Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [BLANK], Benjamin Fowler, R.I.

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SERVICE
R. J.

Fowler, Benjamin

NUMBER
Dis.
No papers

CONTENTS

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Fowler, Benjamin
His name appears on a list of applicants
for invalid pension returned by the District Court
for the District of Rhode Island, submitted to
the House of Representatives by the Secretary of
War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the
American State Papers, class 9, page 91.

Rank: Private.
Regt: Rhode Island.
Disability: Had the misfortune to lose one of his
eyes by the small-pox while in the service of the
United States, and under the command of Colonel
Benedict Arnold, at Quebec; that since the war
he has had one leg amputated, which has reduced
him to great want and distress, having for several
years subsisted on charitable contributions, being
unable to obtain a livelihood by labor.
When disabled: 1775.
Residence: Providence.
Remarks: Benjamin Fowler, of Colonel Angel's
regiment, enlisted March 15, 1777, and continued to
the end of the war.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court
not complete.

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No certificate of any freeholder. No examination of
surgeons. These are accounted for under the hand of
Henry Marchant, District Judge, by declaring that
Benjamin Fowler's loss of an eye and a leg render
a surgeon's certificate unnecessary; and that the said
Fowler was not able to obtain any certificates from
reputable freeholders, on account of his wandering
and unsettled life. Small-pox is the known cause
of the loss of his eye, and not a wound


A.J.F. (?)
May 16, 1906.