Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5289, Robert Boyle, Penn.
Page 1

[notecard]
[upper left]
SERVICE
Penn
[center]
Boyle, Robert
[upper right]
NUMBER
S5289

Carded
Page 2

5289
Rev War
INVALID
File No 5289
Robert Boyle
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: Vol M Page 38
[Arrangement of 1870]
Page 3

30.241
Pittsburgh, Penn
Robert Boyle
Indiana Co in the State of Penna
who was a Private in the commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Sol Lyons in the Penna militia
time for 7 months & 14 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 24 Dollars 88 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of October 1835 and sent to JJ Young Esq Indiana, Indiana Co Pa
Arrears to the 4th of September 1835  111.96
Semi amt allowance ending 4 March '36 12.44
$124.40
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by D Brown Clerk
Book E2 Vol 5 Page 117
Page 4

33.354
The Declaration of Pa

Robert Boyles

For a pension under the act of June 1st 1832

Admit as private

7 mo 14 day $24.88

Address
JJ Young
Indiana
Indiana County
Penna

Adams Lyon
Pa
Page 5

State of Pennsylvania
Indiana County Ss

On this twenty eight day of September AD 1835 personally appeared in open court Robert Boyle before the Court of Common please of Indiana County now sitting, a resident of Washington Township in the County of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania aged about eighty three years who being paid 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 on the 7th day of September in the year 1777 he was drafted for the term of two months in a Company under the Command of Captain Adams belonging to a Regiment of Militia under the Command of Colonel Lyons & General Potter when living on the Juniata River in Cumberland County They render service at Carlisle at Newton Square from thence proceeded to the plains of White Marsh when they had a battle or skirmish at Bush hill - he believes the same took place on the Sabbath day and were defeated when they fled to the plains where the Army was at the time - They then went to Gulf Mills where he remained with the Brigade until discharged. When living in Cumberland County on the Juniata River he wa again drafted sometime in the year 1778 in a company commanded by Captain Blair but he being sick Marshall Stanley took his Command. He was drafted for two months & rendezvoused at Sinking Valley & engaged in scouting & spying & on said tour built a fort called Land Mines fort in said valley Major Clergage commanded the fort at the expiration of the war was discharged at said fort.  He also  served a tour as a serbinked for Timothy Noll in a company commanded by Colonel McAlevey for two months rendezvoused at Bald Eagle Valley - In the year 1779 the Indians came into Kishnequillas valley and went out after them as a volunteer under Captain Henry Taylor and was in said tour about one month & two weeks - That he is afflicted with Hernia & had a stroke of Paralisis which as affected his speech & some paid his memory that he is unable to give any further particulars that he has no documentary evidence & that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testiry to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim to pensions & annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state that no clergyman lives nearer to him than in the Town of Indiana who have no opportuinty of knowing the Reports in my neighborhood & that he claims a pension for seven months & two weeks - 

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 
[signed]R McCabe Prot
[signed] Robert Boyle x his mark
Page 6

We Meck Kelly Esquire residing in Center Township Indiana County state of Pennsylvania Fergus Cannon Esqr of the Borough of Indiana in same state hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robert Boyle who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about eighty three years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Meck Kelly
F Cannon
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court} illegible ave Prt
Interrogatories propounded by the court 
1st whose and in what year were you born?
Ans was born in Ireland sometime in the year 1752
2nd Have you an Record of your age and if so where is it?
Ans I have not but the once saw that kept by father
3d Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War & where do you now live?
Ans In Cumberland County on the Jeimati River and has since renided in the Township in which he now lives ever since
4th How were you called into service? were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute? and if a substitute for whom?
Ans I was drafted in every tour except one which under Colonel McAlevey as a substitute for one Timothy Nill 
5th state the names of some of the regular officers who were with the the troop where you served such continental & militia Regiments as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your service?
 Ans I have stated all I recollect with respect to this interrogatory in my declaration
6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given & what has become of it?
Ans I never received discharges but for two tours which I have long since lost not considering there of any consequence to me on the other tour I was simply dismissed
7 state the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood & who can testify as to your character for
Page 7

veracity & their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
answer Sheriff Henry Kurter Fergus Cannon esqr Meck Kelly Esqr Abraham Moore James Thompson
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 applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Meck Kelly Esquire who has the preceding certificate is a resident in Centre Township Indiana County & state of Pennsylvania and that Fergus Cannon Esquire who has signed the same is a resident in the Borough of Indiana in same county & state and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that the said applicant reasons for not having the certificate of a clergyman are satisfactory to this court
JR B McCabe clerk of the court of common pleas of Indiana County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Robert Boyle for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty eighth day of September the one thousand eight hundred and thirty five. 
Rich B Mcabe Prot