Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27,663, Samuel Bowman, Continental New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
continental New York
Bowman, Samuel Dorothy
W. 27,663
CONTENTS

19.160
Virginia
Dorothy Bauman
widow of
Samuel Bauman
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 20 February, 1840 of Marshall, in the State of Virginia who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Swartout of the 1st Regt commanded by Col. Saml. in the P. V. line for 34 years
Inscribed on the Roll of W th Wheeling at the rate of Eight Dollars Cents per month month, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 1834 terminating at his death the 20 February, 1840.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of September 1840 and sent J. Jacob Esq. Wheeling Virginia,
Arrears to the 4th of March 1839 480 Pension allowance ending 20 Febry. 1840 = 11 mos. 16 days) 92 28 $1472 28
[Act July 7, 1837]
August 20
ordered by Wm. L. Snodgrass
1837
Reported fee letter Sep 10. 42 to A. Woods

19.160 L  Virginia
Samuel Bowman
of Ohio county in the state of Virginia who was a Captain in the 10th Regt. commanded by Captain [blank] of the regiment commanded by Colonel [blank] in the New York line, for the term of three years.
scribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of October 1833.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of Aug 1834 and sent to P. M. Gale Esq. Wheeling Virginia.
Amount of Pension Semi anl. all'ce ending Dec 24 1834
32 35 7 34 39 69
{Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
March 1 1835
file Mch 23
see letter to Mr. Nelson Oct. 18. 1834 do. to same Nov. 20. 1834 chapt - see letter to P. M. Nov. 20. 1834 see letter to Hon. S. Calhoun Jan. 27. 1835
Lt. W. G. Knight - July 21. 1831 - do. to same Aug. 17. 1835 - do. to same Aug. 13. 1835 - do. to R. W. Moore Oct. 26. 1835 - Copies of Copic, of papers sent to Hon. W. S. Morgan H. R. Feb 6. 1836 - do. to Hon. L. Steenrod H. R. Feb. 18. 1840 do. same day - V th Bowman probably entitled under act '32 to pension - do. to Hon. John Carr H. R. June 27. 1840 -

Virginia ss.
At a Court held for Ohio County on the 16 th day of October 1823.
Samuel Borman presented to the Court his declaration under oath together with a Schedule of his property, and the Court having examined the said Samuel Borman, Benjamin Manning and Daniel Terrell witnesses produced in Court by the said Samuel Borman who are of Opinion that the value of the property contained in the said Schedule is just and true, and the Court doth order that the declaration, together with the said schedule and the testimony that the said Samuel Borman did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy, be certified by the Clerk of this Court, to the Secretary of the Department of War. The declaration of Samuel Borman made under oath before the County Court of Ohio County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, which said Court is a court of records. The said Samuel Borman, doth declare and set forth, that sometime in the month of November in the year of our Lord 1782, he enlisted in the Continental service, for three years, in the Company of Captain Cornelius Stout, in the Second Regiment of New York Artillery Commanded by Col. John Lamb, and that he served the whole time of his enlistment; at the expiration of which time he received an honorable discharge from service in the said Regiment, that about six months after his discharge, while he lived in the State of New York his pocket book, containing his discharge was stolen from him, which renders it out of his power to produce said Discharge.

Discharge at the present time, to the court, that he is poor and infirm and has a large family of children to support and that he stands in need of that relief to which by law, he thinks himself, from his former services and present distressed situation justly entitled; The said Samuel Bonman further states, that he is now a resident citizen of the County of Ohio and State of Virginia. (Signed) Samuel Bonman.
Schedule of Samuel Bonman, made to the County court, of Ohio County on applying for a pension from Government.
Property in possession of and belonging to said Bonman. 132 Acres of land bought of R Wood at $100.00 with interest until paid, no title made for the land nor any part of the principal or interest of the purchase money paid.
  132 Acres of land $100.00   1 Mare " " " 16.00   2 Cows " " " 16.00   1 Heifer " " " 4.00   2 Steers " " " 11.00   1 Calf " " " 1.00   13 Sheep " " " 13.00   14 Hogs $8. 1 Shovel plow 14 9.00   2 Hoes $1. 1 Mattock $1.25 2.25   1 Ax $1. 1 Set gears 14 2.00   2 Poles $1.50. A proper furniture 14 3.50   1 Loom $3. 1 Roll for 75 barrels Corn due from 30 th Chambers $15- 18.00   Barrels 2.00   $191.75 
Debts owing from said Bonman to Individuals
  One note $12.50   Aue Geo Howard 3.00   " Jas Sinclair 9.00   Aue Robt Wood for 132 Ac. 184.51   of land principal & interest $100.00 $7.24   184.51 
balance in his favor.

I Samuel Borman, do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it so 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 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income other than that which is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. (Sign d ) Samuel Borman.
The State of Ohio Belmont County. I personally appeared the subscriber Nathaniel Price before me Joseph Alexander, a justice of the peace in and for said County, who after being duly sworn according to law, deposes & saith, that he is well acquainted with Samuel Borman and the said identical Samuel Borman did enlist in the Revolutionary war for the time of three years, he did serve nine months in the aforesaid company and always had the name of an honest good soldier and behaved himself well while I was in the same Company, and had the good respect of all his Officers and fellow soldiers, at the time I was discharged from said Company, and said deponent further saith, that he has good reason to believe that the said Borman did serve his time faithfully. Sworn and subscribed before me this 30 th day of August 1823. (copy) Joseph Alexander J.P. (Seal) (Sign d ) Nathaniel Price

State of Ohio Belmont County, ss.
I Ezer Ellis Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County, do hereby certify, that Joseph Alexander Esq, before whom the within affidavit appears to have been taken, and whose name is thereto subscribed, was at the time of taking and subscribing the same, an acting Justice of the peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly Commissioned and qualified, to whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well in Courts of record as thereout.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto, Seal set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Mariaville this 24th day of September A.D. 1823. (Sign) Ezer Ellis Clerk
Virginia Ohio County ss.
I William Chaplin Junr. Clerk of the County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the record and papers filed in my Office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my Office this 14th day of November 1823. And the 48th year of the Commonwealth (Sign) Wm Chaplin. Junr. C.O.C.
Brande 7. 202 - on 31 Jany 83 - had 132 mo 13 days

Samuel Brumman - , a Pension under the Law of 1818 - Ohio etc -
The attention of the Comt. of Pensions is specially directed to this case - W. H. Douglass,
Trans

Samuel Brannan. a Pensioner under the Law of 1818.
I the undersigned Samuel Brannan aged Seventy eight years old August next. am a native of the County Down, in Ireland, and migrated with my father Robert Brannan and his family to the United States. Some time or three years before the war of the Revolution. I can't tell the year, we landed at the city of New York, and went directly after to Albany, where we lived during the war of the Revolution and for many years after the war ended. I returned to this country about 40 years ago.
About two years before Genl. Burgoin and his army were taken Prisoners. I was drafted for 3 months. & marched from New Cambridge, State of New York, under Capt. John Barnes, to Fort Edward on the Hudson River. I remained at Fort Edward and in its vicinity for the 3 months. all the time in actual service. I can't tell near how many men there was at that station. - I think Genl. Skyles commanded the fort. until he turned it over. - Genl. Stark also commanded the fort. whilst I was in service there as above stated. but whether Genl. Stark commanded before or after Genl. Skyles I can't now recollect. - Nor can I recollect who was my colonel, nor to what Regt. I belonged. - I think there was a Major McBrackin in command. - I can't tell the year in which the foregoing service was done.
The year before Burgoin's army was taken. I can't tell the year this was, I was drafted again for nine months. my company rendezvoused at Cambridge. we marched from there, under Capt. John Barnes, (the same under whom I served the preceding term) to Saratoga, on getting there the rest of Capt. Barnes company, including myself, when taken under him for an indefinite term. - our company remained at and about Saratoga, scouting & ranging about until Burgoin and his army was captured. at that place. I was in the Battle. and at the capturing of Burgoin's army at Saratoga. - Genl. Gates commanded the American forces in this engagement. I don't know who was my colonel or

a what Reg t I belonged whilst I was serving the following term of duty. I think there was a Major McBrack in with us, but whether or not I belonged to his Battalion I can't say. Nor can I now say, when it was that Burgoyne and his army was taken prisoners as before stated, but I think it was in October 1775 or 1776. I remained in service this time until after Burgoyne was taken, but I can't now tell how long I was in service. I volunteered as before stated for a particular term - after expiration of the foregoing term I returned to my father's, and was immediately thereafter drafted again for nine months. I was marched to Saratoga under a captain whose name I have now forgotten. Genl. Gates commanded the American army at Saratoga - from Saratoga we were marched to West Point, where I remained until my nine months expired. Can't now recall who commanded at West Point - after the expiration of the lastment and the general surrender at West Point. (but I can't tell in what year this was) I enlisted for three years or during the war. I was attached to Capt. Cornelius Swift's Comp. regt. 6th John Brown's Regt of Artillery. I think the 2 d Regt the New York lines. I remained at West Point for three years after my enlistment, and until after the war ended. - there was no fighting at West Point after my enlistment. - I drew my pension of Nathaniel Price, by whom I was enrolled as before stated. - my declaration was written by a Mr. Galy, who is now dead. I have been drawing a pension for eight or ten years perhaps longer. In testimony of all which I here subscribe my name. June 29. 1835 W. Galy Nathan Goff. Samuel Brannan Thru Capt. W. Galy
Note - I was called on by Dennis M. Parrott, William Wilson, John Parrott, Walter Evans, & Jonathan Purdy, all of Ohio St. and Gentlemen of high respectability, and urged by them to investigate the case of Brannan, who had expressed their firm conviction, that Brannan was not entitled to a Pension for Revolutionary Service - they have

all known and kind neighbors to him for thirtyodd years - they all concur in saying, that Brown an- died about sixty two years of age - William Wilson (the same before mentioned) says, he has had frequent conversation with Brown about his age - in these conversations, he Brown always made himself, some years old when the war commenced, and fourteen at its termination. = the Southern before named. say further, that Brown is believed by all who knew him to be an impostor -
I will add - from off personal inspection I cannot believe Brown to be as old as he represents himself to be. - I should think him between sixty & seventy. - he is a strong able bodied athletic man, I found him engaged in loading an ox cart, with very heavy logs - - If upon comparison, the statements heretofore made by Brown of his Revolutionary Services, should not agree, with the declarations made by him - and if it should turn out that Brown is an impostor, - he is fully able to sustain all the money frauds he has been by him - please let me hear from you, specially, in reference to this case.
Respectfully Responds.
W G Gargleton
July 4. 1835

Edith & Dorothy Bordman

To the Congress of the United States
The petition of Dorothy Bowman of Marshall County Virginia respectfully represents unto your honorable body That she is the widow & relict of Samuel Bowman a soldier of the Revolution, late of ad County who departed this life on the day of February last past (1840). That said Samuel Bowman in the month of November 1782 enlisted in the Army of the Revolution in continental service for three years in the company of Capt. Cornelius Swarthout in the 2 nd Regiment of Maryland Artillery commanded by Col. John Lamb. That he served the whole time of his enlistment & at the expiration thereof received an honorable discharge from service, but that in about six months after & while he was in the state of Maryland his pocket Book containing his discharge was stolen from him - That being poor & in great want of his country's bounty he in 1823 made his declaration for that purpose before the County Court of Ohio County, Virginia (Marshall County then being a part of Ohio Co) and laid the same with other evidence of his enlistment & service before the proper department of the Government, and thereupon the said Samuel Bowman was in 1824 placed on the pension Roll of the United States under as she is informed the act of the 18 th of March 1818. In a copy of her original declaration & other evidence & of her certificate showing her to be a pensioner from the proper department she here refers & prays that the same may be regarded as part of her memorial

And thereupon the said Samuel Bowman contem- -pted to draw his and an annual pension of $8 half yearly till the day of 1834 when the same was stopped, by as she contends the unlawful act of some officer of the government & his error none struck from the pension roll and suit commenced against him to recover from him that which he had previously received as the bounty of his country for services in the revolutionary war, on the alleged ground that he had practiced a fraud upon the government. The said Samuel Bowman then & to the close of his life in February last denied the charge. He insisted he had served as set forth in his declaration. He therefore defended the suit & loss with much labour & expense by visiting his friends at a long distance procured additional testi- -mony that he was a soldier of the Revolution & had served & lost his discharge as set forth in his declaration and also that an original witness whose affidavit accompanied his declaration but who was then dead was a man of truth & veracity & always con- -sidered & believed to be a man Revolutionary soldier In the fall of 1838 after many contemnorces the the cause came on for trial before the District Court of the United States held at Clarkesburg, Virginia when the jury found a verdict for the said Samuel Bowman upon which (notwithstanding the Attorney for the United States moved for a new trial) a final judgment was rendered against the government & in his favour She also sends herewith a copy of the indictment & judgment & also of the depositions used on the trial all certified by Richard Moore Esq. Clerk of the Court & requests that the same may be read & regarded as part of this petition Upon this augmented verdict & acquittal the said Samuel

Bowman supposed the proper officer or department of the government would have restored him to the pension Roll: But so it is, the was not done owing to ill health & other causes the said Samuel Bowman was not able during the winter of 1838-9 to apply to the proper department or to petition your honorable body for relief. But during the past winter a gentleman who had been his Council visited Washington on other business, and introduced at the request of said Samuel undertook to inquire into this matter business. Whereupon application was made to the Commissioner of Pensions to restore said Samuel to the pension Roll. but this he refused - February just past. the will be seen by the accompanying letters of S. L. Edwards Esqd Commissioner of Pensions, addressed to an honorable member also of your body. In these letters he, begs leave to refer. In a few days after this time the said Samuel Bowman departed this life leaving your petitioner his widow & a large family of children which he had by her, she being the only wife he ever had. It will be seen by these letters from Mr Edwards that he at first denied that said Samuel Bowman, the same was on the revolutionary rolls. but after word from the same day he discovered his mistake, but having found his name on the rolls of the revolutionary army. but still he refused to restore him to the pension roll, deciding that he was not entitled to a pension under the act of March 18-1818, tho' the he had been placed on the pension

roll of the Secretary of War on a state of facts no stronger in his favour of the petitioners and than that. For said Samuel's declaration stated his enlistment at or about November 1781 1782 where as this letter of Mr Edwards states it as happening in October 1782. Your petitioner is informed & contends that the Secretary of War was correct & that the said Colonel Edwards is in error; and that said Samuel on his declaration & proofs, or on the facts stated in this letter of Mr Edwards was entitled to a pension. She contends that all soldiers who served to the close of the Revolution or previously enlisted & discharged are entitled to a pension under the act of March March 18-1818, though they may have been honorably discharged; and that it is not necessary they should have enlisted for nine months previous to the end of the war. Thus she contends as a fact construction of the act of March 18-1818 & as the same she supposes which was given by the Secretary of War when said Samuel was placed on the pension roll. She now insists that she is entitled to the pension of the said Samuel Bowman from the time it was stopped or suspended in 1834 to the day of his death with interest and that if she is not entitled to the whole of it, that the other children by him are; and she now prays your honorable body to grant her relief in the premises - and as in duty bound she will ever pray &c
May 11-1840
Dorothy Boardman of Marshall Co. Virginia

United States
vs
Samuel Bowman
Copies of the Star, evidence & deposition made by the Clerk

United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia held at Clarkburg on the 5 day of September 1838.
United States
vs
Samuel Bowman
In Case
This day came as well the District Attorney as the Defendant, by his Attorney and the Jury impannelled to try the issue in this cause appeared in Court, pursuant to their adjournment, on yesterday and again retired to their Chamber to consider of their verdict, and after some time returned into Court and upon their Oath do say "We the Jury find for the Defendant." Whereupon the District Attorney moved the Court to set aside the said verdict, and grant a new trial herein upon the grounds that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, which motion being argued, it is considered by the Court that the said motion be overruled and that the Plaintiffs take nothing by their bill but for their false clamour be in mercy & And that the Deft go thereof without day.
The following are copies of the Affidavits or Depositions used by the Defendant on the trial of the above cause and are filed with the papers in said cause
"Brooke County State of Virginia July 24 th 1837
This day Nancy Mills personally appeared before me one of the Commonwealth's Justices of the Peace, and made Oaths as the Law directs, that having lived in the State of New York with her Grand father & Grand Mother the parents of Samuel Bowman from her earliest recollection, and do recollect the following circumstances as to his age and his being in the Army. - First I heard his parents say that he was sixteen years old when he first went into the Army, that after serving three months he came home, and in a short time went again

and staid another three months, he went a third time and was gone three years and nine months. I well remember the circumstance of his coming home with a soldiers uniform. A short time after he came home I heard his Father and Mother mention his age when talking about his missing his schooling or learning, his Mother said he is twenty one years of age and does not know his letters his Father observed, he is almost twenty two years of age, but it cannot be helped he must yet go to school. She further recollects a man coming to Grandfather the Bowman's who staid all night and after he was gone in the morning. Samuel Bowman missed his Pocket Book, he suspected that the man had stolen it, and he and his brother Robert pursued him but did not find him, or overtake him, Samuel said he did not care for the money so much as he did for his discharge and other papers. And further this deponent saith not.
Mary Mills
I do certify that the above deposition was taken before me Jesse Sison one of the Commonwealths Justices of the Peace for Brooke County the day and year above written.
Jesse Sison
The United States
ss Samuel Bowman ss Section depending in the United States Court for the Western District of Virginia at Staunton. The Deposition of Robert Bowman.
Be it known that on the twenty ninth day of July One thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven I have caused to come before me at my Office in the County of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, the following is the Deposition of Robert Bowman. "This is to certify that the bearer Samuel Bowman my brother, and that I remember the following circumstances relating to his being in the American Revolution. That he went away to the Army and was gone some years and when he came home he had a soldiers regimentals on him. Some time after he came home a man came to Father's and staid all night, and went away next morning, a short time after he went away, Samuel discovered that his Pocket Book was gone. We suspected that the man had stolen it. Samuel and I followed

him but did not catch him nor get the Pocket Book, Samuel said that he did not care so much about the money that was in it, as his discharge and other papers. And from the best of my recollections brother Samuel is at present is about seventy two years of age.
The deponent Robert Bowman is about seventy four years of age Witness on behalf of Defendant in the foregoing case
Sworn and subscribed Robert Bowman
The United States vs Samuel Bowman
Indictment for a conspiracy depending in the United States Court for the Western District of Virginia at Clarkburg
Be it remembered that on the twenty ninth day of July One thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven I have caused to come before me at my Office in the County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania the following Witness for Defendant, said Bowman Colwit. The deposition of Samuel Bowman Jnr. And the said Witness being first duly sworn and cautioned by me to speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth as well on behalf of the United States as of the said Defendant did depose and say that the said Bowman Defendant is aged about seventy two years, the deponent doth say he had his information from his Father John Bowman a brother to the Defendant and have frequently heard say that his (deponents) Uncle was born in the year 1765 and also have heard his Father say that the Defendant served several years in the Army of the Revolutionary War.
Sworn and subscribed Samuel Bowman
State of Pennsylvania County of Mercer
Before me Thomas Coulson an Acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid do certify that the foregoing Depositions of Samuel Bowman Jnr. the deponent Witness for Defendant, Samuel Bowman, and at his instance in a certain suit depending the United States Court for the Western District of Virginia held at Clarkburg wherein the United States is plaintiff and said Samuel Bowman is Defendant

were taken sworn to and subscribed before me at the time and place aforesaid on this 29 th day of July 1837 and that I am not, of counsel or Attorney or in anywise related to either Plaintiff or Defendants in said Cause, nor am I interested in the events of said Cause. That the foregoing Depositions were wholly written by me that the place of taking said Deposition as well as the residence of the deponents is more than One hundred miles from Clarkburgh aforesaid and therefore the same is taken in the absence of the Plaintiff and without any notice being served on said Plaintiff his appearance because no Agent, or Attorney resides so far as I know or am informed within One hundred miles of the place of taking these Depositions.
Immediately after the Depositions was taken by me Certified Seal and delivered to Def ts
Thos. Coulson. Seal
The United States
vs Samuel Bowman Action depending in the United States Court for the Western District of Virginia held at Clarkburgh.
State of Ohio
Belmont County ss To all men be it known that on this 5 th day of August AD 1837 I have caused to come before me Thomas H. Smiths an Acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County at my Office in said County of Belmont State of Ohio the following Witnesses for the Defendant Samuel Bowman Collier Thomas Shannon, Samuel B Kimball, and Robert Ellis.
And the said Witnesses being first duly sworn and cautioned to speak the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth as well on behalf of the United States as of said Defendants did depose & say. The said the said Thomas Shannon ages about fifty years deposeth & saith that Nathaniel Price deceased was an Old man reputed to be a Revolutionary Soldier and so long as he resided amongst us was believed to be a man of truth & entitled to belief & credit as to any statement he made. The said Samuel B Kimball ages about fifty one years deposeth & saith that he knew Nathaniel Price about fifteen or sixteen

years ago that he lived neighbour to him for ten years previous to his death that he was an Old man & reputed to be a Revolutionary soldier and so long as he knew him he was believed to be a Man of truth and entitled to belief & credit to any statement he made under Oath.
Robert Mills deponeth & saith sayeth about (Fifty two years) that Nathaniel Price deceased was an Old man reputed to be a Revolutionary soldier and so long as he lived or resided or resided amongst us was believed to be a Man of truth and entitled to belief, and credit as to any statement he made
Thomas Shannon
Samuel B Kimball
Robert Mills
The State of Ohio Ross County ss Thomas H. Smith an acting justice of the peace for the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing and within depositions of Thomas Shannon, Samuel B Kimball & Robert Mills witnesses for Defendant Samuel Bowman and at his instance in a certain suit, depending in the United States Court, for the Western District of Virginia held at Clarkesburg wherein the United States is Plaintiff and said Samuel Bowman is Defendant, were taken sworn to & subscribed before me at the time & place aforesaid and on this 5 th day of August, A D 1837 and that I am not of council or attorney or in any wise related to either Plaintiff or Defendant in said Cause, nor am I interested in the event of said suit, that the foregoing depositions were wholly written by me, that the place of taking said depositions as well as the residence of the Deponents is more than One hundred Miles from Clarkesburg aforesaid and therefore the same is taken in the absence of the Plaintiff and without any notice being served upon the said Plaintiff his Agent or attorney because no agent or attorney of the Plaintiff in respect of said suit, resided so far as I know or am informed within One hundred Miles of the place of taking said depositions, the said depositions immediately after the same was taken were certified sealed up and delivered to the Defendant, Samuel Bowman. Given under my

Thomas H. Smith
hand of seal this 5 th day of August, A.D. 1837
Thomas H. Smith Justice of the Peace
I Richard Wallover Clerk of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia do hereby certify that that the foregoing is a true copy of the verdicts and judgments rendered in the Case of the United States agst. Samuel Bowman as also copies of the Affidavits or depositions filed by the Defendants in said cause as fully as the same are of record therein.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
My name at Roanoke this 2 nd day of January, A.D. 1839 and in the 63 rd Year of the Independence of the United States of America
Rich d Wallover
Aug 2 52

Doratha Bowman. The petition of Doratha Bowman, praying that the arrears of pension which she claims to have been due to her late husband, Samuel Bowman, may be allowed her.
May 29 1840 Ref d to the Committee on Rev d Pensions
January 18. 1841 Ref d to Com ee on Rev d pensions Dec r 14. 1841 def d to Com ee on Rev d pensions Feb y 9 1842 - Bill 166
St d Committee on Rev d Rev. Rev.
W, 2 7663 BOWMAN, SAMUEL (CONT, N.Y.)

March 4 1840
Saml Brown Esq Vol. VII 1878.
James J. Richardson
Man. with name
Am. J. Lucas
Am. J. Lucas O.H.R.
Mr. [illegible]

Washington City June 3 rd 1840
Dear James L. Edwards,
Sir
I transmit to you the papers of Samuel Bowman of Virginia, together with a transcript of the Record of the Court in the suit wherein the United States is Plaintiff and Samuel Bowman is defendant, by which it appears that the jury found for the defendant, which record seems to have been rejected by the Dept before action could be had on the case.
Very respectfully your obedt Servt John Q. Adams
BOWMAN, SAMUEL (CONT., N.Y.) W 27763

Attachment Mrs Bournas her own case
Trumps that her message

State of Virginia Marshall County to wit,
I personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the County of on said Samuel Haward Esq and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Samuel Bowman late of Marshall County who was a pensioner and is now dead and also well acquainted with his wife for more than twenty years past and that Dorothy Bowman his widow has ever since his acquaintance with him been reputed as his wife and he never heard the legality of their marriage questioned. Given under my hand this 21 st day of January 1862
Jacob Burley J.P.

To what time was Samuel Bowman, a pensioner of Virginia, act 18 March 1818, last paid?
June 4. 1840 J. L. Edwards
P. 4 March 1834 - dropped from the roll JH
Please say to what date Samuel Bowman, Virginia pensioner act, 1818, at rate of $8 per month last paid?
Moodys
P. 4 March 1834 - drops from the roll JH
Pension Office Sept. 8. '42

M Nelson Esq
Richmond Sept 18. 1834
Dr Sir
Enclos I return you the papers of Sam l Brown - his pension is in the same situation of the one I returned you a few days since - that is the payment suspended by Order of the War Department
Yours Respectfully
Wm H Millar

Payment to be made at Wheeling Va by C Woodbury Agent for paying Pen- sioners, in the Agency of
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book H Vol. 7 Page 123 by
H Moody Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the Act of the 26 th of August, 1842, Dorothy Bowman of Virginia, widow of Samuel Bowman, deceased, who was a Private in the Revolution and died on the twentieth day of February Eighteen Hundred and forty is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eight dollars per month commencing on the fourth day of March Eighteen Hundred and thirty four and terminating the twentieth day of February 1840 when he died,
Given at the War Office of the United States, this _____ day of _____ one thousand eight hundred and forty=
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. §
Commissioner of Pensions. _____

Wheeler Va: Nov. 20 th 1823. The Hon. J. D. Adams
Sir,
I take the liberty of enclosing to you a certified copy of the proceedings of the County Court of Ohio County, on the application of Samuel Brown as for a pension. In addition to the facts stated in his papers, I add my knowledge of Brown's situation; his very poor and infirm, with a family of nine or ten children, the greater part of whom are so young as to be unable to assist in supporting the family.
Very respectfully
Your Hon. Ob. Servt.
D. D. Gale

FREE
Hon. Lewis Cajo Secretary of War
Pension Office Washington City Pa.

Wheeling Oct. 14. 1834.
Hon. L. C. Cap Secy of War. D.C.
I have this day recd a letter from S. G. Edwards esq. in which he remarks. "Mr. Samuel Bowman should send his vouchers to this Office for inspection." I accordingly enclose the same together with the letter of Mr. Wm. Mitchell Jr. to whom the same were originally sent.
I have the honor to be very respectfully
Yr. obedt. servt
Morgan Nelson

P. 153
27th CONGRESS, 2d Session.
H. R. 166.
( Rep. No. 120. )
FEBRUARY 9, 1842.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. MATHIOT, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
A BILL
An act For the relief of Dorothy Bowman.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Dorothy Bowman, of Marshall county, Virginia, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the time her late husband, Samuel Bowman, a revolutionary soldier, was stricken from the pen- sion roll, in eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to the twentieth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty, the time of his death.
Approved, August 26 th , 1842.
A true copy from the Roll in this Office.
Dept. of State
Fletcher Newton Ch. Clk.
Sept. 9 th 1842.

United States of America.
United States Court for the Western District of Virginia
Holden at Clarksburg To Wit:
The United States of America complains of Samuel Bowman a citizen and inhabitant of Virginia, and of the District aforesaid, in custody &c. of a plea of trespass on the case. For that whereas the said Defendant, heretofore, to wit, on the tenth day of August in the year of our Lord 1834, at the County of Marshall and in the District aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the said United States Court for the Western District of Virginia, was indebted to the said plaintiffs in the sum of One thousand five hundred Dollars lawful money of the United States, for goods, wares and merchandize, before that time sold and delivered by the said Plaintiffs to the Defendant at his special instance and request; and being so indebted, he the said Samuel Bowman in consideration thereof, afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, at the county aforesaid, and in the district aforesaid, undertook, and then and there faithfully promised to pay to the said Plaintiffs the sum of One thousand five hundred Dollars when he the said Defendant should be thereunto afterwards requested:—

And Whereas also the said Samuel Bow- man afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, in the County and District aforesaid, was indebted to the said plaintiffs in the further sum of Fifteen hundred Dollars of like lawful money of the United States, for so much money by the said plaintiffs, before that time lent and advanced to the said Samuel Bowman at his special instance and request; and being so indebted, he the said Samuel Bowman in consideration thereof after- wards to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, in the County and District aforesaid, undertook, and then and there faithfully promised to pay to the plaintiffs, the said last mentioned sum of money, when he the said Samuel Bowman should be thereunto afterwards requested:—
And Whereas the said Samuel Bow- man afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, in the County and District afore- said, undertook and then and there faithfully promised to pay to the said Plaintiffs the said last mentioned sum of money when he the said Samuel Bowman should be thereunto afterwards requested:—
And Whereas the said Samuel Bowman afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid,

in the County and District aforesaid, was indebted to the said Plaintiffs in the further sum of Fifteen hundred Dollars of like lawful money of the United States for so much money, by the said Samuel Bowman before that time had and received to and for the use of the said Plaintiffs; and being so indebted to the said Plaintiffs, he the said Samuel Bowman in consideration thereof, afterwards to wit, on the day & year last aforesaid, in the County & District aforesaid, undertook, & then and there faithfully promised to pay the said Plaintiffs the said last mentioned sum of money, when he the said Samuel Bowman should be afterwards thereunto requested. Yet the said defendant, although often requested, hath refused, and doth still refuse to pay the said several sums of money above demanded, to the said Plaintiffs, or any part thereof: by reason whereof an action hath accrued to the said Plaintiffs, to sue for, and recover of and from the said Defendant, the said several sums above demanded. To the Plaintiffs damages $1500. therefore they sue &c.
W. G. Singleton Dist Atty for Plffs Copy Teste Richd. W. Moore clk U.S.D. W. D.V.

War Department, Pension Office, February 17. 1840.
Sir,
I will be obliged to you if you will say in which State Samuel Bowman resided at the time when he made application for a pension, in order that I may be enabled to find the papers and furnish you with the information desired in his case.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your ob t Serv t .
J. L. Edwards
Hon. L. Steenrod, House of Representatives.

Office 11 o of Rep U.S. Sept 9. 1842
Sir
In Compliance with the request contained in your letter of this date, I herewith send you the papers of Dorothy Bowman, for whose relief a special act was passed at the last Session of Congress. —
The papers of Mary Rand were transmitted to you on the 26 Aug st last in compliance with your request. —
I am Very respectfully,
Yr Ob st Serv t .
P. B. Wecke
Col James L Edwards. Comr. of Pensions.

No 1
Hon. L. L. Thurmond
Present

War Department, Pension Office,
February 18. 1840
Sir,
The name of Samuel Bow- man was placed on the pension roll under the act of March 18. 1818, on account of alleged service in Col. Lamb's regiment of Artillery. He was pensioned in 1824, upon the testimony of two persons who swore that he performed the service. In 1834 his pension was stopped, because it was stated in a communication to this office that the claim was fraudulent. The rolls of Col. Lamb's regiment which have been received here since he was pensioned do not contain his name. This of itself is deemed sufficient cause for not continuing his name on the roll. The original papers were sent to the District Attorney, and have not since been received here.
This Department cannot restore Mr. Bowman to the Pension Roll.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obb. servt.
Hon. L. Steenrod, House of Representatives.
J. L. Edwards

Affidavit
Mrs Bowman rebuttal for her = non money
Proof her money

State of Virginia, Marshall County Court
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid Jacob Burley Esq. and being duly sworn according to law deponeth and saith That about the year 1801, 1802 or 1803 he the said deponent was living in Waynesburgh Green County State of Pennsylvania That Samuel Bowman who was a prisoner and is now dead was understood to have been married in Waynesburgh about that time, that he has been acquainted with the said Samuel Bowman for near twenty five years in Marshall County previous to his death, and that Dorothy Bowman his widow is the woman who has all said time been acknowledged by him as his wife and with whom he has lived ever since until his death and has been reputed to be his wife and said deponent never heard it contradicted. Given under my hand this 21 st day of January 1842
J. Howard J.P.
State of Virginia Marshall County Court
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid Mary Burley the wife of Jacob Burley Esq. of Marshall County and being duly sworn according to law deponeth and saith that sometime near forty years ago Samuel Bowman came to Waynesburgh in company with a woman and she understood they were married by Esq. Hunter at said time and that Dorothy Bowman the widow of said Samuel Bowman she believes was the same woman and she never heard the same contradicted, that she has been acquainted with them in Marshall County for more than twenty years past and they have been reputed in the neighborhood as husband and wife and raised a large family of children. Given under my hand this 21 st day of January 1842
J. Howard J.P.

Sam. Roman
Calcutta
San Luis Potosi
Secretary of War
Pension Office Washington D.C.
FROM

Whuling Oct. 24. 1834.
Hon. Lewis Cass Secy. of War, U.S.
I have had the honor to receive from S. L. Edwards Esq. a communication dated the 18th inst. notifying me that Samuel Bowmans man, a revolutionary pensioner under the Acts of March 18. 1818. May 1. 1820 and March 1. 1823. and who has been in the receipt of a pension for near eleven years, must make an additional statement under oath, before an order can be given for the payment of the pension claimed &c.
Inasmuch as I am ignorant of any cause for suspending Mr. Bowmans pension, I beg leave to enquire whether the suspending order has been given in the exercise of any revising power, for the annulling or vacating the acts of the Secretary of War who originally granted to Mr. B. his pension in Jan. 1824. or by reason of any recent change of the law. And if the said pension has been made in the exercise of any revising power, I beg leave also to enquire

what defect, if any, has been discovered in the sufficiency, or formality, of the proofs or documents upon which Dr. Bowman's pension was originally allowed.
These enquiries are made in order that I may clearly understand the grounds upon which Dr. B's pension has been suspended, and what is required of him, in order to its payment.
I have the honor to be
With great respect
Yr mo obt servt
Morgan & Clough

Paul Bowman his sister
Lucas Co. Wheeler Va.

Barnesville August 27 th 1835 Mr Jacobs Esq
Sir Yours by the hands of Mr Bowman requesting information as to the truth & veracity of Nathaniel Price late of this place has been received in reply I state that Nathaniel Price was an old man & no doubt a bun- gist but that he was a revolutionary soldier & drew his pension as such & his veracity as to any statement he might make has not been question- -ed here to my knowledge. I believe that full confidence may be placed in his statements yours & c
Thomas Shannon B. Joseph Blascenden Esq. I do not reside here he was the officer before whom the affidavit of Price was taken T. S.

We the undersigned citizens of Barnesville do certify that Nathaniel Price dec., was an old man reputed to be a revolution- ary soldier, and so long as he resided amongst us, was believed to be a man of truth, and entitled to belief & credit as to my statements he made.
Thos Shannon
Barnesville August 27 th 1835 Robert Mills
John W. Lane
Samuel B. Kimball
Jerry Barron
William G. Shankland
Isaac Lewis

No 2
the same then and

War Department, Pension Office,
February 18. 1840
Sir,
It appears on a further examination of the rolls of Col. Lamb's regiment of Artillery, that Swartout, under whom Samuel Bowman alleges to have served, was a Captain Lieutenant in Captain Bliss's company. On the roll of that company I find a man named Samuel Bauman , and I have no doubt he is the same person who was pensioned. He enlisted in October 1782, and could not therefore have served a sufficient length of time prior to April 11. 1783, when the war ended, to bring his case under the provisions of the act of March 18. 1818; but if he is the same person whose name is on the muster roll, he may obtain the benefits of the act of June 7. 1832. I enclose a printed sheet for his guidance. He should obtain from the Clerk of the Court, or the U. S. Attorney a certificate as to the decision in the case of the U. States versus Samuel Bowman.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obt. servt.
Hon. L. Steenrod, House of Representatives.
J. L. Edwards

J
Hon. Secy. C. Spencer Secretary of War Washington
Answer, please to Mr. [unclear]

Wheeling Sep. 5- 1842 Hon John C. Spencer Secretary of War Sir
An act passed at the Session of Congress, which has just closed for the relief of Dorothy Bowman of Marshall Co. Va. The act can be seen by reference to the National Intelligencer. It provides that the Secretary of War shall pay her the arrears of her husband, Samuel Bowman's pension, amounting to some $8500 or $9000.
I was the counsel of Bowman in his life time, and since his death have acted as the counsel & friend of the widow in attempting to procure for her from the government, that bounty which her country enacted in behalf of the soldiers of the Revolution. It is therefore I write that she may ascertain here & where she makes application for the money you are directed to pay her. Is the application made at your office & in what manner ? As an apology for thus troubling you I must plead my inexperience. Perhaps I ought to give you a reference. I have but few acquaintances in Washington not could name many among the members of Congress. I will say however that

I have corresponded with the J. L. Edwards Camp. of Friends - I can also say that I am personally known to his Excellency the President of the U. States
A prompt answer will much oblige me and relieve the pressing requisitions of a very poor old woman
Yours respectfully L. J. Acob
In addition to this I might refer to Mr Webster

Whaling V o . Sept 5. 1842
J. Jacob Atty.
Inquiries how and when D. Bowman is to receive her pension.
J. 153. Rec Septm 8. 1842
Pension Office.
See inside.

Payden
Hon L. Stearns
M. C.
Washington
City

Wheeler July 15-1841
Dear Sir, I am glad to hear that Barnum estate is like to get justice done it at last
I will as soon as possible possible send the evidence of the widow as to her marriage - I have no doubt of their marriage as they have a large family of adult children - But as she lives in the country a long way from town I can not con- veniently see her or hear from her
Yours respectfully L. Jacob

DOROTHY BOWMAN.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 166.]
FEBRUARY 9, 1842.
Mr. MATHIOT, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT :
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Dorothy Bowman, widow of Samuel Bowman, a soldier of the Revolution, late of the county of Marshall, and State of Virginia, deceased, make the following report :
From the papers accompanying the petition in this case, it appears that Samuel Bowman, the husband of the petitioner, was, in the year 1824, placed on the pension roll of the United States at the rate of eight dollars per month, under the act of the 18th of March, 1818. He continued to receive his pension under this law until some time in the year 1834, when, in consequence of a communication received at the Pension Office, stating that the claim was fraudulent, his name was stricken from the roll, and suit brought against him in the United States district court for the western district of Virginia, to recover back the pension money which had been paid him. It does not appear from the papers who gave the information to the department; nor does it appear that Bowman was notified that such charge was made before his name was stricken from the pension roll. During the pendency of this suit, the said Bowman, at much labor and expense, obtained additional testimony; which, in the opinion of the committee, establishes the fact conclusively, that he was entitled to the benefit of the act of March 18, 1818, and was improperly stricken from the roll in 1834.
At the September term, A. D. 1838, of said district court, said cause was tried; and, after a full and fair trial, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of said Bowman; whereupon, a motion was made by the counsel of the United States for a new trial, which was overruled by the court, and judgment rendered upon the verdict. After the decision in this case, the said Bowman applied to the department to be reinstated on the pension roll. The Commissioner at first refused to reinstate him, on the ground that the rolls of Colonel Lamb's regiment (in which he claimed to have served) had been received at the department after he was pensioned, and they did not contain his name. In a letter written by the Commissioner of Pensions to the Hon. Lewis Steenrod, of the House of Representatives, and dated February 18, 1840, he says, "that, on a further examination of the rolls of Colonel Lamb's regiment of artillery, I find the name of Samuel Bowman."

and I have no doubt he is the same person who was pensioned." About the time this letter was written Bowman died, leaving the petitioner, his widow, and a large family of children. She immediately applied to the Pension Office for the arrear of pension, which she claimed to be justly due to her on account of the services of her said husband in the revolutionary war, and of which he had been most unjustly deprived from the time he was stricken from the roll, in 1834. The Commissioner of Pensions decided against her claim, and from that decision she has appealed to Congress.
The committee are satisfied, from the testimony, that said Bowman was entitled to the benefit of the act of the 18th of March, 1818, from the time he was placed on the pension roll, in 1824, to the time of his death, and that he was unjustly stricken from the roll in 1834; and, were he now living, the committee are clearly of opinion that he would be entitled to the relief which is now sought by his widow.
The money due him from the Government was improperly withheld during his lifetime. And certainly neither the erroneous decision of the agent of the Government, in striking his name from the list, nor his subsequent death, can cancel the obligation to pay. It may be questioned whether the widow is the proper person to receive the money. No existing law makes provision for precisely such a case; but the object of the entire pension laws appears to be to secure their benefit to the pensioner himself, if living, and, if he be dead, then to his widow or children.
The act of June 7, 1832, in case of the death of the pensioner during the period intervening between the semi-annual payments, directs that all arrears of pension shall be paid to his widow, or, if he leave no widow, then to his children. The law of July, 1836, of March, 1837, and July, 1838, contain similar provisions. And, inasmuch as the support of the children of the pensioner has devolved upon his widow, the committee deem it just and right that she should have the money, so long withheld by the Government, for the purpose of supporting her children, and which, if it had been paid to the pensioner in his lifetime, would have probably been appropriated for the same object. And the committee therefore beg leave to report a bill in favor of the petitioner.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No.
27.663
Dorothy Bowman Widow of Samuel Bowman Prio N-Y. Line
Act Aug. 26. 1842
Index : Vol 1, Page 76
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Bowman's case
Hon. L. Sherman
Dear Sir
Permit me to address you, & through you, the Committee, a few lines; showing why I think Mrs. Bowman is entitled to the relief she asks at the hand of Congress.
I respectfully request you and the Committee, to carefully examine the Petition and papers and evidence accompanying the petition. By doing so you will understand the case and otherwise you will not. Mr. Edwards' letters give no adequate information in regard to the case, either as to the law, or the facts thereof.
In 1821 Bowman under the act of 18 th of March 1818 was placed on the pension roll, as a Soldier of the Revolution. His original declaration, and the affidavit of Price, an old soldier (copies of which are with the petition) show the ground of his application and the evidence or fact on which it was granted.
This pension he continued to receive till 1834 when his name was struck from the roll (without I believe, any notice of the reason) and suit brought against him to recover the pension money which had been paid him. The pretence for this course was, that he was too young to have served in the revolutionary war, and that he had therefore practiced a fraud upon the government. This suit he defended, and at great labor and expense for a poor old man, he found new testimony, though his original witness Price had in the mean time departed this life. The new testimony (see the record with the petition) showed that his deceased witness Price to be a Soldier of the revolution.

and a man of truth; and fully sustained and corroborated the truth of his original declaration. In the depositions of Stanley Miller, and of Robert and Samuel Bowman - and as to the character and reputation of Rice, among others, the deposition of Thomas Shannon of the Senate of Ohio and brother of Ex Governor Shannon. In 1838, at the Fall Term of the Federal Court, held at Clarksville, Virginia, the cause was tried, on this evidence on the part of Bowman, and the evidence of some half a dozen witnesses produced in court on behalf of the government, to prove that he was too young and had practised a fraud on his country. - And after a full and fair trial before the best tribunal in the world, a judge and jury , a verdict and judgment was rendered in favor of Bowman. The attorney for the United States moved the Court to set aside this verdict and grant a new trial, but the court refused it, and entered a final judgment for the defendant Bowman.
Then I was employed by Bowman (who did not die till about the 1 st of March 1840) to have him restored to the pension roll, and to recover his arrears of pension. To account for the apparent delay there has been in this case, I wish you to bear with me, while I speak of my acts in the business, some of which at least, are well known to you.
The suit was tried at Fall Term 1838. The next session was a short session, and circumstances beyond my control prevented me from making the application in time for that session - though I might have made it before the proper Department before the next session, I omitted to do so. In February 1840 - as you will remember, I visited Washington on business.

sinus, and was there some walls; and had an interview or two with Mr. Compt. Edwards in regard to this case. On the first application, he wrote a letter addressed to you, saying that Bowman's name was not found, and that as the roll of Col. Smith's regiment had been removed, since Bowman was originally placed on the roll, and his name was not there found, he could not be restored. (I have not the letter and therefore write from memory). However, on a second request that he would make a further search, Mr. Edwards wrote another letter to you in a day or two after, saying that he had found the name of Bowman, and that though he might probably be entitled to a pension under the act of 1832 yet he could not restore him. (I still write from memory; but these two letters are I think, with the papers in this case. If not I request you to get copies of them from Mr. Edwards' office. They were both written in February 1840.)
Thus all further application at the department to be restored to the roll closed; and I set about preparing a petition for Bowman to Congress for redress. In a few days, to wit, about the 1 st of March 1840 I heard he was dead. Still believing that the poor old man was wronged, and injured by the officers of the government, I, on the application of the family, prepared the petition for the widow, which you, towards the close of last session, presented to Congress. This I considered as in fact an appeal from Mr. Edwards to Congress, and certainly never again expected to see any thing more from Mr. Edwards on the subject. But about the 19 th of July last, I received from you a letter, coming on from Compt. Edwards to the Hon.

John Carr, of the House of Representatives. This letter is in the words and figures following, viz.
"Pension Office, June 27, 1840 "Sir. I have examined the case of the widow of Samuel Bowman, and the papers are herewith returned. Under the act of March 18, 1838, the deceased was paid $1000 to which he was not entitled. In my letter to the Hon. S. Stewart of the 18th of February last, I stated that Bowman might probably obtain a pension under the act of June 1832, but I was not aware at that time of Bowman's death. There was at the time of his death, nothing due to him. The widow has therefore no claim on account of his service under the act of June 7, 1832. I have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully, John No. 664 Sernt A. S. Edwards Mr. John Carr House of Representatives
I did not reply promptly to this letter because the session was then too near a close to do any thing. I do not wish to speak disrespectfully, but I must say, this letter surprises me. Mr. Edwards admits he had all the papers before him, by which I understand her petition and accompanying papers and documents. He disposes of her case in a very summary way, and gives his reasons, if reasons they can be called, so very briefly that it is hardly possible to tell what are his views. I do not know what is the practice of the committee in such cases, and I shall not therefore complain, but I must repeat, that as I considered this petition nothing more than an appeal from Mr. Commissioner Edwards to Congress, I was surprised, as well at the existence of this letter, as at its contents. Mr. Edwards or the

proper department might certainly have restored Bowman to the pension roll for the same reason that he was originally placed on it. This he would not do, and Bowman was driven to appeal to Congress. But as he died before his memorial was presented (it had in fact been prepared) it became necessary to petition for the proper relief in the widow's name. But still this petition is in substance the same as it would have been were Bowman still in life, namely a petition to recover the sum wrongfully withheld, and to be restored to the pension roll. Now Sir, as Mr. Edwards had all the papers before him, I insist he ought to have shown, if he showed any thing, why it was that Bowman's name was struck from the pension roll, and why it was, that he still , after the case made by himself and his officers, was tried, and Bowman acquitted, he still refused to pay the arrears of pension money, and to place him on the pension roll. This he has not shown - indeed it seems to me, that he has not at all looked at the case in this its proper aspect. I will now attempt to do it, and beg you to pardon my tediousness.
If Bowman was in the regular service at the end of the revolutionary war, I contend he was entitled to his pension under the act of March 18, 1818. So I contend he was entitled to the same under this act of the 18 th March 1818; if he served nine months or longer at any period of the war. The act of March 18, 1818 reads "Every commissioned officer, non commissioned officer, musician, and private soldier, and all officers in the hospital department and medical staff, who served in the war of the revolution until the end thereof, or for the term of nine months at any period."

of the war on the continental establishment &c &c shall be entitled to a pension &c &c" Now all who were in the regular service at the end of the war, as well as all who may have served at any other period, nine months, were entitled to a pension. I infer that Mr. Edwards contends that the soldier must have been in the service nine months before the close of the war, though he was in the service at the close. But this is not, I contend the true construction of the act. The act plain- ly provides for two classes - first for all who were in the service at the end of the war, and, secondly, for all who at any other time had served nine months. That Mr. Edwards contends for a different construction, I infer from his letter of February 1840 and this letter of June 1840. His letter of February 1840, if I remember its con- tents right, speaks of his being probably entitled under the act of 1832 for such time as he had served, though the letter I think showed that Bowman was in the service at the close of the war. But I further contend that Bowman's case shows, not only that he was in the service at the end of the war, but also that he ser- ved more than nine months. So that he is entitled to his pension, whether you sustain my construction of the act or not.
I now request you and the Committee to examine Bowman's declaration, and his evidence. In the papers with the petition. The evidence of Price, Mrs. Hill, and Samuel & Robert Bowman, does most satisfac- torily prove that he was a soldier in the war of the revolution. That he was there at the close of the war and also served for a much longer period than nine months. But the rolls of the Department show that

he was in the army, and if my memory is not at fault, they show that he was in the war at the end thereof. One of Mr. Edwards' letters addressed to you last winter shows that he found his name on the roll. This letter I think, is among the papers in the case. He wrote you two letters in February 1840, within a few days of each other. The one showed that no such name was found, but the other letter showed that his name is on the Army roll, and, as I think, that he was in the service at the end of the war.
Why then shall not the prayer of the petition be granted? The petition is to recover the money due to Bowman from the time his pension was stopped till his death. The trial in the suit the United States prosecuted against him, and the record show that he did not defraud the government. The evidence shows that he was rightly placed on the pension roll, and wrongfully struck off.
Mark, this is not an original application for the benefit of the pension law. It is an application for redress against the oppressive, or to say the least, of it erroneous act of the officers of the government in striking him off the roll. Mr. Edwards ought to have shown that he was wrongfully placed on the roll. This he cannot do. But I would also say, that the act of the Department in placing him on the pension roll must be presumed correct till the contrary is shown. But Bowman has not left his case to rest upon presumption. He has, in the court selected by the officers of the government, exonerated himself from the charge of fraud, and has proved the truth of his original declaration. I repeat, I request a careful perusal of the papers. Mr. Edwards says in this let-

he says that Bowman had received $1000 which he was not entitled to. But he gives us no reason for this assertion. I trust that the ipse dixit of no man will be permitted to prevail before the representatives of freedom. Surely Mr. Edwards did not look into the evidence, or if he did, he wholly disregarded it, or he would not have made this assertion. — Give the act of the proper department which placed him on the pension roll, its just consideration and influence, and the evidence of the petitioner its proper weight, and we fear not the result.
You will observe that Mr. Edwards in this letter to the Hon Mr. Carr, says that when he wrote his letter to you of the 18th February 1846, he supposed Bowman was alive. Now the truth is, he was then alive, though his life or death at that time cannot affect the merits of the case.
Hon L. Stearns
Yours respectfully D. G. Jacob
I see that this letter might be much condensed but I have not time to do it. I had to have it copied from the rough draft

PAID 18 3/4
Mr. William Mitchell Jr.
Richmond Virginia

State of Virginia Ohio County ss:
Be it known, that before me George C. Ditty, a justice of the Peace in & for the said County, personally appeared Samuel Bowman & made oath in due form of law, that he is the identical Samuel Bowman named in an original pension certificate in his possession, of which (I certify) the following is a true copy: "War Department.-Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Laws of the United States, of the 18th of March 1818 May 1 st 1820 & March 7 th 1823, Samuel Bowman late a Private in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Virginia Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this fourteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
that he now resides in Ohio County Virginia, and has resided therein for the space of nineteen years past, & that previous thereto he had resided in the State of Ohio.
Sworn & subscribed this 9 th day of September 1834, before me.
Samuel Bowman
Geo C. Ditty J. P.
Know all men by these Presents, That I Samuel Bowman a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint

William Mitchell Jr. my true & lawful Attorney for me, & in my name to receive from the agent for paying Pensions in Richmond, State of Virginia, my Pension from the 4th day of March 1834 to the 4th day of September 1834. Witness my hand and seal, this 9th day of September 1834
Sealed & delivered in presence of Isaac Hoge Jr. Morgan Wilson
Samuel Bowman (Seal)
State of Virginia, Ohio County ss:
Be it known that before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in & for the said County, personally appeared Samuel Bowman the above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act & deed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, this 9th day of September 1834.
Geo C. Cuttler J. P.
State of Virginia, Henrico County ss:
Be it known, that on the _____ day of _____ before the subscriber, a justice of the Peace in & for the said County, personally appeared William Mitchell Jr. the Attorney named in the within power of Attorney and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any sale transfer or mortgage of the pension or arrears of pension therein authorized to be received by him above written, before me
J.P.

Signature of the Magistrate (Geo D. Dutton) per. Rev.
State of Virginia Ohio County, } ss.
I John McCulloch Clerk of the County Court of this County, and State aforesaid do hereby certify that George Dutton is a justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 31 st day of October 1826 and is held during good behavior, & that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand & the seal of said County, this 9 th day of September 1834
Jno McCulloch Clerk
Wheeling 13 Sept. 1834.
On Sir. I beg leave again to call your attention to what by some of the publickly signed previous and make a phisical. Your friend Wm. Mitchell

United States vs Geo. Kane Saml. Bowman
Jacob H. Lord Esq Doyle Alto
Dec. 88

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
United States Court for the Western District of Virginia.
Holden at Clarksville
TO WIT:
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA complains of Samuel Bowman a citizen and inhabitant of Virginia, and of the District aforesaid, in custody &c. of a plea of trespass on the case. For that whereas the said Defendant, heretofore, to wit, on the tenth day of August in the year of our Lord 1834, at the County of Marshall and in the District aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the said United States Court for the Western District of Virginia, was indebted to the said plaintiffs in the sum of One thousand five hundred Dollars lawful money of the United States, for goods, wares and merchandise, before that time sold and delivered by the said Plaintiffs to the Defendant at his special instance and request; and being so indebted, he the said Samuel Bowman in consideration thereof, afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, at the county aforesaid, and in the district aforesaid, undertook, and then and there faithfully promised to pay to the said Plaintiffs the sum of One thousand five hundred Dollars when he the said Defendant should be thereunto afterwards requested:—
AND WHEREAS also the said Samuel Bowman afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, in the County and District aforesaid, was indebted to the said plaintiffs in the further sum of Fifteen hundred Dollars of like lawful money of the United States, for so much money by the said plaintiffs, before that time lent and advanced to the said Samuel Bowman at his special instance and request; and being so indebted, he the said Samuel Bowman in consideration thereof afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, in the County and District aforesaid, undertook, and then and there faithfully promised to pay to the plaintiffs, the said last mentioned sum of money, when he the said Samuel Bowman should be thereunto afterwards requested:—
AND WHEREAS the said Samuel Bowman afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, in the County and District aforesaid, was indebted to the said plaintiffs in the further sum of Fifteen hundred Dollars like lawful money of the United States, for so much money by the said Plaintiffs before that time paid, laid out and expended to and for the use of the said Samuel Bowman at his like special instance and request; and being so indebted, he the said Samuel Bowman in consideration thereof, afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, in the County and District aforesaid, undertook, and then and there faithfully promised to pay to the said Plaintiffs the said last mentioned sum of money, when he the said Samuel Bowman should be thereunto afterwards requested:—
AND WHEREAS the said Samuel Bowman afterwards, to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid, in the County and District aforesaid, was indebted to the said Plaintiffs in the further sum of Fifteen hundred Dollars of like lawful money of the United States for so much money, by the said Samuel Bowman before that time had and received to and for the use of the said Plaintiffs; and being so indebted to the said Plaintiffs, he the said Samuel Bowman in consideration thereof, afterwards to wit, on the day & year last aforesaid, in the County & District aforesaid, undertook, & then and there faithfully promised to pay the said Plaintiffs the said last mentioned sum of money, when he the said Samuel Bowman
should be afterwards thereunto requested. Yet the said defendant, although often requested, hath refused, and doth still refuse to pay the said several sums of money above demanded, to the said Plaintiffs, or any part thereof: by reason whereof an action hath accrued to the said Plaintiffs, to sue for, and recover of and from the said Defendant, the said several sums above demanded.—To the Plaintiffs' damages $1500. — therefore they sue &c.
Copy Lest M c Gingleton Dist. Atty. A. H. Cooper P ro P laintiffs Richd. M c Moon C lerk W.D. Va.

I hereby Certify, that the accompanying pages numbered from One to four, inclusive, are truly copied from papers the originals of which were filed in the Pension Office, War Dept. and are now in the hands of the U.S. Attorney, for the Western District of Virginia
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
Be it Remembered, that JAMES L. EDWARDS, who has signed the foregoing certificate, is Commissioner of Pensions; and that to his attestations full faith and credit are and ought to be given. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this 4 th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six
J M Sloan
Secretary of War.

Virginia ss
1.
At a Court held for Ohio County on the 6th day of October 1823
Samuel Bowman presented to the Court his declaration under oath, together with a schedule of his property, and the Court having examined the said Samuel Bowman, Benjamin Manning and Daniel Terrell, witnesses produced in Court by the said Samuel Bowman, who are of opinion that the value of the property contained in the said schedule is just and true, and the Court doth order that the declaration together with the said schedule, and the Testimony that the said Samuel Bowman did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy be certified by the Clerk of this Court to the Secretary of the Department of War.
The declaration of Samuel Bowman made under oath before the County Court of Ohio County in the Commonwealth of Virginia which said Court is a Court of Record: The said Samuel Bowman doth declare and set forth, that some time in the month of November in the year of our Lord 1782 he enlisted in the continental service, for three years, in the company of Capt Cornelius Swanhout in the second Regiment of New York Artillery commanded by Col John Samb, and that he served the whole time of his enlistment; at the expiration of which time he received an honorable discharge from service in the said Regiment; that about six months after his discharge while he lived in the State of New York his pocket book containing his discharge was stolen from him, which renders it out of his power to produce said discharge at the present time to the court; that he is

poor and infirm and has a large family of children to support and that he stands in need of that relief to which by Law he thinks himself, from his former services and present distressed situation justly entitled. The said Samuel Bowman further states that he is now a resident citizen of the County of Ohio and State of Virginia
Sequitur Samuel Bowman
Schedule of Samuel Bowman made to the County Court of Ohio County on applying for a pension from Government. Property in possession of and belonging to said Bowman 132 Acres of land bought of R. Wood at $100.00 with interest until paid, no title made for the land nor any part of the principal or interest of the purchase money paid
  132 Acres of Land $100.00   1. Mare 16.00   2. Cows 16.00   1. Heifer 4.00   2. Steers 6.00   1. Calf 1.00   13 Sheep 13.00   14. Hogs $8.00 - 1 Shovel plow $1.00 9.00   2 hogs $1.00 - 1 Mattock $1.25 2.25   1. Axe $1.00 - 1 sett gears $1.00 2.00   2 pots $1.50 - dressin furniture $1.00 2.50   1. Loom $3.00. Note for 75 barrels corn due from Jas Chambers $15.00 18.00   Barrels 2.00   191.75 
Debts owing from Sam d Bowman to Individuals    One Note  $12.50    due George Howards  3.00  

 Joseph Sinclair $9.00 due Robt Wood for 132 as land principal & interest 160.00  184.51 184.51 7.24 balance in his favor 
I Samuel Bowman do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so 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 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than that which is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
(Sept. 1 Samuel Bowman
The State of Ohio Belmont County ss
Personally appeared the sub- scriber Nathaniel Price, before me Joseph Alexander, a justice of the peace in and for said County, who after being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Samuel Bowman and the said identical Samuel Bowman did enlist in the revolutionary war for the time of three years, he did serve nine months in the aforesaid Company and always had the name of an honest good soldier and behaved himself well while it was in the same company and had the good respect of all his officers and fellow soldiers at the time it was discharged from said company. And

said deponent further saith that he has good reason to believe that the said Bowman did serve his time faithfully. Sworn and subscribed before me this 30th day of August 1823
(Siquis.)
Nathan Price
Copy Joseph Alexander
State of Ohio } Belmont County } ss
I Ezra Ellis Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Joseph Alexander Esq. before whom the within affidavit appears to have been taken and whose name is thereto subscribed, was at the time of taking and subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, to whom official acts as such, full faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well in courts of Records as thereout.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at St. Clairsville this 24th day of September A.D. 1823
(Siquis.)
Ezra Ellis Clerk
Virginia Ohio County } ss
I William Chaplin Junr Clerk of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of the Record and papers filed in my office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 14th day of November 1823 and in the 48th year of the Commonwealth.
sign? Wm Chaplin for B.O.C.

To the Congress of the United States. —
The petition of Dorothy Bowman of Marshall County, Virginia , respectfully represents unto your honourable body that she is the widow & next of kin of Samuel Bowman , a soldier of the Revolution, late of sd County who departed this life on the — day of February last past (1840). — That said Samuel Bowman in the month of November 1782, enlisted in the Army of the Revolution in Continental Service for three years, in the Company of Capt: Cornelius Sworthout in the 2nd Regiment of New York Artillery commanded by Col: John Lamb . that he served the whole time of his enlistment & at the expiration thereof received an honourable discharge from service, but that in about six months after, & while he was in the State of New York , his Pocket Book containing his discharge was stolen from him . That being poor & in great want of his country's bounty he, in 1823, made his declaration for that purpose before the Country Court of Ohio, County, Virginia . ( Marshall County then being a part of Ohio , b c ) and laid the same with other evidence of his enlistment & service before the proper department of the Government, and thereupon the said

Samuel Bowman was in 1824 placed on the pension roll of the United States under, as she is informed, the act of the 18 th of March 1818. To a copy of his original declaration & other evidence, & of his certificate showing him to be a pensioner from the Pension Department, she here refers & prays that the same may be regarded as part of this memorial. And thereupon the said Samuel Bowman continued to draw his annual pension of $ — half yearly like the — day of — 1834, when the same was stopped by, as she contends, the unlawful act of some officer of the government, & his name struck from the pension roll, and suit commenced against him to recover from him that, which he had previously received as the bounty of his country for services in the revolutionary war, on the alleged ground that he had practised a fraud upon the government. The said Samuel Bowman then, and to the close of his life in February last, denied the charge. He insisted he had served as set forth in his declaration. He therefore defended the suit & with much labour & expense, by visiting his friends at a long distance, procured additional testimony that he was a soldier of the

Revolution & had served & lost his discharge as set forth in his declaration, and also, that an original witness, whose affidavit accompanied his declaration, but who was then dead, was a man of truth & veracity & always considered & believed to be a Re- -volutionary Soldier. In the face of 1838, after many continuances, the cause came on for trial before the District Court of the United States held at Clarkesburg, Virginia, when the jury found a verdict for said Samuel Bowman, upon which (not- withstanding the attorney for the U. States moved for a new trial) a final judgment was rendered agst. the Government & in his favour. She also sends herewith a copy of the sd. verdict & judgment, & also of sd. depositions used on sd. trial, all cer- -tified by Richd. Moore Esq. Clerk of the sd. Court, & requests that the same may be read & regarded as part of this petition. Upon this verdict & acquittal, the sd. Samu- -el Bowman supposed the proper officer or department of the Government would have restored him to the Pension Roll; But so it is, it was not done. Owing to ill health & other causes the said Samuel Bowman was not able, during the win- -ter of 1838-9 to apply to the proper de-

apartment, or to petition your honorable body for relief. But during the past winter a gentleman who had been his counsel, visited Washington on other business, and at the request of sd: Samuel , undertook to enquire into this matter. Whereupon application was made to the Commissioner of Pensions to restore sd: Samuel to the pension roll - but this he refused in February just past - as will be seen by the accompanying letters of J. L. Edwards , Esq. Commissioner of Pensions, addressed to an honorable member of your body. To these letters she also begs leave to refer. In a few days after this time, the said Samuel Bowman , departed this life, leaving your petitioner his widow, & a large family of children, which he had by her, she being the only wife he ever had. It will be seen by these letters from Mr. Edwards, tho' he at first denied that said Samuel Bowman's name was on the revolutionary rolls - but afterwards & on the same day he discovered his mistake, having found his name on the rolls of the revolutionary army - but still he refused to restore him to the pension roll, deciding that he was not entitled to a pension under the Act of March 18.

1818. tho' he had been placed on the pension roll, by the Secretary at War, on a state of facts no stronger in his favour of the ———. For said Samuel's declaration stated his enlistment at or about November 1 st /82, whereas this letter of Mr. Edwards states it as happening in October 1 st /82. Your petitioner is informed & contends, that the Secretary at War was correct, & that the sd : Commissioner Edwards is in error: and that sd Samuel in his declaration & proofs, or on the facts stated in this letter of Mr. Edwards, was entitled to a pension. She contends that all soldiers &c. who had previously enlisted & who served to the close of the Revolution, are entitled to a pension under the act of March 18. 1818, and that it is not necessary they should have enlisted for nine months previous to the end months previous to the end of the war. This she contends is the fair construction of the act of March 18. 1818, & is the same she supposes, which was given by the Secretary of War, when sd Samuel was placed on the pension roll. She now insists that she is entitled to the pension of the sd Samuel Bowman from the time it was stoped or suspended in 1834, to the day of his death with interest

and that if she is not entitled to the whole of it, that she, and her children by him are. - And she now prays your honorable body to grant her relief in the premises. - and as in duty bound, she will ever pray &c.
Dorothy Bowman of Marshall Co: Virginia
May 11. 1840.

United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia held at Clarkburg, on the 5 th day of September 1838. . .
United States } vs: } In case. Samuel Bowman } This day came as well
the District Attorney as the Defendant by his Attorney and the Jury empanelled to try the issue in this cause appeared in Court pursuant to their adjournment on yesterday and again retired to their Chamber to consider of their verdict, and after some time returned into Court and upon their Oath do say "That the Jury find for the defendant." Whereupon the District Attorney moved the Court to set aside the said verdict and grant a new trial herein upon the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, which motion being argued, it is considered by the Court that the said motion be overruled, and that the Plaintiffs take nothing by their bill but for their false clamour be in mercy &c. And that the Def ts go thereof without day. -
The following are copies of the affidavits or Depositions used by the De- fendant on the trial of the above cause and,

are filed with the papers in the said cause.
Brooke County, State of Virginia, July 24 th 1837.
This day Nancy Mills personally appeared before me one of the Commonwealth Justices of the peace, and made oath as the Law directs, that having lived in the State of New York with her Grandfather & Grandmother the parents of Samuel Bowman from her earliest recollection, and do recollect the following circumstance as to his age and his being in the Army. First. I heard his parents say that he was sixteen years old when he first went into the Army, that after serving three months he came home, and in a short time went again and staid another three months, he went a third time and was gone three years and nine months. I well remember the circumstance of his coming home with a soldiers uniform. A short time after he came home I heard his Father and Mother mention his age when talking about his missing his schooling or learning his Mother said he is twenty one years of age and does not know his letters, his Father observed he is almost twenty two years of age, but it cannot be helped he must yet go to school. - She further recollects a man,

coming to Grand Forks Bowman's who staid, all night, and after he was gone in the morning Samuel Bowman missed his Pocket Book, he suspected that the man had stolen it, and he and his brother Robert persued him, but did not find him, or overtake him; Samuel said he did not care for the money so much as he did for his discharge and other papers &c. And further this deponeth saith not.
Nancy Mills.
To certify that the above deposition was taken before me Jesse Sisson one of the Commonwealth Justices of the Peace for Brooke County the day and year above written.
Jesse Sisson.
The United States } action depending vs: } in the United States Samuel Bowman; } Court for the Western New District of Virginia at Clarkburg.
The deposition of Robert Bowman.
Be it known that on the Twenty ninth day of July One thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven I have caused to come before me at my Office in the County of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, the following is the deposition of Robert Bowman. "This is to certify that the bearer Samuel Bowman my brother; and that I remember the following circumstances

relating to his being, in the American Revolution. That he went away to the Army and was gone some years and when he came home he had a Soldier's regimentals on him; Sometime after he came home a man came to Father's and staid all night, and went away next morning, a short time after he went away, Samuel discovered that his Pocket Book was gone. We suspected that the man had stolen it. Samuel and I followed him but did not catch him nor get the Pocket Book. Samuel said that he did not care so much about the money, that was in it, as his discharge and other papers. And from the best of my recollection, brother Samuel is at present is about Seventy two years of age.
Sworn and Subscribed.
Robert Bowman.
The deponent Robert Bowman is about Seventy four years of age. Witness on behalf of Defendants in the foregoing case.
The United States, } Action depending vs: } in the United States Samuel Bowman } Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Clarkburg. —
Be it remembered that on the twenty ninth day of July One thousand

Eight hundred and thirty seven, I have caused to come before me at my Office in the County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania, the follow- ing Witnesses for Defendant, Sam l Bowman Jr. wit: The deposition of Samuel Bowman Jun r . And the said Witnesses being first duly sworn and caution by me to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as well on behalf of the United States as of the said De- fendant, did Depose and say that the said Bowman defendant is aged about Seventy two years, the deponent doth say he had his information from his Father John Bowman, a brother to the Defendant, and have frequently heard say that his (deponents) Uncle was born in the year 1765, and also have heard his Father say, that the Defendant served several years in the Army of the Revolutionary War.
Sworn and Subscribed.
Samuel Bowman.
State of Pennsylvania } County of Mercer. }
Before me Thomas Coul- son an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid do certify that the foregoing deposition of Samuel Bow- man Jun r . the deponent Witness for defendant Samuel Bowman, and at his instance in a certain suit depending the United States

Court for the Western district of Virginia held at Clarksburg, wherein the United States is plaintiff, and said Samuel Bowman is defen- dant, were taken sworn to and subscribed be- fore me at the time and place aforesaid on this 29 th day of July 1837, and that I am not of Counsel or Attorney or in anywise related to either plaintiff or defendant in said cause nor am I interested in the event of said cause. That the foregoing depositions were wholly written by me, that the place of taking said depositions as well as the residence of the deponents is more than One hundred miles from Clarks- burg aforesaid and therefore the same is ta- ken in the absence of the plaintiff and with- out any notice being served on said plaintiff his Agent or Attorney, because no agent or Attorney resides so far as I know or am in- formed within One hundred miles of the place of taking these depositions.
Thos. Coulson. (Seal.)
Immediately after the depositions was taken by me Certified seal and delivered to def ts
The United States } Action depending vs: } in the United States Samuel Bowman. } Court for the Wes- tern District of Virginia held at Clarksburg.

State of Ohio, Belmont County, ss:
Be it remembered that on this 5 th day of August A.D. 1837, I have caused to come before me Thomas H. Smith an acting Justice of the peace in & for said County at my Office in said County of Belmont, State of Ohio, the following Witnesses for the defendant. Samuel Bowman, David Thomas Shannon, Samuel B. Kimball, and Robert Mills.
And the said Witnesses being first duly sworn and cautioned to speak the truth, the whole truth & nothing, but the truth, as well on behalf of the United States as of said Defendant, did depose and say. - The said, the said Thomas Shannon aged about fifty years deposeth & saith that Nathaniel Price deceased was an Old man reputed to be a Revolutionary Soldier, and so long as he resided amongst us was believed to be a man of truth & entitled to belief & credit as to any statement he made. - The said Samuel B. Kimball aged about fifty one years deposeth & saith, that he knew Nathaniel Price about fifteen or sixteen years ago, that he lived neighbour to him for ten years previous to his death, that he was an old man & reputed to be a revolutionary Soldier, and so long as he

knew him, he was believed to be a man of truth and entitled to belief & credit to any Statement he made under oath.
Robert Miles deposeth & saith (aged about Fifty two years) that Katharine Strice deceased was an Old man reputed to be a Revolutionary Soldier, and so long as he lived or resided or resided amongst us was believed to be a man of truth and en- titled to belief and credit as to any State- ment he made.
Thomas Shannon. Samuel H. Kimbace. Robert Miles.
The State of Ohio } Belmont County ss: }
Thomas H.
Smith an Acting Justice of the Peace for the County & State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing, and within dispositions of Thomas Shannon, Samuel H. Kimbace, & Robert Miles, Witnesses for defendant Samuel Bowman, and at his instance in a certain suit depending, in the United States Court for the Western District of Virginia, held at Clarkesburg, wherein the United States is plaintiff and said Samuel Bowman is defendant, were taken, sworn to & subscribed before me

at the time & place aforesaid, and on this 5 th day of August A.D. 1837, and that I am not of Council or Attorney, or in any wise related to either plaintiff or Defendant in said cause, nor am I interested in the event of said suit; - that the foregoing depositions were wholly written by me, that the place of taking said depositions as well as the residence of the Deponents is more than One hundred miles from Clarkburg aforesaid, and therefore the same is taken said without any notice being given upon the said Plaintiff; in the absence of the Plaintiff, his Agent or Attorney, because no agent or Attorney of the plaintiffs in respect of said suit resides so far as I know or am informed within One hundred miles of the place of taking said depositions. - immediately after the same was taken, were certified, sealed up and delivered to the Defendant Samuel Bowman.
Given under my hand & seal this 5 th day of August A. D. 1837. Thomas H. Smith Justice of the Peace.
I Richard W. Moore, Clerk of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy -

of the verdict and judgement rendered in the case of the United States agst Samuel Brownlee, as also copies of the affidavits or depositions filed by the Deft s in said cause as fully as the same are of record, therein. -
In testimony whereof I have here- unto Subscribed my name at Clarkburg this 2 d day of January A.D. 1839. and in the 63 d Year of the In- depen ce of the United States of America. Rich d W. Moore.