Perquimans-Pasquotank County NcArchives Military Records.....Boswell, William 1819
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension
September 26, 1932

Miss Cara L. Boswell
Denton, Texas

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter requesting information in regard to James and 
William Boswell, soldiers of the War of the Revolution.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made 
to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military 
service of soldiers in that war.

A search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the 
services of any soldier named James Boswell.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim 
W.18639, based upon the Revolutionary War service of William Boswell.

He enlisted at Hertford, North Carolina, June 11 or 17, 1777 and served as 
private, corporal and sergeant in Captain Isaac Moore's company in Colonel 
Abraham Sheppard's North Carolina regiment, was in the battles of Germantown, 
Manmouth and at the siege of Charleston, where he was taken prisoner, May 25, 
1780, and later released.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 19, 1819, then sixty-
three years of age and living in Perquimans County, North Carolina.

He married shortly after the close of the Revolution (no specific date given), 
Lydia, the sister of Lemuel Ivey. They were both then of Perquimans County, 
North Carolina.

The soldier, William Boswell, died July 13, 1834 in said Perquimans County, 
and his widow, Lydia, died in November or December, 1842. 

In 1821, the soldier stated that his wife, Lydia, was fifty-eight years old 
and at that time referred to the following children:

Benjamin, aged thirty years
Ferebee, aged twenty-eight years
Marey, aged twenty-four years
Zadock, aged twenty-two years
Ruth, aged twenty-one years
Lavinia, aged nineteen years

The following children survived their mother and were allowed the pension due 
her - Polly, the wife of Reuben Overman, who gave her age in 1849 as sixty 
years and then living in Pasquotank County, North Carolina; Ruth, the wife of 
Arthur Pritchard; and Zadock Boswell.

The following were the surviving grandchildren in 1849 - Lydia Felton, William 
Felton, Sally Ann Felton and George Felton, all children of Job and Lavinia 
Felton, both of whom were deceased in 1849.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator

Source:
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