Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,347, Richard Hollis, Mass.
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Service
Mass.

Hollis, Richard
Sarah

Number
N. 23.347

Contents
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Maine - 2738

Sarah Hollis
Widow of Richard Hollis
who died on the 11 March 1815 
of [illegible] in the state of Maine
who was a pv in the compy commander
by Captain Whentworth of the Regt. commander by Tupper in the Masst line for 15 mos 15 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of  51 Dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of July '39 and seal [and strikethrough] J. Pope, Esqr. Portland, Me

Arrears to the 4th of March  - $413.28
Semi-annual allowance ending 25.83
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$439.11

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4 1836, Section the [blank]}

Recorded by R [illegible] Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 8
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4439
Sarah Hollis
Application for a pension
Act. July. 4. 1836.

Me

m 77. d. 13
Vol 24. p. 126.127.158 day 8 mo.
Tupper's Regt. 7.15

Admd
15.15 days pri
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$57.66

No deduction
J. Pope Esq
Portland
Me
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State of Maine

Cumberland County ss.

On this tewnty sixth day of March 1834 Before me Ezekiel Whitman Chief Justive of the Court of Common Pleas for said State personally appeared Sarah Hollis, a resident of Danville in the County of Cumberland and the State of Maine aged eighty one 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 4, 1836. That she is the widow of Richard Hollis who was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution, that in the spring of the year 1777 - at Cape Elizabeth he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt John Wentworth for 6 or 8 months and served at Cabridge and in the vicinity of Boston the first part of said term of time and then marched into Rhode Island and served in Col Williams regiment and served out the remainder of said term at Mount Hope where said company was stationed. She also further declares that said Richard Hollis at Cape Elizabethin the month of May 1778 again enlisted for nine months in the company commanded by Capt Richard Mayberry and served in said Company in Col. Tuppers Regiment at White Plains and other places in the State of New York and was discharged at West Point in March 1779 -- having fully served out the term of his said enlistment.

She further declares that she was mar-ried to the said Richard Hollis on the thirteenth day of February in the year seven-ten hundred and seventy seven by the Rev. Ephraim Clark, then Minister of Cape Elizabeth
that
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That her husband the aforesaid Richard Hollis died on the eleventh day of March 1815, aged sixty one years. And that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will appear more fully, by reference to the proof which is hereto annexed.

Her 
Sarah X Hollis
mark

Signed & sworn to in presence of Ezekiel Whitman
Nathaniel L Ingersoll

Sworn to and subsribed on the day and year first above written before me and I further certify that this said Sarah Hollis, on account of her great age and bodily infirmity is in my opinion unable to attend court, and her oath to the best of the foregoing declaration, was therefore administered by me at her residence in Danville

Signed: Ezekiel Whitman
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[two lines of illegible writing at the top of page]

I Mary T. Hollis aged thirty five years testify and [illegible] that the before named Sarah Hollis is my mother -- That my father the before named Richard Hollis died on the eleventh day of March. Some eighteen hundred and fifteen and that my mother the said Sarah is his widow and have never ben married since his decease.

Signed Mary T Hollis

State of Maine
Cumberland ss.

On this twenty sixth day of March ADm [?] 1839 personally appeared the above named Mary T Hollis a person of credibility and made oath to the truth of the above Affidavit by her signed before me

Ezekiel Whitman
Chf Justice of the C.C. Pleas Court for the State of Maine --

____State of Maine ____
____Cumberland County ss ____

I Charles Cobb, Clerk of all Judicial Courts of said State within and for said county of Cumberland hereby certify that Ezekiel Whitman Esq whose signatures are annexed is the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of said State duly qualified as such and that the annexed signatures perporting to be his, and his ginuine [sp] signatures ____
____ In testimony whereof I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court of Common Pleas this thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine

Signed Charles Cobb Clerk
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I James Dyer Town Clerk of the Town of Cape Elizabeth herby to certify that in the record of marriages so [illegible] in the said Town by Rev? Ephraim Clark, late minister of said town the marriage of Richard Hollis and Sarah Hanscom is recorded as follows -- viz;

"February thirteenth seventeen hundred and seventy seven. 
Mr Richard Hollis and Miss Sarah Hanscom both of Cape Elizabeth were married"

I James Dyer above named depose and say that I hold the Office of town Clerk of Cape Elizabeth Cumberland County & State of Maine and that the foregoing is a true extract from the record of marriages in said town by Rev? Ephraim Clark with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows. vis
"Feby 13, 1777"

Signed James Dyer Town Clerk of Cape Elizabeth

State of Main Cumberland ss Subscribed and sworn to before me and I certify said Deponent is Clerk of Cape Elizabeth & a respectable & amicable witness

Joseph Pope  Jus. Pais [?]
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*Middle Fold*

Reg. Widow, &c.

File No 23347
Sarah Hollis
Wid. of
Richard Hollis
Priv Rev War
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Act July 4th 1836
Index: Vol A Page 35-1 [?]

[Arrangement of 18700
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J. L. Edwards Esqe,
Comms of Pensions

Washington
DC
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Portland Me, March 30 1839

J L Edwards Esqe }
Commiss of Pensions}

Sir, 

      I Herewith forward the application of Mrs Sarah Hollis for pension under Act July 4 1836.

If her claim is satisfactory & please forward to me a certificate of pension in her behalf & oblige
[Illegible] very respectfully
Signed: J. Pope.

P.S. [Illegible] a pension certificate a week or two since for Mrs Mary Fowler the widow of John Fowler, but she has not been reported to the pension agent for payment.--
J. Pope_________
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State of Maine
Cumberland County Ss__________________
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[evidence of seal on the left side of the page]

I Charles Cobb Clerk of all Judicial Courts of said state holden within and for said County of Cum-berland, hereby certify that Joseph Pope and benjamen Waterhouse are Justices of the Peace within and for said county. duly authorized and qualified as such and that the annexed signal turns purporting to be their are their respective genuine signatures ________
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the State. this thirteenth day of March in the of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

Charles Cobb, Clerk
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I hereby certify that the within deponent though a resident of th County of Lincoln is within the stated was in the town of Danville in the County of Cumberland whn this deposition was taken, were I am commissioned a Justice of the Peace

Signed: Benjamin Waterhouse
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I William Bickford of Lisbon in the county of Lincoln and state of Maine aged eighty three years, and a revolutionary soldier on oath dep-ose and [illegible] that sometime in the month of May or June seventeen hundred and seventy six Richard Hollis, then at Cape Elizabeth enlisted with me and as member of others at Cape Elizabeth to the duty as a soldier in the Continental Army. I think for the term of nine months in Capt John Wentworth's Comp-any, soon after enlistment as aforesaid we received orders to march to Cambridge and thence to Dorchester Neck were the said Hollis and myse-lf with the rest of the Company were sometime employed in erecting a Fort at length we received orders to march to Bennington and from thence to Mount Hope and joined Col Willards Regt. and said Hollis and myself and others that enlisted were stationed at Mt Hope and done duty in said Company and Regt. until the expi-ration of our term at which time said Hol-lis and myself were discharged. I think it was sometime in the month of November seventeen hundred [strike through] seventy six. 

Signed -- William Bickford

Cumberland S.S. August 24 1839 Them personally appeared the above named William Bickford known to me as a man of truth and veracity and upon whose statement under oath full credit shou-ld be given and made solemn oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed before me Benjamin Waterhouse Justice of the Peace.
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I George Leach of Danville in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged eighty two and a Revolutionary Soldier on oath [deliver?] & say that some time in the month of May seventeen hundred and seventy eight Richard Hollis then at Cape Elizabeth enlisted with me and a number of others at Cape Elizabeth to do duty as a Soldier in the Continental army nine months from the time he should pas muster at a place called Fishkill in the State of New York. Soon after the Enlistment as aforesaid, the said Hollis and myself with the others who had enlisted received orders to go to Fishkill. We went without any officer, having enlisted under a committee that was chosen by the town, for the purpose of enlisting the number of men that was called for by Congress [illegible] said town, in preference of raising them by draft, and said Hollis and myself passed muster on the 22 day of June AD 1779 I think and  joined Capt. Richard Mayberry's company Col Tuppers Regt on Gen Patterson Brigade. Said Hollis and myself were stationed a part of the time at White Plains, a part of the 9 months service was occupied in marc-hing from one point to another during the year [illegible] and we were discharged at Westpoint your deponent on the twenty second day of March 1779 and the said Hollis a few days before on account of sickness. Said Hollis served [illegible] of nine months in cluding the time he was on his march from Cape Elizabeth.
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I Ebenezer Sawyer of Lexington in the County of York and the State of Maine aged eighty years old and a Revolutionary Soldier on oath before and say that on the 18th day of May Seve-nteen hundred seventy eight Richard Hollis then at Cape Elizabeth enlisted with me and a number of others at Cape Elizabeth to one duty as a soldier in the Continental army nine months from the time we should pass muster at a place called Fishkill in the State of New York. Soon after the enlistment as afforesaid the said Hollis and myself with others that had enlisted received orders to go to Fishkill (underscored) we went without any officers, said Hollis and myself passed muster on the 22nd or 23rd day of June AD 1779 and joined Capt Rich-ard Mayberry's Company Col. Tupper's Regt. Gen Pattersons Brigade and Gen Gates Division, said Hollis and myself were stationed a part of the time at White Plaines, a part of the nine mo-nths months[redundancy] service and ocupied[sp] in marching from one point to another during the season of 1779, and we were discharged at West Point, your deponant with said Hollis and others that inlist-ed with them on the twenty second day of March AD 1779, I was well acquainted with Hollis and was then informed that he was married to one Sarah Hanscom belonging to
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Cumberland SS August 11 1839 then personly[sp] appeared the above named Ebenezer Sawyer known to me as a man of truth and veracity and for whose statement under oath full credit should be given, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above statements by him subscribed before me.

of the Peace
Benjamin Waterhouse Justice

I hereby certify that the above named Ebenezer Sawyer at the time this deposition was taken was in the County of Cumberland, were sworn duly com-manded as Justice of the Peace - Benjamin Waterhouse
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I Deboarh Plummer of the town of Danville in the county of Cumberland and the state of Maine aged eig-hty five years, on oath depose and say that I was well acquanted with Richard Hollis a Revolutionary Soldier and likewise with his widow Sarah Hollis who is resident of the town of Danville aforesaid and know her to be his lawful wife being present at their marriage in Cape Elizabeth seventeen hundred and seventy seven and knew of his service after their marriage in the Contine-ntal Army

Deborah Plummer 

Cumberland SS September 25 1837 Them pers-sonly[sp] appeared the above named Deborah Plum-mer her sworn to me as a woman of truth and veraci-ty and whose, whose[redundant] statement under oath full credit should be given and made solemn with-by the truth of the above statement by her sub-scribed

Before me Benjamin Waterhouse Justice of the Peace
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The Fishkill at the time said Hollis enlisted as aforesaid he had a wife in Cape Elizabeth I was well acquainted with said Hollis and his wife at that time and even afterwards living a neighbor to them. Said Hollis died in this town some years since, and Sarah his widow is now a living here and has not been married since said Hollises decease
Signed: George Leach

Cumberland SS September 10 1838 them personally appeared the above named George Leach known to me as a man of truth and veracity and upon whose statement under oath full credit should be given, I made solemn oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed
Before me Benjamin Waterhouse Justice of Peace
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The National Archives
Form VAN-51
12-4-41

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Division of Veteran's Administration Archives

Name Hollis, Samuel Grade Private Line Massachusetts

Warrant Number 4324 Acre Age 100 Issued: Feb 23, 1796
to Joseph Brown

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* The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of Sept 16, 1776, and suswquent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9th, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.