Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10845, William Hollis, S.C.
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(3-1776)
Service: S.C.
Hollis, William
Number: S.10845 [stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES 
Contents
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31834

Alabama
William Hollis
of Autauga in the State of Alabama
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Lewis of the regt commanded
by Col. Lacey on the S. Carolina
[illegible] for 6 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Mobile 
at the rate of 20 Dollars --- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of March 1841, [illegible] and Hon. D. H. Lewis
member of Congress

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept '41 10.00
==
$210.00
==

Stamped seal of the 1st National Archives of the United States

{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D. McCurdy Clerk, 
Book E2. Vol 8 Page 99

[right side]
Letter to Hon. D. H. Lewis 17 Aug
1841
Letter to R. Purvis of 3d [Aug?] to 25 Nov. 1841.
Letter to Hon D. H. Lewis 11 May 1842.

Paid at the Treasury under the 
Act of April 6th 1838 from 4th Mar
1831 to 4th March 1841. Agent notified
May 19th 1842.

Letter to Hon D. Lewis 20
April 1846
1. To Hon. Henry Johnson &
3 audition 29 June 1846
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The State of Alabama    SS
Autoga County

On this 12th day of February 1833.

Seal of the National Archives of the United states

personally appeared in open court before
the Judge of the County Court now sitting,
William Hollis a resident of the State of 
Alabama in the County of Autoga, aged
eighty five years, the sixteenth of Feby
[illegible] who being just duly sworn in accor-
ding to [illegible] 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 in service of the United
States under the following named 
officers & served as herein stated.
That he enlisted the service of the United
States as a volunteer in the year 1777 in
the state of South Carolina under the 
command of Capt. Charles [illegible].  That
he was marched from this borough
to Orangeburgh[?] by way of Columbia
where he joined Genl Laceys regiment
[illegible strikethrough or crease] which he united with forc-
ces of Genl Sumpter.  That he served
three months, where he substituted in
the place of Edward Huntington for
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three months [underscored] during which time he
was marched to Stone & the Cowpens
at the latter place he was in an engage-
ment again the British & Tories Commanded
by Lord Cornwallis, Lord Rodden, Col Love
them & others.  That he remembers the
names of Genl [illegible] who was wounded & was
[illegible] from the field by Capt. Thos. Baker.
That he was marched from the Cowpens
to the Kings Mountain, who from there
back to Orangeburgh where he was
discharged.  That he afterwards volunteered
on many occasions and was in many
skirmishes during the whole [struck through or underscored] revolution
against the British & Tories.  That he 
was wounded with a sword by Capt
[illegible] near Orangeburgh  That he was 
one tour with Col. Cleveland on broad
river.  That he was under the command
of Genl Marion on the Pedee [where - struck through]
when they killed twenty three Tories.
That he was in the Battle at Sullivans
Island enlisted by Capt. Boykin.
That he served his country as a
soldier during the revolution at
least four years.  That he has no
documentary evidence by which he
can prove his services.
I do hereby relinquish every claim wha-
tso -- a pension or annuity except
the searjent [illegible] that my name is not
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on the pension roll of the agency of any
State
List Henely Brown Clk }  William Hollis

And the said court do hereby [certify - struck out] declare this opinion after the investigation
of the matter & after putting the interaga-
atories  [illegible] by the war department
that the above named applicant was 
a revolutionary soldier and [illegible] as he
states.  And the Court further certify that
it appears to them that Elijah Ivey, Lewis Th'ias
& Joseph Swan an credible persons and
that this statement is entitled to credit
Alvin A. McWhorter
J. C. C.

Mr. Elijah Ivey, Lewis Tias & Joseph Swan
[are - struck through] residing in the State of Alabama &
County of Autoga do hereby certify that we
are well acquainted with William Hollis who
has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration 
that we believe him to be about the age of 
eighty five years that he is reputed and believed
in the neighborhood where he resides to have
been a soldier of the revolution & that we
concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed
before me this 12th
July 1833.
Signed: Just Henily Brown Clk
Signed: Elijah ivey
Signed: Lewis Tias
Signed: James [illlegible]

Seal of the National Archives of the United States
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State of Alabama  }
Autoga County     }

I Lewis C. Davis
do hereby certify that 
I am well accuinted with William
Hollis the petitioner that I concur
with my neighbors in the belief
that he was true Whig in the revolution 
and that all he states in this within
declaration is true
This March 7th day of 1833
Lewis C. Davis
Bapt Minister of Autoga

25.194
Wm Hollis
Alabama

allowed for 6 months

I Henly Brown clerk of the county 
court of Autauga County Ala do here by
certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings in the matter of the appli-
cation of William Hollis for a pension
in February whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and Seal of Office this 15th
day of March A. D.  one thousand eight
hundred and thirty three and of 
American independence this
57th year
Henly Brown Clk

[illegible seal mark on the bottom left half of the page]
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I.S.C.
L.
I.  10,845 [underscored]
Rev. War.

Oct. 11, 1905

Sir:
In reply to your communication dated September 27, 1905,
received in this Bureau October 4, 1905, you are advised that 
the records of this Bureau fail to show any claims filed for
the Revolutionary services of William Hollis or Joseph Hammer
who enlisted from or resided in North Carolina.

There is however a William Hollis who applied for a pension
February 12, 1833 at which time he resided in Autoga county,
Alabama.  He states that he would be eighty-five years of age
February 16, 1833, and that he enlisted in May, 1776 under
Captains Marion and Boykin and Colonel Thompson in the South
Carolina troops, went to Sullivan's Island, was in the battle
and retreat from there.

Volunteered in South Carolina in 1777 in Captain Charles
Lewis' company, General Lacey's regiment: 6 months.

He afterwards volunteered on varous occasions; was in the 
battle of Cowpens, in many skirmishes and was wounded.

He wsa with Colonel Cleveland on Briad river and General
Marion on the Pedee.

His claim was allowed.

Very respectfully,
Mr. A. R. Hammer,
Commissioner
McMinnville, Tenn.
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Oct. 11 1905 History to
A. R. Hammer, McMinnville, Tenn.

Rev. War
10845
INVALID.

File No. 10,845
William Hollis
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Indec: - Vol. A, Page 178
[Arrangement of 1870}
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REJECTED

5155
P. O.
William Hollis
Service:
Enlisted:     , 18
Discharged  ,18
Application filed:   ,18

Alleges:  

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P. O.

Recognized
Contract
Cert. of Dis.
Searched for
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Suspended
let 28 Sep '35
to Hon J. H. Lewis
[illegible] - [illegible]- July 15 36
let to do   Feb 1841
papers sent to the same by [illegible]
A. McCormick Feb 15 1841
5155
Act of June 1832
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25.194
William Hollis
Alabama

Admitted

Pr: 6 mos - 20
Cap Lewis Col. Lacy  S.C.

Act 7 June 1832
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE
May 5th, 1842

Sir:

Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and author-
izing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"
William Hollis
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mobile, Alabama
Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and
--- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of March 1831, to the 4th March 1841-

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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Mar 8 1841

Ala.

Jas. L. Edwards. Esq
Comr of Pensions

Hon. D. H. Lewis
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March 6, 1841

Sir:

In laying the case of Wm. Hollis before you
again I beg leave to state that he is a very old
man about ninety years of age, that I and all
who know him believe his statement about his 
services as a revolutionary soldier as he is a man
of strict veracity and in every report  [a struck through] highly respectable [man struck through].  His application for a pension
was made by him with reluctance; but his friends feeling fully persuaded that he was certainly entitled to a pension would not suffer him to let his claim sleep any long.  I am afraid that if any further difficulty is thrown in his way of getting it allowed, he will positively refuse to
take any further steps to secure it.  I shall be
highly pleased if your sense of official duty wise
allow you to make a favorable decision upon
this case without requiring any further testimony in support of it.
Respectfully
Yr Obt Servt
D. H. Lewis

Jas. L. Edwards, Esq
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Aug 17 1841

Peter Hagner Esq
3d Auditor

HR Augs 9 1841
Hon D H Lewis
Recd 14
[illegible] 16

the script below is presented upside down in this image:
Respectfully responded to the 
comms of pensions R M [?] Lewis
so is [illegible]
3rd auditor's [illegible]
Aug 16 1841

[illegible]
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Aug 9 1841

Sir

Allow me to request you
to inform me whether the amt
of pension due Mr Hollis can be
drawn him.  If not will you
be good enough to direct [your, struck through]
such measures to be adopted as
will enable him to get his money
at Mobile

Respectfully
Yr Obt Servt
D. H. Lewis

[someone has penciled in Mobile Agency Certified 9 March 1841] 

P. Hagner Esq
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Feb 15 1841

Com of Pensions
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Feb 15, 1841

Sir

Please to deliver to Mr
Alex McCormick all the papers
sent to your office by me in 
the case of Wm Hollis

Respectfully
Yr St
D H Lewis

J. L. Edwards Esq
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May 10, 1842
Mr. Davidge
Com of Pensions

Hn D. H. Lewis 
H. R.

Penciled in:

6 May requited[?] to W[Illegible] [illegible] of 2 [illegible]
Mobile Ala
from Martin L [illegible] 1831
to 4 March 1841
[looks like there may have been a seal affixed.]
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Monday
May 9, 1842

Sir

I will be obliged to you to
let me hear from you on the
subject of the enclosed letter at
as early a day as will suite your
convenience

Respectfully
D. H. Lewis

J. L. Edwards, Esq
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[in pencil: Hollis] Jan 29 1841

[in pencil: Alabama. Seal attached]
Wm Hollis
Ala Act 1832

Ala
Commissioner of Pensions

Hn D. H. Lewis 
H R
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January 27, 1841

Sir

Be so good as to informa me whether any
testimony has ever been laid before you in relation
to the case of Mr. Hollis.  If there is non in your
office in support of the claim, please to furnish
me with such printed instructions as the nature
of the case requires.

Respectfully
Yrs [illegible]
D. H. Lewis

James L Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
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Apl 20 46
L. McEvans

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com of Pensions

D. H. Lewis
Senate U S
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Apl 18. 1846

Sir

Will you be good enough
to give me the information or-
dered by the enclosed letter.

Respectfully
D. H. Lewis
 P. S. Return Mr. Hawkins' letter
DHL

Com Pensions
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Washington July 13th 1836

Sir:

Enclosed is the amended declaration for
Pension of William Hollis, will you be pleased
to examine the case and inform me by letter (in a
day or or two) of the result of your investigation

I have the honor to be
very Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
D. H. Lewis

Hon. James L. Edwards
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The State of Alabama
Autauga County

On this second day of April 
1836 formally appeared in open
Court before Hon [illegible] Brown Judge of the County Court of
said County now sitting, William Hollis a resident of said
County and State, aged eighty-six years who being first duly
sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following de
claration in order to attain the benefit of the of the [Act]of Congress, passed
June 7th 1832

[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the services of the United States under this
following names officers and served in herein Stated - he thinks in
May 1776 he volunteered and went to Sullivan Island - Captain Marion
and Boykin & Colonel Thompson commanded and served at that 
place until was taken by the British Thence the Army retreated to
Charleston and that then afterwards retreated to Camden and served
there under Colonel Lacy afterwards Genl. Lacy after serving his tour
3 months as a volunteer he served three months as a substitute for
Edward Thornton for [illegible] and that his time in the army
[illegible] and of this day - states that he was taken prisoner at [illegible] when served under Capt [illegible] by burnt foot [illegible] Indians and [illegible] 15 miles into the county [illegible]
and was there set at liberty that he was with [illegible]
[illegible]  and that he was stationed at Orangeburg at the [illegible]
this war and that Lacy commanded him and he further states
that by [illegible] of old age and the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] he
not swear positive to the precise length of his service but we
[illegible] to the best of his recollection he served not [illegible] than five 
years - first [illegible] [illegible] Sullivan's Island at Charleston as above stated and afterward three months as a substitute and afterwards [illegible] untill the end of the war - it being with Capt. Thompson years that he served and that he was not employed in any civil complaint
William Hollis

And his last [illegible] do hereby declare [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of the matter
and after [illegible] the interrogatories [illegible]
[illegible] the [illegible] department that the above [illegible]
application [illegible] a Revolutionary Soldier and served
as he states
Given under my hand [illegible] at this date [illegible]
Hardy Brown     JCC [illegible]
[illegible]
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The State of Alabama
Autauga County

I William H. Thompson Clerk of the County Court of this County
[illegible] and hereby certify that the foregoing contains the 
[illegible] proceedings [illegible] the said Court in the matter of the application William Hollis made this day for a pension
[illegible] testimony where I have hereunto set my hand
and [illegible] this Seal of office this 2nd day of [illegible]1836 and that
said Court that the signature provided is his [illegible]

Wm H. Thompson Clerk
of the  [illegible] [illegible]
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[rubber stamp]
[illegible] 
SEP
14
AL
827423
Ala

Mail 3

[illegible]
D H Lewis

J L Edwards Esq
Pension Office

Washington City -
D. C.
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[illegible] [illegible]  County
Alabama Sept 8th 1835

J L Edwards Esqr-

Sir-
Will you do me the
favour to examine the within application
- taken for a pension, & return your answers
upon it to me as soon as convenient.
Yr. Obdt Servt
Dixon H. Lewis
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[rubber stamp]
MILITARY SECRETARYS OFFICE
SEPT 29
1905
WAR DEPARTMENT

McMinnville, Tenn.
Sept. 27, 1905

William Hollis
Joseph Hammer
N. C. - Rev. War

A. R. Hammer,
For record of above named and
information relative to land-warrants
issued,
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Office of
A. R. Hammer,
Lawyers

[rubber stamp]
OLD WAR & [illegible]
OCT 5 1905
FILES

[rubber stamp]
PENSION
A
OCT 
4
1905
U. S.
OFFICE

McMinnville, Tenn  Sept. 27th, 1905
Com of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-
You will pardon this intrusion, but I want the information,
and know of no one else from whom to obtain it.  I desire to know if
William Hollis and Joseph Hammer enlisted from the State of North
Carolina or served as soldiers from said State or colony in the 
Revolutionary War, and if they had land warrants granted to them for
their service in the State of Tennessee.  If you find these facts
please certify the same to me and send me bill of cost for same and
I will remit to you.
Enclosed you will find stamp for reply.  Thanking you in advance,
Yours very truly,
A. R. Hammer
P. S. Commissioner of Pensions can you give
me the information desired- A. R. Hammer