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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Pensioner No. S13413 Virginia Floyd County On the 21st day of September 1832 personally appeared before the Judge of the Circuit Superior court of Law and Chancery in open court Daniel Howell Senr a resident of said county of Floyd and that aforesaid aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law with in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of congress before June the 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States for his first tower (tour) under the command of Capt. Walter Crockett and Genl Christian or Christy in a tower (tour) of five or six months as well as remembers against the Indians, the Cherokee nation, in the state of Tennessee. The regiment was a Virginia militia regiment. The second tower (tour) was for three or four months against the same Indians under the command of Capt Harstone and Colo 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 Genl Christy and Colo Thomas Madison. He was on another tower (tour) of thirty days as a ranger under Capt Joshua Wilson and Lieutenant Wm Hungate and he received his discharge since June 27 1778 which is herewith sent from his said lieutenant. The last tower (tour) was for one month under Colo Walter Crockett 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 Haw River a few days before the battle of Guilford Court House and he with Capt Eason Jr and Lieutenant Goodson returned in a few days to Virginia having been discharged. He had a discharge for all his towers (tours) but has lost all but the one enclosed. All the foregoing towers (tours) were performed by him while he resided within the county of Floyd as it is now but 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 role of any agent in any state or territory whatever. Sworn to and subscribed this date and date above center. Witnesses: Signed: Major Goodson Daniel Howell Wm Goodson Daniel Howell #20838 We Thomas Goodson & Wm Goodson resident of Floyd county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Howell Senr who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 73 years old. That he is reputed and believed 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 certifys that he was acquainted with the said Howell 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 this day of year aforesaid. Thomas Goodson Lieut William Goodson And the said court do hereby declare this opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories 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 certifys that it appears to them that Thomas & Wm Goodson who has signed the preceding certificates 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 applicant. I William Goodson, Clerk of the Circuit 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 Howell Senr for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and seal of office this 21st day of September. William Goodson, Clerk State of Virginia, Floyd County to wit this day Daniel Howell Senr personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record to which the County Court of the County aforesaid & made the following declaration as a further amendment to his declaration made in said Court on the 21st day of September 1832 which has been again returned for further amendment. In answer to the 4th 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 for one month for which the certificate of service annexed to the paper 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. The second tour of service was within 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. This fourth & last tour was during the anxious period at the South & was completed just before the battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina. The Declarant thinks that he heard of that important battle on his way home. When it occurred is matter of history. He believes it was in 1781. The Declarant fears that there may be an error in regard to the relative time of the tour of service first mentioned in the amended declaration. It is probable that it was not his first but his third tour of service, but that in either case he has now sufficiently designated the periods of his service in answer to the 5th 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 Philadlephia in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1759- to No. 2- The only written record 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 neighborhood of his present residence. Soon, or not very long after the revolution, he removed (not out of his present neighborhood however) into the adjoining County of Patrick where he remained about five years. Then he returned into the County where he now resides, to wit Floyd in which under different names he has remained ever since. to No. 4- He was drafted on the Cherokee expedition but all the rest of his tour of service he volunteered. Sworn to in open Court this 15th day of July 1833 Signed Daniel Howell I William Goodson Clerk of this County Court and circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for Floyd County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains this proceedings of the County Court in the matter of this amended declaration of Daniel Howell for a pension~. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery (there being no seal yet provided for the County Court) this 15th day of July 1833~ W Goodson Clk