Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 41,451, Joseph Bowdish, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bowdish, Joseph
S 41,451
CONTENTS

4.278
Vermont 4
Joseph Bowdish (Private), Col d Smith's regim t ...
Massachusetts line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818. —
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th of Nov r 1818 and sent to the care of Joseph D. Farnsworth  Fairfield  Vt.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 5 \frac{4}{30} $ 41.06 Semi-ann l . all ce ending 4 th Mar ch 1819 48. —
3 years $ 89.06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Fairfield Franklin Co.

41 451
Rev INVALID.  Am
File No. 41 451
Joseph Bowdish Rev Rev Am
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 58
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Joseph Bowditch's Dischar- tion Discharge Certificate V.
Rolls
Copy of a Discharge from Port Royal Bermuda
Original discharge Wartburg

State of Vermont Franklin County ss. On this 11 th day of April 1818, before me the subscriber Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Franklin aforesaid personally appeared Joseph Bowdish aged 56 years resident in Fairfield in said County of Franklin who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for certain Persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolution- ary war - That he the said Joseph Bowdish at Wil- liamstown in the State of Massachusetts enlisted as a soldier for three years in January 1781. In the Company commanded -ed by Captain Daddes of the 8 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded then by Colonel Smith. That he continued to serve in the said Corps and in the service of the United States until the 22 d day of October 1783 when he was discharged from service at West Point in the State of New York. That when he was discharged by a new arrange- -ment of the Regiments the Regiment to which he belonged was dignified the 2 d Massachusetts Regiment. That he was at the Siege of York Town & in several slight engagements And that he is in Reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support - And that he has no other evidence except his discharge & his own declaration now in his power of his said services. Sworn to, submitted and declared before me the day and year aforesaid Joseph D. Farnsworth Chief Judge Franklin County Court -

Copy of Joseph Bowdish's Discharge
"By Major General Knox commanding the Garrison of "West Point and its dependencies Joseph Bowdish a Sol- "dier in the Second Massachusetts Regiment being enlisted "for three years is hereby discharged the service of the "United States given at West Point the 22 d day of October "1783
J Knox M. Genl.
"By the Genl: Command
Inc. Lillie Stick del Camp.
"Registered in the books of the Regiment
A. Tupper Adjutant."
The above is a true copy of the original discharge pro- -duced by the said Joseph Bowdish
Certified by Jos. D. Farnsworth Judge F.C.C.
I Jehiel Hull of Fairfield aged 87 years testify & say that I have known Jos. Bowdish now of S. Fairfield for twenty five years that I have reason to believe he served as a Soldier as he has stated in his Declara- -tion in the Revolutionary War that he is the same Joseph Bowdish to whom the above discharge was given And further from his age and infirm state of health and his embarrassed circumstances he is in need of Assistance from his Country for support - & further say not
Jehiel Hull
State of Vermont 2 Fairfield April 2 d 1818 personally ap- -Franklin County ss peared Jehiel Hull and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him submitted contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth
Before me Joseph D. Farnsworth Judge F.C.C.

I Joseph D. Farnsworth Chief Judge of the County Court within & for the County of Franklin as aforesaid. Do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Bordiff (within named) did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration against the more than nine months at one period on the Continental Establishment. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress.
And have caused the Seal of the County Court for the County of Franklin to be hereunto affixed this 20 th of April AD 1818.
Joseph D. Farnsworth