Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7662, for Boling Nicholson, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
N 6
Nicholson, Boling
R7662
CONTENTS

Poling Nicholson 33609 Kentucky
Suspended
See let to Hon. Benj. Hardin March 25 1836.
7662

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
7162
P. O.
Boling Nicholson
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Bringing Nicholson 33.669 2nd term no officers 2nd term no officers
Suspect
Hn. D. Hardin HR

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832
State of Kentucky, Spencer County — on this 21 st day of July 1835. personally appeared before me Thos. Newman a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid. B. Boling Nicholson aged 75 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath write the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 7 th of June 1832 — that he was drafted for a term of three months a private in the Army of the Revolution but this year not recollected, he was drafted in Edgecombe County N. Carolina, and served in Captain Thomas Barrow Company of Infantry in Colo. Bn. Lowel. Reg. Wm. Brinkel was a field officer and was under the Command of Genl. Sumner, and on March rd from said Edgecombe County N.C. to South Carolina and served the most of the said term about the Dan River and a Creek named Arroyo Creek, two was marched back through North Carolina crossing Broad River then to Salisbury and thence to the Shallowford of the Yadkin and crossed there and was soon after discharged in Wightman by the aforesaid Colo. Lowel which discharge has long been lost. And this Declarant further states that after he returned home to Edgecombe County N.C. he was again drafted for three months, but from age and infirmity did not being unable or unable as often as at the first time he cannot state the names of any of the officers he served under this term, but well recollects that he was marched to Halifax on Roanoke where he was employed the whole of his time at hard labour entrenching &c. and was honorably discharged which is also lost. This Declarant states that he knows of no person that he can prove his service by, and that he was born near Williamsburg in Virginia in the year 1759, and that he has a record of his age, and that he was living in Edge-

Leamb County N. Carolina. and When call d into Service and after the Revolution he moved into S. Carolina where he married and moved to Kentucky Pulasky County and now lives in Spencer County Ky t he hereby Relinquishes every claim to a pension whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency of any State - Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Boline Nicholson
Tho s Newman J.P.P.S.C. and the said Tho s Newman do hereby declare my opinion that the above named Boline Nicholson applicant for a pension was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and he is entirely unable to attend at Court to make his declaration. Given under my hand as Justice of the Peace day & date first written
Tho s Newman J.P.P.S.C. We Jesse Connally - Residing in Spencer County and James Shelburn residing in (the same) hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Boline Nicholson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 75 years of age. that he is Reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides. to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Jesse Connally
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 19 th Feb. James Shelburn 1836 Ex & date of year and I do further state of J. Terrell J.P.P.S.C. that the said Jesse Connally & James Shelburn are Credible persons. and statement there, are entitled to credit J. Terrell J.P.P.S.C.

Bringing Nicholson 33.669 not to be strict Term no officers
Suspect
Hn D. Hardin HR

State of Kentucky } ss. Spencer County. } I, Raphael Lancaster Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings had before Thomas Newman and Zachariah Terrell Esquires in the matter of the application of Betsy Nicholson for a Pension. I do further certify that the said Thomas Newman and Zachariah Terrell Esquires are and were at the time of signing the same acting Justices of the peace in and for said County and legally empowered to administer oaths and that their signatures thereto appear to me to be genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of Office at Taylorsville the 27 th day of February 1836. and in the 42 nd Year of the Commonwealth. Raph d . Lancaster Clk Spencer Cty. Ct.