Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,411, William Howe, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Howe, William
S. 35,411
CONTENTS

11.412 Q
District of Maine
William Howe
of Bristol in the state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Six Years
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of June 1819 and sent to Ebenezer Thacher Esq. Lincoln District Maine
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar 1819.  86.36    Semi-anl. all'ce ending  Sep. 1819.  48.00    10 Mo \frac{20}{30}  \frac{4}{31}   $134.36  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent to E Thacher Esq 31 July 1820
Thomaston Maine

William Howe
Capt. Howe
11. 412.
Sept. 1019.

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER, Judges of said Court.
ON this eleventh day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared before Ebenezer Thatcher a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the 2 Eastern Circuit
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, William Howe aged eighty two years, resident in Bristol in said Circuit, 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. Frost in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon 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 eleventh day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 11412 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 particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
his William X Howe mark
Sworn to and declared, on the eleventh day of July A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Ebenezer Thatcher
{ One of the Judges of the said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Nothing but his cloathing he being an absolute pauper.
his William X Howe mark
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me William Howe who, by occupation am a labourer which I am unable to pursue by reason of extreme old age & entire loss of strength - beside the loss of my right eye.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     No family  his William X Howe mark  Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk   
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, 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 Nothing dollars and cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twelfth day of July A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat. Coffin } Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

11 th April 1812
William _____ Bristol Application for Pension
Sept 18-10/10/07
Enlisted in 18077 in Col. Dixon's Regt Mass. Line & Served to the close of the war
on roll
Admitted

I William Hove of Bristol in the County of Lincoln & State of Massachusetts testify & declare that I enlisted as a private Soldier in the Army of the War of the American Revolution in the Massa- chusetts line & on the Continental establishment to serve against the common enemy of the Country for the term of one year - That I enlisted as aforesaid in the town of Malden near Boston in Massachusetts state That I was enlisted by Captain Lane - That the time of my said enlistment was about the first of April A D 1776 - & that I served during said Year of my enlistment faithfully and faithfully in said Captain Lanes company in Colonel Varnums Regiment in the Massachusetts line and on the Continental establish- ment and against the common enemy - & that at the close of said Year I again enlist- ed (without leaving the service) - to serve during the remainder of said War - that I was then put into Captain Lanes company in Colonel Varnums Regiment and that I never left said service afterward until the close of said War in the Year of our Lord 1783 - That I was trans- ferred during said time into Captain Frost's com- pany & Colonel Tappens Regiment - but can- not exactly tell at what time of said service - & that at the time of my discharge from said ser- vice I was in said Frost's Company and said Tappens Regiment - That I had an honorable discharge in writing from His Excellency George

Washington The Commander in chief at New- Windsor near Westpoint on North River in the State of New York at that I carefully kept said discharge for many years but at length it got lost. I further testify & declare that the whole of said service was in the Massachusetts line - on the Continental estab- lishment & paid against the Common enemy. — that I have never received any pension from the United States — And further that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of As- sistance from my Country for support and therefore respectfully claim to be placed on the pen- sion list of the United States as a private by virtue of the late Act of Congress of March 30. A.D. 1812 entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and na- val service of the United States in the Revo- lutionary War"
his William X Home Mark

William Howe
State of Massachusetts
County of Lincoln ss. On this Eleventh day of April A.D. 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit within the State of Massachusetts - Personally appeared William Howe the same person who has made his mark (in token of his name) to the foregoing affidavit & who is now nearly ninety years of age and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein contained and at the same time satisfied me most fully that by reason of reduced circumstances he is in need of assistance from his country for support -
Ebenezer Fletcher -

Lincoln J. S. I Nathaniel Coffin Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Lincoln, certify that Ebenezer Thatchers, on the thirteenth day of April A.D. 1818. was one of the Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec & Somerset, that the foregoing is his signature.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court, this eleventh day of July  April A.D. 1818.
Nathl. Coffin
11 th April 1818
William Lloyd Assistant Apprentice to Benjamin
Sept 19 1818
Enrolled in 1827 in Col. N. 1827
Not Mark's since
James Collier Register of the Court
on record
of Annette

Jesse Humphrey: Testimony respecting Will, How

I Jesse Humphrey of Bristol in the County of Lincoln and Commonwealth of Massachusetts yeoman. Do testify and say that I was in the service of the United States - from March 1877 untill May 1783 as near as I can recollect when I got an honorable discharge at New Windsor - or Snake hill so called during which time I was a barber in the Sixth Regiment of the United States army, Comanded by Col. Smith - and that for the most part of that time I was well acquainted with William How a private Soldier in said Regiment - the said William How belonged to said Town of Bristol, and served as a faithfull Soldier to the close of the war and got his discharge on or about the time that I was discharged and returned home to Bristol where he now resides - Jesse Humphrey
Lincoln to Bristol May 8 th 1818 -
Then the above named Jesse Humphrey - personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit, by him Subscribed -
Before me Robert Huston { Justice of the Peace
AB Clerks certificate on the back of this deposition

State of Massachusetts County of Lincoln ss — I Nathaniel Coffin Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Lincoln — certify that Robert Houston is a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Lincoln & that he is duly qualified to administer Oaths And that this signature under the within oath by him administered is genuine — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this
Seale Humphrey: Testimony Nathaniel Coffin, Clerk

State of Massachusetts Lincoln County S.S.
I Howland State of Bristol in the County of Lincoln and State of Massachusetts testify & de- clare that I am well acquainted with William Home late of the Army of the United States in the War of the Revolution - now of Bristol aforesaid - that I well remember his having enlisted in said Army in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventyfive and that he was absent seven or eight years & unmercifully said during said term to be in the service of the United States as a Soldier and that at the close of the War in the year 1783 he returned to Bristol aforesaid and that I repeatedly read his discharge which was a printed discharge and which states that he was honorably discharged from the service and had served seven years three months and eight days which was signed by whom I am unable to recollect -
Howland Watch

35 411
Pay INVALID.
File No. 85,411
William Rowe
Dr. Rev. 1833
Act: 18 th March 18 th ,
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 281
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Howe William GRADE Corporal LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9631 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 16, 1789 To — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.