Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 8942, Samuel Holly, New York
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SERVICE
New York 

Holly, Samuel
   or
Holley
Deborah

NUMBER
W 8942

CONTENTS
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THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED
PHILADELPHIA
PRINTED BY MATHEW CAREY
No. 122, MARKET-STREET.
1812
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Samuel Holly was born [illegible] 7, 1782
Jeromiah Holly was 
born in the year 1802
November the 14th
Mary Holly was born [illegible]
January the 2nd, 1790
[illegible] Holly was born
[illegible] 22nd 1798
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Kentucky 4167
Deborah Holley
Samuel Holley
[illegible] was a pension under the [illegible] of 1828
and who died on the 16 July 1831,
Shelby Co. in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the [blank]commanded
 by captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded
by [blank] in the N.Y.
[illegible] for 2 years.
[Illegible] on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 80 Dollars - cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension [illegible] the 10 day of Sept
1839, [illegible] to H. Bobannon
[illegible], Kirty
Attears to the 4th of Sept 1839 $280.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 men '40 40.00
$320.00
{Act July 7 [cut off] 1838.}
Recorded by D.M. Cindy, [cut off]
[cut off] A. Vol. 2. Page 211.
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585 760.
Revolutionary Claims:
no. [illegible] Original Payout-565
Treasury Department.
Aug. 23. 1828.
Samuel Holley, of [blank] in the County of Shelby, in the State of Kentucky, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act entitled," An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Hamtramck's company, in the regiment of the New York line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided be the resolve of the 15th of May 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
[Illegible] of the [illegible]
A.[illegible]
Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office,
27. August 1828
It appears by the records in the office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Samuel Holley in the New York line
It further appears that Samuel Holley is now on the pension list of any agency, and has been so since the 3. March 1826 [scratched information]
[illegible signature]
[illegible]
No. 57,983
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the revolution approved on the 15th day of May 1828. I Samuel Holly of in the county of Shelby in the state of Kentucky hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental [illegible] of the Army of the revolution for an during the [illegible] continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Hamtramck's Company in the second regiment of the New-york line- commanded by Col Philip Van Cortland. I also declare that I enlisted in the year 1779 but being very young and inexperienced I do not recollect of ever receiving a certificate under the resolve of Congress 1778- And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 in the pension list of the United States
Samuel Holly

Before me George Bergen an acting Justice of the peace in the county of Shelby and state of Kentucky personally appeared this day Keziah Ketcham Col James Ford John Smith and Absalom Ketcham of the said county who did severally make oath that Samuel Holly by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally respected and believed to have been a soldier in the revolution in manner as therein stated. The said Keziah Ketcham having been intimately acquainted with the said Samuel Holly ever since the same act of the service
Witness my hand this 24th day of July in the year of our Lord 1828 Geo Bergen [illegible]
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Commonwealth of Kentucky Shelby Court
I James S Whitaker Clerk of the County Court of Shelby in the State aforesaid do certify that George Burgen before whom the within affidavits was sworn to now is and were at the time of doing the same one of the Commonwealths Justices of the peace for said County commissioned + qualified according to Law, and duly Empowered to administer oaths and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts as [illegible]
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand [illegible] the seal of said county to be affixed at Shelby Ville this 29th day of July 1828 and 37 year of the Commonwealth
Att James S Whitaker
Shelby County Court
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[handwritten]
Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Consd with
[illegible] OW Wid
File #8942
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Henry County Kt
Daniel Applegate came before me Edmd Searcy one of the Justices of the Peace for the foresaw county of Henry. And upon his corporal oath made the following statements viz. first that in he year 1783 Snake Hill incampment in the State of New York near Newburgh. He knew Samuel Holley asoldier in Capt Hamtramack Company of tight infantry Colo. Van Cortlandt Ridgmt. V Genl. Clinton's Brigade of the New York line. And that he has seen + known Samuel Holley for many years son of who now lives in Shelby County, and has for a great while and do know + verily believe him to be the same Samuel Holley that He knew as above stated in the year 1783 at Snake Hill incampment. Secondly and question by said Saml. Holley. did you know any other Samuel Holley in that Compy Ridgmt or Brigade of the New York line as bove discribed. Other than myself answer. I did not. And further says not.
Danl. Applegate
This affidavit was subscribed to in my presence and as above stated duly sworn to before me by Danl. Applegate. Sworn under my hand + seal this 25th day of March 1822
Edmd. Searcy  [illegible]
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DB
288 125 / 263
5.1
262 1/2 75 4.00 1.25 / 8.62 1/2
13.75 / 1.23
12.25 2.5 / 66.25 26500 / $71621

27.12 1/2 8.62 1/2 / 18.50

3.75 4. 2.50 .87 1/2 / 10.62 1/2 8.62 1/2 / 19.25

1225 215 / 6.125 1225 2450 / 26.3375 27.12 / 53.45 19.25 / 34.20

26 33 10 66 1/2 /15.71

I Edmund P Thomas Clerk of the County Court of Henry County in the State of Kentucky do Certify that Edmund Searcy before whom the within and foregoing affidavit was sworn to and whose name is subscribed to the within certificate was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the s. County of Henry and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 26th day of July 1828 and in the 37th year of the Commonwealth
Emd. P Thomas
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State of New York
Secretary's office
Albany March 9 1822

I certify that it appears from the records in this office that Samuel Holly, a private in Hamtramack's company in the second New York segment commanded by Colonel Van Cortland (and which said Holly enlisted to same during the Revolutionary war in the Continental line, and was discharged at the close of the said War,) drew lot November forty seven in the township of Hector in the County of Tompkins, which lot was patented to said Holly and patent delivered to William Campbell as appears from an entry in this office.

Given under my hand and the seal of this office this 9th of March 1822
J. V. N. Yates
Secretary of State
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V 3281

Deborah Holley
of Samuel
Kentucky

admitted
Pr 2 yr. $80
Cap Hamtramck 
Col Van Cortland
N.Y. line

died 16 July 1831

Act 7 July 18

H. Bohannon
Christiansburg
Ken
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State of Kentucky
Shelby County Set.
On this 19th day of September 1838 personally appeared before Henry Bohannon a justice of the peace in and for Shelby County Kentucky Deborah Holley a resident of Kentucky in the County of Shelby aged seventy four 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 7th 1838, entitled An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Samuel Holley who was a private of Infantry in the New York line, that he drew a pension of Six dollars 66 2/3 cents per month under the act of Congress of the 15th of May 1828 as will now fully appear by his original certificate herewith filed. She further declares that she was married more than fifty years ago to the said Samuel Holley (the exact day month and year she cannot say) in the State of Maryland, but the County she cannot recollect, but she states that she was married on the opposite side of the Potomac from a place called the Warm Springs. She further states that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Haley died on the 16th day of July 1831. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the army, but as above she said she was married more than fifty years ago. She would further state that the original family record of her children's ages is in the State of Indiana if it is not destroyed, but she can state with certainty that her daughter Mary Pearcy late Mary Holley is now forty six or seven years old + that she the said Deborah Holley was married about six years previous to her daughter Mary's birth.
She would further state that she knows of no person by whom she can prove her marriage except her Sister Temperance Raper if she be now alive + if so she lives in the State of Ohio, + Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey of Shelby County Kentucky whom she has not conversed with lately.
She therefore hopes that the department will allow her claim that the
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small amount that her husband drew will be of great use to her in her old age. She would further state that she is very infirm and consequently unable to attend in open court to make her declaration, that she lives nine miles from the Courthouse in her county.
Deborah Holley X her mark

State of Kentucky
Shelby County set
I Henry Bohannon a justice of the peace in and for the County of Shelby State of Kentucky do hereby certify that the within and foregoing declaration of Deborah Holley was this day duly taken subscribed and sworn to by the said Deborah Holley before me, and that from old age and infirmity of body she cannot with propriety attend in open court to make her declaration.
Given under my hand as a justice of the peace in and for Shelby County Kentucky the 19th day of September 1838.
Henry Bohannon
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State of Kentucky
Shelby County Set.
The affidavit of Rebecca Mitchell taken in support of the claim of Deborah Holley to a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838, this affidavit being first duly sworn deposit + saith; that she is now sixty one years of age that she was born in Washington County Maryland, that she was well acquainted with Deborah Holley from her earliest recollection, that previous to marriage her name was Ketcham. This affaint says she was not present at the marriage of the said Deborah but being a relation she says she soon heard of the marriage. She says however that he marriage must have taken place about the year 1784. She was then married to Samuel Holley who was always reputed a soldier of the Revolution and that he drew a pension, he died in this County some years ago, the exact year not recollected. And the said Deborah Holley is his widow + is now living.
Sworn and subscribed the 1st day of Nov. 1838
Rebekah Mitchell
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State of Kentucky
Shelby County Set.
I Henry Bohannon a justice of the peace in and for said County do hereby certify that Rebecca Mitchell a woman well known to me came before me, and being a woman of good character + well reported of and being first duly sworn gave the within affidavit + subscribed her name thereto. Given under my hand as a Justice of the Peace for sd county the 1st day of Nov. 1838.
Henry Bohannon
State of Kentucky
Shelby County Set.
I James S. Whitaker clerk of the county court for Shelby County do certify that Henry Bohannon is a magistrate as above and that the above signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said county this 2nd day of November 1838
Ja S. Whitaker
Shelby County Court
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8942
Deborah Holley
Wid. of Samuel Holley Pvt. N.Y. line
July 7738
Vol. A Page 343

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Deborah Holley
Kentucky
Suspended
[illegible] 10th April
1839 N. Bohannon

Act 7 July 1838
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Revolutionary Claims.

Under the Act entitled, "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution; approved 1 May, 1828

I Certify that Samuel Holley of -- in the County of Shelby in the State of Kentucky is entitled to receive pay under the above mentioned Act as a surviving private of Infantry in the New York line of the Army of the Revolution, at the rate of six dollars and sixty six 2/3 cents a month, payable during his life on the third day of March, and the third day of September, in each year.
It is provided by law that the said pay shall not in any way be transferable, or liable to attachment, levy or seizure by any legal process whatever.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Treasury of the United States, this third day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine and of Independence the fifty fourth.
S.D. Tryham
Secretary of the Treasury
Engd. by Threop. [illegible]

Shelbyville

Pay Certificate of Samuel Holly by Geo P Mills
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Shelby County set.
The affidavit of Jeremiah Holly taken in supporting the claim of Deborah Holly the widow of Samuel Holly for a pension under the act of July 7th 1838 the affair being of lawful age being first duly sworn deposit and sayeth that the  [illegible] was and so far as it relates to the age of Mary Holly is an [illegible] transcript of an original record now in the State of Indiana if it is not destroyed [illegible] original record of the family recorded of the said Samuel Holly died and that the said Mary Holly [illegible] daughter that the said record hereto correct has been in my possession ever since the death of the said Samuel Holly and that the said of transcript is in the hand writing of John Ketcham and further he saith not.
Jeremiah Holly
Sworn to and subscribed before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for said county the 9th day of May 1839 Geo. Bergen
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State of Kentucky
Shelby County Set
I James S Whitaker clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that George Bergen is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County in Shelbyville Kentucky this 17th day of May 1839.
James S Whitaker
Clerk Shelby County Court
[illegible] DC
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[stamp reading]: WASHINGTON APR 11

J L Edwards
Comm of Pensions

Henry Bohannon, Esq
Christiansburg
Kentucky
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War Department
Pension Office
April 10 1839

Sir,
The papers in the case of Chloe Thompson widow of Evan Thompson, died have been examined and filed with suspended cases. The Claimant should make a declaration agreeably to the blank form contained in the enclosed printed sheet, to which she should affix her name, or mark, if she cannot write.
A copy from the records of the court is not sufficient.
In the case of Mrs Deborah Holley, widow of Samuel Holley, Died. the testimony of one other credible witnes, at least, as to the period of the marriage should be exhibited.
I am, respectfully,
Your obt. servt.
J.L. Edwards

Henry Bohannon Esq
Christiansburg
Kentucky
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W Dec 17

Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Christiansburg Shelby County Kentucky
Decr 10th 1838
Dr Sir,
I have sent on to the department the following claims as agent and have recd. an answer only to one, to wit the claim of Frances Baskett widow of Martin Baskett, of Deborah Holley widow of Samuel Holley, of Chloe Thompson widow of Evan Thompson of Elizabeth Sacrey widow of Isaac Sacrey.
In the case of Deborah Holley I received a circular showing that it was necessary to give the name of the agent, untill which time I supposed that answers were always made to the widows, + having recd. this information I supposed that all the balances of the claims would share the same fate, and for this reason I have sent you this letter.
Respectfully yours.
Henry Bohammon

3282 Chloe Thompson
3281 22 Nov Deb Holly
2768- Oct 26 Fra Baskett
3400 Eliz Sacrey
20 Nov.

N.B. Send your communications to me at Christiansburg Shelby County Kentucky.
H.B.

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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State of Kentucky
Shelby County- Set.
This day Henry Little personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace for Shelby County and being first duly sworn deposit and saith; that some time in the year 1793 or perhaps a little sooner Samuel Holly + his wife Deborah Holly came and settled near the residence of the deponent in the State of Pennsylvania on the Monangahala River and lived there a year or two, and at that same time they had with them a small daughter whose name he cannot say that he recollects from any recollection he has of the matter from his then recollection, (but since that say since 1811 in particular) he has been well acquainted with this daughter in Shelby County Kentucky + knows that her name is Mary. And further he saith not.
Henry Little
Sworn to + subscribed by the said Henry Little on the 16th day of May 1839, And I further certify that I have been well acquainted with S Little ever since 1815 + believe him to be a man of truth + veracity
Geo Bergen
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State of Kentucky
Shelby County Set.
The affidavit of Nathaniel Dowdon a citizen of said County and a man well known to the undersigned Justice of the Peace as a man of veracity and truth, taken in support of the claim of Deborah Holley widow of Samuel Holley to a pension under the act of July 7 1838. This deponent being first sworn deposit and saith: That he was well and intimately acquainted with he said Samuel and Deborah Holley from the year 1800 till the death of the said Samuel Holley which took place in the year 1831 or thereabout that when the said Samuel Holley came to this County he had then but one living child, as I believe that was a daughter apparently about from 6 to 7 years old and named Mary That they came here as man + wife + lived together as such till the death of the s. Samuel Holley which took place as stated above. And further he saith not.
Nat Dowdon
Sworn and subscribed before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for S. County the 9th day of May 1839
Geo Bergen
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10 Mar 21

Hon.
J.L. Edwards Com. of pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Christiansburg Shelby County Ky Mch 14 1839
Dr. Sir,
I will not trouble you with along letter. But sometime last fall I sent form claims to the department. Please let me hear from them in time. They are the following viz:
Chloe Thompson
Deborah Holly
Frances Baskett
& Elizabeth Sacrey
Please answer me at Christiansburg.
Respectfully your.
Henry Bohannon
J.L. Edwards Comm P.

3282= 22 Nov Chloe Thompson [checkmark]
3282 - Deb Holly - [checkmark]
3401 29 - Eliz Sacrey
2678 26 Oct Far Basket [checkmark]
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Ken. June 3
Addl [illegible]
Chloe Thompson
+ [illegible] proof
Deborah Holley

Hon
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Christiansburg Shelby County Ky. May 20th 1839.
Sir.
Enclosed you have the declaration of Chloe Thompson according to your directions, + the proof was sent on in her other declaration, except what was filed with the papers of her husband Evan Thompson under the Act of 1832, see there.
In the case of Deborah Holly, I do not suppose that any further evidence of the marriage as to the date thereof can be had in Kentucky. It is reported here that her sister in the state of Ohio is dead, and if so, then there is no living witness any where to prove the marriage that can be thought of. But we send you proof enough as to the age of their daughter, which if you admit, must without doubt clear the point of difficulty beyond the probability of a doubt, but you must judge of this. After you shall habe made your examinations, send your answer to me at Christiansburg, + oblige your Obt. Servt.
Henry Bohannon
Hon H.L. Edwards