Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7803, Asahel Hollister, Conn.

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(S-1776)
SERVICConn.

Hollister, Asahel
Elizabeth

NUMBER
W.7803

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Top line missing top of letters and part of first three lines
Vermont (has been crossed out)
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Asahel Holl(ister)
of Arlington in the State of Ver(mont)
who was a private in the Com (commanded)
by Captain _________ of the Regt commanded 
by Col. Enos in the Cont. Troops
line (crossed out) for 15 mo. 7 days
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ver.
at the rate of 51 Dollars 77 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of December 1833 and sent John Aikin, Manchester Vt
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1833 $126.92
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 4, 33 25.38
$152.30
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{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by E.D. Bullock Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 70

second column top right of page missing and left edge of page missing
to Pension Agent 3 April (info missing)
Ohio Pittsburg from Bun
(info missing?) glow Vermont form 4 Sep 
(info missing?) 16 April 1838 Notifica
(tion) sent to Edwin F. Phelps 
( )erdow Geauga County Ohio

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3359
Ohio Pittsburg
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Elizabeth Hollister
widow of Asahel Hollister
Connecticut
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
50 Dollars 77
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Jany 1849 and sent to Kennedy T. Friend
Pittsburg PA
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 2, 1848 Page 343 Vol. 4

Second column

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8176
Elizabeth Hollister
of Asahel
Ohio
married in 1787
husband died 12th Feby '39

service 15 mos 70 days
[unk]

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State of Ohio} ss.

On this eighteenth day of January 1842, personally appeared before the subscriber President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Lake in the state of Ohio, Elizabeth Hollister, a resident of Kirtland in the county of Lake aforesaid, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows;" that she is the widow of Asahel Hollister, deceased, who was a revolutionary pensioner, as a private in the Revolutionary Army, first placed on the Toll of Burlington Vermont, and from thence transferred to that of Ohio, Pittsburgh, to take effect from and after the 4th September 1837, the evidence of his service being on file in the pension office. 

She further declares that she was married to the said Asahel Hollister on the tenth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven; that her husband, the aforesaid Asahel Hollister died on the 12th day of February 1839, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz at the time above stated.

Elizabeth Hollister

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day & year above written, before me this eighteenth day of January AD 1842.

Rueben Hitchcock President Judge of the 14th Judicial Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas in the State of Ohio

I Rueben Hitchcock President Judge of the 14th Judicial Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas in the State of Ohio do certify that in my opinion the above named Elizabeth Hollister is now, and was at the last term of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Lake, unable to attend and appear in open Court by reason of bodily infirmity; and I further certify that the above words "for the County of Lake" was interlined before the execution, and attestation to the above declaration. Painsville January 14th 1842.

Rueben Hotchkiss President Judge of the 14th Judicial Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas in the State of Ohio

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The State of Ohio
Lake County, ss.}

I, JOHN W. HOWDEN, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Lake, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents certify and make known, that Reuben Hitchcock Esquire, before whom the annexed and foregoing oath of Elizabeth Hollister was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was at the time of the taking such oath and now is President Judge of the 14th Judicial Circuit of the Court of Common in the State of Ohio, in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the Laws of the State of Ohio, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Painesville, in said County, this 18th day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty two.

John W Howden Clerk
By C D Adams Deputy Clerk

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The State of Ohio
Geauga County ss.}

On this 19th day of March AD 1838, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Geauga, personally appeared Asahel Hollister who, on his oath, declares that he the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Le Ta in the regiment commanded by Colonel Levi Wells in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Vermont, from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in Geauga County in the State of Ohio (Pittsburgh Agency) where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future; and that his reasons for removing to the state of Ohio are, that his children were removing to that State and he did not wish to be separated from them.

Asahel Hollister

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid

Thomas Burdick
Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio
Geauga County ss.}

I Joseph C Hollister of lawful age, being duly sworn, do declare that I am well acquainted with Asahel Hollister, who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit, and know him to be the identical person therein described.

Joseph C Hollister

Sworn & subscribed this 19th day of March 1838, by the said Joseph C Hollister whom, from personal knowledge, I hereby certify to be a person of truth & veracity.

Thomas Burdick Justice of the Peace

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The State of Ohio
Geauga County ss.}

I, D. D. Aiken, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, do hereby certify that Thomas Burdick Esq before whom the foregoing oath appears to have been taken on the 19th day of March AD 1838, was, at that time, and still is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn; and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.

In Testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Chardon, this 26th day of March AD 1838.

D. D. Aiken Clerk

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State of Vermont
Bennington County ss.}

On this seventeenth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon; the Probate Court, for the District of Manchester in said County, now sitting at Manchester with & for said District, Asahel Hollister a resident of Arlington in said District of Manchester & County of Bennington aged sixty nine 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 act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he was born at Glastenbury [Glastonbury] in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, on the first day of May AD 1763, that he hath a record of his birth made by his father in his family Bible & knows of no other record, that he continued to reside at Glastenbury [Glastonbury] aforesaid till the month of September AD 1805 & then removed to Pittsfield in the county of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, & there resided six years & then removed to Arlington in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont, where he has ever since resided & now resides.

That he said Asahel entered the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution & served under the following named officers & as hereafter stated:

That in the Spring of the year AD 1777 he said Asahel entered at said Glastenbury [Glastonbury], as a minute man, & in the month of May following [unk] the month of May AD 1777 he was called into actual service, under Capt. Elijah Wright of Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut, Isaac Goodrich of Glastenbury1st Lieut. John Francis of Wathersfield 2d Lieut. Aaron Hubbard of Glastenbury [Glastonbury] Ensign, for three months, that he marched from Glastenbury [Glastonbury] aforesaid to White Plains & there joined the main army commanded by Genl. Washington in person, the Regt was commanded by Col. Enos of Hartford, Conn, that he said Asahel remained at White Plains a few weeks doing garrison duty & that the regiment to which

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he was attached was then marched to West Point and there remained till his time of service expired, that Gen Malcomb then commanded at the Point, that he was employed in doing garrison duty, & part of the time fatigue duty, building the fort on the [unk] above West Point, that a mutiny took place in the Regiment before [unk] over on to the Point, instigated by one Bruk of Hartford, Conn, but all the soldiers immediately returned to their duty except said  Bruk, who was arrested & court martialed, but before his trial was finished he got out of the tent where he was kept, & escaped, that at the expiration of said tour of three months he said Asahel was dismissed & went home to Glastenbury [Glastonbury].

Said Asahel further declares & says that in three weeks after his said return home, at said Glastenbury [Glastonbury], he was called out into the service for another tour of three months, under the same Capt. & other company of men & the same Colonel that he marched from Glastenbury [Glastonbury] aforesaid directly to Horse Neck & was there stationed during the whole of his said period of service, that Horse Neck was then a frontier post & while he was there a small scout from the British army took one Col Thompson & seven men prisoners, after having killed two men, at the house occupied by Col. Thompson near Horse Neck, that he was engaged in garrison duty during the periods of his enlistment at Horse Neck, & that there was no other regiment stationed there except Col Enos Regt that at the expiration of his said term of service he was dismissed & went home to Glastenbury [Glastonbury] aforesaid.

Said Asahel further declares & says that in the month of July AD 1778 & immediately after New Haven in the State of Connecticut was burnt by the British he was drafted for a term of three weeks to defend New Haven, & immediately marched from said Glastenbury [Glastonbury]to New Haven. Company commanded by Elizur Hale Junr of Glastenbury [Glastonbury] aforesaid. Stephen Goodrich, Lieut. that they found the town partly burnt & deserted by the British

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that there one other company of Militia called out on the same service, that they remained at New Haven aforesaid during the said term of three weeks, when he said Asahel was dismissed & went home, having been absent about one month.

Said Asahel further declares & says that in the month of August AD 1778, at Glasenburg aforesaid, he enlisted into the Connecticut State troops. Lieut Alexander M Dournnenuley officers for a term of eight months & entered the service immediately after, that he with five or six other privates & one corporal marched down to New London in the State of Connecticut & there joined the company commanded by Capt Lee Lay of Lince in the State of Conn., Levi Wells of Colchester Conn Col who was the highest officer at the post, that he remained at New London aforesaid during the whole period of his enlistment eight months doing his duty as a soldier, that the winter during which he was thus stationed at New London was one of unusual severity, that during the winter the Sloop Experiment, owned in Boston, was cut out of the harbour of New London & fitted up for a privateer, that in the summer of 1778, he said Asahel, then being a guard at the light house, saw the British fleet pass down the Town, consisting o about 40 sail, but they did not land, that at the expiration of the term of his service he was dismissed & went home; having done duty as a soldier during the fall periods of eight months.

Said Asahel further says that he never received any written discharge from any person whatsoever from said service & that he has no documentary evidence whatsoever relative to his said services, that Innett Hollister of Pawbt in the County of Rutland is acquainted with the fact of his, the said Asahel's enlisting as a minute man, & also with the fact of his being in actual service the said two terms of three months each as above set forth having been in the same service with him, and that Robert Burrows

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of Berlin in the State of New York is acquainted with his serving his country during the term of eight months as last above set forth & besides them he know of no other person living who is personally acquainted with his said services or any of them, but that Reuben Barney Esquire, & Zadock Hard of said Arlington are well acquainted with his character as to truth and veracity, as well as with his reputation as being a soldier of the revolution, & can testify in regard to the same.

And the said Asahel hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. 

Asahel Hollister

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid by & before

Myron Clerk Judge of Probate

We Reuben Barney and Zadock Hard residents of Arlington in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Asahel Hollister of said Arlington who has subscribed  & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty nine 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 the day & year aforesaid.

Reuben Barney
Zadock Hard

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Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

Reuben Barney
Zadock Hard

By & before Major Clark Judge of Probate Ct

And the sd Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Reuben Barney & Zadock Hard who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Arlington & are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.

Major Clark Judhe of Probate

I Henry Robinson Register of the Court of Probate, aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Asahel Hollister for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of our said this 17th day of August AD 1832.

Henry Robinson Register

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"Dec 2d 1787 Asahel Holister and Elizabeth Wire were married."
The above is a true copy in the words and figures of the Record of the records kept by the late James Eells Pastor of the Congl church in the parish of Eastburg. And I hereby certify that by said Records it appears that on the second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven Asahel Holister of Glastenbury  [Glastonbury] Connecticut was married to Elizabeth Wire of said Glastenbury [Glastonbury] by the Revd James Eels.

Attest Aaron Snow Clerk of said church

State of Connecticut
County of Hartford } ss. Hartford June 24th 1844

Personally appeared the above named Aaron Snow and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed and I certify that he is a credible person and his certificate entitled to credit.

William N. Matson Justice of the Peace

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State of Connecticut
Hartford County} ss.

I L T Pease Clerk of the county Court for sd county & State, Keeper of the Seal of sd Court and of the commissions of the Justices of the Peace for said county do hereby certify that William N Matson Esq of Hartford in sd county now is and for more than one year last part has been a Justice of the Peace within & for sd county duly appointed commissioned and sworn with full power by the laws of the state to administer oaths, that I am acquainted with his hand writing and that the signature to the foregoing affidavit purporting to be his, is his official signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the sd court this 24th day of June 1844.

L T Pease Clerk

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Revolutionary War
Widow, &c.
File No. 7803
Elizth Hollister
Wid.
Asahel Hollister
Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Feby, 2d 48
Index:-Vol. A Page 343
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Elizabeth Hollister
of Asahel
Ohio
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Rejected
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See let 24 Feb.
1842 Horace Steele
same apl 22 1843
same Oct 3 1843
was not a widow 
at the time of the passage
of Act of 7 July 1838
Let to Horace Steele Dec 10, '44
" Same " May 13 1845
"same Sept 5 '45

Act 7 July 1838

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No 8176
Elizabeth Hollister
widow of Asahel
O
act 7 July 1838 and
Joint resolution of the
23 January 1845
admd 13 mos 7 days for
$50.77 per annum
admd acts 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844
$50.77 per annum


Asahel Hollister
Kirtland
Lake Co
Ohio

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7455
Ohio, Pittsbg
Elizabeth Hollister
widow of Asahel Hollister
who was a private
in the Connecticut line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 50 Dollars 77 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the 
6 day of Dec 45,
and sent to Asahel Hollister, Rutland, Lake Co, Ohio

[Act of March 3, 1843]
& 17 June 44

Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 204

let to Hon J Wentroth Dec 31 '46

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9755
Ohio (Pittsbg agy)
Elizabeth Hollister,
widow of Asahel Hollister,
who was a pensioner under the Act of '32,
and who died in the 12 Feby '39,
of Lake Co in the State of -
who was a private in the
commanded by Captain                  of the
            commanded by            in
the Connecticut line for 15. 7 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 50 Dollars 77 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Dec 45 and sent to Asahel Hollister, Rutland, Lake Co, Ohio.

Total amount,             $

[Act of July 7, 1838]
&  resol Jany 45

Recorded by [unk] Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 Page 389


let to Hn J. Wentroth Dec 31, 46

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STATE OF VERMONT,
To all to whom these present shall come.  GREETING.

*Certify that Darius Moore Esq whose signature appears to the foregoing Deposition, is a Justice of Peace in & for the County of Bennington, duly qualified by Law to administer oaths &c, & that I am acquainted with his hand writing, & believe his signature to be genuine.

In testimony whereof, I HENRY ROBINSON Clerk of the County Court within, and for the County of Bennington have hereunto Subscribed my name, I have caused the Seal of the Said County Court to be affixed. 
Done at Manchester, in the County of Bennington, this 7th day of Sept AD 1833 and of the Independence of the United States, the fifty eighth.

Henry Robinson Clerk

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Pension Office
June 22 1853

Sir

Asahel Hollister, Ohio Rolls, Pittsburgh Agency, act June 7 1832 $50.77 per annum. Please state to what time he was paid.
Died 12th Feb 1839, paid to his death.

His widow Elizabeth, same rate, same Rolls, acts July 7 1838 &c. Please state to what time she was paid.

Very respectfully

J P Waldo
Cmmr of Pensions

Paid to 4th March 1851- Then transfd to Cleveland and pd fr 4 Mar 51 to 4th Sept 1852.

F Burt
Auditor

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Pittsburg Pa Oct 7 14

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir,

Enclosed please [unk] the declaration of Elizabeth Markell, Mary French, and Elizabeth Hollister, asking the benefits of the act of 2nd Feby 1848, granting pensions to certain widows.

I am most respectfully your obt svt

Kennedy T Friend

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Feby 4, 1845
Asahel Hollister


Hon. J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City,
D.C.

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Painesville July 26, 1848

Dear Sir,

I have taken measures to obtain the certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut, relative to the service of the late Mr Asahel Hollister, and have directed him to forward it directly to your department, to save time, so that the widow may obtain her certificate, (which I hope will now be granted without further delay,) so that she will be enabled to draw her money on the 4th of September next.

The certificate of the Comptroller will doubtless have reached you when this arrives. You will please send her certificate to me, at this place as her agent, and I will see that she has it immediately.

As it will be more convenient & less expensive to get her money in the city of New York, than it would be at Pittsburgh, she wishes to be placed on the list so that she may draw her pension in the city of New York, if it is not inconsistent with the rules & regulations of the Department.

I am very respectfully your obt servt

Horace Steele

Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

A Carrington, comptroller of Conn for service of Asahel Hollister

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Aug 1, 1845
Proof of service of
A Hollister



J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City

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Comptrollers Office, Connecticut
Hartford, July 29th 1845

On application for evidence of the service of Asahel Hollister in the war of the Revolution, I certify that I find no pay roll of Capt Elijah Wright's Company in this office under whom Mr Hollister claims to have served, but find the following evidence of Capt Wright's service in the years 78 & 79. In pay Table Books, is this entry, for 78 April 7 1778 Capt Elijah Wright, Enos Ball- Dr
To order on Treasurer in act for his Co [unk]    400
April 16, 1779 is the following entry
Capt Elijah Wright    Dr
To order on Treasurer            2000
also
1778 April 7th Colo Roger Enos   Dr
To the order on the Treasurer in act for his Co   300
1778 Octo es. To order on Treasurer    500
with other charges amounting to    1564-6-8

A Carrington Comptroller

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Painsville Lake Co O 16 Dec 1844

Hon J L Edwards,

Having established the fact that Mrs. Elizabeth Hollister is the widow if Asahel Hollister, deceased, who was a pensioner, is not the Testimony now on file in your office on which his [unk] was established & his name placed on the pension roll, sufficient to entitle her to the benefits of the act of July 7, 1838, without subjecting her to the expense & trouble of procuring the certificates of the Comptroller of Connecticut, to establish a fact which has already been shown to the satisfaction of the Department.

I however, had the impression & am much mistaken, if the required certificate has been forwarded to your department & will be found on file in your office. If you do not find it, and on a review of the case, should still deem it indispensable, I wish you would inform me, & I will endeavor to procure it anew, though it is feared she will not survive the lapse of time requisite to send some 500 miles & obtain it & then forward it to Washington & procure the return of the certificate. Besides she is extremely poor & dependent upon the charities of her neighbors for the comforts of life, and cannot without much difficulty, obtain money enough to pay the comptrollers fees & the postage. She is in no way related to me, but as an act of benevolence, I [unk] rendered her all the service I have, without charge.

I am yours &c very respectfully

Horace Steele

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Apl 19 '43
Eliz Hollister
Ohio
1838
(Illegible word)

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

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Painsville Lake Co O 13 April 1843

Hon J L Edwards,

Dear Sir, in the winter (18 Jan.) of 1842 I forward the papers to your office, in support of the claim of the widow Elizabeth Hollister, of Kirtland, in this County, for a pension, which was rejected on the ground that the act of July 7, 1838 did not provide for cases where the husband died after the passage of the act. I am informed that an act was passed at the last session, which provides for her & others in like circumstances. If this be the case, I conclude she is now entitled to a pension, without making any further declaration or furnishing any other testimony than what is now on file in your office. If so, you will please forward the certificate to me, as her agent, as soon as may be & oblige.

Yours &c respectfully

Horace Steele

P.S. If any thing he further necessary to do to entitle her to a certificate please inform me what is necessary.

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Apl 14
Mr Evans


J L Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington

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Bank of Burlington
April9, 1838

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
S

Asahal Hollister on the roll of this agency under the act of 7 June 1822 a the rate of $50.77 per annum was last paid to 4 Sept 1837 on the 16 of Same month as appears by our Books
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
E. Y. Englesby pny
Fn R Holly

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7744

15 mo 7 day private
$50.77

John Aikin Esq
Manchester 
Vt

101.54
  25.38
--------
126.92

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Asahel Hollister which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  No see quere 5

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  no

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  no

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of the military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?  no
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. ++ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  no see ques 16

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES

*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise 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 ------- year ---------- months, and ---------- days, I served as a -------------. For ------------ months and --------days, I served as a ------------; and for such service I claim a pension."

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any service.

+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

++QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificates of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

*In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

At the time the first tour of service was performed declarant was too young to be liable to the performance of military duty. Farther proof is required. The witness, to substantiate this claim, should furnish in detail what they know of the alledged service. According to the statement of the latter and one of the former, the 8 mos & 6 months service was performed in the same year.

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I, Gilbert Wier, of Glastenbury, Hartford County, in the State of Connecticut, aged seventy two years, depose& say that I was present at the solemnization of the marriage of Asahel Hollister, now deceased, to my sister Elizabeth Wier, and saw them married, on the tenth day of December the year of our Lord 1787 by the Reverend Mr. James Eells, now deceased. Said marriage took place at Glastenbury in said State, I also testify & say that said Hollister & my sister Elizabeth, lived together as husband & wife, from the day of their marriage, as above stated, until the decease of said Hollister, to wit, on the 12th day of February AD 1839, and since his decease, the said Elizabeth has & still does remain a widow, & has never married any other person.

Gilbert Wier

State of Ohio
Lake County} ss.

Personally appeared, the above named Gilbert Wier, before me & subscribed and being duly sworn, made solemn oath to the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, that the same is true. I also certify that the said Gilbert Wier is a credible witness.

Geo Ranney, Justice of the Peace
[unk] Oct 14 AD 1841

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The State of Ohio
Lake County ss.}

I, JOHN W. HOWDEN, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Lake, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents certify and make known, that George Ranney Esquire, before whom the annexed and foregoing affidavit was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such affidavit and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, agreeably to the Laws of the State of Ohio, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given throughout the United States, and elsewhere.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Painesville, in said County, this 18th day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty one.

John W Howden Clerk

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Asahel Hollister
Kirtland

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WAR DEPARTMENT
PENSION OFFICE
16th April 1838

Sir:

In conformity with the regulations of this Department, you have this day been transferred from the Roll of Burlington Vermont to that of Ohio-Pittsburgh to take effect from and after the 4th September 1837.

I am, Sir, respectfully, Your obedient servant,

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Mr. Asahel Hollister
U. S. Pensioner 
care of Edwin F. Phelps Esq
Chardan
Geauga County
Ohio

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J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

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Chardon, Geauga County
Ohio, March 26, 1838

Sir,

I herewith send an application for a transfer, from Asahel Hollister. Please, as early as convenient, to forward returns to

Your obt servt

Edwin F Phelps

J. L. Edwards Esq

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20

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Kirtlland O
Oct 2nd

Mar 10 '48 Elz Hollister
Re Jam 22 1845

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Kirkland, Lake Co, Ohio
Oct 1, 1845

Sir

Enclosed is Elizabeth Holister's (wife of Asahel Holister) declaration in conformity to your letter to Mr Steel of the 5th Sept ultimo which we hope will be satisfactory and bring the business to an immediate termination as Mrs Holister is in a destitute situation and in great need of the avails to relieve her from the present instruments.

I am very respectfully your obt sert

Asahel Holister

J L Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington DC

AB- Please direct your further communications to me at this place, as Mr Steel has left Plainville

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May 12 1849
Rec care Mr Hollister

To the Commission of Pensions,
Washington City
DC

Page 46

Sir, Mr. Asahel Hollister, whose widow now claims a pension, served a part or all of the time in the militia, and it is not probable that his name will be found in the office of the Comptroller of Connecticut, and as the widow does not recollect his officer's names, she wishes you to examine his original declaration, which  was made by him in Vermont, on which a pension was granted him, and write to me the names of the officers under whom he served. I will then write to the Comptroller of Connecticut for his certificate as to the fact, whether there were such officers or not, and also of Mr. Hollister's service, provided his name is to be found on the records in his office. Your early answer to this, will very much oblige an aged widow.

I am yours &c Respectfully
Horace Steele

Painesville Lake Co O. 5 May 1845

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round stamp
Painesville
Aug 14
Ohio

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions,
War Department
Washington D.C.

Aug 18 43

Ohio
(unknown word)
Eliz Hollister

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Painesville, Lake Co. O. 12 AUg. 1843

Hon. J L Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions,

Dear Sir, Enclosed I send you the declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Hollister of Kirtland in this County, together with the deposition of Mary Nowland, proving her marriage. By a reference to the files in your office, you will find the former declaration of Mrs. Hollister and the testimony of Mr. Wier as to her marriage, all which are, I trust, sufficient to entitle her to be placed on the pension roll. I hope you will lose no time in forwarding her certificate, so that she can draw her pension on the 4th of September, provided she is allowed to draw from the time of the death of her husband, and for one year from and after the date of her certificate.

I am yours &c very respectfully

Horace Steele

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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
8.176
Jan 25 1842

Ohio
July 7 1838
Eliz Hollister

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Painesville, Lake County, Ohio
Jan. 18, 1843

Dear Sir,

Enclosed I send you the declaration of Elizabeth Hollister, widow of the late Asahel Hollister, deceased. The description given of her late husband is not quite as full as might have been given, of I had his original certificate which I understand was sent to your office, in order to obtain that part of his pension, which accrued from the 4th September 1838 to the 12 Feby 1839, the time of his death and has never been returned. I think, however, the reference to his enlistment as a pensioner, will be sufficient to aid you in the investigation of the claim of the widow.

You will please direct the certificate of her enrolment to me at this place, as I am her agent. It is hoped that her certificate will be sent on in season for her to draw on the 4th March next, as she is in very indigent circumstances & very infirm.

I am very &c very respectfully

Horace Steele

Hon J L Edwards

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Pension papers

Hon J L Edwards
Pension Office
Washington City

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Manchester Vt Nov 20 1833

Sir

I send enclosed the declaration & proofs of Asahel Hollister who applies for a pension for services performed in the war of the Revolution. It will be perceived that Mr Hollister by his affidavit explains the mistake made in his original declaration in respect to the time. He also explains the reason why he did not forward the certificate of the clergyman of the Town. It will be further perceived that the affidavits of Innette Hollister & Burrows cover the whole of the time. If under these circumstances the certificate of a clergyman is at all desirable I can procure one, but for myself I cannot imagine that there can be any necessity as the direct proof are of a character decidedly more satisfactory. 

Be so good as to cause the papers to be examined and a return to be made as soon as may be consistent with the business of the department.

I am Sir very respectfully your obt servant

John Aiken

Hon J L Edwards
U.S. Pension Office

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State of Ohio
County of Lake} ss.

On this 30th day of September in the year 1848, personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above mentioned, Elizabeth Hollister of Kirtland in the County of Lake, aged 82 years, 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 2d February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Asahel Hollister who was private in the army of the Revolution and that she received a pension of fifty dollars and seventy seven cents per annum, under  the acts of the 3d of March 1843 and 17th June 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow. the words (army of the ) interlined before signing.

Elizabeth Hollister 

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written.

Dexter Damon Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio
Lake County } ss.

I Dexter Damon a Justice of the Peace, certify that the above named Elizabeth Hollister widow of Asahel Hollister is personally known to me, and that, she is the same person who drew a pension from the United States as stated by her, in the foregoing declaration. Witness my hand at Kirtland this 30th day of September 1848. (Army of the was interlined before signing)

Dexter Damon Justice of the Peace

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State of Ohio
Lake County} ss.

I Charles D Adams Clerk of the Common Pleas Court of the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that Dexter Damon is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified , and that his signature to the foregoing are genuine.

Given under my hand and seal of said Court this 30th day of September 1848.

C. D. Adams Clerk
By B R Adams Deputy



Declaration of Elizabeth Hollister

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Paid 10

Kirtland O.
Nov. 10

J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington 
D. C.

Nov. 15, 184?
rec cl.
Elizabeth Hollister

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Kirtland Lake County Ohio
November 10th 1845

Sir

About the 1st of Oct [unk] I wrote to you and enclosed Mrs Elizabeth Hollisters declaration agreeable to a prior letter from you upon the subject, which it was supposed would complete and establish a pension for her, since which time I have not heard from your Department upon the subject and as Mrs Hollister is old and infirm and in destitute circumstances it is hoped that immediate attention will be given to her case.

Your early attention and write me soon will much oblige.

I am very respectfully your obt sevt

Asahel Hollister

Hon J L Edwards
Washington DC

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Nov. 12, 1844
Add'l tes. case
Elizabeth Hollister

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

round stamp
Painesville
Nov 8
Ohio

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Painesville Lake Co. O. Nov. 6 1844

To the Commissioner of Pensions,

Dear Sir, On file on your officer sundry papers relative to the claim of Elizabeth Hollister, widow of Asahel Hollister late of Kirtland, in this county, who died Feb 12 1839, where his said widow now resides. Her late husband was allowed a pension, while a resident of Vermont, and when he removed to Kirtland, was transferred from the roll of Burlington Vermont to that of Ohio, Pittsburgh to take effect from & after the 4th September 1837- as appears by the certificate of the commissioner of Pension (J L Edwards) dated 16th Aprl 1838, which I herein enclose. His claim to a pension having been satisfactorily established, & the same having been granted, it would seem to be wholly unnecessary to furnish any proof relative to his service; but morely showing that the present applicant is the identical Elizabeth Hollister, & widow of that same Asahel Hollister, whose name was placed on the pension roll- that they were married prior to 1794- and that she still remains his widow, would be all that is requisite to entitle her to the benefit of the several acts granting pensions to the widows of revolutionary soldiers &c.

The certificate of the church clerk, of the marriage, is herein enclosed, which together with the other testimony on file in your office, fully establishes every fact, which has been required to prove, I believe, to entitle her to a pension. Mrs. Hollister is now not far from 80 years of age, I think, and is wholly dependent upon her children for support, & they are all in indigent circumstances. Her application has been delayed for the want of the enclosed testimony, & that testimony would have been procured long ago, but for the inability of her & her children to procure the money to [unk] the expense of obtaining it. Your early attention to it, will be very grateful to her, and much oblige your obt servt.

Horace Steele
Her Attorney

P.S. Please send the certificate to me

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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the resolution of congress of the 23d January 1845.

Whereas the act of the 30th of April 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner.

I now make the following statement under oath to obtain the benefit of the resolution above mentioned. I am the widow of Asahel Hollister who was soldier in the war of the Revolution (I have never drawn a pension) and now asl for the amount due me from the fourth day of March 1836 to the twenty seventh day of September 1845 and afterwards to the day of his death.

I made my declaration before the 30th of April 1844 and it was filed in the pension office before the 23d of January 1845.

Elizabeth Hollister

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of September in the year 1845.

Dexter Damon Just of the Peace

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.

Dexter Dam J.P.

I John W Howden Clerk of the court of common pleas for the county of Lake and State of Ohio do hereby certify that Dexter Damon who has signed the foregoing is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Lake  in the state of Ohio and that the above is his signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this    day of September at Painesville in the state of Ohio.

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The State of Ohio
Lake County ss.}

I John W Howden Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify that Dexter Damon Esq before whom the annexed and foregoing acknowledgement purports to have been taken is and was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned & sworn and to all whom official acts as such full faith & credit are & ought to given throughout the United States & elsewhere & the signature thereunto attached purporting to be his is genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of our said Court at Painesville this 29th day of September AD 1845.

John W Howden Clerk

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I Mary Nowlen of Mentor in Lake County & state of Ohio, aged sixty seven years, being first duly sworn according to law, do on oath depose & say that Asahel Hollister was married at Glasenbury in the state of Connecticut on the 10th day of December AD 1787, by Rev. James Eells, to Elizabeth Wier. That the said Asahel Hollister & Elizabeth his wife lived together as husband ad wife til the 12th day of February 1839, when the said Asahel Hollister, her husband, died, at Kirtland, in this county. I further state that the said Elizabeth Hollister, widow of said deceased, still lives in Kirtland aforesaid, the widow of the said Asahel Hollister, deceased, and has never been married to any other man since the decease of the said Asahel Hollister.

Mary Nowlen

Sworn to and subscribed before me this tenth day of August AD 1843, and I further certify that the said Mary Nowlen is personally known to me, and that she is a credible witness and of sound mind and memory to all appearance.

Charles B Sony Justice of the Peace of Painesville township Lake County Ohio

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Stateof Ohio
Lake County ss.}

On this 8th day of August 1843, personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the associate Judges of Lake County Court of Common Pleas, Mrs. Elizabeth Hollister, a resident of Kirtland in said county aged seventy seen years, 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 July 7th 1838, entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows, and also the act of Congress, passed March 5th 1843, entitled an act granting pensions to certain widows of revolutionary soldiers.

That she is the widow of Asahel Hollister deceased, who was a soldier in the army of the revolution, whose service has been proved by evidence now on file in the war department, on which a pension was granted him, while he was a resident in the town of Arlington in the state of Vermont, but on his removal to Kirtland formerly in Geauga County, but now in Lake County, Ohio, he was transferred to the Pittsburgh agency for paying pensions.

She further declares that she was married to the sd Asahel Hollister on the 10th day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven by the Rev. James Eels, now deceased, said marriage took place in Glastenberry  in the state of Connecticut; that her husband the aforesaid Asahel Hollister, died on the 12th of February AD 1839, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, namely at the time above stated. 

Elizabeth Hollister

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before me. And I further certify that the above named declarant, Mrs. Elizabeth Hollister is personally known to me, and that she is not, on account of bodily infirmity, able to attend in open court.

Zenas Blish Assistant Judge

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The State of Ohio
Lake County ss.}

I John W Howden Clerk of the Court of Common Please within and for said County, do hereby certify that the Hon. Zenas Blish before whom the within acknowledgement was taken, is and was at the time of taking the same one of the Associate Judges of the aforesaid Court and whose signature thereunto attached purporting to be his is genuine. I would further certify that Charles B Long the Esq before whom the acknowledgement of Mary Nowlen on the paper hereunto attached is and was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned & sworn and to whom official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given throughout the United States & elsewhere, and whose signature thereunto attached is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at Painesville this 12th day of August AD 1843.

John W Howden Clerk

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Innette Hollisters
affidavit




Innette Hollisters
Dep

Page 65

I Innett Hollister of Pawlette in the county of Rutland & State of Vermont do testify & say that I am personally acquainted with Asahel Hollister of Arlington in the count of Bennington & state Vermont, that in the year 1778 the said Asahel Hollister enlisted as a soldier for one year in Capt Elijah Wrights company of Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut and in the Regt commanded by Col Roger Enos, it being the same company and Regt to which I was attached, that during the year for which he enlisted he served six months, three months at White Plains & West Point and three months at Horseneck when he was discharged.

Innett Hollister

State of Vermont
Bennington County ss.} Dorset August 30 1832

Personally appeared Innett Hollister & made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth before me.

Darvis Moore Justice Peace

I hereby certify that Innett Hollister is a person of good moral character and esteemed a man of truth & veracity & is a credible witness.

Darvis Moore Just Peace

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State of New York
Rensselaer County } ss.

Robert T W Burro personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of Peace of said County who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is acquainted with Asahel Hollister of the town of Arlington in the state of Vermont, that he was at New London in the state of Connecticut in the war of the Revolution andt hat the saidHiollister served for the term of eight months in the same company, that the Captain's name that commanded the said company was Lee Lay and belonged to Lyme in the state last aforesaid.  The Regiment was commanded by Levi Wells of Colchester in said state, the whole were commanded by General Tyler of Prestan in said state. And that after mature deliberation this deponent thinks that it mist have been in the year of our Lord AD 1779 and not in 1778 as he stated in his former affidavit and that the said Hollister resided in the town of Glastenberry in the count of Hartford in said State at & during the Revolution  as the deponent believes. ANd this deponent further saith that he [unk] the said Hollister enlisted under the aforesaid officers at Glastenberry aforesaid & marched thence to New London aforesaid & there stationed during the whole of the above term, and further the deponent saith not.

Robert T W Burro

Subscribed & sworn before me this 21st day of August 1833.

Marcus Peck Justice Peace


William Mack [unk]

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State of New York}
Rensselaer County} Ss
I Henry R Bristol Clerk of the County aforesaid do certify that Marcus Peck Esqr before whom the within affidavit purports to have been from was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the county of Rensselaer. Also that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice & verily believe his signature within to be genuine
Witness my hand & seal of office this
twenty second day of August 1833
Henry R. Bristol Clerk



Robert Burrows
affidavit

Page 68

State of Vermont
to all to whom these presents shall come in Greeting

I hereby certify that Reuben Barney Esqr, whose Signature appears to the foregoing, was at the date thereof & Still is a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Bennington, duly empowered & qualified to administer oaths & C_t that his signature, I believe to be genuine

In Testimony whereof I Henry Robinson Clerk of the County Court, within & for the County of Bennington have hereunto subscribed my name & have affixed the Seal of our Said County, at Manchester this 16th day of August A.D. 1832 & of the Independence of the United States, the Fifty Seventh
Henry Robinson Clerk

Robert Burrows
Affidavit

Page 69

I, Robert Burrows of Burling in the County of [illegible] State of New york of lawful age testify and say that I am acquainted with Asahel Hollister of Arlington County of Bennington and State of Vermont and I have been since the year AD 1778 that I knew him as a revolutionary soldier and that he enlisted in the year 1778 in the Regt commanded by Col. Levi Wells than of Colchester in the State of Connecticut I knew that the said Asahel served in the company commanded by Captain Lee Lay I further testify that I belonged to the same Company and Regiment and did Duty with the said Asahel for the time Eight month I further testify that I knew said Asahel to be a good and faithful soldier and that was so esteemed by his officers and Brother soldiers

Robert Burrows

State of Vermont
Bennington County
Arlington 18th July 1832
then Robbert Burrows personally appeared and signed in my presents the foregoing deposition and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth before me

Reuben Barney Justice of the peace

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Asahel Hollister
Declaration of for Pension
7744

Page 71

I Asahel Hollister the above named applicant do depose testify & say that in my declaration aforesaid I was under a mistake in relation to the date of the service set forth in my said declaration, having dated them all one year too early--and that I was led into the mistake by the statement of Mr Burrows who persuaded me that his own [illegible]tion was correct on the point, but that on a further conversation with said Burrows he the said Burrows is entirely satisfied of his Error, in this respect, as appears by his affidavit, herewith forwarded, accompanying his former affidavit. I further say that I did not discover the discrepancy between the affidavits of Innett Hollister & said Burrows till pointed out by the War Department I further say that I reside in a remote & obscure part of the Town of Arlington remote from the Clergyman of said Town who has resided in said Town or county but three or four years and is as I suppose not particularly acquainted with me, or with my reputation as a soldier of the Revolution, and that for this reason together with the fact, that he was at the time of making my said declaration absent as was said, on a journey to Philadelphia. I omitted to call on him for his affidavit. I further say that all my said services were performed by me as a private soldier. I further testify & say that in consequence of the lapse of time and the loss of memory consequent on old age I cannot state the precise time when my said services begun or ended, but that in regard to the amount of said services my recollection is distinct, and that with the modification explanation aforesaid, my said declaration is in all aspects according to the Truth, which is as follows to wit.

In the year 1778 I served as a private soldier six months.

In the year 1779 I served as a private soldier three weeks, at a distinct time from the one next following

In the year 1779 & 1780 I served as a private soldier Eight months, and for such service I claim a pension.

Asahel Hollister

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State of Vermont
Bennington County [illegible]
Manchester September 7 1833

Personally appeared Asahel Hollister within named & make solemn oath that the within affidavit by him subscribed explanatory of his declaration to which it is a duly owed contains the Truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth.

Before me John Aiken Justice of peace

State of Vermont

I Henry Robinson Clerk of the County Court for Bennington County, do certify that John Aiken Esqr. whose Signature appears above, is a Justice of thepeace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that his Signature is genuine--

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of Our S. Court at Manchester, this 7th day of September AD. 1833--& of the Independence of the Re S.[?] the Fifty Eighth--

Henry Robinson Clerk
County Court.

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M.O. #104132--$4.95

[stamp] FINANCE DIVISION
BOOKKEEPER'S MARK[?]
APR 16 1931
BUREAU OF PENSIONS [/stamp]

MRS. CHARLOTTE TAYLOR LUCKHURST
REGISTERED GENEALOGIST
156 WESTERN AVENUE
ALBANY, NEW YORK

April 10, 1931

Bureau of Pensions,
Rev. War. Sec
Washington, D.C.

Replying to yours of April 1, re the application for pension of Asahel Hollister, and his widow Elizabeth, (W.7803)

Enclosed please find P.O.Order for $4.95 for photostat copy of the 33 pages as quoted in your letter,

Very truly yours,
Charlotte T. Luckhurst

[stamp] REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS
SECTION
APR 14 1931
BUREAU OF PENSIONS [/stamp]

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April 1, 1931.

Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
MMHF

Mrs. Charlotte T. Luckhurst,
156 Western Avenue,
Albany, New York.

Dear Madam:

You are advised that photostatic copies of papers on file in Revolutionary War claims for pension of Asahel Hollister and his widow Elizabeth (W.7803) will be furnished you for fifteen cents a page. The number of pages to be copied is thirty-three.

If you desire them certified allow twenty-five cents additional for the set, which includes both applications.

The proper amount should be forwarded to this bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Acting Commissioner of Pensions.

Very truly yours,

E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.

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MRS. CHARLOTTE TAYLOR LUCKHURST
REGISTERED GENEALOGIST
156 WESTERN AVENUE
ALBANY, NEW YORK

Jan.22, 1931

Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen-;

I have a letter dated May 10.1850 from J.L.Edwards,Com, of Pensions, to Hial Hollister, in which he mentions Ashel Holister,as a pensioner,

Please advise me as to cost of photosta copy of Ashel's application for pension,

Very truly yours

Charlotte R.Luckhurst

Ashel Holister lived in Vermont.

[stamp] REVOLUTIONARY & 1812 WARS
SECTION
JAN 27 1931
BUREAU OF PENSIONS [/stamp]

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April 28, 1931.
Bureau of Pensions.
Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
541
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Rev. War claim for pension of Asahel Hollister, File No. W.7803.

1 page which was omitted from order of April 21, 1931.

xxx

Kindly leave margin of 1 1/2 in.at top of each page and return papers in each case in folder with corresponding name and number.

The word "omit" written in pencil on those pages which are not to be copied.

Chief, Rev.&1812 Wars Section.

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April 21, 1931.
Bureau of Pensions.
Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
541
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Rev. War claim for pension of Asahel Hollister, File No. W.7803.
Actual 1 of each page.

$4.95..........33 pages
xxx

Kindly leave margin of 1 1.2 in.at top of each page and return papers in each case in folder with corresponding name and number.

The word "omit" written in pencil on those pages which are not to be copied.

Chief, Rev.&1812 Wars Section.

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List to Mrs. Charlotte T Luckhurst
Sol. decl. Aug. 17, 1832 + Court rec. 7 pages
Robert Burrows, affid. July 18 - 1832 + Court rec. 2 " [pages]
Innett Hollister's affid. Aug 30 - 1832 - 1"
Robert T. W. Burris' affid. Aug. 21 - 1833 - 1"
Sol. request for transfer, Many 19 - 1838 + Court rec. 2"
Edwin F. Phelps' let. to Commissioner March 26 - 1838 - 1"
Let. to " " ", from " April 16 - 1838 - 1"
Gilbert Wier's affid. Oct. 14 - 1841 - 1"
            Wid decl.     Jan 18, 1842 - 1"
Mary Nowlan's affid. Aug 10 - 1843 - 1"
Wid. decl. Aug 8 - 1843 + Court record - 2"
Wid. decl. Sept. 27, 1845 + Court record - 2"
Copy of marriage record June 24, 1844 + Court rec. 2"
Sol. jacket, ctf. issued Dec. 13 - 1833 - 1"
Wid. jacket Ctf. no. 9755 - 1"
"       "          "     "   7455 - 1"
Wid. decl. Sept. 30 1848 - 1"
Wid. Ctf. jacket No. 3359 - 1"
Hiel Hollister's decl. April 13, 1850 - 1"
Let. May 10 - 1850 from Pension Office to Hiel Hollister - 1"
Let. to Comissioner from Horace Steele, Nov. 6 - 1844 Painesville, Ohio - 1"
Asabel Hollister's let. to Commissioner, Nov. 10, 1845, Kirtland, Ohio - 1"

[Written in left margin, at right angles to list]:
These two papers checked in red belonged in claim of Ashbel [sic] Hollister (Hiel's father) since these [illegible] were sent, have been removed from this cl. and placed in that S.14561

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O. W. & N. Div.
L. W. B.
W. 7803.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 28th, 1896.

Sir:-

Replying to your request for information concerning the military records of Asel or Aziel Hollister, Josiah Breed and Allen Breed, supposed to have been soldiers in the Revolutionary war, you are advised that Asahel Hollister made an application for pension on August 17th, 1832, at which time he was residing in Arlington, Vermont, and 69 years of ages, and his pension was allowed for fifteen months and seven days actual service in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Elijah Wright and Col. Enos. He enlisted from Glastenbury, Conn.

Regarding Josiah and Allen Breed, for purposes of identification, it is requested that you fill out as fully as possible the attached slips, and return same to this Bureau when a further search will be made.

Very respectfully,
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Commissioner.

Mr. William A. Butler,
Syracuse, N. Y.