Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10,238, Adam Boss, Maryland
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(3-1776_ 
SERVICE 
Maryland 

Boss, Adam 
Harriet 

NUMBER 
W. 10, 238 

B.L.Wt. 79530-160-55

CONTENTS
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Ohio. 13.319 

Adam Boss of Cincinnati in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Co. commanded by Captain Lemar of the Regt commanded by Colo Guest in the Maryland line for 8 months. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commend on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of June 1833 and sent to John Stuart Cincinnati Ohio 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833, 53.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept '33, 13.33 
$66.65 

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832 

Recorded by Wm. R. Belmer Clerk, 
Book E. Vol. 8. Page two
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June 17 1833 

Set. Bellamy Stoner, Oct 21/36
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12,911 

Adam Boss 
Papers for a pension
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Amendment to Adam Boss's Declaration for a pension - 

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hamilton and State of Ohio, Adam Boss, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grade - In the year seventeen hundred and eighty one I served as a private soldier from the first of March to the latter part of December, in the same year in the Revolution, in the State of Maryland troops, not less than eight months, and  in such service I claim a pension. 

Sworn to and subscribed this 18 day of April 1833
Isaiah Wing 
his mark Adam Boss 

State of Ohio 
Hamilton County 

I Danl Gano clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Hamilton County State of Ohio do certify that it is matter of record in my office that Isaiah Wing the Marshall who has subscribed his name is a Justice of the Peace within + for the County of Hamilton aforesaid duly elected + sworn + that to his official acts as such full faith + credit is due + ought to be given. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said court of common pleas at Cincinnati this 31st of May 1833. 

Danl Gano 
clk
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[illegible in upper right corner, maybe from another page through a hole in the paper]
State of Ohio County of Hamilton ss
On this twentieth day of September A.D. 1832
Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hamilton & State of Ohio aforesaid Adam Boss a resident of Cincinnati in the County & State aforesaid, aged seventy 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
I was born in the County of Bucks in the State of Pennsylvania in the month of March seventeen hundred and sixty two [1762]. I lived there till I was thirteen years old when my Father moved to the State of Maryland into the County of Baltimore & early in the spring of the year 1781 my Fathers waggon was pressed into the Public service, to go to the Indian Landing four miles below Anapolis [Annapolis], to carry Military Stores, which were at that place, to Montgomery Court House in the State of Maryland. I went with the Waggon & drove it. I was engaged & served about a month before I was discharged. shortly after this, there was a call for Militia to go to Baltimore, there was a call for all between the ages of sixteen & sixty. I went with the company to which I belonged & was there about a month when we were discharged & I went home.  Capt Lemon Commanded our Company & my Brother Jacob Boss, older than me, was Lieut & W Schrode was Ensign & Joshua Gest was Colonel. Shortly after, we were called again & went to Baltimore. The same officers commanded the Company & Regiment this second term & I remained about two months with them, when there was a draft of every tenth man for four months & ten days. I was drafted & went to Virginia & served my time out. I was in the whole of the seige of Yorktown & was there when the British surrendered. Col. Joshua Gest commanded the drafted Regiment I was in & Capt. George Winchester the company. The Leiut was from the town of Baltimore by the name of Pore[?], The Ensign I don't now remember with certainty but I think it was Everhart. The whole of the time, I was in the Revolutionary service was between eight & nine months.
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I have no record of my age in this Country but there is one in my Fathers Bible, which my Brother in Philadelphia has about twenty years ago, when I was there. In answer to the third question I say I was born in the County of Bucks Pennsylvania State, then lived in Baltimore County Maryland when I performed the Public services before mentioned; six or seven years after I moved to the State of Virginia, County of Farquar [Fauquier] where I lived till the year 1822, when I removed to the State of Kentucky where I lived about five years, when I removed to Cincinnati where I have lived ever since. In answer to the 4th & 5th Questions I can only say I have said all in my general declaration that I can now remember. All the discharges I ever had were verbal. In answer to the seventh question I can refer to Mr. Brooks who owns the steam saw mill, John Williams & Josiah Kimball & W. Bassmire who keeps a Grocery, all of whom are well acquainted with me & with whom I have frequently conversed upon the subject of my revolutionary services & who can testify to my character for veracity & honesty. I could refer the Court to many more of my acquaintances in confirmation of the same subject. i do not know of any person now living who was in the service with me or who knows of my having served, only from my declarations, to that effect, long before I had the least expectation of obtaining any pension. I have not been to that part of Maryland where I lived, when I was drafted, for forty years. I  hereby relinquish very claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the instant, & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to & submitted this day & year aforesaid.
in open Court
Danl Gano [?]
Clk
his
Adam X Boss
Mark
[his mark Adam Boss X]
Mr. William Burke a Clergyman & Joseph Kimball both of said City of Cincinnati, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adam Boss who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he lives & resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution, & that we
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concur in that opinion.
William Burke
Joseph Kimble [Kimball?]
Sworn to & subscribed before me in open Court 30 Sept 1832 Dan'l Gano
Clk PT
[The following is crossed off with large x's through several lines]
I Daniel Gano, Clerk Pro Tem of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hamilton & State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing constitutes the original proceedings of the [end of crossed off text]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the afore maned applicant was a revolutionary Soldier & served as he states & the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Burke who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the City of Cincinnati County of Hamilton & state of Ohio & Joseph Kendall who has also signed the same is a resident in said City of Cincinnati & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Daniel Gano Clerk P Tem of the Court of Common Please for the County of Hamilton & State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of this said Court in the matter of the application of Adam Boss for a pension.
[The following is crossed off] State of Ohio Hamilton County fo [end of crossed off text]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of our Court of Common Pleas at Cincinnati this twentieth day of September 1832
Danl Gano
Clk P.T.
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12911[?] No 13.319
Adam Boss
[crossed off illegible]
Adm 8 months

John Th[illegible]
Cincinnati
Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of Adam Boss Cincinnati
County of Hamilton in the state of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a court or a judge? - IN OPEN COURT

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? NA

3. How old is he? 70

4. State his Service as directed in the form annexed.
Period - 4 entries but too light to read. "His father's...1781 etc.
Duration of Service 
1. 1 month
2. 1 month
3. 2 months
4. 4 months 10 days

Rank
1. Laborer
2. Private
3. blank
4. illegible

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served - 
mostly illegible
Col Joshua Bell
Capt Geo Winchester


5. In what battles was he engaged - ILLEGIBLE

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? - BALTIMORE CO MARYLAND

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence or by the rolls? TRADITIONARY EVIDENCE

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? And if so, in what respect? - NO

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

illegible - Examining Clerk
19 July 1835
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6.061
Ohio
Harriet Boss widow of Adam Boss who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 95 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 7th July 1868 [illegible]
Certificate of Pension issued 5th day of Oct. 1868
and sent to Bordent Andrews
P.O. Box 471, Cincinnati Ohio
Act 3d Feby 53

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853,
Page 157  Vol. H
[illegible]
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List of Marriages celebrated by me from Jany 1st 1821 until Feby 29th 1822 in Prince William County.

Adam Boss & Harriot Ransdell 24th Jany 1822.

I do hereby certify that the above is a correct list of Marriages celebrated by me in Prince William County from Jany 1. 1821 until Feby 28. 1822.
Wm Shell

Truly recorded. Teste T.D. Blane of our true extract
Teste J. R. Lipscomb

State of Virginia
Prince William County to wit

I Philip D Lipscomb Clerk of Prince William County Court in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing extract of the marriage of Adam Boss and Harriot Ransdell is a true transcript from the records of the said Court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Seal of the Court this 17th day of February A.D 1857.
J. W. Lipscomb
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Mrs. H. Boss
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State of Ohio
Hamilton County
City of Cincinnati
SS
On this twenty fifth day of October A.D. 1856 personally appeared before the Superior Court of the City of Cincinnati in said state Harriet Boss, for thirty years past and now a resident of Cincinnati the County of Hamilton and state aforesaid, aged sixty years, who, first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd day of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Adam Boss who was a private in the army during the Revolutionary war and served as affiant believes about four years and certainly more than one year; that said Adam Boss was in that division of the army commanded b General The Marquis de Lafayette; that he said Adam Boss served until the end of the war and was honorably discharged at that time. She further declares that
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she was married to the said Adam Boss on the twenty third day of january Anno Domini 1822, that she was not married to him prior to January 2 1800, but at the time above stated; that her husband died on June 17th 1833, and that during this year to wit; 1833, her said husband received a pension from the U.S. Government by virtue of his service aforesaid, which was paid at the agency in Cincinnati. She further says & declares she is now a widow.
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above
written before me, Bellamy Storer, Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, Ohio
Bellamy Thomas
Harriet Boss [signature]
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Said court is a Court of Law & Record within & for said city
In testimony [?] whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court [illegible] this 27th day of October A. D. 1856
Tho's Spooner
Clerk Superior Court
Cincinnati
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287.985
Act March 3/56[?]
March 10/56[?]
Harriet Ross wid of Adam Ross pen[?]
Capt
Col
A Revolutionary Pensioner
AD Feby 53 - No6061
W[illegible] Ap[?]/6/58,
Boynton[?]
xpect [?]
B
Wm B Barry
Cincinnati Ohio
Vol 32 page 28
[written diagonally over other text as follows]
[illegible] 79.530 issued April[?]7/58
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287.985
Act 3rd March 1855
8th Sect
Harriet Boss
Pensioner of Cincinnati
Ohio Agency under
2nd Sect A D Feb 3rd 1853
Wm B. Barry
Cincinnati
Ohio [?]
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STATE OF Ohio
COUNTY OF Hamilton
On this 3d day of March 1858
Personally appeared before me a Notary Public
Harriet Boss  aged 59 years, a resident of Cincinnati [illegible]  who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of provision made by the 8th section of the Act of Congress approved March 3d 1855

THAT

she is the widow of Adam Boss who was a private in the war of the Revolution --
that she is a pensioner of the United States
on the Roll of the Cincinnati [illegible] Agency at the rate of 26.66 per annum as such widow under the 2nd
Section of the Act of Congress of 3 Feby 1853 on pension Certificate No 6.061.
She further declared that she has not intermarried since the decease of has said husband but is now a widow and that she has not received a warrant for Bounty Land
under this or any other act of Congress nor made any pension application therefor

That she constitutes and appoints Wm B Barry of
Cincinnati Attorney in the premises

ATTEST

Harriet Boss
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year first above written, before me, on Witness hand and seal, and I certify
that the Claimant is known to me to be the person she represented herself to be.

Richard Will
Notary Public
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We Erasmus Maltby & Luther B. Baldon residents of Cincinnati Ohio do upon our oaths declare that the within declaration was signed and acknowledged by Harriet Boss in our presence, and that she is known to us to be the identical person she represents herself to be. We also declare that from intimacy with her we know that she has not intermarried since the decease of her husband the within named Adam Boss, but is now a widow and that we are disinterested persons.
E Maltby L B Baldon[?]
Sworn & Subscribed before me this day and year first herein written, and I [illegible] that Deponents are known to me to be credible persons
Richard Neill [Will?]
Notary Public
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1908 Apr 7 Robt. R. Jones
Chairman Ohio S. of R.
given date of death. [illegible]
No. 6,582
Harriet Boss
widow of Adam
Hamilton Co. Ohio
[illegible] Hon. J. Scott Harrison
Dec. 10 1856
Act Feby 3 1853

Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 10238 [illegible written diagonally]
Harriet Boss
Wid
Adam Boss
Privt Rev. War
Act: February 3rd 1853
Index: Vol. [illegible] Page 171
Arrangement of 1870
79.530
160 acres [60 acres?]
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Adam Boss 

John Stuart
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Adam Boss which require
further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
No
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?
No
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
Yes
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2
XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
Yes
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
Yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
Yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ____year____ months and _____days, I served as a _____, For _____ months and _____days, I served as a _____, and
for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served
and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of
the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he
must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits
the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as
the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged. The magistrate who may administer
the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature
of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the
certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.
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[Envelope]
[Postmark} Ohio May 31 [illegible]
[handwritten] June 6
Free [? handwritten postage mark]
Hon Lewis Cass
Revolutionary Pensions
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.
Ohio [illegible]et
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Cincinnati May 30th 1833
Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Sir,
Enclosed I send back the papers of Adam Boss, who claims a pension as a soldier in the war of the Revolution, with the addition & correction suggested by the War Department. Boss' memory is not very good, but he is positive to what he has now stated & he thinks he served longer. He is an old man of good Character amongst his acquaintances & esteemed a man of truth. He recollects particularly the seige [siege] of Yorktown Virginia when Lord Cornwallis was taken in October 1781 when he was present all the time. I also inclose the paper giving the directions for amendment that you may see the objections are obviated. He is poor & even the small sum, that will be allowed him, would be very acceptable. An early attention to the business would greatly oblige him.
Yours dutifully
John Stuart
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Declaration for Increase of Pension.
Harriet Boss
widow Adam Boss
Revolutionary war
[illegible]
ROBERT CLARKE & CO
Law Publishers, Booksellers & Stationers,
WEST FOURTH STREET
CINCINNATI, O.
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Declaration for Increase of Pension.
UNDER SECTION 13. ACT OF JULY 27, 1868.
State of Ohio
County of [illegible]
On this [illegible] day of [illegible] A. D. one thousand eight hundred and [illegible] personally appeared before me [illegible] within and for the County and State aforesaid, Harriet Boss aged 69 [?] years, a resident of Cincinnati in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical [illegible]
to whom was granted Pension Certificate No. [illegible], payable at [illegible] at the rate of [illegible] dollars per month, issued under the act of [illegible] 18[illegible]; that she makes this declaration in order to secure the increase of [illegible] pension to which she is entitled under the thirteenth section of the act of July 27, 1868.

Her post office address is as follows:[illegible]
I further desire all certificates and Communications regarding this application for arrears, to be forwarded to [illegible] who is authorized to receive same for me.
Harriet Boss

Signature of Claimant.
Also personally appeared [illegible] and [illegible] residents of Cincinnati, County of Harrison, and State of Ohio, persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, 
and who, being by me duly sworn say that they were present and saw Harriet Boss 
name to the foregoing declaration and they further swear that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she
is the identical person she represents
her self to be; and they further state that they have no interest in the prosecution
of this claim.
Daniel McAvoy
Dayton [illegible]
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
fifth[?] day of September, A. D. 1868; and I hereby certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim, and that same was read and explained by
me before signing of same [following is crossed off] or before making mark. [End of cross off]
John M Lean
Clerk U.S. Dist. Ct.
S.D. Ohio
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State of Ohio
Hamilton County
SS
Personally appeared before me a Notary Public in and for said County Harriet Boss, widow of Adam Boss, late Private Revolutionary War, who being duly sworn according to law says that she has not remarried since the death of her above mentioned husband but is still a widow.

Harriet Boss

Also personally appeared Chas B McMekin and
John Wakeman, both residents of Cincinnati, persons whom I certify to be [acceptable?] and fully entitled to be creditable and who being by me duly sworn according to law and that they have known [Mrs?] Harriet Boss the above [wife?] [illegible] for many years and know that she has not remarried since the death of her above mentioned husband but is still a widow. Also that they have no interests in the claim.
Chas B McMekin
John Wakeman

Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 2nd day of September 1868 and I certify that I have no interests in this claim
Daniel McAvoy
Notary Public
Harrison, Ohio
Notary Authority
on file
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State of [Kentucky?]
County of [illegible]

Caroline Canfield, being duly sworn says that in the year 1831 she was well acquainted with Adam Boss and his wife Harriet Boss who were then residents together of Cincinnati, Ohio; that she knew said Adam Boss as an old Revolutionary soldier and also the fact that he received a pension for his services in said war, she having herself seen the money paid on account of said pension as she was then living at the house of said Adam and Harriet Boss; She further states that of her own personal knowledge she knows the fact of said Adam Boss' death as she was with him and waiting upon him at the time; she has known the said Harriet Boss ever since the decease of her said husband which took place in June 1833 and knows she who is now applying for the benefit of the pension act of February 3, 1853 is the widow of the said Adam Boss who drew said pension.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this [illegible] day of Dec. A.D. 1856
[name? illegible]
Caroline Canfield
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State of Ohio
Hamilton County
Andrew T. Koegel being duly sworn says that in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty one [1831] he was well acquainted with Adam Boss and Harriet Boss his wife, both then living in Cincinnati, that he was in the daily habit of seeing said Boss, and wife up to the time of said Boss' death in June 1833 of which fact (to wit; the death of said Adam Boss) he was cognizant at the time the same happened, and has been well acquainted with said Harriet Boss ever since the decease of her said husband, and knows she is his widow. He further states he knew said Adam Boss before said year 1831. Said Boss then living in Cincinnati.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 24th day of Dec. AD 1856
J. P. Jackson
Notary Public
Hamilton County, Ohio
Andrew T Koegel
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Joseph Arnold being duly sworn says he has resided in the City of Cincinnati for more than twenty five years; that he was well acquainted with Adam Boss twenty five years ago being a near neighbor of said Boss, that he was with and attended upon said Adam Boss at his death - sickness was with him when he died and being at his funeral saw him buried, in the month of June AD 1833. He further states he was also at that time and thence to the present time well acquainted with Harriet Boss, wife of said Adam Boss, who is now an applicant for a pension under the act of February 3, 1833, and knows that she is the widow of said Adam Boss, and further says not.
Joseph Arnold
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 31st day of Dec. AD 1856
Jno L Pendery
U S Commisser
S D of Ohio
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3. [Auditor?] Office
March [18?], 1837
Sir:
Adam Boss Cincinnati, Ohio, [illegible] Act of June 1832, at @26.66/100 per annum, died 19th June 1833, this pension has been paid in full to that date.
Very Resp'y
Rob J. Atkinson
Auditor
Geor C Whiting, Esq.
Comm. of Pensions

[following written at 90 degrees]

Len Off. Mch 16, 1859
Sir,
Please oblige me by stating when Adam Boss of Ohio, was last paid at 26.66 a year under the Act of June 7 1832.
Respectfully
[illegible]
[illegible]
R. J. Atkinson, Esq
[Illegible]
[M. Platt?]
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[envelope]
Cincinnati. O. Mar 8 Free [postmark]
The Commr
of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
287.985
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6061
Ohio Cinc.
Harriet Boss
widow of Adam who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 3rd February, 1853
Certificate of Pension issued 19th day of March 1857 and sent to Hon. J S Harrison
Cleves, Ohio
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853 Page 157 Vol. 36
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Increase   Cin 6061
Brief in the Case of Harriet Boss Widow of Adam
Cincinnati
Hamilton County and State of Ohio
The Act Feb 3, 1853

CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE.
PROOF EXHIBITED,
A Pension roll of Cincinnati amt 26.66 per annum but returned. Ad(illegible)  (illegible) Act July 27, 1868

Personal Identity &Widowhood shown

Admitted Oct 1 1868 at a pension of $96 per annum to commence July 27 1868 (illegible) pay since.

Name and residence of Agent
Bordon Andrew
PO Box 471
Cincinnati, Ohio


A G Trast
Examining Clerk
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House of Reps
July 28 1887

Sir

I have the honor to enclose a letter in advisory or a certificate of the (illegible) in the case of Harriet Boss an applicant for  pension & bounty land in (illegible) of her husband Adam Boss also an affidavit of Andrew T Kogely in regard to the same claim.

An early acknowledgement of its receipt of these papers & a report on the case will greatly oblige

Your obt svt
J S Harrison
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Cincinnati Octo 4 1856

Sir

Your letter to Mr Pugh of the [illegible], 
under date of August 15, is before me.

The widow of Adam 
Boss the Revolutionary soldier to whom your letter 
refers was married in 1822 to her late husband. 
He died 17 June 1833.

Will you be kind enough to 
inform me, under what act the old lady must 
apply for the pension?

Yours very respfy

Bellamy Storer 

J Minot Esqr
Com. of Pensions
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House of Reps
December 2d 1856

Hon George C Whiting
Com of Pensions

Sir

I have the honor  to enclose the application of Harriet Boss of the City of Cincinnati in the State of Ohio for a pension in right of her husband Adam Boss a soldier of the Revolution.  The Petitioner claims under the act of Congress of the 3d of February 1853.

I have the honor to request that I may be notified of the receipt and filing of the application

With high respect
Your obt svt

J Scott Harrison
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Cin. O.
February 23rd '57

Hon. J. S. Harrison,

My dear sir,

Accompanying I send you the necessary certificate of marriage and affidavits of service &c by which Mrs. Harriet Boss is proved entitled to pension under act of Feb. 3, 1833.

Mrs. B. is a needy and worth lady of a good old age, and in addition to the obligation you will confer upon me by procuring an  early attendance to her application, you will be conferring a charity upon one who knows how to appreciate it.

If I am correct in my understanding of the U.S. Statutes Mrs. B. upon the proofs I send is entitled to a land warrant in addition to pension.

The Department however will determine & you will please receive what my be coming.

I remain as ever truly yours
(Signed) J. P. Jackson
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Harriet Boss
Widow of Adam,
Cincinnati Ohio
adm[?] Feby [February] 3, 1853
$26.66 a year
from the passage of the Act
Certts[illegible]
Hon J. Scott Harrison
Cleves
Ohio
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Brief in the case of Harriet - widow of Adam Boss of Ohio, Act February 3, 1853.
Her husband was previously pensioned at $26.66 a year under the Act of June 7 1832, and died in 1833.
Record evidence of her Marriage,
Cohabitation, general reputation of marriage, her identity as the pensioner's widow, his death and her present widowhood proven by credible witnesses.
Hon. J. Scott Harrison
Cleves
Hamilton Co
Ohio
Thornton Triplett
Examiner
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Harriet Boss
2d Sect Feb 3 1853
Payment to be made at Cincinnati by
J. C. Green, Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Ohio
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 157 Vol 76
G. T. Getty, Clerk
4/67
[round stamp] Cincinnati Pension Agency
Sep 28 1800 [?]
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Department of the Interior,
Widow's Pension
I certify that, in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853,
Harriet Boss,
widow of Adam Boss,
who was a Private in the revolutionary war,
is inscribed on the Pension List, at the rate of Twenty Six dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum, commencing on the 3d of February, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior, this Nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven [1857]
J. Thompson
Secretary of the Interior
Examined and countersigned
Geo C Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
[handwriting] 26 66
13.33
1859 [minus]
1822 [equals]
37