Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 41456, Archibald Bone, N. C.
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Service N.C.
Bone, Archibald
Number S 41456
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State of North Carolina
Cumberland County 

This day personally appeared before me Archibald D. Murphy one of the Justices of the Superior Court of 
Law & Court of Equity in of and for the State of North Carolina Archibald Bone of Cumberland County No. Ca. [NC], a Private Soldier of the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War of the United States who wishes to be enrolled on the Pension lit [list] of the United States and paid as other pensioners of the State of North Carolina.

After being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and Sayth that he the deponant did enlist under Capt. Robt. [Robert] Rowan Snr [Senior] of the first Regt. [regiment] of the North Carolina line at Fayetteville  No.Ca. (then called Cross Creek) in the year 1776. and the said deponant did march with Said Capt [Robert] Rowan to Charleston So. Ca. [South Carolina] and was attached to Capt John Bowmans Company of the Said Regt. with whom this deponant continue in service about Thirteen months 
and was honorably discharged by Colo. Clark at Wilmington No. Ca. [NC] at the expiration of Said time of Service, after which this deponant volunteered under Captain John Willis's Company of militia & continued in sd [said] Service Three months

This deponant further Sayeth that between the year 1776 & the close of the war in 1782 he deponant Served Several Short tours of Service in the Rangers of North Carolina under Capt. Peter Robison
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who was continually in pursuit of the Tories. This deponant further sayeth he is about sixty eight years of age & in the most reduced circumstances, to the [illegible] of calling on his country the United States for support. He further swear that the discharge which he received has ben lost, he having long since ceased to [illegible] that it would even be of any service which.
Archibald Bone - X his mark

Subscribed & sworn to in the town of Fayetteville on the 27 April A.D. 1819 before me Archibald D. Murphey, Judge as aforesaid.
A.D. Murphey

State of North Carolina
I, Archibald D. Murphey Judge as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Archibald Bone did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding affidavit against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the Continental establishment; and from transmit the
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19.327 R
North Carolina
Archibald Bone
of Cumberland Co in the State of N. Carolina
who was a Private in the Compy commanded
by Captain R. Rowan of the regiment commanded by Colonel Clark in the N. Carolina
line, for the term of one year

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of September 1828

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of Dec 1824
and Richard Bone Esqr
Fayetteville, N. Carolina
part or
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1825. $46.89
$46.89
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Revolutionary claim,
Acts March 18, 1818
and May 1, 1820. &
March 1. 1823
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State of North Carolina
Cumberland County
Parish of Fayettesville
On the 9th day of September 1824 personally
appeared in open Court (being a court of Record for the County aforesaid) Archibald Bone aged Seventy four years, resident in the County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 & the first of May 1820, that the
said Archd Bone Enlisted for the Term of
Twelve months on the __ day of March 1776.
in the State of North Carolina in the Company
Commanded by Captain Robert Rowan in the first Regiment Commanded by Colo. Clark in the line of the State of North Carolina on the Continental Establishments. that he continued to serve in said Corps untill the last of March 1777. when he was discharged from the said service in Wilmington in the State of N. C. That he was in the Battle of Fort Moultrie Charleston South Carolina, and that he has no other evidence
now in his power of his said services except the
affidavits of Lucy Lancaster, Rachel McSwain &
Mark Russell & William Carver. and in pursuance of the act of the first of may 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed
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of my Property or any part thereof with
intent
thereby to diminish it as to bring myself
within the provissions of an act of Congress Entitled
an act to provide for certain Persons engaged
in the land & naval service of the United States
┃ in the Revolutionary War"
passed the 18th day
of March 1818
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and that I have not
nor has any person in trust for me
any
Property or Securities, contrads or Debts due to me
nor have I any income other than what is
contained in the Schedule hereunto anned &
by me subscribed viz Two change of clothes
nothing more one Jack knife
ten cents
the
Archibald Bone
Mark
Sworn to & subscribed on the 9th day
of
Sept
before the Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions
11
held
Term
1824
Mary
a
in
John Armstrong Clerk of the Court of Pleas &
quarter Session of Cumberland County in the State of
as hereby certify that the forgoing oath & be ever thereunto annexed
truly copied from the time of said Court & I do further
certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount
value of the papers exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is two Cents
testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court
me this 25 day of September
1824 & 29 year of an Independence
Among
be
Court
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Deposition of William Carver
Bone, Archibald
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State of No Carolina Cumberland County
= this day personally appeared before me
Archibald Merrill one of the Justices in
for said county at Fayetteville on the
first day of November 1822 William
Carver [illegible] of high standing & dignity
who for being duly sworn upon the holy
Evangalist of Almighty God, deposeth
and sayeth that to his knowledge a
Certain Archibald Bone of the above
county enlisted in the service of the United 
States under Capt Robert Rowan in the 1st
Regiment in the Revolutionary war in the 
year 1776 and further I in Conversation with 
a certain Jonathan Thames now dead a 
regular soldier in the same Regmt under
Rowan stated that it was hard that the sd 
Bone could not receive his pay as a pentioner 
the sd Thames replied that if said Bone would call on him tho he would & could prove
his faithfull Discharge agreable to his Inlistment in duty November 1st 1828
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 1st day
& date at above written
Wm Carver
List Archd Merrill
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State of No Carolina
Cumberland County

Personally appeared Before me Archibald Mile one of the acting Justices in & for said County Mark Rusell [Russell] who after being duly sworn on the holy evangelist of almighty God Deposeth & sayith that some time In the month of March in the year 1776 to his knowledge he the sd [said] Rusell saw Archd Bone [Archibald Bone] who had enlisted under Captain Robert Rowan in the Revolutionary service in the first Regt [regiment] for the space of one year

I the sd [said] Rusell asked said Bone to go & stay with me & spend one night & I have no Doubt but that the said [Archibald] Bone Did & I do fully believe the said [Archibald] Bone did fully perform his duty as a Regular soldier & further am sure that if the sd Bone had ever Deserted I should have heard the same but never Did in the No Carolina Troops October 28th 1822

Sworn to & subscribed before me 
Mark Russell
Test Archd Mile JP
I here certifie that the said subscriber is a affiant of Credit & good standing in [illegible] particularly 
dis Interests under my hand & seal October 1st 1822
Arch. Mile JP
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State of North Carolina
Cumberland County ⎬
This day personally appeared before me Archibald D. Murphy one of the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law and Courts of Equity in of & for the State of North Carolina, Mrs Lucy Lancaster of Robeson County N.C. After being duly Sworn according to Law deposeth and
sayeth that she the Deponant is personally
acquainted with Archibald Bone the present
Claimant for Pension for his Revolutionary
Servus as a private soldier of the Continental
Army United States, and that she the deponent
was acquainted with the said Archibald Bone
when a private Soldier under Capt Robt Rowan
of the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War
& has seen the said Bone in the ranks of the army
before he marched with Capt Rowan to Charleston and saw him perform duty under the said Capt Rowan as a private Soldier may (many) times when the deponent went to see her brother who went with Capt Rowan as  a Soldier, and this deponant further sayeth that on the said Bone return from Charleston after the expiration
of his [illegible] [illegible] the said Bond came to his fathers to see them them & shure to this deponent he, and she often heard it read, 
honorable discharge from the service, and
this deponent further sayeth that the said Bone
was gone in Service as aforesaid upwards of twenty months. This deponent further say, the that the said A Bones circumstances in life are
verry [illegible] [illegible] not any property and in
a [illegible] situation to require support from the United States.┃