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BOATRIGHT FAMILY PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

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NORMAN HURD RICKER, JR.

William Boatwright - War of 1812 Pension Records

     Milledgeville, 3rd March 1814.

William Boatright, a private in my Company, under command of Lieut. Col. Saml Groves, has 
served six months and fourteen days in the service of the United States faithfully and he 
is hereby honourably Discharged from said service.


Charles Carter, Capt.

Saml Groves, Lt. Col.



A slip of paper otherwise not described stating as follows:

                            9821

                      War 1812  INVALID

                      No.  9821

                      William Boatright

                      Pri  Georgia Mil

                      April 24th 16 (1816)

                      Vol  1,  Page  38

                      [Arrangement of 1870]




State of Georgia         :
                         :
Habersham County         : SS.  On this 9th day of April 1850

Personally appeared this day before me William Boatright a resident of the State of South 
Carolina and Pickins District, aged Seventy Six (76) years, who being first 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 December 23, 1817, that he was a private in the company 
of Capt Charles Carter, under Major Benjamin Cleveland, and Lieut. Col Samuel Grover in Genl 
Floyd's campaign and from forced march in the Creek Nation, between the dates August 24th 1813 
and March 3rd 1814, he was so injured in his hips and legs as to be unable to perform military 
duty, he also further declares that he was from Elbert County, State of Georgia, and was in 
the Service of his Country and in line of his duty when he received this injury, that no surgeon 
of the Army resides within thirty miles of him, that he relinquishes every claim to a pension 
whatever or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension 
role of any agency in any State, and that the paymaster who last paid him was by the name of 
Hosey, & he served six months and upward.

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.

         His
William   X   Boatright
         Mark
Thomas B. Wheeler, J.I.C.

I hereby certify that declarent is unable from bodily affliction to appear in open court to 
make his declaration.

Thomas B. Wheeler, J.I.C.



State of Georgia         :
                         :
Habersham County         :      I, Benjamin Cleveland, Major under the

command of Lieutenant Col Samuel Groves, in Genl Floyd's campaign, do certify that William 
Boatright of Elbert County, State of Georgia, served six months and upward in the company of 
Capt Charles Carter in the Army of the United States in the War of 1812, against Great Britain, 
commencing on the 24th day of August 1813, and ending on the 3rd day of March 1814, and from 
forced march between those dates in the Creek Nation received an injury in his hips and legs 
which totally disabled him from performing military duty, and continues to constitute him an 
entire invalid, being unable to walk.  I also further certify that he is unable from said 
affliction to attend in open court to make his declaration and was honorably discharged at the 
end of his service.  Sworn to and subscribed this 9th day of April 1850 before

Thomas B. Wheeler, J.I.C.

Benjamin Cleveland, Major


I hereby certify that the above named deposing officer may be relied on for truth and honesty.

Thomas B. Wheeler, J.I.C.



State of Georgia         :
                         :
Habersham County         :          April 9th 1850.

                           It is hereby certified that William Boatright a private in the 
company of Capt Charles Carter in Genl Floyd's campaign in the Army of the United States is 
rendered incapable of performing the duty of a soldier by reason of an injury inflicted while 
he was actually in the service aforesaid and in the line of his duty, viz by satisfactory 
evidence and accurate examination, it appears that between the dates of the 24th of August 
1813 and the 3rd of March 1814, from forced march in the Creek Nation, he received an 
overstrain in his hips and legs and he is thereby not only incapacitated for military duty, 
but in the opinion of the undersigned, is totally disabled from obtaining his substance from 
manual labor.  Sworn to and subscribed the date above named before

Geo. D. Phillips, MD
Joseph Underwood, MD
Thomas B. Wheeler, J.I.C.


I hereby certify that the above named surgeons are responsible in their profession.


Thomas B. Wheeler, J.I.C.



State of Georgia         :
                         :
Habersham County         :      I James E. Griggs, Clerk of the

Inferior Court in and for said county, do hereby certify that Thomas B. Wheeler is a Justice 
of the Inferior Court in and for said county as above, duly commissioned and qualified, that 
his commission on the 6th day of January 1849 and that it will expire on the first Monday in 
January 1853, and that his signature above written in establishing the foregoing declaration 
of applicant and the certificates of the officer and surgeons, are genuine.  In testimony 
whereof I have set my hand and seal of said court this 9th day of April 1850.


James E. Griggs, Clerk, I.C.



Clarksville, Georgia
April 10th 1850.

Sir:

In consequence of William Boatright's extreme inability to travel the distance to the Court 
in his own county, he has made his declaration on the Georgia side, out of his own County and 
State, but I hope if it is presumable by the department that he is justly entitled to a 
stipend, that it will be allowed him payable at the Charleston, South Carolina agency the 
same as if his declaration had been made in the County in which he resides.

             Answer sirs at Clarksville, Georgia

Yours T---,     
     Thomas I. Hughes

I. Z. Edwards
Coms of Pensions



Slip of paper otherwise unidentified:


E. 13. A??.?

William Boatright
Private

Capt Charles Carter's Company
Georgia Militia

War of 1812

Invalid Pension

Charleston South Carolina
Agency



Act, April 24, 1816
at $8. per month
commencing April 9,
1850




Send Certificate to Thomas I.Houghes
Clarkesville,
Georgia



Admitted May 15, 1850




Treasury Department
Third auditors Office
May 13, 1850




     It appears from the Rolls of Captain Charles Carter's Company Georgia Militia that Wm 
Boatright, a private, entered the service August 25, 1813 and is mustered present with out 
remark to March 2, 1814, the expiration of his term of service.


     The Rolls afford no evidence of his having sustained any injury while in the service.


       Jno S. Gallaher
  Auditor




Pension Office
Department of the Interior

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