Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1,790, John Bolen, Va.
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SERVICE..............................................NUMBER
Va. Bolen, John  S.1790
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carded
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State of Tennessee
Sullivan county

On this 21st day of November
1832 personally appeared before
the Justices of county court
of Sullivan in the state aforesaid John Bolen a resident of the state & county aforesaid aged 72 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration (xxx) in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year he thinks 1780 a minuteman from Henry County in the State of Virginia under Capt. Abraham Penn & was marched to Jersey town in said State & joined Col. Carrington Regiment and served under said officers at & near said town guarding the magazine and plantations on the Bay & rivers from the pillage & robbery that was daily committed and attempted to be common  by the British troops that then infested the bay & river taking & trying to take negroes & stock from the citizens on said waters & was in hearing o the guns at Dunmore engagement & think he served in said tour & marching to & from said place five months at least and in a few weeks after returning home to Henry county he was ordered out from Henry courthouse to Bedford courthouse under Capt. Peter Heiston & served between two or three weeks in guarding prisoners taken from the enemy.
Deponent says he then removed to Montgomery county he thinks then cont'd Botetourt [county] in Virginia and immediately in a few days after arriving at said place he was drafted to go against the Indians on the Kanaw way and marched under Lieutenant Isham to some fort on said River & was then
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stationed for some weeks under Capt. Parris and was ordered home he things he served in said town from 7 to 8 weeks. Deponent further saith that he was Discharged by the officers under whom he served Towit Col. Carrington the first tour Capt. Peter Haston the second and Capt. Parris the third and further saith that they are lost worn out or destroyed & he put no value on them & can not say correctly what has come of them, further Deponent saith that he does not know of any living witness with in his reach or control Whereby he can establish the fourgoing[sic] facts except by his own oath - He does hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any state or Territory
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signature]  John [X-his mark] Bolen for Seal

We William D Blaising  Wm Nichols Residents
of Tennessee Sullivan county Do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bolen &  who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 72 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signatures}
Wm. D. Blaising
William Nichols
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John Bolen Gn
pention(sic) Claim


Rockhold
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and this said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of matters and after putting the interrogatory presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as states and the court further certifies that 
Wm D Blevins &  Wm Nichols who has signed the preceding certificate are residents of the state and county aforesaid and are credible witnesses and that their statements are entitled to credit and that we know of no clergyman residing in said Bolens neighborhood 
I, Geo. W Netherland clerk of this court of pleas & quarter session for Sullivan county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Bolin(sic) for a pension - in testimony where I have here unto set my hand & seal of office this 21st day of November 1832
[signature]
Geo. W. Netherland   Clerk
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Supplement to John
Bolens pension papers


aomd

7 mo. 3ds pri
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27$
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State of Tennessee
Sullivan county
This 25th day January 1833
Personally appeared before me William Rockhold a justice of the peace for the state & county aforesaid John Bolin Pv(?) who Being Duly sworn Deposeth & saith by reason of old age and applications for many years past and the consequent loss of many he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service
but according to the best of his recollection he served not less then the period mentioned below and in the following grades
1 For at least 5 months as a private in the ranks
under Capt Penn & Col Carrington
2 For at least 2 weeks he served under Capt
Peter Heisten as a private in the ranks
3 Four at least 7 weeks he served under
Capt Parris & Lieutenant Isham as a private
Deponent does say positively that his services
to the best of his recollection was seven months and one week and does intend to think more but is unwilling to rest his memory & positively say more
The Deponent does further say that above named officers is the only officers under whom he served that he can name with precision that there was other officers in the army with those mentioned he is free to admit & will recollect them but their names are lost to his recollection.
Deponent does positively say as to his age he has no record but from the information handed him by his parents he is 72 years & some month old but will not say the number of months over 72 years and as to where he was born he has been told by his parents it was in Henry County Virginia then he thinks could  be Pennsylvania  Deponant
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does believe all the forgoing statements made by him to be  correct and if any errors it is from the loss of memory
[signature]
John [his X mark) Bolen
This 25th day of Jany. 1833 John Bolen (Sr?) made oath in due form of law that the facts contained in the forgoing affidavit are true to the best of his knowledge & believe & made his mark to the same in my presence giving under my hand & seal the day & year above mentioned.
[signature]
Wm. Rockhold  [circular figure enclosing word "Seal"] Justice of the Peace
I am well acquainted with the hand writing of William Rockhold & know the above to be his proper signature & that he is now in commission as Justice of Sullivan County
[signature]
John Blair
Feb 22-1833.
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Rev War   1790
INVALID
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File No. 1790
John Bolen.
Priv Va. Line.
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Act: June 7, 1832.
Index: --Vol. A, Page 36

[Arrangement of 1870.]