Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45392, Ivory Holland, Mass.
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SERVICE                                     Number
   Mass.         Holland, Irory        𝄞. 45392
                                               B.L. HT. 926-200-Iieunt
                                               Issued Apr. 1, 1790.
                                               No _____
CONTENTS
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2119
New York
Ivory Holland
Liuent and
Massachusetts line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 1 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of Aug 1818
and such to John Rusell 
__________
Arrearages to 4 Sept 1818
4 Nov, 29/____ $29.83
4 Mos 29/30th
Revolutionary claims,
Act 18th March, 1818,
Pulmam 80-
19.33
99.33
Richfield, Otsego County
_______
not entitled-
Let to Him, J. A Dix July 28 1846
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District of New York,
Otsego County,
On this 28 day of June, 1820 personally appeared in open
Court, being a Court of record for the county aforesaid, Ivory Holland
aged 60 years, resident in Richfield in the county
of Otsego in said District, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his
oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war, in Captain Gates company as Lieutenant
[ word company deleted], Colonel Rufus Putnams regiment, belonging to the Massachusetts
line: And the date of his original declaration was on the 6
day of April 1818 on which he has received a pension certificate, No. 2009
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 or sale, 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 pro-
visions 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 hereunto
annexed, and by me subscribed.

ARTICLES OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.
I have twelve acres of land on which I have
a small old house and barn 
one old horse and an old [illegible]  4 old chairs
1 old table and a few articles of Kitchen 
furniture not worth more than five dollars
I am unable to do any business and have
no family - I depend on my pension from
Government for support-
I am indebted five hundred dollars
over and above all debts due to me
Sworn to & declared on
this 21 June 1820
Before the court.
Ivory Holland
LW Morell Clk

Debts due by the Pensioner $500
Amt of Property 300
Leaves the Pensions Indebted $200
over & above his property 
N.B. The above Pensioner died on the 3d July 1820 Insolvent
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State of New York 
Otsego County 
Clerks Office Ss: I George Morell Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Otsego & State of New York
do hereby certify that the foregoing
oath & the schedule thereto annexed
are truly copied from the records
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 aforementioned schedule is three hundred Dollars 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty fourth day of Jun 1820
Signature of LW Morell  Clefk

Text written on side: 
Ivory Holland 
Richfield No. 2119

George Morell 
Cooperstown Agent
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State of New York,
Otsego County Ss.  

Ivory Holland aged 78 years being duly sworn, saith, that he is a resident of the town of Richfield in the County aforesaid, and has served as a commissioned officer in the war of the revolution against the common enemy, for the term of Nine Months and longer, at a certain period of the war herein after mentioned, on the Continental Establishment, and is yet a resident citizen of the United States; and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support. And this deponent further saith, that he never has receive any pension from the United States, and doth herby relinquish his claim to every pension that may have been heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States, excepting and reserving to himswlf the right of claiming, and he doth hereby claim a pension under an act entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged idn the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed 18th March, 1818. And this deponent doth further declare under oath, that the time he entered the army of the United States in the war of the revolution aforesaid, aon the Continental Establishment, the officers under whom he served, and the line to which he belonged, together with the time and manner of leaving the service, are all correctly set forth, according to the best of his knowledge and recollection in the following manner; that is to say he the said  Ivory Holland died on the 2nd day of April in the year 1777 receive a commission of a Lieutenant under the Congress of the United States of America and served under sped'l Commission in Colonel783 at whichRufus Putman regiment belonging to the Massachusetts line.   This deponent further saith that he continued in the Army of the United States or Lieutenant (?) said Commissions (which is hereunto annexed) from the date of said commission until the month of June 1783 at which time he was honorably discharged by General Washington at New (?) in the State of New York and further saith not

Signature of Ivory Holland

Sworn & Subscribed before me this 6th day of April 1818. 

Signature of John Russell 
Judge of Otsego (?)
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September 29, 1932

Mr. M. E. Tracy 
555 South Flower Street
Los Angeles
California

BA-J/MCS
Ivory Holland 
S. 45392

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of September 18, 1932, requesting information in regard to Ivory Holland, a soldier of the Revolution. 

The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 45392, based upon the military service of Ivory Holland. 

He was commissioned lieutenant on April 2, 1777, in Colonel Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged in June, 1783. His place of residence during the Revolution is not stated. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818, at which time he was seventy-eight years of age and was living in Richmond, Otsego County, New York. 

He died July 3, 1820, 

The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the soldier's family. 

Very truly yours, 

A. D. HELLER
Assistant to Administrator
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45392
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 45392
Ivory Holland 
Pen, Rev War.

Act:  28 March 1818
Index: Vol. 3, Page 234
[Arrangement of 1879.]

Text in right column of document: 
1917 July 17 Hist. to Geo S. Stewart

1925 Nov 25 hist to Alice S. Hemenway
MCA

1926 Apr (?)
to Mrs. E. L. Chapman (?)

1928 Oct 8 hist
to Mrs. Chas W. Hawkes (?)

1932 Se[t 29 hist to (?) M.E. Tracy (?)
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IN CONGRESS.

The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay,
Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent
and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO  --
[handwritten:] Ivory Holland Gentleman

[printed form:] WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, 
                DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be [handwritten:] Lieutenant In the Regiment of Foot Whereof Rufus Putnam Esq[']r [? (abbrev. "Esquire"; "r" (?) in superscript)] is Colonal [?]
[printed:] in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling
every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of [handwritten:] Lieutenant [printed:] by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly
charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as [handwritten title:] Lieutenant. 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, 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. 
Dated at [handwritten:] Boston this Second day of April Anno Dommini [sic] 1777

[printed:] By Order of the Congress, 
[Signature (with flourishes below:] 
John Hancock  [printed:] PRESIDENT.
[seen at left -- to left of J. Hancock's signature:] ATTEST. [signature:]
 Cha[']s [abbrev. "Charles"; "s" in superscript] Thomson sec[']y [abbrev. "secretary"; "y" in superscript]


[left margin largely occupied by (handwritten) looping lines from top to bottom; seen (seemingly (hand-)added, and some kind of document number) toward the bottom of the series of loops:]

45392
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Lieut. Ivory Holland 
(?) 

Correct
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State of New York, Otsego County Ss. 

I John Russell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for the County aforesaid, do certify that I am satisfied the said Ivory Holland served in the revolutionary war as aforesaid, against the common enemy, for a longer term that nine months, as stated in the affidavit of the said Ivory hereunto annexed - And I do further certify that full credit is due to the deposition of the above named Ivory with whom I was acquainted - and also that the evidence on which I have founded my judgment is contained in the affidavit of the said Ivory

Given under my hand at Cooperstown this 2bd day of May 1818. 

Signature of John Russell 
Judge of the Otsego Com. Pleas
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J L Edwards Esq.
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J L Edwards Esq. 
Dr Sir: 

The enclosed letter is from a most worthy man, whose father was  Revolutionary (?) & recently a pension, but no deceased. You would confer a favor on me by looking into this letter & Genl Duval's, & informing me whether there is an claim of the kind referred to. If so, I think Maj Holland should have the benefit, of it, without paying (?) fees in advance, to agents, & a great deduction in the end, if the claim is sucessfully (?).

Some attention to the matter will oblige. 
(?) Your truly, 
John A Dix
18 July 1846
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Pension Office, 
July 28, 1846

Sir, 
The letters which you sent here in the case of Ivory Holland are herewith returned. He was a Lieutenant in the Massachusetts line and served till the close of the war and for such service he received; on the 1st of April 1790, a land warrant, No 926 for 200 acres. The (?) auditor to whom I would respectfully refer you, will inform you whether the deceased officer received his commutation certificate. 

He was (?) under the act of Mary 18, 1818, at $20 per month, and had from the (?) April 1818 to the 4th March 1820, when his pension ceased on account of the amount of his property. He (?) on the 3rd July 1820. 

If he received his commutation then & nothing further (?)
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the United States. 



Hon. J.A. Dix
(?)
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Free
T. Williams

Capt Ivory Holland 
Richfield
Otsego 
N. York
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Washington  March 30th 1818

Dr. Sir, 
Yours of the 20th came to hand this day, agreeable to your request I enclose a paper which contains the directions from the war department, to be observed under the law of Congress of the 18th March 1818

I wish you to make the law and the enclosed regulations as public convenient that all the worthy patriots of the revolution that are in want may (?) the morsel that government at this late hour offers to them. 

I have no news of importance to communicate. Congress are to adjourn on the 20th of April. In health: 
With sentiments of esteem
I am Sir
( Name obscured due to fold of document
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Mrs. E.L. Chapman
"Prospect Farm"
Albion, New UYork

Feb. 15, 1926

Commissioner of Pensions
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 

(The U.S. Pension Office stamp can be seen and dated Feb 18 1926

Dear Sir:
My great, great, great grandfather, Samuel Holland, came to this country from England, early in the seventeen Century. His son Ivory Holland served six years in the Continental Army, and was Captain. Congress gave him a land grant of 160 acres in Michigan. His son John Wilkes Holland was born in Petersham, Nass  Dec. 30, 1769. We haven't any record of when or where he joined
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the army, but eventually his descendants came to Barrie, Orleans County, N.Y. 

Am writing this to ask if there is a record of the names of those where given land warrants or pensions in the Continental Army. If so, please send me the record of Ivory Holland in the stamped self addressed envelope, which I am enclosing. I wish to prove conclusively that I am a "Daughter of the American Revolution." Any information that you can give me will be greatly appreciated. 

Sincerely, 
Mrs. E. L. Chapman
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29 Clarke Street
Binghamton, N.Y. 
November 4, 1927.

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir, 
Will yo kindly send me a copy of any record which your office may have of the Revolutionary services of Nathan Frinck, who enlisted from Connecticut in 1782 and served under Col. Samuel B Webb?
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Have you the name of his wife and children? 

Has your office any record that Ivory Holland, Mass. received the brevet tank of Captain?

With deep appreciation for any information which you are able to give me, 
I am, 
Respectfully yours, 
Amanda N. Hawkes
(Mrs. Charles W.)
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[Oval/lozenge-shaped stamp (with doubled lines surrounding it; text as follows:]
[at top (both lines centered):] OFFICE OF
                                             THE COMMISSIONER
     [central line (centered:)] OCT 26 1925
           [at bottoM:] U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS
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310 1/2 E. Oak Ave.  Tampa Fla. 
Oct 24, 1925


Mr. Winfield Scott: 
Commissioner
U.S. Department of the Interior 
Bureau of Pensions

Dear Sir:
Please send me the Rev was records of Nathaniel Brickett - Husband of Ann Woodman of Newbury Mass and names of his children. Also of Ivory Holland, Petersham Mass husband of Martha Rogers. I wish particularly the dates of his and his wifes deaths and the names of their childen. 

Also of Comfort Carpenter of Rehoboth Mass. father of Catey Carpenter. 


Any information you can give me on these three ancestors of mine will be greatly appreciated. 

Sincerely Yours
Alice S. Hemenway
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A stamp is seen on this document. 
It reads as follows: 

U.S. Pension Office
JUL 13 1917
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Bedford, Mass july 11, 1917
Rev Sec

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir:
I with to obtain the military history of the following Revolutionary pensioners together with any family data which may be on file regarding them: 
(1) Lieut. Ibory Holland, Otsego Co, NY. pensioned in 1818, enlisted from Mass. 
(2) Lieu. Benjamin Dana, Suffolk Co Mass. pensioned in 1828.

Thanking you for this & past favors
I am, 
Sincerely Yours, 
George S. Stewart
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555 So FLower St
Los Angeles, Calif
September 18, 1932

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir: 
Please furnish information contained in the pension application of Ivory Holland. I understand he was an officer in the Revolutionary War, and made application from Otsego Co., NY in 1818. 

I am principally interested in family names, dates and localities that may be mentioned in the application. 

Your very truly, 
M E Tracy 

M E TRACY

Received Stamp visible
FECESIVED Sep 23 1932
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WAR RECORDS SECTION>   3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D.C. _________, 19____

S.F. 45.392

In reply to your request of ____, received ____ for a statement of the military history of Ivory Holland a soldier of the REVOLUTIONAY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINT
Apr. 2, 1777 
discharged

LENGTH OF SERVICE
June 1783
New Windsor N.Y. 

RANK
Lieut. 

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. 
Captain - none
Colonel - Rufus Putnam

STATE
Mass. 

Battles engaged in,  none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension,  Apr 6 1818, His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Richfield, Otsego Cou. N.Y 
Age at date of application, 78 years old  died July 3, 1820
Remarks:  There is no data on file as to his family


Respectfully, 


Commissioner.
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M.C>S.

Rev & 1812 Wars Section 

April 2, 1926

Mrs. E. L. Chapman
Albion, RF.D. #1
New York

Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 45392, it appears that IVORY HOLLAND was commissioned Lieutenant April 2, 1777, in Colonel Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged in June, 1783. His place of residence during the Revolution is not stated. 

He was allowed two hundred acres of bounty land on account of above mentioned services as a Lieutenant.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818,  at which time he was seventy-eight years of age andwas living in Richfield, Otsego County, New York. 
He Died July 3, 1820. 
There is no data on file as to his family. 
The above noted is the only soldier named IVORY HOLLAND found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau. 

Respectfully, 

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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M.C.S.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 

November 25, 1925

Alie S. Hemenway
310 1/2 E. Oak Ave. 
Tampa, FLa.

Madam: 

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 45392, it appears that IVORY HOLLAND was commissioned Lieutenant April 2, 1777, in Colonel Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged in June, 1783. His place of residence during the Revolution is not given. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818,  at which time he was seventy-eight years of age and was living in Richfield, Otsego County, New York. 

He Died July 3, 1820. 
There is no data on file as to his family. 

The above noted is the only soldier named IVORY HOLLAND found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau. 

Respectfully 

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
MCS/ee1

October 8, 1928

Mrs. Charles W. Hawkes
29 Clarke Street
Binghamton, New York

Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 45392, it appears that IVORY HOLLAND was commissioned Lieutenant April 2, 1777, in Colonel Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged in June, 1783. His place of residence during the Revolution is not stated. 

He was allowed two hundred acres of bounty land on account of above mentioned services as a Lieutenant.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 6, 1818,  at which time he was seventy-eight years of age andwas living in Richfield, Otsego County, New York. 

He Died July 3, 1820. 
There is no data on file as to his family. 

The above noted is the only soldier named IVORY HOLLAND found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
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On January 26, 1921, you were furnished the history of the only soldier by the name of Nathan Frink, searched under all spellings of the name, that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this bureau and each inquirer is furnished but on history of the same soldier of the Revolution due to the lace of clerical force available for the purpose. 

Respectfully, 

E.W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.