Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21375, Joshua Holt, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)

Service: Mass. 

Holt, Joshua 
Hannah 

Number: W21375 

Contents
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10312 
New Hampshire 

Joshua Holt of Greenfd in the State of NH who was a Private in the compy commanded by Captain [blank] of the regt commanded by Col Frye in the NH line for 11 mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of NH at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Sept 1833 and sent Titus Brown Francestown NH

Arrears to the 4th of [illegible] 1833   $73.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. "    18.33
= $91.65

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by JH McBlair Clerk, Book A   Vol. 1st Page 90.
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619 
Concord N.Hamp.
Hannah Holt widow of Joshua Holt decd. who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 14th March 1835 of Hillsboro Co. in the State of N.H. who was a Private in the ____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Frye in the N..H. line for 11 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Concord N.H. at the rate of 36 Dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Octo. 1838 and sent Luke Woodbury Antrim N.H. 

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $91.67 1/2
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 18.33 1/2 
= $110.01

{Act July 7, 1838. }

Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk 
Book A. Vol. 1st Page 42
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No. 8542 
Joshua Holt
Private 11 Months
The official charter and signature of that  Magistrate not [illegible]

Nov 22 1832 

$36.66


Titus Brown
C.H. Atherton
Francestown NH
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No 8542
Brief in the case of Joshua Holt of Greenfield in the State of New Hampshire (Act 7 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? 74-
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 1775 Ap 19  8 months Minute Man Cap Ames. Col Frye
about 1776. Sep 1. *3 months Private Cap Abbott. Col Cogswell
* See this service in declaration  - & testimony of Joshua Sargent
5. In what battles was he engaged? none-
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Andover, Mass.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary - Living witnesses certified to be credible -
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct -
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. Sam J. Potts Examining Clerk.
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140 Joshua Holt 8542
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State of New Hampshire
County of Hillsborough, 88
On this 30th day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting at Francestown within and for the County of Hillsborough, in the State aforesaid, Joshua Holt a resident of the town of Greenfield in said county aged 74 years
Who being 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 served as herein stated. That is to say,
On the [2?] day of February, 1775, or about that time he enlisted as a minute man and was called into service on the 19th of April following and went to Cambridge and served there till the end of the year in the eight months service so called of the Massachusetts troops - but whether under his enlistment as a minute man, or whether he enlisted again he is not certain. The officers under whom he served, whose names he remembers were of his company, Capt. Benjamin Ames and Lieut Chandler, of his regiment Co. Frye and he thinks Lieut. Col [illegible Brinket?] was with the regiment a part of the time. He was stationed most of the time at Cambridge. There was another regiment there to which the soldiers from Chelmsford belonged, he does not know by whom it was commanded this service there or about the end of December or the first of January.
In 1776, about the first of September he thinks but is not certain as to the time he enlisted again, and served with the Massachusetts militia three months at & in the neighborhood of Whiteplains, in Capt John Abbott's company and Col. Coggswell's regiment. Other officers of the company and regiment whose names he remembers were Lieut Jonathan Abbott. Lieut Malcolm & Major Bodwell. The battle of Whiteplains took place during this service but his regiment was not in it. He was discharged for [illegible] the forefront of December. He thinks his enlistment was for two months & that he continued in the service with a part of his company as a volunteer one month after the two months expired. Col. McIntosh's regiment was with or nearby in most of this service.
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He further states that the Clergyman who was formerly settled in said Greenfield has been dismissed and left the place that a young Gentleman has been preaching there for a short time, but is unacquainted with the reports and belief respecting his service that he is acquainted with the Rev. Archibald Burgess of Hancock adjoining town. 

He was born at Andover Massachusetts January 17 1758 - has no recoed of his age except a memorandum in his Bible. Supposes his birth was recorded upon the record of Andover. When he entered the service he lived at Andover. Since the Revolutionary War he has lived in the place where he now lives then Lyndeborough Addition now Greenfield, N.H. He never received any written discharge from the service. 
William Whittemore Esq. and Col. Paul Cragin of Lyndeborough are persons in his present neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his service as a soldier of the revolution. 

He relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, whatever, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Joshua Holt (signature)

Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate (signature)

We, Archibald Burgess a Clergyman residing in the town of Hillsborough aforesaid, and Ebenezer Farrington Greenfield aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Holt who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be 74 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, 
Archibald Burgess
Ebenezer Farington (signatures)

Edmund Parker Judge of Probate (signature)

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, as he states. And the Court further certifies that he that Archibald Burgess who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman residing in the town of Hancock and that Eben. Farrington is a resident in the town of Greenfield is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
Edmund Parker (signature) Judge of Probate for said County of Hillsborough.

I CHARLES H. ATHERTON, Register of the court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Joshua Holt for a pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, this thirtieth day of August  in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. 
C.H. Atherton (signature)
Register of Probate for said county of Hillsborough

{seal}
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. 
County of Hillsborough, to wit, 
At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were propounded to the said Joshua Holt and the following answers given, on oath to wit: 

1. Where, and in what year were you born? 
Answer, at Andover, Massachusetts January 17, 1758. 

2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it? 
Answer, I have no record except a memorandum in my Bible. I suppose my birth is recorded upon the records of Andover

3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? 
Answer, When I entered the service  I lived in Andover. Since the war I have lived in the place where I now live - then a part of Lyndborough now Greenfield 

4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom? 
Answer, I enlisted 

5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service? 
Answer, I believe all the particular required by this interrogatory, as far as I recollect them as stated in my (previous) declaration 

6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? 
Answer, I never received any written discharge from the service

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution 
Answer, William Whittemore Esqr  & Col. Paul Gragin of Greenfield 

Certified by C H Atherton Register
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State of New Hampshire 
Hillsborough SS. 
From the Records of the town of Wilton in said County 
"Joshua Holt of Lyndeborough NH and Hannah Ingalls of Wilton ware Maried October thirty first seven hundred Eighty two by Abel Fisk V.D.M. A true entry Attest Jacob Abbot Town Clerk."

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the said record in fair legible figures as follows "October 31. 1782" 
Wilton August 13. 1888. 
Timothy Parkhurst Town Clerk of Wilton (signature)

I Timothy Parkhurst of Wilton above named depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Wilton in the State and County aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Wilton with the exception above named as certified by me 
Timothy Parkhurst Town Clerk of Wilton (signature)

State of New Hampshire 
Hillsborough County SS. }
Sworn and subscribed this thirteenth day of August Anno Domini Eighteen hundred thirty eight 
Before me, 
Jonathan Burton, Justice of the Peace (signature)

I do hereby certify that the aforesaid Timothy Parkhurst is a credible Witness 
Jonathan Burton Justice of the Peace (signature)
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I Andrew Wallace Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that Jonathan Burton is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Hillsborough as before mentioned, and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name at Amherst in said County, this twenty first day of August Anno Domini 1838 

A. Wallace Clerk (signature)

[seal}
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Declaration
Hannah Halt
Wid 766 of Joshua
NH

Act 7 July 1836

Aug 22. 1838. I am requested to forward the enclosed papers- 
Please address any communication respecting same to me at Antrim
Hillsborough County N. Hampshire
Luke Woodbury
Married 1782
Died 1835
Allow $26.66
per anm
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 State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough county

On this seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred an thirty-eight in Greenfield in said county personally appeared before me Luther Woodbury Judges of the court of probate of Wills etc. within and for the said county of Hillsborough Hannah Holt a resident of Greenfield in said county aged seventy-nine 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 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay an pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of Joshua Holt late of Greenfield aforesaid deceased who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution - that he was a revolutionary pensioner an drew a pension under the act of congress of June 7, 1832 an thinks he drew about thirty-six dollars per year that he receive his pension from the New Hampshire agency.

She further declares that she was married to the said Joshua Holt on the thirty-first day of October in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-two at Wilton in said county of Hillsborough that her maiden name was Ingalls; that her husband the aforesaid Joshua Holt died at said Greenfield on the fourteenth day of March (over)
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in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, 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 ever since the decease of her said husband.

Hannah Holt
Her X Mark

Attest: Polly Holt

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before

Luke Woodbury - Judge as aforesaid

I do hereby certify that the aforesaid Hannah Holt the deponent is in my belief a credible witness and that the cause of taking and executing the aforesaid declaration at the time and place above mentioned is that the deponent is in my belief from bodily infirmities unable to attend court.

Luke Woodbury - Judge as aforesaid
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Revy
Widow etc.

File No 21375
Hannah Holt
Widow of
Joshua Holt
Pri Rev War

Act July 7th, '38
Index Vol A Page 350
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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8542

Joshua Holt

Titus Brown
C H Atherton
Francestown
NH
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Brief objections to the admission of pension claim of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joshua Holt 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? - BLANK

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? - YES

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 not been produced, is there any reasons assigned for not obtaining it? - BLANK

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? - Has produced the testimony of two living witnesses

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

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? - Yes the official charact & signature of the Magistrate not certified

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And if not, which of them is not so answered? - BLANK

Explanatory Notes

Quere V. In a case where the applicant cannot by reason of the loss of memory state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, etc. A.B. who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For blank year, blank months and blank days, I served as a blank for blank months and blank days I served as a blank; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each 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. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, etc. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly 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 matter 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 affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates 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 ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer so as to prevent any paper form being improperly attached to the certificate.
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I Nathaniel Tay of Lyndeborough in the county of Hillsborough and state of New Hampshire ages seventy-six years depose that I was a soldier in the revolutionary war from the 18th of April 1775 until the close of the year. I well remember that Joshua Holt now present then of Andover in the state of Massachusetts but now of Greenfield in said county of Hillsborough was a soldier in the same company with me during the whole time. The company to which we belonged was Capt. Ames' company in Col Frye's Regiment of the Massachusetts troops - in the eight months service so called.

Nathaniel Tay

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County - August 15, 1832 - Then the above name Nathaniel Tay personally appeared and made oath in due form of law that the foregoing affidavit by hi subscribed is true - 

Before me - Titus Brown - Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above-named deponent is a respectable person and entitled to credit as a witness.

Titus Brown - Justice of the Peace

I Andrew Wallace clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the county of Hillsborough in the state of New Hampshire certify that Titus Brown is a Justice of the Peace for said County as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this fourth day of December in the year or our Lord 1832.

A. Wallace - Clerk
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I Joshua Sargent of Lyndeborough in the county of Hillsborough and state of New Hampshire aged seventy-four years depose that in the summer and fall of 1775 I served in the revolutionary war in the Massachusetts militia three months in Capt. Abbott's company - Col Cogswell's regiment. The regiment served during that time in the neighborhood of the White Plains. Joshua Holt now present then of Andover in the state of Massachusetts but now of Greenfield in said county of Hillsborough was a soldier in the same company with me the whole time.

Joshua Sargent

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County August 15, 1832

Then the above-named Sargent personally appeared and made oath in due form of law that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true.

Before me - Titus Brown - Justice of the Peace

The above-named Sargent is a respectable person and entitled o credit as a witness.

Titus Brown - Just Peace
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I Stephen Holt of Greenfield in said county of Hillsborough and sate of new Hampshire depose and say that I was well acquainted with Joshua Holt late of said Greenfield deceased, that the said Joshua was a revolutionary pensioner and I think drew his pension under the act of 1832 that he died at said Greenfield on the fourteenth day of March 1835 that I am also well acquainted with his widow Hannah Holt and was previous to her marriage her maiden name was Ingalls - and knew of the said Hannah and Joshua living together as man and wife for fifty-three years or more. That his widow the said Hannah Holt has remained a widow ever since the decease of her husband the said Joshua Holt.

Stephen Holt

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough August 17th 1838 - this day sworn to and subscribed before me

Luke Woodbury - Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that the aforesaid Stephen Holt is in my belief a credible witness.

Luke Woodbury - Justice of the Peace
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I Andrew Wallace clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the county of Hillsborough in the state of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Luke Woodbury beforementioned is a Justice of the Peace for said county of Hillsborough as aforesaid and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said court and subscribed my name at Amherst in said county this twenty-first day of August Anno Domini 1838.

A. Wallace Clerk