Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18324, Jarret Boling, Va.
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service  number
Va. Boling, Jarret  S.18324
or Bowling  B.L.Wt.26360-160-55
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State of Virginia, Tazwell County Ss.
On the eighteenth day of March 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Justice of the said county of Tazwell now sitting Jarret Bolings a resident of the county of Tazwell and State of Virginia (it being a court of record) aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following under the following named officers and served as herein after stated. Viz While a resident of Stafford County in the State of Virginia this declarant was drafted and served a tour of three months under Capt. Williams the names of any of the other of the officers he cannot now recollect, he entered the service the first of March 1778 and left it again the first of June in the same year, he states that he was rendezvoused at Fredrickborough  and marched from there down at some point on the Potomac where he was stationed until he was discharged by the said Capt Williams but received no written discharge; This declarant then returned to his home in Stafford as above stated, and was again drafted and served a tour of duty of three months under Capt James he thinks his first name was John, he cannot at this late period of time recollect any of the superior officers' names, he went into the service this same tour on the first of September 1778 and left it again the first of December following, he states that he marched from the county of Stafford where he lived to a river called [illegible] Ky, in order to   intercept some British vessels that were coming up the Potomac, this declarant remained there until he was discharged from the service at the expiration of his tour on the first of December 1778 by Capt. James. This declarant then returned home again to the county of Stafford and remained there until the next Spring when he was again drafted and served another tour of three months under Capt. Sharp, the other officers he cannot now recollect, he went into the service the tenth of April 1779 and left again the tenth of July following; he was marched on this tour to a place called Hunters Forge and remained there until he was discharged by Capt Sharp, he does not think
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he received any written discharges, if he did on any of the aforesaid services he has lost them by time and accident. This declarant then returned home and remained some time at home; and he thinks in the next year 1780 he was drafted and served a tour of six months, first under Capt. Hardin who marched him to a place called the three Springs below Williamsburg, and he was then transferred to Capt. Ballard and was marched from there to Yorktown to Potomac where the British there lay, he cannot recollect any of his officers' names beside, except Maj. Welsh & Genl. Washington, he remained there until they British  surrendered whoever [illegible] there, and then this declarant was marched to Falmouth with the prisoners and remained there until he was discharged by Major Welsh, and obtained then a written discharge which has been lost by time or accident this declarant thinks he entered the service on this last tour on the first of June and was discharged on the first of December following; this declarant was in no regular battle nor no engagement except the taking of the British at Yorktown, on Little York as above stated. This declarant has no documentary evidence that he knows of nor is there any person living by whom he can prove his service known to him, he was born in the County of Stafford in the State of Virginia and raised there, and afterwards removed to the county of Tazwell Virginia where he now & has ever remained; he was born on the 18th day of January 1762 but has no record of his age that he can point to. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State or territory whatever. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Jarret Bolings  X his mark