Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32332, Levi Holloway, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Holloway, Levi

Number
S.32332
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31690
Madison Indiana
Levi Holloway
Hamilton Co. in the state of Indiana
who was a Private in the company commanded 
by Captain Lain in the Regiment commanded
by Col. Dennis in the MD line for 6 months

Inscribed on the roll of Madison Ind at the rate of 20 dollars blank cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Dec 1839 and sent H. Bradley, Indianapolis, Ind.

Arrears to the 4th of sept 1839 $170.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar '40 $10.00
Total $180.00

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D.D. Addison - clerk
Book E2 Vol 2 page 124
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress pased June 7th, 1832

State of Indiana
County of Hamilton

On this first day of June eighteen hundred and thirty-nine personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, Levi Holloway, a resident of Hamilton County and State of Indiana aged one hundred and four years, who from bodily infirmity is unable to appear in open court and 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 under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he entered the service of the United States as a guard on the sea shore in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-seven and served as a private in Captain James Lain's company of sea [illegible] but from old age and want of memory he is unable to state the exact time he entered the service, but is under the impression that it was in the summer season and at the time that General Smallwood first came to Eastern Shore of Maryland to give direction where the guards should be placed or at least it is the first time he recollected of seeing General Smallwood to know who he was and when there was much alarm at the British entering the Chesapeake Bay, and served three months as a volunteer after which time he served several tours under different captains viz Capt. George Bell, Capt. James Fancett, and last of all under Captain Josiah Deal at Princess Anne at the time it was expected Cornwallis would attempt to land his troops at that place
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which last service was in the summer or fall of the year 1781 he believes that General Wadkins commanded the militia on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Colonel John Dennis and Major John Marshall were active officers in command, he served several tours as a guard at Snow Hill and the Salt Works also he was stationed at Indian Creek inlet several times, also at Lewistown in the state of Delaware but from extreme old age and infirmity he is unable to recollect the times of the year he served, but well remembers that his services were required more in the summer than in the winter and that while the British ships lay out on the water, small parties of their men would land and plunder the country; with four of five other men of the same company when they were attacked by a superior force of British volunteers Alexander Taylor of our party was killed and the rest made our escape to our camp, he resided in Worcester County in the state of Maryland when he entered the service he was required to have his gun and ammunition always ready so that he could repair to any place of alarm which he frequently had to do besides serve his tours at the several places at which he was not at the siege of Yorktown when Cornwallis was taken; because he was stationed at Princess Anne as guard to prevent the landing of those who were engaged in the plundering the country, he was in the service and compelled  to be ready for service the whole of the time from the year seventeen hundred and seventy-seven until the fall that Cornwallis was taken but from old age and poor living afflicted for more than fifty years with a very bad rupture of the bowels his memory does not enable him to state the precise time.
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he was under arms on guard but he is satisfied that it amounted to more than eighteen months besides being compelled to be ready to muster into action at all times, he has no documentary evidence he has no record of his age, he understands that his daughter lives in the state of Maryland has a record but being old and infirm he is unable to procure it he claims a pension for the services he rendered. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. He resided in Worcester County in the state of Maryland when he entered the service.

Given from under my hand the date above 

Written - Levi Holloway
His X Mark

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year last aforesaid

John Calip - JP

Question by the Justice:

Question: Where and in what year were you born.
Answer: In the county of Worcester in the state of Maryland on the ninth day of April in the year seventeen hundred and thirty-five.

Question: Have you a record of your age?
Answer: No, I am informed that my daughter carried it to Maryland, and I am so old and so much afflicted with a rupture which I have had for more than fifty years that I cannot get it if it should be there.

Question: Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Answer: I was living in the county of Worcester in the state of Maryland it is called the Eastern Shore and have resided there ever since the war until twenty-six years since I removed to the state of Ohio and resided there until last fall when I came into the county of Hamilton
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State of Indiana where I now reside.

Question: How were you called into the service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Answer: I was called into service to guard the seashore as a minute man or sea forcible. I volunteered the first tour after that I sometimes drew for tours and sometimes volunteered.

Question: State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer: I can name several officers but cannot remember who were regulars, some of them I know to be Militia. Colonel Joseph De Sheal & Col Soloman Long, Capt. Nathaniel Mitchell was stationed at Indian Creek inlet or at Blackfoot, the British did not land on the eastern shore in large bodies and there were no large bodies of the Americans kept at any one place as I remember, at least I cannot now recollect the name of a regiment of regulars nor do I now recollect the number of the regiment of Militia to which I belonged when I was out on the field we were mostly kept in small scouting parties, I was in several little skirmishes in what we had men killed one night as a few of us were passing along the road the British wounded George Hamilton with the bayonet it was very dark and we fired on them but did no execution that we could discover in 1781, Luke Allison was shot through the leg at my side in a small skirmish - I have stated guard three & four days together night and day while the British vessels lay in sight to prevent them from plundering the country and many days without a little to eat.
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Levi Holloway
His X Mark

Sworn and subscribed to before me the date above written - John Calip - JP

State of Indiana
Hamilton County

On this first day of June eighteen hundred and thirty-nine personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, Levi Holloway a resident of Hamilton County state of Indiana who is an aged and respectable man and is well known to me to be a man of truth , and by reason of bodily infirmity he is unable to appear in open court and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration before me - 

I do further certify that from my personal acquaintance with him I do most fully concur in the belief of the truth of the statements therein made. Given from under my hand the day and date last aforesaid.

John Calip - JP

State of Indiana
Hamilton County

I Saul Cary was well acquainted with Levi Holloway in the time of the revolutionary war who made the foregoing declaration. He lived in Worcester County in the state of Maryland and was in the service of the United States as a guard on the seashore. I well recollect that I saw the said Levi Holloway in Captain James Laws company stationed at Indian River Inlet also at Princess Anne under Captain Josiah Deal at the time Cornwallis entered the Chesapeake Bay. I also saw him stationed at Sunny Baron inlet. I am eighty-three years of age and have always understood from my mother and others that I am twenty-one years younger that said Levi Holloway. I have examined the foregoing declaration believes it to be true. I recollect the officers therein named and that
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there were no large bodies of regular troops stationed on the eastern shore of Maryland or in that part of it. I recollect that Levi Holloway was out several forty-day tours which was the most usable time for which we were drafted - the citizens of that place were not taken to other parts but were kept there for the purpose of guarding the shore. He does not know how long or how much time Levi Holloway served all together but fully believes that he served as long as stated in this declaration (Eighteen months). besides many short tours of two or three days together I lived in the same house with said Levi Holloway at that time in the County of Worcester on the eastern shore of Maryland. I saw him on a tour of duty in the service of the United States under Captain Littleton Robins as well as those before named. I believe that he left the eastern shore of Maryland about the time he states and has resided in the state of Ohio for nearly twenty-six years. He now resides in the county of Hamilton State of Indiana, he is a very poor man and has been so much afflicted for near sixty year that he is becoming almost worn out, the last time that I saw him in the service was at Princess Anne in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one at which place he remained until after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. General Smallwood, Col, Harrie, Major Marshall, Col. Long & Col. DeSheal were officers I do not recollect the number of the regiment to which any of those companies belonged. Given from under my hand this first day of June eighteen hundred and thirty-nine.

Saul Cary
His X Mark

Sworn and subscribed to before me the above date - John Calip - JP

State of Indiana
Hamilton County

Personally appeared before me a Justice of the
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peace in and for said County Said
Carey a Citizen of said County of Hamilton
an aged and respectable man and well
known to me to be a man of truth, and subscribed
and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Statements, 
and I do most fully concur in the belief
of the truth of the same. Given from under
my hand the day and date last aforesaid
John Calip J. P.


State of Indiana ⎬
Hamilton County
I Nancy Justice have been acquainted with Levi Holloway
for about fifty years and I knew him many years before he left the
State of Maryland and I have always understood, that he was
in the War of the revolution, I have heard him and his neighbours
talking of their service, and I have heard him tell of many
things which transpired while he was guarding the sea shore
to prevent the British from landing and robbing the County
and it was generally and publicly known that he was
reputed to be of the Revolutionary Fathers and fought for
his country, and I fully believe the fact and I do most
fully concur in the belief of the truth of the statements
made in the foregoing declaration of Levi Holloway as 
well as the certificate of Saul Cary with whom I have
also been acquainted for about fifty years.
her
Nancy X Justice
Mark
Given from under my hand this first day of June
Eighteen hundred and thirty nine Nancy Justice
Sworn to and subscribed before me
John Colip J.P

the above date
State of Indiana
Hamilton County
personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace
in and for the County aforesaid Nancy Justice and
aged and respectable lady and will known to 
me to be a Lady of truth, and subscribed and made
oath to the truth of the foregoing statements, and I do too
fully concur in the belief of the truth of the same given
from under my hand the above date John Calip
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State of Indiana
Hamilton County ⎬ss

I John G. Burns Clerk of the
Hamilton Circuit Court do hereby certify that John
Colip Esquire whose name appears to the foregoing
oath and affidavits was at the time of administering
oath and signing his name to said affidavits
an acting Justice of the peace within and for
the County of Hamilton in the State of Indiana
duly elected Commissioned and qualified and that the
foregoing Signatures purporting to be his are
genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at Noblesville this first day of
June A D 1839
Jno G Burns Clerk

34,852
Jno a 
Levi Holloway
Oct 1832

admitted
Pa 6 mos - $20
Capt Sam Col
Dennis McMile

Act 7 June 1832

H Bradly
Indianapolis 
India
June 11th
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32332
Rev INVALID aw
File No. 32332
Levi Holloway
Pri Rev War
Act: June 8 325
Index: - Vol. 2 Page 194
{Arrangement of 1870.]
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Levi Holloway
Indiana
Suspended
let 26 Aug 1839
N. Bradley

Act 7 June 1834
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and proof
came with
the ovi papers
of Saul Carey

Addl proof
Levi Holloway
Oct 22nd 

Addl proof
Levi Holloway
Indiana
Oct 22, 1839-
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Further Declaration of Levi Holloway in order to
obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th
June 1832

State of Indiana Hamilton County, SS
On this twelfth day of October Eighteen hundred and
thirty nine personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in
and for the County aforesaid Levi Holloway who made a declaration
in June last and makes further declaration for the purpose of obtaining
the benefit of the it of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

He declares that the reason he did not make application for a
pension earlier, is, that he is very old and much afflicted and
poor and destitute and can neither read nor write and was not
informed that he was entitled to a pension until some years after
the law passed, and that after he received the information he knew
not where to find a witness to prove his services until he met with
said Cary last fall, that he is unable for want of memory
to state the particular time of service under each captain, and that
he has discovered further testimony by the emigration of two of
his old acquaintances about two months since which he prays
may be received and made a part of the evidence in his case
and that a pension may be granted.
his
Levi Holiday
mark

Sworn and subscribed before me
the day and date above named
John Calip J.P

I William Riddle aged seventy three years, do certify that I was
well acquainted with Levi Holloway who subscribed and made
oath to the foregoing declaration and know that he resided in
the County of Worcester in the State of Maryland during the time
of the war of the Revolution and will know that he served
in said war as a guard or sea fencible on the Eastern shore of
Maryland, I saw him in the service at south point and
at Princess Ann, and I was informed and verily believe that
he was stationed at many other places on the coast, he served
under Captain Josiah Deel, James Fancett and others, I was
about twelve years old when I first saw him in the service
and I was fifteen years old the last time I saw him which
was at Princess Ann I was born in Seventeen hundred and
Sixty six, I well know him to be a man of truth-and
do most fully concur in the belief of the truth of statements
made in the foregoing declaration.

I James Ridley aged sixty six years do certify that I was well
acquainted with Lee Holloway in Worcester County State of
Maryland and that it was the common talk and report ever
since I could remember that said Levi Holloway was in
the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War
and I well know him to be a man of truth and most
fully concur in the belief of the truth of the statements made
in the foregoing declaration, given from under our hand
this twelfth day of October Eighteen hundred and thirty nine
nine.
William Ridley
James Ridley

State of Indiana
Hamilton County sss
On this twelfth day of October Eighteen hundred and thirty
nine personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace
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in and for the County aforesaid William Ridley and
James Ridley residents of Hamilton County State of Indiana
who are men of truth and made oath to the truth of
the foregoing statements by them severally made and I
do further certify that I do most fully concur in the
belief of the truth of the statements therein made.
Given from under my hand the day and date
last aforesaid.  John Calip 2.os
ss
State of Indiana Hamilton County ⎬
I John Burns Clerk of the Court of said County 
do certify that John Colip is is a magistrate as above
and that the forgoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office this twelfth
day of October Eighteen hundred and thirty
nine
J G Burns Clerk