The following are documents related to Marshall Bowman's
service in the American Revolution which were shared with
me by Jim L. Bowman.

APPLICATION OF MARSHALL BOWMAN FOR PENSION
ON ACCOUNT OF SERVICE IN THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR.

At a Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery held for
Kanawha county the 21st day of Oct. 1833. Present: Lewis
Summers, Esq., one of the Judges of the General Court of
Virginia and Judge of the 19th Circuit of the Tenth Judicial
District. State of Virginia, Kanawha county, to wit:

On this 21st day of October, 1833, personally appeared in
open court, before Lewis Summers, Judge [etc., as above],
now sitting, Marshall Bowman, a resident of Cede River, in
the County of Kanawha, and State of Virgina, aged seventy-
three years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, on
his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832; That he entered
the service of the United States under the following named
officers and served as here-in stated.

The said applicant was born in Amherst county, Virginia. At
the age of 16, he, together with his father's family, removed to
and settled in Burke county, N. C. When about 19 years of age,
and, he thinks in the year 1779, in the month of October, he
volunteered his services as a private soldier in a company that
was at that time being raised in said County of Burke, none of
the officers of which are now recollected by this affiant, and
marched to join the regular forces of the South, under
command of General Greene, on Christmas Eve of 1779,
and a few days after joining the army of Greene they crossed
the Peace river and marched to the Cheraw Hills, where the
American forces took up their winter quarters. In this
campaign this affiant enlisted for three months, and at the
expiration of that time he was discharged. He returned home,
and in the summer, or close of spring of 1781, he again
enlisted for a campaign of three months against the Indians,
who then infested the northwestern frontier of North Carolina.
This affiant can not recollect the name of any other officer of
this company (which he thinks was composed of about 100 men)
but that of the colonel, who was named Wanford. In this
campaign they constituted a fort on the head of the Catawba
river (called, this affiant thinks, Cass's Fort), and for the term
of enlistment (3 months) ranged about the waters of French
Broad. The Indian campaign being ended, he was discharged
and again returned home, and immediately thereafter
revolunteered in a company of militia that Capt. McFarland
was raising in Burke county. This was for a like campaign of
three months against the British, who then, this affiant believes,
had possession of Wilmington in said State of North Carolina.
At this time quite a large regiment had been raised in Burke
county, and Capt. McFarland's company joined it on its march
to Wilmington in said State of North Carolina. At this time
quite a large regiment had been raised in Burke county, and
Capt. McFarland's company joined it on its march to
Wilmington. This declarant remembers that McDowell was
the general, and White the major. The division of the
American Army under General McDowell encamped in the
vicinity of Wilmington, and was there lying when the
intelligence of Lord Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown
occasioned the British to return from Wilmington. In the
course of a few weeks after this event McDowell's army was
disbanded, the term of three months having been completed.

During the service of this applicant there was no engagement
between the American and British forces. He received a
written discharge on each occasion of his retirement from
service, but these have long since been lost. He has, therefore,
no documentary evidence of his service, nor does he know any
one who can testify to it. The whole period thereof was nine
months; this he distinctly recollects -- ending late in the
autumn of 1781, shortly after the surrender, as before stated,
of Cornwallis.

After the revolution this affiant moved back to Amherst county,
Va., where he resided four or five years. He then moved to this
(Kanawha) county, where he now resides. He hereby
relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension, except the present,
and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the
agency of any state.

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed] MARSHALL BOWMAN.
Teste: A. W. QUANIER, Clk.

DECLARATION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.

And the said court hereby declares its opinion, after
investigation of the matter, and after putting the
interrogatories prescribed by the Department, that the above
named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he
states; and the court further certifies that it appears to it that
the Rev. David Harbour, who has signed the preceding
certificate is a clergyman, and a respectable Baptist preacher,
resident of Kanawha county, and that Charles Jones, who has
also signed the same is a resident of the same county, and is a
credible and respectable person, and that said statement is
entitled to credit.

The judge of this court further directs it to be certified that
he has known Marshall Bowman, the applicant for many years,
and that from his general character as to probity and truth he is
fully satisfied of the general accuracy of his declaration and that
he is justly entitled to the pension which he seeks to obtain.

All which is ordered to be certified to the War Department.

STATEMENT BY MARSHALL BOWMAN, OF AGE
AND REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE. FROM COPY ON
FILE IN PENSION BUREAU, WASHINGTON, D. C.

Marshall Bowman. Pen. Receives $30 per annum.

I, the undersigned, Marshall Bowman, in pursuance of
the requisition of the Secretary of War, give the following
statement of my age and Revolutionary Service.

I was born Oct. 13, 1760. Lived in Burke county during
the War of the Revo. When in my 18th year of age (I can't
tell the year) I volunteered for three months. Marched from
Burke county under Captain Mordecai Clark to Cheraw
Hills; there found Gen. Green's Army; can't remember the
name of my colonel, nor the number of my regiment. The
army marched to Salisbury, at which place my time expired.
I got my discharge and returned home. In same year (as well
as I can remember), I volunteered again for three months.
Went from same county under Captain McFarlan to French
Broad; was ranging against the Indians; was in the service for
three months. Perhaps the same fall (won't be certain) I
volunteered again for three months, under the last mentioned
captain. Went to Wilmington, joined a regiment under General
McDowell. Was in the service three months. Whilst there we
received the news of the capture of Lord Cornwallis. I procured
affidavits from North Carolina proving my service."
------End of Section from Jim L. Bowman------------------

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