Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21365, Nathaniel Holloway, Mass.
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Mass.             Holloway, Nathaniel      W21365
                   or Healloway. Hannah
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Massachusetts 808
Mann
Hannah Holloway
widow of Nathaniel Holloway dec
who died in 1781
of Plymouth in the State of Mass
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Soper
by 10.
of the Regt commanded
line for 18 month Mass
Inscribed on the Roll of Massa
at the rate of 60 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the with day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of May
1837 and sent
Lord
Plymouth Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $360.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept
3000
$390.00
Book
Revolutionary Claim,
Recorded by Clerk
June 4, 1836,
Vol.
by
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Town of Freetown
December 24th 1836
I Ephraim Winslow on oath declare that I am
Town Clerk of the Town County of Bristol
and Commonwealth aforesaid and that I have the
custody of the records of said Town and that there is
upon the said Records the following entry, viz, "Nathaniel
Hallaway of Middleborough and Hannah Mizzy of
of Taunton were joined in marriage April 18 A.D.
Seventeen hundred and seventy
by me Thomas Gilbert Justice of Peace
And I further certify that said Freetown is near to & adjoins
the Town of Taunton in the same County
Ephraim Winsford
Town lick of
Freetown
Bristol County ss - Commonwealth of Massachusetts
December 24th 1836
Personally appeared Ephraim Winslow
a man well known to me to be a credible person, made
oath to and subscribed the above affidavit.
Before me Thomas Bump Justice of Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Brits
I James Sproat Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that Thomas
Bump Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the within
certificate is a Justice of the peace in & for said County
of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty sixth day of December
in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & thirty six
J Sproat
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss - On this nineteenth day of Decem
ber A.D. 1836. Personally appeared Hannah Hallaway a Res
dent of Middleborough in the County and common wealth aforesaid
before me Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate for the said
County of Plymouth the said Hannah Holloway being aged
eighty eight years who being first sworn according to law doth
on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress part July the 4th
1836. That she is the widow of Nathaniel Hallaway who was a
private Soldier in the army of the American Revolution, that is to
say according to the best of her recollection and belief her said husband
, the said Nathaniel Holdaway in the early part of the said
Revolutionary war and previous to the year 1777 enlisted into a company
in Middleborough aforesaid the appears of which I
do not now recollect
and was absent in that service as near as I can recollect twelve
months. After the aforesaid term of service had expired my
said Husband again enlisted into a company commanded
by Capt Soper then of Freetown in the County of Bristol for three years
and thereupon march and joined the army and lived two years
in said service and almost an other year and then died in said
army as I was then informed of the small pox
she further declares that she was married to the said Nathaniel
Holloway on the eighteenth day of April in the year seventeen
hundred and seventy; That her said Husband the aforesaid
Nathaniel Holloway died in the army as aforesaid and as I think
in the year 1780 but no means of assisting the time with
certainty and that she has remained widow ever since that per
read as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed
her
Hannah Hallaway
mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above
written: And I certify that the said Hannah Holloway
is a credible person, but for want of health and bodily
strength is unable to travel to any Court to make her
declaration.
Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court
of Probate for the aforesaid Counby
of Plymouth
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Mass
Plymouth
$80
on)
1800
948
Declaration of
27 Jany 77 - dead
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County do
Plymouth ss.
I Jacob H. Land Register of Probate for said
hereby certify that Willes Wood Esq Judge
of Probate for said County of Plymouth & that the within
is his true + genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & the seal of the Probate
Court for said County this fourth day
of January A.D. 1887
Jacob H. Lord
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WIDOW, &c.
D1365
Hannah Holloway
widow of
Nathaniel Holloway
Pri Rev War
Act July 4th 36
Arrangement of 1870.
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Hannah Holloway
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PLYMOUTH SS. Court of Probate,
late of
having filed
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within said County,
Probate Office of said County
Petition to sell so much of said
Estate for the payment of
sum of
just debts with incidental charges, as shall produce the
dollars; and the said
having given notice to all persons interested, pursuant the direction of this Court, all of
which appearing evident to me by due examination, therefore. Ordered that the said
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Probate Office, Plymouth Mass.
Jan 4, 1837
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dean on
tions of
I send herewith the pension applica
Priscilla Brown &
Hannah Holloway
The certificate may be sent to me when granted
Yours respectfully
J. H. Lord
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May 5
James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D C
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Dear Sir
Plymouth April 29. 1837
I recd yours of the 25th inst in which you
say that Mrs. Hannah Holloway's Certificate is
herewith enclosed: I have to say that the en-
velope which contained your letter alluded to a
bove did not enclose the certificate
If it has not been forwarded on receipt of this
will you examine whether it might not have
been enclosed in a package to some other per
Son
Yours &c
J. H Lond
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Josiah Smith of Wareham in the County of Plymouth
in the eightieth year of my age do testify and say that when
I was a boy, I was acquainted with Nathaniel Halloway of
Middleborough in said County; that some time during the Revo
lutionary War, and as near as I can recollect in the year 1777
after I enlisted in Capt Amasa Soper Company as an
orderly Sergeant for the term of three years. Capt Soper was an
inhabitant of Freetown in the County of Bristol. At the same
time the said Nathaniel Hollaway enlisted in said
Company as a private for the time of three years. We then
marched and joined the Army at Ticonderoga and were in
Colo. Marshall Regiment, and I served in the army the whole
term of three years, and the said Holloway served with me
in said company the greatest part of the said three years, it
few months before the expiration of the said three years when the
Army was inoculated for the small for the said Holloway became ┃
sick and I think of a fever, succeeding the inoculation, & small pox
and it was thought necessary that Holloway should be sent to the
Hospital at the Springs, I think at the Yellow Springs, with some
others. I assisted in putting said Holloway and two other
men into the waggon, by James Stewart & John Bailey, and
them
carried away from Valley Forge where the Army then ┃
was, which was the last time I saw either of them
Frank Smith
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County
Be it known that on
the tenth day of December 1836 Josiah Smith above named,
whom I certify to be a credible witness, personally appeared
before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for
said County and being first cautioned, deposed and subsided
the foregoing deposition and made oath in due form of
law to the truth of the same
Before me Seth Miller Jr. Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth SS. I Jacob H Land Register of Probate for said
County do hereby certify that Seth Miller Junior Esq is
Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the
within signature
his true + genuine handwriting.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & the seal of the Probate
Court for said County this fourth
day of January A.D. 1837
Jacob H. Lord