Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,840, Thadeus Bow, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bow, Thadous or Bowe, Mabel
No. 18,840
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Massachusetts Roll.
1,709
Thaddeus Bowd
Private 4 Mass. Line - 1779 - 9 months
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818, and sent to Mrs. Hooker, Esq. Springfield, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Interest after ending
4 months 27/30. $ 39.20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued
Sent Springfield Hampshire
Duplicate certificate issued 16 Jan 1820 & inserted in H. S. C. Bates H. H. R. Notification sent July 29th 1820 to John Dugard Esq. Springfield Mass.

Massachusetts
Mabel Bove
widow of Thadeus Bove
who was a Private Mass in the Chestnut
Reported
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Decr. 1843 and sent to
James W. Brooks Springfield Mass
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 37

Madam Mow.
Greaton's class regt.
Admitted.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden County
On this 8th day of April 1818 personally appeared before John Hooker Esquire Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit of said Commonwealth including the said County of Hampden. Thaddeus Bow a citizen of the United States and President in West Springfield in said County who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that in August or September in the year 1779 he enlisted as a nine months man in Capt Samuel Hovey's Company in Col M c Gregor's Regiment as a private soldier & that at the expiration of his term he was honorably discharged & the Regiment. further states that he previously served one year from August 14 th 1775 under Capt Phelps the Regiment he does not recollect And he further saith that he is in reduced circumstances in life and by reason thereof stands in need of assistance from his country for support
Thaddeus Bow
April 8.
I Justin Granger of West Springfield in the County of Hampden State of Massachusetts do testify that I was an orderly sergeant in the said Company of Capt Sam d Hovey in Col l Gregor's Regiment for three years ending about the last of February in the year 1780 - That in August or September 1779 the said Thaddeus Bow joined the said Company to serve therein for the term of nine Months - That he continued in said Company so long as I was in it & left him there in service & have no doubt but that he served the whole of said nine Months as he then belonged to said West Springfield where I then lived & I knew of his being at home soon after the expiration of said nine Months & not before -
Justin Granger
April 17.
Sworn to April 17 1818 before me
John Hooker

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighth day of April A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampden the above named Thaddeus Bow. I applied for the benefit of the late law of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval forces of the United States in the revolutionary war" & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Thaddeus Bow the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampden to be affixed hereto, this 8th day of April 1818
Entered John H. Hooker Clerk of Court
I do therefore hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony & proceedings had before me on the application of said Thaddeus Bow & transmit the same to the Secretary of the Department of war of the United States - JOHN HOOKER

Theudias Bow & Merabel Bow were married Oct. 16. 1783. (in words One Thousand Seven Hun- dred & Eighty Three - State of Connecticut. The foregoing is a true Copy of Town Clerk's Off. Middletown Record (except the words in figures. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand this 12 th day of Oct. A.D. 1838. Wm. Dill S t Clerk,
State of Connecticut County of Middlesex
ss. Middletown
On this 12 th day of October A.D. 1838 before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned and Sworn dwell- ing in said Middletown, personally appeared John Fisk Esquire who is known to me to be Town Clerk of said Middletown and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the foregoing Certificate by him subscribed. I farther certify that the said John Fisk is a credible witness. —
Jonathan Barnes Justice of the Peace.
State of Connecticut, John Dill Clerk of the County Middlesex County Court ss. County of Middlesex do certify that Jonathan Barnes Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Middlesex as per Court on file in my Office & that his name subscribed to the preceding Certificate is his proper Hand Writing & signature —

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 12 th day of Oct r . A.D. 1838
M c Millen

Mabel Bouse
for p 2 L Pitt. Indp

State of Massachusetts } County of Hampden } ss.
On this fifth day of November 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for said County of Hampden, holden at Springfield in & for said County, Mabel Bowe a resident of West Springfield in said County, aged Eighty one 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 th 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows!" That she is the widow of Thaddeus Bowe , who was a private in the army of the Revolution. That he was born at Middletown in Connecticut in the year 1760 & continued to make that place his home till 1790. That she believes that all the engagements under which he entered into the army were made at said Middletown. The said Mabel says that she is possessed of no documentary evidence to establish the service of her said husband. That she cannot state the times when he entered the service, nor the length of time that he continued in service under any one engagement, nor in what corps, nor under what officers he served. All that she can state on this subject, are but the imperfect recollections of an old woman of what her husband has said in years long past. She recollects that when he first enlisted, it was when he was sixteen years old, or in the sixteenth year of his age. That she has often heard him speak of being at Ticonderoga, of their retreat through the wood, & of the sufferings of the soldiers on that occasion for the want of provisions. That even after they arrived among the scattered settlements, they found the houses deserted & stripped of every thing eatable. That in one of these houses, the only thing they found was a green cheese then in the process which they appropriated to their own use.

She recollects having heard him say that he was at West Point when Major Andre was taken & of his seeing him executed - that he was at the White Plains but that he was there stationed in such a position that he had no part in the fight with the British - that he was one winter stationed in New Jersey - that once he entered into the naval service, or on board a privateer, was taken prisoner & confined in New York - that on one occasion he enlisted for a year on another for nine or six months - that once he was hired to go in the place of one who had been drafted - at other times by voluntary enlistment.
She further declares that she was born at Middletown aforesaid in April 1757 - that her maiden name was Stow - that she was married to the said Thaddeus Bowe on the sixteenth day of October 1788 by the Rev. Mr. Huntington of Middletown in the year seventeen hundred & eighty three by the Rev. Mr. Huntington of Middletown - that her husband, the aforesaid Thaddeus Bowe died at West Springfield aforesaid, on the twenty seventh day of September in the year Eighteen hundred & twenty eight - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz. at the time above stated.
She further declares that her said husband was a pensioner under the act of Congress of 1818 down to the time of his death.
Mabel X  her Bowe mark
In Probate court November 6th 1830 submitted her oath to before
Morrill Morrill judge of probate

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that after investigating the matters and after putting the interrogatories required in the case, that the above named Theodore Bower was a soldier of the revolution and served as in said declaration above stated and that he died at said West Springfield on the twenty seventh day of September eighteen hundred & twenty eight -That the said Mabel Bower was married to said Theodore, on the fifteen the day of October A.D. 1783 That she has never been married since his decease & that she is now his lawful widow.
I Justin Willard Clerk of said Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the essential proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Mabel Bower for a Pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Springfield this sixth day of November A.D. 1858 Justin Willard

Thaddeus Bow
1709 Mt Spring St June 6 1818
Sep 1818

COUNTY of Hampshire
ss.
ON this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampshire.
Thaddeus Bow aged fifty nine years, resident in West Springfield in said County who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: In the Third Regiment of the Massachusetts Agency Commanded by Col. John Groot and in the Third Company of said Regiment Commanded by Capt. Samuel Flower - my original declaration dated the 10th day of April 1810 No. of my pension Certificate 1709 - I am a Farmer by Occupation but unable to perform but very little business on account of a Lameness in my feet & legs which has existed for ten or twelve years past and there is no prospect of any betterment - The number of my family residing with me are three - Mabel my wife aged sixty three years - Harriet aged twenty nine years who has always been weakly and infirm - Emily aged twenty years who is gone from home a considerable part of the time and able to support herself only.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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 so 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 18th 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.
SCHEDULE.
 1. half of a swingle - 3 hives of Bees at $2.25 each $6.75 - $10.75  2. Pots $1.50 - 2 kettles $1.10 - 1. Shovel 40 cts 2. Axes $2 - 5.  1. Pitch 12 cts - 1. Old hoe 12 cts - Beetle & wedges $1. hatchet 50 cts - 1. 75  2. Stone jars 80 cts - 3. Jugs 50 cts - 6. Pewter bowls 40 cts - 10. plates - 72 - 2. 42  2. Platters 55 cts - 2. sets old tea cups & saucers $0.35 - 3. pitchers 35 cts - 1. 25  5. Tumblers 50 cts - 1. pewter teapot 75 cts - 1. pewter sugar 25 cts - 2. platters 50 cts - 2.  2. Casters 25 cts Articles of old tin ware taken together 1.25 - Six Silver tea spoons 25 cts - 4. 50  1. Table spoon $1. - 3. Iron spoons 10 cts 2. Ladles 22 cts 2. sets old tinware 50 cts - 1. 90  4. Glass Bottles 40 cts 3 Old Candlesticks 1. p. snuffers & 1. chopping knife - 60  1. Old Bible 25 cts - 4. table cloths at $1.25 each $5. - 6. Old kitchen chairs $1. 6. 25  2. Tables at 62 cts each $1.25 one Gin Case 25 cts - Old Candlestand 20 cts - Fire shovel, tongs $1. 2. 70  4. Old meal bags 40 cts one do. 40 cts - Flour Bag or Barrel 40 cts - 3. Bags 70 cts - 2. 20  4. Old Barrels 80 cts one Old Chest 25 cts - 3. Old provision Barrels 90 cts - 1. 95  1. large spinning wheel $2. one Foot wheel $1.75 - 1. Sive 25 cts - one Carding 20 cts - 4. 30  Old Tools that are nearly worn out $1.25 one Sifter $1.50 Two Old water pails 20 cts - 2. 95  $ 50.52
Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of July 1820 before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said County 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 the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Fifty Dollars and fifty two Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this tenth day of July 1820. John Ingersoll Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampshire

MS.A. Civil
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
May 6, 1925
Kate W. Reid 88 Prospect Ave. Milwaukee, Wis.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.18840 , it appears that Thadeus Bow was born in 1760 at Middletown, Connecticut.
He enlisted August 14, 1776, and served one year as private in Captain Phelps' Massachusetts Company. He enlisted in August or September, 1779, and served nine months as private in Captain Samuel Flower's Company, Colonel John Greaton's Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 8, 1818, at which time he was a resident of West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. He died there September 27 or 28, 1828.
He married October 16, 1783, Mabel Stow who was born in April, 1757, at Middletown, Connecticut. She was allowed pension on her application executed November 6, 1838, at which time she was a resident of West Springfield, Massachusetts.
In 1820 he referred to two children, Harriet aged twenty-nine and Emily aged twenty years.
Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF Commissioner
As soldier served with Mass. Troops I did not use widow's statement to be enlisted from Middletown, Conn. W.S.M.

Massachusetts
Mabel Bowe
widow of
Thadeus Bowe, Deed: who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 Mar. 18. and who died on the 27th: September, 1828. of Hampden in the State of Mass: — who was a private in the — commanded by Captain — of the — commanded by — in the Massachusetts line for 9 months —
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts — at the rate of 30 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of May 1839 and sent to Samuel Lathrop, West Springfield, Mass: —
Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $ 90.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept — 15.00
$105.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M c Stewart Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 — Page 72

3897
Mabel Bow Moap
admitted
P. 92 p 30
Saml Lathrop West Springfield Mass

I Mary Cooper of West Springfield in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify & say, that I have been well acquainted with Mrs. Mabel Bowe of said West Springfield ever since she removed to this town in the spring of the year 1790. At that time I was a near neighbor of the said Mabel, & have never lived more than about a mile from her. When she came to this town, she came in company with, & as the wife of Thaddens Bowe, & continued to live with him, as his wife, until his death, about nine or ten years ago. It was said when they came here, & I have never heard it said otherwise, that they removed from Middletown in Connecticut. Mary Cooper
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden County S.S. On the thirtieth day of October 1830 the above named Mary Cooper, well known to me as a lady of truth & veracity, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed Before me Sam Lathrop Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Hampden S.S.
I Justin Willena Clark
of the Probate Court within & for said County do hereby certify that Samuel Lathrop Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition of Mary Cooper was verified was on the thirtieth day of October last a justice of the Peace within and for said County and that his signature subscribed to the above certificate of said verification is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Springfield this sixteenth day of November A.D. 1830 J. W. Clark

3705
Mabel Bowe
$30 per an
James W. Brooks Springfield, Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } Hampden County - } ss
Be it known that on this twenty third day of August A.D. 1843. personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the justices of the Peace within & for said County of Hampden and Commonwealth aforesaid Mabel Dowe a resident of West Springfield in said County aged Eighty six 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 on the 3 d day of March A.D. 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War: - -
That she is the widow of Shaddeus Dowe who was a Private in the Revolutionary War and served as she verily believes as stated by her in her original Declaration for a pension under the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 to which Declaration & the papers proofs & testimonials accompanying the same now on file in the War Department she would refer for a more particular statement of his services for the proof of her marriage, identity & the time of her husband's death.
She further declares that she was pensioned under said Act at the rate of Thirty Dollars per annum which amount she received from the 4 th of March 1835 to the 4 th of March 1841 at the Agency in Boston, Massachusetts for paying Pensions, and at the time of receiving her last payment she surrendered the original Pension Certificate granted to her under said Act to the Pension Agent in the said City of Boston agreeably to the Rules & requirements

of the War Department -
And this declarant further alleges that she has not intermarried since the death of her said husband but is now & ever has been since his death the widow of said Thaddeus Dow deceased, all which will more fully appear by the papers, proofs & testimonies herunto annexed.
And further this declarant saith not.
Mabel Dow
Sworn to & subscribed by the said Mabel Dow on the day & year first above written - and I certify that the above applicant is personally known to me to be the person above described.
Before me Almon W. Crosby Justice of Peace.
I Enock Cooper of West Springfield in the County of Hampden of lawful age on oath testify & say that I have been well acquainted with Mabel Dow the applicant named in the foregoing declaration for many years last past. I know that she was the wife & is now the widow of Thaddeus Dow deceased who was reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War & that she was a pensioner under the said Act of the 7 th July 1838 as stated by her.
Before me Almon W. Crosby Justice of Peace. Enock Cooper

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } Hampden County } pfc
On this twenty third day of August A.D. 1843 Personally appeared Patrick Patrick Cooper well known to me as a credible witness, & a person of strict integrity and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscription
Before me J. Wm. M. Cook Justice of Peace H

Before me James W. Brooks Justice of Peace
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPDEN, ss.
I, RICHARD BLISS, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampden, do certify, that James W. Brooks Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Brooks and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this Twenty fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Richd Bliss Clerk.

Springfield Ms. Sept. 24. 1828
Sir -
I enclose the declaration of Mrs. Mabel Dove or Dow or I find the family with it both ways - and will thank you to place the same on file with those I sent you about ten days ago -
Please return certificates if possible in season for the September drawing -
Yours Obt. Servt.
Ann M. Brooks
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Select

Thaddeus Bow, Mass. act March 1818 to what time paid?
Pen: Office
May 20 th 1839
Due 28 th Sep 1828 p d to that period JH

J. L. Edwards Esq

West Springfield Dec 10 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir,
I enclose you the application of Mabel Bowe of this town for the benefit of the widow's Pension Act.
I am very respectfully yours
Sam Lathrop

Washington Jan 4. 1832.
Mr Edwards,
The original certificate in the case of Thomas Bowers was committed to my care which I have lost or mislaid. Will you have the goodness to issue a new one to fill up
J. C. Bales
P.S. Should I find the old one I will return the new one.
J. C. B.

KATE WARD REID 88 PROSPECT AVENUE MILWAUKEE, WIS.
3/8/25-
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
for me Will you kindly look up the record of Thadias Bawe, born in Middleton, Conn. Dec. 17-1760 who married Mahetable Stowe, and served in the Revolutionary war - in a Connecticut Company of Militia of Middleton. Died - Sept 7 1828 - in Springfield, Mass.
Yours Respectfully Kate Ward Reid 88 - Prospect Ave. Milwaukee, Wis.

1925 May 6, H. S. to Kate W. Reid, Mrs. S.
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18540 Maribel Borne Widow of Shadens Borne Priv. Rev. War
Act: Mar. 3 rd 1843
Index: — Vol. M , Page 175
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Bowan, John GRADE Sergeant LINE Von Heers Dragoons
WARRANT NUMBER 12745 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED November 5, 1789 To — not shown —
notation: "On file, not delivered"
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.