Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,426, Samuel Howard, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Howard, Samuel
S. 35,426
CONTENTS

See letter to J Howard 16 Sept. 1831.
Application sent to Timothy Dyer & Esq. 26 Oct 1830 Springfield
16. 114 Q
District of Maine
Samuel Howard
of Brownfield in the state of D of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Knox of the Mapachygan line, for the term of One Year.
Inscribed on the roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to comm. the 18 of April  1811.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 of Decr 18 and sent to Isaac Dana Esq Litchfield D of Maine
  Arrears to 4th of  Sep. 1819.  132.50    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Mar. 1820.  48.00    16 Mo 17      30        $180.50  
75-20
Oxford
{ Revolutionary claim Act 18th March,
United

Samuel Howard,
N o 1611 3/4 -
Brownfield
Con
Dec 19

STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford ss. At a circuits Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Paris within and for the county of Oxford on the fourth Tuesday of July  and by adjournment from on the day of A. D. 1820 - before the Honorable Judah Dana Judges of said Court.
On this 25th day of July in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said county of Oxford . Samuel Howard - aged 75 years, resident in Brownfield in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private In the company commanded by Capt. Edward Burbank - in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Knapp in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 18th day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 16118 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818: 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particu- larly described below, also subscribed by me.
Samuel Howard
Sworn to and declared, on the 25th } day of July A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Judah Dana
Judges of said Court.
SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:— one house in Brownfield of one story in height, twenty- four feet square, unfinished, neither shingled, or clapboarded, nor glazed, a mere shell for a house, one acre of Pine Plain, 2 Cows, 4 Sheep, 2 Hogs, 6 Common Ketchin Chairs 2 tables of Pine, 2 Iron kettles, 1 do Pot, Shovels & tongs, Carpenter tools, one set of Mills stones & Irons, not in use, I owe about twenty dollars - little or nothing owing to me — Samuel Howard

SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Samuel Howard who by occupation am a Carpenter which I am not able to pursue by reason of age & infirmity —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Mary my wife 75 Years very infirm & unable to labour   Sarah a daughter 30 " weakly & able to do but little work   Caleb - grand son 12 -  
Samuel Howard
Oxford ss. I Thomas Clarke Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said county of Oxford do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said 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, is eighty nine dollars and fifty cents. $ 89.50
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 20th day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Thomas Clarke { Clerk of the Circuit Court of C. P. for said county of Oxford
Samuel Howard No 16118
Con  Dec 19

Samuel Howard
Private
Col. Knox Mass ts Regiment
1776 - 1 year
The evidence of two credible and disinterested witnesses, (or of an officer of the regiment) duly taken and authenticated is required.
8 May 1819
Nov 20 1819 - I return this application with 3 Depo's annexed. J. Dana
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Oxford. On this eighteenth day of April A.D. 1818 before me the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate in said county and first Assistant Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth person- ally appears Samuel Howard aged about seventy years a Resident of Brookfield in said Circuit, 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 services of the United States in the revolutionary war; That he the said Samuel Howard on the first day of January A.D. 1776 enlisted near Boston for one year into the company of artillery command- ed by Capt Edward Burbank belonging to Col o some Gen l Knox's command - Massachusetts Line that he marched from Boston to New York - and was in all the engagements of Princeton and Trenton that he served out the whole year, and at the ear- nest solicitations of the officers served two months more than sd year - That he does not know that he ever had any discharge in writing, that he is very poor, aged & infirm, and in such need and circumstances that he stands in need of assistance from his country for support & that he has no other means now in his possession of his said services - sworn to and declared the day & year of said before me!
Judson D. Lord Judge

I Judson Dana Judge & as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Howard did serve in the revolution as a soldier in the military department very worth against the common enemy for the term of nine months on the continental es- tablishment, that he is very poor & reduced in his circumstances and stands in absolute need of assistance from his country for support. and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Hon. Secretary for the Department of War - pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Tryon this tenth day of November A.D. 1818
Judson Dana Judge
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in said County do at Tryon in said County on this tenth day of November A.D. 1818 certify & make known that the Hon. Judson Dana who signed the foregoing certificate 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 Common- wealth and that said instrument is under the seal of said Court of Probate.
Attest John Briggs Register of Probate

35 426 Rev INVALID.
94 June 2 His to L A Woodworth Hiram Maine
File No. 35-426
Samuel Howard
Rev Rev Ind
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 282
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Berny Flats.
exposition
S. Howard

I Benjamin Choat of Lawfull age testify and say in 1776 the first Day of the year I enlisted in Capt John Perkins company and continued in the same untill the first of April when my Capt. Resigned and I was transferred into Capt. Edward Burbanks Company and there I knew Samuel Howard to be in said Burbanks Company and I Served with him in said Company untill the End of the year being nine months that I was With said Howard in Burbanks Company and in Colonel Henry Knoxes Regiment Benj o Choat
Oxford Ss. June 10 th A.D. 1819 Then the above a disinterested and credible witness named Benjamin Choat personally appeared and Made Solom... oaths to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed Before me Cyrus Ingalls justice Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Oxford ss. The subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Courts in said County of Oxford, do hereby certify that Cyrus In- galls Esq d before whom the above affidavit appear to have been made is a Justice of the Peace acting under the authority of said Commonwealth - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this fifth day of October A.D. 1819 -
Thomas Clarke

Dep...
Daniel Hews -

I Daniel Heuer of Boston in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I was in Captain Burbanks Company of Artillery in the Year 1775 and was stationed at the Laboratory in Cambridge from the first of April 1775 until the Spring 1776 when the Army moved off and while I was stationed at said Laboratory and belonged to said Company Samuel Howard belonged to the same Company, and during a great part of the time from said April 1775 until the next Spring when the Army moved, or a great part of that time, the said Samuel Howard was in the same Company with me at said Cambridge and when the Army moved from said Cambridge I left the Service and the said Samuel Howard marched off with the Army and continued in the Service during the time I was in the Service in said Company I was Superintendent of said Laboratory.
Daniel Heuer
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk November 10 th 1819 - Then there was named Daniel Heuer who I know to be a credible Witness and is deponed in the Affirmation of said Heuer personally appeared and made solemn Oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth -
Before me the Common Justice of the Peace and Chief Justice of the Court of Sessions for the County of Suffolk

Deposition
Los Crofs

I, Joshua Crofts of Salem in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age depose and say, that on the nineteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, I belonged to a corps called General Lee's life-guard, and on that day that corps commenced its march from Boston to Mount Washington, in the State of New York - Captain Edward Burbank's company of Artillery commenced its march the same day, for the same post - I then and there knew Samuel Howard to be a private in said Burbank's company, and continued to know him in that company, from that time till the close of that year - After the arrival of the said corps at Mount Washington, I was transferred to said Captain Burbank's company, and messes with said Howard, some part of the time, and I know that he continued to serve in said Company till the close of the year seventeen hundred and seventy six -
Joshua Crofts
Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Essex ss. November 9th 1819 Then the above named Joshua Crofts, who is a disinterested and credible witness, personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,
Before me Theodore Caines, Justice of the Peace

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
P.35426
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Samuel Howard , a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan 1776 14 mos Pri Edward Rumball Henry Knox Mass  
Battles engaged in, Trenton and Princeton Residence of soldier at enlistment, Town not stated. Date of application for pension, April 18, 1818 Residence at date of application, Brownfield Maine Age at date of application, 70 years
Remarks: In 1820 his family consisted of his wife, Mary, aged 75 years, a daughter Dorothy aged 30 years and a grandson Caleb aged 12 years.
Llewellyn Wadsworth Hiram Maine.
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Commissioner.