Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,282, Silas Howard, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Howard, Silas
NUMBER
S. 15282
CONTENTS
carded.

New Hampshire
Silas Howard (5)
of Melvin in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stetson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Dolittle in the New Hampshire line for 14 months  Mass
Date of death not on A.B
Ans Oct. 6 08
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of March 1833 and Sgt. Samuel Parker  Amherst New Hampshire
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $ 93.52 Semi-ann. allowance ending Sept. 4, 1833  23.33 $116.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. W. Addison Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 15 Page 90

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13.632
Silas Howard
Midford -
State troops & militia
Female 14 months Adm'd
Send D. C. Parker Antrim

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, ss.
On this Seventeenth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting at within and for the County of Hillsborough, in the State aforesaid,
Silas Howard of Milford in said county aged eighty five years Who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say, that in the year 1775 soon after Concord fight in the month of April he enlisted at Westford in the county of Middlesex Massachusetts to serve eight months in the Massachusetts State Troops. That he marched to Cambridge and was put into a company commanded by Capt. Joel Fletcher of Templeton Massachu- setts in the Regiment commanded by Col. Doolittle. That said company was stationed at Prospect Hill for a short time and then marched to Winter Hill, where he served out his time and was regularly discharged.
Second - That on the last of July or first of August in the year 1778 at Westford aforesaid, he enlisted in Capt. John Minot's Company of Massachusetts Militia to go to Rhode Island for six months. That he marched to Providence, where he was transferred to Capt. Joseph Boynton's Company in Col. Wadsworth's Regiment, marched to the Island of Rhode Island - after Sullivan's retreat marched to Greenwich & North Kingston - served out said time and was dismissed.
That he was born in Berwick in the State of Maine in the year 1747 - he lived at

Westford during the war, and afterwards moved to Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, where I lived about thirty years, when I moved to Milford aforesaid, where I now reside. I never had a discharge.
He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Sworn to
Before me Edmund Parker Judge of Probate We Humphrey Moore a Clergyman residing in the town of Milford in the county of Hillsborough aforesaid, and Abiel Lovjoy residing in Milford aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Silas Howard who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Humphrey Moore
Before me Edmund Parker Judge of Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Humphrey Moore
who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the town of Milford and that Abiel Lovjoy who has signed the same, is a resident in the town of Milford and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Edmund Parker — Judge of Probate for said County of Hillsborough.
I CHARLES H. ATHERTON, Register of the court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Silas Howard for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, this day of August 2 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Register of Probate, for said county of Hillsborough.
C H Atherton

(2) STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, to wit,
At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were propounded to the said Silas Hanchett and the following answers given, to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer, I was born in New-Hampshire in 1747 as I believe.
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, I have no record of my age -
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer, I lived in Watford Massachusetts when called into service, - afterwards moved to Lyndeborough NH where I have lived about thirty years, and for the last five years in Milford -
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer, I enlisted or volunteered
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer, I have stated the names of the officers in my declaration -
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer, I never had a discharge.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer, Rev. Humphrey Moon - Abel Lovjoy - Solomon R. Leavitt Esquire & many others.
Certified by
C. H. Hetherington
Register

(6)
July 11, 1939.
Miss Alice M. Howard Littleton Common Massachusetts.
BA-J/ILL Silas Howard S. 15282 aw
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Silas Howard, who died in Milford or Lyndeboro, New Hampshire, in 1840.
The data which follow are shown in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 15282, based upon service of Silas Howard in the Revolutionary War.
Silas Howard was born in the year 1747, in Berwick, Massachusetts; the day of his birth and the names of his parents are not given.
While a resident of Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, he volunteered in April 1775, "soon after Concord fight" and served eight months as private in Captain Joel Fletcher's company, Colonel Doolittle's Massachusetts regiment, stationed at Prospect Hill and Winter Hill. He enlisted about August 1, 1778, at Westford, Massachusetts, served as private in Captains John Minot's and Joseph Boynton's Massachusetts companies, was on General Sullivan's Expedition to Rhode Island, after which he was stationed at Greenwich and North Kingston, length of this service six months.
The soldier moved from Westford, Massachusetts, to Lyndeboro, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, where he resided for about thirty years, then moved to Milford, in that same county.
Silas Howard was allowed pension on his application executed August 17, 1832, at which time he resided in Milford, New Hampshire; he

had resided there then for five years. Silas Howard made no reference to wife or children.
In 1832, when Silas Howard made application for his pension, Samuel Read was a resident of Westford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, aged seventy-seven years. He volunteered and served with Silas Howard in the Revolutionary War; no relationship between him and the soldier's family was stated.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and cite the following:
Silas Howard Certificate #10045 Issued March 18, 1833 Rate $46.66 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 New Hampshire Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

✓ 15282 INVALID.
1939- July 11 - Hist. to Miss Alvin M. Howard - JSH.
File No. 15,282
Silas Howard
Priv. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: — Vol. 1 , Page 185
[Arrangement of 1870.]

(3) I Samuel Read of Westford, in the county of Middlesex, and commonwealth of Massachusetts, being seventy seven years of age do depose and say, that I am well acquainted with Silas Howard now of Milford in the county of Hillsborough and state of New Hampshire; that in the year 1775 said Howard and myself lived in said Westford and voluntarily enlisted into the United States service for eight months. Said Howard and myself were mustered at Col Barretts in Concord in said county of Middlesex. Soon after Concord fight. We went to Cambridge and were placed in a company of militia, commanded by Capt Joel Fletcher of Templeton in the county Worcester, in the regiment commanded by Col Doolittle. We were stationed first on Prospect Hill for a short time, and then were moved to Winter Hill in Charles town, where we remained till the expiration of said term of service, and were then regularly discharged and returned together in company with one John Fidd, who is now dead, to said Westford, in the forepart of January, as I think, in the year 1776. I further depose and say, that while I was in the service in Rhode Island, I saw said Howard once or twice as a soldier in said service, but how long he was in said service in Rhode Island I can not say.
Samuel Read
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss On the seventh day of August A.D. 1832 The above named Samuel Read, whom I certify to be a man of veracity, and to whose declarations full credit may be given, came personally before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in for the said County of Middlesex, and signed the above affidavit, and made oath that the same contains the whole truth relative to the transactions therein stated.
John Abbot Justice of the Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss. I Elias Thurney clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Middlesex, do certify that John Abbot Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace, within said said County and that his name set to the within certificate is his own proper signature. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the twenty Eighth day of September 1832
E. Thurney.

(14) I Herzekeah Thorndike of Chelmsford in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, nearly seventy eight years of age, do depose and say. That I am well acquainted with Silas Howard, now of Milford in the county of Hillsborough in the State of New-Hampshire, That in July or August 1778 I lived in Chelmsford and said Howard lived in Wirtford in this county and we both entered the Service of the United States in the War of the Revolution in the Militia of this State; We enlisted in the Company com- manded by Capt. John Minot of Chelmsford, and marched from Chelmsford to Providence in the State of Rhode Island, when the said Howard, was transferred from said Minot's Com- pany to the Company commanded by Capt. Joseph Boynton; after which I returned to said Chelmsford with said Minot, being about two months from the time we enlisted - I left said Howard in the service, but cannot say, on oath, how long he remained in the service, but I always understood from him, and others who were with him, that he remained the six months, according to his enlistment -
Herzekeah Thorndike
Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Middlesex ss. On the eighth day of August A.D. 1832
The above named Herzekeah Thorndike, whom I certify to be a man of veracity, and to whose declarations full credit may be given, came per- sonally before me the subscriber, a justice of the Peace for the said county of Middlesex, and signed the above affidavit, and made oath that the same contained the whole truth relative to the transactions therein stated
Joel Adams, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex ss. I Elias Phinney Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Middlesex, do certify that Joel Adams Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace, within said county, and that his name set to the within certificate is his own proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the twenty eighth day of September 1832
E. Phinney

Littleton Common, Mass.
May 22, 1939
Pension Department of Veterans Administration Washington D.C.
Please send me a summary of the Pension papers of Silas Howard who died in Syndeboro N.H. in 1840. Possibly his death might have been listed as Duford N.H. since his farm was afterward annexed to that place.
He was the son of Jonathan

Howard of Chelmsford mass and his wife Susannah Rot.
Was under fourteen in 1758 when guardianship papers were applied for him under his brother William of Merrimack N.H.
On Jan 6 1775 he married at Wexford Sybil Read or Read of Wexford mass.
Mass. Soldiers & Sailors give this record for Silas Howard (then as of Wexford) Private Capt. Timothy Underwood's Co Col Wm Prescott's regt of minute men which march on the alarm of Apr. 19 1775, service 13 d. Also Capt. Joel Fletcher Co

Col Ephraim Doolittle's regt Receipt for advance pay, signed by said Howard & others dated Camp near Charleston Rd Je 8, 1775, see also Preamble same Co. & regt; Company return dated Winter Hill Oct 6, 1775. N.E. Hist. & Geneal. Register Vol 50 - 1896 under article by F E Blake on James Barretto's Returns of men mustered into service 1778 lists Silas Howard under Westford Mass.
I have been told Howard's Cards at the D. A. R. Library list his birthplace at Berwick - me but the Town Clerk there finds no mention of the Record.

Evidently his father and mother separated before his birth, since the wife was cut off in the father's will. And Chelsea, Mass. has no record of his birth there.
If there is any charge for this information concern- ing the Pension Record please let me know.
Sincerely yours Miss Alice M. Howard
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