Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9362, James Boyd, Penn.

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(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Penn. Boyd, James W.9362
Lydia B.L.Wt. 26,496-160-55
CONTENTS [blank]

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Certificate
of the
Marriage of
James Boyd
and
Lydia Moon
October 13th 1825
By
John Wilgus

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This is to certify that on the tenth day of [October - month faded and illegible] In the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty five James Boyd and Lydia Moon were lawfully Joined in the holy bonds of Matrimony by John Wilgus esquire one of the Commonwealths Justices of the peace in and for the County of Fayette at the house of Lydia Moon in the Township of Washington in said Fayette County & Commonwealth of Pennsylvania given under the hand and seal of the said Justice the same day
John Wilgus [Seal]
Signed by the parties
James Boyd
Lydia Boyd
Done in presence of Us
Benjamin McNutt [LS]
Peter Stickel [LS]
Reuel McNutt [LS]
Richard McNutt [LS]
Edward Stickel [LS]
Elizabeth Wright [LS]
Alice McNutt ]LS]
Jane Stickle [sic] [LS]
hannah Larkin [LS]
[annotation added in lower left corner] BOYD, JAMES (PA)
W9362

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[left-hand side]
Let to Hon. J Hastings Apl 29 1842
[underline] 28.33 [end underline]
56.66
[underline] 14.17 [end underline]
70.83
[right-hand side]
19.857
Ohio Pittsburg
[double rule]
James Boyd
of Columbiana in the State of Ohio w[ho] was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Brice of the Reg commanded by Col Procter on the Penn no [illegible] for 8 1/2 Months
[double rule]
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburg [at] the rate of 28. Dollars 33 Cents per annum [to] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
[double rule]
[Cer]tificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Septem [1]833 and sent to Samuel Stokeley Steubenville Ohio
[double rule]
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1834
[a column of numbers on the right, some crossed out, some cut off, some obscured by shadow, indicating amounts of money]
70.8...
[crossed out, illegible]
14.1...
11.8... [crossed out]
84.99
[double rule]
$84.99
[double rule]
[left two-line brace] Revolutionary Claim,
Act  June 7, 1832
[...] by Wm R. Palmer Cle[rk]
Vol. 8. Page 106.

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[left-hand side]
Let to Hon. J Hastings Apl 29 1842
[underline] 28.33 [end underline}
56.66
[underline] 14.17 [end underline]
70.83
[right-hand side]
19.857
Ohio Pittsburg
[double rule]
James Boyd
of Columbiana in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Brice of the Reg commanded by Col Procter on the Penn no line for 8 1/2 Months
[double rule]
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburg [at] the rate of 28. Dollars 33 Cents per annum, [to] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
[double rule]
[Cer]tificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Septem [1]833 and sent to Samuel Stokeley Steubenville Ohio
[double rule]
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1834
[a column of numbers on the right, some crossed out]
70.83
63.49 [crossed out]
14.17
14.83 [crossed out]
84.99 [the last three digits are written over three others, which can not be read with certainty]
[double rule]
$84.99
[double rule]
[left two-line] brace Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. [right two-line brace]
Recorded by Wm R. Palmer Clerk,
Book E Vol. 8. Page 106

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[printed document with fill ins]

Increase
3.86 

Indiana  Fort Wayne

Lydia Boyd
widow of Pen^r James Boyd
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a  Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of  96   dollars  00
cents per annum, to commence on
the [crossed out]3d February, 1853 [/crossed out]
27, July  1868
[illegible] [illegible] made since

Certificate of Pension issued
18   day of    January  1869
and sent to    G. W. Stutts
Huntington
Huntington Co
Ind

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners un act
February 3, 1853,  Page  224   Vol. H
J N Smith

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Broomall [illegible]  April 24/56

165444 Act Mar 3
Penn 110
55

Lydia Boyd wid.
James Boyd Priv

No 26496 [illegible] May 27/86

[illegible] 

Rev War

Rev Pensioners

Ohio Feby 83-3868

[illegible]  24/86

[illegible] 

Broomall & [illegible] 
Alliance, Ohio

Vol. B2-10.0

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State of Ohio Columbiana County ss

On this 13th day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas sitting in and for said County James Boyd a resident of Butler township in said County aged seventy two years and seven months who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the [illegible] made by Congress by the Act passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as is herein stated.  In the latter part of May or first of June AD 1780 turned out as a volunteer in Mahoning Township, York Cty in he Pennsylvania  [illegible] several weeks at Little York that he was conducted by a man the name of Armon to Philadelphia Barracks from there he was conducted by the Captain of the invalids to the [illegible] lines in the State of New Jersey; the officers then drew lots for the men to fill up the broken regiments and this deponent fell into Col Proctor's regiment in Captain Brice's Company Pennsylvania line  that after he joined the army there he was marched to [illegible] in the State of New Jersey, and while he was there word came that Genl. Arnold had left the fort at West Point and gone to the British, and there under the command of Colonel Proctor he was marched to the Hudson River, opposite Stony Point for the purpose of keeping the British shipping back; that he remained there one or two days and then the first brigade and second brigade of of the Pennsylvanis line, drew lots which should go and strengthen West Point. That it fell to the Second brigade to go - That the first brigade in which the deponent was, remained near Stony Point, about three weeks; that he was marched from there to Yotoway Falls in New Jersey, that

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from there he was marched to Morristown Huts for winter quaters and there he remained unril the latter end of December 1780 when he was discharged from further service by Major Eustis, then commander of the regiment, as Col. Proctor had gone home to winter quarters at Philadelphia. That he lived in Warrington Township York County Pennsylvania when he entered the service - & was discharged  at Morristown & his discharge was regularly signed by by Major Eustis, & was in passession of deponent for several years, until worn out by frequent use. That he remained at home until the year 1781, when he was called out on a Militia Tower under the command of Major William Aston in Captain [illegible] company to guard Genl. Burgoyn's British prisoners three miles below little York in Pennsylvania for the space of two months when he was discharged. That he received a written discharge that has been lost or destroyed, that he knows of no person living by whom he can prove his service that he entered the militia service after harvest in the year 1781.

That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid - 

[signed] James Boyd

Sworn to and subscribed in open court 13 April 1832 

[signed] Charles D. Coffin
Clk. Com. Pleas

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Questions by the Court

1st Where and in what year were you born?
In Lancaster County PA in the year 1759
2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
I have now in my possession a copy of the record of my age taken from the Bible of my father.

How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute? And if a substitute for whom?
Each township was to furnish two men to go against the Indians there were officers chosen, but this expedition fell through and I with the other men then went with a certain Armon leading us to Philadelphia Barracks and from there under the Captain of the invalids I entered the army some few miles from Brunswick Landing in New Jersey - I was a volunteer.

3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live? A. In Warrington Township York County PA.  Since the revolutionary war have lived in different counties in P.A., to wit York, Cumberland, Huntington, Somerset, Fayette, and different counties in Ohio, to wit Jefferson, Harrison, [illegible], and I now live in Butler Township in Columbiana County, Ohio.

5. State the name of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service? Captain Turnbull Captain Duffy and Captain Brice of artillery companies all belonged to one regiment- Col. Proctor & Major Eustis belonged to the regiment - Colonel Steward commanded a regiment of musket troops where I served and Captain Stephenson belonged to the fifth regiment of the musket troops P.A. line - There were no particular circumstances attending my service except guarding our own artilery.

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6th Did you ever receive a dis-charge from the service; and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it? I did, it was given by Major Eustis who commanded the regiment and has been lost or destroyed.

7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution.

William Blackburn John Bricken and Jacob Lutes & William Fetters & Joseph Coffy

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogations prescribed by the war department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

J. H. Hallock
G Cudly
John J. Bowman
Eli McCook

Judges of the Court of Comm Pleas of Columbiana County

I Charles D. Coffin Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Columbiana in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Boyd for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 13th day of August 1832.

[signed] Charles D. Coffin
Clk Com. Pleas

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The State of Ohio
County of Columbiana

On the 31st day of May A.D. 1853 personally appeared before the Probate Court of the County of Columbiana and State aforesaid Lydia Boyd a resident of the township of Butler county and state aforesaid aged Sixty three on the 7th of March 1853 & widow of James Boyd deceased, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath declare and make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 of January A.D. 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of the said James Boyd who was a private in the Army of the Revolution - that the said James Boyd for his services aforesaid received a pension from the United States during his life time under the provisions of the law of the United States on the 7th of June A.D. 1832 as by paper marked "A" accompanying this application will more fully and at large appear - which said pension was paid to him by the United States pension agent at Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania.

She further declared she was lawfully married to the said James Boyd on the 13th day of October A.D. 1825 in the County of Fayette in the said State of Pennsylvania. That her said husband died in the said Township of Butler County of Columbiana aforesaid

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on the 11th day of July 1848 -that she was not
married to him prior to the second day of January 1800
but at the time above stated - She further declares
that she is now a widow-    Lydia Boyd

Swore to and subscribed on this day and year
above written in open court before me John Reid
Judge of the Probate Court of [illegible] County of Columbiana
and State of Ohio.  [illegible] witness whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name  official and affixed
the seal of said Court this 31st day of May AD 1853 -
John Reid Probate Judge

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State of Ohio
County of Columbiana

On this twenty seventh day of March A.D. 1855 appeared before me Samuel N Bennings a Justice of the Peace [illegible] and for the County and State aforesaid Lydia Boyd aged 64 years a resident of Columbiana County in the State of Ohio and being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the lawful widow of James Boyd deceased who was a revolutionary soldier who drew a pension to the amount of $28 & 33cts per year as proof on file will show

She further states that she was married to the said James Boyd in ...on the... day....A D ... by one John Welgas a Justice of the Peace and that her name before her said marriage was Moon that her said husband died  at Columbiana on the 11th day of July 1848 and that she is still his widow.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the County Land to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress passed March 3rd AD 1855

Lydia Boyd. seal

State of Ohio
County of Columbiana

Personally came Joel Yates and J. T. Allabeck residents of the County of Columbiana persons whom I certify  to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being duly sworn say that they were present and saw Lydia Boyd sign her name to the foregoing declaration and they

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further declare that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant that she is the identified person she represents herself to be and that the deponents do reside in the County afore said


James T. Allabeck
Joel Yates 

And I do certify that I am in nowise interested in the fore-going application

Sworn to and subscribed before me this twenty seventh day of March 1855

Samual H. Bennett J P

The State of Ohio
Columbiana County

I, J. R. Artes Clerk of the County Court in & for the County & State above mentioned do hereby certify that Samuel H. Bennett whose genuine signature appends to the foregoing declaration and affidavit is [illegible] at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in & for the County & State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn. That all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit & that aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record having general jurisdiction

165444

Given under my hand and seal of office New Lisbon this 28th day May A.D. 1855.
J. R. Artes clk

Her marriage certificate and and other states which is significant in this application is is on file in  [illegible] which was granted some time years ago.

Amos Burden


Broomal & [illegible}

Alliance Stack County
Ohio

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20206
James Boyd
Ohio
from 1780 private
8 [illegible] months
Re [illegible]  11.12
$28.33/100

Sam^l Stokely
Stuebenville

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BRIEF in the case of James Boyd
County of Columbiana in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June 1832)

Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 72
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period  Duration of Service  Rank  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

                   Years, Months, Days            As a
val In 1780       about 6                            Private       Col Proctor, Capt Brice, Capt Dodd
          1781             2                                      "

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6 Where did he reside when he entered the service? York Pa.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, or by the rolls? Neither if not on the rolls #
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above.
Chs W Forrest
Examining Clerk.
# He has mentioned the names of persons who can testify as to the belief [illegible] but they have given no certificate

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State of Indiana
Huntington County

Know all men that I Lydia Boyd widow of James Boyd a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Feb 3 1853.  Which is recorded in Vol. A. Page 160 Records of that roll & made payable at Cleveland Ohio, does hereby request that the same be transferred to Fort Wayne, Indiana Agency. Which will be much more convenient to her. Her P. Office is Huntington Indiana

This June 25 1864.

Attest D. O. Daily
Geo. W. Stutts

Lydia Boyd her mark

Before me D.O. Daily a Notary Public in and for the said County personally came Lydia Boyd to me well known to be the person she represents herself to be, and acknowledged the execution of the foregoing request
Witness my hand and seal this June 25 1864
D.O. Daily
Notary Public

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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 James Boyd which require further proof or explanation.
Does the application show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make declaration in the county where he resides?
III. If the applicant did not make 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?
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 what amount of pension he is entitled?
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a reliquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
VIII> Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
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?

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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? No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No
XII. 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?
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
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 personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which one of them is not so answered?

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 _____year__months and _days, I served as a ________; and for such service I claim a pension.

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26496
[illegible]

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3868
Increase
Brief in the case of Lydia Boyd, widow of James Private Rev. War Huntington of Wayne Huntington County and State of Indiana
Act 2nd Sec Feb 3 1853.

Claim for New Pension Certificate

Proof Exhibited,

Pension rcd of Indiana as $28.33 per annum. Certificate returned with application for increase under Act of July 27 1868.

Personal identity and continued widowhood shown

Admitted January 15 1869 to a pension of $96. per annum, & commenced July 27 1868 deducting payment since.

W.E. Trask
Examining Clerk

Name and residence of Agent
G.W. Stutts
Huntington
Huntington Co
Indiana

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Payment to be made at Cleveland by E. Hessenmueller 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 169, Vol. A

Clerk
H.R. Weightman

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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, Lydia Boyd widow of James Boyd who was a Private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Twenty-eight dollars and Thirty-three 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 Twentieth day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four

Wm Clelland
Secretary of the interior

Examined and Countersigned

L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

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Brief in the case of Lydia Boyd widow of James
Columbiana County and State of Ohio
Act of February 3 1853

Claim, ("original" or "for increase.")
Proof Exhibited (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under act of 1832 at $28 33/100 per annum

Allowed $28 33/100 per annum to com. Feb 3 1853

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the clain? If so, what?
Marriage proved by private record
Death of husband proved by credible witnesses
Identity & widowhood proved by credible witnesses

Name and residence of agent
A.S. Brewer
New Lisbon Ohio,

Examining Clerk.
J.S. Gray

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Huntington
March 16. 1834.
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Court of Pensions

Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith the declaration and proof of Mrs Lydia Boyd who claims the benefit of the 2nd section of the act of 3 February 1853 as the widow of James Boyd a late pensioner, Act 1832, Ohio roll

Your Obt. Servt.
S.M. Knight

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Department of the Interior
PENSION OFFICE
Washington D.C. Dec 21 1868

Sir,
Please return Lydia Boyd pension certificate to this office.
Respectfully

G.W. Stutts
Huntington
Huntington Co
Indiana

Chris. C. Cox 
[illegible]

[illegible] 46

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[illegible]29.49
Jas. Boyd
Ohio [illegible] 32

Col. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions

Hon. J. Hastings
H.R.

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H. Of R. Apr. 28, 1842

Col. Edwards

Sir,
Having a petition from James Boyd an old soldier of the revolution, who receives a pension of some 28 dollars a year, I will thank you to let me have a certificate of the fact to present with his petition. He lives in Columbiana County, Ohio, about two miles or so from my residence

Very respectfully, your obt. svt.
John Hastings

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57
New Lisbon Ohio May 31

Commissioner of Pensions
I have enclosed Mrs Boyd application for a pension which I think conforms to the directions of the department

Yours
A L Brewer

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Payments to be made at Pittsburgh by [illegible] Bank.
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Ohio. Pittsburgh.
[illegible]
A

Recorded in the Pension Office, Book 6 Vol. 8 Page 106 by W.R. Palmer
Clerk.

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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

I ceryify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, James Boyd of the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Twenty eight dollars and thirty three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the Wat Office of the United States, this 21st day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

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App of Lydia Boyd widow of James Boyd Dcsd Priv in the Revolutionary War under the 13th sect Act of July 27th 1868

G W Stutts
Huntington
Ind

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State of Indiana
Huntington County

On this 16th day of December 1868 personally appeared before me  B F Ibach a Notary Public in and for said County and state aforesaid Lydia Boyd aged 88 years a resident of Huntington County and state of Indiana who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the identical Lydia Boyd to whom was granted Pension Certificate (not numbered) payable at the Ft. Wayne Indiana Agency at the rate of Twenty Eight dollars and Thirty three Cents per annum issued under the 2nd Sect of he Act of February 3rd 1853 That she makes this declaration in order to secure the increase of her pension to which she is entitled under the thirteenth Sect of the Act of July 27th 1868. And I hereby constitute and appoint G.W. Stutts of Huntington County and State of Indiana my tue and lawful Atty and I desire that all communications and the certificate be sent to my atty.

Lydia Boyd
P.O. Huntington Indiana

Also personally appeared Rebecca Tam and Rachel A McClurg residents of Huntington County Indiana persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being duly sworn according

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to law say they were present and saw Lydia Boyd sign her name to the foregoing declaration and [illegible] of Atty and further they swear that they have every reason to believe from the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that we have no interest in the prosecution of this claim

Rebecca Tam
Rachel A McClurg

Subscribed and sworn to this 16th day of December 1868 and I hereby certify that the contents of the foregoing application was made known to the applicant and the witnesses before signing & that I have no interest in the claim this application is sought to establish

B.F. Ibach seal
Notary Public

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State of Indiana
Huntington County

Before me  B F Ibach a Notary Public in and for said County and state aforesaid this 16th day of December 1868 personally appeared Rebecca Sam and Rachel A McClurg whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit And being by me duly sworn according to law on their oaths say they are and have been for 27 years well acquanted with Lydia Boyd widow of James Boyd dcsd who was a Private in the Revolutionary war, and they further swear that she has not again married but still continues the widow of the above mentioned deceased and that we have no interest in the claim this affidavit is sought to establish

Rebecca Tam
Rachel A McClung

Subscribed and sworn to this 16th day of December 1868 and I hereby certify that the contents of the above affidavitwas made known to the witnesses before signing & that I have no interest in the claim this affidavit is sought to establish

B.F. Ibach seal
Notary Public

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Affidavits of Lucinda Moon and Thomas Wright in case of Lydia Boyd

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State of Ohio
County of Columbiana

on this 7th of Oct to be A D 1853 person appear before Andrew Summers a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid Lucinda Moon who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and says that she was personally acquanted with James Boyd and Lydiah Boyd for more than twenty years last past and knew them to be husband and wife wife from cohabitation and reputation & so forth and all ways understood him to be a revolutionary soldier and knew that he drew a pension of about $28:33 cents per annum that his [illegible] widow Lydiah Boyd had to take care of him for at least ten years last past for the said Boyd was unable to labor and had been unable to perform but little labor for many years prior to the aforesaid time  She further states that the said James Boyd always was poor and under imbarrised circumstances and destitute of any means of support only as he earned it by his labor and left a family of some 8 or 10 children at his death one of his children [illegible] at his death and she further state that said James Boyd deceased July 11th A D 1848 She further states she was present at the death and Burial of said James Boyd and have been well acquanted the said Lydiah Boyd ever since and her circumstance calls for the increas and back pention that

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may be due her under act of congress past
For this deponent sayeth not given under her hand and seal the day and year above mentioned writer Lucinda Moore Seal

Also Thomas Wright being duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth that he was personally acquainted with the said James Boyd and Lydiah Boyd and knew them to be husband and wife from cohabitation reputation and there raising a family as such and never heard it disputed He further states he was present at his death to it (James Boyd) knew that he deceased on or about the month of July A D 1848 he further states that the said James Boyd was always considered a revolutionary soldier and he never heard it disputed he further states he was a helpless [illegible] man for many years last past and under imbarissing circumstances and his widow Lydiah Boyd needs her legal and equitable rites as pention increas and back monney

Given under his hand and seal before me the day and year above written Thos Wright Seal

Sworn to and Subscribed before me the day and year above write I hereby certify that I am personally acquanted with the above named witness and believe there statements to to be true I certify that I am well and personally acquainted with

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with the said James Boyd in his life time and that he was called out at the political meeting as a revolutionary soldier

And Summers
A Justice of the Peace


My address Alliance Stark county Ohio
Amos Burden

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The State of Ohio
Columbiana County, SS.

I, Albert Armstrong, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said county, the same being a Court of Law and Record do by these presents, certify, that  Andrew Summers Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were made, and who has thereunto in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was at that time, and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to administer oaths to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at New Lisbon, in the said county this 15th day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three

Albert Armstrong Clerk.

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The State of Ohio, Columbiana County

On this 1st day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me John Reid, Judge of the Court of Probate of the County and State aforesaid, Mrs. Lydia Boyd, a resident of "Scrabble", in the County and State aforesaid age about 65 years who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the law of the United States passed the third of February 1853 granting pensions to the widows of pensioners who served in the revolutionary war, that she is the widow of James Boyd, now deceased, who was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and a pensioner of the United States upon the Ohio pension roll under the act of 1832 at the rate of twenty eight dollars and 33/100 per annum. She further declares that she was married to the said James Boyd on the thirteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and twenty five, that her said husband died on the eleventh day of July, eighteen hundred and forty eight, that she was not married to him prior to the second day of January, eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated, that there is no public record of her marriage, nor a private record of her marriage, that her marriage certificate is herwith & genuine, and she further states she is now a widow.

Lydia Boyd

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. I hereby certify that I believe her to be the identical Lydia Boyd who she represents herself to be and that she is of the age above stated.

Witness John Reid, Judge of the Probate Court and seal of said Court, at New Lisbon this day and year first above written

John Reid Probate Judge
Of Columbiana County Ohio

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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 9362
Lydia Boyd
Wid
James Boyd
Prvt Rev. War

Act: Feby 3d 1853
Index:--Vol. A, Page 72

Arrangement of 1870

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[illegible]
June 6

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington city DC
Official business

165444

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1864 Sept 2 transfer to Fort Wayne Ind from 4th March 64

Indiana 3868 Fort Wayne
Ohio Cleveland

Lydia Boyd widow of James who served in the Revolutiionary war, as a private 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 28 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued 20th day of March/54 and sent to

A.S. Brewer
New Lisbon
Ohio

Reg 3 Mar ss - 165444

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No 1928

Lydia Boyd widow of James

Let to Agt
Aug 16/53

Gray

Allowed $28 33/100
Per annum
To Com. Feb 3/53

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Pension Office
August 16/53
Sir
Please report time of last payment to or death of within named pensioner

Respectfully

F. Burt Esq.  S. Cole

S Aud Resent for [illegible]

James Boyd, Act 32, $28.33 p. an. - Paid to the 4th March 1848: no date of death on our books.

F. Burt
Auditor

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State of Ohio
Columbiana County ss.

Case plead August term 1853

Personally appeared in open Court James Boyd whose application for a pension has been returned to the Clerk because it wanted the certificate of a Clergyman as to his acquaintance with him, his belief as to his age, services in the revolutionary war & his reputation in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution who upon oath says he knows of no clergyman who can testify from acquaintance with him that he believes that he is of the age he represents himself to be in his said application, and that he is respected and believed in his neighborhood to have been a revolutionary soldier and that he concurs in that opinion; because he says no clergyman lives nearer to him than fifteen miles - Sworn to and subscribed this twelfth day of August AD 1833

James Boyd

C.D. Coffin, Clk

for William Blackburn and Joseph Coffin residing in the County of Columbiana and neighbors to James Boyd - hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said James Boyd who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration hereto attached; that we believe him to be seventy two years and seven months old, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur

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In that opinion. Sworn and Subscibed the 12th day of August AD 1833

Joseph Coffin
William Blackburn

C.D. Coffin, Clk

I, Charles D. Coffin, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Columbiana in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of James Boyd's application for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12th day of August 1833

Charles D. Coffin
Clk.

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State of Ohio
County of Columbiana

On this seventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace, Mrs. Lydia Boyd a resident of Scrabble in the county and State aforesaid, aged about 65 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision under the law of the United States, passed the 3rd of February 1853, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of James Boyd now deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and a Pensioner of the United States upon the Ohio pension roll, Act of 1832 at the rate of Twenty eight 33/100 per annum.

She further declares that she was married to the said James Boyd on the thirteenth day of October eighteen hundred and twenty five; that her said husband died on the Eleventh day of July eighteen hundred and forty eight; that she was not married to him prior to the second day of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. That there is no public record of her marriage nor a private record of her marriage, that her marriage certificate is herewith and genuine, and she further declares that she is now a widow.

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year first written

Samuel H. Bennet
Justice of the Peace

Lydia Boyd

State of Ohio
County of Columbiana

On this seventh day of December A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Thomas Wright and Joshua Kirk who are to me well known & who are creditable witnesses, and who being duly sworn depose and say that they are each well acquainted with Mrs. Lydia Boyd the above applicant for a pension, that they have known her for fourteen years last past. That they were acquainted with James Boyd her late husband, having known him for Wright 20 and Kirk 2 years previous to his death. That they the said James Boyd and Lydia Boyd lived together as husband and wife, and were reputed so to be, that the deponents never heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned, that the said James Boyd died on the eleventh day of July 1848; and that said Lydia Boyd has been since that day and still is reputed to be a widow, which deponents believe to be the fact.That she has never remarried since her said husbands death and is still his widow, and that her said husband was the identical man mentioned as a pensioner in her declaration above, and that deponents are disinterested.

Subscribed and sworn before me the day and year first above written, and I certify that I am not interested herein.
Samuel H. Bennet
Justice of the Peace

Thos. Wright
Joshua Kirk

I hereby constitute and appoint Samuel M. Knight my true and lawful attorney, hereby authorizing him to prosecute this my claim to a pension and to receive the certificate to be issued therefore. Dated this seventh day of December A.D. 1853.
Lydia Boyd

I hereby certify that the above applicant Lydia Boyd is an old and infirm applicant who is not able to go before a court and I went to her place of residence to administer the oath above referred to

Samuel H. Bennett
Justice of the Peace

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The State of Ohio
Columbiana County, SS.

I, Albert Armstrong, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said county, the same being a Court of Law and Record do by these presents, certify, that  Samuel H. Bennett Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit & certificate were made, and who has thereunto in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was at that time, and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to take such affidavits and to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at New Lisbon, in the said county this 23d day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three

Albert Armstrong Clerk.