MONTGOMERY COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - Benjamin Bowles/Boles Revolutionary
                                   War Pension Declaration & Award

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Benjamin Bowles/Boles:  Revolutionary War pension Declaration and 
Award
State of North Carolina
Montgomery County

on this 4th day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court being a 
Court of Record for the County of Montgomery, Benjamin Bowles, 
aged fifty-five years, who being first duly sworn according to Law 
doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the 
provisions made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, 
and the first of May 1820 that he, the said Benajmin Bowles, enlisted 
for the term of twelve months on the 10th of April in the Year 1781 in 
the State of North Carolina in the Company (?? one word) by Captain 
Smith & Brevard in the 10th Regiment in the line (?) of the State of 
North Carolina on the Continental establishment (?), that he continued 
to serve in the said corps until the 12th of April 1782 when he was 
discharged from the service in the State of North Carolina in Chatham 
County, that I (?) (one word?) in taking Thomson’s Fort on the 
Congoree River & Brown’s and Grason’s Forts in Augusta, Georgia.
And in ?? of the Act of the first of May 1820 I do solemly swear that I 
was a resident Citizen of the U.S. the 18th day of May 1818 and that I 
have not since that time or any part of it with intent thereby to (?? one 
word) it as to being myself within the provisions of (?? one word) acts 
entitled (??) an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land 
and Naval service of the U. S. in the Revolutionary War (?? One word) 
the 18th Day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person for 
interest for me any property or (?? one word) contracts or debts due to 
me, now have I any income other than what is contained in the 
schedule here to and next by me subscribed that is one horse valued at 
30 Dollars, one cow and calf valued at 10 Dollars, one small Bed (?) 
valued at 15 Dollars and eight or ten young (??) worth perhaps ten 
Dollars amount in all to Sixty (?) five Dollars and that my Family 
consists of myself. My wife and my Daughter. Sworn to and declared 
on the 4th Day of July 1820.

Signed

North Carolina
Benajmin Bowles

Pension Award as follows:

Montgomery Co.
N. Carolina

Private in 10th N. Carolina regiment, 1 year from April 1781.

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per 
month to commence on the 4 of July, 1820.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of Oct., 1820 and sent to J. B. 
Martin, agent, Lawrenceville, N. Carolina.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820 -- $16.29
Semi-anl. All’ce ending 4 March, 1821 – 48.00
                                                           
                                                            $64.29

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
And ?? May, 1820