Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18326, George Boan, N.C. S.C.
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3-1776
SERVICE N.C. 
S.C.
Boan, George  or Bone
NUMBER S. 18326
Carded
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CONTENTS [blank]
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31.107
South Carolina 
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George Bone or Boan
Chesterfield in the State of So. Ca. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas of the Regt. commanded by Col Crawford in the So. Ca. line for 8 months 
Noth & S. Ca.

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Inscribed on the Roll of So. Ca. at the rate of 26 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of May 1837 and Sent W. J. Hanna Chesterfield Co So. Ca.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1857  $160.02
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 13.33
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$173.35
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{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book E    Vol. 6.     Page 71




Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th Sept 1837 to 4 Sept 1838. Agt Notified 31. Aug 1839

Order to pay 8th Oct 1839.
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Same. 25. Sep  1843.

A. Austin, June 21/56

Date of death not in AB.
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State of south Carolina }
Chesterfield District }
Know all men by these presents that I Martha Stogner of the District and State above mentioned and one of the children and legal Representatives of George Bone [Boan] decd, a Revolutionary soldier and Penelope Bone his wife who is also deceased. do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint Aaron Austin of the District of Chesterfield & State of South Carolina my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to examine into and prosecute any claims that may be due or found to be due the children and legal Representatives of George Bone in virtue of said George Bones service in the Revolutionary war. and the several acts of Congress relative thereto, and that might have accrued to Either of the said parties and not drawn during their life time and now due to their legal Representatives. I hereby confirm whatsoever my said attorney may do or cause to be legally done in the prosecution of said claims. Witness my hand & seal this 22d day of April 1846
Witness.
S/K.T. Morgan Magst }
S/Hugh Craig Jr. }
S/Martha Stogner [personal seal]
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South Carolina }
Chesterfield District }
Personally appeared before me Hugh Craig Jr and duly made oath that he saw the within named Martha Stogner sign and seal the within instrument of writing. for the use and purposes therein mentioned and that K. T. Morgan Magst. with himself witnessed the same 

Sworn before me 25 April 1856 }
S/Dan'l Douglass
Magst.
S/Hugh Craig Jr.


State of South Carolina }
Chesterfield District }
Be it known that on this twenty ninth day of April AD 1856 before me the undersigned. a justice of the peace in and for the District of Chesterfield appeared Martha Stogner resident of Chesterfield District and made oath according to law that she is one of the children of George Bone whose name has been placed on the South Carolina Pension Roll at the rate of Ninety Six dollars per annum. That she is credibly informed that the said Pension may and ought to be increased from its commencement and owning its continuance That she is directly interested as a claimant in said increase and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as my  agent may use in prosecuting said claims

Sworn to subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year above }
S/K. T. Morgan Magst -
S/Martha Stogner
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written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Martha Stogner to be directly interested in said Claim as set forth and to be the identical party therein alleged in whose claim I am in no wise interested -
S/K. T. Morgan Magst [Magistrate]


State of South Carolina }
Chesterfield District }
It is hereby certified. that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before one Clerk of the Court of Chesterfield District that George Bone [Boan] was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Twenty Six Dollars per annum and that he died on the [blank] day of August eighteen hundred and forty five leaving 
surviving the following named Widow and children to wit Penelope Bone who died about 1847 and Martha Stogner and John W Bone now living It is further certified that K T Morgan Esqr before whom the preceeding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged were at the time of so doing a duly authorised [sic] Justice of the Peace in and for said District and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine: and further that in the within claim for Pension or increase of ditto I am in no degree interested 

[rosette shaped seal]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 29th day of April 1856 -
S/J. E Craig Clk
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34018
Geo Bone
So. Ca


Admd 8 mo. for $26.66 per ann S.C. militia
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Declaration of George Bone. [Boan]
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th. 1832.

State of South Carolina }
Chesterfield District }
On this twenty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions now sitting, George Bone a resident of the District and State aforesaid, aged Seventy four years, who 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 June 7th 1832.

That he was born in what is now the District of Marlboro in the State aforesaid, in January in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty three, That his age was set down in a Bible. given to this deponent, by his father, when a boy at school - That many leaves of the Bible have since been destroyed, and amongst them that on which his age was written.

That this Deponent went into the revolutionary service in December in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, at which time he volunteered for [underlined: one month] under Captain Tristan Thomas - Stephen Wright orderly Sergeant, That he does not recollect the names of the other officers of Capt. Thomas' Company, nor does he know that it was attached to any Battalion or Regiment, but appeared to act alone against the Tories of Marlboro District. That he served the whole month under Captain Thomas but was not in any engagement during the time. At the expiration of the month he returned to his father's, who shortly afterwards removed to Richmond County North Carolina, taking this deponent with him.

That in March 1779 he was drafted, in Richmond County North Carolina, for [underlined: three months], under Captain John Speed, Maj'r. John Jones, & Col. Thomas Crawford; he does not recollect what the Regiment was called. Before marching They were joined by Col. Wade who took command of the Regiment; he then marched under the said officers from
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The house of Col. Crawford in Richmond County, by way of Green Swamp. to Bettises [sic: Bettis's] Bridge on Drowning Creek where a number of Tories were then lying under command of Col. Hector McNeil; the night before we attacked them Col. Fanning with a number of Tories joined Col. McNeill. Though the force of Col. Wade was greatly inferior to that of McNeill & Fanning, he made the attack and was completely defeated. In this engagement this deponent received five bullet holes through his coat, & had his horse killed under him. at the moment deponent's horse fell, a Tory Captain of horse rode up near him & ordered him to surrender, deponent's gun was loaded & he shot the Captain and made his escape upon his horse; - That he was out in this tour the whole three months for which he was drafted.

That some time afterwards he volunteered under the same officers (except Col. Wade) Col. Thomas Crawford having the command, and marched from Pee-Dee-River in Richmond County, to near Willmington [sic: Wilmington] Nort Carolina, in order to join General Rutherfords army, intruding to assist him in driving the British, who had possessed of Willmington, [sic] from the Town. - When Col. Crawford arrived near Willmington, he found that General Rutherfords army was on the opposite side of the river and that he (Col. Crawford) could not cross. The night after Col. Crawford arrived near the Town, the British marched out & crossed the River towards Col. Crawfords camp, who immediately retreated a few miles. The next day Gen'l Rutherford took possession of the Town, and this deponent returned home with Col. Crawfords Regiment, having served four months in this tour - making in the whole a service of Eight months in the militia.

That he never received any discharge -. That he lived in Richmond County North Carolina from the time his father settled there as above stated untill [sic] 1831. In January 1831, he removed to Marlboro District in South Carolina & resided there untill [sic] February 1832, when he removed to Chesterfield District where he now resides. This deponent does not know or recollect of any of his companions in arms who are now alive having lately learned that Aaron Knight who lived in the State of Georgia, & Moses Knight who lived in Richmond County North Carolina are both
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dead. 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.
S/George Boan [Bone]

Sworn to in open court the day & year above written }
S/JS Richardson }
Associate Judge }


We John Parker, S. H. Parker & Hugh Craig of said District of Chesterfield hereby certify, that we are acquainted with George Bone, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed & believed, in the neighbourhood [sic] where he resides & is generally believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion & that he is entitled to credit.

Sworn to & subscribed in open court the day & year above written }
S/J S Richardson
Associate Judge
S/John Parker
S/Stephen H. Parker
S/Hugh Craig


And the said Court do hereby certify & 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 John Parker, Stephen H. Parker & Hugh Craig who have signed the preceeding certificate are residents in the District of Chesterfield South Carolina, and are credible persons, and that their Statement is entitled to credit.
S/J S Richardson
Associate Judge


28th March 1837-------------
I, John Craig Esquire Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas & General Sessions in & for the District of Chesterfield, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
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proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of George Boan [Bone] for a pension: 

[rosette shaped seal]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office, this twenty first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven.
S/John Craig C.C.P.



George Bone 34018
So. Ca


Admd 8 mo for $26.66 per ann. S.C. militia
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May 23, 1939

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GEORGE BOAN, S. 18326
JOHN BONE, S. 14981
BA-J/MLB om

Mr. Sherman Bone
1959 Boulevard Drive, S. E.,
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Sir:

The Revolutionary War records of George Boan or Bone and John Bone are furnished you, as follow:

GEORGE BOAN
S. 18326

The data which follow in regard to George Boan or Bone were obtained from pension claim, S. 18326, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

George Boan was born in January, 1763, in Marlboro District, South Carolina; the names of his parents were not stated.

While residing in Marlboro District, South Carolina, George Boan volunteered in December, 1778, and served one month as private in Captain Tristam Thomas' South Carolina company, after which he returned to the home of his father wo shortly after moved to Richmond County, North Carolina, and George moved with him. He enlisted there in March, 1779, and served a tour of three months as private in Captain John Speed's company, Colonels Thomas Crawford's and Wade's North Carolina regiment, and was in an engagement with the Tories on Drowning Creek in which he had five bullet holes shot through his coat and his horse was killed under him. Soon after that, he again volunteered in Captain John Speed's company, Colonel Thomas Crawford's North Carolina regiment, and served four months.

The soldier resided in Richmond County, North Carolina, until January, 1831, when he moved to Marlboro District, South Carolina, where he remained until February, 1832, thence to Chesterfield District, South Carolina. He was allowed pension on his application executed March 21, 1837, at which time he was residing in Chesterfield District, South Carolina. He signed George Boan but his name was borne on the
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pension roll as George Bone.

George Boan or Bone died sometime in August, 1845, survived by his widow, Penelope. who died about 1847; no details given in regard to their marriage, or to Penelope. The following named children, also, survived their parents, George and Penelope Boan: Martha Stogner who, in 1856, was living in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, and John W. Bone, who was then still living but no details stated in regard to him.

In 1833, one Lewis Bone was a resident of De Kalb County, Georgia, and stated that during the Revolution he lived in Marlboro District, South Carolina, and that he served with the soldier, George Boan or Bone, in that war, but did not state any relationship.

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JOHN BONE
S. 14981

The data which follow in regard to John Bone were obtained from pension claim, S. 14981, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

John Bone was born September 19, 1762, in York County, Pennsylvania, and moved in 1765 to Rowan County, North Carolina. The names of his parents are not shown.

John Bone volunteered from Rowan County, North Carolina, in June, 1780, and served three tours of three months each in the militia, no specific dates of service given. The first tour was in Captain James Byers' company; the second tour as sergeant in Captain Samuel Reed's company, and was in an engagement with the Tories at Colston and in the battle of Cowan's Ford; the third tour was in Captain Graham's company, was in a skirmish on Reedy Fork of Haw River and in the battle of Guilford Court House, after which, he served ten months in North and South Carolina and Georgia under Captain William Alexander and Colonel Wade Hampton, and was in several skirmishes.

The soldier moved in 1785 to East Tennessee and in 1787 to Madison County, Kentucky, and from there in 1810 to Muhlenburg County, Kentucky.

John Bone was allowed pension on his application executed July 30, 1832, while a resident of Muhlenburg County, Kentucky.


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It is not shown in the claim whether John Bone ever married.

In 1832, one Hugh Bone was living in Hopkins County, Kentucky, his relationship to the soldier not stated.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of John Bone, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: John Bone, certificate #7301, issued March 27, 1833, rate, $68.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, Kentucky Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator




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Geo Bone
SC
Sur rel W J
Hanna Age
13 1857
Admd.



Act 7 June 1832
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207 Avenue 2 Attica, Indiana
June 24, 1927

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

The 1840 Pension list names a George Bone, age 77 who lived with George in Chesterfield District, South Carolina.

Please give what data you have about him and his family.

Yours truly,
S/(Miss) M. E. Ellis


[round stamp: 
PENSION OFFICE
R
JUN 27 1927
U. S.]
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W. J Hanna
S. C.
13 April 1837
OC

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Record Vol. 45, P. 340.
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Depart of War
Pension Office
Apl. 13 1837

Sir
I have recd [received] the declaration of George Bone [Boan],  and have placed it upon the files of  My Office. Why he has so long delayed his application, is not stated. The affidavit for Aaron Knight, was late ^it seems more than four [written above: 4] years now. Neither Aaron [crossed out: or] nor Moses Knight was able to furnish such evidence of service or to gratify their enrollment upon the pension list. Some explanation will be required of Mr Bone

I am


W J Hanna Esq
Chesterfield CH
SC
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A Austin,
Chesterfield
S.C.
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Old Book
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Pension Office, June 21, 1856.

Sir,
I have received the informal application of the surviving children of George Bone [Boan] for increase of [crossed out: allowance] his pension. The ground of this demand for increase is not stated; but the papers upon which the father of claimants was inscribed upon the pension rolls ^under act of June 7. 1832 have been examined and it is not perceived that they would justify any additional allowance.

I am.
OC
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
August 15th, 1839.
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," George Bone a Pensioner on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of Twenty Six Dollars and Sixty Seven Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept., 1837, to the 4th Sept., 1838.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
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Chesterfield C.H. [Court House]
May 21st 1856

Dear Sir
Enclosed please find Power of Atty [attorney] in the case of the daughter of George Bone [Boan] a Revolutionary Pensioner.

- Please inform what further is necessary in the case and oblige

Very Truly
A Austin
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Georgia }
DeKalb County }
Personally appeared before me H. B. Latimer a Justice of the peace in & for said County Aaron Knight who being sworn saith that he knew Lewis Bone of Marlborough District in South Carolina from the commencement to the close of the revolutionary struggle and that he the said Lewis Bone served under the command of Major Robert Loyd Capt Henry Counsil Lieut Henry Goodman & & Lieut Tristan Thomas and that the said Bone marched from the above mentioned District to Seawee [sic: Sewee] Bay & thence to Hederals point [sic: Haddrell ??] thence to St James Island and that he the said Bone there received his discharge - this deponent further saith that George Bone [Boan] of the district & state aforesaid did serve with this deponent in the revolutionary war - this deponent farther [sic: further] says that the above mentioned men were to his knowledge true whigs throughout the struggle

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 11th February 1833
S/H. B. Latimer J.P.
S/Aaron Knight
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Georgia }
DeKalb County } 
I E. B. Reynolds Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do certify that H. B. Lattimer who is a subscribing ^witness to the within affidavit is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that due faith and credit should be given to his official acts as such, Given under my hand and private seal, there being no seal of office this 11th day of February 1833
S/E. B. Reynolds Clk [private seal]


Georgia }
DeKalb County }
I Thomas Ray one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County do certify that E. B. Reynolds is Clerk of said Court and that due faith and credit should be given to is official acts as such, Given under my hand and seal this 11th day of February 1833
S/Thomas Ray J.I.C. [private seal]
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S. C.    May 9
Act 1832


[stamp: FREE]
J L Edwards Esquire
Commr of Pensions
{ Washington City
{ D. C.
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Chesterfield C. H.
May 3d. 1837.

J. L. Edwards Esquire:
Sir, early in the year of 1834, George Bone [Boan] applied to me to prepare his declaration in order to obtain a Pension under the Act of June 7th 1832. I then prepared his declaration & instructed him to attend at March Court (1834) with a clergyman & one or two respectable Citizens who would give the certificate required in the instructions from the Department and with such other proof of service as he could get.

He did not attend. He afterwards applied to me to prepare his declaration again stating as his reason for not attending that he could not get the individuals upon whose certificate he depended to attend at the term approached, but thought that he could procure the necessary
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certificate by the next court after this second application to me, this was in 1836. He failed to attend again. But meeting with him afterwards he mentioned the subject of his declaration and I absolutely refused to have any thing further to do with the matter, as I had been at considerable trouble and he had wholly neglected the matter.

He stated that he had failed to attend because he could not procure the attendance of any Clergy man who could give the requisite certificate, and that he understood from what I had said that the certificate of a Clergyman was absolutely necessary - this was in the early part of this year & I prepared the Declaration which was sent to you believing that his failures had provided from the facts stated by him & knowing that I had instructed him to procure the certificate of a Clergyman. As regards
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the certificate of Aaron Knight - I am unformed it was taken at the instance of the brother of this applicant who has been some time dead. Aaron Knight lived in Georgia at the time of giving the certificate forwarded to you. I know nothing of him myself but I know he has the character in this community of a man of truth & of having been a Revolutionary soldier. I am informed that Aaron Knight & Moses Knight are both now dead.

The facts here stated with regard the times of preparing the several declarations for the said George Bone [Boan] I am able to say are correct having preserved the two first & having them now before me.

Hoping the above may be satisfactory - 

I am &c. your obd. servt. [obedient servant]
S/W. J. Hanna


Mr. Boan lives at some distance from this place - I do not know when I shall see him - Please inform me whether the above is satisfactory.
W.J.H.
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P     18326
INVALID.
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File No. 18.326
George Bone [noted above: Boan]
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7" 32
Index:-  Vol. 1,    Page 40

[intentional brackets as printed]
[Arrangement of 1870.]




1928-Jan 10-Hist to Miss M. E. Ellis AWF

1939. May 23-Hist to Sherman Bone (see ltr in Inv of John Bone, S.14981)-MLB.
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Charleston 30 Sept. 1839:
Sir
I forward herewith for authority to pay, voucher of George Bone [Boan]

Very respectfully
your Obt Serv [obedient servant]
A Spears
Pension Agent


J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D. C
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[handwritten note in top margin: George Bone
$18326]

May 23, 1939

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BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Mr. Sherman Bone
1959 Boulevard Drive, S. E.,
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letters in which you state that your great-great-grandfather, George Bone [Boan], was a native of Ireland, came to this county about 1770 and served in the Revolutionary War; you state further that this family of Bones later settled in South Carolina and that said George about 1800 moved to Georgia; that he had brothers - Barney, William, and John in whom you are interested, also.

Revolutionary War data furnished by the Veterans Administration are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land which have been made to the United States based upon service in that war.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Barney Bone, under any spelling of that surname. The record has been found of one George Bone or Boan. His record and that of a John Bone are furnished you herewith. If you find that these two records do not supply the information you desire, another search of the records will be made for that of William Bone, or other whom you may name.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Rev. and 1812                         AWF
Wars Section.

January 10, 1928

Miss M. E. Ellis
307 Avenue 2
Attica, Ind.

Madam: 
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 18326, it appears that George Boan or Bone was born in January 1763 in the District of Marlboro, South Carolina.

He enlisted in December 1778 and served one month in Captain Tristam Thomas' South Carolina Company.

Soon after this his father (his name not given) moved to Richmond County, North Carolina, and soldier went with him, and enlisted in March 1779 and served three month in Captain Speed's Company, Colonels Thomas Crawford's and Wade's North Carolina Regiment, and had an engagement with the Tories on Drowning Creek, where he had five bullet holes shot through his coat and his horse killed under him. Soon after he again enlisted and served
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four months in Captain John Speed's Company, Colonel Thomas Crawford's Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 21, 1837, while a resident of Chesterfield District, South Carolina.

He died in August 1845, leaving widow Penelope, who died in 1847. The date of marriage is not stated, nor is her maiden name given.

In 1856, the following children are referred to- Martha Stogner, living in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, and John W. Bone.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.