REVOLUTIONARY WAR ORPHAN'S AFFIDAVIT - JOHN BOWLES Copyright (c) 2002 by Janet Neville. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. [jandneville@yahoo.com] *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permissionto the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection Bowles, John Pen. 45 1786-1797 Continental Line York County Orphans: Clara and Joseph See Also: Burton, John York County Court the 15th day of May 1786: Ordered that Clara Bowles and Joseph Bowles be certified to his Excellency the Governor to be Infants the ____ of John Bowles a soldier who died in the Continental Service and that an allowance be made to William Baker for supporting and maintaining the said orphans from March 1778. Copy: R. Weller I do with the advice of this council certify that Clara Bowles and Joseph Bowles, orphans of John Bowles, dec'd who was a private in the Virginia Line and died in the service of the United States are allowed jointly the sum of six pounds per annum which allowance is to commence from the first day of January 1787. Given under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia at Richmond this 22nd day of November 1787. Copy: T. Meriwether Edm: Randolph Tuesday the 4th of December 1787 Mr. William Watkins reported from the Committee of Claims, that the Committe had, according to _____, had under their consideration the Petition of William Baker referred and agreed upon a report and came to a resolution therefore which he read in his place and afterward delivered in at the Clerk's table where the same was again twice read and agreed to by the House as followwitly(?): It appears to your Committee that during the late war a certain John Bowles enlisted as a soldier in the service of his country and died therein leaving two children destitute of any support-that the petitioner took the two children into his family and maintained them, from the death of their father which happened in the year 1778 until they were put on the Pension list by the Executive 6 January last for which the Petitioner has received not compensation, altho he is in very needy circumstances. Resolved that the petition of the said William Baker praying for an allowance from the public for support of the said two orphans is reasonable, and that the same that the petitioner ought to be allowed at the rate of six pounds per annum, from the passing of the Act concerning Pensioners in the October session 1785 to the first day of January 1787 to be paid in the same manner as the allowances to pensioners are paid. Teste: John Beckley 1787 December 6th--agreed to by the Senate 1794 last pension given to Joseph Bowles--8 pounds