Marlboro-Chester County ScArchives Military Records.....Boan, Lewis 
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Lewis Boan, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 277, Application #R971
Chesterfield District, SC

“Henry Boan says that he is the son, the eldest living child of Lewis Boan and 
Mary Boan. Deponent always understood that his father, Lewis Boan was a Whig 
and served in the War of the Revolution. Deponent has often heard his father 
say that he turned out as a volunteer against the Tories at the age of sixteen…
Deponent also heard his father say that he served near Charleston on Sullivan’s 
Island, Bull’s Island and other places as a drafted soldier, a tour of six 
months. Deponent has also heard his father say that he served another tour, but 
how long deponent does not remember. That his father said in the time of this 
last tour he was in the fight at Betti’s Bridge on Drowning Creek in North 
Carolina, where he was wounded and taken prisoner, and that he was afterwards 
paroled by Fanning the Tory Colonel who commanded the enemy at Betti’s Bridge. 
His father was wounded in the thigh, four or five inches above the knee. 
Deponent has often seen the scars, one on each side of the thigh where the ball 
passed.”

“Deponent does not know under whom his father served in the first tour above 
mentioned. In the second tour above mentioned, his father said he and Aaron 
Knight (now dead) served as soldiers together, but deponent couldn’t say under 
what officer or officers he served. In the Battle at Betti’s Bridge, deponent 
think his father was under the command of Colonel Wade and was under the 
immediate command of a Lt or Ensign Jordan. Deponent has heard his father say 
that he served under Major Speed, but how long, at what time or at what place, 
deponent can’t say further than that he was with Speed on the Peedee River.”

From the pension application of George Boan:
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 Seawee 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.”

Chesterfield District, SC, 26th March, 1849:
	Aaron Knight, [Jr]-“That he knew Lewis Boan in his lifetime. Deponent 
knows he was old enough to have served in the War of the Revolution. Deponent’s 
father (Aaron Knight) and deponent has often heard his father (who is now dead) 
say that Lewis Boan served with him in the said war, and that said Lewis Boan 
was a good Whig and a good soldier. Deponent believes that his father and said 
Lewis Boan served together under General Wade. Deponent has always understood 
and believes that Lewis Boan served some time in the neighborhood of 
Charleston, South Carolina, particularly on Sullivan’s Island. Deponent has 
also been informed and believes that said Lewis Boan was in the Battle at 
Betti’s Bridge on Drowning Creek in North Carolina and that he was wounded 
there and taken prisoner by Colonel Fanning who commanded the British and 
Tories in that battle. Deponent has heard his father say that he served six 
months in the neighborhood of Charleston and deponent believes Lewis was with 
him the whole time…”


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