REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - JONATHAN BOZARTH

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BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY, KENTUCKY
County Court Minute Book 3, 1818-1823

Original Declaration, District of Kentucky

On this 18th day of June 1821 personally appeared in open court being a court of 
record esablished by the Legislature of Kentucky having power to fine and 
imprison for the County of Breckinridge, Jonathan Bozarth, aged about 67 years, 
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following 
declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 
18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820, that he the said Jonathan Bozarth enlisted 
for the term of three years in the month of September in the year 1776 in the 
State of Pennsylvania in the regiment commanded by Colonel Eunis McCoy in the 
company commanded by Captain John Wilson in the line of the State of 
Pennsylvania on the Pennsylvania Continental establishment, that he continued to 
serve in the said corps until the end of the three years when he was discharged 
from the said service in Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania, that he was in 
the scrimages of Woodbridge, Bonbrook, Broadhead and McIntushes campaign against 
the Indians and that he has no other evidence now in his power of said service 
except the affidavits of Edward Dehaven and Joseph Beaty here annexed and in 
pursance of the Act of the first of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a 
resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March One thousand 
eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or 
any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so as 
to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress 
entitled An Act to Provide for certain persons engged in the land and naval 
service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of 
March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any 
person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to 
me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto 
annexed and by me subscribed. Two cows and calves and bull, two young cattle, 
three sheep, fifteen head of hogs, two horses, two kettles, one small pot and 
kettle, shelf ware worth $10, one small table, Quil wheel, two hoes, two plows, 
one wedge, one ax and hatchet, hand saw, four pair steelyards, drawing knife, 
pot trammel, log chain, 2 pair gears, double trees, six chairs, and flax hackel, 
which are worth $197.37 1/2 cents. The Court do give it as their opinion that 
the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the above schedule in 
$197.37 1/2 cents which is ordered to be certified. Jonathan Bozarth also states 
that his family consists of himself his wife and an orphan child, his wife about 
58 years old, the child about 7 years old, his occupation a farmer and very ill 
able to labor for his living. Sworn and declared on the 18th day of June 1821 
before Thomas Owen, Jr., J.H.L. Moorman, William Moorman, and N, D. Anderson, 
members of the Court.

(signed) Jonathan Bozarth

We, Joseph Beaty and Edward Dehaven do upon our oaths state that the declaration 
made by Jonathan Bozarth as respects time of his enlistment and discharge and 
the battles he was engaged in is true to the best of our knowledge, June 18th, 
1821. Sworn before same justices.

(signed) Joseph Beaty, Edward Dehaven