Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5153, Jacob Hollingsworth, Penn.
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(3-1775)
SERVICE Penn.
Hollingsworth, Jacob
NUMBER R. 5153
CONTENTS
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34,780
Jacob Hollingsworth
Tennessee
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State of Tennessee Anderson County ⎬ Clinton Ten. November the  5th 1838
on this day personally appeared in open court before the court of Anderson County now sitting Jacob Hollingsworth a resident of this County and on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832

That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the same year that the battle of Brandywine was fought [with crossed out] for the term of three years (the date not recollected) with Capt. Hogan of the 98th regiment and served in said army for the entire term of three years

he states that he entered the service of the United States in the town of Wilmington in the State of Pennsylvania and Capt Hogan then commanded as Capt and lieut Smith and Ensign White or Whittle which way he spelled his name he does not know and that after he enlisted at Wilmington he continued there with the army about two months and that he was then marched down to delaware bay and that he was then taken to within about twenty miles of Philadelphia at that place George Washington commanded but he does not recollect whether washington was then General or not and from that place he was marched to chestertown in the state of Pennsylvania and from that place he was marched in a short time to brandy wine river where he was under the same officers
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where he was wounded by a musket shot in the scull in which battle the americans cans gained the victory he was then shifted and placed under some other officers whose names he does not recollect nor he does not know that this time the cause why he was shifted, and from that place he was marched up in to lancaster county where he stayed some four or six months from thence he states he went down into the State of Maryland and he thinks he was again shifted and again placed under other officers and from that he was sent on with the army to the head of the Elk River in Maryland having had a battle near Baltimore in which action the enemy retreated in which Battle he states he was wounded in the thigh at that place he states Washington was present he thinks he continued stationed on the head of elk some two or three months and he states he was then marched on to Philadelphia where he continued untill [sic] he was discharged, the names of the officers who he was under when he was discharged he states he does not recollect only he well recollects that George Washington was one that had signed his discharge, which discharge he states that some sixteen or eighteen years ago was lost or destroyed, he further states that he has no documentary evidence of his services in the revolution war
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and he further states that he has never applyed [sic] for a pension before any tribunal in the united only the present

he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declairs [sic] that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state that he knows of except this declaration

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid
[signed] Jacob Hollingsworth
and the said Court do hereby declair [sic] there [sic] opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
[signed] James Noel J P
[signed] John Chiles J P
[signed] Austin Moore
Acting Justices of the peace

I William Cross Clerk of the court of Anderson County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jacob Hollingsworth for a pension in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 5th day of November 1838
[signed] William Cross Clk
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3 1873 [crossed out]
REJECTED
5153.
P.O. Jacob Hollingsworth
Service: __
Enlisted: __, 18  .
Discharged: __, 18  .
Application filed: __, 18  .
Alleges: __
Re-enlisted: __
Attorney: __
P.O. __
__ Recognized. __ Contract.
__ Cert. of Dis. Searched for __, 18  .
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[parts illegible]

by S. C. Young
sent 27 July [illegible date]
to 12 Janry [illegible date]
to 31 March [illegible date]
did not serve six months,
5153
Act of June 1832
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State of Tennessee Blount County⎬
This day personally appeared before me Lemuel Adams one of the acting Justices of the peace for said County William Bradbury of lawful age whose statements are entitled to full faith and credit being first sworn on his oath depose and say that he is and has been acquainted with Jacob Hollingsworth for the last some several years and that he heard him the said Jacob Hollingsworth say that he served in the revolution war
[signed] William Bradbury
Sworn to and subscribed to before me October the 21. 1839
Lemuel Adams Justice of the peace for Blount County
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State of Tennessee Blount County }
This day personally appeared before me William Tool one of the acting Justice of the peace for said County George A. Crawford of lawful age who being first sworn on oath depose and say that he has been acquainted with Jacob Hollingsworth for the last twenty years or upwards and that he has often and frequently heard him the said Jacob Hollingsworth speak and talk about his revolutionary services and that he was a regular soldier in the army of the United States and that he heard him the said Jacob Hollingsworth say that he served for the term of three years and that he the said Jacob Hollingsworth had been in some two or three battles and that he the said Jacob Hollingsworth had been wounded some two or three times and he states also that he believes that Jacob Hollingsworth is a man of truth as far as he can recollect and he states also that he heard Jacob Hollingsworth say that he received a regular discharge and that he had lost it
[signed] George A Crawford
Sworn to and Subscribed Before me this 22 Day of October 1839
J W. Toole Justice of the peace for Blount County
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State of Tennessee }
Blount County        }

This day personally appeared before me William Tool one of the acting Justices of the peace for said county John C. McKay of lawful age with whom I am personally acquainted and whose statements are entitled to full faith and credit who being sworn on his oath depose and say that he has been acquainted with Jacob Hollingsworth for the last seven or eight years and that he has heard him say that he the said Jacob Hollingsworth had served as a soldier in the army of the revolution and that he had been wounded in the revolution war and he also states he heard the said Jacob Hollingsworth say that he had lost his discharge and that he believes that the said Jacob Hollingsworth is a man of truth as far as he can recollect

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22 day of October 1839

John C. McKay [signature]

W. Tool
Act Justice of the Peace
for Blount County
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State of Tennessee Blount County

I Nathaniel Ragan Clerk of the County Court in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Wm. Toole Esquire whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavit and before whom the same was taken is an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn in and for Blount County and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such.

Given under my hand and seal of
office at office in Maryville the
22nd day of Oct. 1839.

N. Ragan Clk
By A. Henry, D.C.
[seal]
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State of Tennessee }
Blount County        }

This day personally appeared before me Samuel Adams one of the acting Justices ^ of the Peace for this county William Crawford of lawful age with whom I am personaly [sic] acquainted and whose statements are entitled to full faith and credit, who being sworn on his oath depose and say that he has been acquainted with Jacob Hollingsworth for the last Eighteen or twenty ears and that in the course of the first part of his acquaintance with the said Jacob Hollingsworth he heard him say that he had served as a regular soldier in the army of the United States and that he heard him say that he had been a regular soldier [crossed out word] and frequently made statements of that kind He also states that he heard Jacob Hollingsworth say that he had been in some battle or battles and that he had been diferently [sic] wounded in the revolution war  he also states that he believes that Jacob Hollingsworth is a man of truth and that he appears to be very old and that his memory has become quite frail which he believes to be the reason why he the said Jacob Hollingsworth cannot recollect the naming of the officers who he served under in the revolution war

William Crawford [signature]

Sworn to and subscribed to before me October 21 1839

Samuel Adams [signature]
Justice of the Peace for
Blount County
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State of Tennessee Blount County} ss

I Nathaniel Ragan Clerk of the County Court in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Adams Esq. whose signature appears to the foregoing affidavits and before whom the same were taken is an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn in and for Blount County and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such

Given under my hand and seal of
office at Office in Maryville the
22nd day of Oct. 1839

Nathaniel Ragan Clk
By A. Henry D.C.
[SEAL]
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State of Tennessee }
Blount County       }

October the 21st 1839

This day personally appeared before me Samuel Adams one of the acting Justices of the peace for this county Samuel Jones of the age of sixty four years with whom I am personally acquainted and whose statements are entitled to full faith and credit who being sworn on his oath depose and say that he has been acquainted with Jacob Hollingsworth for the last Eighteen years and that shortly after he became acquainted with the said Jacob Hollingsworth he heard him say that he had served as an enlisted soldier in the army of the United States that he served in the State of Pennsylvania and that he believes that he heard him speak about his officers who he served under and he also states that he believes that he heard him say that Captain Hogan was one of his officers  he states that he has heard Jacob Hollingsworth speak many and diferent [sic] times about his serving in the revolutionary war  he further states that he believes that the said Jacob Hollingsworth is upwards of Eighty years old and that his memory has become short and frail owing to his great age and infirmity which he believes to be the reason that he cannot tell the name of his officers and discribe [sic] his service more fully and specially [specifically]   he also states that he believes Jacob Hollingsworth to be an honest man and a man of truth as far as he recollects  he states that some fourteen years or more said Jacob Hollingsworth lived on his farm and he ^ has ever since has considered him to be an old regular soldier

Samuel Jones [signature] 

Sworn to and subscribed to before me this October the 21. 1839
Samuel Adams,
Justice of the Peace for Blount County
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[illegible] . 23     June 28.
June 29. 1839

Pension office.

Tenn
W Allison
and July 2 '39

Clinton T }
June 18th}

Free

To the honorable Joel R. Poinsett
Secretary of War.
Washington city
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State of Tennessee }
Anderson County  }
Clinton June 12th1839

To the honorable Joel  R. Poinsett
Secretary of War

Sir having some time past forwarded to your office a declaration with the other certificates for the benefit and in the name of Jacob Hollingsworth a regular soldier in the war of the american revolution to which declaration I did not assign my name a printed brief was ammediately [sic] sent to Mr. Hollingsworth requiring the name of the attorney  I then forthwith wrote to you and give [sic] my name as his attorney to which a writen [sic] brief was amediately [sic] forwarded with a promise that the claim of Mr Hollingsworth would be examined and the result communicated.  it now seems that ample time have [sic] elapsed for all claims to of [sic]  have been fully examined  I now humbly pray that you would straight a way write to me to let
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know what I may depend on or if I have not pursued a correct course to obtain for Mr Hollingsworth in the evening of his life that reward for his serving that Justice and his serving both require direct me as far as your duty will allow you to do in order to obtain that and please write amediately [sic]

yours respectfully
Samuel C. Young [signature]
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Clinton Ten }
Nov 26th    }

Dec
Tenn. [written side ways in the left-hand margin of page]

Free
~

Honbl. J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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State of Tennessee }  Clinton November the 13th
Anderson County   }   1839

To the Honorable Joel R. Poinsett Secretary of war or Mr. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of pensions

Very respectable Gentlemen having some time ago forwarded to your office a declaration of Jacob Hollingsworth an old revolutionary regular soldier for the purpose of procuring for him that pay which it does seem that his serving justly demands which declaration it seems that you examined on the 20th June last which examination terminated in a rejection of his claim which you communicated to me in a letter of that date but previous to that time forward to you another communication which you answered in a letter of the 12th of August last accompanied by a printed sheet by which you required that Hollingsworth should make stronger prooff [sic] and describe his serving more fully.

I then went in to Blount county and procured such prooff [sic] as I could from his old neighborhood but Hollingsworth is not able  to travel about and consequently he is not able owing to the loss of his memory to name his officers
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I procured such affidavits as I thought was necessary such as to prove that he was always considered an old soldier and that he was wounded in battle or also, his great age & infirmity that the said Hollingsworth had always been considered strictly honest without doubt all of which is from the most respectable citizens in Blount county - all of which I now enclose to you and I want a reply shortly  -- I should of forwarded to you this amended declaration but I have been prevented by bad health.

With due respect I continue to be your humble servant


Samuel C. Young [signature]
attorney for Jacob
Hollingsworth
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State of Tennessee } Clinton East Tennessee
Anderson County   }  January 1839

To the Secretary of war or the honorable J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

having lately forwarded a declaration to your office in the name and for the purpose of procuring a pension for Mr Jacob Hollingsworth I have received to the name of Jacob Hollingsworth a circular which I do not understand as I omitted to assign my name as attorney for Jacob Hollingsworth I thought it was likely you wished to know by whom the declaration was forwarded.  the old gentleman Mr. Hollingsworth appears to be an honest old German and I do not doubt but he has served as he states he has done thought I know nothing about it myself.  I  wish you to write to me at Clinton and inform me what course to pursue if there is needed alteration or amendment as I am unacquainted with the rules of the department  I now ask for
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such information as I have a right to receive from your department and what course to pursue in relation to Mr. Hollings [sic] claim to a pension 

I only ask for such form of information as is necessary to be recovered at the department 

in hast yours
Samuel C. Young [signature]
Attorney for Jacob Hollingsworth

[sideways on left-hand side of page]

[abbreviation] [not legible]

Clinton T }
January 8 }       Free

To the Honorable Joel R. Poinsett
Secretary of war or to the Honorable
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of pensions
Washington City
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State of Tennessee }
Anderson County   }

Clinton November 4th day 1839

This day personally appeared in open [word court is missing] Jacob Hollingsworth a resident citizen of this county of the age of upwards of Eighty years who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath in presence of the court make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress of June the 7th 1832.

That in the town of wilmington in the state of pennsylvania he inlisted [sic] a ^ regular soldier in the army of the United States in the year that the battle of brandywine creek or river was fought in the spring of the date of 1777 for the term of three years under the amdiate [immediate] command of Capt Hogan or Logan Lieut Smith and Ensign white or Whittle which way the ensign spelled his name he does not recollect and that after he inlisted [sic] at Wilmington he continued there with the army about two months and that he was then marched down to delaware bay and that he was then taken to within about twenty miles of the City of Philadelphia at the place George Washington commanded and from that place he was marched to Chestertown in the state of Pennsylvania and from that place he was marched in a short time to brandywine creek or river it being a small fordable stream where he was under the same officers when the army had an engagement with the enemy where he was [he was repeated and crossed out] wounded by a musket shot in the thigh in which battle the americans gained the victory he was then shifted and placed under some other officers whose names he does not recollect nor does he recollect for certain the
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cause why he was shifted but thinks it was on account of his being wounded and from that place he was marched up into lancaster County [crossed out word county] where he stayed some five or six months from there he was marched down into the state of Maryland and he thinks he was again shifted and again placed under those officers whose names he does not recollect and from that he was marched on with the army to the head of elk river having had a battle near baltimore in which battle the army retreated at which place Washington was present he thinks he continued stationed on the head of elk river two or three months and he was then marched on to Philadelphia where he was kept until he was discharged the names of the officers who he was under when he was discharged he does not recollect only he well recollects that Washington was present he thinks signed his discharge  he further states that he was in three engagements with the enemy and that he was definitely wounded in an engagement he received the enemys [sic]  bayont [bayonet] [sic] which went through his body and in one battle he was wounded by a dragoons sword which was in the scull [sic] and he further states that he has no documentary evidence of his serving and he also further states that he had received a regular discharge and that some thirty years ago he lost it in a pocket book with a number of other papers and he further states he has never made application for a pension untill [sic] lately which declaration was examined on the 20 June last and [and repeated] around most
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required by a letter of the 12th august 1839--he also further states that the reason why has has never before this applyed [sic] for a pension is because he was in good circumstances as respects property and money and that he often and frequently heard the word tory & coward reflected on the old pensioners such as there goes an old tory who is supported by the government or [illegible] and he hereby now relinquishes all claim or earning whatever for a pension except the present

Sworn to and subscribed in open court
this 3rd of November 1839

Jacob Hollingsworth [signature]

And the said court do hereby declare there [sic] opinion that the above name applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states

Enoch Foster
A Justice of the peace
Richard Andrews
Justice of the peace
C Moore Justice of the peace of said county

State of Tennessee }
Anderson County   }

I William Cross clerk of the county court for Anderson county do now hereby certify that the foregoing containing the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jacob Hollingsworth for a pension in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office in Clinton on the 4th day of November 1839

William Cross Clerk [signature]
of the county court of Anderson County
[SEAL]
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Hollingsworth
Clinton T  }   
July 20th  }

Fr [free]

To the Honorable Joel R Poinsett
Secretary of war. or J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
Washington City

{written vertically}
Aug't 12
W Allison
[illegible]

[written in left-hand margin]
Aug 12
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Clinton East Tennessee July 21st 1839
To the honorable Joel R. Poinsett Secretary of war or the honorable J L Edwards Commissioner of pensions

Honorble [sic] Sir

Having some time past forwarded to your office a declaration for and in the name of Jacob Hollingsworth an old revolution soldier -- in answer to which I received from the department a printed brief requiring the name of the attorney by whom it was sent in answer to that I then wrote and give my name as attorney for Jacob Hollingsworth.  another brief was then sent from the department informing me that the claim would be examined in turn and the result communicated -- having thus waited some months I then wrote to the department requiring some information about the examination which communication had scarcely time to reach the department until I received a writen [sic] communication of the 20th June informing me that the declaration had been examined and that his services was thought to of been militia served under Capt. Hogan in which service he entered the year that the battle of brandy wine was fought and that said service did not exceed three months -- This is doubtful a mistake some how or other for Mr. Hollingsworth never alleged to me that he served
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any militia Service but that he served as a Regular soldier for the term of three years and that he was honorably discharged at the end of the said term of three years services and that in the course of the service he was placed under other and diferent [sic] officers -- he further states to me that he received at the time when he entered the regular service the sum of some $16 or 18 as bounty money -- he also stated to me at some several diferent [sic] times that the reason why he never applyed [sic] to the war department for a pension sooner than the present was on account of the several plain reasons -- that shortly after the revolution he removed from the state of pennsylvania to the state of South carolina and that he was then in affluent circumstances and continued in good and prosperous circumstances until after the act of congress which granted the Surviving officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army life annuities and at the time the militia commenced drawing he states that to his knowledge many frauds was practised [sic] on the government by tories who never fought for there [sic] country and he states to me that he resolved never to apply to the government for a pension as the words coward and tory was so very commonly reflected on the pensioners.  but since that time by misfortune he has been reduced to wreched [sic] and distressed circumstances and therefore he is compeled [sic] to absolve his former resolution and now prefers to ask his goverment [sic] to grant him a small pittiance [sic]
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for his former serving (which he says he has justly earned) to the fact of becoming a publick [sic] pauper--

If I did not earnestly and candidly think that Mr. Hollingsworth is duly and honestly entitled to a pension I would not trouble your honor with any further remark on the subject but the declaration has certainly been misconstrued as his serving was not militia serving at all but was regular serving
all that I ask is a fair investigation and again write to me Mr Hollingsworth [crossed out word] could produce much proof which I did not deem was necessary as his serving was regular service and not militia

Please to reexamine the matter and write to me amediately [sic] --your very humble
and most obedient
servant

Saml C. Young [signature]

To the Honbl
Joel R. Poinsett secretary of war
or J. L. Edwards commissioner of pensions