Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,455, Willis Boon, N.C.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
N C

Boon, Willis

NUMBER
S41,455
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

41 455
Revy INVALID Own

File No. 41.455

Willis Boon
Pri [Private] Rev. War

Act: 18th March 18

Index:- Vol. 8, Page 58 

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[Note this is a discharge certificate signed by Colonel Nicholas Long but very light and hard to decipher] 

State of North Carolina
[Illegible] 

I hereby certify that Willis Boon was a soldier [Illegible several words] 

[signed] Nicholas Long
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119
Hon: L. Sawyer
House Reps
Rec.d [received] 6 Dec 1820

[written sideways] J L Edwards Esq.
Pension Office

Rec.d [received] 6 Dec
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Dear Sir:

I herewith enclose you the schedule declaration of Isaac Greer, a neighbor of mine on the pension role, I hope it will be found sufficient to continue [illegible] then [illegible] glad to receive his pension certificate when found. 

                                                                                                      I am yours Respy [respectfully]
                                                                                                      L. Sawyer
                                                                                                      [illegible] Dec 5th, 1820
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

18030
North Carolina

Willis Boon
of Chowan Co in the State of NC
who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Polk &c of the N Carolina line, for the term of 1776 War
 
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of October 1820

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of Jany [January] 1821 & Sent to Hon L Sawyer H. R.

Arrears to 4th of March 1821        $38.96
Semi anl. all’ce [annual allowance] ending $38.96
4 mo [months] 25/31
8
32
6.96
38.96

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

May 1, 1820 

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State of North Carolina} 
Chowan County} Superior Court of Law October Term 1820 

On this 11th day of October 1820 personally appeared in Open Court (being a Court of record for the County aforesaid) Willis Boon aged seventy years & upwards 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 18th of March 1818 and 1st of May 1820, that he the said Willis Boon enlisted for the term of two years and a half on the __day of __ in the year 1776 in the State of North Carolina in the company commanded by Captain John Pugh Williams in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Buncombe in the line of the State of North Carolina, on the Continental Establishment – that he continued to serve in the said Corps until after the battle of Germantown when his Regiment was reduced and he was transferred to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Polk in which he served out the balance of his two years and a half, that he then served in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Murfield [Hardy Murfree] for one year, and at the expiration of that time enlisted in the Corps of Light Horse commanded by
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Colonel William Washington in which he continued until the end of the war– that about the time of the conclusion of the war, he was discharged in South Carolina but never received any certificate of discharge except the one annexed which he procured some time afterwards, that he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Camden and Guilford Court House and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except the annexed certificate from Colonel Nicholas Long. 
And in pursuance of the act of May 1st 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 [whatever] disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision 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 revolutionary war‖ passed the 18th of March 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. 
Schedule of property referred to in above
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declaration (necessary clothing & bedding excepted) 
Willis Boon maketh oath that he has no real property – that his personal property consists of one cow and calf, some small articles of household furniture not worth twenty dollars [$20.00] – a little corn & fodder the remains of his last year's crop, not worth Five dollars, that he labors for his support in the cultivation of the earth, being permitted to occupy a small field of ground free of rent, that he has no person residing with him but his wife, an old woman, and she is the only person from whose labor, he derives any assistance. 
Willis [his X mark] Boon
The whole of the foregoing declaration & schedule. 
Sworn to before me on the 11th day of October 1820
D. McDonald, Clk [Clerk]

I Duncan McDonald Clerk of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Chowan do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath was taken in Open Court this 11th of October 1820.

And it is the opinion of the Court, that the value of the property, mentioned in the foregoing Schedule does not exceed, Thirty-five dollars.

D McDonald
Clk [Clerk]
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Nathaniel Bond maketh Oath that he is well acquainted with the circumstances of Willis Boon the applicant in the Case that he does verily believe, that his whole property including his growing Crop would not sell for more than Thirty five dollars.
Sworn to in Open 
Court this 11th October 1820.			Signed, Nat Bond

D McDonald
                 Clk

I Duncan McDonald Clerk of the Superior Court, for the County of Chowan, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the Original filed in my Office.
As witness my hand & 
Seal of Office this 13th 
November 1820.

D. McDonald
                  Clk