Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1012, John Boutin, N.C.

SERVICE
N.6.
or Boutin, John Bontin.
NUMBER
R. 1012
CONTENTS

The amended declaration of John Bowler in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th day of June 1832
State of Georgia } On this 5 th day of September 1833 Person Jefferson County } really came before me Jonathan Robinson a Justice of the Inferior Court of the County of Jefferson John Bowler a resident of the County of Jefferson and State of Georgia who by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to appear in Court who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in addition to the declaration heretofore made by him in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832. Depose and say that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades For twelve months and a half I served as a private soldier For three months I served as a drill sergeant For three months I served as a Serjeant Major and For one and a half months I served as a Captain and for such service I claim a pension My service commenced according to the best of my recollection at this time in the latter part of the year 1779. In the early part of the year 1780 I again entered service and continued till Genl Gates defeat, I soon again entered service in the year 1780 and continued till some time in the year 1781 and not long before the close of the war I raised a small Volunteer Company and commanded them as Captain from some time in September till the last of October 1781. the whole of my service as above stated was not less than twenty months I never had a commission as an Officer, or warrant as a Serjeant or Serjeant Major and of course can produce none; that during each term of my engagement I served with an embodied Corps called into service by competent authority that my service was altogether in the field and the time during which the service was performed I was not engaged in any civil pursuit

out that as before declared he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services but Dipe Robinson a Clergyman and John Morgan and Hardy Morgan two of his neighbors to whom he is well known can testify as to his personal character as to his veracity and and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution and he hereby relinquishes as named in his original declaration
Sworn to and subscribed this John Boutin day and year aforesaid Jonathan Roberson J. J. E. C.
We Dipe Robinson a Minister of the Gospel and John Morgan and Hardy Morgan all residing in the county of Jefferson hereby certify that we are well acquaint- ed with John Boutin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty four years of age unmarried as he states, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Dipe Robinson J. J. E. C. Hardy Morgan John Morgan made
Jonathan Roberson J. J. E. C.
And the said Jonathan Roberson Justice of the Superior Court aforesaid declares it to be his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above applicant was a revo- lutionary soldier and served as he states and the said Jonathan Roberson Justice aforesaid further certifies that Dipe Robinson who has signed the preceding certificate is a

clergymen resident in the county of Jefferson and that John Morgan and Hardy Morgan who have also signed the same are residents in the same county and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
Jonathan Roberson J. H. C.
I Edward E. Bothwell Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Jefferson do certify that Jonathan Roberson who has subscribed his name to the above certificate is a Justice of the Superior Court of the said County and his certificate as such is entitled to credit given under my hand and the seal of the said Court this 5 th day of September 1835
David E. Bothwell Clerk
B.6.

Declaration of John Bontum in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832 State of Georgia } On this 26 th day of October 1832. Jefferson County } Personally came before me John H. Newton a Justice of the Inferior Court of the County of Jefferson on John Bontum a resident of the said County of Jefferson and State aforesaid aged eighty four years on the first day of February next and who by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to appear in Court who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832.
That as he is he understands and believes he was born in Boston on the 1 st day of February 1749 that he has no record of his age that he entered the service under the following named officers and as herein stated first he entered service about the last of the year 1779 or the first of the year 1780 that he never served as a substitute but entered as a volunteer and served three months under Col Johnston that he resided in Wallasey County North Carolina when he entered that during the War he was stationed principally during the time at Crop Creek now Fayetteville in North Carolina, 2 nd he entered in the Company commanded by Capt Phillips and was attached to the army commanded by Genl Rutherford of North Carolina and remained near Crop Creek now Fayetteville for three months after this he entered the service as a drill sergeant for three months as a front rank sergeant, three months as a sergeant major, the Sergeant Major under the command of Genl Carroll

near Tarborough North Carolina, the army was march- ed from there to South Carolina and joined the army un- der the command of Genl. Gates, on this side of Pee Dee River was in the battle and defeat under Genl. Gates, near Camden in South Carolina, when the Baron De Calb was killed after the defeat of Genl. Gates the army was pretty much dispersed. This deponent some time thereafter raised a small company of Volunteers, and took command of them as Captain in Burke County North Carolina from which place he marched them to Virginia near William- burg where he joined Genl. Lafayette and remained with him and the army under Genl. Washington Rockbridge other Continental affairs until the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, he was in the siege & Battle of York Town after this in the month of October 1781 he was discharged by Genl. Lafayette verbally this deponent thinks from first to last he was in service about twenty months he acted as Captain about six weeks he never received a commission he has had a discharge but does not recollect by whom it was signed, At the long and war the deponent lived a while in Virginia near Norfolk then moved to North Carolina Halifax County then mo- ved to near Camden in South Carolina, then to Georgia in Burke County, then to Jefferson County in Georgia where he has resided for the last thirty five years and where he now resides that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service that there is no clergyman in his neighborhood, but John Mason & Hardin Mason

two of his neighbors to whom he is well known can testify as to his character as to his veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the revolution and he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John W. Newton S. S. C.
John Boutin
We Hardy Morgan and John Morgan residing in the county of Jefferson hereby certify that we are well acquaint- ed with John Boutin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty four years of age or nearly so as he states that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolu- tion and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid John W. Newton S. S. C.
H. Morgan John Morgan
And the said John H Newton Justice of the Inferior Court aforesaid declares it to be his opinion after the investi- gation of the matter and after putting the Interrog- atories prescribed by the War Department that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served in the states and the said John H Newton Justice aforesaid further certifies that it appears to him that John Morgan and Hardy Morgan who have signed the pre-

ceving certificate are residents in the County of Jefferson and are credible persons and that their statement is with- out fear or favor and the said John H. Newton has here a fair doth further certify that the said applicant John B. Brien from bodily infirmity cannot attend the Court.
John H. Newton C.S.C.
John Brien 17830
I David E. Bethmore Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County of Jefferson do certify that John H. Newton who has subscribed his name to the above Certificate is a Justice of the Inferior Court of the said County and his Certificate as such is entitled to credit given under my hand and the seal of the said Court this 27 th day of October 1832
David E. Bethmore Clerk

State of Georgia } Personally came before me, John Boutin Jefferson County } a Revolutionary soldier who in addition to the declarations under oath heretofore made, to obtain a pension, upon his oath now saith that accor- ding to the best of his recollection he first entered the service of the United States as a private soldier in the last of the year 1779 or first of the year 1780 in the Company commanded by Captain (Captain's name not recollected by Deponent). That in this tour he served not less than six months. That he entered the service a second time under the command of Captain Philips in the year 1780 as a private, and that in this tour he served not less than six months. That during one of the above named terms he served as much as six and a half months but cannot say to which of the terms to attach the half month, - Making twelve and a half months service as a private soldier. That afterwards he entered the army for the third time under Captain (name not recollected) as a Drill Serjeant, and in this tour served not less than three months as a drill serjeant. That he again entered for the fourth time in the year 1781. in the army as a Serjeant Major and continued this time in the service not less than three months as a serjeant major. That after this in the year 1781 he raised a Volunteer company and took command of said company as Captain and was in service this tour as captain not less than six weeks, and for such service I claim a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 th day of March 1834
John Boutin
John W. Newton S.P.

Georgia } Jefferson County } I David W Bothwell Clerk of the Superior Court do hereby certify that John H Newton before whom the foregoing affidavit has been made is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that true faith ought to be had and given to his attestation as such Given under my hand & private seal (the seal of office being mislaid or stolen), this 2 nd day of April 1834
D. W. Bothwell Clerk
Edward Smith
John H. Newton

Geo.
Hon R. S. Gault

In the matter of the application of John Bouters for a Pension Mr Edwards will confer a favor by re returning the papers and allow a Pension for such portion of time as the testimony will warrant. R. L. Hamble 15 th May 1839
John Bouters Jefferson County Georgia

John Pontin - Georgia
Suspended
Letter 17 ap d 34
Hon: R. L. Gamble
Letter To Same 14 May '34
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Ex'r.
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1012
REJECTED
P. O.
John Donlin
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Infirmary
ap. 17-1834
Hon R. L. Gamble
N.Y.P.

War Department Pension Office January 5 1834
Sir:
The papers in the case of John Bontin are again returned.
The rules and regulations of the Department have not been complied with, and until such shall have been the case, no favorable action can be had on his claim.
The applicant in his original declaration specified 3 terms each of 3 months, but claimed in all " about 20 months " - the papers were returned that he might give the required specification of the eleven months thus claimed in addition to the nine, but instead of doing which he has specified but two terms of 3 months each, and again claimed in the like general terms, 12 months more.
If the applicant did not intend to be understood that he had served the 11 or 12 months thus claimed, continuously, why did he not furnish the Department with the length of the several terms which constituted the service?
Nothing can be more clearly expressed than is, already, in the brief which accompanied this case, and the manner in which all service claimed should be stated.
I have the honor to be Your obed Servant J L Edwards
Hon: R. L. Gamble House of Representatives