Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13413, Daniel Howel, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Howel, Daniel or Howell
S. 13413
Born in Penn.
bearded
CONTENTS

Virginia 16. 1799.
Daniel Howell * of Floyd Co. in the State of Va who was a Pvt. in the Reg commanded by Captain of the  Reg commanded by Col. Anderson in the Va. line for 9 months -
Daniel Howell *
Records corrected. Apr. 19/66. S.
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 30 - Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Sept. 33 and to William Watson. Clerk of Floyd Co. Va.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1833. 750 Semi-ann. allowance ending Mar. 31 15. 190.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. Rice Clerk Book E Vol. 6 Page 14
Dead - see letter to Wm. Goodwin, July 6. 1836.
Let to Hon. H. Lodge, Apr 23/81.

#136
July 2. 1836 Pension Office
David Hamble var 1800.
Mr. Secretary of the War Department
Washington City
Dear H.
Heaps to H. W.
June 27
1880
Handwritten text in a cursive script, likely Japanese. The text is arranged in vertical columns, read from right to left. The characters are fluid and stylized, typical of historical Japanese calligraphy. The content appears to be a formal letter or document, given the structure and the presence of honorifics or formal phrasing in the opening and closing.

At a Court of Quarterly Sessions held for Floyd County at the Court house the 20 th day of June 1836 —
On motion of Frances Howell widow of Daniel Howell deceased It is ordered that the following facts be certified to the War Department, they having been proved to the satisfaction of the Court Viz: That the said Daniel Howell who was a pensioner of the United States, departed this life Intestate on the 5 th day of March 1836. That in his life time he intermarried with the said Frances Howell and left her a widow. The said Frances is still alive
A copy
Teste
M. Sandifer D.C. for W. Goodson Clerk Floyd C. C.

Virginia Floyd County
On this 21 st day of September 1832 Personally appeared before the Judge of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery in Floyd County Daniel Howell Sen a resident of said county of Floyd and state of Virginia aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States for his first term under the command of Capt Walter Brockett and Genl Brockett  of Christy in a term of six months against the Indians (the Cherokee Nation) in the state of Tennessee. The second term was a Virginia Militia Regiment. The second term was for three or four months against the same Indians under the command of Capt Harstone and Col Martin of the Virginia Militia. The year is not recollected but the applicant was at the Treaty made with the Cherokee Indians at the Long Islands of Holston by Col Christy and Col Thomas Madison. He was on an other term of thirty days as a ranger under Capt Lockhart Wilson and Lieutenant Wm Hargate and he received his discharge June 27 th 1778 which is herewith sent from his original  discharge . The last term was of  for one  or six months under Col Walter Brockett and Capt Eason in a regiment of Virginia Militia. He marched to the state of North Carolina and was at a skirmish at the Reedy fork of New River a few days before the battle of Guilford Court House and he with Capt Eason and Lieutenant Goodson returned in a few days to Virginia having been discharged. He had a discharge for all his terms but has lost all but the one enclosed. All the foregoing terms were performed by him while he resided in the within the county of Floyd as it is now Fort was Botetourt County then and subsequently Montgomery.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agent in any state or territory whatever.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and date above written.
Mayor Gordon Wm Goodson
Daniel Howell

Daniel Howells
We Thomas Goodson & Wm Goodson residents of Floyd county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Howells Ser. who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 73 years old. that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. The said Thomas Goodson also testifies that he was acquainted with the said Howells during the revolution and saw him in the service as a soldier in the revolution and that he is the Lieutenant Goodson mentioned in the foregoing declaration sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Thomas Goodson Sen.
William Goodson
and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas & Wm Goodson who has signed the proceedings and certificates are residents of the county of Floyd and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. The court further certifies that clergymen are scarce in the county of Floyd and the neighborhood of the the applicant
I William Goodson Clerk of the District superior court of Law and Chancery for Floyd county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Daniel Howells Ser. for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office. this 21 st day of September
William Goodson
1832

State of Virginia. Floyd County to wit:
This day Daniel Howell S r personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, to wit the County Court of the County aforesaid, & made the following declaration as a further amendment to his declaration made in said Court on the 21 st of September 1832, which has been again returned for further amendment.
In answer to the 4 th Interrogatory contained in the "Brief Objections to the admission of pension Claims" sent from the War Department with his said previous declaration, this Declarant says that his first tour of service was that made under Captain Joshua Wilson of one month, for which the certificate of service annexed to the papers heretofore sent to the said Department, & now remaining with them was given to him. By that certificate it appears that the said tour was performed at an early period of the war, to wit, in the summer of 1778. His second tour of service was within about one year after his first. The Declarant by reason of his great age & lapse of time cannot recollect that more particularly than to say that it was the Cherokee expedition, & that he thinks he left home the August following the June in which he received the said certificate. From this expedition he returned early in the winter, & to the best of his belief it was in the following summer that he went on his third expedition. After his return he had what was then thought a long rest & his fourth & last tour was during the anxious period at the South it was completed just before the battle of Guilford Court House in North Carolina. This Declarant thinks that he heard of that important battle on his way home. When it occurred is a matter of history, he believes it was in 1781. This Declarant fears that there may be an error in regard to the relative time of the tour of service first mentioned in this amended declaration. It is possible that it was not his first but his third tour of service, but he hopes that in either case

he has now sufficiently designated the periods of his service. In answer to the 5 th Question in the same brief he says - that he never served in any other grade than that of a private, & that he served at least nine months, & claims for no more.
In answer to those of "the seven Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department" not heretofore sufficiently answered, he says - in answer to
No. 1. That he was born in the County of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1759 - to No. 2. - The only written record of his age that he knows of was in his mother's Psalm-Book, which was long ago lost - to No. 3. When called into service, he was residing in the neighbourhood of his present residence. Soon, or not very long after the revolution, he removed (not out of his present neighbourhood, however) into the adjoining County of Patrick where he remained about five years. Then he returned into the County where he now resides, in which under different names he has remained ever since - to No. 4. He was drafted on the Cherokee expedition & volunteered for all the rest of his term of service. He was sworn to in open Court this 15 th day of
July 1833.
Daniel Howell
I. William Goodson Clerk of the County Court and circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for Floyd County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings of the County Court, in the matter of the amended declaration of Daniel Howell for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office of the Circuit Superior Court of Law & Chancery (there being no seal yet provided for the County Court) this 15 th day of July 1833. -
W. Goodson Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
17.13413
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Daniel Howell a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. pensioned Daniel Howell Sr.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1776 4 mos. Pvt. Walter Crockett ✓ Va.   1776 7 1777 3 mos. " Harborne Martin   One month ending June 25 1778 " " Isaac Wilson   1781 March 1781 " Eason Walter Crockett  
Battles engaged in, Cherokee Expedition Ruddy Fork of Haw River
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Botetourt County Va.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 21. 1832  Howel was al.
Residence at date of application, Floyd Co. Va.
Age at date of application, born in 1759 in Philadelphia Co. Penn.
Remarks: { died Feb. 5-1836
Soldier left a widow Frances --- There is no other data on file as to his family
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

1918 Sept. 17. Hist. to Press Herald.
Reuben
13413
INVALID.
File No. 13. 413
Daniel Howell ★
Rev. Rev. war
Act: June 7 th 1852.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 179
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Daniel Howel ★ Records corrected. Apr. 1906. J.S.

This is to certify that Howel Daniel served 30 days In the Militia Service under the Command of _____
W m H ng als June 25. 1978

I George Shelor presiding Justice of the peace in and for the County of County of Floyd do hereby certify that William Goodson whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of signing the same, the Clerk of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery, for the County aforesaid, duly appointed and qualified according to law. Given under my hand and Seal this 20 th day of December 183.
George Shelor
Chairman of Floyd County Court.

Dear Honorable Hayden City
All debt as a sum 9 mo p 30 = M
On 15. 3. 4. Paid to 2. Austin

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Daniel Howell  Ver. which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
yes.
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
yes.
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?
no
no.
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?
no
no.
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
yes.
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
yes.
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
yes.
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
yes.
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?
yes.

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 ?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it ?
yes.
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 ?
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? also
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?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
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 ?
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 ? No 1, 2, 3, 4, nor Ans
c/p.
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, deposeh 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 shewn 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.

Virginia to wit
This day Daniel Howells Dr. personally
appeared in open court being a court of record for Floyd county and made the following declaration in order to amend his previous declaration made in said court on the 21 of September 1832 which has been returned. He declares that the first two towers was from the year 1776 to 1777 & 1778 as they were before the third tower which appeared as stated in declaration in June 1778. The first tower was for four months certainly and is all that he claims for his memory by the lapse of time is defective he therefore states it before doubtfully as to time. (saying four or six) The second tower he knows was for three months and is all he claims for he had before thought it more. The other towers are specifically stated as to time. There is no clergyman in the neighbourhood and of course none who can make the necessary affidavit. There is no person by whom he can now prove any of his towers other than that proved by Thomas Goodson in his affidavit as the former declaration. The said applicant cannot by reason of old age & loss of memory state precisely the times of his service with their duration but but the above statement is correct to the best of his recollection. sworn to in open court this 18 th of March 1833. Daniel Howells
Virginia to wit.
I William Goodson Clerk of the County Court of Floyd and State of Virginia aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings of the Court in the matter of the Amended application of Daniel Howells for a
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for Floyd County (there being as yet no seal provided for the County Court) this 19 th day of March 1833 in the 57 th year of the Commonwealth
William Goodson Clerk

Indianola, Iowa.
Sept. 5th, 1918
Pension Department,
Washington D.C.
Sirs; I desire information concerning Daniel Howell, who fought in the War of the Revolution. I enclose a portion of a letter from former Representative Henn which I thought might aid you. All information and dates which you can give me I will appreciate greatly. Date and place of enlistment, when pension was discontinued, what Regiment and Company, date and place of birth, in fact all data you can find concerning said Daniel Howell. I wish to join the "Daughters of the Revolution."
Thanking you in advance I am,
Very Sincerely,
Persis Heaton

✓ one stamped envelope 3.8 or 8 P.W.
Washington City,
February 23. 1855
Rev. Sec W
John Howell;
Vega, Henry Co., Iowa.
Dr. Sir; — Yours of the 23th ult. has been received.
After a good long search I succeeded in finding the Pension papers of your father Daniel Howell — who drew a pension as a soldier in the Rev. War, while he lived in Jacksonville, Floyd Co. Va. From these papers it appears that his widow, Francis Howell, is entitled to 5 years half pay pension, commencing Feby 3. 1853 — and she will be entitled to draw the amount due her from that time up to the 4th of March next on complying with the enclosed circular.
Yours truly,,
Bernhart Henn.