Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10866, Jacob Holland, S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
SC Holland Jacob S 10866
Born in Md carded
CONTENTS
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Letter to Pension Agent (Tuskaloosa)
$3.00 auditor 12 May 1844
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March to 4 Sep 1842 agt notified 11 April 1844
1882 Feby 13 R H Rogers Military & personal history
Date of death not on ab

31875
Alabama
Jacob Holland of Pickens Co in the State of Alabamy who was a Private of Inf & cavalry in the company comma by Captain Pickens of the regt comma by Col Pickens in the S Car volunteer line Pr Cav 4 months & 18 days
Pr Inf 3 " " 7 " 
Inscribed on the Roll of Tuscaloosa at the rate of 29 Dollars 93 cents per annu
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Aug 1841 and sent to Hon W W Raynes House of Representatives

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 299.30
Semi-annual allowance ending Sept " 14.96
$314.26
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7 1832

Recorded by D Brown cler
Book E 2 Vol 8 Page 99
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32902
Jacob Holland
Alabama
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The state of Alabama
Pickens County} On this 17th day of February 1835 personally appears before the judge of the county court of Pickens county now sitting Jacob Holland a resident of the state of Alabama in the county of Pickens 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 services of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit this applicant states that he entered the servis on his first tower in the year 1776 (the month not recollected) as a volunteer under the command of Col Andrew Pickens and Captain Joseph Pickens was marched from what was then called the Cherokee ford on Savannah River Abbeville District S C where this applicant then resided against a party of the Cherokee Indians on a Scouting party in the state of Georgia but the Indians fled into the interior of the nation and the company to which this applicant belong was marched home and dismissed without receiving any written discharge having been out on this tour three weeks in afive day he volunteered again under the same officers as stated above to guard some waggons to Monks Corner in the state of SC was in no engagements untill he returned home from guarding the wagens before mentioned when he was called out again as a volunteer under the same officers as before named to go against a party of Torys to was making their way to Augusta Ga but did not overtake them untill they was crossing Savannah River at the mouth of Vanns Creek in the state of Georgia where they attacked them and fought them for the space of two hours & some minutes but they being out numbered we had to have the grown in their possession us having but eighty five fighting men and the Torys the rise of seven hundred in this engagement he received a wound by a ball in his left knee and was carried off of the ground from here he went home being unfit for servise where he stayed some time or four months before he recovered of his wound this applicant states that after he recovered of the wound before named he again went out on a scouting party and continued on the same untill in the month of June 1777 when he went to Ninety Six (now Cambridge) in South Caroina
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and besieged that place and had frequent skirmishes with the enemy for the space of five weeks when the Red Coats & Torys was enforce by Col Isugur from Charleston and on that event Genl Green the then commanding officer raised the siege and marched us to Dorchester 21 miles from Charlestown where we remained for the space of two months when we were disbanded and returned home without receiving written discharges in the above skirmishes at Ninety Six May Captain Joseph Pickens was killed and the command of the company devolved on Captain William Strain Major Alec Nobles disbanded the corps as Colonel Andrew Pickens returned home shortly after we reached the above name place (Dorchester) having been in actual servis this tower three months & three weeks I then volunteered under Col Pickens and Capt William Strain to go after some Torys that was in the Cherokee Nation trying to get the Indians that were scattered there and bring them to assist the British about the time we reached our destination the Indians had taken seven of the above mentioned Torys and delivered them to Col Pickens the rest having fled and left the parts and gone hence Col Pickens having delivered the Torys prisners to Genl Clark of Georgia we returned hom and was disbanded in the spring of the year 1778 which ended my servise during that Revolution Strigte
in answer to the first Interrogatory propounded by the court I give for answer that I was born in the state of Maryland but having lost the record of my age cannot tell in what year having arrived the 2 ly answer the first I give for answer to the this that I was living in South Carolina Abbeville District where I lived untill the year 1812 I moved to Madison County in this state (Ala) from thence I moved to Pickens county Ala where I still reside I entered the servis as a volunteer in answer to the 6th I give for answr that Genl Green was the regular officer I was under answer to the 6th I never received any written discharge answr to the 7th Chost Holland also of my veracity can testify to my servises as before stated
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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 only on that of the agency of the state of South Carolina
Jacob Holland
his mark

Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Frances W Bostick clerk
me Charles Stewart a clergyman residing in the county of Pickens and Benjamin F Roper residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Holland who has subscribed to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Charles Stewart
Benjamin F Roper
sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid}
in open court
F W Bostick clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogtories presented 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 Charles Stewart who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergy man resident in the county of Pickens that Benjamin F Roper who has also signed the same is a resident in the county of Pickens and is a credible person and that their statements is entitled to credit
G H Flourry Judge of said court
I Frances W Bostick clerk of the court of Pickens county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jacob Holland for a pension 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of office this 17th day of February 1835
And 59 year of American Independence
Attest Francis W Bostwick Clerk
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January 31, 1934
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BA-J/EEL
Jacob Holland S 10866

Mr James E Clegg
Copyright Division
Library of Congress
Washington DC

Dear Sir

Reference is made to your request by telephone for the record of a Jacob Holland who served in the North Carolina or South Carolina Troops War of the Revolution.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers of that war.

The records have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon service of a Jacob Holland in the North Carolina Troops and only only who served in the South Carolina Troops.  His record is given herein as found in pension claim S 10866.

Jacob Holland was born in the state of Maryland.  The date of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.

While residing at Cherokee Ford on the Savannah River in Abbeville District, South Carolian, he volunteered in January 1778 and served at various times on short tours of from six days to three months in length at least four years in all as a private under Captain Joseph Pickens, William Strain and Mathew Findly, Major Alexander Noble and Colonel Andrew Pickens in the South Carolina Troops: he was in an engagement with the Tories at the mouth of Vanns Creek in the state of Georgia where he received a wound in his left knee from a rifle ball at the siege of Ninety Six and in numerous skirmishes with the Indians and Tories.

After the Revolution he resided in Abbeville District South Carolina until 1813 when he moved to Madison County Alabama; thence to Pickens County, Alabama.

[handwritten in left margin
could not identify capts Strain or Finaly]

[handwritten in right margin
I used his 2: statement that he enl in 1778 he fr his statement of tours this date (17780 seemed to fit with the past that he was at 96 which was in 1781 also he was only 13 in 1776 & would hardly have enlisted atsvc at that age]
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Jacob Holland was allowed pension on his application executed February 17, 1835 at which time he was aged seventy two years and resided in Pickens County Alabama.

There is no reference to wife and children.

In 1835 one Charles Holland was residing in Pickens County Alabama: no relationship to soldier was shown.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner Jacob Holland (S10866) you should address The Comptroller General General Accounting office Records Division, this city citing the following data:

Jacob Holland, Certificate No 31875 issued August 27, 1841 rate $19.93 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832 Alabama Agency

Very truly yours

AD HILLER 
Assistant to Administrator.
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10866
Rev War
INVALID
File No 10866
Jacob Holland
Priv Rev War
Act June 7th 1832
Index Vol A Page 179
[Arrangement of 1870]

1934 Jan 31 Hist to James E Clegg EEL
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POSTAL CARD
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old war
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Commissioner of Pensions
Dear sir your favor giving me commands that James Rogers served in during the revolutionary war was very gladly recvd He was the identicle James Rogers He died in Monroe Co in this state Miss The name is spelled Rogers The other was Jacob Holland instead of James as you wrote it He was from SC and served as he drew a pension up to the time of his death which occured in Pickens Co Ala, I would like to have his war record
your & c RH Rogers Verona Lee Co Miss
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Jacob Holland
Alabama
Pr Cav 4-18 = $19.16
Pri Infy 3.7 = 10.77
$29.93
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Jacob Holland
Private
act 7 June 1832
Tuscaloosa Alabama
Roll
$ $ 29: 93 per anu
mo day
Private Cavalry 4 18
Infantry 3.7
Sent cert to Hon
W W Payne HR
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The State of Alabama
Pickins County} Before me William Casttes a Justice of the peace in & for said county personally came & appeared Charles Holland (Senr) who being first duly sworn deposeth & saith on oath that Jacob Holland was in actual service of the United States of America for about the space of three year commencin a bout the year 1777 as well as this deponant now recollects  which said term of service was in the militia of the Unite States in the war of the Revolution 
Charles Holland
sworn to & subscribed before me this 17 day of Feb 1835
Wm Casttes JP
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The state of Alabama
Pickens County} I Francis W Bostick clerk of the county court of Pickens county do hereby certify that the within named William Costts is and was at the time of subscribing the written affidavit of Charles Holland and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts as such
Given under my hand and the seal of said court at office the 18th day of February 1835
Attest Francis W Bostick clerk
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JL Edwards Esqr
Commissioner

25th Aug 1841
relative to the claim of Jacob Holland 
Cores

Hon W W Payne
HR
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Rep Hall August 23 18211

Sir
I recd your communication last night relating to me the papers of Jacob Holland to be sent back to Alabama to have a blue or red ribbon attached to the seal with no disrespect to you I must be permitted to say I regard this a very great absurdity This applicant for a pension is quite old at some expense he has prepared his papers and sent them hear He is extremely indigent and actually needs the amount due him to provide the necessary comforts of life
Now can there be any just cause for this unnecessary delay unless there is some doubt as to the authenticity of his papers or the justice of his claim
As to the authenticity of his papers I recd them under cover from the clerk of Pickens County a gentleman of the highest respectability who would spare the slightest departure from the rules of property either in private or official duty and could not as I will vouch attach
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his seal to any paper not strictly right and proper
But you sum to think that the seal not being on the sheet of paper it is intended to authenticate that the papers should be coupled by a blue or red ribbon comes under the seal now in could not the man who used the seal also use the ribbon and attach both to a fals paper if disposed what security is the ribbon
In this instance no person has handled the papers but the clerk and myself I recd them under cover of a letter from him 
with regard to the justice of this claim with due defference to you it still occurs to me you have been rijidly cautious as you should always be under the law In this case I think you have passed to requirements giving as I though and still think very unnecessary trouble and creating expense and causing delay by requiring the certified copy of the sots from the comptroller genls office of So Carolina The testimony was obtained and found conclusive
And now after all of this expense delay and trouble for the first time it is found that the old man must begin at the beginning simply to have his application decorated with a red or blue ribbon
Lest there should be some further delay after
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this blue or red ribbon shall decorate the application you will allow me most respectfully to ask wheather any other trapens or ornaments will be necessary to decorate the application
Most respectfully
I have the honour to be
your obt st
WW Payne
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Rep Hall July 14 1841
Sir
Enclosed you will receive the application of Jacob Holland for a pension allow me to call your attention to the subject with a request that you will notify me of any action you may take on said application 
I am sir very respectfully your obt st
WW Payne
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Rep Hall July 29 1841
Sir
Inclosed you will receive the reply of the deputy comptroller of South Carolina to my letter in regard to the claim of Jacob Holland to a pension let me know what action will be taken thereon unless necessary to be returned , return the inclosed letter
Your obt st
WW Payne
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Rep Hall Augst 21 1841
Sir
Inclosed you will receive the certified copy of the services of Jacob Holland it is hoped that it will be satisfactory and that you will inform me wheather the evidence is such as to entitle him to a pension and if so whereas and at time it can be recd by him or his agent
I am your obt st
WW Payne
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Rept Hall 1 July 1841

Sir
I reced your letter of yesterday informing me the certificate of Comp Troler Genl of So Carolina should be exhibited shewing the service performd by Jacob Holland I had hoped when the application of Mr Holland was sustained from the office of no hope no further proof would have been necessary but if you will refer to the letter recd from the office of Mr Hayne and advise me of the amount of his fee I will endeavour to get his certificate
I have the honour to be your obt st
WM Payne

JL Edwards Esqr
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Columbia 23 July 1841
To Honal W W Payne
Dear sir
Yours of 17 together with the commissioner of pensions the mouring came to hand in reply of inform you that I find the balance of Jacob Holland on recrd for services in the Revolution off you wich certified copies of the cf & indent issued for him wite me to that effect inclose the fees which all three dollars & your business shall receive immediate attention where of send the papers if you wish thend of will return you letter as you requested 
very respectfully
your obt servt
Wm F Arthur
Dep Compt Genl
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GIDEON PRINTER
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
Jany 19th 1844
Sir
Under the act of the 6th of April 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842 extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents Jacob Holland a pensioner on the roll of the Tuskaloosa Al Agency, at the rate of Twenty nine dollars and 93 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832 has been paid at this Department from the 4th of March to the 4th Sept 1842.
Respectfully yours.
Albion K Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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The state of Alabama
Pickens county } on this 10th day of June 1841 personally appeared in open court before the judge of the county court of Pickens county now sitting Jacob Holland a resident of said county of Pickens & state of Alabama aged Seventy eight 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 served as herein stated My first tour I served as a volunteer under capt Joseph Pickens which commenced in January 1778 and was commanded by colonel Andrew Pickens and as a scouting party on the boundry line between the state of South Carolina and the Cherokee Indians and served two months as such was then permitted to return home on promist to be ready ready for service at one days notice In the month of April 1778 He was called upon by the above named Colonel Pickens to guard service pulled waggons at or near Monks Corner in the state of South Carolina but before He arrived at the place of destination he met the waggons returning to the uper part of the state he then returned home where he arrived on Sunday night after a tour of two weeks on the next morning he was called out again under the command of the above named col Pickens to go in serch of some Torys that had collected
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sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Jacob Holland
We Charles Stewart a clergyman residing in the county of Pickens & state of Alabama and John Story residing in (the same) hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Holland who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Charles Stewart
John Storey
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed 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 Charles Stewart who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Pickens and that John Story is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Sam R Moore
Judge &c
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discharged and returned home after this tour he was frequently called out as a scout against the torys & Indians when they were annoying the country but was never out more than five or six days at a time all of which scoutings & those previous to my first tour are not enumerated in the above stated years the whole of this time I was in actual service and scouting except a few days at a time & the two months I was disabled with the wound in my knee was four years under the above named col Andrew Pickens with Major Nobles one tour the men thought they were safer in camp than they were at home among the torys who was commanded by that noted Tory Bill Cunningham I do not know of any person now living I can prove the above facts by as I was then living in the state of South Carolina in Abeville district I never received a written discharge as we alway held our selves in rediness to be called out at any time the said col Pickens should think the county required our services which was frequently as that section of the country was much annoyed by the Torys
He hereby relinquishes every claim what ever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state except the state of South Carolina nd that eight years past he requested his name to be taken of the roll of that state 
sworn to & subscribed
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in the Cherokee nation on the next Wednesday evening we attacked them about seven hundred in number at the mouth of Vanns Creek and give them battle two hours & forty minits we being only eighty five in number He there received a wound in his left knee by a rifle ball which disablled him from performing duty for two or three months Joseph Pickens was my captain my third tour I was called out by the above named officers and was stationed at Ninety Six (now called Cambridge in Abbeville District SC) where I remained under captain Joseph Pickens until he was killed I was then placed under the captain William Strain and remained under him (as Captain) at the place aforesaid untill General Green a regular officer raised the siege I then returned home and remained there about three weeks Then he was called out by the above named col Pickens under captain Wm Strain to go in serch of some Torys that was supposed to be in the neighbourhood of White Hall but hearing of us they scattered I then returned hom being out one month My fourth tour was drafted out under Alexander Nobles Major was stationed at Bacons bridge under Capt Mathew Findly in the state of South Carolina where I remained two months & was then discharged My fifth tour I was again drafted and stationed at Col Andrew Pickens to guard the block house there was under catp Mathew Findly remained there two months was then
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Fees paid
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Indent Book
O No 498
No 1
Issued the 25th April 1785 to Mr Jacob Holland for twenty Six pounds twelve shillings and zero Pence Farthing Sterling for militia duty from 1780 to 1783 as per c/ audited
Principal L 26" 12" 10 1/4
Anl Interest L 1" 17" 3

State of South Carolina
To Jacob Holland 
No 2
For Militia duty per pray bill of Capt Pickens & capt William Strain commencing in 1780 and ending in 1783
say 98 days on Horse
40
on foot 138 days c/20 L 138"0"0
55 days c/10 L 27" 10"0
Duty besides for Col Anderson Rehorn 21"0"0
one saddle & Blanket 17"10"0
Oury $204"0"0
Org L 29"2"107
Jno Alp
Compt Genl Office
Columbia 16 Aug 1841} I do hereby certify the above menorandum No 1 to be a true copy taken from the margin of intents Book O No 498 Deposited in theis office and that No 2 is a copy of the c/ audited & for which the said indent was issued
Wm F Arthur
Dp Compt Genl
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I Francis W Bostick clerk of the county court for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jacob Holland for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at office the 10th day of June 1841
Francis W Bostick clerk
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Mr James E Clegg
Copyright Division
Library of Congress Washington DC
Request by telephone Jan 27 1934
for record of Jacob Holland who served in the NC or SC troops Revolutionary War
MHE