Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,016, Daniel Boyle, Penn.
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SERVICE Penn.
Boyle, Daniel
NUMBER S.40,016

CONTENTS
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19.895
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Agency

Daniel Boyle
of Armstrong Co., in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded
by Captain Robles of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Stewart in the Pennsylvania
line, for the term of two years
from 1776 to 1778

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 2nd day of March 1828

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of March 18[illegible]
and sent to the Honorable R. Orr [illegible]
H R

Arrears to 4th of March 1828           $    77
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1828   48
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                                                         $48.77
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(Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820
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Daniel Boyle

13th Pennsylvania Regiment
1776 - 2 years
12 May 1818

Daniel Boyle

[illegible]
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Armstrong County
State of Pennsylvania
On this 12th day of May 1818 before me the subscriber
one of the Judges of the Court in and for
the district aforesaid personally appears
Daniel Boyle aged 70 years resident in the State
of Pennsylvania in the said district who being first
by me duly sworn according to said, doth, 
on his oath make the following Declaration
in order to obtain the provisions made by the
late Act of Congress entitled an act to provide
for certain persons engaged in the land and navel
services of the United States in the Revolutionary
War. That he the said Daniel Boyl 
enlisted in Cumberland County State of Pennsylvania
in the spring of the year 1776
for the term of two years in the Company
commanded by Captain William Robles of the
13th Pennsylvania Regiment in the Pennsylvania line.

[information between lines:] [illegible] captured in [illegible]
who died of a wound received the Battle commanded by Capt. Matthew Scott
which regiment was commanded by Col. Miles after he resigned [illegible] by Col. [illegible]

That he 
continued to serve in said Corps or in the service
of the United States until the first of January 
AD 1778 when he was discharged from service
at the Valley Forge State of Pennsylvania. That he was
in the Battles of Germantown and Brandywine
and that he stands in need of the assistance of 
the Country for support in consequence of his 
[illegible] circumstances in life, and his discharge
is lost.
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and his discharge is lost, and he has now no other evidence
in his power of his said service. Sworn to and
declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Robert Orr     Daniel Boyle

I Robert Orr Judge and as aforesaid do certify 
that it appears to my satisfaction that the
said Daniel Boyle did serve in the Revolutionary
War as stated in the preceding declaration against
the common enemy and I now transmit the
proceedings and testimony taken and made
before me to the Secretary for the Department
of War pursuant to the directions of the
aforementioned Act of Congress May 12th, 1818.
Robert Orr

I the subscribed Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for
the County of Armstrong in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby
certify that the above named Robert Orr Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit
was taken was at the time of taking the same and still is a Judge of said
Court duly commissioned and qualified by the proper authority and that full
faith and credit may be given to his acts as such.

     In testimony whereof I have thereunto set my hand and 
seal of said Court at Kittanning this twelfth day of May
Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Eben Smith Kelley, Prothonotary
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Before the undersigned Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas as within mentioned came John Smith
a credible disinterested witness and on his solemn 
oath says that during the proceedings mentioned in the 
foregoing declaration of Daniel Boyles viz from 1776
until the month of January 1778 when he was discharged
deponent served in the same Regiment with the
said Daniel Boiles [sic] and knew him personally
and knew that he served as mentioned by him in
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On old Register page 8
Daniel Boyle
Armstrong County
Penna
Act 18 March 1818

Daniel Boyle [Written on right side of sheet]

-Hon. R. Orr, H. R.
dept. March 4, 1828
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State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County ss

On the eighteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight Hundred & twenty, personally appeared in open Court, at a Court of Common pleas held at Kittanning, being a Court of Record for the said county of Armstrong under the statute laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Daniel Boyle 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 provision made by the Acts of Congress of the eighteenth March, 1818 and the first of May 1820, that he the said Daniel Boyle enlisted for the term of two years in the Spring of the Year 1776 in Cumberland County, [partially legible and lined through-in the Company by Col. Miles (and afterwards] in the state of Penna, in the Company commanded by Capt. William Peeblis in the regiment commandest (then) by Col. Miles (and afterwards) by Col. Walter Stewart in the line of state of Penna on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said Corps until about the first day of January 1778 when he was discharged from the said service at the Valley Forge in the state aforesaid Penna  That he was in the Battle of Germantown & Brandywine and that he has no other evidences now in his power of his said services, except the deposition of John Smith Esquire, annexed to his application transmitted to the Honorable David Merchant to be given to the War department-And the deposition of John Quinn herewith transmitted-
   And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a Resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any Manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof wither intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land Naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818;
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And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than [my crossed out] what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.
Daniel Boyle-
Sworn to & declared on the eighteenth day of Dec. 1820 in open court.  E. S. Kelley Pro

A schedule of the real & personal estate of Daniel Boyle his necessary clothing & bedding excepted-
A tract of land containing one Hundred Acres for which the applicant has no other title or claim than an improvement right- worth fifty dollars-$50.00
Debts due to him by -Joseph Mercer- 58.35
Michl. Buzzard- 2.50
David Ramsay - 3.75
Peter Lobaugh- 5.05
Algeo Sawyers- 15.73
________________________
                          $135.38

[He is indebted to is crossed out}

He is indebted to the following persons to wit
Night Scott's heirs- $16.81
Thos. Jones- $35.11
Hugh McDonald- $6.37
Jno. Henry's Estate- $26.10
Montieth & Pinky-$16.00
________________________________
                               $100.39
_________________________________
[Amt. D is crossed out]
David Reynolds - $2.06
Sundry small debt amounting to about $6.00
_________________________________________________
                                $108.45   

Daniel Boyle
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Daniel Boyle the before mentioned applicant further declares he is a Taylor by trade, but from his very advanced age & the failure of his eyesight is able to work very little at his trade- the only part of his family who resides with him are his three daughters Elizabeth aged about 27  Margaret aged about 25 and Martha aged 19 years- Daniel Boyle-

Sworn to & declared in open court the 18th December A.D. 1820
E. S. Kelley, Pro.

I Eben Smith Kelley Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for Armstrong county Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing oath/or affirmation/ and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is one hundred and thirty five dollars and thirty eight cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Kittanning this nineteenth day of December A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-
Attest-   E. S. Kelley, Pro.
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Pension on file in this Bureau
Daniel Boyle - S.F. 40016

Dates of enlistment or appointment:  spring of 1776
Length of service:  illegible
Rank:  Sgt.
Officers under whom service was rendered:
Captain:  William Peebles?, Mathers Scott
Colonel: Miles (Penn.) Walter Stewart (13 Tenn)
Battles engaged in:  illegible
Resident of soldier at enlistment: Cumberland Co. Pa
Date of application for pension: May 12, 1818 -claim was allowed
Age at date of application:  70 yrs.
Remarks:  Soldier's children: Elizabeth 27 years,
Margaret 25 years, Martha 19 years in 1820 at which time they were living with their father. No date of death . . . - illegible

Very respectfully, 
Emma Henry?
Clarian Penn?
Commissioner G.K.
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Three-fold document 

First fold:  To above
Hist to Phila Dep
Emma Henry
E.L.M.

Second fold: 40.016
INVALID  ("Revy" hand written)

File No. 40,016
Daniel Boyle
Serg. Rev. War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: Vol 3, Page 53
Arrangement of 1870

Third fold:
July 5 - 1900
A.J. Henry City

Aug. 23 - 1900
FB

June 7 - 1905
M. A. Albertson

1907 - Oct. 25
Hist. to Clarian Penn
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Neel McMullen

(unintelligible) 

Before Benjamin 

Armstars  for (Unintelligible)

Magistrate must certify

to the credibility

of the witness.
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State of Ohio
Trumbull County} SS

Personally came Before me one of the Justices of the Peace in And for the County Aforesaid Neel McMullins of Liberty Township County and State aforesaid And who being duly Sworn according to law deposeth And Saith that Daniel Boyer was a Regimental Soldier in the Pennsylvania Line and was enlisted By Capt. William Peoples in the Second Company Second Battalion thirteenth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Riflemen and Commanded by Colonel Miles and lastly By Colonel Steward And received his discharge by the Colonel Stewart at the Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania on the 8th of January in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred And Seventy Eight And further this deponent saith not.
Neel McMullin

Sworn and Subscribed before Me this 1st day of June AD 1822

Benj Armitage
The State of Ohio Trumbull County SS
I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County do hereby testify that Benjamin Armitage Esquire who's signature appears to be affixed to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same a Justice of the peace within and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn agreeable to the duty of said state.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of Office at Warren the third day of June 1822
George Parsons Clerk
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Patrick Dickson

magistrate must certify the credibility of the witness.
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Before the then subscriber one of our justices of the peace in and for Beaver County north Beaver Township State of Pennsylvania personally ___ Patrick Dickson and being sworn as the ____________ that in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six that I knew Daniel Boyle to serve under ____ William Peoples of the thirteenth regiment of the Pennsylvania regulars and continue in said regiment and in the service of the United States until January one thousand seven and seventy-eight when he was regularly discharged by Colonel Walter Stewart.   This ___ for the faith now sworn and this 28th day May 1822.       Patrick Dickson

William Miller

Beaver County.
I John Dickey Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do certify that William Miller Esquire before whom the above and foregoing depose then was taken was at the time of doing and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county duly commissioned and sworn as such___ and that to all has official act as such full faith and credit.  In testimony whereof I have hereunder my hand and office the seal of said county at ___ this 17th day of June 1822.
John Dickey
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I do certify that Patrick Dickson is a man of good

standing and of credibility and faith to be a 

witness in any Court of Justice subscribed under 

my hand this fourth dao of February 1820

                                 William Muller
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Before me a Justice of the peace for the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio personally came James Reiley of Poland township and county and State aforesaid; and being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that [written in as a correction: in the spring of the year] in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six he was present and saw Daniel Boyle enlist under Captain William Peoples of the thirteenth regiment of the Penna. Regulars and continued in said regiment and in the service of the United State[sp] untill January one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight when he was regularly discharged and further this despondent saith not.  done at my office in Poland this 27th day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two.
Joseph Cowdon Justice P[eace is cut off]

[word with hand squiggles around in a circle]
Seal
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County} SS I George Parsons Clerk of the court of Common pleas within and for said County do hereby Certify that Joseph Cowdon Esquire whos[sp] Signature appears to be affixed to the within Certificate is and was at the time of Subscribing the Same a Justice of the peace within and for said county duly commissioned and sworn agreeable to the Laws of Said State

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of office at Warren the third day of June 1822

George Parsons Clerk
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James McGachey

Magistrate must certify
to the credibility of
the Witness
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Westmoreland County SS a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Before me the subscribed one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county of Westmoreland, personally came James Gaghby who being duly sworn as law directs deposes and saith that he is acquainted with Daniel Boyle who now resides in Armstrong county, and state of Pennsylvania, and that he knew the said Daniel Boyl[sp] to be a sergant[sp] in the company of Captain Mathew[sp] Scott, in the regment [sp] commanded by Collonel[sp] Walter Stewart baised[sp] in Pennsylvania and known by the name of the State regment [sp] This was in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven During which year the Deponant[sp] served in the same company with said Boyle. Deponant[sp] also says that he knew said Boyle to be in the service in the year previous, as in 1776, in Captain William Peoples company in the regment [sp] commanded by Colonel Miles Deponant[sp] further states that said Boyle was regularly discharged in January 1778. 
James Gaghby

Sworn & Subscribed the twenty first day of June A.D. 1822. Before me }
James Clarke [word with surrounding squiggles in a circle] Seal

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named James Gaghby and that he is a man of unimpeachable veracity
William Hendricks
Mem. US Senate
March 2 1828
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James McGachey

Magistrate must certify
to the credibility of 
the Witness
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Westmoreland County SS a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania  Before me the subscribed one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county of Westmoreland, personally came James Gaghby who being duly sworn as law directs deposes and saith that he is acquainted with Daniel Boyle who now resides in Armstrong county, and state of Pennsylvania, and that he knew the said Daniel Boyl[sp] to be a sergant[sp] in the company of Captain Mathew[sp] Scott, in the regment [sp] commanded by Collonel[sp] Walter Stewart baised[sp] in Pennsylvania and known by the name of the State regment [sp] This was in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven During which year the Deponant[sp] served in the same company with said Boyle. Deponant[sp] also says that he knew said Boyle to be in the service in the year previous, as in 1776, in Captain William Peoples company in the regment [sp] commanded by Colonel Miles Deponant[sp] further states that said Boyle was regularly discharged in January 1778.  James Gaghby

Sworn & Subscribed the twenty first day of June A. D. 1822 Before me}
James Clarke [word with squiggles in a circle]
Seal

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named James Gaghby and that he is a man of unimpeachable veracity
William Hendricks
Mem. US Senate
March 2 1828
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Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County SS

I Eli Coulter prothonotary of the Courtof Common pleas for Said County of Westmoreland do herby[sp] Certify that the within named James Clark was at the time of making the within afidavid[sp] and yet is a Justice of the peace for Said County.

The Testimony wher of I have hereunto
Set my hand and affisced[sp] the Seal
Of my office this 9th day of July AD 1822–
Eli Coulter pronthy
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On ?Registr ? 8-

Daniel Boyle—

See letter to E. S. Kelly
Esq. Kittanning, Kenty .
24 Oct. 1820
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Armstrong county
State of Pennsylvania 

On the nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty personally appeared in open court at a court of Common Pleas holden at Kittanning in said county and state it being a court of Record under the stated laws of the state of Pennsylvania Daniel Boyle aged twenty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March A. D. 1818, And the first of May A. D. 1820 that he the said Daniel Boyle enlisted in Cumberland county state of Pennsylvania in the year 1776 in the company commanded by Capt. William Peebles & under the command of Col. Miles who resigned & was then commanded by Col. Walter Stewart in the line of the state of Pennsylvania continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said corps untill the year 1778 when he was discharged from the said service at a place call’ the Valley-Forge in state aforesaid—that he was in the battle of Germantown and Brandywine, but has no other evidence now in his power of his services except his application, which was sent on by Samuel C Orr Esqr. To Doctr. David Marchand member of the House of Representatives of the United States from Westmoreland county in said state of Pennsylvania, and that no certificate has yet been received from the War Department. And in pursuance of an act passed the first day of May eighteen hundred & twenty I do solemnly swear that I was a resident w/in of the United States on the eighteenth day of March A.D. 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revo-
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lutionary War passed on the 18th day of March A.D. 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Daniel Boyle—

Sworn and subscribed in open
Court this 19 Sept. 1820.
E. S. Kelley, Pro.

A schedule of property of the above named Daniel Boyle necessary clothing & bedding excepted,

A tract of land containing one hundred acres for which he has no other claim nor title except an improvement fight worth- fifty dollars—— $50.00 x
Debts due to him-
Joseph Mercer        58,35 x   
Michael Bursurd       2.50  x
David Ramsay           3.75  x
Peter Lobaugh          5.05  x 
Hugo Sawyer           15.73  x
                             ——————
                                $135,38
                            ——————-

He is in debt ed to the following persons to wit
Night Scott’s Heinz                                     $16.81 
Thomas Jones                                                35.11
Hugh McDonald                                               6.37
John Kenny’s estate                                      26.10
Monteith & Pinker                                          16.00
David Reynolds                                                2.06
Sundry small debts amounting to about       6.00

Daniel Boyle

Sworn and subscribed in open
court this 19 Sept. 1820
      E.S. Kelley Pro.

[note to right even with “Monteith & Pinker]
4.00 Pink
1.25 Mon
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I the subscribed Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Armstrong in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred and thirty five dollars and thirty eight cents-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Kittanning this nineteenth day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-

Eben Smith Kelley, Pro.
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19895
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir:

I desire to become a member of D.A.R. as I am a descendant of Daniel Boyle a pensioner a copy of the original pension will be of great value to me. There is such a copy 

Mail stamp:  Oct. 16, 1907
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as the following has been gotten from it.  Daniel Boyle born in Pa. 1748 died in Armstrong Co. P. 1831.  Served in the war of the Revolution as a soldier (sergeant, Sec. Co, 2nd Bat, 13 regiment, Penna, riflemen

I shall indeed be grateful if you send me a copy.
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of the original pension.

Yours truly
Emma Henry
Clarion, Pennsylvania
Oct. 14, 1907

U.S. Mail Stamp: Oct. 15, 1907
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Will Major General Ainsworth kindly have sent to M.A. Alberson a copy of whatever concerned Daniel Boyles from Maryland, who served in the Revolutionary War.  

If there is any fee, please let me know.  The last few times I have written, the dollar enclosed has been returned to me saying there was no fee, so I do not enclose it now, but am quite willing to forward it if any change has
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taken place in that respect.

Very truly,
M. A. Albertson
3940 Brown St
Phila.
5/27/05

U.S Mail Stamp:  May 29, 1905
May 31, 1905
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1322 Columbia Road
June 28th,1900

The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

Sir:
I have the honor to request to be informed what, if any, record exists in the Pension Office, in regard to the military history of Daniel Boyle, or Boyls, of Pennsylvania.  Said Boyle is understood to have been a soldier of the Revolution and to have received a pension drawing the same at Kittanning, Penna.

Any information you may be able to give me will be duly appreciated. 

Very truly yours,
A. J. Henry