Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,058, William Bowne, New Jersey

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(3-1776) [number in left hand corner]
[cover page with 3 columns in top section: SERVICE, [untitled], NUMBER]
New Jersey, 
Bowne, William
S. 34,058

[lower section with single column: CONTENTS]

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Transferred to Pennsylva 14th May 1828, to [illegible] and after 1st March 1828, and Notification sent to Pensioner, Newtown P.O: Bucks Co: Penna

!8,078
New Jersey
William Bowne
of Hunterdon Co [illegible] in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Ogden of the N. Jersey [illegible],
for the term of 18 months [illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 8th of Sept 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of Mch 1821
and Sent to Ina T Blackwell
Flemington, New Jersey

Arrears to the 4th of March 21 143:10
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1821 48.
[horizontal line below decimal numbers]
$191:10
[two horizontal lines below dollar figure]

[text within braces]
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818

(1 May 1821)
 
See letter to Hon: S. D. Inghan H.R.
March 24, 1828

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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County.
William Bowne a man of full age came before Justice of Peace one of the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon and all
it on the holy angels of Aline of th that he
the month of July in the County
to be and that he enlisted in any
enlighteneth
in
private soldier in the
the United
Maria for an angel
save a
in the first regiment in
which of his regiment he served until the fifth
an of the date tents not apply the parting have
ters per Bury as with a power with a
in the North to half newell in and to march
at a moment and until the ratification in reading
peace should be men which took place of the
other thereby Discharges in
son
extention by present
able report my
-
Will and family is therefore humble request to him
action of Daniel William Bugg
the before next of day of March 1818
the
ROWNE WM
S. 34058

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Service                                                     Number

New Jersey      Bowne, William                S.34,058

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William Bowne's
affid. for benefit of

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Original Claim
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
Hunterdon county

ON this fourth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty
personally appeared, in open court of common pleas, being a court of record [??]
[?] for the said county, William Bowne aged
seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his
oath make the following delcaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts
of Congress, of the 18th March, 1818 and 1st May, 1820, that he the said William Bowne
enlisted for the term of during the war on the third day of January
in the year 1782 in the state of New Jersey in the company command-
ed by captain Nathaniel Leonard in the regiment commanded by colonel Matthias Ogden
in the line of the state of New Jersey on the continental establishment; that
he continued to serve in the said corps until the fifth of January 1783 when he was dis-
charged from the said service, in New Burg in the state of New York.
That when he enlisted it was with Capt Jonathan Phillips
a recruiting officer but served with Capt Leonard until lawfully
discharged - I William Bowne, a weaver by trade but scant
employ - my family consists of one wife and five children 
all helpless towards supporting themselves which is the reason
of my making application for the support of my family

That he was in the battles of
and that he has no other evidence, now in his power, of his said services, except the testimony
of Hugh Runyon Esq John Bowne

And in pursuance of the act of the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty,
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the
18th of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, dis-
posed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my-
self within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed
on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any
property or securities contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is 
contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Schedule of the property of William Bowne of
the township of Amwell County of Hunterdon State of New Jersey
Real Estate none
Personal[?] none

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           APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER
COUNTY of Bucks       88, State of Pennsylvania
         ON this twelfth day of April, 1828, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, for the said County of Bucks personally appeared William Bowne of said county who, on his Oath, declares that he is the same Person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Leonard in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jonathan Agelou in the Service of the United States; that his Name was placed on the Pension Roll of the Sate of New Jersey from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of ([District, or Territory,] has been crossed out) of Pennsylvania where he intends to remain, and wishes his Pension to be there payable, in future; and that his reasons for removing to the state of Pennsylvania are that his children are several of them married and settled there and he wishes to reside with them-
                                     (signed)  Wm Bowne
Sworn and subscribed to,                      }
before me, the Day and Year aforesaid }
(signed) I. Hicks
                       NOTES
   The Oath is to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrate, whose official Character and Signature must be  proved by the Certificate of the proper Officer, under the Seal of Office, setting forth that the Person taking the Testimony is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
     The Pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity.  The witness must swear that he well knows the person who has taken the above oath to be the same person described therein, and no other than the identical person to whom the pension was originally granted.  The magistrate must certify that the witness is a person of veracity.  The witness's afffidavit must be authenticated in the manner above described.
Bucks county JP:  I John L. Benizet (?) Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of bucks do certify that Isaac Hicks Esquire before whom the above and (unreadable word) affidavit, were taken is a Justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is given to his act, as such.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 1st day of May AD 1828
                                 John L. Benizet Prothy.

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Pennsylvania   }
Bucks County  } (unreadable initial)
       On t his twelfth day of April Eighteen hundred and twenty eight, before me Isaac Hicks a justice of the peace of said County personally appeared John Deats of Middletown township in the said County ( who I believe & consider to be a man of veracity) and on his oath saith that he is well acquainted with the within named William Bowne and knows him to be the identical person to whom the pension were originally granted.
Sworn and subscribed            }
before me to the said Justice } 
                                            (signed) John Deats
(signed) I. Hicks

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(written sideways on another fold) 
       BOWNE, WILLIAM
          S. 34058

(on another fold)
Wm Bowne
Jno T. Blackwell
     agt
Flemington, N.J.
Rec'd 20 Feb. 1821 

(written sideways)
J. T. Blackwell
(the rest is too faint to read)

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     Flemington, N.J. 14, Feby. 1821
    The inclosed (sic) Certificate for John Young (obliterated) be (obliterated) Young there has (sic) no person from Hunterdon applied by the name of John Young.
     I also inclose (sic) the papers of Wm. Bowne with an additional affidavit.
                      Your very Humble servant
                           J.I. Blackwell
Hon. J. C. Calhoune
     Thomas Malaby is often inquiring for his certificate.

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                                    Aden, Va. Oct. 27, 1898
Commissioner of Pensions"
           My Dear Sir - William Bowne of Monmouth County, New Jersey, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.  Did he ever apply for a pension?  If so, when and where did he live at the time?
               Very truly yours,
                      Miller R. Reading
(stamped) US Pension Office Oct 29, 1898
(stamped) (unreadable)WAR & NAVY
                       NOV 1 1898
                       (unreadable)

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State of New Jersey } On the thirteenth day of 
Burlington County   } January Eighteen hundred
and twenty one before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, personally came and approved Samuel Young of the said County a person to me well known of full age and due credit, who being sworn on the holy evangelist of almighty god and by me duly cautioned did declare and say that he was a  soldier in the Revolutionary war between the United States and Great Britain, that he belonged to the third New Jersey Regiment commanded by Colonel Francis Barber.  That he was while in the service well acquainted with William Bowne who was a soldier in the first New Jersey Regiment and in the Company commanded by Captain Reynolds and that he hath very often seen the said William Bowne on duty in the said Regiment Commanded by Colonel Nathaniel Ogden and as hath frequently been on duty with him in the land(?)  service, and also that to his certain knowledge the said William Bowne was in the Continental service as a soldier for more than one year and that he saw him in the service not more than three days before the New Jersey Brigade was discharged at the close of the war.
Sworn and subscribed before me} (signed)
the day and year above written }Samuel Toomy
                                                       Marks
   Geo. Anderson

State of New Jersey (unreadable)
 I Danl. Colman Secretary of the State of New Jersey do certify that George Anderson Esquire, before whom the above affidavit was taken then was and still is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Burlington in said State and that full faith and credit is due to this and all his oficial acts as such.    
Witness my hand and official seal at Trenton this twenty fifth day of January A.D. eighteen hundred twenty one.  Danl. Coleman Sec'y.

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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
[William] Bound a man of full age voluntarily
[illegible] before me Luther Opdycke one of the Judges
of the court [of] Common pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon
and being [illegible] sworn before me saith that William Bound
was inlisted [illegible] third day of January seven Hundred and Eighty
two in the [illegible]vice of the army of the United States of Amenica
being a [illegible] Capt [illegible] in the first [illegible]
regiment under capt Leaman during the war and further
with not
s/ John Bowne (x his mark)

Taken before me Septmr 8th 18[illegible]
s/ Luther Opdycke J.C.

Hunterdon County Ss.
I John T. Blackwell Clerk of Hunterdon Pleas
do certify that Luther Opdycke, Esquire
before whom the forgoing affidavits were
taken then was [illegible] is  and of the Judges
of the Court of Common pleas in and for
said County and full credit is due to all 
his official acts as such

Witness my hand and the seal of
said Court at Flemington the
9th day of September 1818.
J Blackwell, Clk

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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County Ss.

I  Hugh Runyan Voluntarily came before
me Luther Opdycke one of the judges of the court of
common pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon
and being Duly sworn saith he lived in Notingham Township
near to the township of [illegible] and that understood 
that William Bound was enlisted in the standing Army
of the united States in the year one Thousand Seven Hundred and
Eighty two and this Deponant saw him after he had got
his Discharge, and this Deponant is sure that William Bound
was listed in the standing army and at the time the Army
was discharged he got his Discharge and is now in very low circumstances
unable to support his family.
s/ Hugh Runyan

Taken before the 8th Sept 1819 
s/ Luther Opdycke J.C

I certify that this Deponant Hugh Runyan is a disinterested
witness and a man of credibility. Done at Flemington in
open Court August the fourth 1820
s/ Luther Opdycke one of the
Judges of the Court of
the County of Hunterdon

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James Barbour
Secry of War
Washington
D.C.

Pension Office
New Jersey

Newtown Burke [illegible] May 12th 1828

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Middletown Township Bucks County
State of Pennsylvania May 12th 1828

Sir, 
I have endeavor to follow your 
instructions, with respects to a transfer 
of my certificate from the Agency for
Paying Revolutionary pensions at Trenton
New Jersey, to the Agency at Philada [abbreviation for Philadelphia]
as near as I can understand them and
herewith transmit them with my
certificate, and if covet please send
and direct any thing that may be necessary
for me, to Newtown Post Office
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Your most Obedient
& humble Servant
s/ Wm Bowne

Hon James Barbour
Secty of War

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Bowry, Louis
B. L. Reg. 243775–1855
BOUNTY LAND SHES

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
BOUNTY LAND FILES
ACT OF 1855 [illegible] 243775
VETERAN Louis Bowry
1776  GRADE Capt
SERVICE [blank]
CAN NO. 1772
BINDLE NO 192

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43775 Set June 8/56
April 30/56

Mary Bowry
widow
Louis Bowry Captain

Revolutionary Pensioner

Mass [illegible] 6075
This case come to me today [illegible]
July, 25/57 [illegible]

Gilbert Haven
Boston
Mass

Set. G. Haven, July 25/57

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Application No. 243.775

Hon. Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pension
Washington D. C.

[stamp] BOSTON [illegible] 21
[stamp] FREE

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Widow Pensioners
APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY LAND.
(By the Widow of a deceased person who has not had a Land Warrant.)

STATE OF Massachusetts
COUNTY OF Suffolk - Ss
On this nineteenth day of April A. D. one thousand eight
hundred and fifty six personally appeared before me Justice of the Peace within and
for the County and State aforesaid, Mary Baury aged eighty nine years, a resident of Boston in the State 
of Massachusetts -- who being duly sworn according to law declares
that she is the Widow of Louis Baury deceased, who
was a Captain in the 
Revolutionary War & served as such in manner particularly set forth
in the papers on file in the Pension Office in the matter of her application for
pension which pension the received at the rate of $600 per annum at the Boston
Mass Pension Agency
that he is a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $600
per annum that her pension certificate was issued to her under date of
20 day of April 1853 -- that she is now a widow

243775

She declares that he has not received a warrant for Bounty
Land under this or any other Act of Congress nor made any other
application therefor
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she
may be entitled under the act of March 3d, 1855.
She prays that her [illegible] maybe sent for her to Gilbert Haven Esq. Boston Mass
sent for her to Gilbert Raven Esq. Boston
s/ Mary Baury (x her mark)

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STATE OF Massachusetts
COUNTY OF Suffolk
We, Alfred L. Baury and Kate H. Jackson residents of
Boston in the State of Massachusetts on our oaths declare that the
foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Baury in
our presence, and that we know her to be
the identical person she represents herself to be.
s/ Kate H. Jackson
s/ Alfred L. Baury

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above
written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she
represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Justice of the Peace.
E. Bowne

STATE OF [blank]
COUNTY OF [blank]

off: Cl:} Cert. in other Cases
[illegible signature]

I,  [blank] certify that [blank]
whose genuine signature appears above, is and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice
of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified; that
his commission is dated on the [blank] day of [blank] A. D. 185[blank]
that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.

Given under my hand [blank]
this [blank] day of [blank] A. D. 188[blank]

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Boston 21 October 1856
Sir
On behalf of Mary Baury, a
Revolutionary widow, pensioner on the Roll
of the Boston, Massachusetts Army
Pension Agency at the rate of $600
per annum as widow of Louis Baury
& application for Bounty Land No. 243.775
I have to enquire of the papers presented
are correct.

As Mrs Baury has reached a
very advanced age and is likely to
live but a limited time, she desires
to inform the Bureau, that an early
attention to her case, would be most
gratefully considered.

I am sir very Respectfully
your ob. servt.
s/ Gilbert Haven

Hon Josiah Minot
Commissioner of Pensions

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Josiah Minot Esq
Comm of Pensions

243775

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Senate C. April 29, 1856 

To the Com. of Pensions

My dear Sir,
The enclosed petition was sent me by the Rev. A.L. Bowry D.D. of the Episcopal Church, a gentle man well known to a worthy and amiable man. He is the son of the petitioner. My acquittance with him commence ten years ago. When he was in Washington urging the claims of his mother to increase of her pension. Since then our relations have been cordial and the success of his sending the petition through me to you. If he, I do not know enough the petition.

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rules of construction placed on the
Bounty land act of 1855. to form
any opinion as to whether she
is entitled or not, I doubt not
You will give the subject the
proper consideration and decide
the case according to its merits.
I have every reason to believe
that the husband of the
Petitioner was an officer
in the war of the revolution
He came to the U.S. from the
West Indies with the Count
D'Estcuing and served in one 
of the independent corps of
the Army but not attached to any
of the lines of the states. He
was a member of the Concester
Society & his son is now the
vice president. This under the
Jack of [illegible] very certain but
I do not know of that will be recd
as record office, nor do I know if the
[illegible] now before Congress should pass
admitting parol evidence should
pass that any one is now being
who could bear witness of the
service of Cap Baury.
[illegible] yr Ob servt
Josiah J. Evans
of [illegible]

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Josiah J. Evans
[illegible]
Josiah Minott Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

243775