Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,542, Thomas Crowel, Mass. Va.

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Service                                        Number
Mass.            Crowel, Thomas     R. 2542
Va.

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No 1350
Thomas Conwell's
application for a pension
July 1832
( A private)
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United States of America.
Main District SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the twenty sixth day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two before the Honorable Ashur Ware, Judge of said Court.
On this twenty sixth day of July - aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Thomas Crowell a resident of Brunswick in the county of Cumberland in said Main District, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to oath, doth on his oath passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service in the United States [ ] the following named officers and served as herein stated viz that [crossed out] he served in a Company commanded by Capt. [ ] in the Regt commanded by Col. Morgan in the Virginia State troops and that her served two or three years and was discharged at Valley Forge - that he Previously served under Capt. [ ] also and was at Ticonderoga and Saratoga and at the taking of Burgoyne in Oct. 1777 - That he was at Monmouth Battle - and afterwards that he was transferred to Col. Morgan Regt and that with said troops through Pennsylvania to South Carolina and returned with the [ ] again after having been at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina. That he has lost his discharge but presumes his name can be found on the roll, in the War Department. He remembers being under Gen Gates, after the taking of Burgoyne and General Arnold he remembers also. That he was born in Limerick in Ireland Dec. 21 1760, that a record of his age at [ ] in a Bible at Brunswick [ ]. That he lived in Boston when he first entered the service & was soon after transferred into the above named Company. He first enlisted under Capt. Dodge in the Massachusetts militia before he was transferred in the year 1776. That he en-listed as a volunteer and served as a sergeant
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on

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I, Philip Owen of Brunswick do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Thomas Crowell who I subscribe and swear to foregoing declaration with ease will remember seeing him at Ticonderoga where he was a soldier in the Army and I frequently saw him with the troops there. I was also a soldier at the same time with the army there which was in 1776 and I believe he is of the age he represents, I thought he performed all the services he has stated. I have always known him since the service. I often asked him why he did not apply for a pension, and he replied that he could live without it, was not enough then. he is now poor and needs his pension.- Philip Owen

Subscribed sworn to the day before, Ashur Ware, U.S. Judge for the District of Maine
 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting
the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states, and that Philip Owen who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing deposition is a credible & reputable witness- Ashur Ware [illegible]
I, John Mussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine
District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of Thomas Crowell
for a pension.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court, on this twenty seventh day of July
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty - two
John Mussey Clerk of the U. States District
Court for Maine District.
not on Roll of Pelham Regt
No Capt [illegible] in Regt

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The officer Thomas Crowell would amend his aforesaid declaration by stating more particularly, as follows That early in the Spring of the year 1776 he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt James Shaw at Windham, Maine and went with said Co, to Ticonderoga and our company was joined to Col Putnams Regt He serves as a Sergeant in said Company for the term of two years and he thinks six months, but he is certain not less than two years & four months that he was at the Capture of Burgoyne in 1777--that he was also in Monmouth Battle and after that Battle, he was transferred into a Company of Virginia State troops commanded, as he believes, by  Capt [ ], and in Colonial Morgans Regt and marched with same Company through Pennsylvania to South Carolina, and was at the Battle of Cowpens and was there wounded by a shot in his leg -that afterwards said company returned to Valley Forge and was there discharged in the fall of the year 1781-as near as he can recollect and he then returned back to Brunswick, Maine where he has ever since resident and now resides- That he served in Col Morgans Regiment two years, as he verily believes- & that the service as a Sergeant also in that Regt and service over four years in all in the Revolutionary War. He also served two years as a sergeant & Clerk in Capt [ ] Gof and Goe ile Gobby Regiment in the last War with England--That he lived in Boston at the commencement of the Revolution -and went to Windham in the District of Maine--and there enlisted and has first above stated in Capt Shaws Company: before he left Boston he enlisted in a Company commanded by Capt [ ]-- Tho. Russell, with whom he lived, bought him off and he did not serve in that Company- and soon after he travelled into the District of Maine and came to Windham aforesaid- where he first enlisted under Capt Shaw.
Thomas Crowel
Subscribed & sworn to this 8th day of June 1833
Before me
Joseph Pope
 Justice of the Peace

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Maine District
District Clerk's Office January 1, 1834
In testimony that Joseph Pope is a Magistrate as within & the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine I have hereto set my hand & seal of office the day & year last above written
John Mussey Clerk U.S. Court

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston; July 25 1845.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Thomas Crowell is not found upon the rolls of any office of the name of Shaw;- there are no rolls here of Morgan's Command, and there is no evidence whatever shown by any of the records, of service of any one of the name as described in the annexed application.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

John G Palfry;
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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To the Secretary of State, Massachusetts-
Judith Crowell widow of Thomas Crowell late of Brunswick requests evidence of the services of her late husband in the army of the Revolution.
She believes that said Thomas Crowell served at least two years - That he enlisted from Falmouth in the State of Maine under enlisting officer Lt. Shaw that he was, a ready penman, and was employed as an orderly Sergeant - in what Company or Regiment she is unable to state - but thinks he was removed into Morgan's Regiment - And on account of his qualifications as a writer was probably removed from one Company to another - She therefore requests the Secretary of State to comb the rolls and other Revolutionary documents to be searched and a certificate granted of all the services of said Thomas Crowell, (or Crowel as he sometimes wrote it) in whatever Regiment or company it may have been performed. 
Judith Crowell
Cumberland ss May 2d 1845 signed in my presence
Jacob Herrick Justice of Peace

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United States of America
State of Maine

On this fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one,
Personally appeared before the Honorable Ashur Ware, Judge of the United States, District Court for the District of Maine, Lucy Bowe a resident of Topsham in the County of Lincoln and State aforesaid aged forty nine years - Who having been duly sworn according to law, on oath makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June the 7th A.D. 1832.
And this Declarant states that she is the only surviving child of Thomas Crowell, late of Brunswick, in the State of Maine, who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war and served therein, three years at least. That her father the said Thomas Crowell was a Foreigner by birth, that he came to America in the time of

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or immediately preceeding the Revolution and served therein the principal part of the war. That after the war he settled in Brunswick aforesaid and resided there untill the time of his death which took place on the 10th day of November A.D. 1844 - That she is the only surviving child of said Thomas - That she is a child of his first wife who died many years ago - That her said father married again after 1800 and left his last wife a widow at the time of his death and that said second wife died some two years ago having no children by said Thomas Crowell. And now this declarant claims the amount of Pension due her father under the act aforesaid from the 4th of March 1831 to the time of his death - And for proof of this declaration she refers to the proof supposed to be in the Pension office at Washington and to the papers hereto annexed.

Lucy Bowe
Signed & sworn to before me this 14th day of March 1854
Ashur Ware

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2542.
P.O. Thomas Crowell
Service:

Enlisted: ____, 18
Discharged: ______, 18
REJECTED

Application filed: __, 18

Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

_____ Recognized. ______Contract
______ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _______, 18

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No. 1350

Thomas Crowell
Maine

Act of 7th June 1832

To Dickins & Coombs 20th June 51
G. G. H[illegible] Aug 5/53
April 29/34

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Maine
______
Thomas Crowell
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Suspended
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1 And John Mussey

apl 9th 1834
letter W. P. Fessendon July 19 1841

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April. 24th. 1853.
To the pension department,
City of Washington,
D.C.
It is respectfully requested, in behalf of the children of Thomas Crowell deceased a revolutionary soldier, to know whether the claim of said Thomas Crowell made by him, under act of 1832 is of late allowed or not, It is for the satisfaction of his children that the questions are asked, when the claim was allowed, who the certificate was issued to, and how much per annum, or the whole amount of pension to be paid to Mrs. Bowe & Children of the other claimant, deceased -
Both living at the time the soldier made his declaration, Mrs. Bowe is the only surviving child of Thomas Crowell, the soldier, & declarant, now living.
Please answer, the amount in all, who the certificate was granted to, where payable, & when it was allowed.
Respectfully &c
per order, G. G. Hannawell
North Pownal Maine

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STATE OF MAINE.

CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts,
PORTLAND, March 22nd A.D 1851}
I, Charles C. Harmon,
CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Jacob Herrick and Nathaniel Badger
are Acting Justices of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the papers hereto annexed; that they are DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Herrick is dated July 21st A.D. 1848 and will expire July 21st A.D. 1855 And that the Commission of the said Badger is dated July 29th A.D. 1849 and will expire July 29th 1836

and that the following SIGNATURES purporting to be theirs are Genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.

C. C. Cannon CLERK.

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State of Maine, Cumberland County
Town of Brunswick, Town Clerk's office March 15th 1837
In a book of Records of Deaths which have taken place in said Town page 416 the following death is recorded 
Viz Thomas Crowell died November the tenth One thousand eight hundred and forty five aged ninety years. The foregoing is a true Copy of the Record excepting the date, which is expressed in full legible characters and figures thus "November 10h 1844 aged 90 years."

Attest
Nathaniel Badger Town Clerk

I Nathaniel Badger, on oath depose and say that I am Town Clerk of Brunswick aforesaid duly chosen and sworn. That the Records of said Town are in my sole custody. That the foregoing Certificate was taken from said Records and is a true extract from the same with the exceptions above noted by me. I also depose and say, That I was well acquain

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-ted with Thomas Crowell whose death is recorded on the book - 
That said Thomas was reputed to have been a Revolutionary soldier. That his widow is not living and that Lucy Bowe of Topsham wife of Hiram Bowe is the only surviving child of said Thomas Crowell.

Nathaniel Badger

State of Maine Cumberland ss
March 15th 1857 subscribed and sworn before me
Jacob Herrick Just. Peace.

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I Shimuel Owen of Danville, County, of Cumberland and state of Maine aged seventy nine years, on oath depose testify and say that I am a native of Brunswick and resided there untill about ten years ago, when I removed to my present residence in Danville.
I am brother of the late Philip Owen of said Brunswick, who died in 1849 -
Said Philip Owen my brother was a Soldier of the Revolutionary Army and a Pensioner of the United States.
I have seen a deposition made by my said brother before Jacob Herrick Esq dated May 2nd 1845 - The signature to said Deposition purporting to be his is genuine, in his own hand writing with which I am familiar, verilly I have repeatedly heard him my brother Philip relate the same facts, concerning Thomas Crowell which are embured in said Deposition. My brother has often remarked to me that Crowell was as much entitled to a pension as any Soldier of the Revolutionary Army,
I also depose and say, that I was myself

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personally acquainted with said Thomas Crowell. I always considered him to have been a Revolutionary soldier. He was reputed by the inhabitants of Brunswick generally, to have been such.
There was no more doubt among his Neighbors and friends and his fellow townsmen of his having been a Revolutionary Soldier than there was of my brother Philip. I also depose and say, that Philip Owen before named was a man of the strictest truth and veracity and that any statement made by him under oath or not are entitled to full confidence and belief
Shimuel Owen

State of Maine Cumberland SS Feb 4h 1851
Sworn and subscribed before me,
Jacob Herrick Just. Peac.

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the Rev. Shimuel Owen the above named affiant, for more than thirty years. That he is a worthy Clergyman of the Baptist Denomination, that he was

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for a long time Pastor of a Church in Brunswick, that he still preaches occasionally, and that his character for truth and veracity, is unimpeachable,
Jacob Herrick

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I Dean Swift of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged fifty eight years, on oath depose, testify and say that I was personally acquainted with Thomas Crowell who died in this Town in 1844 -
Said Crowell was a foreigner by birth but had resided in Brunswick ever since my remembrance. In my younger days I took great interest in listening to Crowell's stories in relation to the incidents of the Revolutionary war. I have frequently heard the same corroborated by other men who knew him in the Revolutionary Army
Crowell always told me that he belonged to Morgan's Rifle Regiment, that he had to act as Sergeant on account of his Penmanship - Mr Philip Owen deceased who was a Revolutionary Soldier and U.S. Pensioner has many times told me that he knew Crowell well as belonging to the Revolutionary Army while stationed at Ticonderoga and other places. Some time in 1840 Crowell told me he was aware of getting a pension, for one of his old pupils, W. H. Harrison was elected president

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and that he was determined to travel to Washington and have an interview in regard to his claim for Military service in the Revolutionary war.
Crowell said that he could by an interview convince the President that he Crowell had been the President's instructor in Richmond when said Harrison was six or seven years of age. I also depose and say that the said Thomas Crowell was always mentioned among the Revolutionary Soldiers residing in this place, He was so reputed by all his acquaintances. I never heard one person doubt the fact. I myself no more doubt it than I do that the late Philip Owen was one. I also depose and say that said Crowell was since married but there is no widow remaining and that his only living child is Lucy Bowe wife of Hiram Bowe of Topsham.
Dean Swift
State of Maine Cumberland ss
March 15th 1857 subscribed and sworn before me
Nathaniel Badger Just. Peac.

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I Nathaniel Badger hereby certify that Dean Swift who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavits is personally known to me, as a witness of Respectability whose statements under Oath are entitled to full credit and belief -
Nathaniel Badger

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I Philip Owen of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged eighty nine years, depose and say that I was a soldier in the army of the Revolutionary war in the year 1777. belonging to the 11th Regiment of Massachusetts being commanded by Col. Francis - That I was present when Col. Francis was killed at Hubbartstown & but a short distance from him - That after Col. Francis death the Regiment was commanded by Col. Tupper of Deerfield - I also depose and say that while at Ticonderoga I became acquainted with Thomas Crowell an Irishman, who frequently came to our Regiment to see his Countrymen.
I further depose and say that after the close of Revolutionary war the said Crowell came to Brunswick before named to reside and so resided  there until his death in 1844. - That I was well acquainted with said Crowell and that he was the identical person with whom I became acquainted in the Army, and that he the said Thomas Crowell was a soldier in the Revolutionary war in the three years service - I also depose and say that several years ago when Crowell was desirous of obtaining a pension he came to me in company with Lt. Shaw - And that said Lt Shaw stated to me that he enlisted Crowell at Falmouth in the State of Maine - That said Crowell

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was Clerk of his company. That he wrote a good hand and was a valuable assistant - That said Crowell was drafted into Morgan's Regiment, which Lt Shaw much regretted on account of his writes with his pen as aforesaid - 
And this deponent further saith that he has not the Court doubt but that the said Thomas Crowell was a soldier in the army aforesaid and that he served three years therein.
Philip Owen
Cumberland ss subscribed and sworn to before me this 2d day of May AD. 1845

Jacob Herrick Justice of Peace

I Nathaniel Badger of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, on oath depose and say, that I was well acquainted with Philip Owen above named for the term of forty years previous to his death, he having lived the last twenty years in my family, That he was a man of the strictest integrity whose statements under oath, were entitled to full credit & belief in and out of Court. I also in like manner testify that, the above signature purporting to be his, the said Philip Owens is genuine I having been familiar with his hand writing, and after having seen him write
Nathaniel Badger
State of Maine Cumberland ss February 5h 1857
Personally appeared the above named Nathaniel Badger personally known to me as a Gentleman whose statements under oath are entitled to full

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Credit and belief in and out of Court and made oath to the truth of the within affidavit by him signed before me,
Jacob Herrick Just. Peac.

State of Maine
Cumberland ss
Clerks Office Judicial Courts Portland March 2nd 1851
I Charles C. Harmon Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Cumberland certify that Jacob Herrick was an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Cumberland in the 2nd day of May A.D. 1845 as appears by the paper on the foregoing page, That he was duly qualified to act as such that the Commission of the said Herrick was dated September 24 1841 and expired September 24 A.D. 1848 and that the foregoing signature purporting to be of the date of May 2d A.D. 1848 is genuine. I also certify that the said Jacob Herrick was on the fifth day of February A.D. 1851 and is now an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Cumberland as appears by his signature above that he was then and is now duly qualified to act as such that the late Commission of the said Herrick is dated July 21st A.D. 1848 and will expire July 21st A.D. 1855 and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State the day and year first above written
C. C. Cannon Clerk

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Washington March 31st 1887.

Sir:
We herewith enclose the declaration of Lucy Bowe, of Maine, claiming arrears of Pension due her father Thomas Crowell decd. under the Act of 1832.
There is no record evidence of said Crowells services, but the enclosed deposition of Philip Owen, taken in 1845, with the very satisfactory testimonials as to said Philip Owens character, we hope will be considered sufficient to establish the claim.
We suppose there are other papers on file in the Pension Office, relating to the Claim, forwarded by Crowell in his life-time.
Very respectfully
Your obt servt,
Dickins & Cowls

J E Heath Esq
Comr of Pensions

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House of Reps.
July 19, 1841

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir,
Thomas Crowell of Brunswick, Maine, enlisted in the service of the U.S. in 1776. under a Capt. Reed, of Topsham. He was at Ticonderoga & Saratoga then he was transferred to Morgan's Rifle Corps, & served until the end of the war, as Sergeant. & was for a time Quarter Master Sergeant.
He is desirous of having the records searched, to see if there can be found any evidence of his service with a view of obtaining a pension which he needs.
By causing an examination & a communication it is sent to me
You will much oblige. Yr obt. Servt.
W. P. Fessender

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Thomas Crowell
Maine

Susp Oct 7 late
1832.


Evans & Faunt

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KNOW ALL MEN, BY THESE PRESENTS,
That I Lucy Bowe of Saco, in the County of York & State of Maine, married lady, ( daughter of Thomas Crowell deceased, a soldier of the Revolution,) do hereby constitute and irrevocably appoint Messers, Evans & Fant of the city of Washington D.C. my irrevocable, true and lawful Attorney, with power of substitution under this my power of Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute my claim for any pension arrearage, or increase of pension, or pension and bounty land, which may be due me on account of the Military services of Thomas Crowell in the Revolutionary war of the United States, in consequence of any act of Congress now in force, or which may be hereafter passed, applicable to the same, but not to draw or receive any money therefore. And I hereby authorize my said Attorney, or his substitute, to examine all papers or documents on file in the Department at Washington or elsewhere, and file any additional evidence or arguments they may think proper, to insure the speedy recovery of my said claim prosecuted under act of 1832. Witness my hand and seal this twenty first day of April A.D. 1854
Signed and Sealed in presence of 
3 As Witnesses,
justified by
Augustus D. Bowe.
Ethan S. Paul.
Lucy Bowe
Saco, April 21, 1854.

State of Maine, York County, SS, signed and sealed and acknowledged to be her free act and deed by the above named Lucy Bowe before me, the day of the year first above written.
Joseph T. Nye. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.