Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29987, for Samuel Mower, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Mower, Samuel
S. 29987
CONTENTS

Maine 11.314
Samuel Mower
of Kennebec Co in the State of Maine who was a Pr. in the Company commanded by Captain Samb of the Regt commanded by Col. Cushing in the Massachusetts line Troops.
17 Mo 12 ds. Pr 57.19
Inscribed on the Roll of - Maine at the rate of 57. Dollars 19 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th day of April 1833 and sent to R. C. Dose, Augusta Me.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 114.38 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. 28.59
142.97
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. S. Sprague Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 1 Page 33

Samuel Mower Private - Mass. troops.
Lamb's Co. Bushnell's regt. 4 months Lamb's Co. Wade's regt. 9 months Clark's Co. — 3 months Lamb's Co. Davis' regt. 6 weeks
11 months & 6 weeks as Private
Admitted 17 mos 120 57.97 Private
R. B. Rose Augusta, Me.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
ON this sixteenth day of July A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Samuel Hower a resident of Greene in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Seventy one 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 with Captain Abijah Lamb and served in Col. Leavitt's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: viz Lamb Capt. & Leavitt Col. That he enlisted in said Company at Charlton Massachusetts in August 1777 for four months that he marched to Bennington, Vermont arrived there a few days after the battle at that place, then to Manchester afterwards to Hillwater & was at Saratoga at the capture of Burgoyne & saw the General Surrender his sword. That he then went to Albany & was discharged in the vicinity of the city of New York about the middle of December of the same year having served out the full term of his enlistment. That afterwards on the first of April 1778 he enlisted as a private for the period of nine months in Capt. Samuel Lamb's company & Col. Wade's regiment of the same line or troops. This period he fully served out. & was verbally discharged near Greenwich in the State of Rhode Island January 1. 1779. That he was in the battle on Rhode Island under General Sullivan . That in February 1779 he enlisted into a Company commanded by Capt. Clark of Dudley, Mass. for three months. & went to Newport R.I. & was stationed on the shore West of Newport & was discharged there verbally after serving out the full term of his enlistment. That he does not now recollect what regiment said Company belonged to as that Company was the only one stationed at that place & he does not recollect seeing any Field Officers. That afterwards in July or August of the same year 1779 he enlisted in Capt. Abijah Lamb's Company & Col. Davis' Regiment of the same troops for two months that he marched with said Company to Savannah R.I. where he was stationed, & after serving there about a month & a half he was discharged.

And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers: That he was born in the year 1761 at Shanton Mass: & that he believes his age to be of record in that town, where he made it his home during his revolutionary services. That a few years after the war he removed to Oxford N.H. lived there twelve or fourteen years & then moved to Greene aforesaid where he has ever since resided.
That he enlisted into the service, was not drafted or received as a substitute. That while in his first campaign in 1777 he thinks Genl. Warner commanded the Brigade in which he served. That during his second service in Col. Wade's regt. One Wood was his Lt Colonel & Wilson Major. That he was at the several times he has mentioned verbally discharged from the service & not in writing. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his revolutionary services & he names the Hon. Alfred Pierce & Elijah Bunnell Esq.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Saml. Hovey
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Before Nathan Weston Jr not S. J. C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jr
July 16

I John Mower of Greene in Kennebec County, Maine, aged seventy three years do upon oath testify & declare that I was a soldier in Capt. Lamb's Company in Col. Wade's regiment of the Massachusetts troops from April 1778 to January 1779 that during all that time my Brother Samuel Mower now of Greene aforesaid was a soldier in the same Company, I served with me. That I well knew of the said Samuel Mower's being in the service of the States United at the other times he has mentioned. Having I have also frequently heard him speak of his services in the War of the Revolution in former years I believe that he served as he states. He is a man of undoubted veracity.
John Mower
Subscribed and sworn to, July 16 1832, the deponent being a credible witness. Before Nathan Weston Junr. Just. S. J. C.
State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Samuel Mower for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 17th,
day of July,
A. D. 1832,
J. A. Chandler

Rev. War Section.
GW
Aug. 21, 1923.
F. L. Foster, Assistant, Office of Quartermaster General, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
In response to QM 293-C-C-I have to advise you that Samuel Mower was born at Charlton, Mass. in 1761, and served as a private in 1777 for four months in Capt. Abijah Lamb's Co., Col. Cushing's Regt. From April 1, 1778 in Capt. Samuel Lamb's Co., Col. Wade's Regt. for nine months. From Feb. 1779, for three months in Capt. Clark's Co. From July or Aug. 1779, in Capt. Abijah Lamb's Co., Col. Davis' Regt. for two months. He was allowed pension on certificate No. 11314. In 1832 he was a resident of Green, Me. The date of his death is not on record.
Respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.

29987 Very INVALID.
File No. 29,987
Samuel Mower
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 984
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1/23 Aug. 21. Combstone data to D.M. Gen. Av.

Samuel Mower
Private Col Wade's Mass Reg. April 1778. Jan'y 1779 9 mos
May 14. 1818
Rejected - Wade's Regt not on Continent- al Establishment

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Samuel Mower, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Greene, in the said County of Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the fourteenth day of May, A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twentysecond day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston Jun C. Just C. C. C. Pleas 2 d E. Circuit
2 d Eastern Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Wm Davis
2nd Eastern Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Samuel Mower aged fifty seven years born in Charlton in the state of Massachusetts now resident in Greene in the District of Maine upon oath testify and declare that the first of April 1778 I enlisted as a private soldier in the war of the revolution against the common enemy upon the continental establishment for the period of nine months in Capt Samuel Lamb's Company and Col Wadsworth's regiment of the Massachusetts line. This period I fully served out and took my honorable, but verbal discharge near Greenough in the state of Rhode Island January 1. 1779 - This was my last and only continental service. I was in the battle on Rhode Island under General Sullivan - From my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever -
Samuel Mower
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Kennebec ss.
On the fourteenth day of May A.D. 1818 Samuel Mower above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above declaration, by him subscribed. Before me,
Nathan Weston Hon. C. Just C. Court C Pius 2 Eastern Circuit.

To all to whom these Presents may come This may certify that we the subscribers are well acquainted with Mr. Samuel Mower of Greene and are knowing to his being a soldier in the revolutionary War viz he was at the taking of Burgoyne in the year 1777 about four months, he was with General Sullivan at Rhode Island and in his retreat of said Island nine months — and it is our Opinion that he fairly comes within the meaning of the act of Congress passed in February last, his Circumstances are low by reason of a son who is now twenty two years old which is a non compos Person which has & now does cause him great expense
Jonathan Mower John Mower
Sherrill Co. Greene May 12 th : 1818 Personally appeared the above named Jonathan Mower and John Mower and made Oath to the truth of the above Certificate by them signed before me — Nathan Robbins Justice of the Peace Nathan Robbins Esq above named is a Justice of the Peace for Shenandoah county. and the deponents know him. Nathan Weston Esq
eastern Circuit.

State of Maine.
THE Daniel Pierce a Clergyman, residing in the town of Greene in the County of Wennebec and Elijah Barrell residing in the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Hower who has sub- scribed and sworn to the annexed declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Elijah Barrell Daniel Pierce
State of Maine.
Wennebec ss.—Sworn and subscribed this seventeenth day of July A. D. 1833.
Before me,
Alfred Pierce Justice of the Peace.
Alfred Pierce Esq. is a Justice of the Peace. And the Rev. Daniel Pierce is a Clergyman residing in the same town of Greene. And Elijah Barrell Esq. of the same town is a credible person, & their statement is entitled to be believed. Nathan Weston Jr.

IN REPLY REFER TO QM 293-C-C (Mower, Samuel)
WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON
August 17, 1923.
The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
In order that a headstone may be supplied for the grave of the deceased named below, the Quartermaster General desires that the correct military service and spelling of the name be furnished from the records of the Pension Bureau, viz:
Samuel Mower, Private, A Revolutionary Soldier, Private Capt. Abijah Lamb's Co., Col. Nathaniel Wadsworth Reg. Enlisted March 25, 1778.
Very truly yours,
R. L. FOSTER, Assistant.
AR/MJC.