Reuben Bozzell (Boswell)

When a child he moved with his mother to Augusta Co., Va., and resided there until the commencement of the Revolutionary War. He volunteered for six months in the militia in 1777 under Capt. Thomas Lewis and Col. Bull and served under Gen. McIntosh. He marched to Fort Pitt and went down the Ohio and assisted in building a fort on the north side of the Ohio at the mouth of Big Beaver. They went on to the Scioto [Tuscarawas] and built a stockade. He was in frequent skirmishes with the Shawnee and Wyandotte Indians. He was given a written discharge by Samson Matthews at Wheeling.

After he was discharged at Wheeling, troops of the militia came on to relieve them. He volunteered again by becoming the substitute of Raleigh Gibson of Botetourt County who had entered service for six months as a private. His captain was___ Lockhardt and his colonel, Broadhead of Pennsylvania. He was stationed principally at Fort McIntosh and the stockade fort on Scioto [Tuscarawas] and acted as a ranger. He was discharged at Botetourt Court House by an officer named Lewis.

Reuben Bozzell was born in December 1755 in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia. He applied for his pension at the age of 76 on February 27, 1833 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

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