Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 661, Samuel Holmes, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Holmes, Samuel
661
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Suspd Sea [?] to P. Dickinson
P. Agt Feb. 10. 1835
[?] D B Ryall 26 June 1835
Suspn removed Lee letters to Hon.
G.D. Wall, Senate U.S. & P.
Agt 25 March 1836

No. 9989
New Jersey
Samuel Holmes
of Monmouth in the state of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Bennett of the Regt. commanded by Col. Forman in the N. Jersey Mil for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars ----- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension ifsued the 3. day of July 1833 and sent to Danl B. Ryall, Freehold, N.J.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833           160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. 1833  40.00
                                                                $200.00
[Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
Book E.  Vol. 3                Page 115
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Monmouth Pleas
of July Fm 1832 Declaration of Saml Holmes Esq
No. 4068
$80 per ann.
Daniel B. Ryall, Esq
Freehold, N.J.
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(8-1776) 
SERVICE     NUMBER
New Jersey    Holmes, Samuel  S.661
CONTENTS Carded
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was at the Battle of Germantown under Captain Joshua Bennet Col Laurence and General David Forman, and also at the battle of Monmouth under Major Hurn and Col Hendrickson, that the Country through which he marched principally extended from Middletown Parish to Deal in Said County of Monmouth their duties being principally to guard the shores and intermedeate points in the year 1780 he marched as far as Tappan under the command of Lieutenant Isaac Emley of Upper Freehold where they drove about 250 horses and cattle from Shrewsbury John Lloyd Esq of Upper Freehold was their Commifsary on that occafsion after delivering the cattle he served out his then month at Morristown, not acquainted with any continental regiments or companies or regular officers except Capt John Burrows not having served with any of them except at the battles before montiones, [?] that he was born in the year 1756 on the 3rd day of May in Middletown township and has the record of his age in his pofsefsion, that he has since the war resided in the County of Monmouth that he never received any discharge from the service that he recollects, thinks they did not give any other than verbal that he can prove he believes his services by his brother Anthony Hohner and by Benjamin Vanschouk, David Baird, James Betman and William Lloyd Esq with all of whom he was out in the service at different times, that he has
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no documentary evidence of his services He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to & subscribed this day and year aforesaid John Patterson } Samuel Holmes

State of New Jersey Monmouth County SS: [illegible] Anthony Holmes Benjamin Vanschoick David Baird of the County of Monmouth Do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Holmes Esq. who has subscribed to and sworn to the above declarations and that we believe he is seventy six years of age, that we know he was a soldier of the revolution having served with them during that period and that we believe he was engaged in that service at least three years we having served with him a compociable [?] portion of that time that he is not only reputed but known in the neighborhood in which he resides to be a revolutionary soldier that he is a a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit. Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid. John Patterson
Anthony Holmes
Benj Vanshoick
David Baird
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And the said Court do hereby declare there opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states; and the Court further Certifies that the said applicant is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monmouth and is a highly respectable Citizen; and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Anthony Holmes Benjamin VanSchoick and David Baird who have signed the preceeding Certificate are residents of the County of Monmouth and were swaally [?] revolutionary officers, and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
By order of the Court, WJ Bowne, Judge
I, Daniel H. Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas at Freehold in and for the County of Monmouth do hereby Certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Holmes Esquire for a pension - In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office this thirty first day of July Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty two- DH Ellis, [?]
I Daniel H. Ellis, Clerk of Common Pleas in & for the County of
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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 Samuel Holmes Esq. for a pension, made before the said Court in Term times, on the 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 and thirty three =
D.H. Ellis CC
[seal attached to paper]
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Rev War
INVALID.

File No. 661
Samuel Holmes
[] N.J. Line.

Act: June 7, 1832.
Index:-Vol. A, Page 175

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I do hereby certify that I am perfonally acquainted with Samuel Holmes of the County of Monmouth a penfioner of the United States - That he is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier during the Revolutionary War - that he is a man of good character and himfelf entitled to credit and that I have no doubt myself that he is entitled to [words crossed out here] by his revolutionary services to the penfison which he has [two more crossed out words] been allowed to him. 
Washington March 25
1836
Garret D Wall
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Freehold N.J. June 23 2d
[written sideways] M at NJ June 26
J L Edwards Esq
Court of Pensions 
Washington DC
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Freehold N Jersey June 22 1835
J.L. Edwards Esq
Dr Sir
You will oblige me by letting me know by return of Mail Why the pension of Saml Holmes Esq of the township of Shrewsbury Monmouth County has been suspended; The first information he has upon the subject was at the office of the agent in Trenton who stated he had a letter from the Pension Department suspending the payment. 
The time is peculiarly unfortunate for Mr Holmes as he has been for nearly the last year confined to his bed by palsy and is and has been for some time past as helplefs as an infant. his pension has been his principal support. He has been for many years a Justice of the Peace in Monmouth County and now holds a commifsion as such and also as a Commifsioner for taking the proof & acknowledgement of deed in faid County, and from his highly respectable character unquestioned claims for his services in the Revolution and present helplefs State the Department by the act of suspension in his cafe has excited here much surprife. You will oblige him & myself by communication the [illegible]
Yours very truly,
Daniel B Ryall
[ink swirls]
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Pension Office
M Max
Saml Holmes
NJ
9989
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Mr
Lewis Cass Esq
Secretary of War
[circular illegible stamp] [Trenton]
Washington City
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Sir you may recollect receiving above from monmouth New Jersey
concerning John Truax and Samuel Holmes Pensions have been
[illegible] and we find that John Truax is receiving his
claim but we cannot find a single person in the place who
[illegible] his ever being out in the service as was to young
[illegible] be inducted until the last of the war and he has got
[illegible] old lady widow of Captain Shepperd an old revolutionary
[illegible] to [illegible] the old lady must be 84 years old and
[illegible] she knows is that at the last of the war Truax trained under
her husband and he Truax has [illegible] that he was in the army
which we believe he [illegible] Samuel Holmes never was and are
both imposters and you will perhaps [illegible] of more
and hope Truax will not get his renewed
Trenton September | yours with respect
[illegible] 1835 | a [illegible] old Soldiers
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Supplemental declaration of Samuel Holmes Esq
for a pension under the act of June 7th 1833.
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
Samuel Holmes Esquire who being duly sworn depouth
& saith that he made his original declaration
for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832
before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
in and for the said County of Monmouth on the thirty
first day of July last past, that by reason of old age
and the consequent laps of memory he cannot swear
[illegible] to the precise length of his service, but
according to the best of his recollection, he knows not
but that the period mentioned below and written
following [illegible] ; For nine months in the year
1777 I served as a private, namely the months
of March May July September and November
in Captain John Conover's Company principally
then of Upper Freehold Township in said County
in monthly tours under the laws and ordinances
of New Jersey, said tours commencing about the
beginning of each month and ending the beginning
of the succeeding month, the months of
April June August and October I served as a 
volunteer in Captain Thos Chadwick's Company
and also in Company under the command of
Joshua Bermel, being under the latter at the
Battle of Germantown as a volunteer, I cannot
State precisely the beginning and ending of these
Monthly tours of duty as a volunteer, but they
were the intermediate months between my own
monthly tours of duty before stated beginning
where the first [illegible] one, I was however out in
service this [crossed out] year 1777 from the first of March
to the first of December the whole period of time
on my own tours of duty or as a volunteer; For
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Eight months in the year 1778 I served as a private
namely the months of January March May
July September and November in my own monthly
tours of duty under the command of Captain
Thomas Chadwick and Jeremiah Chadwick;
and the intermediate months of August
and October I served as s [crossed out] substitute
for David Vanschoick in Captain John 
Conovers Company these were monthly tours
commencing about the beginning of the months 
above named lending the beginning of the
preceding month under the laws and ordinances
of New Jersey; For several months in the year
1779 I served as a private, mainly the months
of January March May July September and November
any [illegible] monthly tours of duty under the command
of Captain Conover each tour commencing the
beginning of the month and ending the beginning 
of the following month, and the month of August
of the same year I served as a substitute for the
before named David Vanschoick in the same company
being his then monthly tour of duty the services
were all under the laws & ordinances of New Jersey
besides these monthly services I served this year
about a month as a volunteer or some called
in short tours the particulars of which I cannot
now state; For six months in the year 1780 I
served as a private in tours of duty of one month
each under Captain Conover Lieutenants
Thomas Edwards and David Baird, namely the
months of January March May July September
and November the beginning and ending
of each tour as above stated; For five months
in the year 1781 I served as a private in the
same company last named in monthly tours
of duty of one month each being my own
tours of duty under the laws and ordinances of
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the date, namely the months of March May
July September and November, For five
months in the year 1782 I served as a private
in the same manner being the [crossed out]
monthly tours of March May July September
and November in the same company & that
for such service I claim a pension; That
I was born in the Township of Middletown in
said County of Monmouth on the third day of
May 1756, that the record of [crossed out] my age is as before 
stated, that he lived in Shrewsbury township
in said County where called into the Service where
he has now since lived except from the
year 1784 to the year 1798 [illegible] where he
resided in the City of New York; that I am known
in my neighborhood by the Reverend Harry
Finch and Joseph Voorhees who can testify
to my character for veracity and their belief
of my service as a soldier of the revolution that
during the period he was out in the service he
was in the field and not in garrison, and that
during the time said services were performed
he was not engaged in any civil pursuit.
Sworn and subscribed before | 
one of the Justices of the | Samuel Holmes
Peace in and for the County of | 
Monmouth this 24th day of | 
June AD 1833 | 
William Lloyd
I William Lloyd one of the Justices of
the Peace in & for the County of Monmouth
in the State of New Jersey, & a Judge 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
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the foregoing named Samuel Holmes who has
subscribed & sworn to the foregoing supplemental 
affidavit before me made his original declaration
before the said Court for his Pension, and
further that it appears to me that the said 
Samuel Holmes is seventy eight years of age,
& reputed & believed in the neighborhood where
he resides to have been a soldier of the
Revolution, & that I concur in that opinion
& further that the said Samuel Holmes
is a credible person & that his statement
is entitled to credit.  In witness whereof
I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of 
June, A.D. 1833.
William Lloyd
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with Revd Harry Finch, a Clergyman, 
residing in the township of Shrewsbury, in
the County of Monmouth and State of
New Jersey, & Joseph Voorhees residing in
the same township, County & State, Do 
hereby certify, that we are acquainted
with Samuel Holmes Esquire who
subscribed & sworn to the foregoing
supplemental affidavit amending his original 
declaration, that we believe him to be
seventy eight 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 & subscribed this
26th day of June 1833, before
me one of the Justices of the
Peace in & for the County of
Monmouth, in the state
of New Jersey.
[signed]Lyttleton White Justice
Harry Finch Rector
of Christ Church Shrewsbury
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person, and that their statement is entitled
to credit; and further that I am personally
acquainted with the foregoing
named Samuel Holmes Esquire, that
he is far advanced in years, & reputed &
believed in the neighborhood where he resides
to have been a soldier of the Revolution
& that I concur in that opinion, & that
the said Samuel Holmes is a credible
person & that his statement is entitled
to credit. In witness whereof I have 
hereto set my hand this 26th day of
June A.D. 1833 =

Lyttleton White Justice

I Daniel H. Ellis, Clerk of the 
Superior Court of Common Pleas in and
for the County of Monmouth in the State
of New Jersey, Do hereby certify, that
William Lloyd & Lyttleton White
Esquires, by & before whom the foregoing
proceedings were done, sworn to & subscribed
[illegible], at the several times the said proceedings
were performed Justices of the 
Peace in & for the said County, & that the
said William Lloyd was at the said time
& still is, also, a Judge of the said Court,
duly enrolled in my office, & commissioned
& sworn into office, the one as such
Judge & Justice & the other as such Justice
& that due faith & credit are due & ought
to be given to the official acts of the one, as
such Judge & Justice, & to the other as such
Justice; and further that the name "William
Lloyd", signed to the [trust?] to the foregoing supplemental
affidavit of Samuel Holmes, & to the certificate
of the said William Lloyd, & the same "Lyttleto
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White Justice", to the [illegible] to the foregoing
certificate of Harry Finch & Joseph Voorhees
& to the foregoing certificate of the said
Lyttleton White, are respectively the genuine
signatures of the said William Lloyd
& Lyttleton White Esquires.

In Testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand & seal of my office
this twenty sixth day of June, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred & thirty three an
erasure in the 5th line, & an interlineartion
in the 20th line, of certificate being
made before [signing?] & sealing it.
D H Ellis