Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,795, Benjamin Bolton, N.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE N.C.
Bolton, Benjamin
NUMBER  S. 37,795

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CONTENTS  [blank]




[stamp: This Envelope Includes 
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO]
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Alabama
Benjamin Bolton
18477
of Dallas Co in the state of Alabama
who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Shepherd of the N. Carolina line, for the term of one year

Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 15 of September 1820

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of January 1822 and sent to Horatio G. Perry Esqr Cahaba, Alabama

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1821 $93.33
Semi-anl. all'ce ending March 1822 $48
$141.33
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Sir
In case of the children of Benjamin Bolton deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner of Dallas County State of Alabama at the rate of $96 per
annum claiming a certificate for money still due his children of  wherein I am one, please include my name and share of said pension the same certificate to be delivered to the care of their agent D. L. Addison at Washington D.C. for me and oblige

John Bolton son of Benjamin Bolton deceased

George G. Bolton son of Benjamin Bolton
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No 1422"
Op
Benjamin Bolton
(children of)

Mobile, Ala
(March 18, 1818)
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$42.51/100
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up & u  Sept: 19. 1859
u & d  Sept 30th" 1859
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Rig: No.. 7091, dated
22 d & Sent to Treasury
23d Sept. 1859
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To John Bolton, Edward Bolton, George Bolton, Sarah B. Ladd, Rachel Ezzell & Benjamin Bolton only children of Benjamin Bolton decd late a pensioner of the Mobile, Alabama Agency per Act of Congress of March 18,1818 

For his pension from Sept of 1842 to July 12 1843 at $8.** per month $42.57
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No. 2
Secretary at War
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District of Alabama 89
State of Alabama
Dallas County
County Court February Session 1828

On this seventh **** of February eight hundred & twenty one personally appeared in open court this being a court of record by the service of the state of Alabama by which it been established & further by it's proceedings being according to the Course of the Common **** with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of its proceedings & from which a writ of error lies to a superior tribunal.  Upon the county of Dallas in the state aforesaid Benjamin Bolton aged fifty seven years when being *** according to *** *** are his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress of the 18th March 1818 & the 1st May 1820 that he the said Benjamin Bolton enlisted for the service of twelve monts some time during the year seventeen hundred & eighty one or two
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in the state of North Carolina in the company commanded by Captain Armstrong in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bitle in the line of the state of North Carolina that he continued to serve in said corps the whole time for which he had enlisted when he was discharged from the said service at Ashley Hill in the state of South Carolina & that the certificate of his honorable discharge of the said officer under whom he served having then accidentally lost he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service than what is here presented.  

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or any manner dispersed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress on *** an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United
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States in the Revolutionary War passed 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor have any person in trust for me any property or security contracts of debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed

Benjamin Bolton (his mark)

Schedule
Two cows & calves worth forty dollars
One horse worth forty dollars
Two head of hogs worth twenty dollars

Benjamin Bolton (his mark)

My occupation is that of a farmer which I am unable to pursue.  I have nine children now  living with me & dependent on me for support.

Rebecah twenty years old
Rachel twenty two
Sulley eighteen
Betsy sixteen
Benjamin fourteen
James thirteen
Edwin twelve
Owen ten
George nine
who are all unable to labor in such manner as is usual for persons of their age & sex to do

Benjamin Bolton (his mark)
sworn in open court certified
D. Dalton Clerk
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State of Alabama
Dallas County
I David Dalton Clerk of the county court of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed are truly certified from the records of said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred dollars in testimony where of I hereunto set my hand and private seal there being no seal of office
February 7th 1821
David Dalton clerk of the county court of Dallas County
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State of Alabama
Dallas County

I do hereby certify that David Dalton whose name appears to the above certificate as clerk of the county court of Dallas County was the acting clerk of said court at the time of signing the same and now is the acting clerk of said court and that full faith and credit is and of right aught to be given to all his official acts as such and that the foregoing certificate of the said clerk is in due forms of law.

Given under my hand and seal this 7th day of February 1821

Gilbert Shearer
chief justice of the county of Dallas
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State of Alabama }
Dallas County }
I David Dalton clerk of the county Court of said County do hereby certify that Gilbert Sharon is the cheaf [sic: chief] Justice of Dallas county and at this time presides as such and that full faith is and should of right be given to all his official Acts in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal there being no seal of office this 8th February 1821
S/D Dalton clk C.C.
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Benj'n Bolton,    No. 1.
Alabama. -
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Dallas County
15 Sept 1820




The official character of the within magistrate should be certified to by the clerk of the court under seal.
1st Nov. 1821

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Hon. Mr. Crowell, H. R.
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State of Alabama }
Dallas County }
I Benjamin Bolton do Solemnly swear that I volunteered in the army of the United States & in the service of the United under the command of Captain Armstrong in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lytle & in a Brigade commanded by General Nathaniel Green in the year Seventeen hundred & eighty two & before the Conclusion of the peace which succeeded the revolutionary war

That I served in the army of the United States about fifteen months during that War That I Joined the Army in Richmond County in the State of North Carolina that I was discharged at Ashby Hill in the state of South Carolina. That I lost my discharge in March eighteen hundred & fourteen by getting wet in crossing duck river in the state of Tennessee. That I never knew until a few weeks Since that there was a provision ^in the Same for persons serving in the revolutionary war to obtain ^pensions is the reason why I have not applied before this time That I am now fifty five years of age that I have a wife about forty six years of age that I have nine children living with me at the present time four daughters & five sons that my sons are mostly small that the whole of my family are dependent on me for support. That I have lived in this state & whilst it was a Territory upwards of two years That previous to that time in Tennessee & Kentucky five years & previous to that time from the time of my service I lived in Richmond County in the State of North Carolina. That the whole of my estate [underlined: (except two gn. Sections & half of land)] consists of a small quantity of house hold furniture & a very small stock the whole of which is not worth exceeding one hundred dollars. That the Land which I had entered at the land office at Cahawba is morgaged [sic: mortgaged]
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to Frederick Sheffield for the sum of one hundred  & Sixty dollars or thereabouts the term of which expires about March next that I have no means whatever whereby I can raise the money & must without other [illegible] loose [sic: lose] the Land that from age & infirmity I am unable by my own labor longer to maintain my family having having for several years toiled incessantly for a small allowance of the necessaries of life. That my occupation is that of a farmer in which business I have been employed for a Support ever since I left the service

That I have no other evidence than my own affidavit whereby I can establish my Claim to a pension agreeably to the Laws of the United States


State of Alabama }
Dallas County }
The within named Benjamin Bolton personally appeared before me a Judge of the Circuit Courts for said State, who being duly sworn deposeth & saith the facts contained in the preceeding pages shewing the grounds of his claim to pension, are just & true to the best of his knowledge & belief.

Given under my hand & seal this 15th day of Sepr 1820.
S/R Saffold [personal seal]
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State of No. Carolina Secretary's Office 23rd Nov 1820
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears from the musterrolls of the Continental line of
this State that Benjamin Bolton a private
in Capt. Armstrongs Company of the 10th Regt
was mustered in the year 1781. "No doubt
for 12 months", and that he, "left the
service on the 1st Dec 1782.

Given under my hand the date
above
Wm Hill [William Hill]
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State of Alabama
County of Dallas

Be it known, that before me Jno F. Womack a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeard Edwin Bolton, Sarah B. Ladd, Rachel Ezzel & Benjamin Bolton children of Benjamin Bolton deceased, and made oath in due form of law that they are the children of Benjamin Bolton deceased the identical person who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, at the rate of ninety six dollar - cents per annum, and is now dead, to whom a certificate of pension was issued, which is herewith returned or mislaid and lost.

That the said deceased pensioner resided in the County of Dallas in the State of Alabama for the space of twenty five years before his death, and that previous thereto he resided in Kentucky, that he died on the twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord 1843 that no widow now exists and only the following name children viz: John Bolton, Edward Bolton, George S. Bolton, Sarah B. Ladd, Rachel Ezzel & Benjamin Bolton

Sworn to and subscribed on this 18 day of June in the year of our Lord 1859 before me I also certify to the truth of the above

Jno. S. Womack Just of the Peace

Know all men by these presents, that we Edward Bolton, Sarah B. Ladd, Rachel Ezzelle & Benjamin Bolton children of Benjamin Bolton deceased Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of 96 dollars cents per annum, do hereby constitute and appoint D. D. Addison of Washington D. C. our true and lawful attorney for us and in our name and stead to demand and receive from the Treasury of the United State, paying pensions at Washington, D.C. the
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State of Alabama
County of Dallas

Be it known, that on the 18th day of June
1859, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, personally appeared said Ed Bolton Sarah B Ludd Rachel Ezzel of Benj Bolton above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the
purposes therein set forth and described.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned.
Mo. T Womack
Justice of the Peace.

State of Alabama
County of Dallas

I, Thos G Rainer [Thomas G. Rainer] Judge of the Probate Court in and for the county of Dallas, State of Alabama do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Benjamin Bolton deceased, was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, at the rate of 95 dollars cents per annum, and was a resident of the county of Dallas in the State of Alabama
and died in the county of Dallas in the State of Alabama the 12th day of February in the year 1843, that he has no widow now surviving and only the following named children, viz: John Bolton Edward Bolton George S. Bolton Sarah B. Ladd Rachel Ezzel V Benjamin Bolton
that is administrator or executor of said
deceased.  I also certify that John F. Wamack is a magistrate duly appointed and commissioned to act as such, and that his signature above written is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Cahaba this 19th day of June 1859.

Thos G Rainer [Thomas G. Rainer]

Judge of Probate Court for Dallas County.
[ L. S. ]

Mobile Ala
18 March 1818
$8 per month
paid
to reply
1842

[Stamp impression.]
4S.42
12p 43
$8permo:
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37795.
INVALID.
Ruby
File No. 37795
Benjamin Bolton
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18th
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 47
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of Alabama }
Dallas County }
I Benjamin Hall do solemnly swear that I am well acquainted with the situation & value of the two & half quarter Sections of Land mentioned in the schedule of the property of Benj [Benjamin] Bolton and applicant for a pension & that the Land is worth at this time two hundred & fifty dollars. This affiant further Swears that the Land was mortgaged for one hundred & [crossed out: fifty] Sixty dollars and the Certificates were assigned over in Blank & delivered to the mortgagee a Mr Frederick Sheffield who gave Benj [Benjamin] Bolton a bond for the reassignment & delivery on the payment of the money by a particular day which has long since expired and that the money was not paid to the Mortgagee by the time stipulated, & that the said Frederick Sheffield the mortgagee [illegible] claims the land as his own and has filed the Certificates with a Declaration to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress for the Relief of purchasers of public lands & that the said Benj Bolton now has no Interest whatever in the said two & a half quarter sections of Land, this affiant further states that the said Benj Bolton was at the time of Rendering the aforesaid schedule
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of the making of the affidavit aforesaid & now is a Citizen of Resident in the County of Dallas
S/Benjamin Hall

Sworn to & subscribed this 3rd day of December 1822 before 
S/J.H. Thorington JP [personal seal]



State of Alabama }
Dallas County }
I Benjamin Bolton do solemnly swear that I was at the time of making the affidavit to obtain a pension from the United States a citizen of Dallas County and State of Alabama and that it is my bona fide intention to be and remain a citizen of said State and I a do furthermore swear that the certificates for said two and half quarter sections of said were assigned by me in blank and delivered to Frederick Sheffield who gave his bond there to return the same reassigned if the money should be paid by a particular day which has long since expired and that the said Sheffield the mortgagee now refuses to receive the money for the same but has brought an [crossed out] action for an unlawful detainer in the name of Jno W Griggs [crossed out: against me]
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(with Whose name the blank in said
assignment had been filled on a
sale of the land by the Said Sheffield
to the said Griggs) against me & recovered before the Justice of the peace upon whom the Land was brought That I have removed the proceedings into the Circuit Court by [illegible]
where the Land is now pending &
undetermined, & that the bond given by 
Sheffield to me has been placed in the hands of an attorney Who is not now where I obtain the Land to farm and a copy thereof

Benj [X his mark] Bolton

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 3rd day
of Dec. 1821 
S/J. H. Thorington JP [personal seal]



State of Alabama to wit:
It is hereby certified that JH Thorington
before whom the foregoing affidavits were subscribed is, and was at the time the same was done an acting Justice of the peace for the County of Dallas in the State of Alabama. and that [crossed out] faith and credit is due to all his official acts and attestations as such.
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Given under my hand and
the seal of the State at
Cahawba, this 3rd day of December
in the year of our
Lord, one thousand and eight
hundred & twenty one &
of American Independence
the 16th.
James J. Pleasants
Secretary of State.
[outline of seal to the right]
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Honorable John C Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
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[Illegible] 3rd December 1821

The Honorable the Secretary at War
Sir 

Therewith enclose the paper of Benjamin Bolton an applicant for a pension; these are all it is in his power to provide except to bond for the reassignment of the Certificates for the 2 1/2 protections of land (which at this time is in the hands of an attorney who is absent) and which I conceive not now material as tho affidavit herewith said that the land is now beyond his control of the case made and entitle of Bolton to a pension (a thing he greatly needs) he will be glad to be informed thereof as early as practicable, if not, no other requisitions of proof I conceive need be demanded
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as he has already been put to considerable 
trouble and I presume some expense
(as he resides at a distance)
he ended to establish what is conceived
to be a vested right of long standing
consequently at this day the more difficult of proof yet the decree strictness
seems to be observed as if his
right to claim a pension was of very
recent date.  If a person who was a citizen
of the United States at the time specified
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in the act of Congress; and had otherwise
just claims to the benefit of that act
without any other Specified residence, I see
no good reason why the additional proof
of the particular County of his residence
should now be demanded, especially
as the form furnished Mr Bolton from the
War Department which he strictly
pursued did not require it.  I am
aware of the strictness necessary to be observed by the office of the government in the discharge of many public duties
particularly in the allowance of pensions, but I
can see no bearing [words crossed out]the information required by Mr. Edwards letter can have seen what has already been furnished
I have no other concern there in this instance
to aid a poor old man whose indulgence
requires
Very Respectfully [illegible]
Horatio Perry
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Benj. Bolton
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State of North Carolina Secretary's Office 17th Jan. of 1822
I William Hill Secretary of State in & for the State
aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears from the musterrolls of the continental line of this State in the revolutionary war, that Benjamin Bolton a private in Capt Armstrongs Company of the 10th
Reg.t was mustered in the year 1781, and left
the service on the 1st of December 1782. He
was no doubt, enlisted for 12 months and served
out his time.
Given under my hand the
date above
Wm. Gill
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Washington DC
Sept.12.1839
D D Addison
Rec'd Sept. 16. 1839
Benj: Bolton
[illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible]
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$42.57
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Mr Randall