Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17287, Samuel Bowen, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bowen, Samuel
S. 17287
CONTENTS
carded

Maine 30,362
Samuel Bowen Waldoboro in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Tiller of the 2nd Regt commanded by Col Carpenter in the Massachusetts line for 8 months and one day
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 87 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Jan y 1836 and sent to R6 Rose Present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 $133.85 Femi-ant. allowance ending Sep t 13.38 $147.23
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Sam Boyd Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 5

Probate
3848
Sam Bowen's
Declaration
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Adm d
8 Mo. 1 day. pri
$26:77/100
R. C. Vose Esq
Present -

State of Maine } County of Waldo }
On this twenty eighth day of August personally appeared in open Court before Alfred Johnson Judge of Court for said County now sitting at Belfast in said County Samuel Bowen resident in the Town of Brooks in said County aged seventy two 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. —
2/11/32 That he entered the service of the United States in the Town of Rehoboth in the County of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the spring of the year 1776 according to his best recollection he entered as a Volunteer into a Company commanded by Capt. Jacob Fuller of which his uncle Levi Bowen was Lieutenant. for two months, & we marched to Providence & were stationed there two months until his time of service had expired. — Col. Thomas Carpenter was our Colonel. — In the next year
4/11/32 I enlisted as a Volunteer private into a Company commanded by Capt. Jacob Perkins of Taunton, & my said uncle was Lieutenant for four months, we marched to Divers B.I. Dartmouth, Mass. at which place we were stationed until the expiration of his four months enlistment. I do not remember having any higher officer over us than the Captain. — In the year 1778 in the spring sometime I enlisted under the same Captain Fuller into a Company of which Abel Bliss was Lieutenant, for six eight months, & he marched to Tiverton, Providence, back back again to Providence, then to the Island on which Newport is situated. He was there when the retreat under Genl. Sullivan was made, he thinks

in August of that year. After the retreat he was attached  stationed at said Liverton until the expiration of his term of six months. when he returned to Rehoboth.
In answer to the Interrogatories proposed by the Judge he answers as follows: Vgs -
1. That he was born in the year 1760 on the ninth of March.
2. He has no record of his age, & supposes there is none in Rehoboth. He has the record, if so it be called, of his age in an old Bible which belonged to his mother; from which he has always been able to fix his birth day.
3. He was living at Rehoboth at every time of his enlistment. He removed from Rehoboth to Maine about forty years ago, & thirty years, since he removed from so Maine to Brooks where he now & ever since has resided.
4. He always volunteered when he went into the service, & was never a substitute.
5. He knows no particular officers name; Genl Sullivan told him once when he did shared three songs as a Sentinel on a bridge, that he never heard a thundering discharge; & if he ever did he has lost it.
7. He would refer to Phinehas Ashmun Esq. Post Master of Brooks, & to Hon. Saml Whitney, late a Counsellor of the State of Maine, formerly of Brooks now in the adjacent town of Jackson who can testify as to his character for veracity & the belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
He knows of no body living who can testify as to his services as recapitulated above; & is not acquainted
with any clergyman who can attend the Court
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Samuel B D W M
Before me A. Johnson Judge
We Samuel Silley & Jotham Roberts residing in Brooks aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Sam. Dower who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, & we believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, & we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Samuel Silley Jotham Roberts,
Before me A. Johnson Judge
And the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion, after investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatory prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, & served as he states. And I further certify that it appears to me that the said Simon Silley & Jotham Roberts who have signed the above certificate are resident in Brooks are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit
Alfred Johnson Judge - of Probate
Oct: 16 th 1833 And now the d Samuel comes again before Alfred Johnson Judge as aforesaid in open Court & makes oath that in addition to the several terms of service in his declaration specified he served one month in the year 1779 in the State of Rhode Island as a Guard over prisoners

- & property - and that the time of service in the year 1778 he very believes should have been originally stated to have been eight months instead of six months, the latter being the time named in his Declaration as first sent to the Department, & which he now thinks was two months short of the true time. - and he further swears that there is no Clergyman within the Town of Brooks, where he resides; nor any one in his vicinity; that he knows He further says from oath that he has stated the years & the times according to his best recollection & belief; but that old age has so considerably impaired his memory as to dates, that he may possibly be mistaken in some particular; tho' he feels confident he is not.
Sworn to
Before me Alfred Johnson Judge
Samuel BOWEN

I Nathl. M. Lowney Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Wake certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in matter of the application of Samuel Boarn for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this thirtieth day August A.D. 1832 -
Nathl. M. Lowney Register of

April 14, 1931
Mrs. Laurie Bowen Raknes R. # 1, Box 149, Interleaken Tacoma, Washington
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section AWF:MLB
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 17287, that Samuel Bowen was born March 9, 1760 at Rehoboth, Massachusetts.
While residing at said Rehoboth, he enlisted and served as a private with the Massachusetts troops, as follows:
In the spring of 1776, two months in Captain Jacob Fuller's company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's regiment, Lieutenant Levi Bowen was in this company and was the uncle of soldier; in 1777, four months in Captain Jacob Haskins' company; from the spring of 1778, eight months in Captain Jacob Fuller's company, Colonel John Jacobs' regiment, and was in Sullivan's retreat; in 1779, one month, no officers given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 28, 1832, at which time he was living at Brooks, Waldo County, Maine.
The soldier died May 25, 1840, leaving children whose names are not shown.
Your letter has been forwarded to the proper division of this bureau for reply in regard to William Browning Bowen or William Brunson Bowen, who served in the Civil War.
No charge is made for furnishing this information.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

Albert Lea Munn.
April 17, 1928
U.S. Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs,
I am informed that I may obtain some information from your records in regard to one Samuel Bowen. He was a Revolutionary War veteran, born at Rehoboth, Mass. in 1760, died 1840 at Brooks, Me. He served under Capt. Jacob Fuller in Col. Thomas Carpenter's Regiment - 1776 - 1779. He was granted a pension in 1836, for the above services.
I am especially interested in getting a record of his family, if such is available. His son Samuel Bowen (W.I.) I will greatly appreciate any information which your records may contain and any suggestions as to other available sources of information which you may be able to suggest.

to me. I am looking for this information to assist me in obtaining my D. A. R. membership.
Yours respectfully,
Mrs. Frank D. Telflett.

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. L.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Samuel Bowen
Service Mass.
Additional Service Rev. War
Born Rehoboth d. 1840 -
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190____
No claim, combination records _____, 190____
REMARKS:
No claim, except I. # 12264 " # 17287 Born Rehoboth, 1760 die May 25, 1840 -

To Chf Record Div. Action Repy through DEC 9 1908 COMMISSIONER. disk please m

Billerica Mass.
Dec. 6 th 1908.
To The Secretary of The Interior.
My Dear Sir,
I am taking the liberty of writing you to ask you to aid me, in getting the records of Samuel Bowen, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was my grand father. He died in 1840, when I was only three years old. Therefore I know nothing of his history. I wish to join the Daughters of the Revolution, and if you will kindly look up his war record, and copy it and if he recd. a pension and how much, also if his heirs recd. anything after he died! I would feel greatly favored. He was born in Rehoboth Mass, I think. He died in Brooks Maine. My mother was his daughter Polly. She married Isaiah Forbes, in 1816 or 1817. I was born of this marriage in 1837. Very Truly Yours
Mrs Mary A. Leathers,

17287 INVALID.
File No. 17,287
Sennett Beren
Pr. New York
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 40
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1918 Dec. 10. Hist. to Mrs. Mary A. Leathers
1929. June. 28 - Hist. to Mrs.
Frank D. Jellett avd.
1931 - Apr. 14 - Hist. to Mrs. Laurie Brown Ralenes avd. Her letter sent to Rec. Div.

Jam. Bowen
R. C. Vose, Jr. P.S.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Nov th 24 th 1835.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
not ap d in the declaration
that the name of Samuel Bowen, as a private, is borne on a muster roll of Capt. James Hills' Company, in Col. Carpenter's Regt. where he is allowed from Dec r 8 th 1776, sixteen days. m. d. 0-16
Samuel Bowen's name is borne on a pay roll of Capt. Jacob Fuller's Company, in Col. John Jacobs' Regt. where he is allowed from May 5 th 1778, eight months and one day. — 8-1
Not ap d in the declaration
Samuel Bowen's name is borne on a pay roll of Lt. Sam l Brown's Company, in Col. Thomas Carpenter's Regt. where he is allowed from August 1 st to the 8 th 1780, five days. — = 5
Edward D Bangs

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 7, 1853.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 28, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the Pension agents,
the children of Samuel Bower, deceased,
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Navy Agency, at the rate of Twenty six Dollars and 77 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 have been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1840 to the 25 May 1840.
Respectfully, yours,
J. M. Brodhead Comptroller.
30362 act '32
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

awt
January 28, 1929
Mrs. Frank D. Tellett 1432 Sunset Avenue Albert Lea, Minn.
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 17287, it appears that Samuel Bowen was born March 9, 1760 at Rehoboth, Massachusetts.
While residing at said Rehoboth, he enlisted and served as a private with the Massachusetts Troops as follows-
In the spring of 1776, two months in Captain Jacob Fuller's Company, Colonel Thomas Carpenter's Regiment, Lieutenant Levi Bowen was in this company and was the uncle of soldier; in 1777, four months in Captain Jacob Haskins' Company; from the spring of 1778, eight months in Captain Jacob Fuller's Company, Colonel John Jacobs' Regiment, and was in Sullivan's Retreat; in 1779, one month, no officers given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 28, 1832 at which time he was living at Brooks, Waldo County, Maine.
The soldier died May 25, 1840, leaving children, their

names are not shown.
In order to obtain the name of the person to whom his last payment of pension was sent, you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C., citing all of the following data-
Samuel Bowen, Certificate No. 30362, issued January 27, 1836, rate $26.77 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Maine Agency.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

In re _____, received for _____ of _____ of Samuel Bowen a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
File 17287
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Spring 76 7 mos. Pri. { Jacob Fuller x Lt. Levi Bowen Thos. Carpenter Mass.   77 4 mos. Jacob Hastings   Spring 78 8 mos. Jacob Fuller John Jacobs   79 1 mo. ✓ x uncle of claimant ✓  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Rehoboth, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 28-1832
Residence at date of application, Brooks, Waldo Co., Me.
Age at date of application, B. Mch. 9, 1760 at Rehoboth, Mass.
Remarks: Sol. died May 25, 1840. To Aud. for names of surv. children — learning dist., their names are not  so given.
(Jacob Haskins of Taunton Mass book)