Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5850, Elis Bower, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
Bower, Elis Ellis or Martha
NUMBER
M. 5850
CONTENTS

To Ohio Pits 72 04 Ohio
Tr: Air. Jan 29, 1836
Transf. to Ohio Pitsburgh from 4 Sept 1835 - Feb 12 1836 and sent to Pen- care of R McComb Mansfield Ohio
Willis Sower of Knox Co in the State of Ohio who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Cook of the Regt commanded by Col Lyndly in the New Jersey line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 40 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of March 1833 and sent to Insley & Johnston Knox Co Ohio
  Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  80 00    Semi-ant. allowance ending 11 Sept  20.00     $100.00  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk, Book E Vol. 8 Page 2

5026. Ohio, Genl:
Martha Bower widow of Ellis Bower N.J. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 — Dollars —
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of August, 1849, and sent to
R. M. Donough, Plymouth, Ohio.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 333 Vol. 4

Elis Bower
Power of } To Attorney }
Andy D Johnston
Declaration
15020
✓

State of Ohio Knox County ss on this tuesday fifth day of September one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of common pleas in and for said County of Knox - now setting Elis Bower a resident of Chester Township in the County of Knox and State of Ohio, aged Seventy Six years on the 29 th day of November 1832 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 -
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated, to wit: Col. Martin, Capt. Joseph Bealy Lieut. Piper Ensign Roberts and entered the Service in the month of June 1776 and left the same in December the same year having served six months - resided when he entered the Service in Mendham Township Morris County New Jersey and volunteered into the Service and was in the Battle of Long Island and White Plains marched from Morristown to New York then to Long Island then to New York again then to Fort Washington then to White Plains then to Kings Ferry on the North River then to Fort Lee then to Hackquackney then to Hackquackney then to Newark then to Elizabeth Town then to New Brunswick, when his term of service expired and he returned home -
And again about the last of December 1776 he entered the Service as a volunteer under Capt. Cook and Col. Lindley and served three months and left the Service about the last of March 1777 and marched from Mendham in Morris County into the neighborhood of Sparks town New Jersey where the Regiment to which he belonged was stationed during the winter was acquainted with Captains Wade & Bond of the Regulars who were also stationed at the same place and again in the fall of 1777 he was drafted into the Service for one month and served under Captain Joseph Bealy and marched from Mendham to

Elizabeth Town where he was stationed until his months Service expired - and again in the year 1778 he was again drafted into the Service for one month under Capt Leff Daniel Cook and was employed during said months tour in scouting parties and guarding the Jersey Frontier and again in the fall of 1778 he was drafted for one month, and served said term under General Winder at Minquipsink in the State of New Jersey
He also states he was born on the East end of Long Island in the year 1756 according to the record he has of his age and has lived since the revolutionary war in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio where he now lives
He states that Genl. Washington & Putnam and Lord Sterling were with the troops where he served part of the time he never received a written Discharge from the Service
He also states that he has no Documentary Evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his Service
He states that he is known in his present neighborhood to Joseph Denman & D. Minton who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed The day and year aforesaid Ellis Bower
We Joseph Denman and Stephen D. Minton residing in the County of Knox and State of Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ellis Bower who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed The day and year aforesaid
Joseph Denman Stephen D. Minton
Alex. Elliott Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Joseph Dunman and Stephen D. Minton who has signed the proceeding certificate are residents of the County of Knox and State of Ohio - and are credible persons and their statements is entitled to credit
I Alexander Elliott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Knox do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Elis Brower for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 8 th day of October A. D. 1832
Alex. Elliott Clerk
O. K. C. p. 10

In the matter"> In the matter of the application of Ellis Bower for a pension the following questions were by the order of the court propounded to him the said Ellis Bower and the answers hereinafter mentioned given thereto by the said Ellis Bower under oath as follows
1 st where and in what year were you born Answer on the east end of Long Island in the year 1756 -
2 nd Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it answer I have, in my Bible at the residence of my son in Richland County
3 rd When were you living when called into the Service where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer when first called into the Service I lived in Mendham, Morris County & State of New Jersey - sometime after the revolutionary war I moved to Washington County in the State of Pennsylvania and lived there about fifteen years and then moved to Brooke County Virginia and lived there about three years and about twenty years ago moved to the State of Ohio and now live in Chester Township in Wood County
4 th How were you called into the Service, were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom
Answer I was a volunteer my two first tours and the remaining tours I was drafted into the Service
5 th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Answer Generals Washington & Putnam and Lord Sterling were with the troops where I served part of the time also captains Wade & Bond the number of the regiments with which I served I do not now recollect. The general circumstances of my service are set forth in my Declaration.

6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it—
Answer I have never received a written Discharge
7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
Answer Joseph Denman & Stephen D Minton
Eliza Rowen
Sworn to and Subscribed this 25 th day of Sept 1832
Rev. Elliott Clarke

18 1779 79
A

Elis Bowers and Martha Bowers was married first day of November In the year of our Lord 1779 Molly Bowers was born February The first in the year of our Lord 1780 Jeremiah Bowers was born In June the Eighth in the year of our 1782 Calap Bower was Born August the 7 th in the year of our Lord 1784 Lived three Months and 24 Days and Died Melitable Bowers was born December 24 th in the year of our Lord 1784 Stephen Bower was born December 24 th in the year of our Lord 1787 Lived Nine Days and Died Sarah Bowers was born June 26 th in the year of our Lord 1789 Jesse Bowers was born January the 21 st in the year of our 1790 Jerusha Bower was born February the 30 th in the year of our Lord 1795 Susanah Bowers was born May the 30 th in the year of our Lord 1797 Abby Bowers was born December the 19 th in the year of our Lord 1799 discontinued and Elis Bowers was born February the 11 th in the year of our Lord 1804 Lived three months and 28 Days and Died
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B
Ellis Bower
Payments to be made at Cincinnati Ohio by the Trust of the S.W. Bank Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Ohio
Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk, in Book C Vol. 8 Page 2
30 years ann 15 years

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Ellis Bower of the State of Ohio who was a private in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Sixty dollars and cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Fourteenth day of March , one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Lee
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
J. D. Edwards

4947 Wantha Bower of Ellis Ohio
common sense at our visit at Mansfield this the 12th day of March 1840 Joseph H. Denebun

State of Ohio ss  sp on this eleventh day of March in Richland County ss  the year one thousand Eight hundred and forty. Before me the undersigned one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Richland aforesaid. Personally appeared Martha Bower resident of Springfield Township in the county of Richland and State of Ohio aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 4th 1836 that she is the widow of Ellis Bower who was a private in the war of the revolution. She further declared that she was married to the said Ellis Bower November first Seventeen hundred and Seventy nine that her hus- -band the aforesaid Ellis Bower died (on the twenty second September Eighteen hundred and thirty eight and that she has remained a widow ever since as will more fully appear by reference to the proofs hereto annexed
Sworn to and subscribed day and year above written before me, Martha her Bower mark
Jesse Edgington A. Judge
State of Ohio Richland County sp I Jesse Edgington one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Richland & State of Ohio do certify that the above named Martha Bower (with whom I am acquainted) is in full health and altogether unable to attend court to make said declaration I further certify that she sustains a good moral character
March 11 th AD 1840
Jesse Edgington A. Judge

State of Ohio } ss before me the undersigned personally Richland County } appeared Jeremiah Bower who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is the son of Martha Bower the present applicant that she is the widow of Ellis Bower mentioned in the annexed certificate from the Secretary of War that his father Ellis Bower Dec d September twenty second A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty Eight and that his mother Martha Bower has not since been married he further certifies that the an- nexed record he believes to be the original record of his father and that it was kept by his father and mother until his father's death the family Bible which contained the record was given to his sister and his mother kept the record since at his house as she has lived with him that the said Ellis Bower his father was a pensioner under the act of congress passed June 7 th 1832 as appears by the annexed marked B. he further certifies that he cannot tell in whose hand write the family record was kept (annexed marked A. He thinks there was no Public records kept of marriage at the time of their marriage when his father lived sworn to and subscribed before } Jeremiah Bower me this Eleventh day of March } A.D. 1840 Jesse Edgington A Judge
State of Ohio Richland County ss I certify that I am well acquainted with Jeremiah Bower the above affiant and that he is a man of unblemished character and a man in whose testimony I have the fullest confidence
March Eleventh 1840
Jesse Edgington A-Judge

State of Ohio Richland County ss David Post being by me first duly sworn according to law deposes and saith that Martha Bower the present applicant is a woman with whom he has been acquainted ever since she was married that he did not see her and Ellis Bower married but he was at the affair the next day he further says he believes the record as to the time of their marriage to be correct but cannot tell certain as to the day he further states that Martha Bower has always sus- tained the character of good wholesome christian woman and further saith not Sworn to and subscribed before me this
State of Ohio Richland County ss Stephen D Minton of lawful age being by me first duly sworn deposes and saith that Ellis Bower who was a Pensioner under the act of congress of the 7 th June 1832 agreeable to the annexed certificate of the Secretary of war was the husband of Martha Bower the present applicant and that said Ellis Bower died in the latter part of the year 1838 and that said Martha has not since been married Stephen D Minton Sworn to & subscribed before me This seventh day of Feb y March A D 1840 Jesse Edgington A Judge
This is to certify that David Post and Stephen D Minton are men with whom I am acquainted and that they sustain a good character for truth & veracity Jesse Edgington A Judge

The State of Ohio Richland County ss
I Elijah H. Lake Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas with in and for the County aforesaid do hereby cer-
Rev. S. Sweeney H.M.
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tify that Jesse Edgington before whom the within proceeding were had is an acting Associate Judge within and for the County aforesaid duly commis- ioned and authorized so to act accor- ding to law and in whose official acts as such full faith and Credit are due as well in courts of Record as Elsewhere
In Testimony whereof I have here- unto set my signature and af- fixed the seal of our said Court of Common Pleas of our said Court at Mansfield this the 12 th day of March A.D. 1840 Elijah H. Lake Clerk
4947 Warren Brown of Ellis Ohio

No 15020-
Ellis Power
Knox County
Ohio
for 1776 print 1 yea $40.
Insley D Johnston
Knox County
Ohio

BRIEF in the case of Ellis Paver of Knox County in the State of Ohio (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Vol - In 17 96 6 Private Gen. Col Mustin. Capt Bealy   " " 97 3 " Capt Cook - Col Lyndley   Drafted - 1779 1 " " Bealy   " 1778 1 " " Cook   " " 1 " Genl Winds  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Long Island - White Plains  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Morris Co N J  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional Evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Dyer Castor Examining Clerk.

Application for a Transfer
County of Richland and State of Ohio
On this Eighteenth day of January 1836 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Richland personally appeared Ellis Bowers who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Selds in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Martin in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Ohio agency from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the Pottersburg agency at Springfield Town- ship in said County of Richland where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be then payable in future
The following are his reasons for removing from the County of Knox in said State to said Springfield Town- ship to wit: The said Ellis Bowers resided in said Knox County & there depended upon the business of weaving for a livelihood and that he had at the time of his removal become wholly unable to work in the above business or other way & that he removed to his present residence to live with his son.
Sworn & subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid
E. H. Bowers
Wm. Magwell Justice
The State of Ohio County of Richland
On this Eighteenth day of January AD 1836 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Richland personally appeared John H. Millikin of said County of Richland who on his oath deposeth & saith that he is well acquainted with the above named Ellis Bowers and that this deponent well knows that the said Ellis Bowers who has taken the above oath to be the person described therein and no other than the identical

person to whom to whom the pension was originally granted sworn to & subscribed to before me John H. Millikin the day & year aforesaid - Wm Maxwell J. read
The State of Ohio } Richland County }
Be it remembered that I the above named William Maxwell a Justice of the peace in & for said County of Richland do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named John H. Millikin and that he is a person of truth & veracity - Certified by me this eighteenth day of January A.D. 1836 at Mansfield in said County -
Wm. Maxwell Justice of the peace
The State of Ohio } Richland County } ss.
I Jared Irvine Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that on the 18 th day of January A.D. 1836 -
William Maxwell whose name appears affixed to the above certificate was an acting Justice of the Peace within & for said County - that the name aforesaid is in his own hand writing and that to all his acts as such Justice full faith and credit are due
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18 th day of January A.D. 1836 - Jared Irvine Clerk by Joseph B. Cairns Dep.

Pay  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5850  am
Martha Bower
Wid.
Ellis Bower
Prv. Rev. War
Act: July 3 rd 48
Index:—Vol. a , Page 72
[Arrangement of 1870.]

8360
act 1838
" 1843
rep d 2 o May 44
Ohio Pittsburgh Agency Martha Borer
widow of Ellis Borer
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 22 Sept 1838 of Richland in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Cook of the Reg t commanded by Col. Lindsey in the New Jersey line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Pa. at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 1 th day of March, 1836. 22 Sept r 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of May 1844 and sent to Hon Jacob Brinkerhoff N.Y.
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by J. S. Swann , Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1 Page 383 ,
No. under act '43 5781

517
Ohio
Pittsburgh Agency
Martha Bower
Widow of Ellis Bower
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 22 d September, 1838 of Richland Co. in the State of Ohio — who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Cook of the regt. commanded by Col. Linsley in the New Jersey line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 40 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Vend 21 st September 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of February 1847 and sent to Hon. H. St. Johns, Name of Representatives
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.] The residue of Jan'y 23, 1845. Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1. Page 383.

2 Certs.
43838
Rep d 2 May 1844 See letter to Hon. H. St. John H. R. Jan. 13. 1847. Dr. to same 28 Jan. 1847
Certif. issued under Resolution of 23. Jan. 1845. on the 23. Feby. 1847, & sent to Hon. H. St. John, House of Representatives.
Pens sent May 23. 1849 to A. McCough
5436
Ohio
Pittsburgh, Agency
Martha Borer widow of Ellis Borer who was a Pri. in the N. J. Line.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of May 1844 and sent to
Hon Jacob Brinkerhoff House of Reps
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A / Page 156

Martha Bower of Ellis Ohio
Rejected
Act 20 March 1840
Hon. G. Sweeny
let. to same 17 Aug st 1842
" " Hon. J. Brinkerhoff
February 24 th 1841
married after termin-
tion of her husband's serv-
and not entitled under act
7 July 1838, because she was at
a widow at its passage
Act 4 July 1836

Ellis Bowen Ohio. Act 7 June 1832 to what time yr?
22 Sept 38
Pen. Office
died Sep 1838
March 20. 1840
#40
p. 4 Sep 1838
SH

Pension Office February 24 th 1844
Sir.
Agreeably to your request, the Claim of Martha Bowen formerly rejected, for reasons of which you are apprised, has been examined and I have the honor to inform you, that the proof as to the date of the marriage, and of her husband's services is satisfactory.
She should renew her claim under the act of the 7 th of July 1838, by a declaration and refer to the proofs on file under the act of the 4 th of July 1836.
I have the honor, to be, Very respectfully, Your Obedient Servant. J L Edwards
Hon. J. Brinkerhoof, House of Representatives.

506,
517
Matthew Bowen
Ohio wh 43 n'4
I give a cert: under the resolution Jan. 23. 1845 to commence 4 March 1836 and end 21 Sept. 1838.
Rept to send cert: to
Mr H. St. John, W.O.

McCown's Road Pickaway County Ohio January 2 nd 1847.
George M Phillips Esq. Sir.
Yours of Nov r 12 to Mrs. Martha Bowers, has been by Mrs. Bowers rec d by her request, the undersigned (her son-in-law) tenders you Mrs. Bowers her acknowledgements for the interest you have thus far taken in her pension case. — That if you can by an application to the proper office add to her present pension, you shall be liberally rewarded — Mrs. Bowers, myself or any of her friends I have a knowledge of, will never be able to establish her further claim if she has any — hence I am directed to say to you, from the amount you may obtain you shall be liberally rewarded, and farther, that our Representative The Hon. Henry H. Sohn shall say what that liberal reward shall be, & to be taken from the amount you shall obtain; Mrs. Bowers is in the 89 th year of age — very frail & nearly helpless, her small pension does not pay her doctors bill & the other necessary expenses; the balance of her maintenance is made up by personal exertions — I am not able to raise the $15. you mention as a fee, much less to pay it & receive no aid from it — Mrs. Bowers

and myself wish it distinctly understood by both you and & Mr. H. John, your compensation shall be liberal & to be taken from the amount you may obtain, & not that you shall be benefited with on the part of Mrs. Dawes or myself to be put off with a pitiful compensation — The Hon. Henry H. John will never award other than liberal — most certainly no other than liberal compensation is here desired —
These are forwarded to the Hon. H. H. John Member of Congress, with a request he will see them into your hands —
You will please to direct to Mrs. Dawes or to me at the place as above dated. it will be more convenient that Plymouth —
It is proper I should mention I have been obliged to lose the hand of friend to write you — I hope ere I shall hear from you —
Respectfully Yours &c.
Isaiah Grant
N.B. The sum of $ attg is enclosed —

Plymouth Rockland Co Ohio May 15 th 1849
Dr Sir
M rs Bower Widow of Ellis Bower a Revolutionary Pensioner has been drawing her pension at Pittsburgh Pa for the last four or five years and the agent at that place informs me that it will be necessary for her to get a new Certificate under the Law of Feb y 2 nd 1848 and will you be kind enough to send me the form required for her to sign in order to get a Certificate also please state where and how the pension is drawn
Respectfully
Yours
R. H. Leavens P.O.
A. L. Edwards Esq

Warren Reps. Apl. 20. 1844
ab. G. Edwards Esq. Compt. of Pensions, Sir. Sir,
Enclosed
I transmit to you a new Declaration by Martha Bowen as directed by yours of the 24 th February ult, which is herewith returned. Hoping the papers will now prove to be complete, and that I shall soon have the pleasure of transmitting to the aged widow a pension certificate, I remain
Respectfully,
Your O bt Servt
Jacob Brinkerhoff

Plymouth Nicklaus Co Ohio
Aug 8 th 1849
J. D. Edwards Esq.
Dr Sir
Enclosed find a copy of the Form you sent me to have filled out and Signed for the renewal of Pension Certificate and allow me to add that I have collected a pension for the same person for a number of years past up to Eighteen months ago — Please say what agent I shall apply to for the payment
Respectfully
Your Obedient Servt
R. M c Donough
2 " "

Pension Office, January 28, 1847.
Sir,
In answer to your enquiry, I have to inform you that Mrs Martha Bower, widow of Ellis Bower, is not entitled to any higher pension than she receives. Her husband served one year as a private soldier, for which she is pensioned at $40 per annum, which is all that the law allowed.
I have the honor to be, Very Respectfully, Your Obt. Servt J. L. Edwards
Hon. H. St. Johns, House of Reps.

Mansfield Richland County Ohio
Jan'y 17 th 1836
J L Edwards Esq r .
The enclosed is for the purpose of having Ellis Powers Paine transferred from the Ohio agency for paying pensions to that of the Pittsburgh agency. If you please give it your early attention that he may draw his next in Pittsburgh and such oblige
your O bt Serv t
Robert McComb

Franklin Bank of Cincinnati 4 th Feby 1836
Sir,
Ellis Power a private Pensioner under the act 7 th June 1832, at the rate of Forty Dollars per annum, has been paid up to the 14 th day of September 1835. No further payment will be made I am Yrs. very respectfully John H. Groesbeck Pen Agt By R. W. Lawrence
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

5 BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Miss Bower which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

McCrosins & Roads Richland County Ohio Jan y 2 d 1847
Hon. Henry H. John
Sir
Enclosed is the letter of Mr George M. Phillips to Mrs. Martha Bowers her power of atty to Mr Phillips & my letter to Mr Phillips - by their contents you will see what is wanted - We hope your friendly aid will be lent in any and all the interest The case may require - We desire Mr Phillips may be liberally compensated for any addition he may make to the pension - please see the letter directed to Mr Phillips forwarded to him first sealing it -
We hope we have not done wrong in forwarding through you &c. - please save the letter & card of Mr Phillips for us -
Very Respectfully
Your &c.
Josiah Grenot

Washington, Nov. 12. 1876.
Dear Madam
I am, as you will perceive from my card herewith enclosed, engaged in the prosecution and collection of pension and other claims against the United States, devoting my time more especially to that of pension cases. It is part of my business to keep constantly digging, into old documents, endeavoring to find out where Government is indebted to individuals. —
From some facts which I have met with in my investigations, it appears to me that with proper efforts an amount additional to that which you are at present receiving from the United States, might be obtained for you; — and I write to say, that if you deem it expedient I will make an effort to obtain for you something in addition to what you at present are in receipt of from Government. I can not speak confidently of success in the effort, but I think that, with the evidence in my possession and the papers already on file in your case, I can stand a good chance of procuring for you an additional amount.
If you think proper to have an effort made I will do my best to procure you an additional sum on the following conditions.
I will charge a fee of 1 00 in hand, and when the case is through, if I should succeed in substantiating the claim, will charge in addition to said fee, 15 per cent. on the amount that may be recovered, you to run the risk of the effort being successful or not. Or, if you prefer, I will undertake it without receiving or charging a fee in advance, myself running the risk of succeeding or not in establishing your right.

an additional sum, and if nothing should be recovered, will charge nothing for my services—and in the event of being successful in procuring any amount will charge one half of what I may succeed in recovering for you. On either of these conditions I will undertake the case, and devote my best energies in an effort to procure for you something in addition to that which you now receive.
If you accept either of these propositions, and desire me to make an effort to establish the claim which I think you have, have the Power of Attorney which I herewith enclose, or one somewhat like it, properly acknowledged before a Justice of the Peace, and forward it to me. On its receipt I will examine more fully into the merits of the case, and forward you such other papers, as it may be necessary for you to execute. Be pleased also to state which of the terms or conditions above named you accept.
Very Respectfully Your obed Servt
Geo. M. Phillips
10th Street
Washington
M rs Martha Barrows
Cranberry Tn.
Cranford Co.
Ohio
The Power of Atty need only be acknowledged before a Justice of the Peace. It will not be necessary to have the Certificate of the Clerk of the Court attached.

Plymouth, Richd. Co. Ohio 30 th Jany 1824
Rev. St. Johns
Sir enclosed I forward you the Pension Boucher of Martha Bower in compliance of your letter to Josiah Grant. I would add that I have drawn her pension for the last two years and she rec d one previous to my drawing it and you will find that there is a discrepancy in the dates of the Power of Attorney and Mr. Edwards Statement but I drew the Power of Attorney so as to cover what may be due her. if the papers are correct you will draw the money and retain it until you return home when you will please notify Josiah Grant at Washington Crawford Co Ohio — if there is any errors in the papers you will please return them to me noting the errors and I will make out a new set Mrs Bower is a Mother in law to Mr. Grant and like most other pensioners is needy so that if you can get the funds for her you will be doing her a Great kindness
Respectfully
Yours
Richd. Donough
Pett Plymouth Ohio

JOINT RESOLUTION.
A resolution explanatory of "An act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensions of the United States, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five."
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensions of the United States, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five," shall not be so construed as in any way to effect the claims of those widows whose application for a pension, or an arrear of pension, at the passage of this resolution, shall have been made and filed in the Pension Office, awaiting the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions thereon.
APPROVED, January 23d, 1845.
AN ACT
Restricting the grant of pension in certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, a pension shall not be granted to any widow for or during any part or portion of the time her husband may have received one, whose declaration therefor, shall not have been made on or before the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and shall not have been received at the Pension Office on or before the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
APPROVED, February 20th, 1845.
Pension Office, MARCH 1, 1845.
Claimants under the foregoing resolution will make a declaration, setting forth the facts in the case, according to the subjoined form. The declaration may be made before any magistrate authorized to administer oaths. The official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the resolution of Congress of the 23d January, 1845.
WHEREAS the act of the 30th of April, 1844, prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner, I now make the following statement under oath, to obtain the benefits of the resolution above mentioned. I am the widow of Ellis
Bower who was a Private Soldier in the war of the Revolution; I have drawn a pension at the rate of forty dollars per annum from the 10th of March 1841, and now ask for the amount due me from the fourth day of March 1826 to the fourth day of March 1844 when my former pension commenced. I made my declaration before the 30th of April, 1844, and it was filed in the Pension Office before the 23d of January, 1845.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, on this 22 nd day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four at Martha Bower  Crawford County Ohio mark William D Sims Justice of the Peace.
I CERTIFY, that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
William D Sims Justice of the Peace.
I J. B. Sawville Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford County Ohio do hereby certify that Wm D Sims who has signed the foregoing is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Crawford in the State of Ohio and that the above is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office, this 23 rd day of January 1844 at Bucyrus in the State of Ohio
J. B. Sawville CLERK By James S. Hubbell

Know all by these presents That I Martha Bower in the County of Crawford and — State of Ohio A Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Henry St John of Seneca Co Ohio (and now Member of Congress) my true and lawful attorney for me in my name to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in Washington my pension from the 4 th day of March 1836 to the 4 th day of March 1841 — (or for so long a time as it may be granted) Witness my hand and seal this 22 nd day of January 1841
Martha her Bower mark
Sealed and delivered in presence of William D Sims William H Pratt
State of Ohio Crawford County SS Be it known that on the 22 nd day of January 1841 before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County afore said personally appeared Martha Bower above named and acknowledged the fore going power of attorney to be her act and deed in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned
William D Sims Justice of Peace

Pension Letter N o 1
How. Jacob Brinkhoff H. Kop
Wake up
Mary Bower

Pension Office
August 17. 1842
Sir,
I herewith return the letter of Mr. Harvey Baldwin in the case of Mrs. Martha Bower, widow of Ellis Bower, decd. and have to inform you that the act of the 7 th July 1838 which provides for those widows who were married after the termination of their husband's service, makes no provision for those widows who were not such at the time of its passage. Ellis Bower died the 22 d of September 1838. His widow cannot therefore be allowed a pension under the aforesaid act. Her claim under the act of the 4 th of July 1836 was rejected because she was married after the termination of her husband's service.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obet. Servt
J L Edwards
Hon. George Sweeney House of Representatives,

State of Ohio } ss Crawford County }
On this 4 th day of August 1849 personally appeared before me, George Donnemirth Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Martha Bower, a resident of Cranberry Township, in the County of Crawford, aged 93 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2 d of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war that she is the widow of Ellis Bower who was a private in the Militia during the Revolutionary war and that she has received an annual pension of Forty Dollars under the act of 17 th of June 1844.
She further declares that she is still a widow Sworn to and subscribed on this Martha her Bower day above written before me mark
George Donnemirth J.P.
Witness
George Donnemirth J Grant
The State of Ohio Crawford County } ss
I Daniel H Swigart, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, do hereby certify that George Donnemirth Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was at the date thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and to all intents official acts full faith and credit are due and ought to be given.
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court at Bucyrus this 6 th day of August A.D. 1849 D.H. Swigart, Clerk.

Elis Bowers
Power of Attorney
Insley D Johnston

Know all men by these presents that I Elis Bower of the county of Knox and State of Ohio. have made constituted and appointed and by these presents do make constitute and appoint and in my place and stead put and depute Insly Johnston of the county and State aforesaid my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, and for my use, to ask, Demand, and receive all such sums, for sums of money, or other demands, whatsoever which is, or shall be, due, owing, payable, and belonging to me by any manner or means whatsoever Especially any money or pension that I may be entitled to receive from the government of the United States under the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th , 1832 for services as a revolutionary soldier. — Giving and granting by these presents my full and whole power, strength and authority in and about the premises to have and to take all lawful ways and means in my name for the purposes aforesaid
And upon the receipt of any such pension, money, or sums of money. acquittances or other sufficient Discharges for me and in my name to make seal and deliver —
Hereby ratifying, allowing, and holding, for firm and effectual all and whatever said Attorney shall lawfully do in and about the premises by virtue hereof —
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Eighth day of September one Thousand Eight hundred and thirty two
Sealed and delivered in the presence of us Cyrus McCormick Wm. A. Johnston
Elis Bower Seal

Beaz The State of Ohio Knox County ss
Personally appeared before the subscriber an an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County Elis Bowes who executed the within power of Attorney and acknowledged the signing and sealing thereof to be his act and deed for the purposes therein specified
Given under my hand Officially this 8 th Day of September A.D. 1832
The State of Ohio Knox County ss:
I Alexander Elliott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that Mr. M c Cray Esq. before whom the above acknowledgment appears to have been made, was at the time of taking the said acknow- ledgment, and yet is an acting Justice of the peace, for said County, duly commissioned and sworn and full faith is due to all his official acts as such as well in Courts of Justice as thereout. And I further certify that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Mount Vernon this 28 th day of September A.D. 1832.
Alex. Elliott Clerk

Know all men by these presents that I, Martha Bowers of Crawford County, Ohio, a pensioner of the United States, and widow of Ellis Bowers, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint, George H. Phillips of the City of Washington D.C. my true and lawful Attorney for me, and in my name, and for my use and benefit, to prosecute before the proper office at Washington, any claim I may have for pension, arrears of pension, or increase of pension, on account of the services of my deceased husband in the Revolutionary War, and to ask demand and receive from the proper officer of the United States, a Certificate or Certificates for that which may be found due me, hereby authorizing and empowering my said Attorney herein named to take and adopt all such steps, as may be lawful and necessary for this purpose, hereby revoking and annulling any and all former Powers of Attorney I may have heretofore given for the like purpose and ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do by virtue of these presents. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this Second day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty six.
In presence of George Dornenwirth Josiah Grant
Martha her Bowers mark
State of Ohio, Crawford County, ss.
Before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Martha Bowers, above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, this Second day of December 1846.
George Dornenwirth Justice of the Peace

10.889
Martha Bower Ohio
At 7. July 38 m 79 d 38 adm 12 mo. p H0 from 22 Sept. 38 the day of her husband's death also at 3 march 43 H40
M. Jacob Brinkhoff H.R.

The State of Ohio } Richland County } ss
On this fifteenth day of April, Eighteen hundred & forty four, personally appeared, in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas in & for Richland County & State of Ohio, now in session, Martha Bower, a resident of Springfield Township in the County of Richland aforesaid, aged Eighty six years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed July 7. 1838, entitled, "An Act granting half pay, & pension, to certain Widows"
That she is the Widow of Ellis Bower who was a private soldier in the Army of the American Revolution, and of the Indian Wars, whose rank & services are fully set forth & proven by the declarations of the said Ellis Bower, and the said Martha Bower, and the proofs accompanying the same, now on file in the Pension Office, under the Act of Congress, passed July 4. 1836, to which reference is hereby made.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Ellis Bower, on the first day of November, in the year Seventeen hundred & Seventy Nine. That her said husband the aforesaid Ellis Bower, died on the twenty second day of September, Eighteen hundred

and thirty eight, and that said Marriage took place prior to the first day of January Nineteen hundred & thirty four, viz at the time above stated - All of which, is more fully set forth & stated in the previous Decla- rations, & the proofs accompanying the same of the said Ellis Bower, & of Martha Bower now on the file of the Pension Office, under the act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836, to which reference is hereby made
for Martha X Bower mark
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written, in open Court, and before said Court of Common Pleas as aforesaid. Attest Elijah W. Lake Clerk
In the matter of Martha X this day Personally Bower, widow of Ellis X appeared in open Bower late a X Court Martha Bower Pensioner of the United States X And was duly sworn according to Law to her declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. It is therefore ordered by the Court that this order and the administering the said oath be certified by the clerk of this

Court under the Seal thereof.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and fixed the seal of said Court of Common Pleas at Mansfield this 18th day of April A D 1844 E. H. Lake Clerk By B. Burns Dept