{"id":776,"date":"2014-03-17T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?p=776"},"modified":"2017-06-20T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:30:11","slug":"howard-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/howard-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard, John"},"content":{"rendered":"

PENSION APPLICATION OF JOHN HOWARD<\/span>MORGAN COUNTY RESIDENT<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
State of Tennessee<\/span>
\nMorgan County<\/span>On this the 21st day of October 1833 personally appeared before the
\nworshipful court of pleas and quarters session in and for the County of
\nMorgan aforesaid which is a court of record John Howard a resident
\ncitizen of the County of Morgan aforesaid in the state of Tennessee aged
\nsixty six years on the eleventh day of February last, agreeable his
\nrecord which he formerly kept though he has not had any record for
\ntwenty four year, lost past the having left his record of his age in
\nKentucky Christian County, but he distinctly recollects that agreeable
\nto his said record and the accounts of his parents that he was born
\nFebruary the eleventh one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven and
\nafter being duly sworn for that purpose on his oath makes the following
\nDeclaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress on the
\n7th June 1832.
\nThat he entered the service of the United States toward the end of
\nthe Revolutionary he entered said service in Laurince County South
\nCarolina when he was only in his fifteenth year of age he entered said
\nservice as a private Volunteer indian spie to serve six months tour
\nunder Captain Berry his first name not remembered and Lieutenant William
\nBrown and marched to (Gilberts Fort) near the Cherokee Boundary he
\nentered said service the precise time not recollected but well
\nrecollects that it was in the Early part of Spring and thinks about the
\nfirst of April, he stationed at said fort the full term of six months
\nending in the fall of one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one.\u00a0 The
\nprecise day he got dismissed from service not recollected but he thinks
\nit was about the first of October he was verbally discharged by his said
\nCapt and returned home, applicant has no documents any Evidence of his
\nservice and knows of no person by whom he can prove his service
\napplicant was born in Laurince County South Carolina and continued there
\nnear twenty years after the war and then moved to Christian County
\nKentucky and staid here nine years and then moved to Knox County
\nTennessee and staid there five years and then moved to where he now
\nlives in Morgan County Tennessee though it was Roane County where he
\nfirst came to where he now lives applicant states that there is no
\n(clergyman?) any place near or within his neighborhood\u00a0 and it is out of
\nhis power to provide one without great Trouble applicant thinks he can
\nprove his reputation as a man of veracity And as a soldier By George S.
\nKington, Robert Dabney Elijah Lavender and his neighbors generally,
\napplicant here by relinquishes Every claim whatsoever to a pension or
\nannuity Except the present and declares his name is not on the pension
\nRolls of agency of any State.<\/p>\n

(signed\u00a0 John Howard)<\/p>\n

Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year afforesaide
\nThomas S. (Lea?)\u00a0 D.C.<\/p>\n

We Joseph Holloway, John (Spencer?) residing in the County of
\nMorgan State of Tennessee do certify that we are well acquainted with
\nJohn Howard who has subscribed and sworn the foregoing Declaration, that
\nwe believe him to be upwards of sixty six years of age as he has stated
\nand that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides
\nTo have been a soldier of the Revolution and a man of veracity and that
\nwe concur in this.\u00a0 ( document ends)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

John Howard:
\nBorn February 11, 1767 in Laurens County,\u00a0 SC
\nDied April 7, 1851 in Lancing, Morgan Co. TN
\nMarried Nancy Howard, a cousin in Knoxville, Knox Co. Tn
\non January 20, 1810. Nancy was born in 1783 in NC.
\n(Maybe a second marriage for John-not proven)
\nBoth are buried in Clear Creek Cemetery, Morgan County, TN.
\nFor his service as a Revolutionary soldier he received, beginning on March 4, 1834, $20.00 per annum.\u00a0 After his death, Nancy filed for a Bounty Land Warrant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Contributed by\u00a0Deb Dixon\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PENSION APPLICATION OF JOHN HOWARDMORGAN COUNTY RESIDENT State of Tennessee Morgan CountyOn this the 21st day of October 1833 personally appeared before the worshipful court of pleas and quarters session in and for the County of Morgan aforesaid which is a court of record John Howard a resident citizen of the County of Morgan aforesaid… Continue reading Howard, John<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-veterans","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}