Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R, Jabez Bowen, Mass.

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Bowen, Jabez Molly
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Jabez Bowen -
Certificate of the Secretary of Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
Dec r 6, 1850.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that there is no evidence of service by Jabez Bowen which can be identified with this representation.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. L. Chaplin Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.

The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office of the service of my husband Jabez Bowen in the war of the revolution. He was a native of the town of Rehoboth County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts.
He enlisted into the Massachusetts Line of Continental troops towards the latter part of the war & served two or three years. He had a brother by the name of Isaac Bowen who enlisted & served nine months and on the expiration of this term of service, he returned home, & very soon after he again enlisted for two or three years - and Jabez Bowen enlisted at the same time & both went into service together. Isaac Bowen lived to draw a his pension.
I am now 85 years of age & my memory does not enable me to state my husband, the said Jabez Bowen's services more fully.
Witness my hand this 19 th day of Nov. 1830 signed in my { prince Thompson Patten Rest in the Peace
Lin Mally X Barum Mark