Richmond County NcArchives Military Records.....Boan, George March 21, 1837
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of George Boan, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 277, Application #S18326
Chesterfield District, SC, March 21, 1837, George Boan, aged 74 years:

	That he was born in the District of Marlboro…in the year 1763…That this 
deponent went into the Revolutionary service in December in the year 1778, at 
which time he volunteered for one month under Captain Tristram Thomas, Stephen 
Wright orderly sergeant. That he does not recollect the names of the other 
officers of Captain Thomas’s company, nor does he know if he was attached to 
any battalion or regiment, but appeared to act alone against the Tories of 
Marlboro District. That he served the whole time under Captain Thomas, but was 
not in any engagement during the time.”

“At the expiration of the month he returned to his father’s, who shortly 
afterwards removed to Richmond County, North Carolina, taking this deponent 
with him. That in March 1779 he was drafted in Richmond County, NC for three 
months under Captain John Speed, Major John Jones and Colonel Thomas Crawford. 
He does not recollect what the regiment was called. Before marching, they were 
joined by Colonel Wade, who took the command of this regiment.”

“He then marched under the said officers from the house of Colonel Crawford in 
Richmond County, by way of Gum Swamp to Betti’s Bridge on Drowning Creek, where 
a number of Tories were then lying under the command of Colonel Hector McNeill. 
The night before we attacked them, Colonel Fanning with a number of Tories 
joined Colonel McNeill. Though the force of Colonel Wade was greatly inferior 
to that of McNeill and Fanning, he made the attack and was completely defeated. 
In this engagement, this deponent received five bullet holes through his coat 
and had his horse killed under him. At the moment the deponent’s horse fell, a 
Tory captain of horse rode up near him and ordered him to surrender. Deponent’s 
gun was loaded and he shot the captain and made his escape upon his horse. That 
he was out on this tour the whole three months for which he was drafted.”

“That some time afterwards he volunteered under the same officers (except 
Colonel Wade), Colonel Thomas Crawford having the command, and marched from 
Peedee River in Richmond County to near Wilmington, NC, in order to join 
General Rutherford’s army, intending to assist him in driving the British who 
had possession of Wilmington, from the town. When Colonel Crawford arrived near 
Wilmington, he found that General Rutherford’s army was on the opposite side of 
the river and that he (Colonel Crawford) could not cross. The night after 
Colonel Crawford arrived near the town, the British marched out and crossed the 
river towards Colonel Crawford’s camp, who immediately retreated a few miles. 
The next day, General Rutherford took possession of the town and this deponent 
returned home with Colonel Crawford’s regiment, having served four months in 
this tour…”

“This deponent does not know or recollect of any of his companions in arms who 
are now alive, having lately learned that Aaron Knight who lived in the state 
of Georgia, and Moses Knight who lived in Richmond County, NC are both dead.”

DeKalb County, GA, February 11th, 1833:
	“Aaron Knight who being sworn saith that he knew Lewis Boan of 
Marlborough District in South Carolina from the commencement to the close of 
the Revolutionary struggle and that the said Lewis Boan served under the 
command of Major Robert Lloyd, Captain Henry Council, Lieutenant Henry Goodman 
and Lieutenant Tristram Thomas, and that said Boan marched from the above 
mentioned district to Seaweed Bay and thence to Hadrell’s Point, thence to St. 
John’s Island, and that he the said Boan, there received his discharge. This 
deponent further saith that George Boan of the district and state aforesaid did 
serve with this deponent in the Revolutionary War. This deponent further says 
that the above mentioned men were to his knowledge true Whigs throughout the 
struggle.”



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