Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8075, Adam Boone, Md.
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Md. Boone, Adam S8075
Carded
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25,759   
Maryland                  
Adam Boone     
Montgomery Co. in the state of Md    who was a Pr [private] in the Company commanded Captain Barges of the Regt commanded by Col   in the Maryland Militia      
9 Mo. Pr.   $30.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 30 Dollars – Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of Marcy 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of Decr. And sent to 1833 Hon G. C. Washington Ho of Rep [House of Representatives]   
Arrears to the 4th of Sepr 1833 –    75.00      
Semi-anl. Allowance ending 4 Mch. ’84     15
$90.00
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by J. T. Sprague  Clerk
Book E  Vol. 5  Page 101         
Letter Agt. D. Cole   31 Dec 1833
Pen. Agent Mar 24 1837
Dead    
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1833 from 4 March to 26 Aug. 1837 the day of his death.  Agent notified 1 June 1840.
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State of Maryland
County of Montgomery
On this 13th day of November 1833, personally appeared in open court, before the court of montgomery county now sitting, Adam Boone a resident of montgomery county, state of Maryland, aged 70 years, who being first duty 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 entered the service of the United States in the first instance as a substitute in place of his father Nicholas Boone, who was drafted as a militia man and under the command of Capt Edward Burgess marched to Fort Pitt, where he was on duty for about three months in the year 1777 as a guard of the prisoners and was then discharged and returned home to his fathers residence on Pipe Creek in Fredrick County Maryland his fathers occupation was that of a farmer. In the year 1778 his father was again drafted as a militia man, when he again became the substitute for his father under the command of Capt George Beckwith, Lieut. John Lilly, and P. Min at this instance of time the names of other officers are forgotten. He continued in service until some time in the year 1779 being upwards of six months in the last named service, during which time he was stationed at Frederick Town as a guard of British Prisoners and marched with them when they were exchanged a few miles beyond York in Penn. He was then discharged and again returned to his fathers and has a distinct recollection of riding to Frederick
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Town from Pipe Creek and delivering up his musket. He does not recollect what became of his discharge, probably he gave it to his father but has no distinct recollection on the subject, further this than this that for the nine months he was in the service he never received one cent of pay. After the revolution he married and lived with Governor Thomas Johnson of Maryland for seven years as manager of his merchant mill after which he removed to Buckeys town in Frederick County and was miller for Ignatius Davis. He then removed to [and] settled on a farm in Montgomery Co Md where he now resides.  He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of Maryland.        
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.    Adam Boone his mark    
Mr. Joseph H. Jones a a clergyman and G. C. Washington both residing in Montgomery County Maryland, hereby certify that we are well acquainted Adam Boone, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is [illegible] and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.     
Joseph H. Jones         
G. C. Washington              
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named
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applicant was a Revolutionary solider and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them Joseph H. Jones, who has signed the proceeding certificate, is a clergyman resident the county of Montgomery Md. and that George C. Washington who has signed the same is a resident of the same county and is a creditable person and that this statement is entitled to credit.        
Chs J. Kilgore
T. K. Wilkinson
I Brice Selby, Clerk of the court of Montgomery County state of Maryland, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Adam Boone for a pension. The testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office this 13th day of November 1833.            
Brice Selby Clerk                
Montgomery Co. Court
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Mont. Co State of Maryland Oct 7th 1833                 
Personally appeared before me a justice of the peace for Montgomery County, State of Maryland, George Beckwith of said county, who deposeth and said that he is acquainted with Adam Boone of the County and State aforeaid and is satisfied that he is the same person who served with him as a substitute during the war of the Revolution under the command of Capt George Beckwith, Leiut. John Lily and Peter Min adjutant     
The words of Adam and substitute being first interlined                  
Sworn before and Certified by me William Darne   Justice                 
State of Maryland Montgomery County Sct.    
I hereby certify that William Darne Genl by whom the aforegoing deposition appears to have been taken and made at the time thereof, one of the State of Maryland Justices of the peace in and for Montgomery County duly Commissioned and from testimony where of I have hereto set my name on the official seal of my office this 13th day of November 1833 Brice Selby Montgomery Co. Clk
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Decr 27th, 1833.       I hereby certify that I am acquainted with George Beckwith and know him to be a a respectable man and fully entitled to credit. I further than certify that the within papers were written by me and that where the words "about three months" are written it should said upwards of three months, the error having been made by myself.      
G. C. Washington              
G.C. Washington             
Adam Boone                       
MD.   
$30 per an        
Hon G. C. Washington
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BA-J/ILL  Ous       
Adam Boone S. 8075              
Mrs. Nellie Whedon                 
946 Highland Avenue                  
Dunedin, Florida.                
Dear Madam:                  
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Adam Boon (Boone) who died in 1837, in Montgomery County, Maryland and was a pensioner.              
The data given herein were found in pension claim, S 8075, based upon service of Adam Boon in the Revolutionary War.                    
Adam Boone lived with his father Nicholas Boone, on Pine Creek, in Frederick County, Maryland, during the Revolutionary War; the name of his mother is not given.                  
He enlisted in 1777 and served three months as a private in Captain Edward Burgess' Maryland company, engaged in guarding prisoners; he listed in 1778, and served about six months as private in Captain George Beckwith's Maryland company-during which he was stationed in Frederick Town, Maryland, guarding prisoners, and marched with them to York, Pennsylvania, when they were exchanged.  This Capt. Geo Beckwith is not in Md. Book; however, Geo. Beckwith onr file – served wi [with] Same Co.       
After the Revolutionary War, the soldier married “and lived with Governor Thomas Johnson of Maryland for seven years”, as manager of his mill;  he did not state the name of wife, nor give the date of his marriage.  He moved later to Buckeystown, Frederick County, Maryland, where he was engaged as a miller;  afterwards, he moved to a farm in Montgomery County, Maryland.    
Adam Boone was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1833 at which time he resided in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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Adam Boone gave his age in 1833 as seventy-one years, but did not state the date and place of his birth.  He died August 26, 1837.

     There are no further data in regard to the family of this soldier.

                             Very truly yours,

                             A. D.  HILLER,
                             Executive Assistant
                             to the Administrator.
 


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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office,
May 7th, 1840

Sir;
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Adam Boone, dec. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maryland Agency at the rate of Thirty Dollars and __ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 26th Aug. 1837, the day of his death.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Pr. Metropolis

Jas. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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                                 Pr of the Metropolis
                                  22d Apl 1836
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Comr of Pensions

     Sir  The voucher for the payment of Adam Boon's pension including the time from the 5th of  March 1831 to the 5th of Sept 1833 was, some time since, returned from the 3d Auditors office, requiring the order for the special payment, to be sent in.  That order no doubt was recd by the agent from you, but it cannot now be found.  Will you be good enough to inform me whether that payment was authorized, and if so, to give me a certificate which will satisfy the Department.

                        Yours Respy,
                        C. W. Van Ness 
                        Pension Clerk
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Pension Agency              
Union / Tann of Mary Ave                    
Balt.    17 March 1837               
Sir,                      
Under the instructions of 29 Sept. '36 from the Second Comptroller. I herewith forward (for directions to to pay the same) the vouchers of Adam Boone of Montgomery County.                 
The attorney presenting these vouchers being from the county requests that you now please decide on them at your earliest convenience.        
I am Sir                 
Very Respectfully Yr Obt Svt   
H W Evans 
P. Agent    
To.  J. L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions
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Rev War
8075
Invalid
File No. 8075
Adam Boon
Pri. Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. 1 N, Page 38
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1937 - Mar. 6 - Hist. to Mrs. Nellie Whedon.
J.L.L.
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Received Feb 16 1937    
Mail Sub-Div. Vets Adm Reader # 10            
949 Highland Ave.,                
Dunedin, Florida, Feb. 14, 1937                   
Veterans Administration                
Washington, D.C.                 
Will you please give me the Revolutionary War pension record of Adam Boon, Boone, or Bohn with all the personal and family  data you have for genealogical use?                    
The Adjutant General's office could not find him, but I know that he had a Rev. pension. He died about 1837 in Montgomery Co., Maryland and doubtless enlisted from Frederick Co., Md.    
Thanking you for every detail you have about this ancestor and his family              
I am. Very Truly,              
Mrs. Nellie Whedon