Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14720, Nathan Trowant, Mass.

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Trowant, Nathan
S 14720
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21. 833. Massachusetts Nathan Snowart
of Plym on the list the State of Mass who was a private in the Corp. commanded by Captain Rousseville of the Regt - commanded by Col. Saney in the Mass line for 14 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 16 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 th day of Nov. 1833 and settled J. H. Lord Plymouth
Arrears to the 14th of Sep. 33 $116.66 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 M '34 23.33 $139.99
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. G. C. [unclear]
Recorded by G. C. [unclear] Clerk Book E Vol. 1, Page 85
Plym

Reserve
14720 INVALID.
File No. 14720
Nathan Trowant
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 379
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Declaration of Nathan Frowant
21. 9. 21. 6.
Private 14 Months Capt. Rouse's Company Col. Morris' Regt. Mass.
Jacob H. Stone
J. H. Stone Esq. Plymouth Mass.

State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth ss.
On this first — day of August 1832, personally appeared before Hon. Wilkes Wood Esq: Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the said County of Plymouth, Nathan Frownt a resident of Middleborough in the County & State aforesaid, aged seventy nine years & being by reason of advanced age & infirmity of body unable to travel & attend any Court of Record within said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of longness passed June 7 th 1832. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in stated;
That in the year 1775 and according to the best of his recollection about the first of May of that year he enlisted as a volunteer & private into the Company of Infantry commanded by Capt. Levi Roundhill for the term of Eight months & then immediately marched to & was stationed at Roxbury in the vicinity of Boston & State of Massachusetts and belonged to Col. Brewn's Regiment, and served there for the said period of eight months in said Capt. Roundhill's Company when he was discharged. That the time of his discharge was about the first of January in the year 1776. That he had no written discharge. That he has no documentary

Evidence of this service, and he knows of no person living who served in the same Company with him - but Philip Hathaway who served at the same time in another Company stationed at the same place is still living whose deposition is annexed.
That afterwards in the summer of the year 1776 & according to the best of his recollection in the month of July of that year, he enlisted & served for the period of six months in the Company of Capt. Nathaniel Wood in Col. Paine's Regiment & Genl. Fellows Brigade - that he enlisted in said Middletborough and was marched with said Company by way of Providence & New London to New York and there joined the Regiment & Brigade aforesaid, and was stationed in the vicinity of the City of New York - that during said time he was in the Battle at White Plains - that this term of service expired some time in the month of January in the year 1777 when he was discharged - but had no written discharge - That he is confident this period of service was six months and that it was performed in the vicinity of New York but whether it was militia or continental service he does not know - he has no documentary evidence; but Nathaniel Wood who served with him in the same Company is still living & will testify as to this period of service - That he was born in the Town of Middletborough and resided there at the several times when entered the service as before stated, and now resides at said Middletborough, and

has always resided there except when absent at sea. He was born on the twenty third day of March 1754. - He has no record of his age
That he is known to Seth Miller Esq., Col Benjamin P. Wood Capt. Nathaniel Staples, Nathaniel Maconochie & Ziba Eaton who reside in his neighbourhood & who can testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services in the war of the Revolution, and that there is no clergyman who resides in his immediate vicinity.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not borne on the Pension roll of the agency of any State.
Nathan Grownant I swear to and subscribe this 13th day of August A.D. 1833. Before me Wilkes Wood Judge of Probate.
We Ziba Eaton & Benjamin P. Wood both of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathan Grownant who has subscribed the above declaration - that he resides in the Town of Middleborough, that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is respected & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the War of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Ziba Eaton Benjamin P. Wood County of Plymouth ss. August 8. 1833. - Personally appeared Ziba Eaton & Benjamin P. Wood well known to me to be persons of good reputation for truth & veracity & entitled to full credit & made oath to the above Wilkes Wood Judge of Probate. -

Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Hon. Wilkes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the several forego- ing signatures purporting to be his are genuine & that these are the original papers in the Application of Nathan Dowant for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court this sixteenth day of August A.D. 1833.
Jacob H. Lord
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I Nathaniel Cole of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts age twenty three years on oath depose & say that I am now well acquainted with Nathan Knowant of said Middleborough and have known him for a great number of years, that in the month of July 1776 said Knowant enlisted as a private in the company of Capt Nathaniel Wood for the period of six months, and soon afterwards marched from said Middleborough by way of Providence to the City of New York & joined the Regiment of Col. Cane in Genl. Fellows Brigade and was stationed in the vicinity of New York until the expiration of said period of six months, which took place some time in the month of January 1777 when he was discharged - and that I enlisted into said Company & marched in the same - Company with said Knowant & served therein during the whole period of six months which was the term for which the Company was raised & the Company was engaged in the Battle at White Plains .
Nathaniel Cole
I on my oath of Massachusetts Plymouth ss On the 5 th day of August A.D. 1833, personally appeared Nathaniel Cole above named and made solemn oath to the truth of the above written Affidavit by him subscribed. Before me Isaac Stevens Justice of the Peace
Augt. 5. to 1833 I hereby certify that Nathaniel Cole who has sworn to & subscribed the above written affidavit is a Credible Witness - Isaac Stevens Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth, do hereby certify that Isaac Stevens Esq. is a justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this seventeenth day of August A.D. 1833
Jacob H. Lord

I Philip Hatheway of Freetown in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, Clerk, being in the thirty eighth year of my age, do testify and say that Nathan Frown of said - - village in the county of Plymouth and State aforesaid with whom I have been acquainted from the days of my boyhood to the present time, did serve as a Private soldier in the in the Revolu- tionary war, in a company of Infantry commanded by Capt. Ken- nedy, in Col. Brown's Regiment, for and during the term of Eight months. - said Frown, I have lately seen & he is the same person for whom I am now testifying, who served a term of Eight months under Capt. Kenneddy. - said Frown served during said period at Roxbury in the vicinity of Boston from about the first day of May 1775 to about the first day of January 1776. - During said period I was a soldier in a company of Infantry under Capt. Isaac Wood in Col. Cotton's Regiment, & stationed at Roxbury aforesaid and but a few rods from the place where the company to which Frown belonged was stationed. - I served as a forward eight months and was discharged at the same time when Frown was discharged. - Philip Hatheway
June 28 th 1833 - Bristol ss. Then personally appeared Philip Hatheway who subscribed the above statement, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, Before me. Nathaniel P. Hatheway, Justice of the Peace
June 28 th 1833 - I certify that Philip Hatheway who subscribed the above affidavit is a credible person and that his statement above, is entitled to full faith and credit. - E. P. Hatheway, Just. of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bristol ss. I Anselm Barrett, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that Elizabeth P. Hathaway Esquire, before whom the within affidavit was sworn, is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Bristol, and that I believe his name thereunto subscribed, to be his true and proper signature -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this first day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty three Anselm Barrett