Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9,209, Job Cowing, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
bowing job
NUMBER
S. 9209
CONTENTS
carded.

15505 Massachusetts Job Doring
of Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by Col. Burbank in the [blank] time for 13 (thru) 10 days
Int
Inscribed on the Roll of [blank] at the rate of 44 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of June 1833 and [blank] of [blank] and Plymouth
Arrears to the 14th of June 1833 $ 88.88 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 22.22 $111.10
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by I. Weeks Clerk, Book 2, Vol. 2, Page 12.
90 Plymo

Job Cowing Statements
20680

State of Massachusetts } ss County of Plymouth } ss
On this twenty ninth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. Wilkes Wood, Judge of the Court of Probate for the said County of Plymouth at Scituate in said County Job Cushing, a resident of Scituate aforesaid, aged ninety years, nearly, who being by reason of age and bodily infirmities unable to attend Court, and 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 A.D. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated, to wit:
1 st Camp r The first of May A.D. 1777 he entered said service and was stationed on Castle William then called in Boston harbour, under Col e Burbeck and served six months employed in repairing and rebuilding the fortifications the British troops had demolished. He served his time out, was then discharged and returned home.
3 d Camp r Again the first of May then following A.D. 1778 he entered said service for six months under the same Officer and was stationed about five months at the same place and in the same employment. He with others was detached went to Taunton, then took boats and sailed down the River, landed at Tiverton and was there stationed, employed in tending the Ferry about one month and was still under the command of Col e Burbeck, and having completed his term of enlistment, was discharged and returned home.
2 d Camp r In February A.D. 1778 he also entered said service in the Company Command by Francis Cushing was stationed at Nantasket his duty to stand guard and to assist in building forts, and having served forty days was discharged and returned home.
He served in all as aforesaid thirteen months & ten days. He never received a written discharge, nor has he any documentary evidence of his service.
The persons whose dispositions are hereto annexed are all that are now living whose testimony he can procure to testify to said service. He was born at said Scituate the 14 th of October A.D. 1742. He has no record of his birth. He lived at Scituate aforesaid when he entered said service and has always lived there. He enlisted into said service, was not drafted, nor a substitute. He is known in his present neighbourhood to the Rev Samuel Dane, Samuel A. Linn and others who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution. He has named all the Officers under whom he served that he now remembers, also all the important circumstances of his service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension.

or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Job his Cowing (mark)
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
We Samuel Deane, a clergyman residing in the town of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts in Samuel A. Turner residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Job Cowing who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration that we believe him to be nine years of age nearly and that he is reputed and believed in the neigh- bourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution.
Samuel Deane
Samuel A. Turner
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
And the said Court do hereby declare their opin- ion, 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 cer- tifies, that it appears to them that Samuel Deane who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Scituate and that Hon. Samuel A. Turner who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court, Attest, Jacob H. Lord Register
I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that the fore- going contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Job Cowing for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twenty ninth day of August in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two. Jacob H. Lord

20680
St. Louis, Mass
March 13 Mr 10 days
St. Louis Plymouth Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Court of Plymouth
Job Corning  in the State of Massachusetts  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court Judge  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? Yes  3. How old is he? 90 years  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. As a Genl,     Enl'd In 1777 — 6 — private — Col Burbeck   1778 — 6 — — — Same   1 10 — Capt Cushing  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Falcum Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional & witness, for comr  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Dr Clagett  Examining Clerk

Rev War
9209 INVALID.
File No. 9209
Job Sewing Print Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. Set , Page 75
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Robert Paine of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts aged seventy years do testify and say that I the bearer of Scituate in the County and State aforesaid. Served with me one Campaign of Six months in the war of the American Revolution in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven, as a private soldier on Castle William in Boston Harbor, employed while there in repairing the fort and working the cannon, we served under Capt. Tufts, and Col. Burbeck, as chief engineer. Robert Paine
Plymouth Jp. August 27-1832 then the above named Robert Paine made oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true before me. Laurence H. Turner Just. Peace
And I certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Robert Paine and that he is a credible Witness. Attest Saml. H. Turner Just. of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth Jp. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Samuel H. Turner Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for said County & that the above is his signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said Court this Seventeenth day of December A.D. 1832. Jacob H. Lord

Robert Pierce Deposition for John Browning

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of St. Canning which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? ys II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? ys 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? ys 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? ys VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? ys VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? ys VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? ys IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? ys 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? ys

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? Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
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? Witness for Omo
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? Yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? Yes
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? Yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
[Handwritten signature]
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 shown 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.