Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45,608, Richard Boynton, N.H.

SERVICE
N.H.
NUMBER
Boynton, Richard S. 45608
CONTENTS

19,828
New Hampshire
Richard Boignton
of Grafton Co., in the State of N. Hampshire who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Hawkins of the regiment commanded by Colonel H. Dearborn in the N. Hampshire line, for the term of one year from July 5, 1779 to 5 July 1780.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2 nd day of October 1827.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of Nov. 1827 and sent to Mrs Goodall 209- Bath, N.H.
Arrears to 4th of March 1828 - $40.77 Semi-ann. all'ce ending
Date of Death on Agency Book Mar. 8, 1832
$40.77
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. * }
1 March, 1823.

State of New Hampshire.
19.623
At the Superior Court of Judicature held at Plymouth within & for said County of Grafton on the second Tuesday of November A.D. 1824 being the highest Court of record by the laws of said State. On this 16 th day of November 1824 personally appeared in open court Richard Boynton resident in Thornton in said County aged sixty three years, who being duly sworn according to Law in said Court, doth depose & say That in June or July 1779 the town of New Hampshire in said State was called on to draft one man for a years service in the United States service Army on the Continental establishment, & that he was drafted that he joined the Army in July 1779 at Pabekill or Fishkill in New York, & was placed or enlisted into Capt. Hawkins Company in Col. Henry Dearborn's Regiment, New Hampshire Line, on said establishment that he served in said Company one year, & was on the 5 th day of July A.D. 1780 at West Point in New York State duly & honorably discharged by Col. Henry Dearborn in Writing, his time of service having expired, & that he cannot find it: - I think the Selectmen took it to obtain my pay, & I have no other evidence of my services except the certificate I enclose herin dated December 20 th 1780 signed by the Selectmen of S d New Hampshire that year. I have been several years trying to find said discharge, & hoped to be able before I applied for a pension. And I do solemnly swear that I was on the 18 th day of March 1818 a resident citizen of the United States, & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my

my property or any part thereof with intent 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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed March 18 th 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 than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me & the Selectmen of said Thornton subscribed as hereon. - And I do further solemnly swear that I am by occupation a farmer, of tolerable health to pursue it, but my wife Eunice, aged sixty two years is sickly & feeble & under the Doctor's care most of the time, & is consumptive, & I have no other family, my son Benjamin permitting us to live in his house. He is of age, married & has but little property, & is under no obligation to support me. I have so far got my living by working at days work about, & my wife grows more feeble, & I am really unable to obtain a comfortable living, and now must look to my Country or Town for support -  Richard Boynton
The following is a Schedule of Richard Boynton's property shown to us by himself & appraised by us as follows - viz,
   1 feather bed $10.00 2 old bedsteads with cords $1.00   3 Pillows 1.00 1 iron kettle 1.00   2 Pair of sheets 4.00 1 tea kettle 0 50   3 Pair of old D o 3.00 1 pail pot 1.00   3 Pair of pillow cases 0.75 1 Dish kettle 0.17   1 Pair of bed blankets 1.50 1 small D o 0.25   1 Bed quilt 4.00 1 iron basin 0.30   3 Old ditto 3.00 1 milk pail 0.50  

  1 Water pail $0. 08 1 Churn 0. 50   1 wash tub 0. 17 2 Small tables 0. 75   3 old chairs 1. 00 3 old casters 0. 37   1 old case of drawers 2. 00 1 old chest 0. 25   1 milk pails 0. 25 Some old crockery ware 0. 50   2 tin tea pots 0. 34 1 tin basin & 1 pint cup 0. 17   3 old pewter plates 0. 67 1 ax with handle 1. 00   1 Sythe with riging 0. 50 1 old hoe 0. 12   1 pair old plowirons 2. 00 1 fine shovel 0. 50   1 Crane with hooks 1. 00 1 Staple & ring for yoke 0. 75   1 old linen wheel 0. 50 5 knives & forks 0. 25   4 table spoons & 3 tea spoons 0. 25 1 old toast iron 0. 12   1 old basket 0. 25 1 flat iron 0. 30 
(footed in the whole) $46. 56
Thornton November 8 th 1824 Richard Boynton William Thornton & Selectmen of Jacob Sargent Juni Thornton
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. Personally came before me the before named Richard Boynton and made solemn oath that the foregoing schedule is a true inventory, and that it contains all the property that he owns or is possessed of wearing apparel excepted) on this eighth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty four.
Wm Thornton Justice of the Peace
Sworn to & declared by the said Richard Boynton before the Justices of said Superior Court of Judicature in open court this sixteenth day of November Anno Domini 1824.
Attest S.P. Webster Clerk

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss.
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Indicture within & for said County do hereby certify that William Thornton Esquire, before whom the foregoing oath was taken, was on the 8 th day of November 1824. an acting Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Grafton.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 16 th day of November 1824.
S. P. Webster Clerk
Grafton ss.
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Indicture within & for said County of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration & schedule of property of Richard Boynton is truly copied from the records of said Court, and that it is the opinion of said Court that the whole amount of the property of said Boynton is forty six dollars & fifty six cents.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court this 16 th day of November A.D. 1824.
S. P. Webster Clerk

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
WCS David
October 6, 1927
John B. Davis 22 E. Greenwood Ave. Lansdowne, Pa.
Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 45608, it appears that RICHARD BOYNTON , while a resident of New Hampton, New Hampshire, enlisted July 5, 1779, as a private in Captain Hawkins' Company in Colonel Henry Dearborn's New Hampshire Regiment and was discharged July 5, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 16, 1824, at which time he was sixty-three years of age and was living at Thornton, New Hampshire.
In 1824 he referred to his wife, Eunice, as being sixty-two years of age.
He also referred to his son, Benjamin, who was married in 1824 and to his son, Josiah.
The exact date of birth of Richard Boynton is not given.
He died March 8, 1832, place not stated.
The above noted is the only Richard Boynton that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

Newhampton Select area

the State of New Hampshire to the Selectmen of New- Hampton of the sum of 133 continental dollars paid Richard Bainton as part of the State bounty he being a soldier in the Continental army one year raised in the year 1779  New Hampton December the 20th 1780
Elisha Smith Selectmen Robert Kelso New Hampton
BOYNTON, RICHARD

Richard Boynton Declaration for pension.
Adm l ?
The Council H. H.

State of New Hampshire
Grafton Ys
At the Court of Common Pleas held at Plymouth within the said County of Grafton on the first Tuesday of October A.D. 1827 being a Court of record for said County of Grafton by the force of said State established on this second day of October A.D. 1827.
Present
The Hon. etc. { William Dinsmore Chief Justice Timothy Diller } Joseph Butler } Special Justices
Personally appeared in open Court Richard Boynton of Thornton in said County a resident there aged sixty seven years who first being duly sworn according to law, states on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18 March 1818 & the first of May 1820; that he the said Richard Boynton enlisted for the term of one year on the 5 day of July A.D. 1779 in the State of New Hampshire in the Company commanded by Captain Hawkins in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Dearborn in the line of the State of New Hampshire on the continental establishment - That he continued to serve in the said Corps until the 5 th day of July A.D. 1780 when he was discharged honorably by Col. Dearborn in writing at least point in the State of New York that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present - That his name is not on the roll of any state; and that the following are the reasons for not making an earlier application (viz) That he was informed he might obtain a pension in 1819 by proving his service - That he thought he must get his discharge to prove that after looking over his own papers he could not find his said discharge but he found the paper annexed to his former declaration of November 1824 and then he began to search abroad for his discharge that he then recollected of giving it to the Selectmen of New Hampton N.H. to obtain his bounty for said service that his wife being sick having no one to take care of her he could not leave home then could not afford the time help that as soon as he could leave consistently

He went to New Hampton searched the records there & got the enclosed certificate from the Town Clerk of that Town - Then sent to search the records at Dover & Portsmouth & Exeter the Secretary of State's Office to find said discharge that I did not learn until 1824 that I could obtain a pension without said discharge when I was told by counsel I might that I then went to Court & made the enclosed declaration - That I never saw or heard of the enclosed letter dated May 12. 1826 from the War Department until June 1827 that I have done every thing I could think of to obtain my pension frequently sent to inquire if no answer was given to my application but found none until June last and in pursuance of the act of the first of May A.D. 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of any property, or any part thereof with intent so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress, intitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 & 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 than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, they are subscribed except necessary clothing & bedding - and I further swear that I am by occupation a farmer of good constitution for my age to pursue it but my wife Eunice Nelson aged sixty five years is very pale & feeble & consumptive & pining away slowly under anxiety & indications from my poverty want of means to supply her comfortably - I have no other family but her - My son Benjamin permits us to live in a small house he owns or I should have no shelter he is poor too but under any obligations to support us being over 21 years -
I get my living by working out at days works having my sick wife alone Very soon Isaac gave me the use of a cow until he called for it & I learn he is dead - he never has called for it & I have that cow with me now but I am involved some more & I must have charity or suffer & my poor wife must suffer too - There has been no changes in my property since since March 18. 1818 that I recollect of except that I then

had a pig I fattened it & killed it for food I have done so yearly. The law allowing me one hog free of attachment from the cows I have had the use of, I sold some calves when a few months old to purchase necessaries for my sick wife I do feel that if government knew my privations & poverty they would not linger in their bounty, so please us poor & needy as we are so long I have made no other changes of property since March 18. 1818 unless it may be a knife or here or there or some such tool I have worked for as the old ones failed.
Richard Boynton.
The following is a schedule of all my property here I have except necessary clothing some bed & necessary bedding
  2 Iron Tea Kettle worth 50 cts 1 Iron Kettle worth 1.00 1.50   1 one Rail Pot 1.00 one broken Dish Kettle 17 cts. 1 small do. 25 cts 1.42   1 Iron Bason 30 1 milk pail 30 1 water do 20 1 Tub 17 .97   3 old chairs 1. one old case Drawers 1.50 1 old wheel 50 3.00   some Tea were old with Tea pots all worth not over 2.50   1 Broom & broom 1.00 one set the Knipping .50 1.50   Basket & baskets one chest & Knives & forks all worth not over 1.00   1 axe & handle 1.00 one axe 20 cts 1 fire shovel 30 1.50   staple & ring for yoke 75 cts Wart & H. & Irons both 40 cts 1.15   2 Tables almost worn out 1 old churn & pint cup & bason all 1.00   1 pair of old plough Irons 1.50 a few plates & kitchen articles 3.00   2 Sheep now worth 2.50   Used Cow of mine as Parish is dead is worth about 12.00   33.04 
Richard Boynton.
Sworn to and declared on the second day of October 1827 in open Court. Attest W. Woodworth Clerk Copy examined W. Woodworth Clerk I George Woodworth Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Grafton do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of this Court that the said Richard Boynton did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the foregoing declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of 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 foregoing schedule is thirty three dollars & four cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 2 d day of October 1827.  W. Woodworth Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Grafton

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss — I Stephen O. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature within & for said County of Grafton do hereby certify that Nath l P. Rogers Esq r
I Elisha Smith of New Hampton of age depose & say that I was a selectman of said town in the year 1780 & was an officer in the small company of militia in the town — Richard Boynton now of Thornton in the county of Grafton & state of New Hampshire & applicant for a pension then lived in New Hampton & was a member of my company — The town was called on to furnish a man for a year's service in the Continental Army in 1779. I remember that said Boynton was the man selected  sent from the company & go. I I remember we thought he cou d better go than others because he had no wife I remember that he went & that he return d after the year was out & that after he return d signed the paper annexed to his declaration to be sent to the department & which is signed by Robert Kellogg who was also a selectman of New Hampton at that time & that he said Boynton satisfied us that he had served the year & was honorably discharged — before we signed the paper but I have now no distinct recollection of seeing the discharge Elisha Smith

State of New Hampshire } Dec. 26. 1825 Person Grafton } Jolly appearing Elisha Smith within named, with whom I am acquainted who is a respectable & credible man - & made oath that the within affidavit by him subscribed is true — before me Nath. P. Rogers Jus Peace
After Elisha Smith

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss — I Stephen O. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature within & for said County of Grafton do hereby certify that Nathl P. Rogers Esqr
Joseph Smith of New Hampton depose & say that I was well acquainted with Richard Boynton now of Thornton in the county of Grafton State of New Hampshire an applicant for a pension — He lived in New Hampton in 1779 when I then lived — In 1780 I saw said Boynton in the town of Danbury in Connecticut — He belonged to the continental army & was when I saw him under arms & doing duty under continental officers in Capt. Hawkins' company Col. Henry Dearborn's Regiment I recollect his returning from the war sometime in the year 1780 — I remember also that Capt. Elisha Smith (then Lieut. Smith) & Robert Kelso were about that time selectmen of the town of New Hampton Joseph Smith
State of New Hampshire Dec. 26. 1825 Sworn & subscribed before me Grafton ss — N. P. Rogers Jur. Cross
I certify that the said Smith is a reputable & credible man N. P. Rogers Jur. Cross

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss — I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature within & for said County of Grafton do hereby certify that Nathl. P. Rogers Esq r before whom the foregoing Depositions were taken, was on the 26 th day of December A D 1825 an acting Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Grafton, at that to his attestation full credit is due. — That his signature is in his own hand writing — In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of said Court this 9 th day of January Anno Domini 1826.
S. P. Webster Clerk

45608
Rev INVALID.
File No. 45608
Richard Boynton Prin Rev Year
Act: 18 March 1818 18 May 1820 & 1 March 1823 Index: —Vol. 3 , Page 54
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1926 Feb 9, Tombstone dated to M. G. and 1927 Oct 6, husband to Mrs. B. Davis - Inc.

Richard Boynton of Thornton in the County of Grafton State of New Hampshire an applicant for a Pension depose & say that I performed my years service under Capt Hawkins Lieut McCaffrey Ensign Jonathan Colley that I have taken unwearied pains to find them & according to the best information I can obtain they are all deceased
Richard Boynton
Jan y 4 1826
State of New Hampshire I January 4. 1826 Personally appearing Richard Boynton above named & made Oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true
Enoch Colby
Jus Pacem

I Jacob Sargent of Thornton in the County of Grafton State of New Hampshire of lawful age whose say that Richard Boynton of said Thornton at all times for a pension has resided in this town at least ten years, that I have been well acquainted with his circumstances during that time, that he has ever been poor & had had little or no means of supporting himself & family excepting by his days work that I have been one of the assessors of Taxes in this town for the three last years & that said Boynton has not been taxed for any property during the time I have no knowledge of his ever being taxed for any property excepting one cow
Thornton Jan'y 5 1825 - Jacob Sargent Jr.
Sworn to before me Enock Colby Jus. Peace

Grafton Is—
State of New Hampshire
I am Thornton of the town of Thornton in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose and say — that I have been well acquainted with Richard Boynton of said Thornton ever since March 1818, and have known him to be poor, and in destitute circum- -stances and has generally supported his family by working at days work, and have employed him some myself — I further depose and say that I have been one of the assessors of taxes in said Thornton ever since 1818 and that said Boynton has not since that time been taxed for any property except one cow and for three years last past he has not been taxed for any property of any kind — and his wife is a very weakly weakly unhealthy woman and able to do but very little work — and having understood by him that he has applied for a pension — she requested me to depose concern- -ing the State of his property — which is to the best of my knowledge as before stated —  Wm Thornton
Thornton January 5th 1826
Sworn to before me Enoch Colby Just Peace

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss-
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature within & for said County of in Grafton do hereby certify that Enoch Colby Esq r was on the 4 th and 5 th of January current, and for a long time previous, an acting Justice of the peace within & for said County, and that the signatures following the attestations to the three foregoing Depositions are his own hand writing, and entitled to credit
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 9 th day of January Anno Domini 1820.
S. P. Webster Clerk
[Faint handwritten notes on the right margin, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

I Enoch Colby Jr. of Thornton in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire depose and say that in the Month of May 1823 Richard Boynton of s d . Thornton an applicant for a Pension did apply to me to examine the records of supposed to be in the Office of Secretary of the State of New Hampshire - I called in the month of June next following - and of then then Secretary, was informed that he had no records in his Office respecting the Revolutionary War - that they had been carried to Washington
Further that s d . Boynton has been since that time has been engaged earnestly to procure a pension - and that he is in necessitous circumstances
Enoch Colby Jr.
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss.
May 28, 1827. Then the above named Enoch Colby Jr. made Oath to the truth of the above deposition
Before me
Enoch Colby Jr. Just Peace

To whom it may concern —
I hereby certify that the within named Enoch Colby Jr. is a credible man and in my opinion would not have made the within deposition if it had not strictly true. Moses Baker Justice of Peace Grafton Oct. 1 st 1827

Laurens, Pa.
May 14, 1927.
Mr. Winfield Scott - Commissioner -
Rev. War Records Sect.
Bureau of Pensions -
Washington, N.C.
Dear Sir,
Would it be possible for you to give me the record of Richard Byn- ton of Meredith N. H. in the Revolu- tionary War. Would also be glad if you could give me his birth-date. Would like this information for ap- plication to the Sons of the Revolution.
Thanking you in advance
I am -
Yours very Truly
John B. Davis
22 E. Greenwood Ave.
Laurens, Pa.

QM 293 A-C Boynton, Richard
February 5, 1926.
The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
In order that a headstone may be provided for the grave of the deceased named below, The Quartermaster General requests that the correct military service and the spelling of the name be supplied this office from the records of the Pension Office:
Private Richard Boynton, Capt. Nathaniel Ambrose's Co. none for this Col Welch's Regt of Volunteers. Ref: Rev. rolls, Vol. 2, page 329. 392 served in 3d N.H. Regt. in Continental Army, 3 months.
Very truly yours,
L. W. REDINGTON, Major, Q.M.C., Assistant.

Rev. & 1812 War Section. S. 45606,
February 9, 1926.
L. W. Medington, Major, Q.M.C. Office of Quartermaster General, U.S.A. Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I have to advise you, that Richard Poynton enlisted July 5, 1779, served as a private, for one year, in Capt. Hawkin's Company, Colonel Henry Dearborn's New Hampshire Regiment, ( the Third ) on the Continental Line. He was allowed pension on his application executed Nov. 16, 1824, while living at Thornton, New Hampshire, aged sixty-three years. The date of his birth is not on record. He died March 8, 1832, place not stated.
The above noted is the only Richard Poynton found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.