Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 985, Francis Boggs, Va.

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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
 Va. | Boggs, Francis | R.985

CONTENTS

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State of Virginia
Nicholas County SS
On this 4 day of October 1833 personally
appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice
of the peace in and for the Said County of Nicholas and state of Virginia Francis Boggs a resident of the Said County of
Nicholas and State of Virginia Aged
Seventy nine 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 7 1832 that
he Entered the service of the united
States and Served under the following
named officers as herein Stated that
In the year 1776 on the first day of
March in the County of Greenbriar and
State of Virginia declarrant volunteered
for a tour of twelve months as an
Indian Spy and was placed under the
Command of Captain Matthew Arbuckle
Subaltern officers names not reccollected
Declarrant has marched from the
County and State aforesaid to the mouth
of the Great kanhawa river passing by the mouth of new river declarrant 
was Stationed at the mouth of Great kanhawa

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where Point Pleasant now Stands in obediance
to order from Capt Arbuckle declarrant States he
was Engaged in Spying By regular tour the County
Bordering on the ohio from the mouth of Great
Kanhawa to the mouth of little Kanhawa
and from the mouth of the Great Kanhawa down
the ohio to Big Sandy river thence up Sandy
and accross the County to Great Kanhawa
again declarrant States that the Indians
made frequent inroads by way of Kanhawa
and Sandy rivers into the frontier Settlements of
of Greenbriar County Virginia therefore
the Spy were Constantly on the alert
Declarrant was then discharged by his Said
Captain Matthew Arbuckle at the mouth 
of the Great Kanhawa river having
Served twelve months as an Indian Spy
a private Soldier [crossed out : again in the declarrant]
declarrant remained a short time at 
the Station at the mouth of Great
Kanhawa river until the first day 
of May in the year 1777 declarrant
again volunteered for a tour of twelve
months as an Indian Spy at the
mouth of Great Kanhawa river and 
was placed under the Command 
of Captain Zera Combs of Greenbriar
County Virginia Subaltern officers
names not recollected declarrant
was Engaged during this tour in

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Spying and watching the Indian war 
Paths on the waters of Great Kanhawa
Big Sandy river Little Kanhawa the
head waters of Jackson river the frontiers
of Greenbriar County Virginia and many
other places declarrant cannot recollect 
the County being nearly in a State of 
Nature declarrant suffered much from
Hunger and fatigue traversing an almost
trackless wilderness declarrant was ever
ready and willing to obey the orders
of his officers and to execute them with
dispatch all hazards declarrant was
then discharged by his Said Zera Combs
at a place called  Strouds Glades
declarrants thinks at that time in
Greenbriar County Virginia now
in Nicholas County Virginia having
Served twelve months an Indian spy
a private soldier declarrant has no
Documentary Evidence Whereby he can
Prove his Service this terminated declarrant
Service he hereby relinqushes Every Claim
whatever to a pension or annuity Except
the present and he declares his name is not
on the pension roll of the agency of any
State
Sworn to and Subscribed the day
and year aforesaid

his mark
x
Francis Boggs

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to the several interagatores prescribed by the war department declarrant answers as follows 1 I was borned in the county of Chester State of Pensylvania
in the year 1754 2 My Age is recorded in my fathers Bible which shows me to be borned in the year 1754 3 When Call in to Service I was living in the County of Greenbriar Virginia and 
since The Revolution I have lived in Greenbriar
and Kenhoway County Va I now live in the County of Nicholas State of Virginia on Big elk River 4 My servis was those of a Volunter soldier as an indian Spy 5 during my tours of Service I Servand become acquainted with Capt Mathew Arbuckle who I understood was a regular officer I also saw Capt Combz and Capt Moses Mann if declarrant ever saw any Continental Regimental he states that he does not recollect them 6 my discharge was signed by The officers under whom I served but they are all lost or mislayed 7 I am known to John Givens Jr and William Boggs who can Testify to my character My age and as to there belief of my having bin a Soldier of The revolution
Subscribed and Sworn To The day and
year aforesaid
his
x
mark
Francis Boggs

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August 9, 1939.
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BA-J/ady
Francis Boggs, R.985.

Mrs. Mary Frame
62 Fisher Road
Arlington, Masssachusetts

Dear Madam: The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, R985, based upon the military service in that war of Francis Boggs. Francis Boggs was born in  Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1754, day, month, and the names of his parents are not shown. After the Revolutionary War he lived in Kanawha County, Virginia. October 4, 1833, Francis Boggs applied for pension at which time he was living on Big elk river, in
Nicholas County, Virginia. He stated that while a resident of Greenbrier County Virginia, he enlisted March 1, 1776, and served twelve months as private and
Indian spy in Captain Matthew Arbuckle's Virginia company; that he enlisted May 1, 1777, and served twelve months as private and Indian spy in Captain Zera Combs' Virginia Company. It was stated that he served also nine months at Point Pleasant in 1774. His claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service of six months during the Revolutionary War in a regularly organized military corps was not furnished. In 1833, one William Boggs was residing in Nicholas County, Virginia, his age and relationship not
stated.

There are no further family data.
Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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1939 Aug. 9. Hist.
to Mrs. Mary Frame.
See letter in clm., ADy
R.7295, John Mollihon

_Ex'r  INVALID

[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]

[rubber stamped: REJECTED, perpendicular to the margin

985.

P.O. Francis Boggs

Service: 1852 Printed book 
Rejected + Suspended
Enlisted: Pensions gives Reason
for rejection:

Discharged: "Independent"
contemporary evidence
adverse to his claim

Application filed: _, 18
Alleges: _
Re-enlisted: _
Attorney: _
P.O. _

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Francis Boggs
Virginia
Rejected.
[illegible] 21' March 1835
Clk Nicholas Co:

985

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Frances Boggs
Applicant
of 
Nicholas county.

Not Enlisted

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Francis Boggs-Applicant-
William Givens Esq. High Sheriff of Nicholas county. Says that Boggs made his declaration before him at his house -- he then recollects that the declarant alleged that he had been nine months at Point Pleasant in the year 1774-is accepted that Boggs did not Set forth any Service against the British declarants Service Record was against the Indians that Boggs was brought to ohio river by Wm Littleton & Capt. Byrd - who was not in the Declaration. Mr. Givens Says that he could not have certified this Boggs was unable from infirmity [crossed out] to go to the County seat he also would have been certifying to a witness that Boggs was at the time and is still unable to stand at the County Seat without any copys of service records. David Harris aged 75 Says that Boggs was raised in Green Brier County. And in the following September saw each other frequently during the War of the Revolution and friends and neighbors conflict__he has no recollection of Boggs having done any Service as a Soldier, but he might have done time. WG Singleton July 30,   1835

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30291
Francis Boggs
Nicholas
Rejected
See letter Sept. 9.1834 to S Price

{Nicholas C.H. Va
Aug 31st "} Free
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Enquiry

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Nicholas C.H. Va Aug 27th 1834

Sir
Mr. Francis Boggs of this County some time
last Winter made a declaration before a single
justice in the County to obtain a pension as a 
Revolutionary soldier under the act of June the 7
1832. It was transmitted to your department late
in the winter and he has not heard from it since
His business was attended to in the County by
the gentlemen of Lewis Co - Lowther + Mitchel
to whom it is said some suspicion has been
attached of an attempt to impose on your department and perhaps thereby it may have him transferred
to his claim. He is desirous of knowing
what has been done with his claim + if
any informality exist let it be transferred here
for convention - or whatever the result has been
please state - will you also state whether
any pension be allowed for services rendered
against the Indians before the battle of Bunkers
hill or Lexington

with respect I am your obt. Sev.
Saml. Price

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We John Given Jr. and William Boggs residing
In the County of Nicholas and State
of Virginia hereby Certify that we are well
acquainted with Francis Boggs who has
Subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be Seventy nine years
of age that he is reputed [crossed out: to have been
a Soldier of the revolution] and he lived in
the neighborhood where he resides to have
been a Soldier of the revolution and that
we Concur in that opinion
Sworn and Subscribed the day
and year aforesaid

John Givens Jr.
William Boggs

and I the Said Justice of the peace do
Hereby declare my opinion after the investigation
of the matter and after the interrogatories
prescribed by the war department
that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
Soldier and Served as he State and I the
Said Justice further Certify that it appears
to me that John Given Jr. and William
Boggs who have Signed the preceeding
Certificate are Creditable persons and that
their Statement is entitled to Credit and
I the Said Justice further Certify that there
is no Clergyman residing in the Neighborhood
of the above

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Named Applicant and that he from
Bodily infirmity is unable to travel to
the court house of the Said County of
Nicholas from whence he lives thirty five
Miles And I the Said Justice further
Certify that the foregoing Contains the original
Proceedings of my Self in the matter of the
Application of Francis Boggs for a pension
In testimony Where of I have here unto Set
my hand and Seal this 4th day of 
October 1833

Wm. Givens (seal)

I Samuel Price Clerk of the Court of Nicholas County in
Do hereby Certify that William Given who haz
Signed the preceding Certificate is a Justice
of the peace in and for the Said County of
Nicholas and that his official Acts is Entitled
to Credits In testimony where of I have here unto
Set my hand and Seal of office this
8th Day of October 1833 and in the 58 years
oform foundation

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F. Boggs
Declaration Report
to RH Lawther
Weston Lewis Ctp ra

J. J. Allen of 
Va

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NO. 30.291
Frances. Boggs.

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I Samuel Price Clerk of the County Court of Nicholas do hereby certify that William Givens Esquires whose name appears to be attached to the foregoing certificate was on the 4th day of October, 1833 and gel is 
a magistrate in Said County of Nicholas duly commissioned qualified, and acting as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
Set my hand and affixed the Seal
of my office this 25 day of November
1833 & 58 years of our foundation

Saml Price

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BA-J/ady
John Mollihon, R. 7295
Francis Boggs, R.985

Mrs. Mary Frame
62 Fisher Road
Arlington, Massachusetts

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to 
soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

The records of John Mollihon and Francis Boggs
are furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the