Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,018, Thomas Holsten, Del.
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Service
Delaware

Holston, Thomas
  or
Holdston

Number
S. 36018

Contents
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18.619
R
Delaware

Thomas Holdston
of Hent Cy in the State of Delaware who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hall of the Delaware line, for the term of 1777 to end of War

Inscribed on the Roll of Delaware at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of the November 1821.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of may 1822 and sent to Nathaniel Smithers Sr
Dover Delaware

Arrears to 4th of March 1822 
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1822
26. 9 + 48 = $74.09
3 mo x 8 = 24  4/31 4/30
24 + 1.6 + 1.3 = 26.9
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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May 1, 1820
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In the Court of Common Pleas of the State if Delaware in and for Kent County

State of Delaware p.

On this twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware aforesaid held at Dover in and for Kent County, (the said Court being a Court of Record for the said State, especially made so by the laws and Constitution of the said State which created it and proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings) Thomas Holsten, aged sixty seven and upwards, resident in Murderkill hundred in the County of Kent and State of Delaware aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows, viz: That he enlisted in the year 1777 or1778 as he believes, at Lewis town in the County of Sussex in the said State
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after the termination of the said war that he was at the Battle of the Cowpens also, where he received a very serious wound in the right arm. That he has received for many years, a pension as an invalid of the United States; and that his present application is to be placed on the pension list of the United States under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, to be in lieu and place of the pension so received by him as an invalid aforesaid.
That in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1st May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of  Congress entitled "An act to provide for "certain persons engaged in the land and naval  service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", passed on the 18th day of March 1818: And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. And that from my advanced age in life and the aforesaid wound, I am not able to labour in that manner which is necessary I should do in order to obtain thereby a subsistence for myself and my family which consists of a wife and four male children. That I am a resident of Kent County in the State of Delaware a
Sworn to and subscribed in often about on the 27th day of November 1821
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Schedule

2 feather beds and furniture valued at $10 each................................................................DAs $20.00
2 chests at 50 cents each=$1.00- 2 tables at $2.00 =........................................................................3.00
1 corner cupboard $2.00. 3 Windsor chairs $1.50=$3.50
Cupboard furniture $1.00. Shovel and tongs 50 cts =$1.50
2 large iron pots $3.00 1 do. small, 25 cents. 1 basin 25 cents .................................................................................$3.50
3 pairs of pot hooks at 25 cents each=75 cents
1 pair andirons 75 cents.................................$1.50
1 kettle 12 1/2   5 rush bottom chairs $1.00 kitchen cupboard and furniture 50=.........$1.62 1/2
1 table 12 1/2 1 wheel $1.00 2 water buckets 1 tub 37 1/2 =.................................................... 2.......$1.50
1 pair flat irons 25 cents 1 meal tub 12 1/2 2 iron wedges 50 cents=.....................................87 1barrels 25 /2
3 flour barrels 25 cents Sundries in Smoke house $2.00 = ...................................................2.25
2 sows $8.00 3 shoats $5.00 6 pigs $3.00 26 head geese at 20 cts. p.h. = .....................21.20
1 old carriage and harness $10.00 2 horses at $20 each =$40 ...............................................50.00
2 ploughs + tackle $1.50 2 harrows $1.50 1 Bull $6 1 steer $12 = ...........................................21.00
1 shock of flax $1.00 2 hoes 371/2 1 ca,,t $12.00 2 axes $1.00 .......................................14.371/2
1 half bushel flax 12 1/2 Sundries about house 25 cents = ..........................................................37 1/2
Garden 75 cents Sweet potato patch $1.00 =..1.75
4 bushels
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State of Delaware
Kent County sf.
I, Nathaniel Smithers, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware in and for Kent County, do Certify, that, the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of the said Court : - And I do further Certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property cohibited in the said schedule is two hundred and four dollars and twenty cents.
In Testimony whereof, I have herewith Set my honor and affirm the Seal of the Social Court, at Dover, on this nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two.
Nathaniel Smithers, R.D.
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36 018
INVALID.
Revy

File No. 36,018
Thomas Holdston
In Rev War

Act 18th March 18th
Index:-Vol. 9, Page 232

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12–5-41

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Division of Veterans’ Administration Archives

Name Holston, William Grade Private Line Rhode Island

Warrant Number 3226 Acreage 100 Issued Dec. 31, 1789 
To Thomas Hoevland 

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of “Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800” which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.