Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18729, Josiah Bowers, Continental Mass

SERVICE
Continental Mass
Bowers, Josiah
NUMBER
S. 18729
CONTENTS
Carded

10-164.
Massachusetts
Josiah Bowers
of Worcester in the State of Mass who was a Major in the company commanded by Captain — of the reg't commanded by Col Mason in the Mass line for 2 years, & Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 100 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of Mar 1833 and sent to J. J. Kendall Secretary of War
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $200 — Semi-annual allowance ending 21 Feb .. 50 —
$250 —
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. Blair Clerk Book No. Vol. 2 nd Page 4.
1/82 March H96 Aug 17 Apr 1818 16 May 1818

State of Massachusetts
I Josiah Bowers a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Leicester in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the month of June 1777, I entered at Springfield & after name viz 20 Sept entered as follows
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to for the term of three years and some months; and that in the month of September 1781 I again entered the service aforesaid, and served accordingly to the end of the war
as a private  during each of said periods against the common enemy; without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Capt. Bryants Company during the first period of service aforesaid, which was then stationed and employed in the Laboratory at Springfield, in the State aforesaid - that during the second period of service aforesaid, I belonged to Capt Henry Burbeck , or Bur-banks  Company of Artillery, in Colonel John Cram's Regiment
and that I left the service on after the close of the war and declaration of peace I received honorable discharges, but have mislaid and lost the same and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Sixty five years, and enjoying but a very poor state of health
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Josiah Bowers
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this Seventeenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Isaac Parker Esq Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts
the abovenamed Josiah Bowers and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Isaac Parker C.J.S.C.

Josiah Bowers
Lancaster.
I hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with Josiah Bowers within named, and that from the knowledge I have of him, I testify and say, that the declaration and statement by him within made is entitled to full faith and credit. Moses Smith.
April 17 th 1818 Worcester ss. Personally appeared Moses Smith above named and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me
Abel Weston Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Secretary's Office April 21. 1818
By this I certify that the name of Josiah Bowers is borne on the books now in this office, as a Matross in Capt. Bryant's Compy. Colo. Mason's Regiment or Corps of Artillerists stationed at Springfield in this State, a place where continental military stores were then kept, that he enlisted in said Corps at said place, Sept. 20. 1777 & continued so to June till Dec r 31. 1779 — That the books or documents in this office furnish no account of said Corps after that time —
Abdiah Bradford
Secy. of Commonwealth of Massachusetts

County of Worcester, Ps.
On this twenty-seventh day of February 1829 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace for the County of Worcester, the undersigned Josiah Bowers, of Lancaster, a resident of said County, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth depose and say, that he is the same person who served in the Revolutionary war in the Company of Artillery, commanded by Captain Bryant, of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Mason, of the line of the state of Massachusetts: that he received a pension under the Act of March 18. 1818, but his name was dropped from the pension roll on account of his property, which was valued at more than $200, and he now applies to be restored in consequence of the regulations of the War-Department of the 26th December, 1823, having at this time the following named property, being worth no more than the sums below mentioned. He also swears that he did not apply to be restored under the Acts of 1820 and 1823, on account of his property being of greater value than $200 as aforesaid, & believing such application would, on that account, would have been fruitless.
Schedule.
  4 acres and 20 rods of wood land at $21. per acre - - - - - $ 86.62 1/2   5 1/2 acres of wood land at $10 per acre - - - - - 55.00   John G. Thurston & Wm. Tombs' Note - - - - - 200.00   Ebenezer Bragg's Note - - - - - 100.00   Ephraim Fuller's Note - - - - - 50.00   Joel Wilder Sun d Note - - - - - 10.00   Joel Wilder 2 d Note - - - - - 20.00   Joseph Rice's Note - - - - - 20.00   Henry Ballard's Note - - - - - 10.00   All my farming utensils (consisting of one shovel, one hoe, one rake & one axe) and all my house hold furniture of every description (excepting necessary wearing apparel and bedding) consisting of chains, tables, pots, kettles, crockery & glass ware, one wooden clock &c & all of the value of - - - - - 132.12   $ 683.84 1/2 
Josiah Bowers
Sworn to before me, this twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.
Josiah Flagg Justice of the Peace.
We the Subscribers, having viewed and examined all the property and estate of Josiah Bowers mentioned and comprised in

in the foregoing schedule, testify and say, that the said property and estate is worth the several sums set down and affixed thereto, and no more
Sam Cartter Eph m Fuller
Worcester ss. Feb y 27. 1829 Personally appeared Samuel Cartter and Ephraim Fuller above named, and made oath to the truth of the above statement by them made.
Before me Josiah Flagg - Justice of the Peace.
The N o . of said Josiah Bowes certificate in 1818 was. (564)
I Abijah Bigelow clerk of the court of Common Pleas for the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts do hereby certify, that Josiah Flagg before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace for the said County, and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty nine.
Abijah Bigelow, Clerk

564
Massachusetts
Josiah Bowers
Private 4 Mass. Line, War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. Mass. & Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th of May 1818 and sent to the Pension Office of Isaac Parker Esq., Vt., or Boston, Massachusetts
Arrearages to 4 Sep: 1818 - $ 36.80 4 do 18 days $ 36.80
{Revolutionary claims, {Act 18th March, 1818, }
3 Years
Discontinued
4 Lancaster Worcester Co.
W. H. Chapman to the Hon. John H. Marsh Secy. of War June 8 April 1829.

Pens. Office 12. March 1827.
John H. W  the Secretary of War of the United States - of America Washington City
Ag: Dec. 26. 1828.
Paris
2

Lancaster, Worcester County, March 4. 1824.
To the Secretary of War, U. S.
Sir Enclosed is the application of Josiah Bowers to be restored to the pension list, under the Regulations of the 26th Dec r 1828. Should the applicant's application be granted, and his name be again inscribed on the Pension Roll, be pleased to transmit his certificate to the Rev. his Agent, in Lancaster Mass.
I am Sir,
Very Respectfully
Your Ob st Serv t
Abel Smith

18729 INVALID.
File No. 18729  Ann
Josiah Bowers
Matrons Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. / , Page 45
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Honble John C. Calhoun Esq
Mr. Bay
Secretary of War Washington City

Rev.
Enclosed is the declaration of Isaac Powers of Lancaster in the County of Worcester, which was withheld when the others were remanded, in want of further evidence which has since been obtained
Yours respectfully Isaac Parker
Morton 23 April 1880

Isaac Bowers
Isaac Bowers
Marion 2 years
70 1949.
Hon J. G. Rendall Leominster Mass

State of Massachusetts, ( County of Worcester ) ss.
On this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. Personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, before the Hon. Nathaniel Paine Esq. Judge of the Court of Probate, holden at Worcester within and for the county of Worcester, on the day and year aforesaid. Josiah Bowers a resident of Lancaster, in the county and State aforesaid, aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on his oath make the following statement, in order to obtain the benefit of the pension of the Act of Congress, passed June the 7 th 1832 to wit. That in the fall of 1781. (he thinks) in September he enlisted into the service of the United States on the Continental establishment, for the term of three years, in the company of artillery commanded Capt Burbeck in Col. Cuneers Regiment, a bombardier (as he believes) in said company, and is entitled to greater pay than if only a matross of this. The Rolls in the war department will probably show for a pension, he was not discharged till several months after the main army was disbanded. That he received the pension of ninety six dollars per annum, under the act of 18 th March 1818. This pension Certificate bears date May 16 1818. N o 584. That in 1820. as he supposes (on account of property) his name was struck from the pension Roll. In 1829 in consequence of new regulations issued from the War Department. Dec. 26 1828. He again made application for a pension, but on account of his property, being then 683.84 1/2 his claim was disallowed. — This place

of residence when his former application was made was the same it is now. — That he hereby relinquishes every  any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present — and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State. —
Josiah Bowers
State of Massachusetts County of Worcester ss.
I Nathaniel Paine Judge of the Court of Probate, holden at Worcester in and for the County of Worcester, hereby certify that Josiah Bowers, above named made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed, before me, in open court, the day and year aforesaid. —
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office, this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Nathaniel Paine Probate for the County of Worcester

Theophilus Wheeler Register of Probate for the County of Gloucester do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Josiah Bowers for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court of Probate for said Court this 14 th Day of August A.D. 1832.
Theophilus Wheeler Register of Probate for the County of Gloucester in Massachusetts
When the underwritten made the above declaration, he thought fit to notice Col. Crans Regiment, As he sup- poses he was a Bombardier in that Regiment - If the rolls do not make it appear, that he served two or more years in that Regiment, they will show he served three years in Col. Masons Regiment, Capt. Bryants Company -
Josiah Bowers