Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10,434, Aaron Boylan, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Boylan, Aaron | W. 10,434
| Sarah
CONTENTS
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Pennsylvania
2362
Sarah Boylan of Venango 
widow of Aaron Boylan, deceased,
who died on the 20th September 1824,
of Venango Co in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a private in the compy [company] commanded by Captain Piatt of the regt commanded by Major Piatt in the New Jersey
line for 9 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia
at the rate of 30 Dollars per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Octr 1838, & sent to Thomas Van Horne, Meadville, Crawford Co.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept '38 | $225.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 39 |15.00
| $240.00
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3 d
Recorded by D McCurdy, Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 137.
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 March 1839 to 4 Sept 1839. Agt Notified. 15 July 1840
Letter to Spering, James & Co &
Pension Agent July 7th 1846.
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State of Pennsylvania
Venango County ss
On the twenty ninth day of November 1837 personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of Venango County aforesaid Sarah Boylan a resident of French Creek Township in said County aged eighty one years who being duly sworn in the Court according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th AD 1836 - That she is the widow of Aaron Boylan who served for nine months as an enlisted Soldier in the Jersey troops under Captain Daniel Piatt - Major Piatt (whose full name she cannot certainly recollect) and General Maxfield that her said husband was in the service at the battle of Bundbrook or Middlebrook and that he was also in service at the time of the battle of Monmouth and that he was also in the battle of the Brandywine -  and that he also served eleven different tours in the Militia but from her age lapse of time she cannot specify - the periods - that the applicant was a resident of Elizabeth town New Jersey at the time of the engagement at that place that her husband had previously received his discharge but it was burnt by the British together with the [illegible] of [illegible] effects at Elizabeth town She further declares that she was married to the said Aaron Boylan on the the 6 of October 1772 by the Revd Samuel Kennedy at Baskin [Basking] ridge Morris County New Jersey but that her certificate was also burnt at Elizabeth town - that her husband the said Aaron Boylan died on the 20 September 1824 in Sandy Creek township Mercer County and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed
Sworn & Subscribed on the day
& year above written. Witness my hand &
the Seal of said Court
A. McDowell Proth
Sarah Boylan [her X mark]
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Aaron Boylan Jr was born in May the 15 1749
Sarah Boylan was born in December the 6 1755
the above was maried [married] in October the 6 1772
Mary Boylan was born on the 6 day of December 1773
Elizabeth Boylan July the 9 1775
Sarah Boylan was born June the 17 1777
James Hovis Boylan was born in February 22 1783
Ann Boylan was born in December the 16 1784
Aaron Boylan [illegible] was born in October the 9 1786
William Boylan was born in April the 4 1789
Caty Boylan was born in October the 7, 1791
Andrew Boylan was born in September 13 1793
John Boylan was born in October 10 1795
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Commonwealth of Penna
Crawford County
Ls
Aaron Boylan Jr. being sworn as the law directs deposeth and saith that the foregoing is a family record which has been preserved asking the papers of Aaron Boylan [illegible] deceased father that it has been regarded as the only record of the family of Aaron Boylan deed for more than twelve years. & believes it [illegible] have been drawn by deceased himself.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 30th day of July AD 1838 | Aaron Boylan
Ashbel Clark | Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Crawford County
Ls
I hereby certify that Ashbel Clark Esquire before whom the above affidavit purports to have been taken, was at the time of taking said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorised [authorized] by law to take the same signed and sealed this day of August A.D. 1838
I further certify that Boylan is commonly pronounced as though spelled Bollyan I also certify that the Justices signature be a genuine signature.
James Cochran
Prothy
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Allegany County
Samuel Boylan of the town of Burns is said county & state of New York being duly sworn deposeth & saith that my age is Seventy two years the first day of Jany 1838 & that I formerly lived in a town cald [called] Baskin [Basking] Ridge Somerset County in the State of New Jersey And this deponent further saith that I had a Brother by the name of Aaron Boylan Ten or twelve years older than myself & this Deponent further saith that as near as he can recolect [recollect] it was about the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy three that the said Aaron Boylon was as he understood & verily Believes was married unto Sally McDade with whom she afterwards lived as his wife I the deponant [deponent] further saith that they after they was married lived in the house with their father untill [until] some time in the Spring before the Battle at Monmoth [Monmouth] & then the said Aaron Boylan Enlisted in the Army of the United States for the term of nine months as this Deponant [Deponent] understood & after the said term of nine month he returned again with the said Sally his wife & lived in the house with his father again untill [until] his father died he then mooved [moved] away & this Deponent went to live with his said Brother & did live with him three years all which time the said Aaron Boylan & the said Sally lived together as husband & wife in which time they had two children & one of them was a deef & dum [deaf & dumb] female child or at least within the time I knew them to live together as husband & wife Those said Children was born unto them & this deponant [deponent] further saith not
Samuel Boylan
Sworn & Subscribed before
me this 2nd day of March 1838
J. Leonard J.P. &
Comr of Deeds for
Allegany County
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State of New York-
Allegany County Clerks Office
I hereby certify that Joseph Leonard Esquire, before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken was at the time of taking said affidavit a [crossed out] Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Allegany duly authorized by law to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the signature of "J Leonard" to the said affidavit is Genuine - Given under my hand and seal of office this 2d day of March 1838
Saml Van Winkle Clerk
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section     [illegible]
April 9, 1924
Mrs. S. E. Leard
317 South Yellowstone St.,
Livingston, Mont.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 10434 it appears that Aaron Boylan was born May 15, 1749, the place not stated.
While a resident of Elizabethtown, New Jersey he enlisted and served as a private for nine months in Captain Daniel Piatt's Company under Major Piatt in the New Jersey Troops; was in the battles of Boundbrook and Brandywine. He also served in the militia, no details given.
Soldier married October 6, 1772 at Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey, Sarah McDade born December 6, 1755. He died September 20, 1824 in Sandy Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania and she was allowed pension on her application executed November 29,
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1837 while living in French Creek Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Their children were:
Mary | born | December 6, 1773.
Elizabeth | " | July 9, 1775.
Sarah | " | June 17, 1777.
James Haris or
James Horis | " | February 22, 1783.
Ann | " | December 16, 1784.
Aaron | " | October 9, 1786.
William | " | April 4, 1789.
Caty | " | October 7, 1791. date of death not stated. (for this inquirie [inquiry] only.)
Andrew | " | September 13, 1793.
John | " |  October 10, 1795.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
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Mch, 17 - 1903 Hist to
Hildegarde Hitchcock
Erie Pa
Mch. 28 - 1903 - Hist to
Jos. E. McWilliams
Chicago Ill
1924 - Apr - 1 - Hist to Mrs. Theodore C.
Hill [illegible]
1924 - Apr. 9 - Hist to Mrs. S. E. Leard - [illegible]
1924 - May 24 - " " Mrs. E. C. Sherrod 
10.434
Revy WIDOW, &C.
File No. 10.434
Sarah Boylan
Wid of 
Aaron Boylan
Prvt Rev. War
Act: July 4th 1836
Index:-Vol. A, Page 73
[Arrangement of 1870.]
[illegible]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
July 10th 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," Sarah Boylan, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Thirty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1839 to the 4th Sept. 1839.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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State of Pennsylvania
Mercer County-
Ls
I Hugh Bingham Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Ezekiel Condit before whom the within affidavit was made was at that time an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and to whose official acts as such full faith and credit ought to be and is given and the man Ezekiel Condit signed thereto is in his own proper hand writing and signature - Given under my hand and seal of said Court this 28th day of June 1838-
Hugh Bingham Prot
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Personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in and for the County of Mercer Isaac Holloway a citizen of Sandy Creek Township Mercer County who being duly sworn according to law saith that he was well acquainted with Aaron Boylan the husband of Sarah Boylan That he the [illegible] Aaron Boylan was a man of truth and veracity and that I have often heard him speaking of the Revolutionary war and that he the same Boylan served nine months man and that he was in several engagements with the British
Sworn and subscribed this 27th day of November 1837
Isaac Holloway
Ezekiel Condict
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V 3735
Sarah Boylan
Pennsylvania
admitted
[illegible] $30
on roll
for 9 months
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Personaly [Personally] appeared before me this 27 day of November 1837 Stephen Ross a citizen of Sandy Creek Township Mercer County who being duly sworn according Law saith that he heard Jonathan Rigg a Militia man in the Revolutionary war with Great Brittain [Britain] say that he Jonathan Rigg the last time that he saw Aaron Boylan in the war they were both standing behind a tree shooting at the Brittish [British]. Sworn and subscribed before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Mercer Stephen Ross | Ezekiel Condit
Personaly [personally] apeared [appeared] before me a Justice of the peace in and for Mercer County Eliab Axtell and Rhoda his wife citizens of Sandy Creek Township Mercer County who being duly sworn according to law saith Jonathan Riggs a Militia soldier in the Revolutionary war with Great Brittain [Britain] and a late Pentioner has resided with us more than seven years of the last years of his life that we have often in that time and before heard him speaking of Aron Boylan that he was well acquainted with him in [illegible] Revolutionary War and the last time that he the said Jonathan Riggs [illegible] Aaron Boylan they were both behind a large tree shooting at the Brittish [British] and that they were well acquainted with each other and were neighbors before the Revolutionary War with Great Brittain [Britain] 
Sworn and subscribed this 27th day of November 1837
Ezekiel Condit
Eliab Axtell
Rhoda Axtell [her X mark]
J.B. that Jonathan Rigg as a petitioner is in pension office book & Vol 8 page 49
We the undersigned do certify that Jonathan Riggs deasd who was Pensioner for services in the Revolutionary war and all these witnesses going to prove the services of Aaron Boylan deceased in the revolutionary war are Civil Citizens and men of truth and verasity 
November 27th 1837
Ezekiel Condit
John C Robinson
Ebenezar Miller
Lucius Robison
Joseph Holloway
John Montgomery
A. Montgomery
John W. Montgomery
Peter F. Stright
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State of Pennsylvania
Mercer County
I Hugh Bingham Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for Mercer
County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
do hereby certify that Ezekiel Condit before whom the foregoing acknowledgement, and affidavits were taken was at the time of taking the same respectively. Our acting Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and qualified and to whose official acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given, and that the signatures
"Ezekiel Condit" signed thereto is in his own proper hand writing - Given under my hand and seal of said concent [consent] at Mercer June 28th 1838 - Hugh Bingham Prot
3735
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Philad. July 2. 1846.
J.L. Edward Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Dear Sir
Enclosed we take the liberty of sending you for your inspection the Widow Boylan's pension certificate.
On presenting the same for payment at the
agency in this city we were informed that as 90 days had elapsed and more since the execution of the power of attorney, they were not allowed to pay the same as it then stood. We hope therefore that you will grant permission that said pension be paid by the agent here without returning it to Mercer (upon where it has come for the second time) and much oblige
Dear Sir
Yours respectfully
Spering James Co.
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[Stamp: Meadville PA Sep 25]
J. L. Edwards
Com. Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Meadville Sept 24 1838
Sir
Yours of the 14th Sept duly came to hand, in which I find that the application of Sarah Boylan has been examined-
We feel satisfied that, as yet, we can claim nothing but for the nine months which Aaron Boylan had served with which we will be satisfied untill [until] we can prove an additional service in the militia.
Yours very
Respectfully
Thos. Van Horne
Atty. for
Sarah Boylan
c Mr J. L. Edwards
Comr... Pensions
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V
Sarah Boylan
Pennsylvania
Act 4 July 1836
Suspended
[illegible] 14th Sept.
1838 Thos. Van Horn
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[appears to be a seal with nothing legible to transcribe]
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Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen: -
Will you please give me information as to Aaron Boylan, who served in the Rev. War.
I am looking up his record in order that I may join the D.A.R.
I also want names of his children, and his marriage date. He married Sarah McDade, daughter of Patric McDade, and residence given in my records as Bernards
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Somerset Co, New Jersey, so evidently he married in New Jersey.
All information you can give me will be most welcome, I assure you.
Yours Sincerely
Mrs. E. C. Sherrod
1918 Gorman Ave.
Waco, Texas.
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P.S. I havn't [haven't] full birth date. All I have is 1749- Will this be sufficient? - I want Sara McDade's birth date and date of her death.
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Livingston Mont.
317 So. Yellowstone St.
March 5th 1924.
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen - Will you kindly give me all the information regarding Aaron Boylan II that fought in the Revolution, in the state of New Jersey & lived in Bernards, Somerset Co. N.J., that you have listed. It is most important that I have the date of his marriage & when his wife Sarah McDade Boylan, was born & when she died. Sarah McDade's Father, was Patrick McDade. also when Aaron Boylan was born & died also if you have the date of his daughter Caty when born & died. Would like this for family history.
Very Respectfully,
Mrs. S. E. Leard
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MRS. THEODORE CASE HILL
144 EAST MAIN STREET
NORTH EAST
PENNSYLVANIA
[Stamp: US Pension Office Mar 3 1924]
Feb. 29, 1924
To
Bureau of Pensions,
Will you please send to me any information you have concerning Aaron Boylan and wife in pension application. He served in Revolutionary War war [crossed out] and residence was in Somerset Co. New Jersey.
Very truly,
Ada Thompson Hill
Mrs. Theodore C.
Born 1749
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CR
READING, WRITING & REST ROOMS
Marshall Field & Company,
State, Washington, Randolph & Wabash
Chicago
March 19th 1903
To the
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Sir:- Will you please inform me if Sarah - widow of Aaron Boylan a soldier in the Revolutionary war drew a pension and for how long a time? 
Also if the records
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show the date of Aaron Boylen's [Boylan's] birth and death? I am very anxious to secure those dates.
Yours Truly
Caroline E. McWilliams
Mrs. Joseph E.
286 E. 38th St
Chicago-
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Erie, Pa., Mch. 8/03
The U. S. Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly let me know when Sarah, the widow of Aaaron [Aaron] Boylan, a revolutionary soldier began to draw her pension from the government?
She is deceased and I desire this information so as to learn the date of his death, which I cannot ascertain otherwise, as the record of it was destroyed in the Princeton N. J. fire.
By giving me the desired information you will confer a very great favor on -
Yours respectfully, -
Hildegarde Hitchcock
146 East 7th St., Erie, Pa.
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section     [illegible]
April 1, 1924
Mrs. Theodore C. Hill
144 East Main St.,
North East, Penna.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 10434 it appears that Aaron Boylan was born May 15, 1749, the place not stated.
While a resident of Elizabethtown, New Jersey he enlisted and served as a private for nine months in Captain Daniel Piatt's Company under Major Piatt in the New Jersey Troops; was in the battles of Boundbrook and Brandywine. He also served in the militia, no details given.
Soldier married October 6, 1772 at Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey, Sarah McDade born December 6, 1755. He died September 20, 1824 in Sandy Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania and she was allowed pension on her application executed November 29,
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1837 while living in French Creek Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Their children were:
Mary | born | December 6, 1773.
Elizabeth | " | July 9, 1775.
Sarah | " | June 17, 1777.
James Haris or
James Horis | " | February 22, 1783.
Ann | " | December 16, 1784.
Aaron | " | October 9, 1786.
William | " | April 4, 1789.
Caty | " | October 7, 1791.
Andrew | " | September 13, 1793.
John | " |  October 10, 1795.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.