Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3684, John Holsart, New Jersey
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(8-1776)
SERVICE   NUMBER
New Jersey          Holsart, John or                 W.3684.
                            Holshart
                            Mary
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No. 9990
New Jersey
John Holshart
Holsart
of Monmouth Co. [County] in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hunn of the Regt. [Regiment] commanded by Col. Holmes in the N. Jersey Mil. [Militia] [crossed out] for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of N Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension assued the 3 day of July 1833 and sent to Danl [Daniel] B. Ryall Freehold N.J.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 40.00
$200.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by [signature] D. Brown [end] Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 3 Page 115
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advanced in years, that it is generally reputed
& believed in the neighborhood where he resides
that he is a surviving officer & soldier of the
Revolution & that I concur in that
opinion; & further that I am personally
acquainted with the said John Schenck and
that he is a credible person & that his
statement is entitled to credit - Dated the sixth
day of June A.D. 1833 = John Hull
I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas
on & for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey, Do hereby
certify that William Lloyd & John Hull Esquires by & before whom
the foregoing proceedings were done, sworn to & subscribed, were each
at the several times the said proceedings were performed & still are,
Judges of the said Court, & Justices of the Peace in & for the said
County both duly enrolled in any office, & commissioned & sworn into
office as such Judges & Justices, & that full faith & credit an 
due & ought to be given to their official acts as such Judges and
Justices respectively, & further that the same "Williams"
Lloyd signed to the Jurat to the foregoing supplemental
affidavit of John Holsart Esq & to the foregoing certificate of Sam C
Van Vranken & Hendrick I Siekles & to the Jurat to
the foregoing affidavit of Captn John Schenck, & to
the two foregoing certificates of the said John Hull, are
respectively the genuine signatures of the said
William Lloyd & John Hull Esquires, Judges and 
Justices aforesaid = 
[seal with ribbon applied] In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand & seal of office
this twenty sixth day of June in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred & thirty three =
D H Ellis
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Claim of Mary Holshart

Col Niles

Rec'd Oct 27th 1832
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Power of Attorney - Revolutionary Claim
Know all men by these:
that we Hannah Sickles and Maria
Holshart of Atlantic Township in the county
of Monmouth and State of New Jersey do hereby
make constitute and appoint Dr Charles McChesney
of Trenton New Jersey
our true and lawful Attorney to prosecute
the claim of Mary Holshart deceased who
was widow of John Holshart who was
a pensioner of the United States for any
amount of Revolutionary pension or arrears
of pension that may be due and we
hereby authorize our said attorney
to examine all the papers and documents
in relation to said claim on file in the
Departments at Washington or elsewhere
and to file additional evidence or arguments
and receive the certificates which
may be [illegible] for said claim
which we wish made payable
to our said attorney and to Appoint substitutes under him for the
purposes herein expressed hereby
ratifying and confirming all that
our said Attorney shall legally
do in the premises
Witness our hands and
over
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seals this 17th day of September A.D. 1852
Attest | Ann Bennett | Hannah Sickles [paper diamond attached]
 | J M Browne | Maria Holshart [paper diamond attached]
State of New Jersey | 
County of Monmouth | SS On this 17th day of
September A.D. 1852 before
me personally came Hannah Sickles
and Maria Holshart and acknowledged
the foregoing Power of Attorney to be their
act and deed for the purposes therein
mentioned.
[Josiah M Browne Notary Seal] In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal
of office on the day and year
above mentioned
Josiah M Browne
N.P.
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State of New Jersey | 
County of Monmouth | SS
Be it known that
on this 17th day of September A.D. 1852 before
me Josiah M Browne a notary Public for
said State personally appeared Hannah
Sickles aged 63 years and Marie Holshart
aged 60 years residents of Atlantic Township in
the County and State aforesaid; and made oath
according to law that they are the only
surviving children of John & Mary Holshart
named in the foregoing Power of Attorney; that
their Father the said John Holshart was
a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $80 per
annum that he died on the 6th day of December 1846.
that the arrearage on his pension certificate has
not been paid: that their Mother the said
Mary Holshart made application for a 
pension as a widow of the said John : which
has not yet been paid: that she died
on the 13th day of February A.D. 1851. that
they now claim the amount due on the said
certificate and also the amount due the 
said Mary Holshart at the time of her death.
Hannah Sickles
Marie Holshart
[Seal  Notary Public Josiah Brown] Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year first above mentioned
before me Josiah M Browne
N.P.
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Monmouth Pleas 
of July Term 1832
Declaration of John Holshart Esq.
No. 4066
P. O.

$80 per anum
Danl. B. Ryall Esqr
Freehold N. Jersey
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Declaration of John Holshart Esquire in order
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
dated June 7th 1832.
State of New Jersey Monmouth County SS
On this thirty first day of July Anno
Domini 1832 personally personally appeared in open court
before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common
Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth now
sitting at Freehold in said county, John
Holshart Esquire a resident of the township
of Middletown in the said County of Monmouth
and State of New Jersey aged seventy three years
on the ninth day of Maylast past, 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 dated June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United
States under the following named officers
and served as herein stated.
That he entered the service as a Militiaman 
sometime in the summer of 1776
he thinks in the month of July in a
Company commanded by Captain Thomas
Hunn, John Schenck first Lieutenant
thinks Jacob Tice was second Lieutenant
and John Whittock ensign, that he remained
in the service each and every other
month from that time until the close
of the war and the independence of
our Country was acknowledged with
the exception of about one month in
the winter of 1776 and 1777, and about
two months in which he was excused
from his military duty [illegible] of his
assisting his father in boiling Salt
at [illegible] Cove in said County of Monmouth
under the [illegible] regulations that he who were
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thus engaged in the boiling of salt from
its great [illegible] where exempt from
Military duty that the Captains under
whom he served during that period where
Samuel Carhart, James Green, Jacob
Flemming and Lieutenant Mones that
the Field officer under whom he served
during said period where Col Asher Holmes
Col Nathaniel Scudder, Col David Forman
that besides his services in his monthly
tours he generally attended all the
General Musters on alarms as they
were called that the whole time
he was out in the service during
the Revolutionary struggle as a Militia
man altogether exceeded three years
at least that at the time he entered
the service he resided in the same township
of Middletown [illegible] County
where he was thirteen years of age that it is
impossible for him to state particularly
the time of performing each months
service or the services generally he remembered
further than he has that he entered 
the service under the monthly drafts
or called as they were them termed and
served under them as aforesaid that during
the service he was engaged in several
skirmishes with the British and Tories
that the County through which he
marched extended from South Amboy
in Middlesex County to [illegible] in Shrewsbury
township guarding the intermediate
points and protecting the coast from
the British and tories that on one occasion
he marched from Freehold to Princeton
through Amwell township in Hunterdon
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to Sourland Mountains from [illegible] to [illegible]
Nathaniel Scudder was their Colonel
that he does not recollect serving with any
continental regiments or companies, or the 
names of any of the regular officers of the
army, and that he has no documentary
evidence of his services and that he knows
of no person except George Taylor and
William Anderson Nicholas Wonell and John Tilton who [illegible]
any he can procure who can
testify to his service.  He hereby relinquishes
every claim whatever to a pension or
annuity except the present, and declares 
that his name is not on the pension role
of the agency of any state.  John Holsart
sworn to & subscribed the day &
year aforesaid
John Patterson
Monmouth County State of New Jersey S: we George Taylor
William Anderson, John Tilton & Nicholas Worell
do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted
with John Holshart Esquire who has subscribed
and sworn to the above declarations
and that we believe him to be of the age
of seventy three years that we know
him to be a soldier of the Revolution
he having served with us in said service
on [illegible] occasions and that we know
he was out in said service at least three
[illegible] that he is reputed and known
in his neighborhoood to have been such
soldier. George Taylor
Sworn to & subscribed the | William Anderson
day & year of aforesaid | John Tilton
John Patterson | Nicholas Wonell
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And the said Court Do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories presented
by the war departmentthat the above
named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier and served as he stated and the
Court further certifies that the said applicant
now holds a commission as a Justice
of the Peace in said County and is a highly
respectable citizen and the county further certifies 
that it appeared to them that George
Taylor Wm Anderson John Tilton and
Nicholas Wonell who have signed the proceeding
Certificate residents of the County of
Monmouth were each of them soldiers of
the revolution and that they are credible
persons and their statement as well as that
of the applicant is entitled to credit
By order of the Court
W. J. Browne
Judge [illegible]
J.W. & E.R. Bartleson - Printers, Freehold, N.J.
I, the subscriber, clerk of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Monmouth, in the State of New-Jersey,
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the Application of John Holshart Esq for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of said Court, at Freehold, this
thirty first day of July
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two
D. H. Ellis Clk
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I Daniel H Ellis clerk of the Superior
Court of Common Pleas in & for the county
of Monmouth in the state of New Jersey
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said court
in the matter of the application of John
Holshart Esqr for a pension made before
the said court, in Term time, on this
thirty first day of July last.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal
of office this twenty sixth day
of June, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight
hundred & thirty three
D. H. Ellis Clk
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Mary Halshart
widow of John
New Jersey
John Statesir Esqr
Coltsneck
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Presented to 
Wm A. Newell
[illegible]
Act 7 July 1838
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Declaration of Mary Holshart widow of John
under act of Congress 2nd February 1848
State of New Jersey | 
Monmouth County | SS On this ninth day of
March one thousand Eight hundred and fifty
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the judges of
the court of common Pleas in and for said county Mary Holshart
a resident of Atlantic township in the county and state aforesaid
aged Eighty four years in April past, who being first duly
sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following
Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made
by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 Granting
pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary
Way or such other act as will place her name on the pension
list from the date of her husbands death.  That she is the widow
of John Holshart who was a pensioner of the United States under
act of June 7th 1832 at the rate of Eighty dollars, per annum
to whose declaration she would respectfully refer the commissioner
of pensions.  She further declares that she was married
to the said John Holshart on the Seventh day of February
Seventeen hundred and eighty eight and attaches the original
record in her said husbands hand writing - written upwards
of forty years ago and has always been in her posession
that her husband the aforesaid John Holshart died on
the sixth day of December Eighteen Hundred and forty six.
That she was not married to him previous to his leaving the
Service - but the marriage took place previous to the first of
January Seventeen hundred and ninty four Viz at the time
above stated.  Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year 
above written before
John T Woodhull - Judge | Mary Holsart
I certify that I am acquainted with the above declarant that
She is a person of credibility and truth and on account of old age and
bodily infirmity she is unable to appear in open court.  John T Woodhull
Judge
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John Holsart
Mary Polhemus
Married the 7th day of
February 1788
Our first Daughter
Hannah [illegible] Born
the 27th day of November [illegible]
Our Second Daughter
Lenah was Born the
19 day of April 1790
Our Third Daughter
Maria Born the
[illegible] day of December 1792
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State of New Jersey Monmouth County SS
Be it known that on the fifth day of March C 1837
before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county
Personally appeared Daniel Lawrence known to me
as a credible witness - who being duly sworn according to law
on his oath saith That he was well acquainted with [crossed out]
John Holshart and well recollect he died on the Sixth
day of December Eighteen hundred and forty six that he
was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death
and that he left a widow Viz Mary Holshart who
Still remains a widow and is now applying for a pension 
and further saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year above written 
Before me
John Statesir J Peace | Daniel Lawrence
State of New Jersey, Monmouth County - SS
Be it known that on the Sixteenth day of March AD 1850
before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said
county Personally appeared Tunis Statesir Known to me
as a credible witness who being duly sworn according to law on
his oath saith that he was well acquainted with John Holshart
and well recollect he died on the sixth day of December
Eighteen hundred and forty six that he was a pensioner of
the United States at the time of his death and that he left
a widow Viz Mary Holshart who still remains a widow and
is now applying for a pension and further saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written
Before me
John Statesir J Peace | Tunis Statesir
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY
[Seal with string affixed]
I, Charles G. McChesney, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that [handwritten] John T Woodhull [end handwritten] Esquire, before whom the within [crossed out] [handwritten] Declaration was [end handwritten] taken,
was, at the time of the doing thereof, a [handwritten] Judge of the Court of Common Pleas [end handwritten] in and for the county of [handwritten] Monmouth [end handwritten] in said state, duly commissioned and sworn ; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signatures thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said [handwritten] John T Woodhull [end hand written]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office at Trenton, in said state, this [handwritten] twenty third [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] March [end handwritten] A.D. on thousand eight hundred and [crossed out] fifty.
[signature] Charles G. McChesney [end]
Sec'y of State.

STATE OF NEW JERSEY
[seal affixed]
I, Charles G. McChesney, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that [handwritten] John Statesir [end handwritten] Esquire, before whom the within affidavits [handwritten] were [end handwritten] taken,
was, at the time of the doing thereof, a [handwritten]Justice of the Peace [end handwritten] in and for the county of [handwritten] Monmouth [end handwritten] in said state, duly commissioned and sworn ; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signatures thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said [handwritten] John Statesir [end hand written]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office at Trenton, in said state, this [handwritten] twenty third [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] March [end handwritten] A.D. on thousand eight hundred and [crossed out] fifty.
[signature] Charles G. McChesney [end]
Sec'y of State.
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[Stamped Seal] DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION [End Stamp]
MRS. JAMES H. MATTENLEE, REGENT
SHREWSBURY TOWNE CHAPTER
SHREWSBURY, NEW JERSEY
[Stamp] RECEIVED
JUL 6 1936
MAIL 306. DIV.
[Illegible]
READER
11 [End Stamp]
[Handwritten] I could not find other letter [End Handwritten]
Irving Place
Shrewsbury, N.J.
July 3, 1936
Bureau of Pensions
Revolutionary War Dept.
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Sometime ago I wrote you asking for any information that you could give me regarding John Holsart (or Hulsart) of Mount Rose near Freehold, New Jersey, Revolutionary War Soldier, whom I am told was a pensioner or a pension was received by his wife, Mary Polhemus, and as yet I have not received any reply.
Any information that you can give me in this matter will certainly be appreciated.
Very truly yours,
[Handwritten] no signature? [End Handwritten]
Pauliene D. Mattenlee
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July 21, 1936
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 [illegible]/EEL
Mrs. James H Mattenlee | John Holsart-W.3684
Shrewsbury
New Jersey
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War record of John Holsart(or Hulsart), of Mount
Rose, near Freehold, New Jersey, who received a pension and whose
wife was Mary Polhemus.
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file
in Revolutionary War pension claim W.3684, based upon the military
service of John Holsart in that war.
John Holsart was born in Freehold Township, Monmouth County, 
New Jersey, May 9, 1759.  The names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New
Jersey, John Holsart enlisted in July, 1776, and served on alarms
on tours of one month each from that time until in 1783, at least
three years in all, as a private in the New Jersey Troops under
Lieutenant Morris, Captains Thomas Hunn, John Schenck, Samuel Carhart,
James Green and Jacob Fleming, Colonels Asher Holmes, Nathaniel
Schudder, and David Forman.  He was in several skirmishes with
the British and Tories.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 31,
1832, while residing in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New
Jersey, where he had resided ever since he was thirteen years of age.
He signed John Holsart.  He was a Justice of the Peace for said 
Monmouth County at that time.
He died December 6, 1846, place not shown.
The soldier married February 7, 1788, Mary Polhemus, who was
born in April, 1765.  The names of her parents and the place of
her birth are not stated.
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Mary Holshart [illegible] February 3, 1851.
The names of three children are given, as follows
Hannah Holshart | born November 27, 1788
Sarah Holshart | " April 19, 1790
Maria Holshart | " December 24, 1792
On September 17, 1852, Hannah Sickles and Maria Holshart
(as she signed), of Atlantic Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey,
only surviving children of the soldier, John Holshart and
his wife, Mary, applied for the pension which was due their mother.
The claim was allowed.
The Christian name of the husband of Hannah Holshart Sickles
was not given nor the date of death of the second daughter of the
soldier, Lenah Holsart.
In 1833, soldier referred to his sister, "long since deceased"
but did not give her name.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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1936 July 21 - Hist to
Mrs Jas H Mattenlee Es
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3684
Mary Holshart
Widow
John Holshart
Pvt Rev War
Act: July 29 1818
Index:-Vol. a, Page 341
Arrangement of 1870
[checkmark]
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710.1.156
Trenton (N.J.) Agency
Mary Holshart decd
widow of John who was
a private in Jersey troop.
Ad Act July 28 1848
$80 per ann.
Com. March 4 1848
End [crossed out] Feb 13, 1857
when he died, payable
to Hannah Sickles and
Maria Holshart, only
children [illegible]
[illegible] Charles McChesney
Present
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14,753
Mary Holshart
widow of John
New Jersey
Rejected
let May 1850 Hon.
W. A. Newell
to same May 8th 1850
(was not a widow on 7 July 1838
Act 7 July 1838
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Brief in the case of Mary Holshart [illegible] John
Monmouth County and State of N. Jersey
act July of 1848
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Hussam pensioner Act June 7 1832
[illegible] evidence of [illegible] prior to
1810.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?
[nothing filled out]
Name and residence of Agent
[illegible] | Examining Clerk
Now Present |
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State of New Jersey | 
County of Monmouth | SS
Be it known that on this
17th day of September A.D. 1852 before me
Josiah M Brown a notary Public for
said state personally appeared Allice
Lawrence and Ann Bennett residents
of Atlantic Township in the county and State
aforesaid and made oath according to law
that they were well acquainted with John
and Mary Holshart of this place that
they have understood that the said John
was a pensioner and that Mary his widow
made application for a pension before her
death: that John Holshart died on the 6th
day of December A.D. 1846 and that his widow
the said Mary Holshart died on the 13th day of
February A.D. 1851 and that Hannah
Sickles and Maria Holshart are her only
surviving children
Alice Lawrence
Ann Bennett
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year
first above mentioned and I certify that the
[Josiah M Brown Notary Seal] said Allice Lawrence and Ann
Bennett are credible and disinterested
witnesses.
Josiah M Brown
N.P.
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House of Reps. U.S.
20 March 1850

Dear Sir,
 I here with transmit to you the accompanying papers in the case of Mrs. Holshurt. Please give it as early attention as may be compatible with your other engagements and when you have looked over the case, inform me of the result
With great respect 
I am yours
Wm. A.  Newell

Hon. J. L. Edward
Commr of Pensions
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Amended declaration of John Holshart Esquire
for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832.
New Jersey Monmouth County SS: Personally appeared
before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the
County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey John Holshart
Esquire who being duly sworn deposeth and saith
that by reason of old age and the consequent [illegible]
he cannot swear positively to the [illegible] 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 three months
in the year 1776 I served as a private in a company
commanded by Captain Thomas Hunn, namely
the months of July September and November being
three monthly tours of one month each under the laws
and ordinances of New Jersey; For three months in the
year 1777 I served as a private in the same company
commanded by Captain John Schenck part of the 
time who was promoted to the Captaincy on the
promotion of Captain Hunn to a Major Asher
Holmes being the Major, the monthly tours I served
this year were March May and July, in the
month of January I was not out as the British
& tories had their ascendancy in the County and the
months od September and November with the intermediate
month I was engaged in boiling salt at Muskrats
Cove and was while there engaged exempt under the
laws of New Jersey from Militia Service; For six months
in the year 1778 I served as a private in the same
manner in the same Company under the same
officers being as monthly tours of one month
each, namely the months of January March
May July September and November; For six months
in the year 1779 I served as a private in the
same Company under the same officers being
six monthly tours of one month each being
the months of January March May July September
and November; For six months in the year 1780
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I served as a private a part of the time in the same 
Company under the before named officers, and other
part in a Company commanded by Captain James
Green being in monthly tours of one month each
namely the months of January March May July
September & November; For six months in the 
year 1781 I served as a private under Captain Jacob
Fleming Ephraim Buck being Lieutenant being
six monthly tours of one month each namely the 
months of January March May July September
and November; For six months in the year 1782
I served as a private in the same company last
named commanded by the same officers, being
six monthly tours of one month each namely the
months of January and March, and for such
service I claim a pension, [crossed out] besides the before
mentioned services he was in the service several
months under the general calls or alarms, but
cannot state precisely the particular times when
except in the month of June 1778 when he was
out under Captain Carhart being nearly a
month, that he never secured any written discharge
none such being given, that he was born
in the township of Freehold in Monmouth County
on the ninth day of May 1759, that he has no record
of his age in his possession, the records of his fathers
family's age being entered in an old Dutch Psalm
book which was taken by his sister long since deceased
he does not know where it now is believes it is
long since lost or destroyed; that he lived in the township
of Middletown when he entered the service in
said County of Monmouth where he has some [illegible] and
now resides; that he was not [illegible] service as a [illegible]
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[illegible] but performed his services before names under
the regular monthly tours required by the laws and
ordinances of Newbury and for the time during which
the service was performed he was not employed in
any civil pursuit that he was not not in garrison
at anytime but in the field, that I am known in
my neighborhood by the Reverend Samuel V Van Vrakin
and Hendrick J Sickles who can testify to my character
for veracity and their belief of my services a soldier
of the revolution.  That I made my original declaration
for a pension under the act of [illegible] the 1832 before
the Judges of the Monmouth Pleas on the thirty first
day of July last part besides the field offices named
in his original declaration under whom he [illegible] he
recollects Colonel Daniel Hendrickson, that the services
he performed was confined almost exclusively to guarding
the coastland shores from the British and tories
from South Amboy in Middlesex to deal in Shrewsbury
in Monmouth County under the before named
officers except when they marched to Sourland
Mountain as stated in his original declaration.
Sworn & subscribed before one | 
this 6th day of June 1833 | John Holshart
William Lloyd | 
I William Lloyd one of the Justices of the
Peace in & for the County of Monmouth & state of
New Jersey, & one of the Judges of the Inferior Court
of Common Pleas in & for the said County, Do hereby
certify that I was one of the Judges of the said
Court at the time the foregoing named John Holshart
Eqs: made his original Declaration for a Pension
, & that I am personally acquainted with
the said John Holshart, that the foregoing supplemental
affidavit was sworn to & subscribed
by him before me, that the said John Holshart
is a credible person & that his statement is entitled
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to credit ; & further that it appears to me that the
said John Holshart is seventy four years of age,
that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the
Revolution, & that I concur in that opinion =
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand this 6th day of June A. D. 1833 =
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Me Samuel Van Vranken a clergyman
residing in the township of Freehold in the County
of Monmouth & state of New Jersey and
Hendrick Sickels residing in the same
County & state do hereby severally certify under
our respective oaths that we are well acquainted
with John Holsart Esquire who was sworn
& subscribed to the foregoing supplementary
declarations that we believe he is seventy
four years of age that he is reputed & believed 
in the neighborhood where he resides to have
been a soldier of the Revolution & that we 
concur in that opinion =
Sworn to & subscribed | 
this sixth day of June A. D. | Saml A Van Vranken
1833, before me one of the | 
Judges of the Superior Court of | Hendrick J Sickles
Common Pleas in & for the said | 
County of Monmouth, in the | 
State of New Jersey = |
John Hull
I John Hull one of the Judges of the
Superior Court of Common Pleas in & for the
County on Monmouth & State of New Jersey,
do before whom the aforesaid certificate was 
sworn to & subscribed, Do hereby certify, that it
appears to me, & I know the past to be so, that
Samuel A Van Vranken who has signed the
foregoing certificate is a clergy man resident in the township
of Freehold in the said County of Monmouth 
& State of New Jersey, & that Hendrick J Sickles
who has has also signed the same, is a resident of
the same County & State & is a credible person.
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& that their statement is entitled to credit;
And I do further certify that I am personally
acquainted with the foregoing named John
Holshart Esq:, that he is advanced in years & generally
reputed in the neighborhood where he lives
to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that
I concur in that opinion, & further that the
said John Holshart is a credible person & that
his statement is entitled to credit =  Dated
May the Sixth A.D. 1833 = an interlineation in the
8th lines of certificate being made before signing it.
John Hull
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State of New Jersey
Monmouth County to wit; |
Personally appeared before
the subscriber one of the Judges of the Superior
Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County
of Monmouth, Captain John Schenck, who
being duly sworn doth depose & say, that he
is one of the surviving soldiers & officers of
the Revolutionary War, & that he has made
application under the late act of Congress for a
Pension for his services during said war.  That
he is well acquainted with the foregoing
named John Holshart Esq, having known
him from childhood; that he knew the said
John Holshart very well during the Revolutionary
War & that he remembers perfectly that the
said John Holshart was out time after time
doing actual service during said war in 
the company of which this deponent was 
Captain, & further this deponent states that 
the said John Holshart ia a credible person
& that his statement is entitled to credit=
sworn to & subscribed | 
this Sixth day of June A.D. | John Schanck Capt
1833 before me John Hull | 
I John Hull one of the Judges of the Superior
Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of
Monmouth & State of New Jersey, before whom
the foregoing affidavit of Captain John Schenck
was sworn to & subscribed, do hereby certify
that the said John Schenck is a man for
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advanced in years.  That it is generally refuted
& believed in the neighborhood where he resides
that he is a surviving officer & soldier of the
Revolution & that I concur in that
opinion; & further that I am personally
acquainted with the said John Schenck and
that he is a credible person & that his
statement is entitled to credit.  Dated the Sixth
day of June A.D. 1833.  John Hull
I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas
in & for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey, Do hereby
certify that William Lloyd & John Hull Esquires by & before whom
the foregoing proceedings were done, sworn to & subscribed, were each
at the several times the said proceedings were performed & still are
Judges of the said Court & Justices of the Peace in & for the said
 County, both duly enrolled in any office, & commissioned & sworn into
office as such Judges & Justices & that full faith & credit an
[illegible] & ought to be given to their official acts as such Judges and
Justices respectively & further that the same "William
Lloyd" signed to the Jurat to the foregoing supplemental
affidavit of John Holsart Esq: & to the foregoing certificate
of the said William Lloyd & the name "John Hull"
signed to the Jurat to the foregoing certificate Saml
A VanVranken & Hendrick J Sickles & to the Jurat to
the foregoing affidavit of Captn John Schenck & to
the two foregoing certificates of the said John Hull are
respectively the genuine signatures of the said
William Lloyd & John Hull Esquire Judges and
Justices aforesaid.
[seal and ribbon applied] In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal of office
this twenty sixth day of June in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred & thirty three.
D H Ellis Clk