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State of New Hampshire, Strafford County -

On this first day of July in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty two personally appeared before the Court of Probate
for the said County, Mrs Saphrona Stowell
a resident of New Durham in sd County aged forty one years, who, being first
duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, July 4, 1836:--

That she is the widow of William J. Stowell who was a private in Capt.
Leavitts Co. in Col, Putnams 7th Regt, of N. Hampshire Volunteers

She further declares that she was married to the said
William J. Stowell by Samuel Downing Jr. a Magistrate
on the twenty first day of October in the year eighteen hundred and fifty five
in the sd, New Durham and that her maden name was Saphrona Young

That her husband, the aforesaid William J. Stowell died at
Tortugas Fa, about March 16,1862 by reason of Small Pox
and that she has remained his widow ever since that period,
as will more fully appear by proofs hereunto annexed. Wherefore she now applies for a
pension, and requests that the certificate therefor may be made payable at Boston, Mass., and
sent for her to Horatio Woodman Esq Boston Mass, whom she hereby constitutes
her attorney irrevocable to receive the same.

Witness D G Rollins
Saphrona Stowell
her X mark

Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, the day and year first above written. Witness
my hand and seal of office.

D. G Rollins Judge of the said Court.