Charles Gowens (Gallatin Co. KY)
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Born: 1763 Henry County Virginia |
Revolutionary War Pension Declaration S. 31.072
State of Kentucky
Gallatin county
On this 22 day of October 1833 personally appeared before me Tompson Blunt a Justice of the Peace in and for Gallatin County Ky and one of the Justices of the Gallatin County Court Charles Gowens a resident of the said county and State aged 70 years who being first duly sworn according to law upon his oath makes 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 being a resident of Henry County Virginia He did about the 1st of September in the year 1779 enter the service of the United States as a private volunteer soldier upon a tour of six months in the company of Captain Jonathan Hanby that the name of his leut. was Edwd Tatum that he rendezvoused with his company at the neighborhood muster ground and was marched from there by his captain into South Carolina and there was attached to the Regiment of Col. Monroe that he was then marched to a place called 96 near Charlestown where he was Rest for some time and then was marched as part of the guard for some prisoners from 96 to Mumsborough where he was kept stationed guarding said prisoners & some public stores until the full expiration of his term of service and having fully and faithfully performed the same he was discharged and returned home -
He further state and declares that in the month of May 1781 as well as he remembers he again entered the service of the United States as a private volunteer soldier upon a tour of three months in the company of Captain Shelton that he rendezvoused with his company at the Russell Creek meeting house in the said County of Henry Va and was marched from thence by his Captain up the Dan River - the Tories were very bad in that quarter of the County and that the company was raised by Capt Shelton on purpose to act against them and keep them down - that the said company acted separately from any other - and that he this declarant and his said company were most of their time at a place called hollow on the Dan and from that point made frequent excursions again the tories - that he continued actively and actually engaged in the service as above named during the whole period of his said tour and at termination thereof he was discharged and returned home
He states that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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 & year aforesaid
Charles X Gowens
Interrogatories put to the above named applicant by the said Tomson Blunt Justice of the peace as aforesaid
1st Where and in what year were you born?
Answer I was born in Henry County Va in the year 1763.
2 Have you any record of your age and if who where is it?
Answer I have none
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 Henry County Va when I was called into the service and there continued to reside after the war till about the year 1797 and then moved to the State of Kentucky and have been there residing ever since and about the year 1815 I left Harrison cty & moved to Gallatin County Ky where I still live.
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 volunteered
5th State the names of some of your 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 Upon my first tour I was in South Carolina. and whilst there in the service I saw Capt Small Col. Monroe & Col. Martin I was finally discharged at Winnsborough at the expiration of my tour - Upon my second tour my company acted separately against the tories on the Dan River in Virginia and I saw no officers that I now remember except my own.
6th 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 recd discharges signed by my officers which I have lost
7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution
Answer I will name Benjamin Tiller & James Furnish
We Ben Tiller - a clergyman residing in Gallatin County Ky and James Furnish - residing in the same county & State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Charles Gowens who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration that we believe him to be 70 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion. We further certify that from the infirmity of body he cannot attend court to make his declaration Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Benjamin Tiller
James Furnish
And I the said T. Blunt Justice of the peace & member of the Gallatin County Court as aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states; And I further certify that from his infirmity of body he cannot attend the proper court to make his declarations and that it appears to me that Benjamin Tiller - who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Gallatin county Ky. and that James Furnish who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county & State and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit - Given under my hand this 22nd day of October 1833
Tomson Blunt JP
Bounty Land Claim 54.688
Charles Gowens
Act. Mar 3rd 1855
Revolutionary War
Presented by H. J. Abbott of Warsaw Kentucky
Census
1850 Kentucky > Gallatin County > Household # 332 > Enumerated 14th Aug 1850
Charles Goens 87 Male Laborer Virginia
Elizabeth Goens 80 Female Maryland
James S Goens 10 Male Kentucky