Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,914, Joseph Boynton, N.H.

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N.H.   Boynton, Joseph    S. 36,914
{ B.L.H.T 75. 200 Lieut. Issued Aug. 24, 1790 to Benj Ives Gilman. No papers}

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Notification sent to John Mussey Esq 14 July 1820
Portland Me
[illegible[
15 Sept 1828, under act 15 Mar 182[8?]
See letter Oct. 10, 1828, to Sec. of War.


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324.
Maine Roll

Joseph Boynton 
Capt Dennett
Lieutenant, New Hampshire line, May '78 to Jany '84 in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 of Oct 1818  and sent to Judah Dana Esqr
Fryeburg Maine

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818 - - - - - - 94.00
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar1819 - - 120.00
Arrears 4 mo 21/30  . . . . . . . . . . [total]  $214.00

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Died June 24, 1830 - Agency [B?]
Continued on the roll under the [illegible] money 1821
Hiram Oxford
4 March 1819

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Capt/ J. Boynton
Officer  Lieutenant


[Written sideways]
day of July 1818
[Jason Dane?????]

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Oxford ss.
On this fourteenth day of April AD 1818 before me the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate in said County & first associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth personally appeared Joseph Bointon [Boynton] aged about seventy years a resident of Hiram in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" that he the said Joseph Bointon served in the revolutionary war on the continental establishment about [blank] years and nine months as a soldier from May AD 1775 to November 1776 when he received the commission of Ensign & served as such until May AD 1778 when he was appointed a Lieutenant in the third New Hampshire Regiment & served in that till it was reduced and was than attached to the second N. H. Regiment, commanded by Col George Reed and served in Regiment & in the company commanded by Capt John Dennett till the end of the war & was dismissed at West Point, York State in Jany. or February AD 1784 and that he is the identical person named on said Lt's Commission which is hereunto annexed & that from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support.
Sworn to and declared the day & year aforesaid
[signed] Judah Dana  Judge

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I Judah Dana Judge [illegible] as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Boynton did serve in the war of the revolution as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy for the term of nine months on the Continental Establishment and that from his reduced circumstances he stands in need of assistance from his country for support.  I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Fryeburg this twenty fifth day of July 1818
[signed] Judah Dana  Judge

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

County of Oxford ss.
I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in said County Do at Fryeburg in said County on this twenty fifth day of July A D 1818 certify & make known that the Hon. Judah Dana who signed the foregoing [certificate?] is Judge of said Court of Probate & first associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth & that said instrument is under the seal of said Probate Court.
Attest [signed] Tim Pryon, Register of Probate

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N 62  Joseph Boynton
Special Dist. Court
July 1 A. D. 1820


York County


Contin'd
3241
2 Oct 1818

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
DISTRICT OF MAINE, SS.
At a District Court of the United States begun and Holden at Portland  within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the sixth  day of June  and by adjournment from day to day, on the eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.
On this eighth  day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Joseph Boynton aged sixty six years, resident in Hiram in said District, who being first duly sworn according to the law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows,  viz. as a Lieutenant in the company commanded by Capt. [blank] in the Regiment commanded by Colonels Scammel & Poor in the line of the State of N. Hampshire on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 14th day of April A.D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 3241  was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident 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 of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact, and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
[signed]  Joseph Boynton 
Sworn to and declared, on the eighth day of June [A.D. 1820}
Before [signed] Albion K. Parris }  U.S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

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SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding expected) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:

Real estate __none__
Personal estate__one sett of Joiner's tools__no income__
[signed]  Joseph Boynton 

Sworn to Before [signed] Albion K. Parris
U.S. Dist: Judge


SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Joseph Boynton who, by occupation am a Joiner which I am not able to pursue by reason of having had both legs injured and being infirm

NAMES  none
AGES  [blank]
Capacity to support.  Joseph Boynton 

Sworn to Before [signed] Albion K. Parris
U.S. Dist: Judge

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[writing very faint]

United States of America
District of Maine ss.  
At a Special District Court begun & holden at Saco within the County of York in said District  on the  first day of July A. D. 1820 before the Hon. Albion H. Parris Judge of said Court.
[illegible] original declaration & schedule  whereof, the foregoing [illegible] copies having been here presented in Open Court & duly [considered?] & fully examined It is here now considered and [ordered?] [illegible] that the total amount in value of the property [illegible] in said schedule is Ten dollars & no more.  [In testimony?] whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the [seal?] of said Court on this first day of July A.D. 1820
[signed] John Mussey Junr.   U. S. District Court

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I John Mussey, Junr., Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is ten dollars and no more.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
[signed] John Mussey Junr {Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.}

$10

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August 11, 1921.

G.L. Boynton,
Sewaren, N. J.

Sir:

In response to your letter dated July 25, 1921 you are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. File No. 36,914, it appears that Joseph Boynton served as a soldier, Officers not stated, from May 1775 to November 1776, when he was made Ensign, and so served until May 1, 1778 when he was commissioned Lieutenant of the Third New Hampshire Regiment; he was later attached to the Second New Hampshire Regiment and was discharged at West Point, in January or February 1784.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818, while living in Hiram, Oxford County, Maine, aged about 70 years. He died on June 24, 1830. The date and place of his birth are not on record. There is no data on file as to his family.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

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36914
Revy
INVALID.
File No. 36,914
Joseph Boynton
Lieut Rev War
Act:  18th March '18
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 47
[in brackets] Arrangement of 1870


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Mar 8 '09
F. B. Philbrook
Jamica Plain Mass

1915 Apr 26: Mrs. Emily F. Warren
advised no family data and referred to Auditor [M???]

1921 Mar 23, Hist. to A.L. Talbot, Lewiston, Me. (see his letter in B. L. W. + 97683 160-55. John Howard. War 1812)  AW

1921 July 21. Hist to A L Talbot on circular as requested.   AW

1921, Aug. 11 hist. to G. L. Boynton -- En

1927, May 9  - Mary M, Moore [ad-us?] furn data  AW

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Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Sept 24th 1828
Sir:  I have the honor to inform you, that Joseph Boynton formerly a Lieutenant in the third Regiment of the N Hampshire line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the Maine agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the above mentioned act.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant,
[signed] Richard Rush


The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
No 111

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No 5

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED

To Joseph Boynton Gentleman  Greeting.  We, Reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity DO by the presents constitute and appoint you to be a Lieutenant in the Third New Hampshire Regiment in the Army of the United Stated to take rank as such from the 1st day of May A. D. 1778; You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging.  And we do Strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders as Lieutenant And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War in [illegible] of the trust reposed in you.  This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.

Witness his Excellency John Jay Esq President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia the 16 day of June 1779. and in the third year of our Independence.
[signed] John Jay

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest [signed] P. Scull, Secretary of the Board of War

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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
[illegible] with
Invalid file
#36, 914

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For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th day of May, 1828, I Joseph Boynton of Cornish in the county of York in the State of Maine, do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such, to the end of the war at which period I was a Lieutenant in he third regiment of the New Hampshire line.
I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate (commonly called a commutation certificate) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay, which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress of the 22nd of March, 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October 1780.
And I do further declare that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3rd day of March, 1826, four hundred eighty dollars, paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the State of Maine
The three N. H. regiments were ordered to one before I left the service
[signed] J Boynton

Subscribed and sworn to before me [signed] Philip Hubbard, Justice of the Peace

Before me Philip Hubbard a justice of the peace in the county of York in the State of Maine, personally appeared this day Samuel Boynton and John P. Briggs of the said county, who did severally make oath that Joseph Boynton, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as he stated
Witness my hand this twenty second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and tewenty eight.
[signed]  Philip Hubbard  Justice of the Peace

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State of Maine
County of York ss   
I  Jeremiah Bradbury Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said County hereby certify that Philip Hubbard who has certified the annexed declaration of Joseph Boynton and the affidavit of John P. Briggs and Samuel Boynton, is a Justice of the Peace duly appointed and qualified and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my name and affix the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said State this twenty eighth day of August Anno Domini 1828
[signed] Jere. Bradbury  Clerk

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Cornish
Richard Rush  Secretary of the Treasury,
Sir:  Enclosed you have my declaration which is all the evidence I can now conveniently furnish of my claim to the pension granted by the act of 15th May 1828.
My Commission was sent to the War Office when I applied for my pension under the act of 18th March 1818 and was not returned  I have a Certificate in my possession which I received under the act last mentioned dated October 2, 1818, No 3241, which you will find registered in the War Office and my Commission is probably on file there
I am Sir, your obt Servant
[signed] J Boynton

P.S.  If you send me a draft on a branch of the United States Bank the branch at Portland will be more convenient

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[upper right corner]  963

% of original payments 671

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

 Sept. 13, 1828.

Joseph Boynton, of Cornish in the County of York, in the State of Maine, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war, at which period he was a Lieutenant in the third regiment of the New Hampshire line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1826, 480 dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of Maine.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order [of] the Secretary
[signed]  A. [Dinkins?]


TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Third Auditor's Office,
20th September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Joseph Boynton - Lieut. in the New Hampshire line, amounting to Sixteen Hundred dollars.  
It further appears that Joseph Boynton is now on the pension list of the Maine agency, and has been since the 3rd March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.
[signed]  Peter Hagner  Aud.

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Dorchester Centre Mass.

To Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:  Kindly state if you have a record of a pension given to Mrs. Anne (Cummings) Boynton widow of Joseph Boynton who served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier from Westmorland N. H. or Stratham N. H.  
Yrs truly,
[signed]   (Miss) Mary M. Moore 
90 Kenwood Street
Dorchester Centre  Mass

March 9, 1927

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[PENSION?]

[JUN or JUL]  1921

[DIVISION?]

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BOYNTON LUMBER CO,
LUMBER   MILLWORK
PLANING MILL

G L Boynton  President

Sewaren, N. J.   July 25, 1021

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

When replying refer to Military Record of Joseph Boynton

Gentlemen:
[information relating to lumber company]

Will you kindly furnish me the following information from the war records and send me your charge for same to which I will be pleased to give my most prompt attention.

What I want is a complete military record of Joseph Boynton who served in the Third New Hampshire Regiment of the Continental Army from Nov. 8th, 1776 to January 1st, 1781 at which time he was transferred to the Second New Hampshire Regiment in which he served until the close of the war, which I understand could be found on Page #115, Heitman's History Register of Officers of the Continental Army.

If you will be kind enough to give me the above together with any other data you may have on this officer, it will be very greatly appreciated.
Yours very truly,
[signed]  G. L. Boynton
G. L. Boynton.

GLB/MMR

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B


[stamp]  RECORD DIVISION  JUL 14 1921

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Lewiston, Maine, July 11, 1921.

Hon. Washington Gardner,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:  I thank you for so promptly giving me the record of William Maxwell and his statement in application for pension April 25, 1818.
I would like the same information stated in the application for pension April 14, 1818, of Joseph Boynton then living at Hiram, Maine.  Would like this on the same form as the record of William Maxwell is given.  Form 0-2856.  Claim W. 6787  File no. 36,914 - this is Joseph Boynton
Respectfully, [signed] A. L. Talbot


Cir 3521
was one sent - for 
new [unknown]

Although he had this record in letter form Mar 23, 1921, I put the data on a circular and sent it to him as he may have some reason for wanting it on a separate sheet by itself

[stamp]  U. S. PENSION OFFICE   JUL 18 1921

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[postmark]

U S PENSION OFFICE
FEB 21
[year is illegible]

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Boston, Feb. 18, 1898

[Stamp -- OLD WAR & NAVY   FEB 24 1898]

Sir:  One Robert B. Wilkins, Lieutenant of N. H. Continental troops, born 1755, died at Boston, 1832, received a pension for his services in the Revolutionary war.  His widow, Matilda (or Martha) also drew a pension after his death.  This surviving widow was his second wife.  His first wife's name was Elizabeth Stewart, she died in 1784.
Will you kindly inform me as fully as possible of the facts on file at the Bureau both as to his service - the name and residence of widow, and date of last payment to her; also number of his pension and under what act he received it.
II    Can you inform me also of the same points in connection with Lieut. Joseph Boynton, who died in Cornish, Maine, Jan. 1831, and his widow (second wife) Elizabeth, was appointed administratrix and also received his pension.
This information is for the purpose of proving claims to membership in a patriotic society and for no other purpose and your reply will be greatly appreciated.
Very Respectfully,
[signed] Fred B. Philbrook
358 Centre St.
Jamaica Plain, Mass.

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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

May 9, 1927

Miss Mary M. Moore
90 Kenwood St
Dorchester Center, Mass

Madam:
 I have to advise that in the Revolutionary War pension claim (S. 36914) of Joseph Boynton, the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records, who served in the New Hampshire Troops, there is no data as to his family.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

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From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. File No. 36,914, it appears that Joseph Boynton served as a soldier, Officers not stated, from May 1776 to Nov. 1779, then he was made Ensign and so served until May 1, 1778 when he was commissioned Lieutenant of the Third N.H. Regiment, he was later attached to the Second N.H. Regiment and was discharged at West Point, in Jan. or Feb. 1784.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818 while living at Hiram, Oxford Co., Me. aged about 70 years. He died June 24, 1830. There is no data on file as to family. The date and place of his birth are not on record. No claim was ever made by anyone as the widow of said soldier.

Very respectfully,
[illegible signature]
Chief Clerk.

This is last part of letter dated Mar. 23, 1921 to A. L. Talbot
Lewiston, Me

(See first part in John Howard B. L Wr 97683 - [160 -55?] 1872

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Rev. War Section.
April 26, 1915.

Mrs. Emily F. Warren,
282 Berkeley Street.
Boston. Mass.

Madam:  In response to your letter of the twentieth instant you are advised that the papers on the claim of Lieutenant Joseph Boynton of Cornish, York County, Maine, Sur. File No. 36,914, Rev. War, fail to give any family data.
  For the date of last payment of his pension and to whom paid, you should address the Auditor for the Interior Department, U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, D.C., giving him all of the following data:  "Joseph Boynton, Certificate No. 713, Issued August 3, 1829, for $320 per annum under Act of May 15, 1828, at the Maine Agency."

Very Respectfully,
G M [illegible]
Commissioner.