Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23857, William Cowen, Mass. N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass N.H.
Cowen, William or Cowan
W. 23857
Jane
CONTENTS

6131.
Maine
William Cowan private
New Hampshire line 2 years, in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of — 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Jany 1819 and det d R. G. Vose
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818. 5 m 1/31. 4/30 — 40. 31 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 March 1819 — 40. 00
$88. 31
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Vassalboro
Continued
My father's will July 1818 R. G. Vose Esq. Eugenia Maine
for let R. G. Vose 16 Jany 1833

1176 Maine Jane Conan decd widow of William who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private Amended from 180 Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March , 1848.
1. of file Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of Jan'y 1837 and sent to
H. B. Johnson Present
Ent'd 9 th Jan'y 1848.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 8 Vol. 1.

William Cowan. Vassalboro. Kennebec C o Cr. Col. Gilley's N.H. Reg. Jany 1778 to Jany 1780. — 2 Years.
March 31. 1818.
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I William Cowan, aged fifty nine years, a citizen of the United States, born in Merrimack in the state of New Hampshire, but now of Vassalborough in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare, that in May 1775 I enlisted as a private soldier into the continental service of the United States against the common enemy, for the term of eight months, into the company commanded by Capt Joseph Moore, and regiment commanded by Col. Prescott of the Massachusetts line. This period, I fully served out, and took my honorable discharge from the army at Cambridge on the first of January 1776. The discharge I have not preserved. In January 1778 I again enlisted into the continental service against the common enemy, for the term of two years, being the remainder of the first three years service into the company commanded by William Scott, and regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Cilley of the New Hampshire line. Under this last enlistment, I served for the full term of two years, and took my honorable discharge from the army at Danbury in Connecticut in January 1780. The discharge I have not preserved. I was through the Indian country with General Sullivan in 1779. I am indigent, and in need of the bounty of the government. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed to me by the laws of the U. States, if any; but I am not borne on any pension list whatever to my knowledge. I request that I may be put upon the pension list for the District of Maine.
Wm Cowan
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Know all men by these presents. On the thirty first day of March A.D. 1818 William Cowan above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed. Before me
Nathan Weston Genl C. Just. C. Court C. Pleas Eastern Circuit.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Jacob Doyen of Temple in the District of Maine of lawful age upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with the above named William Cowan. To my certain knowledge he served in the continental service, against the common enemy one year under the last enlistment by him above stated. He is indigent, and in need of the bounty of the government. He sustains the character of a man of veracity.
Jacob Doyen

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Kennebec ss.
On the thirty first day of March A.D. 1910 Jacob Doyen within named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the within deposition by him subscribed. Before me Nathan Winton Sur C Justice C. Court C Plus 2 d Eastern Circuit
I William Cowan within named do swear that from my reduced circumstances, I need the assistance of my country for support.
W. M. Cowan
Sworn to before me
Nathan Winton Sur
CJ. CCC Plus

State of Maine.
I John Davis Clerk, for the County of Kennebec of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Ken- nebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is Twenty  Seven dollars and fifty — cents; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is Nothing  dollars and  cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.
J. Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of of Kennebec

(Copy)
State of Maine.
To the Honorable the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset.
I, William Lowen of Vassalborough in the County of Kennebec aforesaid, a pensioner on the Maine roll, under the law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th March, 1818, do hereby exhibit the following schedule of my whole estate and income (my necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) viz ;
 A hut in which I live of the value of ten dollars  Two sheep of the value of four dollars.  Furniture besides necessary bedding worth eight dollars.  One axe and one hoe of the value of four dollars and fifty cents  Two pigs of the value of four dollars  Debts due to me two dollars, and I owe as much as one hundred and fifty dollars. 
My income from property, trade or profession is nothing; and I am infirm and unable to labor, except a very small part of my time. —
Except the above and my necessary clothing and bedding, I have no property, or income whatever —
Wm Lowen
A true copy
Attest Sam Davis Clk.
Pension Certificate No. 11. 131.

Copy 1 State of Maine.
I, William Cowen within named do solemnly swear, that on the thirty first day of March 1818, I made application, in pursuance of the within mentioned law of March 18, 1818, before Judge Weston , and was afterwards placed upon the pension list roll of the United States, for the District of Maine Agency. And I, the said William Cowen , do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed; and by me subscribed.
Wm. Cowen
KENNEBEC, ss.
ON this fifteenth day of May 1820. William Cowen before named, after being duly cautioned and examined, exhibited and subscribed the within schedule, and took and subscribed the foregoing oath, before me,

6131
19
28 Jan 1879. Wm Lowen
Mar 1879
H. C. Vose, Augusta, Maine.
With Mr. Garrison
Attn Body
Courtesy of Common Pleas. Chief Justice of the Circuit
Jonathan Wilson

336 Jane Cowan widow of William Cowan
Act July 7. 1838
Admitted Private 2 years
Government Augusta Maine

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County, ss.
On this thirteenth day of July A. D., 1838, personally appeared before the Nathan Weston Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State Jane Cowan a resident of Vassalborough in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged not December seventy four years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of William Cowan, late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, under the act of March 10. 1818, and she refers to the records of the war department for his services, which were in the New Hampshire line
She further declares, that she was married to the said William then Cowan on the month day of August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one ; that her husband, the aforesaid William Cowan died on the twenty second day of March 1835 ; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated; that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Jane X Cowan mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me, (the applicant from infirmity being unable to appear in person) Nathan Weston C.J. S.J.C.

State of Maine
On the thirtieth day of July, 1830, Jane Cavan, the applicant within named, was examined and sworn, as within stated. I am satisfied, that she was married to William Cavan, late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, in the month of July 1781, as appears from the record, although she, from a failure of memory, states it to have been in the month of August. I am further satisfied that the said William Cavan deceased on the twenty second of March, 1825, and that the said applicant has ever since remained his widow.
Nathan Weston C.J. S.J.C.
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County ss.
I the subscriber Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said County hereby CERTIFY, That the Hon. Nathan Weston before whom the proceedings were had, is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. I also CERTIFY, That the Accompanying contains the original proceedings of Signatures the said purporting to be in the matter of the application of his are genuine for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this Eleventh day of August A. D., 1838.
Thos Shaw

I John S. Sturgis of Racine in the county of Kenosha State of Illinois, on oath say that William Leman of Racine a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, died on the 22 d day of March 1835, and that his widow Jane Leman by whom the foregoing declaration was made has remained a widow ever since that period. John S. Sturgis
State of Illinois
Kenosha, ss. Subscribed & sworn to this 10 th day of Augt. 1835. The deponent being a credible witness. Before me
Geo. W. Morton Justice Peace
George W. Morton Esq is a justice of the peace for the county of Kenosha. Nathan Weston

Mr. William Cowan and Mrs. Jennet Robinson were married July — Anno Domini seventeen hundred eighty two — by James Howard, Esquire, Justice of the Peace.
A true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows viz: July — 1782.
Daniel Fike Town Clerk
I, Daniel Fike of Augusta in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, do on oath state that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the town of Augusta and State aforesaid, and that the foregoing is a true copy from the record with the exception above stated by me
Daniel Fike Town Clerk
State of Maine Kennebec, ss: Sworn to this 6 th day of August A.D. 1838.
Before me,
William Woart an Esq
Wm Woart for his Place
is a justice of the peace for the county of Kennebec, Nathaniel Weston C. J. S. P.

December 3, 1935
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS William Cowen, W. 23857
Mrs. Carl Berg 437 Thompson Avenue East Liverpool, Ohio
Dear Madam:
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 23857, based upon the military service of William Cowen (personal signature Cowen).
He was born in Merrimack, New Hampshire. The date of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
He enlisted in May, 1775, place not given, and served eight months as private in Captain Joseph Moore's company in Colonel Prescott's Massachusetts regiment. He enlisted in January, 1778, and served two years as private in Captain William Scott's company in Colonel Joseph Cilley's New Hampshire regiment and went with General Sullivan on his expedition against the Indians.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 31, 1818, at which time he was living in Vassalborough, Kennebec County, Maine District, and was fifty-nine years of age.
William Cowen died March 22, 1835.
He married in July, 1782, Mrs. Jennet or Jane Robinson who was born in December, 1764, place of birth not given. The marriage was recorded in the town records of Augusta, Maine.
As the widow of William Cowen, Jennet or Jane Cowen was allowed pension on her application executed July 30, 1838, at which time she was living in Vassalborough, Maine.

She died there January 9, 1849, and at that time the only surviving children of William and Jennet or Jane Cowen were: Thomas Cowan (not personal signature), Jane Smith, Sarah Elkins and Paulina Cowan (not personal signature).
The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Philip Flanders now of Freedon in the County of Kennebec aged fifty five late a Soldier of the revolutionary Army upon oath testify & declare that I well knew William Cowen a Continental Soldier in the war of the Revolution the said Cowen to my knowledge served in Capt Scotts Company and Col Joseph Cilley Regiment from July 1778 to January 1780 without intermission the full period of eighteen months and was honorably discharged at Danbury in the state of Connecticut. Philip Flanders
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Kennebec
on this fifth day of October A.D. 1818 personally appeared the above named Philip Flanders and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Abraham Page Justice of Peace

Abraham Page Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Hendre; and I am satisfied that the within deponent is credible and disinterested.
Nathan Weston Junr

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that William Cowan , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Vassalborough , in the said County of Kennebec , in the District of Maine, on the thirty first day of March , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty third day of May in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston  per C. Root C. C. C. Pleas 2 d E. Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
A handwritten signature in cursive, appearing to read "Nathaniel D. Dorr". The signature is written in dark ink and is positioned to the right of the attestation text.

W m Cowan
19

War Department,
1801.01.
PENSION OFFICE,
July 11th 1821.
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined ; and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr.
William Cowen, Esq. Fassifbaugh Ireland

1076 Name Jane Leowan. widow of William Leowan who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of August 1848. and sent to
G. M. Morton Augusta Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 6 Vol. 1.
Reported

In. to 1896, deg. Sophia Ann Coug. 1 July 1848 & end of 9 January 1849. Grateful to Thomas Cowan.
Paulina Cowan Jane Smith & Sarah Elkins, only surviving children
H. D. Johnson Present

2527.
Maine
Jane Corran
widow of W m Corran who was a State
in the Mass. line for 2 yrs. & 4 m.
Rept Oct 30
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th 10th day of Oct. 1843 and sent to
Geo. W. Morton Augusta Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 3

December 3, 1935
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS William Cowen, W. 23857
Mrs. Carl Berg 437 Thompson Avenue East Liverpool, Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of November 11, 1935, requesting information in regard to Revolutionary War soldiers, Calvin, Isaac, Samuel and William Cowan.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war. A search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of any soldiers named Calvin and Samuel Cowen or Cowan.
In order to identify the record of a particular soldier named Isaac Cowan, it is essential that you furnish as much as possible of the following data: approximate date of birth and death, place of residence at enlistment and after service and first name of widow.
You are furnished herewith, the record of William Cowen, W. 23857.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

437 Thompson Ave East Liverpool Ohio Nov-11-1935
Director of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-
I would appreciate very much if you will give me all the information you have on W m Crossan  Private New Hampshire .
I have been trying quite some time to locate an ancestor, so I could become a member of the D. A. G's.
I received 4 names from the state of Maine, the alone W m Crossan , which might be an ancestor, & also Isaac Crossan , Samuel Crossan , Calvin Crossan , & two widows Elizabeth & Jane Crossan

The Office of the Adjutant General, of Augusta, Maine, has referred me to you.
Thanking you for any information you can give, so I may know whether or not any one of these names might make me eligible, as my ancestors were all from Maine or the New England States.
Thanking you again, I am
Yours truly Mrs Carl F Berg
William Samuel Isaac in law Calvin } COWAN.
Elizabeth } COWAN- Jane } widows

1935. Dec. 3. Sent to Mrs. Carl Berg. W.C.S.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23857
Jane Cowan
Wid of
William Cowan
Brn Rev-war
Act: Feb 2 nd 1848
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

x ✓ Maine 246
Jane Cowan, widow of William Cowan, Decd. who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818; and who died on the 22 d March, 1835- of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a private in the company commanded by Captain J. Moore, of the reg t - commanded by Col. Prescott - in the Mass ts line for 2 years private -
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars  Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of Sep- tember, 1838 and sent to Geo. H. Norton, Augusta, Maine -
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. 1838 $200:00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Mar 1839 = 40:00
$240:00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. A. Merrill Clerk Book A, Vol. 1, Page 5.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Joshua Sinclair now of Unity in the County of Kennebec aged fifty eight late a soldier in the revolutionary army upon oath testify & declare that I well knew William Gower a continental soldier in the War of the Revolution - the said William Gower to my knowledge served in Captain Scott's Company and Col Joseph Gilley's Regiment of the New-Hampshire line from July 1778 to January 1780 without intermission the full period of eighteen months and was honorably discharged at Danbury State of Connecticut.
Joshua Sinclair
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Kennebec
on this fifth of October A.D. 1818
personally appeared the above named Joshua Sinclair and he made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition - by him subscribed before me
Abraham Dyer Justice of Peace

Abraham Page Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Humboldt; and I am satisfied that the within document is credible and disinterested.
Nathan Weston Jun
Wm. Gowan

June Cowan
aa
2527
Admitted 5. 2
Geo W. Morton Augusta Maine.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848, entitled "An Act Making further provisions for the Surviving Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF Wenatchee }
On this twenty second day of July A. D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Wenatchee and State of Maine, Jane Cowan a resident of Vassalboro in the County of Wenatchee aged Eighty four 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 second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of William Cowan who was a Private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said William Cowan at the rate of Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine. She further declares that she is still a widow.
WITNESS:
John H. Hamann Adrin Marshall
Jane H. Cowan Mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
BEFORE ME,
Isaac Fairfield
Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.
Isaac Fairfield
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
I, William M. Stratton , Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that Isaac Fairfield is a Magistrate as above, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this 26th day of July in the year 18 48 .
W. M. Stratton
Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County.

Dec
Jane Cowan
Jane Cowan
1076
H. D. Johnson Present

State of Maine
County of Cumberland
Clerk's Office,
Portland November 13 th
A. D. 18 50
I, Charles C. Harmon Clerk of the Judicial Court in and for said County of Cumberland certify that
Arthur McArthur
is an ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for every  said County of said State  McArthur duly qualified to act as such, that the commission of the said McArthur is dated August 6 th 1850 and will expire August 6 th 1857
and that the foregoing SIGNATURE, purporting to be his, is Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court , the day and year first above written.
C. C. Harmon, CLERK.

State of Maine County of Kennebec
} ss.
On this day of seventh day of November A. D. 1850 before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, within and for every  said County of said State personally appeared Paulina Cowan of Vassalborough in said county for herself and in behalf of Thomas Cowan, Jane Smith & Sarah Elkins only surviving children of Jane Cowan late of said Vassalbo- rough deceased
said Jane was and made oath in due form of law that she is the widow of William Cowan late of said Vassalboro deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner, that she had drawn a pension since his death at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, and declared a Pensioner under the Act of 2 d February 1848 at time of her death that they now asks for all arrears or increase of Pension to which they may be enti- tled under any of the Acts or Resolutions of Congress applicable to their case, viz. 7th July, 1838; 3d March, 1843; 17th June, 1844; 2d February, 1848; Joint Resolution of 23d January, 1845; and 1st July, 1848; that they now resides in said County and State.
Witness,
Alvin Marshall
her
Paulina J. Cowan mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first above written.
Before me, Arthur M c Arthur
Justice of the Peace.
Throughout the State

Geo. W. ... Virginia Wash.
George A. ... Esq. Augusta Me.
$80 per ann.
1851 Jane ...

Jane 1811 Pawan.
$80 per ann.
George W. Weston Esq. Augusta Me.
Geo W. Morton Augusta Maine.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843, granting Pensions for one year to certain Widows who have received Pensions under the Act of July 7, 1838.
STATE OF MAINE, }
County of Kennebec ss. } A. D. 1843, personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Kennebec
On this Seventeenth day of July and State of Maine, Jane Cowan
_____ a resident of Catabamke in the County of Kennebec aged Seventy nine 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 provisions made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of William Cowan who was a Private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said William Cowan at the rate of Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum, under the Act of July 7, 1838, which was paid to her at the agency in Portland in the State of Maine . She further declares that she is still the widow of the said William Cowan having remained unmarried ever since his death.
Witnesses
Alvin Marshall Nathaniel Briggs
Jane
J. Cowan mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
Before me,
Isaac Fairfield Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me to have been pensioned under the Act of July 7, 1838, and is the reputed widow of William Cowan deceased, and has remained unmarried ever since his death.
Isaac Fairfield Justice of the Peace.

State of Maine
Kennebec p- I the subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of Kennebec do certify that Isaac Fairfield is a justice of the Peace in for said County, and the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine
Witness my hand and the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 22 d day of July A.D. 1843
N. R. Nichols

State of Maine. County of York, S.S.
Court of Probate, Special Term, A.D. 1850.
Be it known, That on this twenty seventh day of November, A.D. 1850, it has been satisfactorily proved, in open Court, being a Court of Record, that William Cowen late of Vassalborough in the County of Kennebec who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States died at said Vassalborough leaving a widow by the name of Jane Cowen, who remained his widow till her death, and that she died at said Vassalborough on the ninth day of January A.D. 1849, and that Thomas Cowen, Jane Smith, Sarah Elkins and Pauline Cowen are the only surviving children of said William Cowen since Jane Cowen deceased.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
Joshua Merrill Register of the Court of Probate, York County.