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My maternal Great Great Great Great Grandfather, confirmed by Ancestry DNA.

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James Maxwell Boyd, Revolutionary Soldier, born in Lancaster Co, PA Jan. 31 1763
Died in Newton Co, Miss. Jan. 14 1852
For 50 years a member of the Presbyterian Church and was loved by all who knew him.
Buried in the Bogg Chisolm Cemetery. This cemetery is very small, just north of Highway 494 east of Union, MS - about 0.7 of a mile from Highway 15 bypass.

Marked 13 April 1978 by Bobashela Chapter of DAR.

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The Daughters of the American Revolution designated Patriot James Boyd DAR Ancestor A013019.

Southern Campaigns American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters
Pension application of James Boyd 1
S32127 f36NC

Transcribed and annotated by Will Graves 9/24/10: rev'd 11/22/23

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pertinent to the military service of the veteran and to contemporary events have been transcribed. Affidavits that provide additional information on these events are included and genealogical information is abstracted, while standard, 'boilerplate' affidavits and attestations related solely to the application, and later nineteenth and twentieth century research requests for information have been omitted. I use speech recognition software to make all my transcriptions. Such software misinterprets my southern accent with unfortunate regularity and my poor proofreading skills fail to catch all misinterpretations. Also, dates or numbers which the software treats as numerals rather than words are not corrected: for example, the software transcribes "the eighth of June one thousand eighty six" as "the 8th of June 1786." Please call material errors or omissions to my attention. Researchers should not rely solely on the transcripts but should review the originals for themselves. These transcripts are intended as an
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[p 31]

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act for the Relief of certain Surviving officers and
Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828 I James Boyd in the
County of Jefferson and State of Alabama do hereby declare that I was a soldier in the Army of
the Revolution and continued in its service until its Termination as a private under Captain
Samuel Wear in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Sevier. I also declare that I
afterwards received a discharge – and I further declare That I was not on the 15th day of March
1828 on the pension list of the United States.
James Boyd
[April 8, 1829: attested by Charles C Clayton]
[p 29]
State of Alabama Jefferson County SS}

Personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid, James Boyd, aged sixty seven years and maketh oath that in the year 1781 or 1782 he volunteered his services as a soldier in the cause of American Independence, and attached himself to a troop of Horse commanded by Captain Samuel Ware belonging to the Regiment of the North Carolina Line commanded by Colonel John Sevier, the No. of the Regiment not recollected by this affiant, that Charles Robertson was Lieutenant Colonel and Jonathan Tipton & Val. Sevier [Valentine Sevier] were Majors of said
Regiment that this affiant went into actual service in the month of September or October of the
same year in which he volunteered, being the time at which the company to which he belonged
was mustered into service and remained in the service until the close of the war and was then
regularly discharged, but has long since lost his certificate of discharge: that during the time he
was in service, the Regiment to which he belonged was engaged in a tour against the British and
Indians on the frontiers of the States of North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia. Sworn
and subscribed this 17th day of July 1829 before me.

S/ John Brown, JP S/ James Boyd
1 See N. A. Acc. No. 874 050019 James Boyd
[p 3]

State of Alabama Jefferson County SS}

On this 25th day of August A.D. 1834, Personally appeared in open Court, before the Judge of the County Court of said County now sitting, James Boyd Senior, a resident of the County & State aforesaid, aged Seventy one years, who being firstduly 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 7th 1832.

He entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers as a
volunteer in the Militia, and served as herein stated. His Colonel was John Sevier his Captain
Samuel Ware his Major Tipton his Lieutenant Colonel Charles Robinson, his Ensign Isaac Davis.
He entered the service under the above named officers in the spring of the year 1781, and ranged
along the frontiers of South Carolina and Georgia, and then in the month of September 1782,
rendezvoused at the Big Island on French Broad River where they were joined by Colonel
Anderson [John Anderson] with four Companies from Sullivan County State of North Carolina
from there they marched down through the Cherokee Nation, as far as Turkey Town on the
Coosa River for the purpose of taking prisoners give in exchange for white prisoners in the
possession of the Indians at Turkey Town they fell in with a white man who called himself
Clemons who had papers in his possession which showed that he had been a British Sergeant,
thence they marched up Coosa to Eastanallie[?]2 and destroyed it, thence through the old
Highwassee [sic, Hiwassee] Towns to Chota on the Tennessee River, held a council with the
Indians, exchange prisoners and returned time about the 1st of November in the same year,
having served at least seven months. He was a citizen of the County of Washington State of
North Carolina when he entered the service as a volunteer as above mentioned. He was in no
regular Battle, but was frequently fired on by the Indians, who always fled without giving them
an opportunity to return the fire. He received a regular discharge but has lost or mislaid, so that
he cannot now procure it. He has no documentary evidence in his possession bywhich he can
prove his services. He has a witness; (Samuel Ware Jr) whose testimony is annexed below, who
can testify to his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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. He further states that during his above mentioned term of service he was not engaged in
any civil pursuit.

S/ James Boyd
[p 4]

State of Alabama Jefferson County SS}

Personally appeared before me H. M. Carithers an acting Justice of the Peace of said County Samuel Ware, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following statement in relation to the foregoing application. He recollects to have served a tour against the Cherokee and Creek Indians in the same company with James Boyd above named, and that there Officers were Colonels John Sevier & Charles Robinson, their Major __ Tipton, their Captain Samuel Ware Senior and their Ensign Isaac Davis. He was acquainted with Mr. Boyd from the time he entered the service in 1781, until the close of the Revolutionary War, and knows him to have been a soldier in the tour above mentioned, during
which the company to which he was attached marched through the Cherokee nation as far as
Turkey Town on the Coosa River, thence through the old Hiwassee Towns after destroying
Eatanallee to Chota on the Tennessee River, where they held a Council with the Indians
exchanged prisoners and returned home, they were not in any regular Battle but had frequent
skirmishes with the Indians. He recollects that they were both present when a person by the
name of Clemons who was afterwards found by papers in his possession to be in the service of
the King of Great Britain was killed by a person attached to their company.
Test
S/ H. M. Carithers, JP
S/ Saml Wear [?]

[John Williams, a clergyman, & John Brown gave the standard supporting affidavit.][Facts in file: The veteran removed to Newton County Mississippi sometime around 1834]

[Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $23.33 per annum commencing March 4th, 1831, for
service as a private in the North Carolina militia.