Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6695, for James Mc Dowell, South Carolina

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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
S. C
.
McDowell, James
Mary Ann

NUMBER
R.6695

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CHAP. XV.
Apocrypha.
Before Christ 1[illegible].}

Apocrypha.
Before Christ 168.}

34 So every man praised toward the heaven the
glorious Lord, saying, Blessed be he that hath kept 
his own place undefiled.

35  He hanged also Nicanors head upon the tower,
an evident and manifest sign unto all of the help of
the Lord.

36 And they ordained all with a common decree,
in no case to let that day pass without solemnity, but
to celebrate the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,
which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day ed 
before Mardocheus day.

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37  Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that
time forth the hebrews had the city in their power.
And here I will make an end.

38 And if I have done well, and as is fitting the
story, it is that which I desired; but if slenderly and
meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.

39  For as it is hurtful to drink wine and water
alone, and as wine mingled with water is pleasant,
and delighteth the taste; even so speech finely fram
ed delighteth the ears of them that read the story
And here shall be an end.


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Elisebeth McDowell Died December  the 12 1805
The End of the Apocrtpha
David McDowell was born october 11 -  1807
James McDowell was Born November    the 18-- 1763
Anne McMillin       was Born feburuery      the 19-- 1771
☞ David McDowell was Born Januwery   the 22-- 1790
Robert McDowell   was  Born  July             the 20-- 1792
Jane Currey             was Born    April            the 18-- 1795
                               Juner
James McDowell     was Born   August       the 17-- 1798
Hughe McDowell      was Born   August      the 20-- 1801
[illegible] McDowell was Born September          11- 1804
[illegible] Jenkins     was Born  September         26 1807
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Calvin McDowell was born Apl 24 1816
Johnny Dowell was Born febuery 4 1811
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1811
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James Mc Dowell was Born
November the 18 -------1763
James McDowell Senner
Died.  Aprile the 23 ----- 1819
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James [illegible] died October 30 1820
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William franklin Mc Dowell 
Was born September 26 1807
John Mc Dowell [illegible]
William Mc Dowell 
was born  September [illegible]

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No
Mary Ann McDowell
decd widow of James
S.C
☞When this case comes
up for examination
See case of James Mc
Dowell of S. Carolina
Admisted Act. June 7 1832
No 23. 426

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South Carolina
 Spartanburgh District
on this third
day of April 1857
personally appeared Hugh M Dowell
before me Kevin Borden Judge
of the Court of ordinary for the District
of Spartanburgh & State of South Carolina
aged fifty years past 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 July 7th 1858
entitled an  act granting half pay
and pensions
to certain Widow
also the benefit of the act of the 3d
March 1853,
17th June 1854, 2nd Feby 1848, 
29th July 1848
That this [illegible] in behalf
of himself & his brother and sister surviving Children of
James & Mary Ann
McDowell and issue of their marriage
declares that the said James McDowell
was an officer & private soldier in the
army of the Revolution as he or allways
understood & believe and as such
he served
the United States against the
Common enemy 
but to give the particulars of his
service declarant
cannot but always understood
that
he was generally in service from
Shelly of the the commencement of
hostilities until the close of the war

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that he first entered the service of
his County as a volunteer against the
Cherokee Indians. Captain John Garvin [John ‘Buck’ Gowen] and Col_ and served a  tour of over six months and returned home to the upper part of Spartanburgh District on Pacolet
River when he was he was raised.
his next tour of service was in 1778
or 1779. under Capt Gowen, Capt Parsons [Captain Major Parson] or Col Robuck [Benjamin Roebuck] and marched to the State of Georgia and was in the Battle of Briar Creek. that after the surrender of Charleston So Car he was almost constantly in the service until the Spring or summer of 1781 under the above named Capt Parson & Col Robuck he then enlisted for ten months in [General Thomas] Sumter brigade of the State troops Col [William] Hills Regiment Capt _ with the Rank of Lieutenant but Cannot say that he was Lieutenant all of that period and was to get a Negro for his said service which Negro he never received. & was in service
the expiration of said service of the  monthly or as above stated
he Returned & was in service
in the Malitia under Capts McDowell [James McDowell Sr.] & Parson as a Lieutenant until the close of the war and that the whole of his service was done as a horseman except a portion of the time when the previous McDowell foot against

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the Cherokee Indians 1776 or 1777 

declarant further states 
that his father James McDowell was 
married to his mother Mary Ann 
McMillen shortly after Christmas 
in the ninth of December 1778 in 
Spartanburgh District South Carolina 
that he has no record evidence  
of the marriage, but that he has 
a record of his said parents children 
issue of their said marriage which is 
in the hand writing of his father 
James McDowell and he believes to 
be strictly correct and that it was 
taken out of the family Bible belonging 
to his father & has always been kept 
in the family until today and 
taken out by himself to sustain 
the marriage of his said father & 
mother oldest child David McDowell 
born Janry 22nd 1790.

Declarant further says that 
he has no record evidence of the 
service of his said father James 
McDowell nor his commission as
Lieutenant nor does he know any 
persons by whom the said service 
could be proved but that he served 
in connection of Capt William 
Young Capt Robt McDowell his 
brother Capt Parsons and Capt 
Gowin as above stated that his 
service were well known & duly

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appreciated by the community in 
which he lived and that his 
father the said James McDowell 
died in Spartanburgh District 
South Carolina on the 25th 
day of April 1819. And that 
his mother Mary Ann McDowell 
departed this life in Spartanburgh 
District South Carolina about 
the 20th June 1848 not having 
married after the death of her 
said husband James McDowell 
and never made application 
for a pension and that she 
died intestate and has no 
administration and this is his 
first and only application for 
a pension for his said mother

And I do hereby constitute 
and appoint AS Wallace of 
York District South Carolina 
my true and lawfull [lawful] attorney 
for me and in my name to prosecute 
this my said claim with full 
powers of substitution before any of 
the departments of the Interior 
or Court of claims with all the 
power usually conferred and do 
all lawfull [lawful] acts & deeds that I 
myself could do were I present 
and that the family register referred to is 
hereunto attached marked A.

Sworn to and subscribed before me

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in Open Court
Reuben Bowden Judge of Ordinary
I Reubin Bowden Judge of the Court
or ordinary for the District of Spartanburgh State of South Carolina which Court is a court of Record do certify that it has been shown in evidence to the satisfaction of the Court that James McDowell Revolutionary soldier deceased departed this life in Spartanburgh
District South Carolina 23 April 1819
living his wife Mary Ann McDowell
a Widow who died in the 20th day
of June 1848 having the following
Children survive to wit David McDowell, Robert McDowell, Jane Curry, Hugh McDowell, Andrew McDowell, William McDowell John Y. McDowell, Calvin McDowell
and that the above named are now
her only surviving children and
all over twenty one years of age and that the declarant Hugh McDowell is a Gentleman who is entitled to full credit. Given under my hand & seal
at Spartanburgh This 3d day April 1857
s/ Reuben Bowden Judge of Ordinary

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State of South Carolina Spartanburg District: Personally appeared Jane McMillin a highly credible citizen of said District aged 87 years, Before me Elias Walls, a Magistrate in and for the District aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths, and made oath in due form of law on oath says that she well recollects the service of her Brother James McDowell dec'd, whose heirs are now applicants for a pension in right of their mother Mariann McDowell dec'd wife and
widow of the said James McDowell with whom she was well and intimately acquainted until her
death, in the summer of the 1848, in the neighborhood of Deponent.
Deponent well recollects that her Brother the said James was an officer and soldier in the Army of the revolution in the Militia Col. Robuck's [Benjamin Roebuck] Regiment and
also in the State Troops in which service the said James was a Lieutenant in Col. Hill's [William
Hill] Regiment but cannot say what Capt. her said brother served under in Col. Roebuck's Regiment but knows he served under Capt. Parsons [Major Parson], [John] Gowen and McDowell and perhaps Capt. William Young as they

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 as they commanded in Roebuck's Regiment and were all almost constantly in service after the fall of Charleston. Deponent has often heard her Brother Robert say that he was in service six years.
Deponent further says that she was present at the marriage of her brother the said James to Mariann McMillin she thinks in 1789, and that they lived together as husband and wife, until
his death and were very respectable. Deponent's Father kept Publick House in time of the war, and that she often saw all the above named officers, as well as their companies in service, and often carried messages herself, and provisions to the Whigs, and has a Distinct recollection of
many persons and occurrences, in time of the War, and that she has no interest in this claim.
Deponent was married in 1790, and has a record of her marriage and also her age and the was born on the 21st of Nov. 1769. 
Jane McMillen X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed this 7th day of April A.D. 1857
S/ Elias Wall, Magistrate

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is a lady of character and high respectability and her statements are entitled to full credit and the age she represents herself to be and that
her memory has not failed and that she is very intelligent
Given under my hand this the 7th
day of April 1857
s/ Elias Wall magistrate

Jane McClure is a credible and
disinterested witness of said district
on oath says that she is the niece of James McDowel whose heirs are now applicants for a pension in right of their mother Mariann McDowell and always understood that the said James was a soldier in the army of the Revolution and was generally in
service untill the close of the war
in the Militia and State Troop but cannot say what rank he held
but that the opinion was General
and never doubted that he was generally in service from the Indian campaign untill the cease of the war as her Father in law John McLure a United States pensioner often told her that James McDowel her said uncle and him were in
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sevice together, and lived, as they
had been raised together on Parker
Olitte River, Col Robert
Jarry

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untill her death, the said James
died long first, and that there was
but one James McDowell in all
the bounds of these acquaintance and that was the above named James McDowel, and that she is now
53 years of age and has no interest in this claim. s/ Jane McClure
Sworn to and subscribed this 7th
day of April 1857 Before me
s/ Elias Wall magistrate

Charles McClure a highly credible
Citizen of said district aged 60 years
and disinterested, on oath says that
he  is the son of the above mentioned
John McClure and that he fully concurs in statements made by his wife Jane McClure as the belief has always been general and never doubted, and that he has no interest in this claim. s/ Charles McClure
Sworn to and subscribed this
7th day of April 1857.
s/ Elias Wall magistrate

Major Oliver Clark a highly
credible citizen of said District
aged 55 years who being first due
by sworn according to law on
Cain says that he is the Nephew
of James McDowell above named and lived near the said James

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his uncle about one mile distant, untill the death of his widow Marian McDowel, and always understood and believes that the said James McDowel was a soldier in the army of the revolution and that he was generally in service untill the close of the war but cannot say what rank he held and always heard that Robert brother the said James, was a Capt and in the time of the war and never knew any other James McDowell who done service in the revolution and that the services were well known and never doubted of either of the above named McDowels and that he has no interest in this application
Sworn to and Subscribed this 7th day of April A.D. 1857
Oliver Clark
Before me,
Elias Wall Magistrate
and I certify that I have no Interest in this application 7th of April A.D. 1857
Elias Wall Magistrate

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Lowery Burnett a credible citizen of Spartanburg District also on oath before me the subscribing magistrate says that he always understood and believes that James McDowel whose heirs are now applicants for a pension in [illegible] of their mother Mariann McDowel, wife and widow of the said James McDowel, was a soldier in the army of the revolution and has often heard him speak of his service in the revolution and was called Capt. when he first knew him, but cannot say what ranks he held and knows from report Col Roebuck Commanded the Militia of Packolette River, and its vicinity that he knew the said Capt James McDowel from his first recollection to the time of his death and never heard his service doubted but he and his brother Robert, was regarded as very brave men, and had rendered the country good service, and that he Deponent is in his fifty ninth year, and has no interest in this claim, and that he was raise within four miles of the said Capt James McDowel and of met him at church, muster, and else where in the neighborhood and has no doubt of his

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service and that was high my ordeal 
Sworn to and subscribed the 8th day of April A.D. 1857.
Lowry Burnett
Before me Henry White Magestrat

Solomon Abbott a Revolutionary pensioner of United States and a very credible citizen of said District aged 96 years who being first duly sworn according to law on oath says that he was well acquainted with James McDowel whose heirs are now applicants for a pension and saw him
in service Colonel Roebuck's Regiment, Captain Parsons Company but cannot say how long he served or what Rank he held but well recollects that he and his brother Robert were the best of soldiers and served with the Citizens of that vicinity almost constantly until the close of the war
as he often saw them in service and that they as well as himself were horsemen, but that he did not serve in the State Troop but always understood that James McDowel was an officer in said service, and Commanded a Company after the close of the war and was a leading man in his neighborhood and that he has no interest in this application and that

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at Cap. William Young, Capt Parsons,  the McDowels, McClures and
many others, that were Pennsylvania
Irish and as brave men as he ever
knew. Solomon Abbott X his  mark
Sworn to and subscribed this 9th day of April 1857. before me
Elias Wall
Magistrate                                                     

South Carolina Spartanburg District 
I the said Magistrate certify that Solomon Abbott who sworn to and subscribed the above affidavit before me is a very creditable witness of sound mind and memory and from appearance is the age he represents himself to be and a revolutionary pensioner and that I have no Interest in this claim. Given under my hand the day above Written
Elias Wall Magt.

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State of South Carolina
Spartanburg District
I, J. B. Tolleson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas & General Sessions for the district & state aforesaid do hereby Certify that H White & Elias Wall Esqrs. before whom the within affidavits was made is and was Magistrates for the district & State aforesaid who had been duly appointed and qualified and the Signatures purporting to be theirs is genuine and that all due faith and credit Should be given to all their officed acts as such  I further certify that I am acquainted with Solomon Abbott May Oliver Clark Charles Mclure and Lowery Burnett whose Signatures appears to the foregoing affidavits & have no hesitancy in saying they are all persons. of high credibility & knew Solomon Abbott is of Sound mind & memory and that the character of the other witnesses is very good.
In testimoney whereof I have hereunto Set my hand, & affixed my seal of office at Spartanburgh Court House this 11th day of April 1857
J B Tolleson
Clerk

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REJECTED
6695.
Mary Ann McDowell
Service: James

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No 15, 457
Mary Ann McDowell
decd Widow of James
S. Carolina
A.S. Wallace May 26, 1857

6695
Act July 7. 1838

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the
Hon G. C. Whiting
Com of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

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Yorkville So.Ca
4th May 1857.

Hon G. C. Whiting
Com of Pensions

My Dr Sir,

I herewith
hand you 
the Claim of Mariann
McDowel which you will pleas
Examine and report to me as soo
as convenent.

Very Respectfully Yours
A.S. Wallace

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James. Dowell's
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Indents sc Accts
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Issued the 1st October 1784 to Mr James McDowell late Lieutent. Hills Regimt. Sumpter's Brigade for ninety four pounds Sterling being amount pay and bounty due him for services in that Regiment together with interest thereon from the first April 1782 to date hereof agreeable to resolution of General Assembly of of the Eleventh March last.
Principal £94..0.0
Interest  6..11.7
£86..10.8
Col. Hill's Regmt. pay roll shows the duty above refered to have been five months as Lieutenant 1781 to 1786 WMR Huntt Dep. C.G. Issued 22nd Augt. 86 to Jas. McDowell £77.0.0. Stg duty in Roebuck's Regt. pr act audited
Interest £5..7..9

No. 114
3615. X  No. 114 22d aug '86
James McDowel for Militia Duty, since the fall of Charleston in Roebuck's Regiment p Anderson's Return
Curry £539..-.--
Stg £77.-.-
State of South Carolina
To James. McDowel
For Militia Duty in Roebuck's Regt. since the fall of Charlestown Pr Anderson's Return
Amotg to Currency .....£539. - . -
Stg. £77..-..-
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[margin]
No. 163
Lib. M

No 3615
Lib.

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Gentlemen,
Please to deliver to George Salmon an Indent for my account against the Public of South Carolina in order to enable him to pay the purchase money on the following tracts of Land, viz; my own 200 acres David McDowell 200 acres & 150 acres all below the Line and you'll oblige your
Noble Servt
James McDowell

March the 5th 1787
To the Commr. of th Public Treasury
Thos. Brandon J.P.
P.S. If any should be wanting of Robt. McDowell's Indent to pay for Mrs. Lewis' Land please to take it out of mine.
Recd. full satisfaction for the within in an Indent No. 3615 X p order
G. Salmon

Comptroller Genls Office
Columbia April 23d 1857
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy from the original Indents and Accounts on file in this office.
Given Under my hand
W.M.R. Huntt
Dep. Comp. Genl.
(No Seal of Office)

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SEAL  [illegible]