Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 478, James Boden, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
nc
New Jersey
Boden, James
8.478
CONTENTS
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New Jersey.
James Boden. private In the Army of the Revolution
Inscribed on the roll of the New Jersey Agency at the rate of $4 per month
Honorol Certificate issued 25 th . September 1821 and sent to J Ewing Esq Trenton.
New Jersey

District of Columbia
Name of a Person placed on the roll of this Steamer as a Revolutionary Pensioner, between the 1 st of March and 4 th of

St. Paul For journal certificate
Recd. 24 Sept. 1891

State of New Jersey
Amsterdam County St. On the fifteenth day of Sep- tember one thousand eight hundred and twen- ty one, before me James Luing one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County of Amsterdam personally appeared James Boden an Invalid Pensioner of the United States to me well known and worthy of credit who being duly sworn de Deposeth and saith that he is the same James Boden who belonged to Capt. Joab Houghton's company in Col. Johnson's Regi- ment of the New Jersey Militia who were engaged for five Months in the service of the United States in the year 1776 that Col. Johnson being killed on Long Island in the year 1776 the Regiment was afterwards com- manded by Col. Joseph Phillips, that he this deponent was wounded while in the ser- vice of the United States on the 27. day of August 1776 on Long Island in the State of New York that he was placed on the Pension list of the United States by Act of Congress dated April 25 1800 at two dollars fifty cents per month that his Pension was raised to four dollars per month by Act of Congress of April 24 1816 that he never had a certificate from any one but drew his Pension agreeably to those Laws until the 4. March last, that his disability still continues but he is now informed by the President of the Trenton Bank acting as Agent for paying Military Pensions, that he can draw no longer, though the Law still continues in force, without a certificate from the War Office of the United States, he therefore prays that a certificate may be forwarded forwarded to him to enable him to draw his Pension as usual.
Sworn at Trenton in said County Sept. 15. 1821 before me
James Boden Jas Luing

Secretary's Office, Trenton New Jersey September 8/1821
I certify that James Ewing Esquire, the person before whom the preceding Affidavit was taken, is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Hunterdon, duly appointed and commissioned by the proper authority
Given under my hand and official seal at Trenton the day and year aforesaid
Dan. Colburn Secretary &c

INVALID.
Rev. War
F No. 428 James Boden, Pri. Rev. War.
Act : .....
Index :—Vol. A , Page 36
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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