Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,884, Joseph Holland, Mass.
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SERVICE       [star stamp]     NUMBER
Mass.         Holland, Joseph   S18884
CONTENTS                            Carded
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Maine 11.425
Joseph Holland
of Kennebec, C. in the State of Maine who was a Pr and Cop in the Company commanded by Captain Wilder of the Regt commanded by Col Truppers in the  Mass______________Troops______
4 Mo Private____13.33.
 6 " Coporal______  22 [underlined]
                                  $35.33                 
Inscribed on the Roll of - Maine at the rate of 35 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Apl  1833- and Sent to R.C. [illegible]  Augusta. Me
 
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - 70.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept [ditto marks for 1833]  17.66 [underlined] 
$88.32 
{Revolutionary Claim,
 Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by I.T. Sprague Clerk, 
Book E Vol 1-Page 20
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

STATE OF MAINE,
KENNEBEC COUNTY} SS.

On this  28th day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, 
Joseph Holland a resident of Vienna in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy one 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. 

That he enlisted  in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 with Captain Theophilius Wilder and served in Col. (not recollected) regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers:  Wlider Captain,  comp Lieutenant. 

That on the first day of January 1777 he enlisted as private for two months in that company. That he served out this period and was verbally discharged at Dorchester. That there being only a detachment where he was, he does not know to what regiment attached if any. 

That in May 1777 he again enlisted as a private for two months in Capt Fisher's Massachusetts company, not attached, so far as he knew,  to any regiment. That this period he served out and was verbally discharged at East Greenwich, Rhode Island in July 1777. 

That on the ninth day of July 17[illegible] he again enlisted and served as a corporal, six months Capt. Lunt's Company and Colonel Tupper's regiment  of the Massachusetts  line. That he served out this period and was discharged at West Point in January 17[illegible]
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That he was born at what is now [illegible] then [illegible] Massasschuetts, in 1761, where he supposed his age is recorded, and where is was during his  revolutionary service. That in 1775 he moved into Farmington Maine, and in 17 [illegible]  to Vienna, Maine where he now lives. That at the [illegible] periods before stated, he enlisted, was not drafter or [illegible] as a substitute. That in his first service  he did duty at Dochester, where there was fort, he does not now remember [illegible]  officers there, then what he has before stateted. That in his second period, he served in North Kingston and East Greenwich Rhode Island, guarding the [illegible] ; and then bring no  other [illegible] there, that he cannot state the names of other officers. That Col. Tugger's he was with the main continental army. That his written discharged Timonthy E [illegible] will testify to his first services, Enoch Craig to his second; and that he understands C. A. Tupper's will answer [illegible] .
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roo of any agency in any State.
Joseph Holland (his handwritten signature)
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid., Before Nathan Weston_____S.J.C.

And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states
Nathan Weston (handwritten signature)
Holland, Joseph
Mass S18884
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Joseph Holland

R. C. Vose
Augusta
Me

I Enoch Craig a soldier of the revolution, aged seventy four years, upon oath testify and declare that being myself a soldier at the time in the same company, I know that Joseph Holland, then of Stoughtonham, now of Vienna, served as a private in 1777 in Rhode Island under Capt Fisher two months. 

Enoch Craig

Subscribed and sworn to, August 3 1832, the deponent being a credible witness before Nathan Weston Jr [illegible] I.F.C.

State of Maine

I Timothy Goldthwaite, a soldier of the revolution, aged seventy years, upon oath testify and declare, that being myself a soldier serving at the time, I know that Joseph Holland, then of Stoughtonham, Massachusetts, now of Vienna Maine, served two months as a private at Dorchester in the war of the revolution, in Capt Theophilus Wilder's company.

Timothy Goldthwait

Subscribed and sworn to July 27 1832, the deponent being a credible witness.
Before Nathan Weston Jr [illegible] I.J.C.

State of Maine
I John Wadsworth, [illegible] Revolution a
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State of Maine
I, John Wadsworth, [illegible] Revolution aged sixty nine years upon oath testify I declare, that being myself a soldier serving at the time, I know that Joseph Holland within name, served six months as a corporal in the war of the Revolution in Capt. Lunt's company as he has within stated.

John Wadsworth

Kennebec p: subscribed & sworn to July 31st, 1832, the deponent being a credible witness. Before me, Wm. Mort Jr Justice of the Peace._

State of Maine.

KENNEBEC, SS- I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Joseph Holland for a pension. & that William Mort Jr is a Magistrate as above.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 31st day of July
A.D. 1832,
J.A. Chandler
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Declaration in open Court March 20th, 1833
6 mo. Corporal $22.-
4 "     Private      13.33
$35.33
R.C. -
Augusta, Me
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STATE OF MAIN
Kennebec County, ss
AT the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, A.D. 1832, and thence by adjournment on the 26th, day of March A.D. 1833

Personally appears in open Court Joseph Holland by whom the annexed declaration, in  order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th 1832, was made before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jr. on the 28th day of July A.D. 1833, and makes oath, in due form of law, that annexed declaration, by him made and signed, is true.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. 
Nathan Weston, ____

I JOHN ALPHONSO CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Holland for a pension

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal said Supreme Judicial Court and subscribe my name this 26th day of March A.D. 1833
J.A. Chandler (handwritten signature)
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18884
INVALID.
File No  18,884
Joseph Holland
Corp Rev War
Act: June 7 ___Page 182
(Arrangement of 1870)