Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28768, Joseph Howard, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Howard, Joseph
S. 28768
CONTENTS

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let to Pen. May 28. 1835. Same, June 15. "
Maine
Joseph Howard
of Oxford Co in the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain A. Cogswell of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wells in the Massachusetts line, for the term of 9 Months from March 17 1777 to 17
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of Eighty Dollars per month  annum , to commence on the 4 day of Mar 1831 and
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th of August 1832 and sent to Joseph Howard Grownfula Massachusetts Maine
the Roll on  day of 182 and notification sent to at Pension commencing on the of 182
Amount due on 4th of } Mar 1832 $ 80 semi annuals } Sept " "  40  $120
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820. }
June 1832
Recorded Book 2 Vol 1 Page 63

06 Aug 8 1872
Chairman Bureau Re
free your department
Hon. Lewis Cass - Secretary of the Department
$80 per ann.
Wash-
Washington City

Brownfield July 30th 1832
Honble Lewis Cass Secretary of the War Department
Sir In behalf of a petition certificate which was received in 1818 but payment was stopped I understand the Government are giving you all the old Revolutionary soldiers a petition who the Paupers or not I served 3 years in the Revolution in the Massachusetts line as a private in Capt A Cogswell Company & in James Weston's Regt the whole time except being twice detached in the siege at fort St. John & once into corps of Infantry & attached to Col Morgan's Regiment of Riflemen & was with him until the capture of Burgoyne's army I presume my Discharge is at the War Department and that I think my name is Bromwell Hayward on account of confusion it was altered to Howard I have been
my Residence is in Brownfield County of Oxford & State of Maine I hope the Government will permit me
to draw a pension. in In regard to the case of Curtis Beman I hope you will find the Record so as to entitle him to have a Pension
Respectfully your friend Joseph Howard

Jos Howard Oct 1832 M c
Wm DeWitt The present estate Washington City
file this with Jos Howard's papers
L. Bellencle Esq r
Com ee of Penitents

Brownfield June 6th 1835
Inclosed is my Pension certificate I do hereby certify that I am the Identical Person named in said certificate for whose benefit it was issued
Brownfield June 6th 1835 Joseph Howard On this day personally appeared the above Joseph Howard and made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed - Before me
Sam l Gibson Justice Peace
Hon ble J. L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir Inclosed is my pension certificate with my affidavit relative to my being the Identical Person of the same - you will oblige me by returning the Pension certificate - I am Pleased with you care to detect fraud
Please to accept the Estimate of - an
Old Man
Joseph Howard

Honble Lewis Cass Esq. Secretary of the War Department
Washington City

Recd. 23 May
Brownfield May 10th 1835
Honble Lewis Cass Secy of the War Dept.
Dear Sir I wish you would make it convenient to send me a copy of a discharge I sent to the war department years some years since for the purpose of obtaining a pension. I think the discharge was dated in 1700 I believe my name on the discharge will appear Haywood it was so pronounced when I was a lad — this state is making a donation of land to those soldiers that served in the war of the Revolution 3 years & afterwards — the accommodation will oblige me much With much esteem your friend
Jos Howard

Springfield 8 1780
Served the Within including the tenth
Instant since Nov 21. See Church All
Joseph Howard
Emory
Howard, Joseph Mass 528768
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Howard Joseph Mar 3 1898
My dear friend, I am writing to you to let you know that I have been thinking of you and your dear children and how much I should like to see you all again

Joseph Howard Soldier in Cap t A. Amos Cogswell Company in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment for the service of the United States of America And having served out the full time of his Engagement of three years and is hereby Discharged from the Army and has leave to return to his State and is all so Instituted to all Privilediges that may arise to the three years men from the State or States of North America
To Whom it may Concern { Cogswell Captain West April 1 st 1780 } Wilson Col

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March , next, in the district of Maine , by the President of the Cumberland Bank, Portland.
Recorded

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Joseph Howard, of Oxford County, Dist. of Maine, — # — late a private — # — in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Dist. of Maine — Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty ninth day of April, — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. L. Edwards in the absence and on behalf
of the Secretary of War.

Payments to be made at Portland by the Pres d U. S. Branch Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Maine.
Recorded by J. H. M c Blain Clerk, in Book D. Vol. 1 page 6.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, Joseph Howard of the State of Maine who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty 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 thirteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two .

Joseph Howard Mass line 9 - Col Wilson's Bmt
1 April 1777
1 April 1780 Disch 29 th April 1818.
Judah Dain, Esq. Fryeburg, Me Oxford Maine
On Roll his name spelt Hay- wood - which is an error - see explanation within -
Admitted
is under the seal of the town of Fryeburg
That Lurce of the within declaration was made on 29 th April 1818. and was it not forwarded sooner than 30 th July 1819.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Oxford ss
On this twenty ninth day April A1818 before me the Subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate in said County and first Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first eastern circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appeared Joseph Howard, a Resident of Brownfield in said County of Oxford, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, intitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolution- ary war - that he the said Joseph Howard enlisted for three years, on the last of March A1777 into the company commanded by Capt Amos Cogswell in Col d J. Wiser Regiment in General Learned's Brigade in Massachusetts line and served out said term of three years and mostly in the same company and on the first day of April A1780 was regularly discharged at West Point - as may be seen by the annexed discharge, that he is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support - Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid Judah Dana Judge etc
I Judah Dana Judge as aforesaid do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Howard did serve in the war of the revolution, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the Com- mon Enemy for the term of nine months on the continental establishment, and that he is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of assist- ance from his country for support - And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Hon. Secretary for the Depart- ment of War pursuant to the aforesaid act of Congress - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court at Fryeburg, this thirtieth day of July A1819 - Judah Dana Judge etc

I Philip Page of Fryeburg in the County of Oxford testify and declare on oath that I have been personally acquainted with Joseph Howland (otherwise called Joseph Haywood) a resident of Brownfield in said County of Oxford for more than forty years, that he has during that time been an inhabitant of said Brownfield - when his father lived & died - that I knew him well in the revolu- tionary war in Capt. Gessells company - in Col o Weston Regiment - that the father commonly wrote his name Haywood & was called Haywood & Howland - and the Son, Joseph the applicant, when under age might write & spell his name as his father did; but since that time, I have lived near him & been intimate with him, and know that he is & has been constantly known by the name of Joseph Howland of Brownfield - and that he is the identical person, who served in the revolution war in the company & Regiment aforesaid & I have never known any other man by that name, who served in said company & regiment - I knew in the army in the year A D 1778 -
Philip Page
County of Oxford ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts Nov r 10 - A D 1819 Then personally appeared the above named Philip Page & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed - before me Susan Dana Judge of Probate of First Class

Nov 13 - 1819 I herewith transmit the Deposition of Philip Page, herunto annexed, which shews, that the appli- cant in early life went by the name of Hayswood as well as Howard; that for forty years  30 or more than thirty years he has uniformly been called Howard and he was so named in the discharge, tho' his enlistment was by the name of Hayswood - which name his father wrote; but was commonly called How- ard - The reason the application was not forwarded before, is that at the time I took the declaration I supposed, I took the Discharge it to annex thereto; but could not find it; and about July last the claimant found it with him & brought it to me & then transmitted transmitted it to the Hon. Secretary of War - This explanation I trust will be sufficient - I have however a number of Declarations taken on or about the time this was made; which I have never forwarded to the war office; because the applicant could not as yet find proof - J. D. Darr Judge etc etc etc
2 Joseph Howard M c Gehee 9 - Col Wilson's Bmt
1 April 1977
1 April 1818 29 th April, 1818.
Mr. Booth has
many effects they produce - which is an see explanation within
Whitcomb
1819 1819
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in said County do hereby certify in said County on this thirteenth day of July 1819 certify that the within that the Hon. Isaac Dana who signed the foregoing certificate is a Judge of said Court of Probate and is first appointed Justice of the said Court of Probate & has in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth and that said instrument is under the seal of said Court of Probate

G. Ford
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in said County do at Fryebury in said County on this thirtieth day of July A D 1819 certify & make known that the Hon Judah Dana who signed the foregoing certificate &c is Judge of said Court of Probate and is first associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth and that said instrument is under the seal of said Court of Probate
Attest: Fin  Lygood Pres. Brook att.
Joseph Howard Mass Ave 9 - East Washington St
1 April 1877
1 April 1780 Disch 29 th April 1818.
Frederick Douglass, Esq. Oxford
On Roll has
name of Scott Hay- wood - which is an affection, within - Emory
Committee

Robt Lewis Esq Secretary of the War Department
The case of Curtis Bean of Brownfield County of Oxford & State of Maine he was formerly of N Hampshire lived in the town of Poplin or Hamon was several times in the service of the Revolution as a Militia man - 1st he was with a Captain Clough as a Volunteer at the attack at Sescitown how long he was out then he cant tell 2d he was out 3 months with a Captain Simchen went to Rodilard 3d. was out 3 months with Captain Sanburn 4th was out 3 months with a Captain Bown - on his return home was sick a month & a half -
the applicant is an Old man was 100 years old the fifteenth day of December last has been a very strong laboring man but never acquired any property is now & has been confined to his bed for 2 or 3 years is dependent on one of his sons who is not in affluent circumstances I hope the evidence will be found at the War Department so that he may obtain a pension I have been acquainted him for more than 40 years will the Secretary be accomodated as to advise me on this subject
Brownfield July 30th 1832
With Respect your friend - Jos Howard -

28.768 Rev INVALID.
File No. 28,768
Joseph Howard
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 193
[Arrangement of 1870.]

15842 District of Maine.  R
Joseph Howard,
of Oxford Co in the state of Massach ts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wesson, of the Massach ts line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the roll of Dist. of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24. of Nov r 1819, and sent to Judah Dana, judge Fryeburg, Oxf d Co: Dist. of Maine.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1819. $: 129.60.
Semi-ann. all ce ending 4. March, 48 "
16 mo s  \frac{6}{30} } 1820. } $: 177.60.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Brimfield Sept 1 st 1832
To whom it may Concern There is No Such Place as Brimfield in Mass & there is no Such Person as Joseph Howard in Brimfield & as this has been misent I take the liberty to return it                      Marcus Converse P.M.