Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23709, David Holbrook, Mass.
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Service
Mass
Holbrook, David
Number
S.33709
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04386 New York
David Holbrook
Layfayette in the state of N York
who was a private in the Compy commanded
By Captain Mason of the Regt. Commanded
By Col Holmon in the R Island
line for 2 years
inscribed on the roll of New York
at the rate of 80 dollars per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Dec
$33.      and servt. J.W. Brewster
Jamesville NY.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept '33-- $200.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '34  40
          $240
{Revolutionary Claim act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Tho Cromwell Clerk,
Book E Vol. 4 Page 104
Order to pay June 3, 1834-- [illegible]-- See letter to J Flannery P. Agt
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11.806

David Holbrook 

On Role 13 May
Regt. enlisted 13
July 1789 - 9 mos
5.16
Discharged  19 Apr. 1780
(BLB?)

26 Sep 1832
28 Dec 1832

p. 186

Isaac W. Brewster
Jamesville
NY
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BRIEF in the case of David Holbrook of Lafayette in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 

3. How old is he? Seventy two Years 

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. - Duration of Service - Rank - Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
In 1774 Dec 1   Years: about
& disch. near the last day of attack 1777 } -Months, 4 - Capt Mason, Col Holman

1777 June 3 to 12 Feb  1778 - 8 months - 9 days - Dr. White . Genl Stark

1779 June - 10 months - Genl Glover, Capt Sprout(?)

1780 Oct - 1 month 10 days 

1781 June - about 5 months 10 days - Capt Clark 

The applicant served as adjutant [unknown]

5. In what battles was he engaged? Bennington. Johnstown(?) & [unknown]

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? ^(Enlisted at Providence, R.I.)
Sturbridge Mass.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
Certificate of David Holbrook of revolutionary service refered to on file in War office. A clergyman & 2 Co Brewster certify to testimony evidence Henry Bogardus living witness [illegible] service in 1781. and that of adjutant. 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

D Kurtz Examining Clerk.
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State of New York
Onandoga County 
On this Seventh day of March 1833 before me personally appeared Isaac W Brewster of Jamesville in the County of Onondaga an Attorney at Law who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he had the notation given by David Holbrook of the facts which he relied upon to intitle him to a pension under the act of June 7th 1832 and took down his statement in writing from which was drawn the declaration of the said David which is hereunto annexed and which has been maintained at the Pension Office 11806 that this said David Holbrook made a very particular and minute statement of Each term of his Service and exhibited a retentionship(?) of memory and an accuracy as to dates very seldom Equaled, that this deponent was not  aware of the necessity of Stating the exact length of Each term of Service when the whole together amount to considerable over two years and therefore in deserving? his declarations in some instances used the qualifying expression about [underlined] when the said David would, according to the understanding & belief of this deponent have been Equally willing to have used the words at least [underlined] that from the Statement given by Said David to this deponent before and at the time of Drawing the said declaration & from this deponents comparing said statement with History of Events of the Revolution and from  this deponents acquaintance with said Holbrook and knowledge of his reputation for veracity this deponent truly believes that said David Holbrook served in the army of the United States in the war of the Revolution as stated in his said Declaration at least four and two third months as a Quarter master and other offices equal to that grade, two thirds of a month as a third Sergeant and Eighteen and two third months as a private soldier, and this deponent further says that the said David Holbrook is dead,  that
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he died after this Declaration hereunto annuled(?) was sent to the Pension office and before the same was returned, and that he left children him surviving and who are now living -
Subscribed and sworn today the above named Isaac W. Brewster to me known to be a man of reputed veracity, the day and year first above written                         Isaac W. Brewster
Lemuel Hawley
Commisioner of Deeds 
P.S. In Certificate of County Clk at the Close of the papers as to the official character of Lemuel Hawley
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State of New York
Onondaga County 
On this niniteenth day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and thirty two Personally appeared in Open Court before David Moorly Esquire Vice Chancellor of the sevinth circuit of the state of New York at a court of Chancery for said state now setting at the Town of Onondaga in the County of Onondaga David Holbrook a residint of the town of LaFayette in the county of Onondaga and state of New York aforesaid Aged Seventy Two Years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and serviced as herein stated That he entered the service aforesaid about the first of December 1776 at Providence in the State of Rhode Island in the company under the command of Captain Mason and Lieutenant Benjamin Freeman in the regiment of Militia Commanded by Colonel Holman as a private soldier and continued in said company little over two months Then said Freeman gave him the command of a guard at 12 or 14 men and sent them to Rahoboth in the state of Massachusetts to guard an old Ashery in which was said to be ten tons of Powder that he staid and guarded said Powder fifty three days  & was then relieved and went home near the 4 Months) last day of March 1777. That at the time of Entering the service aforesaid this declares resided with his Father at Sturbridge Worcester County Massachusetts that when he returned
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from the service as aforesaid his father had sold his farm and immediately thereafter removed to East Hoosack Berkshire County in the State
last aforesaid when on the third day of June
1777-this declarer inlisted or volunteered 
(2 mos.)
under Lieutenant William White a militia
officer to serve untill duly discharged and went
to Bennington in the State of Vermont
when said Lieutenant with his men
(28 or 30) in number stopped and guarded
the stone houses a short time and then went
to Manchester in the same state and then
halted and remained waiting orders two or
three weeks from thence to orders went to Willards tavern in the town of Pollet when were form Military Stones which
they guarded untill the sixth day of July 1777 when they were joined by a Continental
Captain with 24 or 25 men and 60 or 70 head of cattle for the army and went to Skarsborough when they were met by a number of invalid soldiers who had escaped from Ticondaroga which had been attacked by
the British army under the command of
Burgoin and which was evacuated by General
St Clair the cattle were then driven back to
Pollet and then on to Manchester and this declarer is with a Sergeant of the Continental 
troops and about 28 or 30 men went on and 
very soon met the Yars Guard of the British
army and had a little skirmish & while this
declarer was intent upon firing upon the
enemy the Sergeant and all the men except three had left him and the British had got between, when this declarer and his three companions made their escape by running across wood creek upon some trees that fortunately had fallen across
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it but a Sergeant of the Enemy persued & as the two hindmost of this declarers companions were crossing on the log he cried out to them to surrender when upon this declarer fired upon him and he fell this declarer and his three companions after remaining in the woods all night started in pursuit of this company and overtook them at Allens Tavern in Pollet aforesaid and went on to Willards Tavern aforesaid and waited then ten or twelve days untill the Stons were removed and thence went on to Manchester and then remained untill about the first of August when this Declarer being sick and his fathers team having come to bring a load of provisions for the army he obtained a furlough and went home That he remained at home at East Hoosack aforesaid (now America) untill the 14th August in the Morning having regained his health) and hearing the alarm that the Enemy was about to attack Bennington this declarer started immediately and got to Bennington the same night and next morning went to the line of the Enemy and remained there watching their Movements that day, and the next day being the 16th of August Captain Enos  [6 mo] Parker Leiutenants Kilborn and Cook of the Massachusetts Militia belonging to Col Simons Regiment Selected a company of 60-or 70 men from the men who had previously came together of which this declarer was one and marched them across the river by a circuatius route of 5 or 6 miles mostly through woods with all possible silence and brought them up in a piece of woods at the Enemies rear where a line was formed and the Company aforesaid formed
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on the right and those present to orders sat in silence untill a signal (the firing of 2 Muskets) was given when the American army upon these sides of the British encampment made a simultaneous attack. The American Army under the Command of General Stark and the British army under the Command of General Baum, The American army made a rush upon the British intrenchments which being recovered by the British with boldness the battle became general and desperate immediately and continued about two hours close combat without form or regularity. Each American fighting according to his own discression, untill the entrenchments were completed routed and those who had not been killed and had not escaped surrendered at [disenssion] General Baum being wounded was among the prisoners about the time of the general route of the British army and some of them were running to escape Col Herrick of the Green Mountain Rangers rode along near where this declarer was and cried out "Boys follow me" and this declarer with one other ran after him about two miles to Ramsslure Mills where he stopped his horse and drew up his piece and fired and then wheeled his horse and said there was a reinforcement of British coming which was soon discovered to be from 9- to 1200 British soldiers with a 9 and 6 pounder and a band of Musick Col  Henrick ran his horse to give inteligence to General Stark and this Declarer and his companion having got out of breath ran behind a Hay Stack and rested till the British army came along and then went out from behind the stack and discharged thier pieces at the enemy and ran. The enemy returned the
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fire by the discharge of a six pounder which gave general alarm. The Americans then ran together and formed about a mile south westerly from the intrenchments which had been occupied by General Baum and headed the reinforcement which was under the Command of Col Breman, and Major Skein of Skeinsborough but the Americans in pursuing them who escaped from the intrenchments had got scattered and fatigued and but few assembled at first but kept falling in continually until a line was formed along a fence on the North East side of the Meadow in which was the Hay Stack aforesaid in the Edge of a peice of woods and the British army formed a line in the Meadow and Extending across the road and the firing commenced as soon as they came within musket shot but the Americans not being sufficiently strong to keep the ground retreated from tree to tree firing as they left the trees untill they came to a ravine where was a log fence then made a halt and held the ground, the British came up within about 16 rods and stood the firing there continued some time without cessation when Col Warner with the remains of his regiment came up and some of his men understanding the Artillery Exercise took one of the field pieces taken in the first engagement and formed at the right of the party in which was the declarer and about the same time an old man with an old Queen Annes Iron sword and mounted upon an Old Black Mare with about 91- robust men following him in files two deep came up and filed in in front of the company commanded by Captain Parker in which
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this declarent then was and just as the
old man got his men to the spot 
and halted his man fell and he jumped
upon a large white oak stump and gave the Command Captain Parker seeing the old
Mans Company between him & the enemy
Ordered his men to file in between their files
which were some distance apart & which was
immediately done and the battle there
became desperate and immediately this [told]
was heard a tremendous crash up in the woods
at the right wing of the American troops
which was scared by the yell the most terrible that he ever heard then he heard the voice of Colonel Warner like thunder "Fix
Bayonet" - Charge" Then the old man on the stump cried out "Charge "Boys, and jumped from the stump and ran towards the enemy his men some with & some without bayonets followed suit & rushed upon the enemy with all their might who seeing us coming took to 
their heels and were completely routed, as we
came up to the enemy line this field piece
being charged a sergant Suttendon
knocked down this man with the port fire
and caught hold of the Limber and whirled about the piece and fired it at the Enemy and the blazing overtook them before they had got ten rods and mowed down a large number of them. Those of the Americans who had not got too much fatigued. persued and killed and took a number of the Enemy (British) the Indians that survived the slaughter escaped This Delcarer in the scaling of the brest work of the Enemy in the first Engagement Put his right hand upon the top of the breast
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work & threw his foot over but his right leg was met by a British Bayonet which held it fast and he piched head first into the Entrenchment and the soldiers hit him a thump upon the head but he was dipached by the next man that came up a & this declarer was thereby relieved and in the heat of feeling forgot his wounds But when the Enemy fled in the second Engagement he found himself Exhausted and could not pursue, the blow upon his head and the wound in his leg having occasioned the loss of considirable blood he found himself unable to walk and was put upon a horse and carried back to Bennington where he remained 10 or 12 days until he got sufficiently recovered from his wounds to march where Lieutenant White with whom this declarer enlisted came on and he went with him to Manchester Soon after which this declarer was taken with a fever and was sent home where he remained sick a number of months 8 M & 9 days and on 12th February 1778 Lieutenant White came to this Declarers father and gave this Declarer a discharge he being there very sick and not expected to recover and was not able to do duty during the whole of the year 1778 That in the Month of June 1779 this declarer enlisted to serve in the army of the United States 9 months and was ordered to go to the house of Captain Walker of Lenox Berkshire County Massachusetts where he met 8 others who were put under the Command and of this declarer and sent by Captain Walker to Springfield Massachusetts when were about 150 recruits, after joining them were marched under the Command of a
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Continental officer (whose name this Declarer has forgotten) to Hartford C.T. thence to Litchfield C.T. thence to Fishkill NY. and then on to West Point NY. where the men were assigned to their respective brigades the Declarer chose to join the Brigade of General Glover and was sent to Continental Village where was the Quarter Master of that Brigade collecting camp furniture and this Declarer with 31- others accompanied the Quarter Master to guard the camp furniture to the Brigade at Upper Salem West Chester County where this Declarer was attached to the 13th Massachusetts Regiment of infantry commanded by Col Sproat & of which this Declarers Brother Silas Holbrook was Surgeon or Surgeons Mate and this Declarer served as his Steward nine months after he joined paid Brigade which was about a month after he inlisted
After remaining at Upper Salem 2 or 2 1/2 months the Brigade moved to Pines Bridge on Croton River and lay there a day or two and then went to the North Castle and then on to Bedford staid their two or three weeks & then on went to Peekskill Heights were there during the Great Hail Storm and went from there to Winter Quarters at Buds Highlands where the Brigade spent the Cold Winter of 1780 and suffered much from cold at which place this Declarer was discharged by Colonel Smith (who had sucseded Colonel Sprout (he having been appointed Adjutant General) on the 18th April 1780 and was six days going home
In October 1780 Col Ethan Allen being at Castleton sent to Berkshire County for assistance and the Militia were Classed & each 2 were required to send one and this Declarerewent for his class and was at Castleton
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under Captain Ezra Whipple five weeks and from 1-10 days when the Militia were verbally dismissed by Col Ethan Allen and went home
In the latter part of June 1781 - this Declarer Engaged as a third Sergant for five months under Command of Captain Samuel Clark of Williams town and Lieutenant Holdridge of New Ashford and Hall of Lainsborough and commenced the service by obtaining volunteers and did obtain 22 and went with them to Albany where we joined the Captain & first Leiutenant after arriving to Albany this Declarer and the men he had procured were put under the command of Captain Livingston of the Continental Army and marched to Schenectady thence to Duanesburgh then on to Schorharie Middle fort, remained their four or five weeks thence went to Cobles Kill thence to Turlok when we harvested the grain that had been left by the tories on the approach of the company and harvested it and sent it to Fort Plain, thence went to Fort Plain, on arriving at Middlefort Schoharie this Declarere was appointed Quarter Master of the Garison and served in that Capacity until his arrival at Fort Plain at which time he was appointed Adjutant of the Battalion which was at that time formed and placed under the Command of Major Rowley of the Militia and this Declarer also at this same time was required to do the duty of Quarter Master and Quarter Master Sergant and continued to do the duty of those three offices at Fort Plain and up and down the river and at Fort Herkimer two or three months untill inteligence was given that Major Ross
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with 400 British Soldiers 50 Rangers 150 Indians were on their way to Johnstown Col Willet who was then at Fort Plain with about 500 men (Levies) and a number of Milita who were collected from the country together with the Battalion of Major Rowley pursued them and after getting upon the Hill North west of Caghnawaga it was determined by the principal officers that Major Rowleys Battalion should go around so as to head the British Troop while Col Willit with his party were to pursue them accordingly Major Rowleys men amounting to 190 including the stone Arabia Militia (most of Rowleys men having been pension by sent away in parties after provisions and in pursuant of Stragling Indians) separated from the rest of the party and met the Enemy in an open field on the farm of Sir William Johnson and were then surrounded by them and a desperate Battle insued which lasted between two and three Hours in which Major Rowley was wounded in the Ancle and Heel & Captain Marks succeded in Command, the men being resolute and determined to conquer or discharged the Enemey line & took it and drove them in our place and then in another untill they had fought the ground over four or five times and finally took from them their field peice which they had before taken from Col Willet they then fled and left the ground after the battle this declarer was informed that Col Willet had attacked the Enemy but they drove him and took his field piece and he with his men retired into the Goal of the County where they remained during the Engagement this Declarer
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in the Battle Commanded the company of Captain Clark who in the beginning of the action was wounded and carried in and continued in such [command] during the remainder of the campaign that after the battle the troops returned to Fort Plain and continued then and in traversing the river and at Fort Herkimer until the fore front of December following (1781) when this declaimant received a discharge signed by Colonel Maximus Millet at Fort [Plain] and returned home having served in this last campaign about five months and one third, now five months of which as quarter master and various higher officers as aforesaid. That he received no compensation but had certificates from the commanding officers of his various appointments which together with his sergeants warrant and discharges were left by him in his fathers Chest, after his father died the children of Josiah Holbrook [illegible] (this declarants' brother) wanted the Chest and supposing the papers good for nothing. (as this deponent was unfound and [illegible] destroyed them about twenty five years ago that the whole of this [illegible] service in the war of the revolution is about two years and five months that he was born at Sturbridge Worcester County, Massachusetts the 30th July 1760. Has no record of his age. He had an [illegible] it was burned with his other papers as aforesaid as he has been informed and believes.
At the close of the war he resided at East Hoosick aforesaid there went to Sing Sing Orange County N.Y., thence to Harmony Tioga County N.Y. thence to Geneva Seneca County N.Y. thence to Scipio Cayuga County N.Y. thence to Pompey Onondaga County N.Y.  in which county he has resided for the last
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thirty years and now resides in the town of Lafayette in said county which is a new town just off from the town of Pompey aforesaid that he was acquainted while in the army with the following Regular officers to wit General Washington General Schuyler General Gates besides those before & that he has no documentary evidence and know of no person except Henry Bogardus and Silas Holbrook, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. That he has procured the affidavit of said Henry Bogardus which is hereunto annexed and that these affidavits of Silas Holbrook as to this Declarers service as Steward for said Silas Holbrook this Declarer procured about two years since to support his application for a pension under former pension acts and he supposes it is on file at the pension office
That he is acquainted with Sith W. Beardsley clergyman, Isaac N. Brewster in his present neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier in the revolution And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or amnesty except the present and declarer that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state to his knowledge
Subscribed & sworn to -
David Holbrook
this day and year aforesaid
Daniel Mosely
Circuit Judge Vice Chancellor
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Mr Seth W Beardsley, a clergyman residing in the town and county of Onondaga and who preaches in the neighborhood where David Holbrook aforesaid resides and Isaac W Brewster of Jamesville in said county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Holbrook who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be twenty two years of age that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a solider of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
Isaac W. Brewster 
Seth W. Beardsley
Sworn & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Daniel Moseley 
Circuit Judge
and the said Court do hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories required by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Seth W Beardsley who has signed the
preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Onondaga, and that Isaac W
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Brewester Esquire who has also signed the same is a resident of [Manlius] each of these are in the neighborhood of said applicant and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Daniel Moseley
Vice Chancellor 
I Daniel T. Moseley, Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the seventh circuit for the state of New York, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the applications of David Holbrook for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hands and seal of office this 19th day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Daniel T Moseley
Deputy Clerk
[Paper seal with ribbon attached and signed]
Daniel T Moseley
Deputy Clerk
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State of New York
Onondaga County/Henry Bogardus of the town of Manlius in said County living duly sworn deposeth and saith that this deponent was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war and in the war of 1781 belonged to Captain Phelps Company, and was transferred with said company from Colonel Mckinstus regiment Saratoga to Colonel Maximus Willis regiment at Fort Main on the Mohawk River in June of that year. That soon after the said transfer this deponent saw David Holbrook who did the duty of Adjutant in said regiment and this deponent saw him frequently perform said duty in said regiment until the battle of Johnstown the 25 day of October thru next where this Deponent was wounded and carried to the hospital. This deponent further says that he has been acquainted with said David Holbrook for the last twenty six years and for the most of the time was in the same town  Henry Bogardus
Subscribed and sworn this 1st day of July 1832  before me
Lemuel Howley Commissioner of Deeds
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Henry Bogardus the above named deponent and believe his reputation for truth and veracity to be good.  July 16th 1832 
Lemuel Howley
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I Reuben L Hess Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Onondaga in the State of New York do hereby certify that Lemuel Hawley before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time a Commissioner of said County duly impowered to administer Oaths and to take affidavits to be read in Courts of record and that I am acquainted with the hand
writing of the said Commissioner and believe the signatures. "Lemuel Hawley" aforesaid to be his
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this
twenty fifth day of September 1832
R. L. Hess Clerk
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
S.23709
Department of The Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR you will find below the desired information as contained in his or (his widow's) application for pension  on file in this Bureau.
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment/Length of Service/Rank/Officers Under Whom Was Rendered/Captain/Colonel/State
December 1, 1776/ 4 months/Private/Mason/Holman/Mass
June 3, 1777 to August 1, 1777/Private/Wm White/Simonds/Mass
August 16, 1777 to February 12, 1778/Private/Enos Parker/Simonds/Mass
June 1779 to April 18, 1780/Steward to his brother Dr Silas Holbrook/Smith and Sprout
October 1780 5 weeks 4 days/Private/Ezra Whipple/Smith and Sprout/Mass
June 1781 to December 1781/3 Sergeant Quartermaster and Adjutant/ Samuel, Clark, and Livingston in battalion under Major Rowley
Battles engaged in, in skirmish near Pawlet, Bennington where wounded and Johnstown.
Residences of solder at enlistments/Sturbridge and East Hoosuck, Massachusetts.
Date of application for pension/September 19, 1839. This claim was [illegible].
Residence at date of application/Lafayette, Onondaga County, N.Y. and at Sturbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts. July 30, 1760.
Age at date of application,
Remarks: His children are referred to names are not stated nor is the name of his wife on record.
Respectfully, Commissioner.
Office note: I did not say he was dead before March 1833, because I could not find date of death on agency books and the person  inquiring knows date of death.
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23409
INVALID.
FIle NO. 23709

David Holbrook 
Pri Rev War
Act:  June 7  '32
Vo. 2 Page 191
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New York
Revo:

David Holbrook
Aomd
Rejected
let.  Isaac W. Brewster

9 May 1833
let to same 7 Dec 33
Suspended

Act 7 June 1832
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11806
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which these answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of David Holbrook which require further proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  yes

II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  yes

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  yes

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  (?)
Supplemental affidavit should distinctly set forth the term & grade of each tour of service.

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  yes

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?  yes

IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?  yes

X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  yes
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XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service. ?  yes

XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has no been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV.  +IF the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?  yes
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
yes

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  yes

XVI. ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? (not sure of answer)

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  answered
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  It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 

+QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service. 
  In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 

++QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers. 
  In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of the office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from  being improperly attached to the certificate.
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An oval stamp can be seen, 

Record Division 
Jan 4 1921

Note:  one can faintly see the name of George H. Messenger at the top of the document.
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George H. Messenger
Des Moines
January 
First, 
1 9 2 1.

Department of the Interior, 
Washington, District of Columbia.

Gentlemen:
  If you will give me the Revolutionary War service record of Doctor David Holbrook I shall be deeply grateful. 

  Born July 30, 1760 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts;  married Mehitable Wells January 13, 1788 in Goshen, Orange County, New York; died November 29, 1832 in Pompey, New York.

Thanking you, I am, 
Very Respectfully yours, 

Signature of George H. Messenger

G. H. Messenger
4201 Pleasant Street.

Stamp of the U.S. Pension Office 
Dated Jan 3 1921
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Two stamps are visible on this document. 

The first, 

U.S. Pension Office  Dec 21 1895

The second, 

OLD WAR & NAVY
Dec 24 1895
FILES.
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Handwritten numbers in upper right: 
23709-I(?)
32847-I(?)
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ROSE & COMPANY
MORTGAGE LOANS AND INVESTMENTS. 
511-512 Equitable Building. 
108 Dearborn Street, 
Chicago.

Dec 17, 1895

The Hon Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington DC

Dear Sir, 
Will you be good enough to send me a copy of the application for a pension made by David Holbrook a Revolutionary soldier, who at the time of his application was a resident of Onondaga County New York. 

Yours very truly 
Hiram Holbrook Rose