Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10247, for John Stowell, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
N. 76 Ut.
Stowell, John Joanna.
P. 10247
CONTENTS

Vermont 1010
649.831
John Stowell
of Rockingham in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Flood of the Reg t commanded by Col. Bellows in the Vt. H. militia for 6 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per an. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of October 1832 and sent to A. S. Campbell. Bellows' Falls Vt.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832  30.00    Pension allowance ending 4 th March 1833  10.00     $ 40.00  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. M. Duffield Clerk. Book S Vol. 4 Page 84
10247

No 1301.
John Stack, Declaration
(1010)
No 1301

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832
State of Vermont Windham County ss - On this 20 th day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Probate Court for the District of Westminster in said State now sitting John Stock a resident of Rockingham in the County of Windham and State of Vermont said Rockingham being in said Westminster district aged Seventy years 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 Congress passed June 7 1832 that he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War under the following named officers to wit in September 1777 in Capt. Woods Company in Col. Bellows Regiment of N Hampshire militia, he was drafted and marched to Charlestown, thence to Saratoga, thence to Fort Edward, and remained there until the surrender of Genl. Burgoyne, then went to Saratoga and was discharged at that place. he was in the service three months, and a few days over Genl. Gates commanded at Saratoga at this time he did not have a written discharge, he was discharged in Oct 1777 as he believes. he lived in Walpole N.H. when he was drafted and he marched from that place, there is no person within his knowledge by whom he can prove this service
he was also drafted at Rockingham Vermont and served in Capt. Bolton Company in Col. Hovey Regt of Vermont Troops in the year 1781. Regiment was sent marched to Barnard Vermont and remained there till December of the same year, was there discharged, in this campaign he served three months he had no written discharge. he was born 7 th Feb. 1762 at Wallingford Conn but has no record of his age, lived at Walpole N.H. where he first entered the service and at Rockingham Vt the second time he served has lived at R. Rockingham ever since the close of the war, & now lives there, he thinks he entered the service this year campaign about the first of September and was discharged in the month of December but does not know what year, when he marched in this campaign he marched from Rockingham Vermont through Charlestown N.H. to Barnard Vt.

he knows of no person by whom he can prove this doctrine he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an- nuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
The words "and a few days since" were inserted before sign? or sworn to
Before Peter McSaff - Judge
John Stowell
We Alexander Campbell residing in the town of Buckingham Vermont and Samuel Adams residing in Morristown hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Stowell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that he believes him to be seventy years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid
Alexander Campbell
Before Peter McSaff - Judge
Sam Adams
and the said board hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named ap- -plicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the board further certifies that it appears to them that Alexander Campbell who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in Buckingham Vermont and that Samuel Adams who has also signed the same is a resident in Morristown that both are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that no clergyman lives in the immediate vicinity of the said John Stowell
Peter McSaff - Judge
I am Major Clerk of the Probate Court for the District

of the minutes aforesaid do hereby certify that the fore- going contains the original proceedings of the said Council in the matter of the application of John Stace for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Council the 25 th day of July A.D. 1832
Asa Phelps D m

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of Vermont
District of Westminster ss.
on their 17th day of May A.D. 1844 personally appeared before me Probate Court for the District of Westminster in the County of Windham Joanna Stowell a widow of Radningham in the County of Hampshire and State of Vermont aged Eighty- years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of John Stowell
who was a private in the army of the Revolution and she refers to the application of the said John Stowell under the act of June 7 1832 now in the pension office together with the papers accompanying it for proof of her husband's service she thinks he received six months or more, his annual pension was twenty dollars. She further declares that she was married to the said John Stowell on the 30th day of October in the year eighteen hundred and Eighty Seven by the Rev Saml. Whiting minis- ter of the Gospel her husband the aforesaid John

Steel died on the 22 d day of July 1839 As that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place prior to the 1 st day of January since then hundred and ninety four as at the time above stated -
Joanna her Stowell mark
Given under subscription on the day and year above written
Ellery Atlee Judge of Probate
State of Vermont
District of Westminster ss. James H. Phelps Register of the Probate Court for the District of Westminster affirming being a court of record certify that Ellery Atlee is Judge of Probate for the Dis- trict of Vermont and that the signature of the said Ellery Atlee Judge of Probate above written is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 31 st day of May 1843
James H. Phelps Register

"October thirtieth Seventeen hundred eighty Seven Maria John Steel and Joanna Barry"
State of Vermont Windham County ss. I certify that the above is a true copy of the record of the Revd Samuel Whiting formerly Congre- gational Minister of the Gospel in Rocking- ham in said County now deceased with the excep- tion of the date which is expressed on the record in plain legible figures, as follows "October 30. 1787" Asa Locke Clerk
I Asa Locke of Rockingham in said County de- pose and say that I am clerk of the Congregational Church and Society in Rockingham in said County that the records of said Church & Society formerly kept by the Rev Samuel Whiting are in my possession, and that the above is a true extract from said records of the said Samuel Whiting Minister of the Gospel as aforesaid with the exception above named - as certified by me.
Asa Locke
State of Vermont Windham County ss Rockingham June 26 th 1843 Then personally appeared (before me) Asa Locke above named who is a credible person and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him sub- scribed is true Before me Alexander Campbell Justice Peace

State of Vermont
Windham County ss, County Clerk's office
Windham County Court June 26 th 1843
I Marshall Miller Clerk of said court certify that Alexander S. Campbell is a justice of the peace within & for said County duly com- missioned and qualified that his commission bears date Nov. 9 th 1842 and will expire on the 30 th day of November 1843 and that his dig- nity within recited is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court the day & year above written
Attest Marshall Miller, Clerk
same state

No 1301
Private 6 months
$20:

BRIEF in the case of John Stowell of Windham County in the State of Vermont (Act 7 June, 1839.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In a Probate Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
70 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1777 Sept 3 private Gen. drafted in the Vt. H. Militia Capt. Flood, Col. Bellows   not stated .3 do Vermont Troops Capt. Holton Col. Hunt   6 months  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
None mentioned.
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Walpole Vt. Set.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By tradition
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. M. Duffield Examining Clerk.

V o 9172 Joanna Stowell
Vermont
Suspended
Set to Alhambra Sep. 5-43
" " do. do Mar. 28-44
" " A. S. Cambra Oct 30. 1851
same. July 29 1853
102 1/2
act July 7 1838

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
10247
P. O.
Joanna Stowell
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Bellows Falls Vermont May 17 th 1853
Sir
John Stowell was a pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832 and died in his service for six months in Capt. Hood's Company in Col. Bellows Regiment of Vt. & N.H. Militia was probably paroled when he was pensioned. His widow Joanna Stowell applied for a pension under the act of July 1838 her proof consisted of a certificate from the Sec. of State of New Hampshire of one month and one days service in said Company and as no further records proved her claim her claim was rejected, it is believed there is another Roll of Capt. Stowell which may show 5 months additional service but it cannot be found.
It has been decided by the Attorney General J. G. Morton Esq in his opinion of June 23 rd 1846 contained on page 157 of the abstract of Pension Laws published under the act of March 3 rd 1849 that "a widow whose husband was in receipt of a pension at the time of his death is entitled to a pension by virtue of the act of May 7. 1846 unless the evidence of husband's service is rebutted by the Commissioners of Pensions on grounds which ought to be stated for explanation by the applicant" and in addition to this it seems that the provision to the act of May 7. 1846

was unconditionally repealed by the act of June 26 1848
I would therefore respectfully request that you reexamine the Declaration and proof in the case of Mrs. Joanna Stowell and grant to her or her heirs, if reason if she or they are entitled to it under the laws of the United States upon that subject. Joanna Stowell died on the 21 st day of October A.D. 1847.
Very respectfully yours, etc. etc.
Hon. S. P. Waldo Com. of Pensions Washington City.
A. S. Campbell

Bellows Falls Vermont July 12 th 1851
Sir
John Stowell of Windham County (Vermont) was a pensioner under the act of June 7 th 1832 and died; leaving Anna Stowell his widow, who has since deceased, leaving Betsey Stowell (who is now living) her only child. Anna Stowell in her life time made application for a pension under the act of July 7 th 1838. her declaration & proof of marriage before 1794 is now in your office, but her claim was rejected for want of proof of service. It appears that the evidence of service in the case is made up - pursuant to the Resolution of Congress of the first of July 1848. This being the case I wish you to do me the favor to forward to me her certificate or inform me what (if anything) is necessary to be done in order to obtain it. I do not know when Anna Stowell died, but suppose it was before July 1848.
I am very respectfully
Yr. obed Servt
Hon J. E. Heath Com r of Pensions Washington City.
A. S. Spaulding

Belior Hall Vermont July 26 th 1832. —
Sir
I enclose the Declaration of John Stock, for a pension, he states he served something more than six months in two campaigns but is not able to prove the service, Mr Stock is a very conscientious and a very honest man and is Deacon of a church and can obtain such certificates as to his veracity as may be required, I suppose the declaration alone is sufficient, if not I will endeavor to procure such certificates as you may direct
I am Very Respectfully
Yr Obed Servt
Alexander Shapleigh. —
Hon Lemuel Gass Secy of War

Bellows Falls Sept 22 d 1843
Sir
I have received your communication of the 5 th inst and enclose the evidence required to support the claims of Joanna Stael for a pension. I am very Respectfully, Y r obed t dttle -
A S Campbell
Hon J L Edward, Comm r of Pension Washington City.

Bellona Falls, Kennebec June 27. 1843
Sir
I enclose the application of Joanna Stewart for a pension under the act of July 1838 and March 1843 together with the pro of her marriage & Very Respectfully J. A. S. Cummings
Wm Lloyd Com. of Pensions Washington City.

I Edward Darby of Rockingham in the County of Windham & State of Vermont testify & say that I was well acquainted with John Stow- -ell late of said Rockingham deceased a Revolu- -tionary pensioner that the said John Stowell died about four years ago leaving Joanna Stowell her widow who is still living and I further testify that I am well acquainted with the said Joanna Stowell widow of said John Stowell and that the said Joanna has not been married since the death of the said John but continues single & unmarried and that she now lives in said Rockingham.
Sept 8 1843
Edward Darby
State of Vermont Windham County ss September 8 th 1843 Then personally appeared the above named Edward Darby who is a credible person and made oath that the above affidavit contains the truth
Before me Alexander Scamplene Justice Peace

State of Vermont Windham County ss County Court Clerk's Office Vespere September 13 th 1843 & Marshall Miller the Clerk of said Court certify that Alexander Shapley is a Justice of the Peace within said for said County duly commissioned & qualified that his commission has date Nov 9 1842 and will expire on the 30 th day of November 1843 and that his signature within is genuine In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court the day & year above written.
Attest Marshall Miller, Clerk
Stamill

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 15 1838
State of Vermont Windham County, ss
On this 12 th day of May 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace within and for the County of Windham in the State of Vermont Joanna Stowell a widow of Rockingham in the County of Windham State of Vermont aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she is the widow of John Stowell who was a private in the army of the Revolution in the New Hampshire Troops
her husband in her lifetime received an annual pension of 20 Dollars and that she believes she is entitled to a pension under the act of July March 1843, but has not yet received any; she further declares that she is still a widow as Joanna Stowell Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written Before me Alexander S. Cummings Justice of the Peace

I certify that the within name of Joanna Stowell who has subscribed the within declaration is person- ally known to me
Alexander Campbell Justice Peace
State of Vermont Westham County Court Clerk's Office Propane June 1 A.D. 1843
I Marshall Miller Clerk of said Court certify that Alexander Campbell is a Justice of the Peace within said for said County duly commis- sioned and qualified that his commission here- unto December 9 th 1842 and will expire on the 30 th day of December 1843 and that his signa- ture before written are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court the day and year above written
Attest Marshall Miller Clerk