary of the Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Venage, Do hereby certify that
William Crawford Esquire, Before whom the
foregoing deposition appears to have been taken
and who has thereunto subscribed his name
in his proper hand writing was at the time of
taking the same, and now is an acting Justice of the
Peace in and for said County, duly appointed commission
and sworn, and to all whose acts as such, full faith
and credit are, and of right ought to be given through-
out the United States and elsewhere.

In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Franklin
the eighteenth day of November in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.

A. McCalmont Prothy

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19067

Sebastian Bowers [illegible];
Armstrong Co. Pa.

18 June 1823

Recd. 22 Dec 1823

1778 for 9 mos. in Capt.
Steell's Company-Col Gunby's
regt- Maryland Line

Admitted

Kittaning Township
Armstrong Coty
Pa.

J. E. Brown
Kittaning, Pa.

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Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania Ss}

On the eighteenth day of June in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty I have personally appeared in
open Court being a Court of record to wit: the Court of Common Pleas
for the County of Armstrong, Sebastian Bowers of Kittaning township
in said County, aged sixty three years who being duly sworn according
to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to ob-
tain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818
and the first of May 1820 that he the said Sebastian Bowers enlisted for
the term of nine months in the year one thousand seven hundred and
seventy eight at Hagerstown in the State of Maryland in the compa-
ny commanded by Capt. Daniel Steells in the regiment commanded
by Col. Gunby in the line of the State of Maryland on the Continental
establishment, that he continued to serve in the said Corps for the term of
thirteen months when he was discharged from said service in Bombrook
in the State of New Jersey, which discharge he has long since lost.  That
he was in the battle of Monmouth, that he has no other evidence now
in his power of his serving and in [illegible] of the act of the
first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of
the United States on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred 
and eighteen, and that I haven't since that time, by gift, sale or in 
any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent
thereby to bring myself within the provisions of the said acts of Congress,
nor that I have not nor any person in trust for me any property, con-
tracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is con-
tained in the Schedule annexed and by me subscribed; and the said
Sebastian Bowers further declares that he is a labourer by trade
but from his advanced age, and his affliction with rheumatic pains
he is rendered unable to maintain himself and family, that he has 
an aged wife subject to the same afflictions as himself, that he had
a large family to maintain, and who now are all married and 
have left him except his youngest son [illegible] who with his wife
resides with me on a tract of land warranted in the name of

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Thos Henderson, [illegible] by the Rev William Finney, for which an
ejectment is brought against this applicant and which he has agreed
to give up to the real owner and this deponent also says that he
stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support.

Laytian Lanierer [Signature]

Sworn to and declared in open court}
this 18th day of June A.D. 1823}
J. E. Brown Prothy

A schedule of the real and personal estate of Sebastian Bowers
necessary cloathing and bedding [illegible]

No land
Debts due None
1 Cow . . . .$8.
2 red cows $10 each . . . .20
1 Heiffer . . . .3.
8 Sheep . . . .8
1 old gray mare . . . .15.
I Sow & eight choats . . . .9
1 Sow & five [illegible] . . . .2
6 chairs . . . .4
Pots & kitchen furniture . . . .9
1 table . . . .4
1 woman saddle . . . .4
____
$86
Laytian Lanier

He is indebted to the following persons to wit:

David Reynolds . . . .$14
Henry Jack . . . .13
James Monteth . . . .1
James Douglass . . . ..50
____
$28.50
Laytian Lanier

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I James E. Brown, Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for the County of Armstrong in the state of
Pennsylvania, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the sche-
dule thereunto annexed are hereby copied from the records of the said Court;
And I do further certify, that is is the opinion of the said Court,
that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid
Schedule is eighty six dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court, at Kittanning
this eighth day of December in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.

J. E. Brown Prothy