REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - JOHN BOATWRIGHT Contributed by: John & Cindy McCachern (mccachern@worldnet.att.net) ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** STATE OF VIRGINIA, COUNTY OF PRINCE EDWARD CO: On this fifteenth day of April 1833, personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Peace of said County, now sitting, John Boatwright, a resident of said County and State aforesaid, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the Virginia Militia as a private soldier some time in the winter of 1781, the particular date not recalled and served under the command of Capt Creed Haskins from Cumberland County, where he then resided. He marched from Cumberland County to Suffolk, thence to the Long Bridge, near Butsmouth, and in that neighborhood had several skirmishes with the British, thence to Gen Gregorys Station where the troops remained a few days and returned to Gen Muhlenbergs Station near Suffolk, from thence he marched up James River and was discharged at Chuckaluck mills, having served a tour of three months, , the field officers in command during this tour were Col Posey, Dalman or Dourman and Parker. In a short time during the same year he was again called into the service as a private or soldier in the Virginia Militia in the same service and from the same County of Cumberland, under the Command of Capt William Merideth, marched to the _____ of Manchester, where they ____ and joined Bacon Station in Chesterfield County in said State and served a tour of two months where he was discharged in said State. After this last tour in the same year he was again called into the service as a private or soldier in the Virginia Militia in the United States service, from the same County of Cumberland in the said State and marched under Capt Seymore Scott to York and was there at the seige and engaged in that transaction, and served during this tour two months and was discharged near York in said State of Virginia. He the said declarant further states that he was born in the county of Amhurst in Virginia as he believes in the year 1764, he has a ____ age in too popepion(?) in his bible. He lived at the time he was called into service, in the County of Cumberland in Virginia, and has since the year 1797 lived in the County of Prince Edward, where he still lives, he was called into service each time and was drafted in his own place. The names of the officers regulars he believes who were in command over the troops with whom he served in the first tour were Cols Posey, Dolman or Downman and Parker, Genl Muchlenburg and Gregory, in his second Baron Struben, in his third Gen Lawson Marquis Lafayette & Washington, he has no written discharge of his service, they were, he believes, verbal by the Captain who was in Command over him in each tour after his term of service had expired. He names as persons who are acquainted with him in his present neighborhood and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution, John Treggco, Nathaniel Pesciek, Edward Booker, Charles Fare, Joseph Todd, Joseph Bonford, Charles Balkison, William Nenuble, Samuel C Anderson and the Rev Wm Johnson. (All names questionable) He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever of a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. John Boatwright