STORIES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS
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Henry Boan
From the pension record of Henry Boan:
Henry Boan (of Chesterfield District, South Carolina) says that he is the son, the eldest living child of Lewis Boan and Mary Boon. Deponent always understood that his father, Lewis Boan was a Whig and served in the War of the Revolution. Deponent has often heard his father say that he turned out as a volunteer against the Tories at the age of sixteen…Deponent also heard his father say that he served near Charleston on Sullivan’s Island, Bull’s Island and other places as a drafted soldier, a tour of six months.
Deponent has also heard his father say that he served another tour, but how long deponent does not remember. That his father said in the time of
this last tour he was in the fight at Betti’s Bridge on Drowning Creek in
North Carolina, where he was wounded and taken prisoner, and that he
was afterwards paroled by Fanning the Tory Colonel who commanded the
enemy at Betti’s Bridge. His father was wounded in the thigh, four or five
inches above the knee. Deponent has often seen the scars, one on each
side of the thigh where the ball passed. Command of Colonel Wade.
Source: Pension Application Of Lewis Boan, National Archives, Microfilm
M804, Roll 277, Application #R971M