AFFIDAVIT OF WILLIS BOON FOR PENSION AS A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER.
(Original in Clerk's Office at Edenton, N. C.) October Court 1820.

"Willis Boon makes oath that he enlisted for two and one-half years in the year 1776, in North Carolina, in Capt. John Pugh Williams' Company, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Edward Buncombe in the line of North Carolina or the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said corps until after the battle of Germantown, when his Regiment was reduced and he was transferred to the Regiment commanded by Col. Polk, in which he served out the balance of his two and one half years: then he served in the Regiment commanded by Col. Murfree for one year, and at the expiration of that time enlisted in the corps of Light Horse, commanded by Col. Wm. Washington in which he continued until the end of the war when he was discharged in South Carolina He was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown. Camden and Guilford Court House. He has no one living with him except his wife an old woman."
Col. Nicholas Long appends a certificate.
(Souce:The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1; Edited by James Robert Bent Hathaway; Pg. 430; Publ. January 1900; Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack)