Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,099, Asamus Boyers, Penn.
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(3-1776)                                                   NUMBER
                 SERVICE

[handwritten] Penn.     Boyers, Asamus     R. 1,099
                                    or              or
                                    Byers,   Oysel                 
                                                 Elizabeth
__________________________________________________
CONTENTS
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30.590
Pennsylvania (Pittsg.|
----
Asamus Boyers decd.
Elizabeth Boyers, [Illegible]
of Armstrong Co in the State of Penna
who was a private in the company__ commanded
by Captain Oury of the Regt__ commanded
by Col. McCoy, in the Penna
line for six months from___
---
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh
at the rate of 20 Dollars --- Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
---
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of April
1836 --- and sent to Hon. J
Klingensmith N.R.
---
arrears to the 26th of Feb 1836 $99.60,
|-ant allowance ending

  Revolutionary Claim,}
⎨Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm Allison Clerk,
Book E2 Vol. 5 Page 117
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State of Pennsylvania }
Armstrong County  ss }

On this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty-four personally appeared in open Court (the Court of Common pleas of Armstrong County said Court being a Court of Record before John Young Esqr President and Joseph Rankin and Robert Orr associate Judges of said Court, Asamus (or Oysel) Boyers a resident of Allegheny Township Armstrong County and State of Pennsylvania Aged seventy nine years who being duly sworn according to Law doth make on his oath the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832. That he enlisted as a common soldier in the month of August Seventeen hundred and seventy-six in the 8th Regiment of Pennsylvania, commanded by Colonel McCoy [Aeneas Mackay]. that his Captain's name was Wendel Oury, that he enlisted on the farm of Abraham Leisure about seven miles from Hannahstown in Westmorland County, Pennsylvania That soon after he enlisted the troops marched to the Allegheny River to a place about two miles below the Kittanning and remained there doing duty in guarding the frontiers for the space of four months. That he then marched to Philadelphia thence to Wilmington, thence to the Brandywine and that he was engaged in the battle of Brandy wine, which was fought on the 11th September AD 1777 and in which we were defeated, that the regiment to which he belonged was attached during the Battle to Genl Wayne’s [Anthony Wayne] Brigade After the battle of Brandy-wine, we went with Wayne’s Brigade to the Paoli, when we arrived at the Paoli I was sick and unfit for duty That the British attacked us about nine O'clock at night, being sick I was not in the engagement that we lost a number of brave fellows-
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He further states that he never received a discharge in writing from his officers - That he served from the time of his enlistment thirteen months for which he now claims a pension. He further States that he has procured the testimony of Captn Mathew Jack of Westmorland County Penna as to his services which accompanies this his application. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of any agency of any State
Sworn & subscribed in }
open Court this 17th day of }
September A.D. 1834 }  Asamus his Mark Boyers 
Fredk [Frederick] Rohrer, Pro [Prothonotary] 

And the Court hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states 
John Young }
Joseph Rankin }
Robert Orr 
Judges of the Court of Common pleas of Armstrong Co 

Mr.Gabriel Adam Reichart a clergy man residing in the Borough of Kittanning Armstrong County Penna & John Klingensmith residing in Allegheny Township same County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Asamus (or Oysel) Boyers who has sworn & subscribed to the above declaration : that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age ; that he is reported and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn & subscribed [Crossed out: before me] 
in open Court this 18 day of 
September AD 1834 
Fredk [Frederick] Rohrer, Pro [Prothonotary]

G. A. Reichert 
John his mark Klingensmith
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    The following Interrogations were [illegible] to Asamus (or Oysel) Boyers the above applicant by this Court and answered as here after stated-
1. Where and in what year were you born?
An.   In Tulpehocken Township in Berks County Penn. in the year Seventeen hundred & fifty-five -
2. Have you any record of your age & where is it?
An.   I have no record of my age but have my information of my age from my father
3.  Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now reside?
An.    In Westmorland County Penn. after the War I lived in Berks? (now Scherylkill) County Penn. and moved back to Westmoreland County after some years.  And from there to where I now reside in Alleghany Township Armstrong County
4.  How were you called into service; were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
An.    I was enlisted.  I was never a substitute.
5.  State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops where you served; which Continental and Militia Regiment as you can recollect and the general circumstances of you served?
An.    I serve Generals. Washington, Wayne, Green and Sullivan at the battle of Brandywine I serve general officers whom the soldiers ^ (and at) [illegible] were these men.  I do not recollect any Continantal or Militia Regiment, Green and Sullivan had the hardest fighting - I can no further particular statement of my services than that mentioned in my declaration 
6.  to a soldier - did you? receive a discharge from the services and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
An.   I never received a discharge from the service 
milatary -
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[left-side note: 32.066 | {Asamus Boyer} | Pensioner[illegible]

7.  State the names of persons to whom you are
known in your present neighborhood and [illegible] can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
An.    John Klingensmith- and Gabriel Adam Reichart -

Armstrong Count Pa.     -
    And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after An investigation of the Matter and after halting the interrogations prescribed by the "War Department" that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states And [strikethrough] the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Gabriel Adam Reichart who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergy man, resident in the Borough of Kittanning Armstrong County Penn[] and that John Klingensmith who has also signed the same is a resident of Alleghany Township Armstrong County Penn[] and is a credible person and that their statement is illegible] to credit


John Young}    | Judges of the Court of 
Joseph Rankin}  |  Common Pleas of [illegible]
Robert Orr}

State of Pennsylvania,}
Armstrong Count [illegible]
[some of the following statement is partially covered by notary seal]
   I Frederick Rohrer, Protonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in [] said county, do hereby certify that the [covered by seal] contains the original proceedings of the said Court, [covered by seal] the matter of the application of Asamus Boyer, for a [covered by seal]
    In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my han[d] and affixed the seal of said Court at Kittanning, this 27th day of September, A. D. 1834. 
Frederick Rohrer, Pro.
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Pa

colutts for six
Elizabeth Boyers,
death 26 Feb. 1836
to
Hon. J. Klingensmith
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State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County Ss.

Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and authorize to administer oaths
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State of Pennsylvania }
Amstrong County       }
Personally appeared before me a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County.  William
Johnston Atty at Law Keltaming who
being duly sworn. Saith. That Elizabeth
Boyers who has subscribed the within
affidavit was reputed in the neigh-
borhood where she resided as the
wife of Asamus Boyers, for whom
this deponent forwarded an applica-
tion to the war Department for
a Pension - that he has understood
said Boyers is dead. and that the
person within named is the
widow of the said Boyers.  He
knows the fact from having been
at the house of Aramus Boyers some
years since, and having then heard
and seen the within named ["applicant" lined out] deponent 
treated as the wife of the said
Boyers - And further saith not
Sworn & subscribed  }
before me this 22d    } Wm F Johnston
of April AD 1836        }
Saml McKee
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State of Pennsylvania  }
Armstrong County S   }
Personally appeared before me the subscribed
Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid
Rev. G. A. Reichart who being duly sworn saith. That he was
one of the witnesses to the application of Asamus Boyers.
for a Pension and that he was and is intimately ac-
quainted with the family of the said Boyers and
that the said Elizabeth Boyers. who has this
day sworn to the within affidavit & statement
was the reported wife of the same Asamus Boyers
who made the application above referred
to for a Pension=. That the said Asamus Boyers
died on or about the 26th day of February last
and that he officiated at the funeral of the
said Boyers. as the minister-. of the Congrega-
-tion in which he resided-. in his lifetime
Sworn & subscribed  }
before me this 22d    }
April AD 1836            }  G.A. Reichert
Saml McKee               }

State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County Ss.   J.W. W. Gibson Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas in and for said County,
Certify that Samuel McKee Esquire before
whom the three foregoing affidavits were made
is and was at the time said affidavits were
made an acting Justice of the Peace in and
for said County duly commissioned and
Sworn, and that to all his official acts as
Such full faith and credit are, and of right
ought to be given as well throughout the County and
State aforesaid as elsewhere-- and that his Signature to
the said affidavits are genuine and in his own proper
hand writing-
Witness my hand and the Seal of Said
Court at Kittanning this twenty second day of April
A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty six
W. W. Gibson Prothy
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A Byres
declaration
act 7" July 1838
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State of Pennsylvania  } SS
County of Allegheny   }

In Open Court of Record
held in and for said County on this second day
of July 1851 personally appeared Abraham
Byres aged fifty four years resident in the
Township of Tarenturn in said county who bei-
ng first duly sworn makes the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefits of
the provisions of the act of congress passed on
the 7th July 1838 & subsequent acts.
This declarant states that he is the lawful
child of Asmith Byres deceased.  that the said Asm
-ith Byres was a resident of the Township of Alleghe
-ny, County of Armstrong and State of Pennsylvania
at the time of his death-- that he was a pensioner
of the United States at the rate of 20 Dollars per
annum, and that he died on the twenty six day
of February in the year eighteen hundred and thirty
Six (1836). This declarant states that his mothers name
was Mary Elizabeth Byres, that at the time of her
death she resided in the Township of Tarenturn in
the County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania
and that her death occured[sic] on the twenty eighth (28th)
day of May in the year eighteen hundred and fifty one.
(1851). This declarant further states that the maiden name of
his said mother was Mary Elizabeth Weaver, and
that she was married to the said Asmith Byres on
the 17' day of June in the year seventeen hundred and
ninety two (1792) (as he remembers hearing his said
parents say) that said marriage took place in the
Township of Gulpahocking in said State that they
were married by a Justice of the Peace named
Daniel Ludwig Esq- that they had one child born
within one year after their marriage named Catharine
(over)
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that the second child of the said Asmith and
Mary Elizabeth Byres was born about two years
after their first childs birth, and two years prior
to the time of this declarants birth which was
on the 15th day of July in the year seventeen hun
-dred and ninety seven. That he has no knowle
-dge of a family record having been left by his said
father or mother of their marriage, that they lived
together in lawful wedlock from the time of said
marriage to the time of the death of the said
Asmith Byres and that his said mother did not
again marry but died being a widow-- that 
the said Asmith and Mary Elizabeth Byres died
leaving five children only surviving them whose
names are Jane Clinglesmith & Abraham Byres.
Fanny Stokes, Susan Neil and Simeon Byres.
Sworn to & subscribed in open )
Court )                                Abraham Byres
Before me on the day )
and year first above written )
Geo. S. Hays
Pro
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State of Pennsylvania )  SS
County of Allegheny  )
I Geo S Hays Prothonota
ry of the Court of Common Pleas held in and for
said county do hereby certify that satisfactory
proof was exhibited in Open Court, that Asmith
Byres a revolutionary pensioner of the United States
at the rate of 20 Dollars per annum died in the
County of Armstrong State of Pennsylvania on the
26th day of February in the year eighteen hundred
and thirty Six (1836) leaving a widow who survived
him several years and who did not again
marry but died being a widow, whose name was
Mary Elizabeth Byres, and who died on the (28th
Twenty eighth day of May in the year eighteen hund
-red and fifty one-(1851) and that the said Asa
mith & Mary Elizabeth Byres died leaving only five chi
ldren surviving them whose names are
Jane Clenglesmith & Abraham Byres. Fanny Stokes,
Susan Neil and Simeon Byres.

In testimony wheof[sic] I have
hereunto set my hand
and the seal of said Court
on this second day of July
AD 1851.
Geo. S. Hays
   Prothy
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Canandaigua, N.Y.
May 28th 1852.

Sir:
Herewith is presented the claim of Mary
Elizabeth Byres, decd under act of 7th July 1838.
The proof furnished, is the best that
can be obtained, of the marriage.
The statement of the witnesses as to the time
of the occurance and the officer by whom
the ceremony was performed is corroborated
by the certificate of the County Clerk & having
that Daniel Ludwig was a Justice of the
Peace at that precise time.
This certificate conclusively fixes the
time of the occurance of the marriage.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt.
L.M. Drury

J.E. Heath Esq
Court of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
P.S. I believe that something has before
been done in this case.
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Mary E. Byres
Act 7th July 1838.
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State of Pennsylvania}
County of Schuylkill ss}
Jacob Weaver a disinterested Witness
who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and say, that he
well knew Assimus Boyer, and that he was married to Mary Elizabeth
Weaver, but cannot tell what year, but it is about sixty years ago, and the were married by Daniel Ludwig Esquire a Justice of the peace in Trelpehehon township Berks County (No Schuylkill County, and knew them to live together as husband and wife, and have always been so Reputed, and they had a daughter Born about one year after their Marriage and doth not know the Name of said child, and he further states that he knew the said Daniel Ludwig being a Justice of the peace, and duly authorized by law to join man & wife in the Bonds of holy Matrimony.
Sworn and Subscribed the 8th day}
of April 1852 in the presence of}
Jacob Menning  [Illegible Signature]

State of Pennsylvania}
Schuylkill County ss}
I do hereby certify that I am well
acquainted with the above Jacob Weaver for the space of fifty years
and that he is of sound mind, and a Creditable Witness which
is to believed on oath, and is seventy three years of age, Witness my
hand and seal the day and year above written.

Jacob Mennig {Seal}
Justice of the peace
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Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County ss

[Round Serrated Seal]

I John Harlen Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas of said County, do
hereby Certify, that Jacob Mining, whose
Signature is attached to the above and
foregoing Certificates, was at the time
of the date of the same, an acting
Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, duly Elected, Commissioned and qualified, and to whose acts as such full faith and credit should be given. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Pottsville
the 24th April 1852

John Harlem Prthy
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Schuylhill

Magdalene Weaver, "the wife of Jacob Faust", a disinterested witness," in the Marriage Case of Asimus Boyer, and Mary Elizabeth Weaver", who being duly sworn according to Law, does depose and say, that she was well acquainted with a Certain Asimus Boyer and that he was Married to Mary Elizabeth Weaver, "a Sister of the aforesaid Magdalene Faust", the were Married about fifty nine years or upwards, by Daniel Ludwig, Esquire, a Justice of the Peace of Tulpehacon township Berks County, and ^knew^ them to live together as Man and wife, and were always so Reputed, and they had a child together, a year after they were Married, this was a daughter, with the name of Catherine, and she further states that she well knew that said Daniel Ludwig, Esquire, being a Justice of the Peace, and authorized to join Man and wife in the Bonds of holy Matrimony, and further saith not.
Sworn and subscribed this 9th 
day of April, 1852, in presence of                                     
Jacob Menning     
Edward W. Menning   
                   her
Magdalene  X  Faust
                   mark
                    
State of Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County SS
I do hereby Certify that I well knew the above named Magdalene Faust, "late Magdalene Weaver", for forty five and years and upwards, that she is of Sound Mind, and a Creditable Witness now of the age of Sixty Eight years,  Witness my
hand and seal this 9th day of April A.D. 1852.
Jacob Menning            {seal}
Justice of the Peace
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Berks County ss
I John Bush Recorder of Deeds & c at
Reading in and for the County of Berks
do certify that Daniel Ledwick Esqr.
was an acting Justice of the peace in the Bethel
and Tulpehorcen district in Berks County
duly commissioned and qualified as such
according to Law. The Commission bearing date the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty seven, for a term of seven years In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Office this 5 day of May AD 1852
John Bush
Recorder
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4
Elizabeth Boyers
Pennsylvania
Act of July 1836
---
Husband was Aramus
---
Rejected see letter
Sept 16. 1836 to W.
T. Johnston
Chas E. Weaver July 27 1853
Hon. J. Covode Feb 5 /59

1099
---
1836
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Ex'r.  INVALID.
REJECTED

[Struck Through]
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 1873.

1099

P.O. Elizabeth Boyers
Service: ______, 18
Enlisted: ______, 18
Discharged: ____

Application filed: ____, 18
Alleges: _______
Re-enlisted: _________

Attorney: _______
P.O. _________-
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Washington, D.C. May 6. 1853.

Hon. L. P. Waldo,
Commr of Pensions
Sir:
I herewith enclose power of attorney and evidence additional in behalf of the Admr. of Elizabeth Boyers decd. who was the widow of Asamus Boyers a soldier in the war of the Revolution.
She resided in Armstrong Co. Pennsylvania, and heretofore applied for a pension under the Act of July 4, 1836 which was rejected She has
being married after the war, as is stated, to wit in June 1794.
The application is herewith made for an allowance of the claim under the Act of 1838.
I remain, very Respectfully
Charles E. Weaver,
Atty
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[Postal Stamp]
KITTANING Pa.
Aug 9

Aug 15. 1836
W Allen
D Comm Pn

FREE

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of
Pensions
Washington City
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Kittanning Armstrong County Penna
August 6th 1836

J.L. Edwards Esq.
D Sir
I forward an application of
Elizabeth Boyers for a pension under the
Act of 3 July 1836 - which I hope will
receive an early attention as convenient
Respectfully yours 
Wm F. Johnston
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County S.S.

Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for Said County personally appeared Captain Matthew Jack a Soldier of the Revolution who on his solemn Oath declares that he knew Asamus (or Oysel) Boyer in the Revolutionary War, & knows that he enlisted as a Coucheron Solider in the year 1776 in the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Colonel Mc Coy – in the Company of Captain Wendel Oury. Deponent knows that pursuant to Said Enlist-
ment Said Boyer Accompanied the Army to the Jerseys – Deponent was at that time, a Lieutenant in Captain Miller’s Company in the 8th Penna. Regiment – Deponent does not know how long Said Boyer remained in the Services – Sworn & Subscribed the 20th day of June 1834

Before Me
Thomas Wilson, J.P. [signature]
Matthew Jack [signature]
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State of Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County Ss
I Randal M Laughlin Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Westmorland in the Comonwealth of Pennsylvania, Do hereby
certify that Thomas Wilson Esquire before whom the within deposition of Captain Matthew Jack was taken and whose name in his own proper signature is to the same appended: was at that time, and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Westmoreland, duly commissioned and appointed, to all whose official acts and deeds, full faith and credit
all of right due. In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at Greensburgh this 23d day of September A D 1834.
Randal McLaughlin Prof
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Asamus Boyers
Pa

allowed for
six months
$20
to time of death.
Act Jul 36

Hon J Klingensmith
H.R.

Hon Klingensmith Jr
HR
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State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County } Set

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Armstrong, duly commissioned and author-
ised [sic] to administer oaths. Asamus or Oysel Boyers who being duly sworn deposeth and saith. that whereas he has some time ago applied to the United States for a Pension for services rendered during the Revolutionary War, and whereas his said application hath been sus
-pended on account of the unsatisfac
-tory statement of his services. forwarded with said application and also on account of the want of witnesses to prove his services, he now declares on his solemn oath, that from old age and infirmity and the consequent loss of memory, he is at present unable to furnish any further or more satisfac
-tory statement than that already forwarded.. That he knows or of no person living who can testify to his services other than Capt. Matthew Jack of Westmoreland County whose deposition he heretofore forwarded – That being in [illegible] circumstances in 1818 if he can [illegible] of the act of Congress of that date he was induced by the general unfavorable opinion held of Pensioners that to apply -
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That he never received a written discharge
and was not aware that the same
would have been of any use or benefit
to him. He further states that he has
nearly lost his hearing and eyesight
and with them his memory
Sworn & subscribed
before me this 11th day  ⎬
of February AD 1836.
Samuel M Kee
                  his            
     Asamus  X Boyers
                 mark

Amstrong County JS
I. Samuel McKee before whom
the foregoing deposition was taken do
hereby certify that Oyert Boyers has
always sustained in his neighbor-
hood the character of an upright
post and creditable man.
And that I have no hesitation
in concerning in the same opinion
Given under my hand & seal at
Kittanning
Armstrong County- Penna
this 11th day of February 1836 -
Saml McKee
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State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County Ss.
I, W. W. Gibson Prothonotary of
the Court of Common Pleas of the afore,
said County and State. do certify that
Samuel McKee Esqr. before whom the foregoing
deposition was taken - was at the
time and is now an acting Justice of the
Peace. for said County, duly Commissioned
& Sworn- to All Which official acts as
such full faith and credit are and of
right ought to be given, as well throu
=gout the County aforesaid, as elsewhere
In Testimony Whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of
said Court at Kittanning the 10th day
of February 1836 -
W M Gibson Pro

State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County Set
I W.W. Gibson Pro. as
afsd cto Certify that the foregoing is in the
proper hand writing of said Justice -
In Testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the seal of sa.
Court at Kittanning the 10th day of Feb. 1836.
W.W. Gibson. Pro
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Mary E Byres
Act 7 July 1838
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny SS
Before the subscriber a Justice of the
Peace personally appeared James Scott of the Town of
Tarentown in said county who being first duly sworn doth
depose and say that he made the coffin of Mrs Mary
Elizabeth Byres widow of Asmith Byres a revolutionary
pensioner of the United States. that the said Mary Elizabeth
Byres died in said town of Tarentown on the twenty eighth
day of May Eighteen hundred and fifty one (1851).
Sworn to & subscribed on this  }
forth day of July 1851.               }   James Scott
before me George Duphon       } 
a Justice of the Peace.

I hereby certify that the above named affiant is a credible
witness and a man of respectability
George Duphon J P

State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny SS
I Geo S Hays Prothonotary of
the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby
certify that George Duphon Esquire is a Justice of
the peace and was at the time of the date of the foregoing
duly commissioned and qualified to act as such in and for
said County and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be
his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and official seal
this seventh day of July A.D. 1851.
Geo S Hays, Pro
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Claim of Admr of Elizabeth Boyers, decd
widow of Asamus Boyers-
Act of 1838.
---
Rejected Rev'y Pension files
Pennsylvania, Act 1836
---
Charles E. Weaver
Attorney,
Present
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[Power of Attorney.]

Know all men by these presents, That, Adam Klinglesmith Admin-
istrator of Elizabeth Boyers, deceased, late of Armstrong County Penn-
sylvania ---
have constituted, ordained, and made in my stead and place put, and by these presents do constitute,
ordain, and make, and in my stead and place put, CHARLES E. WEAVER, esquire, of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my
name and stead as Administrator aforesaid, being also one of her kind, to prosecute
demand and receive a certificate for any arrears of pension that may be due by virtue
of the service of Asamus Boyers in the Revolution, hereby revoking any power of attorney
heretofor given ~~~~~~~~~
Giving and hereby granting unto my
said attorney full power and authority in and about the premises;
and to use all due means, course, and process in the law, for the full, effectual, and complete execution of the
business above described; and in my name to make and execute due acquittance and discharge; and
for the premises to appear, and the person of myself the constituent, to represent before any governor,
judges, justices, officers and ministers of the law whatsoever, in any court or courts of judicature, and there,
on my behalf, to answer, defend, and reply unto all actions, causes, matters and things whatsoever,
relating to the premises; also, to submit any matter in dispute respecting the premises, to arbitration or other-
wise, with full power to make and substitute, for the purposes aforesaid, one or more attorneys, under my
said attorney, and the same again at pleasure to revoke and generally to say, do, act, transact, determine,
accomplish, and finish all matters and things whatsoever, relating to the premises, as fully, amply and effect-
ually, to all intents and purposes, as I the said constituent, if present, ought or might personally,
although the matter should require more special authority than is herein comprised, I the said con-
stituent ratifying, allowing, and holding firm and valid all and whatsoever my said attorney or his
substitutes, shall lawfully do, or cause to be done, in and about the premises, by virtue of these presents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifteenth day
of March
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three -

Signed, sealed, and delivered, in
presence of us.
J Boggs
        his
Adam X Klingensmith
        mark
adue of Elizabeth Boyers

Acknowledged before me, the day and year last above written.
A.J. Faulk, J. P.

State of Pennsylvania  ---
County of Armstrong-
I, J.E. Meredith Prothonotary, of the Court of Common Pleas
within and for said county and State, do hereby certify, that A.J. Faulk Esquire before
whom the foregoing acknowledgment was taken, was at the time thereof an acting Justice of the Peace, duly
commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and confidence are due to his acts as such. I believe his signa-
ture to be also true and genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal
of said Court to be affixed to these presents, this Fifteenth ~~~~
day of March ~~~~~ in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty three
J. E. Meredith Pro.
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Letters of Administration
upon the Estate
of
Eliz. Byers decd

Married after the war in June 1794.
came in under Act of 1848-

widow of Asamus Boyers

This tax $5  50/100
Paid
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ALLEGHENY COUNTY, SS.
I, A. Richardson, Esq. Register
for the probate of wills, and granting letters of adminis-
tration, in and for the county of Allegheny, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to
Adam Klingensmith
Administrator of all and singular the goods and
chattels, rights and credits which were of
Elizabeth Byers, late of
Tarentown, Allegheny County, deceased, greeting:
WHEREAS, the said Elizabeth Byers lately
died intestate, (as is affirmed,) having, whilst he lived, and at the time of his decease,
divers goods and chattels, rights and credits within the said county, by means whereof the
full disposition and power of granting letters of administration thereof is manifestly known to
belong to me, I, therefore, desiring that the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were
of the same deceased, may be well and truly administered, converted, and disposed of accor-
ding to law, do hereby grant unto the said
Adam Klingensmith
(in whose fidelity I very much confide,) full power, by the tenor of these presents, to admini-
ster the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, within the
said county; as also to ask, collect, levy, recover, and receive the credits whatsoever of the
said deceased, which, at the time of his death were owing, or did in any way belong to
him and to pay the debts to which the said deceased stood obliged, so far forth as the
goods and chattels, rights and credits, will extend, according to the rate and order of law;
especially of well and truly administering the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which
were of said deceased, and making a true and perfect Inventory and conscionable Appraise-
ment thereof; and exhibiting the same into the Register's Office, at Pittsburgh, on or before
the 10th day of August next ensuing, and also a true and just account,
calculation, and reckoning of your administration, upon your solemn
to render at or before the 10th day of July in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
or when legally thereunto required.
And I do, by these presents, ordain, constitute and depute you, the said
Adam Klingensmith
Administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were
of the said deceased, within the limits aforesaid, saving harmless and forever indemnifying
me and all other officers, against all persons by reason of your administration aforesaid, and
all others their rights, and to comply with the provisions of an Act of Assembly of this Com-
monwealth, entitled ""An Act relating to collateral inheritances."

In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of said Office to be hereunto
affixed, dated at Pittsburgh aforesaid, the 10th
day of July in
the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
A. Richardson
Register
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State of Pennsylvania   }
Armstrong County       }  SS.

On this twenty first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace in and for the Said County and State Henry Klingensmith and John Klingensmith aged fifty five years and upwards, residentes of Armstrong County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who being duly sworn according to law, declares, That Elizabeth Boyers was the wife of Asmus Boyer, and that the said Elizabeth Boyers, Died at [Illegible] in the county of Allegheny commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the latter part of May either the 27th or 28th day of May AD 1881 ---

That they have examined the family Bible of Elizabeth Boyer which is now before these deponents, and no record of her the said Elizabeth Boyer [“death” inserted above] is entered therein and No record of the births of her children entered therein

The number of her children are nine, viz --- Catharine dead w Elizabeth married to William Neal dead leaving two children (viz. Abraham and William) Abraham [“Boyers” inserted above] aged fifty two years and upwards, Hannah not married (and dead) Polly not married (and dead) Susannah Married to Major William Neil aged and about forty eight years, Francis maried to John Stoops aged about forty six years, Jane married to Adam Klingensmith aged about forty four years, Simon aged about forty two years

John Klingensmith
his X Mark

H. Klingensmith Sr.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this twenty first day of April in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty three And I certify that I am well acquainted with John Klingensmith and Henry Klingensmith the above deponants who are credible witnesses, And further I certify that I have no interest in the result of the application for a pension in this case, and I am not concerned in its prosecution

Alexander Gordon J.P.   [The word "Seal" with a doodle]

State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County SS.

I, J. E. Meredith Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do certify that Alexander Gordon Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was made, was at the time of making the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to act as such, and that his signature thereto is genuine and in his proper handwriting. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Kittanning this 23d day of April A.D. 1853.

J.E. Meredith    Pro

[A round, illegible seal  is to the left of the attestation]
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No 56.
Elizabeth Boyers
Pennsyl--
Act 4 July 1836
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State of Pennsylvania  }
Amstrong County        } SS

On this sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Elizabeth Boyers a resident of Allegheny Township, Armstrong County State of Pennsylvania of fifty Eight years of age, who being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 3. 1836. 

That she is the widow of Asamus Boyers, who was a private in the Revolutionary war, and who made an application for a Pension which was granted to this deponent by a certificate bearing date the 29th day of April 1836 at the War Department and signed by Lewis Cass Secretary of War which said application of Asamus Boyers and the proof furnished by this deponent of her being the widow of the said Asamus Boyers now remains on file in the War Office.

She further declares that she was married to the said Asamus Boyers on the Sixteenth day of June in the year Seventeen hundred and Ninety four and that her husband the said Asamus Boyers died on the 26 day of February 1836 and that she has remained a widow as since that [illegible] as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.

Elizabeth ["her X mark" written vertically] Boyers

Sworn & Subscribed on the }
day and year above written  }
before me ----------------    } 

Saml. M Ree Justice of Peace
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State of Pennsylvania  }
Amstrong County        } SS

Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Abraham Boyers and David Bogers who being duly sworn Saith that they are well acquainted with Elizabeth Boyers, who makes the within application and affidavit and that she is known reputed and believed to be the widow of the late Asamus Boyers, that She lived with him as his wife until the 26th February 1836 when he died and that she has ever and remained his widow --

Abraham Boyers
David ["his xx mark" written vertically] Boyers

Sworn & subscribed before me this 6th day of August 1836

Saml.  M[illegible] 

State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County SS.

I, W. W. Gibson Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid Do Certify that Samuel M Ree Esqr. before whom the foregoing Deposition and acknowledgement were taken was at the time of taking said acknowledgement and deposition an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly Commissioned and sworn:  to all whose official acts as Such full faith and Credit and of right ought to be given as well throughout the County aforesaid, as elsewhere and that his [“sworn” inserted] signature therein attached is in his own proper hand writing --

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court at Kittanning this Sixth day of August in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight Hundred and Thirty Six ---

 W.W. Gibson Pro.