Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 4400, Thomas Holt, Penn.
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Service
Penn
Holt, Thomas
Number
S4400
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7802
Ohio. Pittsburgh.

THOMAS HOLT
of Guernsey Co in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Holt of the Brigade commanded by Genl. Sullivan in the Penn line for ONE YEAR

Inscribed on the roll of Ohio . Pittsburgh at the rate of 40 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of April, 1833 and sent to Nathan Evans, Cambridge Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833                     80.
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1833           20.
                                                                        $100.

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Wm R Palmer, Clerk
Book E  Vol 8  Page 113

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1838 to 4 March 1839.  Agt notified 7 March 1840
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No 17135
Thomas Holt - Guernsey County Ohio
____? for 12 months from 1778 -
$40

Nathan Evans
Cambridge Ohio
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Brief in the case of THOMAS HOLT of Guernsey County in the State of Ohio (Act 7th June 1832

1.  Was the declaration made before a court or a Judge?  A Court
2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  71
4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Enlisted in 1778       6 months           Private     Capt Dougherty, Genl Sulle
Subst 1779              2 months           Private      Capt Holt
Drafted 1780           2 months           Private      Capt Means
Drafted 1781            2 months          Private      Capt Wilson

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  None
6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Cumberland Co, Penn
7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Living witnesses, traditionary evidence
8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?? and if so,, in what respect?   Correct

I certify that the forgoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Dyer Castor
Examining Clerk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832
State of Ohio  Guernsey County

On this eighteenth day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio now sitting in the County of Guernsey  THOMAS HOLT a resident of Madison Township in the County of Guernsey and the State of Ohio aged 71 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
Ans 4th:  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States with Captain Henry Dougherty
Ans 5th:  Under General Sullivan, Lieutenant John Clark, paraded first at Cox's town he thinks (of which he is not altogether certain) in 1778 from Cox's Town, tarrying for a time at Tiaga Point (?).  They moved by water first Sunbury then to Soyoming (?) then to Newtown in New York in the fall of the year loss in no battle.  Continued in the service six months.
Ans 6th & 4th: At the expiration of which time he received a written discharge from Captain Dougherty.  That the next year after receiving his discharge at Newtown he entered the service as a substitute for William Holt (his brother) under Captain John Holt  they paraded first in Kishacoquillas Valley and marched over the seven mountains to Penns Valley that they were stationed at Potters fort in the frontiers that he served at that -place two months at the end of which time he received a discharge in writing from Captain John Holt.  That he was again drafted into the service in August (the year he does not recollect) with Captain Robert Means, Lieutenant David Coulter, Ensign John Reed and marched to Penns Valley where he was stationed at Potters Fort for the term of two months at the expiration of two months he received a written discharge from Captain Robert Means, that the next year after being at Potters Fort he entered the service as a substitute for John Keever under Captain William Wilson was marched to the lower end of Penns Valley that he was stationed at Matentfort for the term of two months that he received a written discharge from Captain Willliam Wilson.  That he was in various other parties of scouts and spies during the Revolutionary War but for no regular period of time that which he can now recollect.  That all written discharges or evidence so received as aforesaid are either lost or destroyed that he has no documentary evidence of his service and that he knows of person whose testimony he can procure who can testify his service except James Bratton who can testify to his service for the term of two months at Potters Fort.
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Ans 3rd:  That he at the time he first entered the service on the waters of Juniatta in Cumberland County Pennsylvania where he remained during the Revolutionary War and since till he removed to Guernsey County Ohio where he now lives.
Ans 1st: That he was born in Carlisle in Cumberland County Pennsylvania in April 1761.
Ans 2nd: That he has no record of his age that he is lknown in his present neighborhood.  Reverand Willliam Smith Ans 7th: James Bratton Junior, James Bratton Senior, William Carlisle Esq, Edward Bratton Esq, who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution.
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.
THOMAS HOLT
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforsaid

And also on the same day came into court James Bratton who being the first duly sworn according to law saith that he was personally acquainted with Thomas Holt who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration and that the said Thomas did serve in the service of the United States at Potters fort as stated in the foregoing declaration.
JAMES BRATTON
sworn to and subscribed in open Court before me

We, William Carlisle, residing in the county of Guernsey and James Bratton residing in the County aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Holt who has subscribed and sworn to his above declaration that we believe him to be 71 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in the opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
WM CARLISLE
JAMES BRATTON

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogators prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states And the Court do further certify that it appears to them that William Carlisle is credible
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I and James Bratton who have signed the foregoing certificate are creditable persons and residents in the County of Guernsey and that their statement is entitled to credit -

I, Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, for the County of Guernsey, in said state, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Holt for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighteenth day of October Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two

Moses Sarchet, Clerk
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Question 1st: Where and in what year were you born?
Ans 1st: I was born at Carlisle in Cumberland County Pennsylvania in April seventeen hundred and sixty one
Question 2nd: Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Ans 2nd: I have no records of my age
Q 3rd:; Where were you living when called into the service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Ans 3rd: I lived at the time I was first called into the service on the waters of Juaniatta in Cumberland County Pennsylvania.  I lived at the same place till I removed to Guernsey County Ohio where I live.
Q4: How were you called into the service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Ans 4:  I enlisted once, was twice a substitute once for William Holt and once for John Keever and was once drafted.
Q6: Did you receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Ans 6: I did receive a discharge for each term that I served first from Captain Daghherty secondly from Captain John Holt thirdly from Captain Robert Munns and thirdly from Captain William Reson but they are all either lost or destroyed.

Q7: State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your charge for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
Ans 7
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Thomas Holt 
17135

The proceeding on the within application be directed to Nathan Evans, Cambridge, Ohio if there is any deficiency in the application I would gladly be informed.

Yours
N Evans
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Rev War 
4400
Invalid

File No 4400
Thomas Holt
Pri Pa Line

Act: June 7, 1832
Index: Vol A Page 176
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An Admitted case to be filed with the papers of Tho. Holt  Ohio
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Thomas Holt which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the country where he resides?

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. [cross symbol] If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

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EXPLANATORY NOTES

*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year ________ months, and ________ days, I served as a __________ For ________ months and __________ days, I served as a __________
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served,
and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase [italics] about three or four months [/italics] is too in-
definite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the 
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection-
able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the 
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not em-
ployed in any civil pursuit.

QUERE XIV. [italics] Proof of Service. [/italics]
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must 
prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of 
the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the 
regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths
must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magis-
trate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. [italics] Mode of authenticating papers. [/italics]
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not 
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the cer-
tificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass
under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.

[manicule] In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Cambridge, O Oct 11th, 1833
S. A Bruce Esq

Sir

I recieved your letter of the 3rd alt on the subject of Holt's Pension and must ask your pardon for not answering you sooner.  I had thought I would write no more on the subject and probably would not if it had come from himself.  I informed him distinctly enough in the outset that I would not send his papers to him I am told by those aquainted with the matter that he is justly indebted to his sister-in-law a widow where he lived in this county and ought to come there to spend his money not that she claims any item from him but the neighbors say it is due.  Therefore I shall not let the papers go out of my hands til I first get twenty dollars of a fee and perhaps that will bring him there is also a little demand left in my hands to be got not of the money when it is ___? of $3.25 cents which I want also ___? receive these I shall send the papers whatever in justice he may do the widow and not sooner so you can tell him

Very Respectfully Yours
N Evans

S.A. B
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
January 27th, 1840

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" THOMAS HOLT, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburg, PA Agency, at the rate of forty dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838 to the 4th March 1839.

Respectfully yours,
Albion E Parris
Comptroller

To the Commisioner of Pensions
Present
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Cambridge O June 6th 1833
Mr Holt
Sir
I this monment rec'd your letter dated Palmyra enquiring of the fate of your pension application.  I rec'd a return from them about the first of April with certificates in both cases (yours & Brattons) whichentitles you to a pension of forty dollars per Annum from the fourth of March 1831.  Mr Bratton has had his first drawing for more than a month I have been waiting for you to come and execute the necessary papers to draw.
Dr H H Evans left with me aa small demand requesting me not to let these matters go out of my hand without recieving payment.
I wish you would come in and execute papers and draw.  You will be entitled now to draw eighty dollars.  I have some others to preparenext week (Court Week) and would like to draw all at once.
Yours S C
N Evans
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peice of cotton cloth
ten pounds cotton batting
for two comfortables
scraping brush
needles pins thread
cloth for boys cloths
calico for children frocks
foffice? tea alspice ginger
Rocking horse for Henry
____(illegible) oil, side combs
white braid cotton, brown braid silk
mettel teapot cups and saucey plates
teaspoons three large
hooks & eyes
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Warren, Trumbull Co Ohio
Nov 7th 1833
J L Edwards Esq

Dear Sir
In October 1832 I employed N Evans Esq of Cambridge, Guernsey Co Ohio to make an application to your department for a pension, and at the time I employed him I paid him two dollars for which he agreed to do the business.  I send you enclosed Esq Evens letters to me from which it appears that my application has been granted, and that he has the certificate in his application but refuses to deliver the same to me unless I pay him the sum of twenty dollars.  This I do not think it is my duty to comply with, for I think that he is attempting to impose upon my _____ (illegible) and thereby extort money from me, I therefore wish you if consistant with with the rules of your office to grant me a new certificate.  For Jean that you may doubt my being the same individual I will briefly name the substance of my original declaration.

I was born in April Ad  1761 in Carlisle, Cumberland Co and State of Pa.  I entered the service of the U. S, in Sullivan's Campaign on the north branch of the Susquehanna and was commanded by Capt Henry Daugherty and served in this campaign about eight months.  I was in the service again (but do no recollect the year) under Capt John Holt my brother, and was also out a tour under Capt Robert Means and also a tour under Capt Wm Willson Arthur Buchanan was my Colonel and James Patton my general and I then living
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in Madison Guernsey Co Ohio, and had resided there three years, and previous thereto that I resided in Lewistown Mifflin Co PA, that I had received a discharges but that they were lost-
Thomas Holt

In presence of
David ? (illegible)

Sam'l Chesney
State of Ohio
Trumbull County
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for said county, Thomas Holt, signer of the foregoing letter to me well known and made solemn oath that the statements therein contained are true.  In testemony whereof thereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of Nov  1833 - Sam'l Chesney Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
I, George Panons, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county, do hereby certify that Samuel Chesney so given whose signature in his own proper hand writing is affixed to my forgoing certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly compensated and sworn agreeably to the laws of said state.In testemony where of I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Warren the seventh day of November 1833.
George Panons Clerk