Virginia Floyd County

On this 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 state afore said aged seventy three years. Who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. That he Entered the service of the United States for his first touer under the command of Capt Walter Crockett and Ewl Christy in a tour of five or six month's as well as remembered against the Indians– The Cherokee Nation) in the state of Tennessee the redgiment was a Virginia Malitia redgiment. The second touer was for three or four months against the same Indians under the command of Capt. Hartstone and Bob Martin of the Virginia malitia. The year is not recollected but the applicant was at the treaty made with the Cherokee Indians at the Long Islands of Holsten [sic: Holston River near present Kingsport TN on 20 July 1777] by Colo Christy [William Christian] and Colo Thomas Madison. He was on another touer of thirty days as a ranger under Capt Joshua Wilson and Lieutenant Wm Hungate and he received his discharge June 27th 1778, which is herewith sent from his said Lieutenant. The last touer was for one month under Colo Walter Crockett and Capt Eason in a redjmt of Virginia Malitia he marched to the state of North Carolina and was at a skirmish at the Reedy Fork of Haw river [at Wetzel’s Mill 6 March 1781] a few days before the battle of Gilford Court House [sic: Guilford Courthouse, 15 March] and he with Capt Eason & and Lieutenant [Thomas] Goodson returned in a few days to Virginia having been discharged he had a discharge for all his touers but has lost all but the one enclosed. All the foregoing touers 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 anuity, 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 the day and date above written.

Major Goodson [signed] Daniel Howel

Wm Goodson

Supporting statements by Thomas Goodson and William Goodson appended.

Discharge certificate:

"This is to certify that Howel Daniel served 30 days in the Militia Service under the Command of Wm Hungate June 25th 1778."

Virginia to wit

This day Daniel Howell Sr. personally appeared in open court being a court of record for Floyd County and made the following declaration on oath in order to amend his previous declaration made in said court on the 21 of September, 1832 which has been returned. He declares that the first two tours was from the year 1776 to 1777 [illegible] as they were before the third touer which expired as stated in declaration in June 1778. The first touer was for four months certainly and is all that he claims for for his memory by the lapse of time is defective he therefore stated it before doubtingly as to time (saying five or six) The second touer he knows was for three month's This is all he claims for he had before thought it more. the other touers he spesifically stated as to time. There is no clergyman in the neighborhood and of course none who can make the necessary affidavit. There is no person by whom he can now prove any of his touers other than that proved by Thomas Goodson in his certificate on the former declaration. The said applicant cannot by reason of old age & loss of memory state exactly[?] the times of his service [or to?] their duration but the above statement is correct to the best of his recollection. Sworn to in open court this 18 of March 1833. [signed] Daniel Howel

[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 wit 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 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 of one month for which the certificate of service annexed to the papers 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 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 this action he had what was then thought a long rest & his fourth & last tour was during the anxious period at the South & was completed just before the battle at Guildford Court House in North Carolina. The Declarant thinks that he heard of that important battle on his way home. When it occurred is a matter of history. he believes it was in 1781. This Declarant fears that there may be an error in regard to the relative time of the tour of service just mentioned in the amended declaration. It is possible that it was not his first but his third tour of service, but he hopes 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 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 Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1759– to

No. 2.--The only written record of 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 & volunteered in all the rest of his tours of service.

Sworn to in open Court this 15th day of July 1833. [signed] Daniel Howel

[William Goodson, Clerk]

Declaration in Floyd Co Va 1836 June 20, on motion of FRANCES HOWELL widow of Daniel Howell dec'd. That pensioner Daniel Howell died intestate March 5, 1836, that he intermarried with said Frances Howell and she is still alive. It was stated he enlisted from Botetourt Co. Va, that he served on Cherokee Expedition, Reedy Fork of Haw river.