Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,413, Darius Holt, Mass.
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(3-1776)

Service: Mass

Holt, Darius

Number: S. 35.413

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9997
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Maine
Darius Holt
of ____ in the state of ____
who was a private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Putnam of the Massa
line, for the term of 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 4 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of April 1819
and Sent to Judge Panie
Portland Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 19                   88,,23
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 11 Sept 19        48
55-20                                                   $136.23
Oxford
{ Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, SS.
To Jacob Mcgaw, esq of 
Bangor in the District of Maine
        GREETTING.
WHEREAS, at a special District Court of said United State for the Maine District holden at 
Pares in said District, on the fourth day of A[ril
in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Darius Holf of Albany in said District presented
as application to the Judge of said Court, setting forth that he served as a private
soldier in the war of the revolution, on the continental establishment against 
the common enemy, and requesting that an enquiry may be instituted into the circumstances of his case, and
that such further proceedings may be had touching the premises a  are prescribed by An Act of Congress
passed March 18, 1818 entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service
of the United States in the revolutionary war" in order that he may be placed on the Pension List of said United State:-- And whereas in the course of the examination here had, it appears that the testimony of sundry persons, who served with the applicant in the revolutionary army, at present residing in or near the
town of Eddington in the District of Maine
aforesaid, is necessary and material in support of said application:-

THEREFORE, to the end that the testimony aforesaid may be had, and by virtue of the power vested
in this Court by the law of the United States, you or either of you are hereby appointed and authorized, at
the proper expense of the applicant, to take the depositions of such persons as he may cause to come before you, 
touching the application aforesaid, and in particular as to the time when the applicant entered the service,
the time and manner of his leaving it, the company, regiment and line to which he belonged, and whether the 
service was performed on the continental establishment or in the milita of either of the States; and such
depositions, when taken, and your certificate of the administration of the usual oath and of the credibility of 
the deponents, together with this Dedimus Potestatem, you will certify and return to Judge of said Court
without unnecessary delay. 

GIVEN under my hand and seal at Parei in said District, the day and
year first mentioned.

Albion K Parris
Judge of the United States in and 
for the District of Maine.
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County of Penobscot

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Be it remembered that on this twenty fourth day of February A.D. (?) Mark Holland of Eddington in said County of Penobscot personally appeared before me Jacob W Gane Esquire a Justice of the Peace withing and for said County and made solemn oath that he was paymaster of two fifth regiments of Infantry on the Continental  establishments from early in the year 1781 until the close of the Revolutionary War - that Darius Holt (which is now said to belong to Albany in the County of Oxford and District of Maine) served in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam  on the Continental establishment, as a private soldier. During the whole of of [sic] the year 1782 and the principal part of the year 1783 and war time discharges from said regiment and I paid him his wages which on final settlement of his amount amounted to about one hundred and seventy dollars as officers by a memorandum (next text unreadable) in my opinion and further this said Deponent saith not. 

Signature of Park Holland
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Personally affirming Park Holland Esquire made solemn oath that he (?) Deposition by him subscribed is true before me. 

Jacob W. Gane Just. Peace

I certify that the above named Park Holland Esquire is in my opinion a (?) credible witness

Signature of Jacob W. Gane Jus. Peace
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State of Maine.
Oxford ?--- SS. At a Circuit Court of Common Please
begun and holden at Parris--- within and for the county of Oxford
 on the second--- Tuesday of June A.D. 1820-
before the Honorable Benjamin Green
Judah Dana Judges of said Court.
On this 14th day of June in the year above written, personally appeared
in open Court, the same having," the power of in and imprisonment," and being Court of Record for said county of Oxford- Darrius Hold aged fifty five years, residentin
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Schedule of the family residing with me Darius Holt who by occupation as a farmer, which I am unable to pursue not more than half the time, by reason of rhumatism. 

Name      Age   Capacity of each to contribute to their Support

Chloe Wife   53   Infirm
of Darius

Hannah Dghtr   17  well

Mary  Dghtr   14 feeble

Daniel  Son  13  well
Kimball  Son  10  well
Perlemon  Son  8  well

Signature of Darius Holt

I Thomas Oxford ss. Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said county of Oxford do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount of value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is thirty four dollars and fifty cents.  $34.50

In the Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 24th day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty

Signature of Thomas Clark
Clerk of the Circuit Court Com. Pleas for said county of Oxford.
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35413
Revy  Invalid.

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File No.  35,413

Darius Holt
Priv  Rev War

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Act: 18 March 18

Index: - Vol. 2,   Page 231

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Power of Attorney

Know all men by these present, that I Darius Holt of the County of Oxford and State of Maine have [illegible] and appointed and by their presence do [illegible] and appoint F.E. 
Hofs as my true and lawful attorney irrevocably for me and in my name to receive from the United States, all such sum or sums of money due me on account of arrears pay, three months extra pay, forage, mileage, for horses and other property lost or destroyed in the military services. Expenses incurred, or money expected for organizing volunteer companies before being mustered into the service of the United States, or any money for any money which may be due me by the United States for any account whatsoever and generally to do all lawful acts and {illegible} whatsoever touching the premises and attorney or attorneys under him for the purpose aforesaid.
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State of Main 
Oxford County ss.

Be it known that on the twenty first day of March A,D. 1852(/) before me the subscriber a notary public in & for said county personally offered services that (?) subscriber & (?) the foregoing power of attorney to be his (?) & (?). In testimony wherever, I have (>) set may have & official 
this day & year (remainder unreadable)


Signature of N. Barttlet
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I John Holt of Bethel in the Country of Oxford of lawful age do testify & say that I was acquainted with Mr. Darius Holt of Albany in said country of Oxford previous to the Revolutionary War - was knowing to his enlisting into the Continental establishment in Capt Wight's Company in the fifth Massachusetts  Regiment commanded by Col. Rufus Putman and that he served as a private against the common enemy something more than two whole years. 

Signature of John Holt

Oxford ss
July 2, 1818 Personally appeared the above named John Holt and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me. 

Signature of Timothy Carter  Jus. P.
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I John Killgore of (?) in the county of Oxford of lawful age do testify and say I am knowing to Mr. Darius Holt of Albany in said county of Oxford serving in the continental establishment of he revolutionary war against the common enemy as a private in the years A,D, 1782 & 1783 in Capt Wight's company in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam

Signature of John Killgore
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I Darius Holt a resident Citizen of the United States of American in the town of Albany in the County of Oxford and State of Massachusetts do testify & say that in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and Eighty  __, and in the month of March or April, I enlisted into the Army of the United States of America on the Continental Establishment in the company commanded by Captain White under Colonel Rufus Putnam of the fifth Massachusetts Regiment in which company I served as a Private Soldier until the fifth or sixth of January, seventeen hundred and eighty three when I received an honourable discharge which I have since lost. The Company in which I served continued under the command of the Captain  Felt___ of the first Massachusetts Regiment under Colonel Joseph Lane. I further testify that by reason of reduced circumstances, I stand in need of assistance from my Country for support. 

Signature of Darius Holt
Sworn to 
Before A.K. Parries
US Dist. Judge

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I Alijah Warren of Paris in the County of Oxford and State of Massachusetts testify and say that Darius Holt named in the foregoing deposition belonged to the company of Captain White under Colonel Rufus Putnam of the fifth Massachusetts Regiment and knows that he served more than eighteen months on the continental establishment while I served as  private soldier in the same regiment with him

Signature of Alijah Warren

Sworn to, Before. 
Albion H. Parries
U.S. DIst. Judge
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I Joseph Sturtevant of Paris in the county of Oxford and state of Massachusetts testify and say that during my service of three years in the army of the United States of American on the continental establishment I was well acquainted with Darius Holt named in the above deposition that he served as a private soldier in say army in the company of Captain White of the fifth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Rufus Putnam during the term of  of eighteen months or more; the precise length of time I cannot recollect and that he was honourable discharged from said service either at the close of the year seventeen hundred and eighty three or at the commencement of the seventeen hundred and eighty four. 

Signature of Joseph Sturtevant

Sworn to 
Before A.K. Parrie (?)
U.S. Dist. Judge
United States of America

District of Maine.

Be it remembered that on this fourth day of April, A.D. 1818, personally came the withing named Darius Holt and after being cautioned and examined, made oath that the within statement by him subscribed is wholly true; and also at the same time came the within named Alijah Warren and Joseph Sturtevant and made oath that the affidavits by them subscribed are true. And its appearing
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Albany  April 3 1818

We the under signers inhabitants of said Town of Albany hereby certify that in our opinion Mr. Darius Holt now residing in Albany who served in the Continental service three years as a solger (soldier) in in needy circumstances and is entitled to the premium agreeable to the late Act of Congress. 

Signature of Asa Cummings

Faint signature of John Lovejoy can be seen.
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to me, in the examination here had that the several persons before named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the within or evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said Darius Holt served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy for the term of nine months and upwards on the continental establishment: that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal. 

Signature of Albion, K. Parrie
Judge of the United States in 
and for the District of Maine
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United States of America

District Main ss

The within application having been returned for further proof, I have caused the deposition of Park Holland, Esq. Pay master of the fifth Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by COl. Rufus Putnam in the Rebolutionary war, to be taken; which the (?) granted for taking the same are hereunto annexed.  This case, I think, is ame out beyond all doubt. 

Signature of Albion K. Parrie
U.S. Dist. Judge

W. Boyd