Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,884, Henry Boyd, Va.
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Virginia

Boyd, Henry

S. 30,884
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25464
Kentucky
Henry Boyd
of Toddbo in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Fountain of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Parker in the Virginia
for 2 years

Inscribed on te Roll of Kentucky 
at the rate of 80 Dollars 0 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of January
1834 and 
McLean Elkton

Arrears to the 4th of September    $200.00
Semi annual allowance ending 4 March  $40.0

      $240.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Dav Boyd Clerk,
Book E, Vol. 7, Page 34
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Declaration in order to gain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

State of Kentucky
County of Todd

On this 8th day of July 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Todd County court now sitting Henry Boyd as an resident of the County of Todd and state of Kentucky aged 74 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 enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1779 in the month of February and to the best of his recollection the first Saturday in that month, with Captain Fountain and served in Colonel Richard Parker's regiment of the Virginia Line, under the following named officers
Field officers Colonel Richard Parker
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hopkins adjutant Thomas Parker COmpany officers Captain James Tobius Lieutenant Thomas Stubblefield ensign Johnes. He enlisted for 18 months and never served under any other term of enlistment but served longer as here after will appea. He is not able from his age and consequent loss of memory to state the number of his regiment. He resides in Halifax county Virginia at the time he entered the service. He continued in the service until someime in th summer of 1781. He enlisted after my enlistment. I was marched to Charlotte Court HOuse by Captain Fountain the recruiting officer. Thenwere thru marched by Lieutenant Colonel Ouselland to Petersburg where the above field and company officers took command of him from Petersburgh we were marched to Savannah Georgia and there we fought the British on the 1st day of October 1779 and were whipped and retreated to Augusta and there we rested i the spring we were marched to Charlestwon South Carolina
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there we were by Clinton, General Lincoln was our commanded at the end of about 400 days we surrendered and were made prisoners of war in May 1780 I think the 24th day of the month after having been constantly in the service and bound to military duty from the 1st satuday in February 1779 in the field or garrison. I continued a prisoner of war in the custody of the British until the last of August 1781, when I made by escape from on the prison ships lying in the Charleson by swimming on some planks in company with two others  William Thompkins and Joshua Hawthorn who are dead.

Under enlistement 18 months in the Virginia line in Colonel Parkers regiment I was in actual service fourteen months and a half under the command officers and while under that at Charlestown under Colonel Parker I was made by the British prisoners of war the kept in close confinement 15 additional months making in all 29 1/2 months of actual service rendered as a private to the United States from February 1779 until August 1781 service never serving in that time followed any civil whatever. I have no documentary evidence as of my service never having received any discharge.

He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Henry Boyd

And the said court as hereby declares this opinion that the above named applican was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

Jno Mann
J. S. Solomon
James O. Graves
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I Willis L. Reeves Clerk of the Court of Todd County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the 2d Court in the matter of the application of Henry Boyd for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set hand & seal of this 
Willis L Reeves Clerk of the Court of Todd County Kentucky
On this 10th day of December 1833 personally appeared before me Wm M. Terry an acting Justice of the peace in & for Todd County Kentucky, & Col Nathaniel Terry a resident of sd County and State and made oath in due form of law, being first duly sworn, that the sd Nathaniel Terry is well acquainted with Henry Boyd who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that he was well acquainted with sd Boyd in Virginia. He knew him from his boyhood he was raised in 4 or 5 miles of him, he always sustained a fair character for truth & county, and that he is [illegible] was in the continental service in the North, at the time, the declarant states in his declaration he enlisted, and therefore, does not know of his own knowledge of the enlistment of sd. Boyd, that in 1781 deponent believes deponent returned home, and my very soon after sd Boyd returned home, and deponent then understood that Boyd had been kept in custody by the Brittish, deponent Nathaniel Terry further made oath that he himself was captain of a company & under Col. Ruel at the surrender of Charlestown in May 1780, and was then taken prisoner and while a prisoner in Charlestown in May 1780 he deponent saw the said Henry Boyd a prisoner of war in Charlestown, and there were no other Virginia soldiers, at Charleston, as far as come to the knowledge of deponent except then under the command of Col Parker, who was sent over from the North to take command of what was called the new Virginia divide, and deponent therefore believes sd Boyd was under sd Parker, as he was in the service from Va. and taken prisoner at Charlestown, the Brittish kept all the prisoners there until about May 1780 at which time deponent himself was sent home after having been prisoner for about 18 months. Subscribed and sworn to this 10th day of December 1833 before me Wm M Terry JP – Nathl Terry 
I William M Terry do further certify that the sd Nathaniel Terry who has sworn to the forgoing affidavit is a credible person and resident of Todd County Kentucky, and that he is the same person who is
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now drawing of receiving a pension as captain in the continental line 10th of December Wm M Terry
State of Kentucky 
Todd County
Willis  L Reeves Clerk of the Court of Todd County Certify that William M Terry is a magistrate at above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my Name, this 12th day December 1833 
Willis L Reeves Clerk of the Court of Todd County
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12.916

Henry Boyd

Tood G.

from 1779 private
2 years $80

Finis McLean

Elkton
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Brief in the case of Henry Boyd
County of Todd in the state of Kentucky
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge? Open Court

2.

3. How old is he? 74 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. February in 1779. Time of service not stated.

Rank. Private

Names of General and Field Officers
Captain Fountain, Colonel Parker

5. In what battles was he engaged?
Savannah and Charleston

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Halifax Virginia

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Traditionary evidence

8. 

I certify that the foregong statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Richard Cutte
Examining Clerk.
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Kentucky
30 Dec 1833
Elkton Ky
Dec 14
Free
War Department
Pension Office
Washington Cty
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Elkton Dec 12th 1833 
Mr L. L. Edwards [illegible]
Dear Sir 
I enclose to you the declaration of Henry Boyd for a pension, it was required to procure at least one witness to the service of Mr Boyd. He has procured the evidence of Col N. Terry being the only one living he can procure, Col Terry was a captain in the continental line, and is a gentlemen of wealth and as high respectability as any in our county, for further proof I refer to the record in your office upon which he draws a pension $480, Col. Terry informs me that all the captains who were taken prisoner at Charleston were sent home on parole after a confinement of about 18 months, and never returned, any roll
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of their men this you can
as certain by reference to your
records and have no doubt
you know the fact so to be
here as Mr Boyd ought not
it seems to me, rebut any
presumption which might seem
to arise against him, he
is perfectly able to procure
any traditionary evidence as
to that should be thought
to strengthen his claim
any, or necessary, but would
this be necessary after procuring
the direct evidence he has that
he was in the service
I took Col. Terrys affidavit
myself and he can not state
any thing further of his own
knowledge than he has
Mr Boyd as an indecent man
and now hears large scars
from wounds received in
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the service. I hope very
much he may meet
with process in presenting his
claim. I am your
most Obedient Servant
[illegible]
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30884

Revolutionary 
INVALID

File No. 30884

Henry Boyd
Private Revolutionary War

Act: June 7, 1832

Index:Vol. 2, Page 46

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