Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,847, David Holbrook, Continental Mass.
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Service 
Continental Mass.

Holbrook, David

Number 
S. 32 847

{BLW*915_300_ Capt 
Issued April 1, 1790
No papers
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9084
Massachusetts
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David Holbrook

of Wrentham in the state of Mass. who was a Captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shepard of the Mass line, for the term of 1 year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of April 1819 and sent to Judge Ware, at Wrentham Massachusetts.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 most 25/30 4/31 219.24
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819
120
_______
$339.24

1st July 1823
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act 18th March 1818}

Copy of execution wanted duly certified - Dec letter to Jarius Ware
Wrentham Mass for copies of mortgages or other verifying documents

(written perpendicular in pencil on right side of the document --Notification sent September 20, 1820
Jarius Ware Judge C. C. C. Pleas Norfolk County
Wrentham Mass
from to sale of property as stated in (?)
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David Holbrook Esqr.

Admitted
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I David Hollbrook of Wrentham in the county of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States on oath declare that after having served in diverse capacities in the late Revolutionary War, on the 16th of September A.D. 1782 I received from Congress a Commission of a Captain in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the United States to take rank in the Army of the United States to take rank as such from the 14th day of April 1780. My Commission I here produce as evidence of the same. I served in the Fourth Regiment in the Massachusetts line which was for the most of the time commanded by Co. William Shepard but at the close of the war by Colonel Henry Jackson. I remained in the Revolutionary Army as aforesaid till it was disbanded in June A.D. 1783 having served in the same in several grades for the term of seven years & five months am now seventy years of age & in reduced circumstances, and have need of assistance from my county for support.

David Holbrook (signature)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk ss on this 6th of April A.D. 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared the above
4.6  
named
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named David Holbrook Esquire aged seventy years a resident in said circuit who being by now first duly cautioned on his oath made the declaration aforesaid by him signed in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary wars. And I do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said David Holbrook did serve in the revolutionary wars as stated in the preceding declaration against them, the common enemy for a time exceeding nine months on the continental establishment, And I now transcribe under seal the proceedings & testimony taken & have before me. (with the Commission of said Holbrook to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress.

Jairus Ware Associate Judge
of the Circuit Court of Com: 
Pleas for (?) So. Circuit
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Mr. David Fisher Jr.& Ebenezer Blake & both of Wrentham in the county of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath, declare that we have been personally acquainted with David Holbrook Esquire, who made the foregoing affidavit for more than twenty years last past. He has been & is a respectable industrious man, but in inconsequence of diverse misfortunes is at the period of his life in very reduced circumstances, and in our opinion for the Revolutionary service he has performed is justly entitled to the support from his Country contemplated by the late act of Congress.

David Fisher Jr. (signature)
Ebenz Blake 2d,

Norfolk Apr. 6, 1818. Personally appeared the above named David Fisher Jr. & Enen Blake 2d. respectable & credible witness known to me as such & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by them subscribed, which I am fully persuaded is true.

Jairus Ware, Ass. Judge
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
NORFOLK,ss --CIRCUIT COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, SPECIAL SESSION, JULY 1820 

On this eighteenth day of July 1820 personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record for said County, proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a Record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, David Holbrook aged Seventy three years, resident of Wrentham in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:

(Handwritten as follows:)
More than Seven years.- I first engaged the first day of January A.D. 1776 as a Sargeant in the company commanded by Capt. Andrew Peters Col, Joseph Reed's regiment, in which capacity I served one year. I was then appointed a Lieutenant in Moses Knap's company in Col. William Shepards regiment, in which capacity I serve more than three years. I was then appointed to the command of a company in the same regiment where I served until the end of the war when I was discharged and my services in the Massachusetts line for which service I received a pension Certificate dated the 9th day of April 1819 and numbered 9034.

And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons, engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to  me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. 

David Holbrook

Sworn to and declared on the Eighteenth day of July A.D. 1820 before Jairus Ward Judge of the C C Com Pleas for So. Circuit

I Horatio Townsend Clerk of the said court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court, that the total amount in value, of the  property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is two hundred and seven dollars and twenty five cents. The debts he has not considered.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty fourth day of July 1820 

Horation Townsend Clerk.
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I am intimately acquainted with David Holbrook Esqr. the Pensioner within named, During the war, ‘tis said he sustain’d the character of an excellent officer and since has been a worthy citizen of this town and respectable Magistrate in the County. Though industrious he has been & now is under pecuniary embarrassments. I am perfectly satisfied of the accuracy of the schedule of his property both from personal knowledge, & from the appraisal of the same by two judicious men in this town whom I examined as Witnesses.  His farm has long been encumbered with a mortgage as he has represented I have understood, and that I am satisfied he is otherwise embarrassed with debts. It is sincerely hoped by his friends that 
his pension will be continued.
Respectfully yours, Jairus Ware
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Copy
Schedule of 
David Holbrook
9084 April 1819
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A Schedule of the property of David Holbrook a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of the 18th of March AD 1818 Except beds and wearing apparel 

Real estate valued at two thousand 2000.00
One Desk $3.00 three cows & one heifer $47.00  50.00
One case of draur 2.00 seven sheep and eight lamb 15.00 17.00
One beaureau 2.00 One hog and four pigs 16.00 18.00
One horse 40.00 three chests 2.00 42.00
3 Looking glasses 4.50 One chaise old & sleigh 18.00 22.50
Two tables 2.00 One old wa(g)gon 6.00 8.00
One plough 2.00 [Cart] body 1.00 3.00
Harrow 1.00 three brass kettles 4.00 5.00
Chains, shovel, & hoes 5.00 Iron ware 4.00 9.00
Wooden ware 2.00 S(c)ythes and axes 3.00 5.00
Wooden vessels 5.00 17 chains 4.50 9.50
Crockery & glassware 5.00 Plate 5.00 10.00
Carpet old 2.00 Tinware 2.00 4.00
nine kitchen chairs 2.25 Pewter & earthen ware 2.00 4.25
$2207.25

The Declarant further states that his occupation has been a farmer but now by season of age and infirmity he is unable to pursue it, or to contribute to the support of my family and that my wife is sixty eight years of age and of a slender constitution that his family consists of a lad 12 years of age and a girl of 15 years of age and that by unforseen misfortune I am involved in debt in notes given five to ten years past for 1300 Dollars besides these is a mortgage on my real estate unpaid of 1737.00 dollars had it not been for the favour of his friends and forbearance of his credits he must have failed long since.
David Holbrook
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
F. C. Bissell,
1009 W. Boulevard,
Hartford, CONN.
Sir:
February 18, 1925.
I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary
War pension claim, S.32847, it appears that David
Holbrook enlisted January 1, 1776, served one year as
Sergeant in Captain Andrew Peters' Company, Colonel Joseph
Read's Massachusetts Regiment when he was commissioned
Lieutenant in Captain Moses Knap's Company, Colonel William
Shepard's Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, continued as such
until commissioned April 14, 1780, Captain in said regiment
and he served until June 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 6, 1818, while a resident of Wrentham, Norfolk County
, Massachusetts, aged seventy years.
In 1820 soldier stated that his family consisted of
his wife, aged sixty-eight years, a lad twelve years of
age and a girl of fifteen years," relationship not stated
and no names mentioned.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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32 847
(Illegible) INVALID
File no. 32,847
David Holbrook
Capt Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index: Vol. 2, Page 194
1925, Feb 18 - Hist T. F. C.
Bissell
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The United States of America in Congress Assembled  

To David Holbrook Esquire

We Reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valeur, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Captain in the fourth Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such_______ from the Seventeenth day of April 1780. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Captain ______ by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do briefly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Captain _______ And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States, or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you.  This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of a congress aforementioned, or a Committee of the States.

Witness His Excellency John Hanson Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the sixteenth day of September A.D. 1782 and in the Seventh Year of our Independence.
John Hanson

By Order of Congress
Lincoln Secretary of War
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Application under
Act Mar 1823
Suspended
in letter to
Jairus Ware
July 1 1823.
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This side of card is for address

U.S Pension Office
Washington
D.C.
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F. C. Bissell,
Regr. Conn. S A. R.
1009 W. Boulevard
Hartford, Conn.

January 23, 1925

U.S Pension Office 

Please send Revolutionary Pension of David Holbrook, Mass., 1818

Truly
F. C. Bissell (?)
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(The left page is missing the right corner)
Execution, 
all the other [Illegible]
contained [Illegible]
for $170. to [Illegible]
at whose instance [Illegible]
property was attached

Claimant [Illegible from ink spots].
a Farmer, unable to
do much by reason of
age + infirmities."
Wife [Illegible] "a feeble
Constitution" Still
owns several hundred
[Illegible] + has no property
or means of discharging
[Illegible] debts." _

J. Bailey Esq.  120 / 202. [Illegible]
State Dep.
[Illegible] 20 Sep 1823
Sep 1819


(Right Page)
Massachusetts
David Holbrook Capt.
Served 1 year_
1s Schedule, dated July 1826
Real Estate ---- $2.000.07
Personal ----            207.21
                    Total $2.207.28

5 Apr 1819

Mortgage on Real Estate $1.73
Indebted besides ----     1300
                            _____________
                            Total $3.037.

Sched: under Act Mar 1823
dated 2 May 1823,
Personal property $14.
_______________________

account for the decrease
of property [Illegible]
The right of redemption
in his Real Estate was
sold under Execution
on the 21 June 1821 for 
$770.83 as appears by
certificated from Sheriff.
Copy of Execution, properly
authenticated, which in
being insufficient to [Illegible]
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Norfolk of Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
I Horatio Townsend, Clerk of the Judicial
County within and for said County of Norfolk, do certify, that Jairus Ware Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned by the Executive
authority of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that the signature to the certificate on the paper hereunto annexed, is in the hand writing of the said Ward. 
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County of Norfolk, this twenty second day of August
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty three.
Horatio Townsend Cler[k]
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled "An act for the relief  of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approve on the 15th of May 1898, I David Holbrook of Wrentham in the County of Norfolk in the state of Massachusetts do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the end of the war at which period I was a Captain in the fourth Regiment of the Massachusetts line.
And I also declare that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress of the 22nd of March 1783 instead of the half pay for life to which I  was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October 1780. 

And I do further declare that I have so earned of the United States as a pensioner since the 3rd day of March 1826 the sum of four hundred
[illegible]
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and eighty dollars paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the state of Massachusetts.
Witness my hand this eleventh day of Jun in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
David Holbrook
Before me David Adams a Justice of the Peace in the County of Norfolk in the State of Massachusetts personally appearance this day James Hewins, and Jairus Ware of the said County who did personally make oath that David Holbrook by whom the forgoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believe to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution in manners as therein states.
Written of my hand this eleventh day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. 
Daniel Adams
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I Jairus Ware...Clerk of the Court of the County of Norfolk in the State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that Daniel Adams Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony whereby I have hereseen to set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
Jairus Ware
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Wrentham [illegible] June 11, 1828.
Honorable Richard Rush
Sir
My Commission as Captain was sent to the office of the Secretary of War for the purpose of obtaining my pension in this year 1818, where it probably remains.
As corroborative evidence of the statements set forth in my declaration I annex a certified copy of my pension certificate.
David Holbrook
War Department
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818, David Holbrook late a Captain in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed in the Pension List Roll of the Massachusetts Aging at the rate of Twenty dollars per month to commence on the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
Given at the War office of the United States this fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
I certify that the above is a true copy of the Pension Certificate of the same David Hobrook Esquire [illegible] in this [illegible]
L.J.
9084
Nearest post office is North Wrentham Massachusetts
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Honorable Secretary of War
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Wrentham August 21, 1823
Honorable Secretary of War
Sir, I have the honor now to enclose to you a copy of the Ex[ecuti]on David L Holbrook as David Holbrook and the officers return thereon. Also the Deposition of D.L. Holbrook the Creditor
The above to be used as evidence on the application of the said David Hobrook Esquire, to be restored to the pension book, which I transmitted in June last.
The applicant hopes the evidence will be satisfactory, if not, he will be pleased to furnish any thing in addition, that may be in his power to procure or instruction being given me that further proof may be necessary. 
I am yours with sentiments of respect.
Jairus Ware
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David L Holbrook
[illegible]
Mr. J Bailey
Department of State.
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I David L. Holbrook of Wrentham in the County of Norfolk on oath declare that in the month of March AD 1821 David Holbrook Esquire of said Wrentham was indebted to me on several notes of hand given by him previously to the year 1819 and to secure the payment then of a commence and action thereon at the April Term in said County in the year 1821 and attached his personal estate and equity of redemption in his real estate, the same being incumbered with the mortgage the particular date of said party and the sum due on each. I cannot now state [and] as the notes are now in the Clerk's office in S[ai]d county. I recovered judgment in said suit against him for 768.34 damage & $8.49 cost of suit at said April term but have never been able fully to procure satisfaction of the Execution that issued on the judgement and know of no property of his whereby I can attain anything further He being at the time in reduced circumstances wholly unable to pay his debts.
David L. Holbrook
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk Ss. August 21, 1823 Personally appeared the same named David L Holbrook well know to me and a person of veracity and made oath to the truth of the forgoing affidavit by him subscribed. 
Before me Jairus Ware Justice of the peace
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No of orig Pay 153
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
7 July 1828.

David Holbrooks of Wrentham in the County of
Norfolk in the State of Massachusetts as 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 army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May, 1828.
He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end
of the War,
at which period he was a Captain in the fourth regiment of the Massachusetts
line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the
solve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March,
1826, the sum of four hundred and eighty dollars paid to him by the agent
in the State of Massachusetts
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated
by the records in his office.
Bordery he Secretary,
A. Dinkins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
8 July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for
the commutation of five years full pay to David Holbrook Cap
in
the Massachusetts line, amounting to Twenty four Hundred dollars
It further appears that David Holbrook
is now on the pension
list of the Massachusetts Agency, and has been since the 3 March
1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month
[illegible signature}
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Norfolk, SS. Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
To the Sheriff of our County of Norfolk,
or his deputy,
Greeting.
Whereas David Lyman Holbrook of Wrentham in our said County of Norfolk, Massachusetts, 

by the Consideration of Our Justices of Our Court of Common Pleas, holden at Dedham, for and within Our County of Norfolk aforesaid, on the fourth Monday of April las, recovered Judgement against David Holbrook of Wrentham aforesaid, Esquire,

for the sum of seven hundred & sixty eight Dollars and thrity four Cents, Damage, and eight Dollars and forty nine Cents, Costs of Suit, as to Us appears of Record, whereof Execution remains to be done:


WE command you, therefore, that of the Goods, Chattels or Lands of the said David within your Precinct, you cause to be paid and satisfied unto the said David Lyman at the Value thereof in money, the aforesaid Sums, being seven hundred seventy six Dollars and eighty three Cents in the Whole, with twenty five Cents more for this - Writ; and thereof also to satisfy yourself for your own Fees; and for want of Goods, Chattels, or Lands of the said David - to be by him shewn unto you, or found within your Precinct, to the Acceptance of the said David Lyman to satisfy Sums aforesaid, WE command you to take the Body of the said David and commit unto Our Gaol in Dedham in Our County of Norfolk aforesaid and detain in your Custody within Our said Gaol, until he pay the full Sums above mentioned, with your Fees, or that he be discharged by the said David Lyman the Creditor, or otherwise by Order of Law. Hereof fail not, and make return of this Writ, with your Doings therein, into the clerks office Our said Court of Common Pleas [to be holden at Dedham] within [Our County of Norfolk aforesaid, upon the] three months from the date hereof [Monday of next.] Witness Nahun Mitchill Esquire, at Dedham, the fifteenth day of May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty one
Horatio Townsend Clerk
A true copy - attest Horatio Townsend Cler

768.34
    8.49
--------
776.83
25

June 21 1821. Redd of Samuel Brastow six hundred and seventy five dollars in part of the Eam. David L. Holbrook
Septr. 11 1821. Received of Samuel Brastow nine dollars & forty cents inpart of this Eam.
David L. Holbrook
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Exon. Fiske & Fisher Attys
Holbrook v Holbrook
April Term 1821
Copy

W. J. Bailey
Dept of State

Norfolk Ss. May 21. 1821. By virtue of this writ to me directed, I took all the right in equity which the within named David Holbrook then had of redeeming the following described real estate lying in Wrentham, mortgaged by the said David Holbrook to Joseph Lovell of Medway, containing one hundred [and] seventy acres, bounded as follows, easterly on land of Joel Ward, Enoch Wilson, and James Wilson, northerly on land of Steim Armsby, heirs of Samuel Richardson Robert Day and David and Jacob Pond, easterly on the road leading from Medway to Walpole and road leading from Medfield to Franklin and on land of Enoch Blake and Southerly on land of Daniel Holbrook wiht all the buildings standing on the same. Also, one other piece of land mortaged to Ebenezer Blake who by said David Holbrook, containing twenty four acres more or less, situate in said Wrentham, bounds eastwardly on the road leaving from Franklin to Medfield, northerly on the road from Walpole to Medway, easterly on land of David and Jacob Pond, Southerly on land of Chandler Holbrook - and afterward on the same day I gave notice in writing of the time and place of the sale to the written named David Holbrook in person and gave public notice of the time and place of sale by posting up advertisements in two public places in said town of Wrentham - and also by posting up notifications in two adjoining towns thirty days before the time of sale - and I also caused an advertisement of the time and place of sale to be published three weeks successively before the day of sale in
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An advertisement of the time and place of sale to be established three weeks successively before the day of sale in the Village Register a public newspaper printed printed in said County - and afterwards on the twenty first day of June at public service held at the house of David Holbrook Esquire in said Wrentham I sold to David Lyman Holbrook of said Wrentham for the sum of seven hundred and seven dollars he being the highest bidder thereof all the right in equity which the - David Holbrook had of redeeming the Real Estate aforesaid and the same day for the consideration aforesaid I made executed and delivered unto the said David Lyman Holbrook a good and sufficient deed of said right in equity sold as aforesaid therein reserving to the David Holbrook the liberty of redeeming the said right in equity by paying within one year after the date of the deed aforesaid all such sums of money as by law of the Commonwealth in such case made and provided he ought to pay in order to redeem the said right in equity - all which is infact satisfaction of the Execution deducting my own fees which amount to the sum of twenty two dollars leaving toward satisfying this Execution six hundred eighty four dollars - I therefore return it satisfied inpart to wit, for six hundred eighty four dollars
Samuel Brastow Dept Sheriff

Norfolk Ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Horatio Townsend, Clerk of the Judicial Court within and for the County of Norfolk, certify that the annexed is a true copy of an original Execution and the offices return thereon, now on file in my office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
Horatio Townsend Clerk
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Schedule Vc
of
David Holbrook
Septr 1819
Ar[illegible]
authenticated copies of the [illegible] of the execution under which the real estate was sold, as within stated must be Transmitted to this office
Also, an affidavit by D. L. Holbrook to prove the amount paid on note within of and to, in quantity & of his estate the articles be & price.
The P. Jonson property
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolks Court of Common Pleas April Term 1823
On this second day of May AD 1823 personally appeared in open Court, bein a Court of Record for said County, keeping a record of its proceedings [illegible] David Holbrook, aged seventy six years, resident in Wrentham in said County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, on the First of January AD 1776 I enlisted as a Sergeant in a Company commanded by Captain Andrew Petey in Col Joseph Reeds Regt Mass. line, and served one year, was then appointed a Lieutenant in Capt Moses Knapps Company in Col Wm Shepards Regt and served in said capacity more than three years, was there appointed Capt in the same Regt. and continued in service to the close of the war for which service he received a pension certificate dated a Apl. 5 1819 and No 9084.
The above dictation he makes and oath he takes in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of the 18th of March 1818, the 1st of May 1820 & 1st of March 1823 -
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, seale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor have any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than what's contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.
That since the exhibition of my first schedule, which is as follows Dols
Real estate valued at 2000 - - - 2000
1 Desk 3.00 3 Cows & 1 Heifer 47 - - - 50.
1 Case of Drawers 2.00 Seven Sheep & 8 lambs 15 Dols - - - 17
1 Bureau - - - 2.00 one hog & 4 piggs - 16 --- 18
1 Horse --- 40.00 3 Chests --- 2 --- 42.
3 Looking Glasses - 4.50 1 old chaise & Sleigh - 18 --- 22.50
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V
C
1
---
---
2 tables 2.00
1 old wagon 6
1 Plough 2.00
1 Cart body-1
1 Harrow 1.00 
3 Brass Kettles 4
Chasing, shovels & hoes 5.00 
Iron ward 4
Wooden ware 2.00 
Scythes and (?) 3
Wooden vessels - 5.00
Crockery & Glasswares 5.00
17 chairs 4.50
Plate - 5.00
Carpet (old) - 2.00
Tin ware 2.00
Nine Kitchen chairs 2.25
Pewter & Earthen ware 2.00
2207.25


The following changes have been made in my
property viz - All my real estate being under mortgage to
Joseph Lovell Esqr of Medway and Col. Ebenezer Blake of
Wrentham, the equity of the same was attached by one of
my creditors and sold on execution on the 21st of June
1821, and the proceeds of the sale applied towards the
payment of said Execution but was insufficient to
discharge it, all the other property included in my
former schedule I sold to David Lyman Holbrook
about one hundred and Seventy dollars
the particular sum I cannot now recollect but it was less than two hundred dollars, and the amount
of said sale was indorsed on a note he held against
me which sale was previous to the attachment of
the equity of redemption of my real estate.
David Holbrook
Sworn to and declared on the second day of May A.D. 1823
before the Court,
Eben Fisher Jr Clerk Protem
I Horatio Townsend Clerk of the said Court, do hereby
certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed
are truly copied from the record of said Court, and I do further
certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total
amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid
Schedule is fourteen Dollars-
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court
on this tenth day of May 1823.
Horatio Townsend Cler
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Schedule of the property of David Holbrook

Real Estate none
Personal Estate                                               Dollars
A little earthen ware probably of the value of 5.00
2 Hogshead for Cider ----------------------  2.00
1 Cider barrel ------------------------------  1.00
2 Other casks -----------------------------   1.00
Bible and other Books ----------------------  5.00
                                                                        $14.00

I am by occupation an husbandman but 
am unable to perform much labour by reason of age
and infirmity, being now in my seventy seventh year.
I have a wife aged seventy years of a feeble and slender constitution - I am now indebted to several
persons to the amount of several hundred dollars and have no property or means by which I can 
discharge any of the debts.

David Holbrook