Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8077, Reuben Bozzell, Va. Penn.
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Service Va. Penn.

Bozzell, Reuben or Boswell

Number S. 8077

Carded
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23,750
North Carolina

Reuben Boswell [star above last name]

of Meckg. in the State of N.C. who was a pr in the  __ commanded by Captain ____ of the Rgt commanded by Col Bair in the Va line for 2 years

Reuben Bozzell [star above last name]
Records corrected Sept 9 84 [initialized under date]

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Apr 34 Comer. H.R and Turk Hon. [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834   240
Semi0ant. allowance ending Sept 1  40
                                                       $280-

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by  N. Rice Clerk
Book C Vol 67 Page [illegible]

[right side]
date of [illegible] death not in R.B.
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State of North Carolina
Mecklenburg County

Court of Pleas and quartersessions February [illegible] 1833

On this 27th day of February 1833 appeared before the worshipful the Justices of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions for the County of Mecklenburg [illegible] Rueben Boswell, a resident of the County of Mecklenburg aforesaid and the State of North Carolina aged seventy six years past. who being first duly sworn according to law [and?] on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the providence made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  He declares that he was born in the year seventeen hundred and fifty five in the month of December and that he was born in Spotsylvania County in the State of Virginia and that he has a record of his age at home in the family Bible and that wen a child he removed with his mother to Augusta County of the said State of Virginia and resided there until the commencement of the Revolutionary war.  That he first entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in the State Militia of Virginia in the year 1777 as a volunteer under Captain Thomas Lewis that his Colonel was Bosie and that he served under General McIntosh, that he volunteered for ten months and that he was marched to fort Pitt on the Ohio and then went down the Ohio and assisted in building a fort on the north side of the Ohio a[t] the mouth of Big Beaver and went out on the Scioto and there also built a stockade and that he was in frequent skirmishes with the Shawnees and Inqundot indians.  That he served out the six months and was discharged by a written discharged from Lamfon
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Matthews at Wheeling, which discharge is lost.  That he volunteered first in the Summer.  That after he was discharged at Wheeling troops of the Militia of Virginia came over to relieve them.  That he volunteered again in the service of the United states by becoming the Substitute of Raleigh Gibson of the County of Botetourt of the State Virginia who had entered said service for six months as a private.  That his captain was by the name of Lockhardt and his Col. Brookhead of Pen[n]sylvania that he was stationed principally at Fort McIntosh and the Glochad fort on the Scioto and acted as rangers to protect the frontier from indian incursions.  That he served the entire six months for which Raleigh Gibson was bound, and was discharged at Bottetot Court House by an officer by the name of Lewis, his grade not remembered, that his discharge is lost.  That he again became a substitute for a man by the name of London Laru of the County of Amherst of the Militia of said State of Virginia that his Captain was by the name of Booth and that he was under the command of Cols Harvey and Taylor that he was stationed in Albemarle County to guard the prisoners captured by General Zuter at Saratoga, that entered as a substitute as aforesaid in the summer of seventy eight and was discharged in Albemarle at what was called Burgoynes Barracks by some officer his name not remembered which discharge is lost.  That he served sis months as a substitute of said Laurc
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the time for which he was called out.  That after he was discharged in Albemarle he removed from Augusta to Henry County and in the month of March [1833 crossed out] 1781 at the time Greene and Morgan was retreating with the British Prisoners taken at Cowpens and was pursued by Lord Cornwallis.  That he again became a substitute and as such entered the service of the United States in the Militia of Virginia.  That he took the place of Joel Cash a private from the County of Henry aforesaid.  That his Captain was William Bush and George Hastings the Colonel  That he marched to the vicinity of Richmond and was under the Command of the Marquis De La Fayette, that he served this tour four months and served the whole time, that he was discharged below Richmond which discharge is lost, that soon after his discharged he started for home and met the militia coming for to join La Fayette and that he again entered the service as a substitute, that the man whose place he took as by the name of William Mott of the County of Bedford, that his Captain was by the name of Fountain, his major was by the name of Shackleford and went and joined LaFayette below Richmond and was at the Battle of York at the time Cornwallis was taken and was discharged a few days after, that he entered for four months this tour and [line through 'and'] which time had expired before Cornwallis was taken but that
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he was held on till the time he was discharged.  That the whole time of his service was something more than twenty six months.  That he has no documentary evidence of his services nor does he know of any person living by whom he can prove them.  He understands that there is the Muster Rolls of Virginians filed in the War Department and begs leave to refer to them as evidence of his services and to the certificates below as to his character, 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.  That he removed to Mecklenburg County State of North Carolina in the ['month of' crossed out] fall of the year 1782 and that he has resided in said County ever since.

[signed] Reuben Bozzell

Sworn to and subscribed the day + year aforesaid.

We Adam Springs and James G. Porter residing in the County of Mecklenburg aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Reuben Bozzell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age past, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we [illegible] that opinion.

[Signed] Adam H. Springs, J. P. G. Porter

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed the war department that the above name applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Adam A. Springs and Jas G Porter who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the said County, that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Isaac Alexander Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions of Mecklenburg County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Reuben Boswell above mentioned for a Pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27th day of February AD 1833.

[signed] James Alexander Clerk of Mecklenburg County Court
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State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County
Superior Court of Law Fall Term 1833

Reuben Boswell whose declaration originally made as appended Personally appeared before the Judge of the Superior Court aforesaid and made upon oath according to law this his amended declaration at the Superior Court [held?] on the 7th Monday after the 4th Monday of September, who declared when commanded by Major Shackleford at the Battle of York he does not recollect the names of his Colonel that he believes that Shackleford had the command principally, that the last time he entered the service as a substitute in the place of William Watts this was in 1781.  He believed he took Watts' place sometime in June 1781 as well as declarant can now remember, when he was a substitute in the place of Joel Cash he believes now that it was in February 1781 at the Battle of the Cowpens war fought in that month and the Virginia Militia was immediately called out.

Question
1st Where and in what year were you born
Answer: 1755 in Spotsylvania in the State of Virginia

2nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer: I have a record of my age at my own house in Mecklenburg County

3 Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Ans: I lived in the County of Augusta State of Virginia when I entered the service.  In the fall of 1782 I removed to the state of North Carolina where I have resided ever since.

Que 4th: How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute.  And if a substitute for whom
Answer: The first tour I volunteered, the second I substituted in the place of Raleigh Gibson, the Third I substitute in Loudas Pancas place, and the fourth in the place of Joel Cash and the last time as a substitute in the place of William Watts.

Question 5: State the names of the gular officers who were with the troops when you served, such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your services?
Ans: Genera McIntosh, Col Brodhead, General LaFayette + General Wayne
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Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and of [] by whom was it given and what has become of it?

In the first tour I was discharged by Sampson Matthews and have lost - in the second tor we were discharged by an officer by the name of Lewis at Botetourt Courthouse - in the third at the Barracks in Albemarle by an officer whose name I do not remember.  I have lost it.  The fourth tour I was discharged below Richmond discharge lost - the fifth tour at York received my discharges in the old firlds - which discharge is lost  The officer and name not remembered - but believe it to be Major Shackleford.
state the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your charactor for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution.

Adam A Spring and James G. Porter 

Mr. Evan Alexander and Thomas Bowens depose that we are well acquainted with Reuben Bozzell who has subscribed and sworn to the above remembered declaration and that he is a person of credibility and good character and that he is reputed to have been a revolutionary soldier.

E. Alexander
Thos Bowne

John Stiel swears that he first became acquainted with declarant in 1782 - that from his [] and conversation he knew that he had learned during the Revolutionary war - that he discharged  but lived ever since in the neighborhood and that Reuben Bozzell has always been reputed to have been a []

once a soldier of the Revolution
Sworn & subscribded to 
in open court  Nov 12 1833
Thompson  John Still
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and the Court now sitting do hereby declare their opinion that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier and that Evan Alexander Thomas Downes and John Still who have signed the preceding certificates are residents of the said County and are [reputable] persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.

[written vertically across below text] Admit as private 2 years $80 Hon H W Connor HR

I Pearsal Thompson Clerk of the Court Law for the County of Mecklenburg and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings of said Court  in the matter of the [Rev War?] amended declaration of Reuben Bozzell upon his application for a pension for a pension.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in Charlotte the 11th day November A.D. 1833

[signed] P Thompson [illegible]
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No 25.263
Reuben Boswell
Mecklenburgh
N. Carolina

J:M: not authentd.

Nathl W Alexander
Mecklenburgh
N Carolina
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War Department, Pension Office, June 10th 1833

Sir: The eveidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in an tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will shew what is [necessary] to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

Reuben Boswell Mecklenburgh Co N. Carolina

Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. 76 years Augusta Co. Vir[ginia]

Proof by which the declaration is supported. Traditional Evidence stated credible by Court 

Rank of the Claimant. Private

Vol 1777 6 months under Capt Lewis
Vol sub   6 months under Col Buil, Gen[eral] McIntosh
sub   78  6 months under Col Broadhead, Capt Wood 
sub March 81 4 months under Col Harvey, Capt Burk
sub                   4 months under Capt Fountain

I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions.
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2nd page, Regulations Under the Act of June 7, 1832
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Page 3 of Regulations
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December 3, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Mrs. M.B. Biggerstaff
1015 South 6th Street
Ponca City, Oklahoma
REUBEN BOZZELL
S. 8077
BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter of recent date, in which you requested the record of Reuben Boswell, who served in the Revolutionary War from Virginia and was pensioned in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
Next time say "The data which has now obtained. etc"
Reuben Bozzell (name appears also Boswell) was born in December, 1755, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia; the names of his parents were not given. While a child, he moved with his mother to Augusta County, Virginia.
While living in Augusta County, Virginia, Reuben Bozzell volunteered in the summer of 1777, served as private in Captain Thomas Lewis' company, Colonel Bowie's Virginia regiment, assisted in building a fort on the north side of the Ohio River at the mouth of Big Beaver, was in frequent skirmishes with the Shawnee and Wyandotte Indians, served six months and was discharged. He volunteered, date not given, served as private in Captain Lockhardt's company, Colonel Broadhead's regiment, stationed principally at Forth McIntosh, engaged in ranging and protecting the frontiers against the Indian invasions, length of this tour six months. He enlisted in the summer of 1778, served six months as private in Captain Wood's company, Colonels Harvie's and Taylor's Virginia regiments, stationed in Albemarle County, Virginia, guarding prisoners captured by General Gates at Saratoga. After this tour, he moved to Henry County, Virginia, and there enlisted in February of March, 1781, and served four months as private in Captain William Bush's company, Colonel George Hasting's Virginia regiment. After being discharged below Richmond, he started for home and met the militia on their way to join General La Fayette and he again enlisted in 1781, served as private in Captain Fountain's company, under Major Shackelford in the Virginia troops, was in the battle of Yorktown and at the capture of Cornwallis and was discharged after having served on this tour four months.
In the fall of 1782, the soldier moved to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
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The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed February 27, 1833, at which time he was residing in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He signed Reuben Bozzell but his name was borne on the pension roll as Boswell.
There are no family data shown in this claim for pension the source of all data given in this record. 
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of the person paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: 
Reuben Boswell
Certificate #23750
Issued April 4, 1834
Rate. $80 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1832
North Carolina Agency.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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8077
INVALID.

1923 Apl. 30 Hist. to Mrs. E. F. Shideler Ew
1936 Jan. 14 Hist to Mrs. W. C. McCommons
1938 Dec 3. Hist. to Mrs. M.B. Biggerstaff
Reuben

File No. 8077
Reuben Boswell
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index: --Vol. 1st, Page 38

[Arrangement of 1870.]
Reuben Bozzell
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Ponca City, Okla.
Oct. 20. 1938.
1015 - South 6th

Veterans Administration Bureau
Washington D.C.

[Round Stamp]
RECEIVED 
OCT 24 1936

Gentlemen,
Will you please search your recordS for information concerning one Reuben Boswell (Boswell) during the Revolution. He received a pension in 1833 or 1836 from Mecklenburg Co. N.C. He was a private in the Virginia Militia enlisting in Henry Co. Va. He lived most of his wife in Mecklenburg Co. and statistics shalt he is buried in Sandy Ridge Township, Union Co. Tenn. [Tenn is lined out] Georgia. He was pensioned in the amount of $240.00
If you can tell me anything of his family, I shall be most grateful. I believe this to be my great grand father and so anxious to know his wife's name and that of his children - strange
as it seems, Saw only thirty eight years of age and the third generation in a span of 154 years-so I'm getting quite a kick out of all this.
Many thanks for your help - 
Mrs  B Biggerstoff
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Thomson GA
Nov 12, 1935
Veterans Administration,
Washington D.C.
Rev. War section-
Gentlemen,
Please send information on service record, places
of residence, names & children and wives of mentioned in data on following Rev. Wa Pensioners.
[checkmark]Reuben Boswell-Mecklenburg, N. C.
Joel Chivers-Prince George Co. Va
Littleberry Gresham, Troup Co. Ga
Wm Evans-Taliaferro Co. Ga
David Gresham-Troup Co. Ga
Thanking you
Mrs. W.C. Mc
Commons,
McDuffie Co. Thomson, Ga
[stamp] Received Nov 14 1935 Mail Sub. Div.
Vets Adm.Reader 10 [encircled with numbers]
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[Oval Stamp}
RECORD
FEB17 1923
DIVISION
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[Oval Stamp]
RECORD 
FEB 17 1923
DIVISION
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Pension Bureau
Dept of Interior,
Washington

Dear Sir,-
Please send me copy of
pension granted Ruben
Boswell who fought in Virginia
moved to North Carolina
in 1835.

Yours Sincerely

Mrs. E. F. Fideler
2877 Sutherland Ave
Indianapolis, Ind.
Feb.. 13_

[Round Stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
G
FEB 16 1923
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January 14, 1936

Mrs. W. C. McCommons
Thomson, Georgia

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
REUBEN BOZZELL
S. 8077
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Reuben Boswell of Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina, Joel Chivers, of Prince George County, Virginia, Littleberry and David 
Gresham of Troup County, Georgia, and William Evans of Taliaferro County, Georgia.

Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data, and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request relative to soldiers of that war. The record of Reuben Bozzell or Boswell is furnished you herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim,
S. 8077, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Reuben Bozzell ( name appears also as Boswell ) was born in December, 1755, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia; the names of his parents are not given. While a child, he moved with his mother to Augusta County, in that state.

While a resident of Augusta County, Virginia, Reuben Bozell volunteered in the summer of 1777, served as private in Captain Thomas Lewis' company, Colonel Bowie's Virginia regiment, assisted in building a fort on the north side of the Ohio River at the mouth of
Big Beaver, was in frequent skirmishes with the Shawnee and Wyandotte Indians, served six months and was discharged. He volunteered, date not given, served as private in Captain Lockhardt's company, Colonel
Broadhead's regiment, stationed principally at Fort McIntosh, engaged in ranging and protecting the frontiers against the Indian invasions, length of this tour six months. He enlisted in the summer of 1778, served six months as private in Captain Wood's company, Colonels Harvie's and Taylor's Virginia regiments, stationed in Albemarle County, Virginia, guarding prisoners captured by General Gates at Saratoga. After this tour, he moved to Henry County, Virginia, and there enlisted in February or March, 1781, and served four months as private
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in Captain William Bush's company, Colonel George Hastings' Virginia regiment. After being discharged below Richmond, he started for home and met the militia on their way to join General La Fayette and he again enlisted in 1781, served as private in Captain Fountain's Company, under Major Shackelford, in the Virginia troops was in the
battle of Yorktown when Cornwallis was 
[when & was captured lined out above
& "the capture of" inserted]
captured and was discharged after having served on this tour four months.

The soldier moved to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in the fall of 1782.

Reuben Bozzell or Boswell was allowed pension on his application executed February 27, 1833, at which time he was residing in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He signed Reuben Bozzell.

There are no family data shown in the claim.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of the person paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, you
should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:

Reuben Bozzell
Certificate #23750
Issued April 4, 1834
Rate $80 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1832
North Carolina Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
2
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Revolutionary War Records Section
3-525
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C., _______192_

S. 8077

In reply to your request of _____, for the history of Reuben Bozzell or Boswell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the Sols claim for pension.

Rank Pvt, State VA

Summer 1777, 6 mos, Captain Thos Lewis, Colonel Bowie
1777, 6 mos, Captain Lockhardt, Colonel Broadhead
Summer '78, 6 mos, Captain Wood, Colonel Harvey + Taylor
Mar. 1781, 4 mos, Captain Henry Bush, Colonel Geo. Hastings
1781, 4 mos, Captain Fountain, Maj. Shackleford

Battles engaged in, Yorktown, sev. Skir. with Indians
Residence of soldier at enlistment, August and Henry Cos., Va.
Date of application for pension, Feb. 27, 1832 al.
Residence at date of application, Mecklenburg, NC
Age at date of application, b. Dec 1755, Spotsylvania Co. Va
Remarks: No fam data.