Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,879, Oliver Howard, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Howard, Oliver
S18879
Carded
CONTENTS

Burlington Vermont Connecticut 5310 5310
Oliver Howard
of Lynde in the State of Conn. who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Washburn of the Regt. commanded by Col. Murphy in the Mass. Troops line for
9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 30 ¢ Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7. day of Feb. 1833. and sent to Hon. S. Barber H. of R.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 2 1832. — 45. 00. Semi-ann. allowance ending 4. Mar: 33. 15. 00.
$ 60. 00.
{ Revolutionary Claim } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Francis J. Francioni Book (D. Vol. 3 d Page 47.
Letter to Hon. S. Ingham Sr. May 1838
Same person — 13 June 1838.
Same person 18 June 1838
Same person 22 " 1838
Pension Agent 22 June 1838
Car to Pa. age 21 Oct 1838.
To Burlington Vt. from 4 th Sept 1837 to 10. Oct 1838. Notice sent to from Weston. Burlington Vt.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 th Sept. 1837 to 4 th March 1838. Age notified 28 Jan y 1839

State of Vermont } Chittenden County ss }
On this Seventeenth day of September A.D. 1838 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County of Chittenden, personally appeared Oliver Howard who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Capt Packer in a regiment of the Massachusetts Militia, the name of the Colonel who commanded said regiment he has forgotten; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Connecticut from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of Vermont, where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be paid at Burlington, Vermont, in future. The following are his reasons for removing from Simsbury Connecticut, to Williston Vermont : He has a son in law and a daughter who reside in said Williston, and he wishes to spend the remainder of his days with them. He therefore prays that his name may be transferred from the Hartford, Connecticut agency, to the Burlington, Vermont agency, to take effect from the fourth day

of September A.D. 1837 - the time to which he was last paid. Oliver his X Howard witness Charles Russell mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid. Upon Weston Justice Peace
State of Vermont } Chittenden County } I, Elias Coon of Williston in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont do depose and say that Oliver Howard, who has made the foregoing affidavit, is personally known to me, and that he is the identical person whose name was placed on the pension roll of the Connecticut agency at the rate of Thirty dollars per annum, for services rendered the United States during the revolutionary war, as a private in the Massachusetts Militia - that his pension certificate is numbered 5,310 - dated at the War Office the seventh day of February 1833 and is signed by Sew. Bliss Secretary of War. Elias Coon

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17 th day of September 1838, and I certify that the said Elias Coon is a man of truth and credibility W m Weston Justice Peace
State of Vermont District of Chittenden ss
I William Weston Register of the Probate Court for the District of Chittenden and State of Vermont do hereby certify that William Weston, before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken and sworn to, was, at the time of taking them and still is, a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Chittenden, duly commissioned and sworn and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my name at Burlington in said District this 21 st day of September A D 1838. W m Weston Register

1420 Oliver Howard
admitted
9 months private $30. per annum
A. Barker

BRIEF in the case of Oliver Howard of Lyme in the State of Connecticut (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 74. years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1778. " 6. " private Capt. A. Washburns   1779. " 1. " volunteer Capt. Randalls   1780. " 2 " drafted Capt. Packers  
5. In what battles was he engaged? Stone
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bridgewater, Cont.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Francis T. Francis
Examining Clerk.

Oliver Howard
July 14 20.
Wm. M c Kinney Clerk
August 28 1832
and the seal of said city was hereunto

State of Connecticut County of New London S 28
On this 1 st day of August A D 1832 personally ap- peared in open Court before the City Court of the City of New London now sitting Oliver Howard of the Town of Lyme & resident in said Lyme County of New London and State of Connecticut age seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the fol- lowing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, that in the year 1778 while he was living at Bridgewater in Plymouth County State of Massachusetts orders were received to draft enlist men out of each company, for the purpose of raising troops to defend Boston That there was a meeting of his company and that he and several others agreed to volunteer for said purpose. That he immediately thereafter joined Capt Abraham Washburns Company for six months. This was early in the summer. That the Company marched to Boston and were stationed at Boston, when the french fleet appeared off Boston Harbour after they had been driven to sea in the august gale after leaving New Bed, and after their return to Newport. That after serving out his term of six months he returned home
That subsequently he believes in the year 1780 he was drafted at Bridgewater into Capt Randalls company for two months in the fall of the year to go to Rhode Island Fairton to guard the inhabitants from the incursions of the enemy who came from New Bed and took the cattle & other stock of the inhabitants

that after being in service a month or six weeks he was discharged
That subsequently he believes in the year 1780 he was drafted at Bridgewater into Capt. Nathan Packer's company to go to Rhode Island then in possession of the enemy with the intention of retaking it. That he does not remember the other officers of the company except Nathaniel Mainly who he believes was a Sergeant. He remembers Col. Durfee and Genl. Brown among the officers. That they landed on the island and were drawn up in line of battle and expected an immediate engagement. That a flag came from the enemy, terms for evacuating the island were agreed on, and the enemy the same  next day embarked in their shipping. He well remembers that large numbers of horses were collected on the island and put into a yard and the persons claiming horses were compelled to prove ownership. Lest the horses which had belonged to the enemy should be taken by those who had no right to them. He is not acquainted with any person living who can state as to his service, nor has he any documentary evidence. He was born at Easton Bristol County State of Massachusetts when he lived till 8 or 9 years old then removed to Bridgewater in Plymouth Co where he lived till the close of the revolutionary war from Bridgewater he removed to Stoneham Mass where he lived some years then to Washington to Rhode Island and about twenty years since removed to Lyone where he has since lived knows  lived that he was living at Bridgewater when called into service and was called into service as a volunteer by draft, does not recollect any officers then there stated. Does not remember to have received any discharge and never recd any Commission or Warrant. That he is well known to Revd Alvin Seely, Dea Beckwith and Ruben D'Hall all of said Lyone

who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby extinguishes every claim what ever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Oliver Hovey and Mark Merriam Clerks
We Alvin Ackley a Clergyman residing in the Town of Lyme in New London County and Ipe Beckwith and Ruben L Hall residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Oliver Hovey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he re- sides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid in Genl W th Merriam and Clerks Alvin Ackley Ipe Beckwith Ruben L Hall
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the in- terrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary sol- dier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Alvin Ackley who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Lyme and that Ipe Beckwith and Ruben L Hall

who have also signed the same are residents of the Town of Lyme and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
I William F Brainerd Clerk of the City Court of the City of New London do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Oliver Storrard for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said City Court this 6 th day of August AD 1832
Wm Brainerd Clerk
Oliver Storrard
No 1420.

P 18849. INVALID.
Am
July-30-1902 S. J. Brant Montpelier Vt
File No. 18,879.
Oliver Howard
Phi Rev War
Act: June 7 th 92
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Oliver Howard - Connecticut Act 1832 @ $30 per Annum, was last paid to 11 September 1837.
Third Aud. Office
June 22 d 1838
Nathl. Hyde

Washington 12. The June 1898.
Dear Sir
I send you some papers of Oliver Howard which I hope you will find correct.
Your ob. Serv t
Sam Sam t Hughes
Notable J. P. Kennedy Comm te -

Sept 26, Washington
FREE
James S. Edwards Esq Comr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Burlington Vermont September 21. 1838. -
Sir,
I enclose the application of Oliver Howard, for a transfer of his name from the roll of the Connecticut agency - to the roll of the Burlington, Vermont, agency. Please advise me of the transfer as soon as it shall have been made
I am very respectfully Your Obedt Servt.
Wm Weston
Jas. L. Edwards Esq Comm r of Pensions
P.S. If the agent here can be directed to pay the voucher without forwarding it first to you for your approval (there being a years pension due) - please so direct him - otherwise - before the voucher could be transmitted to you and returned here. Eight months might elapse from the time the first 1/2 years stipend (due March 4, 1838) became due - and in that event a voucher would have to be forwarded to the Treasury Department.
W. Weston

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 16 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Oliver Howard, _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the * Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Thirty _____ Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept., 1837, to the 4 th March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
Widow E. Parrish Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
* Subsequently transferred to the Burlington } , Vermont, Agency. }

Oct 8.
M c Lean
J. G. Odurard, Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Pension Agency Hartford 5 th Octo 1838
Sir
In answer to your enquiry as to what time Oliver Howard a pensioner on the roll of this Agency under the Act of 7 th June 1832 at $30. per annum was last paid. I have to inform you that he has been paid to the 4 th day of September 1837.
I am Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servt. Sam L L. Pitkin. Agent.
J. L. Edwards, Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

State of Connecticut New London County } ss June 8 th 1838
Be it known that before me Lodowick Will a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Oliver Howard and made oath in due form of law that he is the identical Oliver Howard named in an Original Certificate now illegally withheld by one William Bush of the Town of Montville in the County & State aforesaid. That he employed said Bush to assist him in obtaining a pension & that after he had received his Certificate the Deponent requested the said Bush to safely keep it and assist him semi-annually in drawing his pension as he was a responsible person which the said Bush did until in the course of the last year the said Bush failed in business & became wholly insolvent and that since he drew his semi-annual pension due on the 4 th day of September 1837 - he has often requested the said Bush to deliver him his Certificate of pension which he at all times has refused to do & refuses to do unless the Deponent will give up a note of hand which he holds against said Bush for Eighty Eight Dollars dated March 4 th 1837 - which was for a greater part of the pension which the Deponent drew up to that time & which the Deponent is unwilling to do.
That he is entitled to a pension of thirty Dollars per annum (as he was always informed by said Bush having never seen the Certificate which was received by said Bush & the power of attorney was made out by said Bush when he first drew his pension & was since acknowledged by deponent before Bush or his personal friend) - on account of services rendered to the United States during the Revolutionary War that he served in Captain Washburns - Knowlton's and Packer's Companies of Militia in the State of Rhode Island & Massachusetts his roll he does not now recollect - that he now resides in the Town of Lyme County of New London & State aforesaid and has resided there for the space of twenty one years past and that previous thereto he resided in the State of Rhode Island. Sworn & Subscribed this 8 th day of June AD 1838. Oliver X Howard mark
Before me Lodowick Will Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut New London County } June 8 th 1838
Conformable to the regulations of the War Department of the 27 th of October 1832 I Lodowick Bill a Magistrate in the County above named do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence viz sixteen years personal knowledge and acquaintance with the Deponent and his family that Oliver Howard who this day appeared before me to take the oath of identity is the identical person he declares himself to be in the foregoing affidavit and I am also well satisfied that the statement made by him in relation to the pension certificate is strictly true
Given under my hand at Lynn the 8 th day of June above written
Lodowick Bill Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut New London County } June 8 th 1838
On this 8 th day of June 1838 personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for the County of New London Oliver Howard who on his oath declares & says that he is the same Oliver Howard described in the foregoing affidavit & in the above certificate who has applied for a new pension certificate in consequence of his former one being illegally withheld by William Bush. That his former certificate was payable at Hartford in Connecticut where he resided when he obtained his pension but that he is about to remove to the state of Vermont to live with his children as he is old & unable to provide for himself where he expects to spend the few remaining years of his life here he therefore wishes & requests his new certificate to order his pension to be then payable in future
Oliver X Howard mark
Sworn & subscribed on the day of June above written Before me Lodowick Bill Justice of Peace

I declare Will Esq - is the only one our year last past he has been an executor of Probate and Justice of Peace in and for the County of New Berne and State of North Carolina within signatures of his name and seal and his hand and seal Jan 13. 1838 Will

Oliver Homand
invented by N. Barlow Esq.

State of Connecticut New London County ss
On this 5 th day of January ad 1833 personally appeared in open court before the New London City Court now sitting Oliver Stowe a resident in the Town of Lyme County of New London and State of Con- necticut who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to and in explanation of his declaration of the 1 st of August ad 1832
That the periods of the war and the terms of his service were as follows to wit
In 1778 In the month of June 1778 he joined Capt Abraham Washburn's Company and served therein for the term of six months without interruption was discharged in December following
1779 In the fall of the year 1779 he entered Captain Randall's Company as a volunteer and served therein at least one month without interrup- tion
1780 That he was drafted into Captain Packer's Company for the term of two months and served therein for that term without interruption. That he knows of no individual living who can testify as to his services & knows not of any opportunity to obtain any evidence
That he was born at Easton Bristol County Massachusetts May 1 ad 1758
That he removed from  the  depositor Massachusetts immediately after the close of the war about fifty years since. That he has no acquaint- ance there and does not know of any person living who can give any information respecting his services. nor can he remember any other Company or Regimental officers under whom he served than those heretofore stated
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Oliver Stowe

I William H Brainard Clerk of the City Court of the City of New London do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Oliver Howard in addition to and explanation of his application for a pension of the 6 th August AD 1832
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said City Court this 5 th day of January AD 1833
Wm H Brainard Clerk

R
11 Baldwin St
Montpelier Vt.
July 24. 1902
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Will you please send me a record of revolutionary service of Daniel Tead (Teed), who died in Cummington Mass. about 1850.

Also the records of Oliver Howard who was living in 1840 in Milton Vt - and drawing a pension for revolutionary service. If there are any particulars of his family given in his application I should like them
Yours truly William J. Seaver