Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9528, for Cyrus Sholes, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
✓
Scholes, Cyrus Polly
R 9528
New York residence of soldier about 1822.
CONTENTS

A State of New York } Simon Seely and Washington County } Betsy Day Being duly Sworn Depose and say that they knew Cyrus Shoals and Polly Shoals in Washington County State aforesaid and that the said Cyrus Shoals was a Revolutionary Soldier, that they are both dead as we are informed that we knew them as long ago as about the year 1810. That they resided together as respectable man and wife that they had some six or seven children the names were Polly, Charlotte Henry & etc the eldest child Polly must be some 58 years old Charlotte Allen who resides in Steuben County, aforesaid State aforesaid and must be about 56 years of age
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 4 th day of March 1853 Nenye Cheate } Justice of the Peace
Simon Seely his mark Betsy Day

STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. WYOMING COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE }
I CERTIFY That Alonzo Choate Esquire, was, at the date of the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said certificate is genuine; and that the annexed Instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said County this 12 day of March A. D. 18 55 . A. P. Merrill Clerk.

State of New York } Wyoming County } L. Loren Seeley and Betsey Day being duly sworn, depose and say, that they are disinterested in the claim of Pension set up by the Heirs of Cyrus and Polly Shoals, as identified with in subscribed and sworn this } 4 th day of March 1853 } Loren Seeley Betsey her Day Mark Alonzo Choate Justice of the Peace
State of New York } Wyoming County } This is to Certify that Loren Seeley and Betsey Day, who have executed the two foregoing Certificates are personally known to me as credible witnesses and en- titled to full confidence, and I further Certify that I have no interest in the said claim of Pension by the Estate of Cyrus and Polly Shoals, Dec d and am entire- ly disinterested Given under my hand this 4 th day of March A.D. 1853. Alonzo Choate Justice of the Peace
Revolutionary - Additional Evidence Case of heirs of Polly Shoals, widow of Cyrus Shoals.
Suspended Act 1838. N. York
Filed 2 June 1853 F. E. Harker Washington

heirs of Cyrus Sholes papers
No 12437.
Polly Sholes, dec d .
Widow of Cyrus Sholes dec d . — a Pensioner under Act of 1818, who died in 1822.
Acts of 1838 & 1843.
Widow died 22. Dec. 1843.
New York.
E. F. Brown Wash n D.C. } Agent 3. March 1846. }

State of New York
Ontario county ss. On this 18 th day of November A.D. 1845. Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas, holden at Canandaigua in the said County of Ontario (said Court being a Court of Record) & before the Judges thereof. Charlotte Allen a resident of the town of Avoca in the County of Steubens in the State of New York, & aged Fifty Years the 29 th day of May next, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declarations in behalf of herself, & her brother & sister, in order to obtain the amount due her Mother Polly Sholes (widow of Cyrus Sholes deceased ) on account of the Revolutionary service of her father the said Cyrus Sholes deceased , according to the provisions of the acts of Congress, passed July 7 th 1838, and of the act of 3 rd of March 1843. — That she believes her said father the said Cyrus Sholes, was a Pensioner under the act of 1818, and died in the County of Washington in the State of New York sometime in the year 1832 or about that time, the precise time she is not able to state, — That she is not able to say positively what service her said father performed, but has understood that he was in the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. She has understood her said father to say that he was taken a prisoner by the British at or near New London, & that he escaped from them & that he received a wound from a shot from the Enemy in making his escape, — That she cannot state under what officer he served, that for further particulars of the service of her said father she refers to her father's papers on file in the War Department — That her Mother the said Polly Sholes was married to her said father the said Cyrus Sholes as near as she can recollect from her said

Father and Mother - some time in the Year 1792. in Proof of Which papers accompany this declaration, that her Mother the said Polly Sholes died at the town of Howard in the County of Steubens in the State of New York on the 22 d day of December in the Year 1843. - That she further declares that herself and William Sholes aged forty Years or about that. & a Resident of the City of Buffalo. in the State of New York. and Louisa Rathbun aged about forty two Years and who Resides in the town of Howard in the County of Steubens & State of New York. are the only Children of the said Polly Sholes deceased. who survived her said Mother. as she knows of -
Charlotte Allen
Subscribed to & sworn This 18 th day of November 1845 in open Court -
Peter Mitchell a Judge of Ontario County Courts
State of New York Ontario County Clerk's Office } p. I Alexander H. Howell Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Peter Mitchell before whom the above affidavit was made was at the time of taking the same a Judge of Ontario County Courts duly Commissioned Sworn and authorized to act as such & no further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature to the foregoing affidavit is genuine.
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said County This 18 th day of November A D 1845 R. Murray Jr. Deputy Clerk.

State of New York
Ontario county ss I Alexander H Howell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county the same being a court of Record. do hereby certify that at a court of Common Pleas held in & for the said county before the Judges thereof. at Canandaigua on the 18 th day of November 1845. It was proved by the production of testimony satisfactory to the said Court. that Cyrus Sholes Late of Washington County State of New York. (Who is reputed to have been a prisoner of the United States under the act of 1818.) died in the said county of Washington in the State of New York in or about the year 1822. & that the said Cyrus Sholes left a Widow him surviving. & whose name was Polly Sholes & that the said Widow also died at the town of Howard in the county of Steuben in the State of New York on the 22 nd day of December 1843. That the said Polly Sholes deceased and also the said Cyrus Sholes also deceased at the time of the death of the said Polly Sholes, left three Children only her surviving. and whose names & places of residence are as follows. viz. Mrs Charlotte Allen the aforementioned declarant Lovisa Rathbun. both of whom reside in the county of Steuben & William Sholes a resident of Buffalo. & all of the State of New York - and also that each of them respectively are above the age of twenty one years.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed My name and affixed the Seal of the said county this 18 th day of November A. D. 1845.
Alex. H. Howell Clerk.

Examination of Papers Cyrus Sholes Revolutionary New York Rolls or Suspended
filed 21 Feby 1858 P. E. Hassler Attorney

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widows or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
State of New York }
County of Steuben }
Be it known that before me
Nathan Sawyer a Justice of the Peace personally appeared Charlotte Allen aged 55 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the daughter of Cyrus Sholes who was a Revolutionary Soldier, & Pensioner of the United States and that he died on the or about day of 1821 or 1822 and that her mother named Polly Sholes died on the 23rd day of Decr 1843 and that they were married about the year 1791 and that they were residents of Salem in the State of New York and that they resided there say 20 years, and that she resides in Avoca NY and that furthermore BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorises irrevocably and with powers of substitution—F. E. Hassler of Washington City, D. C., as her true and lawful Attorney for her and in her name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government Officers her rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due her as heir of Cyrus Polly Sholes who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity as is or may be entitled.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF she has on this 14 day of Feb 1852, hereunto signed her name and affixed her seal.
Witness: [Signatures]
Signed, Sealed, acknowledged and Sworn to before me, on this 14th day of February 1852
N. Sawyer J. P.
At the same time personally appeared before me two credible and disinterested witnesses named and residents of the aforesaid County and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say each for himself, that has always heard it said and it is generally believed by the community that was a Revolutionary soldier and that was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the of the said Revolutionary Soldier.
Sworn to before me the day and year first above written.
J. P. [SEAL]
State of New York } to wit: County of Steuben }
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That Nathan Sawyer Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Steuben County Court, this 14th day of Feb one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
J. P. Grubbell Clerk.
* Widow applies state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
9.528
P. O. Polly Sholes Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

V No 12437, 20 Pully Sholes dec.
Set 10 E. H. Brown May 25: 1846,
Set: Geo. C. Ames Nov. 1. 1851,
NY F. E. Haplin Aug 16 1853
9528
Set 1838,

R. 9528.
Polly, wid. of Cyrus Sholes.
Letters to E. H. Brown, Geo. C. Ames, and F. E. Hasler fur- nish no informa- tion relative to State organization or officers under which soldier served.
Said letters show, however, that sol- dier was not a pensioner, as in- dicated in declaration.
F. W. Nov. 11, 1911.

Know all men by these presents that I, Charlotte Allen of the Town of Harn in the County of Steuben and State of New York wife of Samuel H. Allen and child and daughter of Cyrus Sholes and Polly Sholes deceased do hereby constitute and appoint George H. Allen Esquire of the City of Washington my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute the claim for a Revolutionary pension to which I the said Charlotte Allen and Lavinia Rathbun are entitled as the only surviving children of the said Cyrus Sholes and Polly Sholes deceased for the Revolutionary services of the said Cyrus Sholes performed by him in the Revolution- ary War and who was a Revolutionary pensioner and to which pension the said Polly Sholes was entitled in her life time as the widow of the said Cyrus Sholes deceased and which she never received and which pension is claimed in right of the said Polly Sholes deceased by me and the said Lavinia Rath- bun as the only surviving children of the said Polly Sholes deceased - and which the said Polly did not receive in her life time -
In witness whereof
I the said Charlotte

am directly interested in the said Claim for a Revolutionary Pension In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of August in the year 1851 -
Charlotte Allen
State of New York
Steuben County ss - On this twenty fifth day of August in the year 1851 per- sonally appeared before me Salmon Waterbury a justice of the peace of the County and State aforesaid, the above named Charlotte Allen well known to me to be the person described in and who has executed the within power of attorney and acknowledged that she executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned - And I do hereby certify that the said Charlotte made oath in due form of law before me that she is directly interested in the claim for a Revolutionary Pension mentioned in the said power of attorney -
Salmon Waterbury Justice of the Peace
State of New York
Steuben County ss. I Phila R. Hubbard Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Salmon Waterbury Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration was made was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County & State aforesaid and duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of said County this 26 th day of August 1851.
P. R. Hubbard Clerk of Steuben County Court

Washington Sept 1 st 1857 James E Beach Esq
Sir
Enclosed you will please find Power of Attorney in the Case of Polly Sholes widow of Cyrus Sholes an applicant for a pension from the State of New York
I wish to examine the papers now on file in support of this Claim
With Much Respect Your Obedt Servt
Geo. A. Dyer

Letters addressed to this Office must be post-paid.
United States Agency and Notarial Office, EDMUND F. BROWN, ATTORNEY AND AGENT FOR CLAIMANTS, Notary Public, Illinois Commissioner, &c., Continues to settle all kinds of business with the several branches of Government, with his usual promptness, efficiency and fidelity; especially CLAIMS FOR PENSIONS, PATENTS, LANDS, Post Office and other Contracts, &c., F STREET, NEAR 14th STREET, WASHINGTON CITY. Seventeen doors east of the Treasury Department. E. F. BROWN'S Established in 1813.
UNITED STATES AGENCY AND NOTARIAL OFFICE, WASHINGTON CITY,
March 3. — 1846.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions.
Sir:
I enclose herewith the Declaration of Mrs Charlotte Allen, one of the heirs of Polly Sholes, dec d . claiming a Pension due her Mother, under Acts of 1838 & 1843, and trust that the papers on file in your Office in the case of Cyrus Sholes, which are referred to, will furnish corroborating testimony.
Very Respectfully,
Your Ob t St.
Edm. F. Brown