Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15755, Robert Boyle, Va.

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Service
VA

Boyle, Robert

Number
S15755

carded

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P 15755
INVALID

File No. 15,755
Robert Boyle
Pri  Rev War

Act:  June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 40


[Arrangement of 1870.]

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23,571
Virginia
Robert X Boyle
of Bedford in the State of VA
who was a Pro in the --
by Captain ---- of the Rgn
by Col Lewis in the Va
line for  10mo: 12 days ---

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 34 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issues the 28th day of Feby 36 and (?) N.H. Claiborne (?)

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $86.65
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34 17.33
103.98

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Nath Rice - Clerk
Book (3?) Vol. (?) Page 3

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Bedford County Virginia to wit

This day Thomas Eubanks aged about eighty five years, a soldier of the Revolutionary War as he states personally appeared in Bedford Coun-ty Court and made solemn oath that he knows the fact that Robert Boyle now an insane man of said County who is eighty two years of age, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War against Great Britain.  The first tour he said Boyle served was under Capt. Thomas Bedford of said County of at least three months, he thinks over principally at the point the month of the great Kanawha against the Indians & under General Andrew Lewis of Augusta was also an officer over said Boyle.  The next tour served by said Boyle was under an enlistment under Capt. Charles Gwatkin of Bedford who enlisted & marched to Boonesborough in Kentucky in 1777 in August or September he this department did not serve said tour but had two brothers who did and he is confident said Boyle served at least six months in said last tour.  the year of his first enlistment and services he cannot recollect.  The next services he knew of by said Boyle was under said Cap Charles Gwatkin and he was in Guilford Battle under said Gwatkin and in that tour served at least six weeks; the date he cannot precisely recollect but two of this (deforments?) brothers were soldiers with him in all his services except at the point under Bedford and was always understood from them he was a first rate solider.  Said Boyle also served a tour at and about Peters-burg and in lower Virginia under Cap. Jacob Early, he was a soldier and was ^ under said Early at the siege of York and surrender of Cornwallis how long he does not know or the precise date he was under Col. Charles Lyndh at Yorktown.
Bedford County Court 23rd September 1833.
Sworn to in court by Thomas Eubanks
Ro. O. Mitchell CBC

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Virginia Bedford County to (?)

I Samuel Mitchell of Bedford County Virginia a soldier of the Revolution ged Seventy two years do hereby certify that in the year 1779-80 Robert Boyle of Bedford County Virginia served a tour of three months in the service of the United States at Petersburg Virginia with his the said Samuel Mitchel under Cap. Jacob Earley and Col. Charles Lynch.

Saml Mitchell

(Subscribed?) and sworn to this day before me Amistead Oley a Justice of the peace in and for said County and state by the said Samuel Mitchell whom I hereby certify to be a person of credibility.  Given under my hand this 22nd day of September 1833.

A. Obey J.P.


(?) at a Court held for said County at the Courthouse the 28th day of October 1833.

The Court doth certify that Samuel Mitchell and Thomas Eubank who have given their affidavits in the case of the application of Robert Boyle for a pension are credible ? and that this the opinion of the Court that the said Robert Boyle (illegible for remainder of sentence) and at a Court held for said County at the Court house the 26th day of November 1833.

The Court doth certify that Robert Boyle now and for many years past a resident of this County for whom application is about to be served to the war department for a pension is now and has been for a considerable time past, a person of insane mind, and that this person and property is now and has been for a considerable time in the care of John Boyle his son, who was appointed his Committee by this Court.

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Robert Boyles
papers
for a pension

Bedford County Va

Admit as a private
10mo. + 12 days

$34.11

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State of Virginia
County of Bedford ?

I Robert N. Dickerson deputy clerk of the County Court of Bedford in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a true copy of the original proceedings of the said Court had in the matter of the application of Robert Boyle for a pension. And I do further certify that Armistead (Annidead in the notes) Oley who has the certificate of which the foregoing is a copy is and was at the state of signing the  ? an a ? Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly ? and qualifies as Such according to the Constitution and law of this state.

In ? ? I have hereabout set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court the 4th day of December 1833 in the 58th year of the Independence of America.

Ro. N. Dickerson (Dickinson in the notes below) DCBC