Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 36839, Robert Wardell, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Wardell Robert, Fowler or
NUMBER
S 36839 B.L. Wt. 155-100- Issued Mar 21, 1804
CONTENTS

Date of death not on QB
Major E. Foster, San Ann, French Rev. War 1758-1763
16.951. Indiana
Robert Wardell, or Fowler of Clarke Co. in the state of Indiana who was a Musician in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shreve of the N. Jersey line, for the term of the war.
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of July 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th of May 1820 and sent to John Buggs Esq. Charleston, Indiana.
Arrears to 4th of March 1820 -- 159.74 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1820. 40.00 19 mos. \frac{30}{31} 207.74
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Clarke Co.

District of Columbia. 3 November Term Scott County Circuit Court 1820.
To this court the day of November 1820 person- ally appeared in open court being a court of record for the county of Scott in said district Robert Warrell aged sixty one years resident in said district Lexington Township in Scott County in said district formerly belonging to Clark County was being first duly sworn according to law and on his oath, declared that he served in the Revolution- ary war as follows: in the Second Regiment of New Jersey in which regiment he enlisted in Cap- tain John Philip's Company which said Regiment was commanded by Colonel Israel Shreve. Deponent further saith that the company aforesaid to which he belonged was transferred to the first Regiment in New Jersey commanded by Colonel Ogden; in the company formerly com- manded by the late Jonathan Philips, but after- wards commanded by Abiel Brown. And I do solemnly swear that I applied at the Bank at Vincennes to the cashier Mr. Boudinot on the on the the fourth day of March September last for the claim due to me  from under my  the certificate which the said cashier informed me  that he was not furnished to either with orders or funds in con- sequence of which I did not receive any money upon my said certificate. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself 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 18 th 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.
Robert Wendell
Sworn to and declared on in open Court Nov. 4 th 1820 James Ward
Clerk
I James Ward Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property now exhibited in the said Schedule is $77.49.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 4 th day of November 1820.

Schedule
One old loom $ 6 } per acre. 20.00 One gun — 6 } Sum total 77.49 One old table — 2 } Family. Four chairs — 2 } Wife about 50 years One 12 gallon kettle 2 50 } Sarah — 19 years One old broken 10 gallon d o 1 25 } Rebecca — 18 d o One 5 gallon d o — 2 } Robert — 13 d o One old oven without a lid } Thomas — 13 d o One pot, One pot-trammel 2 } Charles — 7 d o One suphs. One Sickle, } One paster dish 1 25 } One heffer. Five sheep 20 } Two old spinning wheels 2 } One large spinning wheel 1 25 } One tin bucket — 0 75 } One wooden bucket 0 37 } Four tin cups 0 25 } One plough (old) 2 00 } Two old shoes. Two old 50 } Two old axes. Two knives, forks 25 } Two old pair of geer 1 } One old Bible. — 0 37 } Two Books called — 1 00 } one the English reader and } one the sequel — 1 } Four spelling books. 0 50 } A book called the Young Mans } Companion — 2 50 } A small portion of corn } in the husk about 8 acres } at an average of 8 or 10 bushels
Family. Wife about 50 years Sarah — 19 years Rebecca — 18 d o Robert — 13 d o Thomas — 13 d o Charles — 7 d o 
Five other of my children are of age; but three of them contribute to my support. I am not able to work or do any thing towards my support.
Occupation A Farmer; but not able to work in con- sequence of infirmity. One child living with me named Sarah who contributes to my sup- port; I have three chil- dren who are dependent wholly on me for support
Ernest Mansell

Rev. Lyman
Robert Fowler
183
New Jersey line
D. F. M. Van Horn, Member of Congress. 21. March 1817.
Lodged by Mr. Fearing
Accompanying John Armstrong's petition copy of Engraving

Know all Men by these Presents that I Robert Fowler of the County of Knox and Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio, a Soldier in the late American Revolution enlisted under Capt Jonathan Philips in year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight during the War and served five years part of the time in the Company under the Command of the said Jonathan Philips of the Second Regiment and the Remainder part of the time under the Command of Capt. Abel Dayman of the First Regiment both of the Jersey Line, And Whereas the said Robert Fowler was Properly discharged from said Service and am entitled unto one hundred acres of Land as a bounty granted unto the said Soldier for the said Services, Now know Ye that I have
made constituted and appointed and by these Presents do make ordain constitute and appoint Colonel John Armstrong of the County of Hamilton and Territory aforesaid by true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to ask demand and receive of the Secretary of War or such other Person as shall be appointed for granting Warrants for the said bounty, a Warrant for me for the said one hundred acres of Land and in my name for the Services aforesaid to my use, And for whatsoever my said Attorney shall lawfully do in or about the Premises aforesaid these Presents shall be

be to him a sufficient Warrant.
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal at Cincinnati, the seventeenth day of August in the Year of our Lord 1799.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of David E Wade
Robert Fowler
Sally Prince
Hamilton Js
Personally came before me Joseph Prince one of the Justices of the Peace to keep the peace for said County the above named Robt Fowler and acknowledged the within instrument to be his voluntary act & deed for the purposes & consideration in witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal this seventeenth day of Aug 1799
Joseph Prince

Territory of the United States North West of the Ohio — } Hamilton County ss.
I John S. Gano Clerk of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of said County, do Certify that the within mentioned Joseph Prince before whom the acknowledgement within stated was taken is and was at the time of the taking thereof one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace within & for said County. & that full faith & Credit is and ought to be given to all his acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of our said Court of Gen l Quarter Sessions of the Peace at Cin- cinnati this Seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord 1799
John S. Gano Clerk

State Indiana } Clark - County }
Pursuant to a law passed by Congress on the 13th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Robert Wardell formerly Robert Fowler of the County and State aforesaid personally appeared before me John Beggs one of the Associate Judges for the County aforesaid and being duly sworn before me on  July on the 27th day of May  July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Deposeth and saith that some time in the months of February or March on he thinks on February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy- eight that he enlisted in the service of the United States under Captain Jonathan Phillips in the second Jersey Regiment Commanded by Col Israel Slevos he further states that some time in the latter part one thousand seven hundred & eighty two or in the beginning of eighty three the second Regiment being reduced to a Battalion  Company by filling up the first Regiment out of it he also states that the said Jonathan Phillips resigned his commission as Captain of said company and Captain Able Wayman took the command of said company said company company being taken to fill up

The first Regiment as above stated stated which was commanded by Col s Ogdon and Baiber the latter being killed by the falling of a tree in the winter before the Army was disbanded He further states that he was then discharged by the aforesaid Captain Able Wayman on the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three but thinking that his discharge would be of little use to him he neglected to bring it with him when he migrated to the western country he further states that he never had any pension allowed him by the board of war he further states that the reason of for his changing his name from Howler to Wardell that his mother was a single woman by the name of Howler when he was born and that his reputed fathers name was Wardell and that he went by the name of Howler until he was discharged from the Army and after he came home from the Army having an honourable discharge certified in same that he neither had been charged or punished for any misdeemeanor while in said service then his fathers brother, his father being dead requested of him to name himself Wardell and has been known by that name to this time Lastly he states that from his advanced age and reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support

I do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above said Robert Wardell during nineteen years I have allways found him to be a man of truth he often related the circumstance of his enlistment and his services in the army and that of his parentage and the cause of his changing his name from Howler to Wardell as well as I can recollect pointedly agrees with this written statement Having all these circumstances together it is my firm belief that the above statement is correct that he served as aforesaid against the common enemy of his country
Given under my hand and seal this twenty seventh day of July  May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
John Meggett
The certificate of the Judge as to recited circumstances of affidavit that Robert Wardell is not in writing

Wardell on Fowler Robert Fowler  on Fowler Musician,
Col. Shreve N. Jerry Reg.
1770 War - 7 th July 1840 Roll
Admitted
The person who makes the within declaration must prove , that he is the same man, known on Roll, as Robert Fowler; & that he is legally authoris- ed to take the name of Wardell. The testimony in this case will be required in a full, & formal manner to prove the affidavit . Pension Office
April 10 th 1849 -
and there was a singular

State of New Jersey } Clark County } Personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court for the County of Clark Elizabeth Kelley of the County and State aforesaid being of Lawfull age who after being duly sworn before me deposeth and saith that in the year 1783 that she was then a girl of about ten years old and that she was then acquainted with the present Robert Wardell and he then went by the name of Robert Howler he afterwards went to live with his reputed uncle whose name was Wardell He after that went by the name of Wardell as she understood it was by the request of his reputed uncle that he changed his name she further saith after that said Robert Wardell left the State of Jersey and moved to the western parts of Virginia and in the year 1790 that her father moved to the western parts of Pennsylvania and there was a letter sent by said Wardells mother to said Wardell which was indorsed by the name of Wardell - She further states that she has not a personal knowledge of his services in the Army of the United States but she knows that it was a common country report that he did serve in said Army and she never heard it contradicted further the deponent saith not Given under my hand and seal this 12th day of October 1819 John Boggs ASJ L 33

State of Indiana ss
I Isaac Shelly clerk of the Circuit Court of Clark County within the Second Judicial circuit in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the within named John Pegg's (before whom the within probate of Elizabeth Kelley was made) as appears within written also, who certifies the reduced circumstances of J. P. Robert Wardell (or Fowler) as appears on the annexed certificate, is and was at the time of receiving such probate and subscribing his signature thereto, also at the time of subscribing his signature to said certificate of reduced circumstances & one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court aforesaid; duly Elected commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of our said Court this 6 th day of December 1879.
Isaac Shelly Clerk

April 27, 1938
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BA-J/SEL
Robert Wardell or Fowler S.36839
Miss Mary Carr Guernsey Charlestown Indiana
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Robert Wardell(alias Fowler), who served as a private in the New Jersey Line, War of the Revolution and was pensioned in 1818, in Clark County, Indiana.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers filed in pension claim, S.36839, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of the above named person.
He enlisted, place not stated, in February, 1778, under the name of Robert Fowler, Fowler being his mother's last name, served as a private in Captain Jonathan Phillips' Company, Colonel Israel Shreve's 2 nd New Jersey Regiment, was transferred and served in Captain Abel Weyman's Company, Colonel Ogden's 1 st New Jersey Regiment and was discharged June 3, 1783. After the expiration of his service and his return home, his father then being deceased, he changed his name to Robert Wardell, at the request of his uncle, whose surname was Wardell.
After the Revolution, he moved from New Jersey to the western part of Virginia, and later, year not given, to Indiana.
He was allowed one hundred acres of bounty land on Warrant No. 155, issued March 21, 1804.
In order to obtain information in regard to the location of the land cited above, you should address The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, the acreage and the date of issuance of said warrant.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 27, 1818, while residing in Clark County, Indiana, and aged about fifty-nine years.
Mrs F' said write history this way.
This service verified by Weitman's Register

In 1820, Robert Wardell(or Fowler) was residing in Lexington Township, Scott County, Indiana. In that year, he stated that his wife was aged fifty-six years, date of their marriage and her name not given, and that he had five children residing with him, namely Sarah, Rebecca, Robert, Thomas and Charles, aged respectively nineteen, eighteen, fifteen, thirteen and seven years. He had five other children, all of age, their names are not shown.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Robert Wardell or Fowler(S.36839), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Robert Wardell or Fowler Certificate No.16951 Issued May 17, 1820 Rate,$8.00 per month Commenced July 7, 1818 Act of March 18, 1818 Indiana Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

To Honorable Secretary of the War Department City of Washington

Clark County State of Indiana November 4 th 1819
Dear Sir I do hereby forward the affidavit of the Applicant Robert Wardell formerly Robert Showler together with the annexed depositions of Joseph Wheatley and Elizabeth Kelley the first going to prove the services of the applicant in the Army of the United States and both to prove that that he was known by both names that of Showler and Wardell As to the legality of his changing his name I think there is none But it appears to me that the Identity of the person that rendered the services is all that is intended by the law made for that purpose If so it appears that he is the same person known on Roll by name of Showler But you have him by both names on the application and as they amount only to the same person you may allow to which you think the most proper
I am
Dear Sir
your most Obed-
John Beggs

36 839
Revg INVALID.
1938-Apr 27. Visit to Mary Carr Gurney. 6h
File No. 36 839
Robert Wardell
(Musician Rev Rev)
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 2850
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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MARY CARR GUERNSEY CHARLESTOWN, INDIANA
March 29, 1938.
Veterans Administration, Pension Department, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Please send me data for Robert Wardell (alias Fowler ) private N.J. line, pensioned 1818, Clark County ,Indiana.
Thanking you for the same,
Sincerely,
Mary Carr Guernsey

Territory of the United States North west of the Ohio River
Hamilton County ss } Personally appeared before me William Brown Esq. one of the United States Justices Ramoth Bunton who being sworn on the holy evangelist of Almighty God Deposeth and saith that he this deponent served
Last war in Captain Jonathan Phillips Company in the 2 d Jersey Reg t and that Robert Fowler was the grantee of this power of attorney and also served in said Company & Reg t and that he with the grantee of said war transferred to Captain Waymans company in the said line and there continued to the end of the war
Sworn and subscribed before me this 15 th day of August 1879
W m Brown
Ramoth I Bunton mark
I do certify that Ramoth Bunton the above deponent has been known to me for seven years past and that he bears the character of an honest man
John Armstrong one of the Justices of the court of common pleas for the county of Hamilton

United States or from any person or persons whatever, and have and use and take all lawful ways and means in my or otherwise for the recovery thereof, by action suit or otherwise, and acquittances or other sufficient charges for the same for me and in my name to make seal and deliver and to do all other acts and things concerning the premises as fully in every respect as I myself might or could do were I personally present, and attorneys under him to make and appoint, ratifying and confirming and by these presents allowing what so ever my said attorney or attorneys shall in my name lawfully do or cause to be done, in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifteenth day of August in the year of Christ 1799 Test
Robt Fowler
William Packet
Wm Brown
Bro. Nathl Barstow
John Armstrong

Put this with Parker papers

State of Indiana & Sec. Personally appeared before Jefferson County } Justice of the peace in and me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid Joseph Wheatley, of Soupa- ge, who after being duly sworn deposeth and saith (188) That Robert Fowler Enlisted in the service of the united States in the 2 nd Jersey Regiment Commanded by Col d Israel Shreve and in a company Commanded by Capt d Jonathan Phillips in the month of February or March in the year 1778 and that Wheatley further states that the above named Fowler was in actual service from the time of his enlist- ment until the close of the war in June 1783 and further that he received an honorable discharge from the service and further saith that the above named Fowler when he returned home from the service that he changed his name and for this reason that the above named Fowler Father and Mother was never Lawfully married and that Fowler was the name of the mother and in the year 1784 that he the said Fowler went to live with his Father Brother and he directed him to write his name Brardeli in future which was the name of his Father and ever after that has been known by that name and that he knows him to be the same man that Enlisted in the service by the name of Robert Fowler and further this deponent saith not
Joseph Wheatley Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 16 th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and nineteen
William Alexander

William Alexander
The State of Indiana
Superior Court for the District of Richard B. Talbott Oaths of the Superior Court do certify that the William Alexander before whom the within deposition was made & who has entitled the same was at that time and still an acting Justice of the Peace for the County of ... Common Pleas ... here full faith and credit can and ought to be given to all his official acts as such Justice having been read this 16th day of Sept 1849 -
Rich B Talbott Esq