Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,545, John Boutwell, N. H.
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Port of Norfolk
[sic] County

Be it remembered that on this 13th day of September 1832 personally came before me [sic] Allen one of the judges of the court of common[sic] in and for the county of Cattaraugus in the [sic]. John Boutwell, a President of the town of Otto in said county aged 70 years who being duly sworn according to law doth [sic] his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress payed June 7th 1832. 

That he was born in the town of Amhurst County of Hillsborough state of New Hampshire. That he [sic] in said town from the time of his birth till 1778. As he very believes that in the month of August in that year about the first of said month he enlists as a Volunteer in a company commanded by Capt. Hezekiah Lovejoy, Col. Nicholls Regt. - Marched from Amhurst to Rhode Island and joined General Sullivan and was with him on his [sic], attacked by the British and retreated with him to a place (as he thinks) called Butts Hill. At which place he was [sic] from Capt. Lovejoy and entered the snow as a [sic] for Col. Stephen Peabody and stayed with him in that capacity till winter. This [sic] the time in this tour with Lovejoy and Peabody about 4 months. 

That early in the spring of 1779 he again enlisted with Capt. Lovejoy to go to Portsmouth (New Hampshire) to [sic] the harbor in this service under Capt. Lovejoy [sic] 2 months at the end of which time he [sic] from Lovejoy Company and enlisted [sic] at said place under the command of an [sic] Name that does not [sic] in where [sic] he stayed till winter. Was out he [sic] last tour 6 or 7 months.
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I, John Odall, of Merrimack in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire aged sixty-nine years, depose and testify that I am well acquainted with John Boutwell son of Kendall Boutwell of Amhurst in said County of Hillsborough. My father lived about a quarter of a mile from his father and we were acquainted when boys. In the year 1778 there was a call for soldiers to go to Rhode Island under Gen. Sullivan. John Boutwell, myself, and a number of others went from Amhurst as volunteers under Captain Hezekiah Lovejoy. We marched to Rhode Island and served about one month. 

Afterwards he went to Portsmouth in this state. But how long he served I am unable to state. Afterwards, I think in the year 1780, said John Boutwell enlisted in a company commanded by Capt. Stone and marched to the Coos County and served some months, I think five or six. I went with them on this march, about forty miles, and then returned with the horses, and I know that said Boutwell was one of the soldiers. He came home from having my brother, who was ensign of the Company at Concord, and I went immediately and brought my brothers home. The last time I