Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 23310, Stephen Hollis, Mass.
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Service  Mass
Hollis Stephen
or Holles  
Abigail
Number  W23310 & BL. Wt. 4352-100.
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6045
Maine
Stephen Hollis
Private

Massachusetts Line_ War_ 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine
at the rate of ___8. Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of April 1810

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Jany 1819 and [illegible] R. C. Von

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818 4 and 13/30 - 35.46 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819 48.00 
$83.46

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

New Sharon

Not entitled

Notification sent the 10th July 1820,
(illegible) R. C. Vore, Esq.

Augusta, Maine
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Maine 487
Abigail Hollis
widow of Stephen Hollis
who was a pensioner under the 
Act of 1818
and who died in the month of February 1821
of Franklin in the State of Maine
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt. commanded by Col. Shepherd int the M line for 6 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 89 Dollars ______Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Sept. 1838 and sent[?] Geo. W. Morton  Augusta, Me
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. 39, $40.00
_________________
_________________
$240.00
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Recorded by D. D. Addison, Clerk
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this may certify that Mr. Stephen Hollis who now resides in the town of New Sharon in the county of Kennebeck and has resided in said town for upwards of twenty five year is a man that possesses but very little property and has a family consists of a wife and three children

Selectmen of the town of 
New Sharon April the 4th 1818
Nehemiah Smith
Francis Mayhew
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Copy of the Publishment & Marriage of Stephen Hollis & Nabby Porter of Weymouth

There is a purpose of Marriage
Between Stephen Hollis and 
Nabby Porter both of this Town, 
Dated at Weymouth Octbr the
fourth D.D. Seventeen hundred
and Eighty three

Mar by Rev S. WiIliams 
Decb Eighteenth
Seventeen
Hundred and Eighty Three

Weymouth August 7th 1858
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Record now existing on the Records of the Town with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows  viz:  "4th A.D. 1783 was the state of the Purpose of Marriage and Record 18 1783" was the date of their Marriage

Thomas C Webb
Town Clerk of Weymouth

I Thomas C. Webb, above named depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk of the Town of Weymouth in the County of
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Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts & that the above is a true extract from the Records, of said Town, with the exceptions above named as certified by me. 

Weymouth Augus7 7th 1828
Thomas C Webb
Town Clerk of Weynouth

Norfolk ss  Weymouth Ms. August 7th 
personally appeared the above named Thomas C. Webb, Clerk of the Town of Weymouth and made oath to the above declaration before me. 

James Whittemore, Jus Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office  Aug 18 1838

I hereby certify that the above James Whittemore if a Justice of the Peace for the County of Norfolk & was such as the Law of his (?)
Witness my Court & the (?) of the State 
John P. Bigelow
(last line unreadable)
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Stephen Hollis  New Sharon 
In Col. Sheppards Mass. Reg  1777 to 1783

April 22 1718

Admitted.
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I Stephen Hollis of New Sharon in the County of Kennebeck and District of Mane aged Sixty four years, a resident citizen of the United States, desiring to obtain the provision made by the law 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" and to be placed upon the pension is for the District of Maine, do on oath testify and declare: That after having served in the eight month's and year's service, I enlisted as a soldier during the war at Peekskill in New York about December 1776, into the company of Capt Isaac Pope, in Col. William Shepard's regiment in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment in the war of the revolution, and served in said Company to the end of the war; when in June 1738 I was honourably discharged. I presume my discharge must have been lost about thirty years ago when I moved to this District. I have not seen it since, and it is not in existence to my knowledge. I was at
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taking of Burgoyne, the battles of White Plains and Monmouth, and the Capture of Cornwallis.  By reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support. 

Stephen Hollis his mark

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Second Eastern Circuit
On the twenty first day of April, A.D. 1818, the aforesaid Stephen Hollis, having been duly cautioned and examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him Signed. Before me, Josiah Stebbins, a Judge of the C.C.C.P. for said Circuit.
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We Eleazar Ames of Hartford, and John Davis of New Sharon, both in the District of Maine on oath testify  and say that we belonged to the army and personally knew Stephen Hollis the signer of the annexed affidavit; and we know of his doing duty down to the close of the war. 

Signatures of Eleaser Ames his mark 
John Davis

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Second Eastern Circuit
On the 21 day of April, 1818. the aforesaid Eleazar Ames and John Davis, having been duly cautioned and examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them severally signed.  

Before me 
Josiah Stebbins, a Judge of the C.C.C.P. for said Circuit.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. [seal] To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States. I the subscriber, being a Judge of the circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincon, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Stephen Hollis, a citizen of the United States now resident in New Sharon, in the said County of  Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the twenty first day of April, A.D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary was," passed March 18, A.D. 1818, which declaration, and the evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed. And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the cast, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months. as stated in his declaration aforesaid' and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.       
IN TESTIMONY WEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed this 27th day of  July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.      
Josiah Stebbins Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Kennebec, ss. I the Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of said Court in which he presides. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set mu hand:--Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this twenty seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen      Josiah Davis
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113

[seal]
State of Maine
I
John Davis
Clerk, for the County of 

of the Circuit Court of common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts due to the declarant therein stated is,
[handwritten] Three hundred twenty five dollars and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is
[handwritten] Two hundred twenty five 
dollars and ___Cents.

In the testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, on this twentieth day of June 1820.

 John Davis
Clerk of said Court for the county of
Kennebec
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copy 113
State of Maine. 
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss. 

ON this twenty fourth day of May, 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Jr Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Stephen Hollis aged sixty six years, resident in Newsharon in the County of Kennebec within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Pope and Regiment commanded by Colonel Sheppard of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of during the war, having been eight years in the service that he was in the battle of Bunker Hill, White Plains, and both of the battles at the taking of  Burgoyne and also the battle of Monmouth. that his original declaration was made before Judge Stebbins on the twenty second day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6045. And I, the said Stephen Hollis do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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. 
Stephen Hollis X his mark
Witney A. Nichols

The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: 
Sixty acres of land and sixteen under improvement in Newsharon with a small house unfinished and barn thereon, of the value of three hundred fifty dollars. 
one cow of the value of fifteen dollars
one swine of the value of three dollars
old furniture, beside necessary beding, of the value of five dollars. Farming utensils of the value of two dollars. I have no debts due to me, and I owe as much as one hundred dollars. 
The income of the above property does not exceed the interest I pay yearly. Besides which I have no income derived from property, trade or profession. My occupation is that of a farmer, but from age and infirmity I am wholly unable to labor my family residing with me
[seal]
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consists of three persons, viz myself, my wife Abigail aged sixty eight, who is infirm and unable to do but little, my son John aged twenty seven years
Stephen Hollis X his mark
Witney A. Nichols

Subscribed, sworn to and declared, both the oat and schedule, on the twenty fourth day of May 1820 - 
Nathan Weston Jr. C.J. 
C.C.C. Please
A true Copy
Attest John Davis Clerk

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Law 19
Stephen Hollis 
6045
Discontinue
(March 1819)
R. C. Vose, Augusta, 
Maine.
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633
Abigail Hollis
widow of 
Stephen Hollis late a pensioner of the United States under Act of March 18  1818
Maine Agency
Act 7 July 1832
Married Dec 1783
died 1821
Allow $80 per ann
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "AN Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."

STATE OF MAINE
__________________
Franklin County, ss.
On this second day of August A.D., 1838, personally appeared before the Hon. Nathan Weston Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine Abigail Hollis a resident of New Sharon in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, aged eighty five years, who, being first duly 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, passed July 7th, 1838, entitled, "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;"  That she is the widow of Stephen Hollis late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under law of congress of March 18, 1818.  She believes she furnished the war department with the evidences of his Services in the war of the Revolution in order to obtain the benefit of said Act to which she refers. 

She further declares, that she was married to the said Stephen Hollis on the eighteenth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty then; that her husband, the aforesaid Stephen Hollis died in the month of February 1821 -  that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated; that she has remained a widow every since that period, as will more fully  appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. 

Abigail Hollis her mark

Sworn to and subscribed; on the day and year above written, before me (the applicant being from infirmity unable to appear in open court)

Nathan Weston C.J.
J.S.C.
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State of Maine
On the second day of August, 10 38,  Abigail Hollis, the applicant within named, was examined and sworn, as within stated  I am satisfied, that she was married to Stephen Hollis late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States on the eighteenth day of December (?) that she said Stephen Hollis Deceased in the month of February, 1821, and that the said applicant has since remained his widow. 

Signature of Nathan Weston C.J. 
S.J.C.

STATE OF MAINE.
_____________________
Kennebec ss. 
I the subscriber Clerk  of the Court for said County, hereby Certify, That the Hon. Nathan Weston  before whom the proceedings were had, is Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State  I also CERTIFY, That the within (?) contains the  original proceedings of  the said Chief Justice in the matter of the application of Abigail Hollis for a pension.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this eighteenth day of August A.D., 1838.

Signature of Thomas Swan
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I Samuel Bradley of New Sharon State of Maine of lawful age do declare upon oath that Abigail Hollis widow of Stephen Hollis late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States deceased is the evidence of said deceased and she remained unmarried ever since the death of her said husband 

Samuel Bradley

Subscribed and sworn to August 2m 1838, [unreadable]

Before me 
Nathan Weston, C.J.
P.J.C.
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41                      
 Division of Veterans Administration Archives
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card

Name:  Holles, Stephen  Grade Private Line
             Hollis                                 Massachusetts

Warrant Number 4352  Acreage 100
Issued Jan 31, 1797  to Benj Dana----

*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.
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23310
Abigail Hollis
wid of 
Stephen Hollis
Pri. Rev. War
Act: July 7th 38
Index:-Vol. A, Page 351
[Arrangement of 1870,]
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Stephen Hollis
By HIs Excellency 
GEGE WASHINGTON, ESQ
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.

These are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof
Stephen Hollis  Soldier
in the fourth Massch. Regiment having faithfully served the Unite States Eight Years one month & nineteen Days and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army 

GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the
Signature of G. Washington 
BY His Excellency's 
Command, 
J Trumbull 

REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment
John Davis Adjutant
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Stephen Hollis
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SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, July 6 1818

BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Stephen Hollis served as a Soldier in Capt. Pose's Company, and Col. Sheppard's Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from Jan 17 1777 to Dec. 31 1789, being four years and ____ months  During war

Signature of Alden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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Agnes
1 1/4 1810  VO. 7
          1820  Vol. 8 + 10
2 hrs   1839  Vol 68-64-65 4(?)

Philadelphia, Pa.

for Robert Y. McBride
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p. 52 Vol. 65 Phila 1830

Francis McBride

M  1 of 70 & under 80
F    1 of 15 & under 20 
T    1 of 50 & under 60
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Dec. 29th we are doing the 1910-20-30 Census of Phila. 

Route 2
Summitville, Ind. 
12-21-53

Miss Helen Shuffle
Box 409 Benja. Franklin Sta. 
Washington 4, D.C.

Dear Miss Shuffle: 

An ideas has occurred to me concerning the whereabouts of Robert McBride b 1740 in the years 1790, 1810, 1820 since he could not be located in Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa. nor in Williamsport, Lycoming Co, Pa. at the home of his son Francis Mc Bridge or as a head of a family. Hew was a leatherworker, harness maker or saddler 

Now in some way his son Robert Yarnell, wwas my great great grandfather, managed to leave his leather shop in Philadelphia and come to Cincinnati and establish himself there as a saddler about 1830.  He was there at that time ad filed a claim as one of the heirs of his father.  The father died 1825 or 26. But at the same time his saddle shop was going in Philadelphia. He may and could have had sons who were 16 at the time, but they could hardly have been older unless he was married to another
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wife before he married Lydia Freed from whom I descended. They were married in Christ Church in 1813 and the record is still there. 

Will you then for me consult the Philadelphia Census records for the family of Robert Y.. Mc Bride in 1819, 1829 and 1830? Philadelphia City Directories say 

1820 - Robert Y. Mc Bride, saddler, 42 High Street
1830 -   "            "  sadd;er. 48 M. 3rd St.; 
dwelling  139 N. 5th Street

There is another Robert McBride listed as a laborer until 1819 and afterward his is not there.  But he is neither of mine since mine both were leather workers

Yours very truly
Edna O. Whitsob

It was in 1833 that Robert Y. McBride took his family to Cincinnati and later to Rushville, Indiana.