Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16053, Henry Boas, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

Boas, Henry

NUMBER
S.16053

carded

CONTENTS
See N.A. Acc. No. 874
050017. Not Half Pay
Henry Boas
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4957
Indiana
Henry Boaz of Jackson Co. in the State of Indiana who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Clotts of the Regt. commanded by Col. Haines in the Pennsylvanian Militia for six months from 1776
(the next paragraph is written in pencil and some words can be made out but not many
Agency  Boas and  that is it)
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 20 Dollars   Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of January 1833 and sent Hon.Jno Carr H.R.
Arrears to 4th of September 1837    30
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833     10
                                                             Debt 40.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Henry Sylvester    Clerk
Book   D.   Vol. 4   Page 179

Madison Agt. order to pay 27 Dec. 1836-
Polly Carr Dec. 16/57
[illegible] Auditor  Dec. 16/57
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10,894
Henry Boas
Indiana.

Admit

return

Hon Jno Carr HR
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10,894

BRIEF in the case of Henry Boas of Brownstown Jackson County in the State of Indiana.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  In open court
2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3.  Hold old is he?  72 years
4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
Volunteered about the 1st July in 1776

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days,
               6
Rank.
As a

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt Jacob Clotts, Lieuts Lodewick Miers, Col William Hains, Brig Gen. Doety Hand

5.  In what battles was he engaged?

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Lancaster County Pennsylvania

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

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

I Certify that the foregoing statement and answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Examining Clerk.
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10.894

Henry Boaz of Jackson County Indiana volunteered for 6 month 1st of July 1776 and was discharged on the New Years Day 1777
he claims a pension for 6 months only.  I am acquainted with Mr. Boas and believe him to be a man of truth and am also well acquainted with James Autcheson and of the witness and say that his character is  good

John Carr
M.C.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832.

State of Indiana
Jackson County

On the 5th day of September in the year one thousand and eight hundred and thirty-two personally appeared in open court before the Hon. John F. Ross, president judge of the second judicial circuit in the state of Indiana and judge of the Jackson circuit court now sitting, Henry  Boas, a resident of Brownstown in Jackson county and state of Indiana, aged seventy-two, 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 7th of June 1832.

That he was born 30th day of October 1760.  He takes his age from the record of his father's Bible which is now in Baltimore County, Maryland.

He resided in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at the time he was called into service. He has lived eighteen years since the Revolutionary War in Baltimore County, Maryland.  From there he removed to the State of Kentucky in the year 1791 and removed from there to his present residence in Indiana in March 1819.  

He volunteered into the service for six months about the first of July 1776.  The officer of the company where he served was Capt. Jacob Clotts, Lieut. Lodwick Miers, Ensign James Turner, Col. Wm. Harris, Brigadier Gen. Doctor Hand, his given name he does not know.

From Lancaster we marched to Phila., from thence to Trenton, from Trenton to New York, from there on to Long Island where we had a (illegible) battle, after the battle our Capt. Clotts was commissioned Col. in the second battalion, our battalion being the first of the Pennsylvania Line on flying camp and from Long Island we removed to New York, from thence to the White Plins where we had another battle.  We was(sic) commanded by Genl. Putnam.  From thence we went to Fishkill, New York, from here to
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Trenton, N.J. where we took nine hundred Hessians, at which place within a few days we were discharged on New Year's day.  He has no documentary evidence of his discharge and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. 

He is well known in his present neighborhood by Leonard Shewmaker and Mr. James Hutchinson who will testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every 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.  Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
Signed:  Henry Boas

We, James Hutcherson and Leonard Shewmaker, residing in Jackson County, state of Indiana, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Boas who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy-two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood 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.
Signed:  James Hutcherson, Leonard Shewmaker

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
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James Hutcherson and Leonard C Shewmaker who has signed the preceding certificate are residents in the county of Jackson State of Indiana and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit

State of Indiana
Jackson County} Ss
I William Crenshaw clerk of the circuit court of Jackson County, in the second Judicial Circuit  in the  state of Indiana it being a court of record Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the Application of Henry Boas for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my said office this 8th day of September 1832
William Crenshaw Clk JCC

(on side of paper) Henry Boas
(repeat of State of Indiana to application all crossed out)
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February 15, 1933

Henry Boas, S.16053
BA-J/MCS On
Mrs. J. F. Rogers
6483 Lloyd Avenue
St. Louis
Missouri

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letters requesting information in regard to Henry Boas, a soldier of the Revolution.

The data furnished below were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 16053, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Henry Boas.

He was born October 30, 1760, place not stated and names of parents not given.

While a resident of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted July 1, 1776, and served six months as private in Captains Jacob Klotz's and Ludwig Meyer's Companies in Colonel William Hay's Pennsylvania Regiment; he was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains and Trenton.

After the Revolution he lived in Baltimore County, Maryland, until 1791 when he moved to Kentucky and in March 1819, he moved to Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana.

The papers in this pension claim contain no data relative to the soldier's wife and children.

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

Agency Book say "dead and paid to Mar.4. 1838."
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p       16053
INVALID
File No.  16053
Henry Boas
Pri- Rev. War

Act: June 7" 32
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 45
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1916 May 10. History to Hon. Lincoln
Dixon
1917 Oct.4-History to Hon. Lincoln Dixon

1928 May 15 Hist. to F.M. Humphrey
m.c.s.
1933 Feb. 15. Hist. to Mrs. J.F. Rogers m.c.s.
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Henry Boas of Indiana volunteered for 6 months 1st of July 1776 and was discharged on (the 
 rcrossed out)New Years day, 1777 he claims a pension for 6 months only.

I am acquainted with the applicant his character is fair I am acquainted personally with James Hutcherson one of the witnesses and know that he is a respectable man.  I am also acquainted with Wm Crenshaw the Clerk of the  Court and with his handwriting and believe that signature to be the [illegible] of the proceeding process  to be genuine

John Carr

M.C.
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Dec 9
4957 [illegible]
Henry Boas
Inda [illegible]
also stamp [illegible]

J L Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
Washington City
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N389 State Bank Ga.
Madison Dec. 2 1836

J.L. Edwards Esq

I enclose voucher is case of Henry Boas for directing whether to pay or not

Yours. respectfully
J F. D. Lemin [illegible]
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10,894

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Henry Boas which require further proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  yes
III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or period of the war when he served?  yeas
V.  Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  yes (crossed out) No
VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  yes
VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?  yes
IX.  Has the Clerk gien his certificate?  yes
X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  yeas and has a device.
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a Clergyman and another citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Certified by two citizens
XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  No
XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  Yes
XIV.  If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officers under his seal of office?
XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI.  Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  yes
XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the Pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the Regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officers who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officers, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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Vallonia, Ind.  July 29/27

Sirs:-
I would like to have the record of a Revolutionary Soldier, if possible to obtain same from your files, by the name of Henry Boas, he enlisted from Pennsylvania,  would like very much to have his record and oblige
Resp.-
F.M. Humphrey
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Mrs. J. F. Rogers
6483 Lloyd Ave.,
St. Louis, Mo.

Feb.4,  1933.

Bureau of Pension
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:
Am eager to complete the lineage of Henry Boaz (underlined) (noted in pencil Boas or Boze) for membership in Daughters of American Revolution.
According to records Henry Boas was born in Hanover Germany 1760, came to America 1765 with his parents who settled in Lancaster County Pennsylvania.  Inlisted in the Revolutionary War July 1776 as a private in Capt. Jacob Klotzs and Ludwig Myers Co. in Coln Wm Hayes Pa. Regiment of Mathiss Elougbs 1st. Battalion of the Flying Camp
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Lancaster Co. Militia.  Was in the Battle of Long Island, White Plains and Trenton, at which place he was discharged on New Years' day 1777 from being disabled.  After the war he resided in Baltimore County Md., for eight years where married Dorothy Baumgartner who was born in Md. 1756, Removed to Kentucky 1791, thence in March 1819 to Brownstown Indiana, Died at the home of Thomas Carr, Mar. 4, 1838.  Dorothy died Mar. 12, 1839 same place both barryed in Brown Graveyard Carr Township. In the family of Henry Boas 1st there were seven children  Henry, Peter, George Jacob, John, Mary, and Elizabeth.
I need the date of Marriage of Henry Boas and Dorothy Baumgartner.  I have the other information down
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to myself.
Since he was disabled he evidently was pensioned so if he was I would be very glad to have this information, it may help me to get this date I need.
I sincerely thank you.

Mrs. J.F Rogers
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LINCOLN DIXON
4TH DIST. INDIANA
COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

House of Representatives U.S.
Washington, D.C.

May 4, 1916.

Hon. G. M. Saltzgaber,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:-
I desire to know what your records show concerning the military record of Henry Boas who was said to have been a member of a German Regiment from Maryland in the Revolutionary War.  Any information you can give me upon this subject will be highly appreciated.

Very truly yours,
Lincoln Dixon
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LINCOLN DIXON
4TH DIST. INDIANA
COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

House of Representatives U.S.
Washington, D. C.

Oct.3, 1917.

Mr. G.M. Saltzgaber,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:-
I am in receipt of a letter from a constituent of mine seeking information concerning the military record of Henry Boaz, a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  She informs me that he enlisted from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1776.  She also informs me that he was allowed a pension upon his application executed September 5, 1832, while a resident of Brownstown, Indiana File #16053.
Any information you can give me concerning this soldier will be appreciated.

Very truly yours,
Lincoln Dixon
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In reply to your request of   , received   for a statement of the military history of Henry Boaz a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's crossed out) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S.16,053

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
July 1, 1776
[other date is in penciled and illegible]

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
6 Mos.
[illegible]

RANK.
Private
Private

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Jacob Klotz
Ludwig Meyer


COLONEL.
William Hay

STATE.
1st Battalion Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania

Battles engaged in, Long Island, White Plains and Trenton
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Lancaster Co., Penn
Date of application for pension, Sept. 5, 1832.  His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Brownstone, Jackson Co, Indiana
Age at date of application, Born Oct. 30, 1760; place not stated.
Remarks: after war Baltimore Co., MD. 18 years, thence to Ky, in 1791 thence to Brownstown Ind in March 1819.
No family data.
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Rev. War Section.
May 10, 1916.

Honorable Lincoln Dixon,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Dixon:-
In response to your letter date the fourth instant, I have the honor to advise you that in claim Sur. File No. 16053 Rev. War, the papers show that Henry Boas was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, while a resident of Brownstown, Jackson County, Indiana.
He was born October 30, 1760, (place not stated) and resided in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, when he enlisted for six months, July 1, 1776, as a Private, and served under Captains Jacob Klotz and Ludwig Meyer, in the First Battalion Lancaster County Flying Camp, under Colonel William Hay; was in the battles of Long Island and White Plains, and
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M.C.S.

Rev. & 1812 War Section
May 15, 1928

F.M. Humphrey
Vallonia
Ind.

Sir:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 16053, it appears that HENRY BOAS was born October 30, 1760, place not stated.
While a resident of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, enlisted July 1, 1776, and served six months as a private in Captains Jacob Klotz's and Ludwig Meyer's Companies in Colonel William Hay's Pennsylvania Regiment; he was in the battles of Long Island, White Plains and Trenton.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Brownston, Jackson County, Indiana.
There are not data on file relative to his family.
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner