Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 991, Amos Bolles, Continental. Mass.

SERVICE
Continental Mass.
Bolles, Amos
NUMBER
R.991
CONTENTS

13.095 Ames Bolls Onondaga Co NYork
5.17.
P 370
4 May 33
Wm Bager Orville NY

BRIEF in the case of  James Bolls  of Orange Co in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 78 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     one In 1775 — 8 Private Col' Clapp Col' Cotton   1776 — 1 " Col' Baker Col' Wood  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Rochester Ulster Co  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Papers are not attested as reg d 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Loutts Examining Clerk.

for the Standard N.Y. June 27 th /57.
C. P. Camp.
Recd. July 1 st /57. And 2 nd July 1857
Amos Bowls Capt. Baker Co Prov. Army - ~~~~~
Respectfully referred to the Commission of Pensions, and the writer so informed.
3 rd Auditors Office July 2 nd 1857
W. G. Garrison Revolutionary Auditing
W. Solomon

110 ...
To the Auditor of Treasury
and the House of Representatives ... reply would say to you that I have the consent of the heirs of the Soldier James Bowls besides being a second heir myself to the said Bowls I would also further add that the said Bowls belonged in Capt Baker's Company Col Hutchinson's Regiment
If you should want any further information to make the examination please write to me & I will comply
W. the James Bowls ... there is a pension coming therefrom ... I shall inform you the next step to be taken to obtain the same
Respectfully yours
(C. S. ...)
Washington ...
To the Auditor of the Third Auditor's Office ... Treasury Department
3067

State of New York, Onondaga County ss: Isabella Bolls of the town of Manlius in the County of Onondaga being duly sworn deposes and saith that she was married to Amos Bolls late of the said Town of Manlius deceased on the twenty fifth day of August in the Year 1814. That she has often heard him relate his services in the Revolution any War & especially before she knew of his making any attempts to obtain a pension, that she has heard the Declaration of the said Amos read to be (purporting to have been made before the Vice Chancellor on the 18 th day of September last) and believes the facts related therein as to his services, to be substantially like those repeatedly related to her (as in her hearing) and has no doubt of the correctness of them so far as his memory would permit him to be for one of his age at the time of the making her said Declaration she thinks he was enabled to be at least substantially so. — Deponent says that the said Amos Bolls died on the ninth day of November last, after an illness of nine days & without will and very poor. Deponent says that the said Amos Bolls had no record whatever of his age that she knows of. He has heard him say that he was born in the County of in the State of ————— R. Deponent says further that she is herself of the age of seventy one Years and very poor & destitute
R. and the other deponents are her neighbors and she is well acquainted with them and believes them to be persons of truth and integrity.
Subscribed & sworn to by Isabella Bolls described in the foregoing affidavits with whom I am personally acquainted & believe to be a woman of truth and integrity. This 10 th day of June 1832.
The foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original Elijah C. Root J.P.
Isabella Bolls Mark
The reason of the deponent making her mark is in consequence infirmities and nervous affection E. C. Root J.P.

State of New York, Onondaga County ss: Joseph Raymond of the town of Manlius in said County being duly sworn Saith that he has lived in the North with Amos Bolls & near to him for a considerable portion of the time for some years past, that Isabella Bolls named in the foregoing affidavit is his Mother that he has repeatedly heard the said Bolls state his war services (During the Revolution) that he has heard the Declaration of the said Bolls purporting to have been made before his Honor Vice Chancellor on the 18 th day of September last and believing his relation of his services therein to be substantially as he has heard them before related by him and further that he believes his statements to be so far correct as his memory from old age would allow him to be Joseph Raymond
Subscribed & sworn to by Joseph Raymond to me personally known to be a man of veracity & truth, this 10 th day of June 1833.
The day of the month in the certificate written on erasure E. C. Rust J.P.
Elijah C. Rust J.P.
State of New York, Onondaga County ss: William Eager of the town of Manlius in said County being duly sworn Saith that he has been acquainted with Isabella Bolls for some thing like thirty years, & long before she married Amos Bolls, and with Joseph Raymond ever since he was quite a boy and believes them both to be persons of truth and veracity and their statements entitled to full credit. Deponent further says that the Declaration of Amos Bolls made before her Honor Judge Morley on the 18 th day of September last, was shown in the hand writing of the deponent, that he has examined the same since returned from the war department and truly believes it to be precisely in the state & condition it was when signed & sworn to, and that the certificates of the court writers & clerks the only beliefs are not altered
Subscribed & sworn to before me by William Eager with whom I am well acquainted & believe to be a man of veracity & truth, this 15 th day of July 1833. J. H. Saylor
William Eager

State of New York
Onondaga County 3/4: William M King of the town of Manlius, in said County being duly sworn deposith and saith that he is of the age of thirty two Years and is a Grand son to Amos Bolls late of Manlius, deceased, has been very intimately acquainted with him about twelve years past  from his earliest recollection has lived at various times in the same family & under the same roof with him that he has often heard him relate his services in the revolutionary war, that he has heard read the anniversary declaration of the said Amos purporting to have been made on the 18 th day of September last before his Honor Judge Morley and between the relation there given of the revolutionary services of the said Amos to agree in substance to the relation often given to him & in his presence, before the passage of the law of 1832. That he had the reputation in the vicinity in which he lived & died of having been a revolutionary soldier and this disparagement has been self no doubt of the fact.
Subscribed & sworn to before me by William M. King with whom I am personally acquainted and believe him entitled to credit as a man of truth & veracity, this eleventh day of July 1833. —
Elijah C. Rust J.P.
William M King
The word, "about twelve years past" interlined before execution in the fifth line from the top
E C Rust J.P.

State of New York } County of Onondaga } p.
I, Reuben S. Heps Clerk of the said County do certify that Elijah C. Root Esquire before whom three of the preceding affidavits purport to have been sworn was on the 10th. day of June last and on the 11th. day of July instant one of the justices of the peace in and for the said County.
And also that George L. Taylor before whom one of the preceding affidavits purport to have been sworn was on the 15th. day of July instant one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justices and verily believe their names subscribed to the jurats of said several affidavits to be their proper hand writing and genuine signatures. Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 19th. day of July 1833.
R. S. Heps clerk

13.095 In the matter of the application of Amos Bolls for a Pardon —
and Amendments

State of New York
Onondaga County ss: On the eighteenth day of September in the Year of our Lord 1832. personally appeared in open Court before The Honorable Daniel Mosely Vice Chancellor of the Supreme Court for the State of New York at a Court now sitting for said Circuit at the town of Onondaga, Amos Bolls a resident of the town of Manlius in said County aged twenty eight Years last April, who being first duly sworn according to law, in open Court, 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 entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. He first enlisted & served eight months under Captain Clapp & in the Regiment commanded by Col: Cotten of the Massachusetts Line as a Minute man that he first entered about the first of April 1775. at the town of Roxbury (Wadsworth) in the State of Massachusetts & continued in the same Company & Regiment until some time about the first of January following his enlistment, when at Roxbury near Boston where his Regiment was then stationed he enlisted for one Year into the regular Service (or Continental Army) into Capt: Bakers Company and Col. Holdens Regiment. Said Baker & Holden both belonged to Marble Head in the State of Massachusetts, in the Company of Capt: Clapp into which he first enlisted he recollects the name of Lieut: Isaac Pope & ensign Eldridge, in the last Company he recollects only the names of the Capt. and Lieut: Hoag. of the officers. Deponent says that he was one of the first men who went out on Dorchester Hill for the purpose of constructing throwing up Fortifications for the defence of Boston Harbour they went on in the night and continued there throwing up fortifications the same time in the following night, and the next Sabbath the British commenced a fire upon the American Camp & kept it up for about twenty four hours, and the next day sent in a flag of truce which was accepted, and after the engagement they picked up eleven hundred Cannon shot and we lost only two men in the engagement, after the British Troops left Boston the American Army in that quarter was sent to New York, with the exception of two Regiments which remained at Dorchester & that vicinity & this Deponent was amongst the Troops that remained. Deponent says that the

Regiment to which he belonged was stationed upon Dorchester Heights when the British left Boston. Nayliff however for a short time a large Ship drawn below the Light House to prevent our Shipping from going out, and the Americans had a Privateer in the Harbour while the Ship remained in the mouth of the Harbour & when the Tide was out the American Privateer was aground & one Sunday night the British from the Ship made an attempt to take the Privateer by surprise, it was a remarkably dark night, but they were discovered a Battle ensued & the most of the British were killed and the enterprise failed entirely — The Privateer  American Captain was killed whose name Defendant thinks was Muckford — Some time in July of 1776, a Ship with Scotch Troops (of Highlanders) aboard came into the Channel below the Harbour and met knowing that the British had evacuated Boston, and not being acquainted with the Channel they ran aground and two of our Privateers then lying in the Harbour sailed down and took her & brought her into the Harbour, the Officers came ashore upon Dorchester Heights were at the House where the Officers of the Regiment to which Defendant belonged, were quartered, and Defendant was permitted to go in & sit with them. Defendant says that he remained on Dorchester Heights and in that vicinity until his term of service expired, about the first of January 1777. When he received his discharge after having served in the said Army in the whole one Year and eight Months, including his first term of service as Minute Man — Defendant says that David Stephen & John Southward enlisted him as a private soldier, with him & from the same Town on his first enlistment & one Joseph Dyer and the Company to which he belonged, principally went from the same Town (Rochester) and in the last Company under Capt: Baker he recollects one Hoyt & one Davis which are all the names he now distinctly recollects amongst the privates, says he was at Roxbury when he last enlisted about and the remainder of his service was performed at & near Dorchester & Boston. He says that his Discharge has been long since lost and can not now distinctly recollect the names of the Officers who signed it and has no written Document whatever in his possession or power unless it may be the Affidavit of one S upr Barrister by which he can legally authenticate

his knows Claims for said Service - That he knows of no one now living except it may be said for Daughters who if alive he expects now resides in the State of Connecticut  Massachusetts who can testify to his said Service, and that Defendant is poor & unable to procure his attendance here if he is now alive. Defendant also says that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency of any State or Territory, and he hereby relinquishes every claim to return to any pension in annuity except the present.
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year  1841 1841
Year aforesaid in open Court
Daniel Moseley Circuit Judge Vice Chancellor
And the said Court hereby declares  announces its opinion, after the investigation We Thomas Blanchard a justice of the peace residing in the town of Mansfield - in said County, and William Eager Attorney & Counsellor at Law residing in said Town & County hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Anson Bolls who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing Declaration; that we believe him to be seventy eight Years of age as stated in his said Declaration; that he is reputed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Th. Blanchard
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year  1841 1841
Year aforesaid in open Court
Daniel Moseley Circuit Judge
And the said Court does hereby declare  announces its 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 lived as he states. and it further certifies & declares that it appears to the said court that Thomas Blanchard who signed the preceding certificate is a Justice, residing in said town of Mansfield and that William Eager who has also signed the same is a resident of the said town of Mansfield and is a Cuddelpump, and that this statement is entitled to credit.
Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor

I Daniel T. Woodley Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the Supreme Court for the State of New York do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Amos Bolls for a Patent.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office, this eighteenth day of September in the Year of our Lord 1832.
Daniel T. Woodley Deputy Clerk

Ex'r.
INVALID.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 9, 1873.
991.
RECEIVED
P. O. Amos Bell
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

At 7. June 1832 New York
Amos Bolls
Rejected
99-
See letter to W. Eager
Orville
28. March 1834
A.T. Hon. D. T. Jones 30 th May 1853. C.P. Canfield Aug. 3 rd 1857
I Mr. H. B. Stanton of the City of Washington D.C.
North Manlius N.Y.

Amos Bolles Suspended Jan 1832 New York from Brad Joy

Ontario County ss-
Personally appeared before me James Buckley Esquire one of Justices of the peace for sd County. David Southward on oath saith-
That he was personally acquainted Amos Wolles and that he and him to have served as a Private Soldier in the revolutionary war and that he enlisted one thousand seven hundred and seventyfive in the Month of April and served til the Month of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy six then enlisted and served as a soldier til the end of spring after which in the hole made about one year.
This given on oath at Pinedale January the 7th 1819-
David Southward
Taken and subscribed before me this Seventh Day of January one thousand Eight hundred and nine ten
James Buckley J.P.

Approved at David Schuchard
State of New York Ontario County Clerks Office
In Testimony that James Buck by whom name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices in and for the County of Ontario acting under the Authority of said State and that the same is his signature I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the County Seal at Canandaigua this 12 th day of January A.D. 1819
Wm M c Naughton

Anna Bolls
Anna Bolls (P. P. P.) in Dept. of B. ...
W. E. ...
Murlius

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of James Babb — which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
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? Yes
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? Yes
Deficient in regard to furnish the best evidence to sustain his declaration that he can obtain, and the length of each term of his service specifically stated.
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations. Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
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? Yes

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 military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes 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? yes Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes 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? yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  1. 2 5-
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."

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 be 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 shewn 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 civil pursuit.
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 certificate 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.

House of Representatives January 25 1883
Wm J E Hark Com Rooms
Sir,
I have a power of Atty lodged with me in case of Rufus Lester of New York.
I wish a copy of his alledged service and of his admitted service under whom he served and date of service. If consistent with the rules of your department.
Yours On serv D. F. Jones Adj Mpls

North Manlius N.Y. June 10/57
C P Camp -
Enq: whether the name of Amos Bowls - is to be found on the rolls of Revolutionary war.
C 198 - June 12. 1857
3 d auditor -
Recd. June 13 th /57, Am d 15 th June 1857
Amos Bowls N.Y. Army Pensioned
Mr Salomon.

1872 North Reading Jan 1 st
To Mr. H. S. Secretary of War Washington D.C.
1872 I take the liberty of occupying you a few lines to ascertain if possible if the name of Amos Bould is found in the Book of old Revolutionary as he was one of it in which it should be you would receive a great service by writing to me. Please write if there is any prospect of getting his pension which has been there down. If you will inform me the S. Congress will be in session as soon as convenient opportunity 1667, Alfred G. Plump Post Master North Reading Massachusetts

War Department, Audit Office July 17, 1857.
Sir:
I have received your letter of the 2 nd ultimo, making inquiry in relation to the services of Andrew Powell of Capt. Baker's Company of Col. Hartsdale's Regiment of the Army of the Potomac, and in reply have to inform you that upon examination it does not appear that any Bills of Exch. Baker's Company of the New York Line, are on file in this Office. There may however be papers among those which are in this Office to the Commission of Pensions in 1836, and I have accordingly returned your letter to that Office. — P
Respectfully G. B. McClellan
Quincy
E. F. Davis Esq. South Manhattan New York
Seven

Wm Eager Esq. Orville Onondaga County N.Y.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Decem r 31 1833.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the rolls of Capt Baker's Company in Col Holden's Regt. in 1776. under which Amos Bolls claims for one years services are not found in this Office.
Amos Bolls also claims for services under Capt Clapp. in Col Cotton's Regt. in 1773. the roll of Capt Earl Clapp's Company in Col. Cotton's Regt from May 2 d to the first of August 1773. is found but the name of Amos Bolls is not borne on it. — after the 1 st of August, to the roll of Capt Clapp is not found in this Office.
Edward D. Bangs

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Sir, We have examined time and again, & have searched every roll and document in this office, where there was any hope of finding any evidence of Amos Ball's services, but have not been able to find any, as you will perceive by the Certificate, the name of Ebenezer Bowles is borne on Capt. E. Clapp's Company in 1775.
at Washington they will probably have the Rolls of Capt. Barker for 1776
Yours Respectfully Eleazer Hoomer Henry White

House of Representatives January 28 th 1853,
Hon J. E. Heath Chairman
Sir,
I have a power of attorney lodged with me in case Amos Buel, a Revolutionary claim from New York,
I wish a copy of his alleged lines of service with the date, of said service -
Yours on duty
D. T. Coles
H of Reps
AS

Hon. James L. Edwards Counsel of Pensions Washington D. C.

Orville A. May, 1834.
Dear Sir
I am now by this days mail enabled to send to the War Department the inclosed certificate of Mr Bangs, and with that I return the suspended papers in the case of Amos Bull, —
You will see that no new fact is established by the Cert. except that the missing rolls are now to be found in the War Office —
The Department will on the receipt of this have all the proof that can be offered in the case unless it may be that traditional proof, and it does indeed appear to me, that it ought & will be deemed sufficient to entitle the poor distressed old Widow to a certificate for such sum as the Husband would have been entitled to on the day of his decease. There is positive proof by one living Witness (Barniston) of one Grace, a niece (wholly authenticated) in addition to the Applicants own positive oath - traditional proof. for the 8 months previous service. There, the positive oath of the Applicant & traditional proof, & I have recently found an old informal affidavit taken in 1819. with the Signature of the Clerk & Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster Co. affidavit  to showing that it had been comity there properly certified by the Justice of the Peace of Ulster. This man is not to be found he probably is dead several years. I happened likely to come across it & find it for what it will be worth perhaps it may be considered equal to traditional testimony.
I believe the papers otherwise are properly authenticated. The Seals & Certificates are on the respective sheets as will be seen on a close examination. and I do hope that this troublesome business will now be finally disposed of and I hope I may be permitted to ignore the case of the Widow with the news of the arrival of her Certificate.
I am Sir very respectfully
Yours Ob t Serv t
W. Eager

Orville W Dec 1 st
War Department Pension Office
James L. Edwards Esq m
Comptroller of Pensions Washington D. C.
Mr Stewart send the papers in this case with a short letter & file this in lieu of the papers - ask the writer to acknowledge the receipt of the papers the letter on the index note

Orville 30. Nov 1833.
Dear Sir,
On the 6. Nov inst. I rec d a communication from the acting Compt. of Pensions (Mr. Geo: W. Crump) informing me that "the papers of Amos Bolls had been again examined & placed on the files of the Department. That by the regulation of the Department every Applicant is required to produce the best evidence in his power", that "in the Office of E. D. Bangs Esq. Secretary of the State of Massachusetts, are rolls of the militia of that State, as well as the State Troops. By applying to him, proof of the Applicant's Service may be obtained." — Soon after the receipt of that communication I addressed a letter to Mr. Bangs, but the papers in the case being all at Washington & the old gentleman being dead & no memorandum left of his services, I would not be at all definite in my communication to Mr. B. as to the services of the Applicant. — This day I have received a communication from him in answer to my letter on that subject, of which the following is a copy. "Boston November 25 th 1833. Sir, Yours of the 11 th inst. to the Secretary was handed us who are engaged in examining the books and documents relating to the Revolutionary War.
The rolls in their Office are very imperfect and when we have all the particular circumstances stated, it requires much time and patience to examine them thoroughly. If You can give us further information we will again endeavor to find evidence of the services of Amos Bolls. We wish You to state as particularly as possible for can, the time and place of enlistment, when mustered, the names of the Captains and Colonels, — in what service, how long under each Captain, and in what Year, and if You can, the Christian name of the Captain — our fee for examining the rolls & making out the Certificate is two dollars. You will please direct to us, to the care of the Secretary (post-paid). Yours Respectfully. Eleanor Homer Henry White.
The information required can now be had only if at all, by a reference to the Declaration of Amos Bolls on file in the Pension Office at Washington. May I fr d under these circumstances, and in behalf of a poor decrepit Old Widow who almost suffers for the want of the little pittance that is due from her Country (if established) ask at Your hands for such information as the papers on

file may afford, upon the points required by the letter copied above?
The old Lady is totally unable to pay one shilling of the expenses and I have myself had to incur the both trouble & expense thus far to place her Claims in their present situation of forwardness but if her Claims are finally established I shall have the high satisfaction of having added her them and if not my consolation will be that I have endeavoured to do all I could to effect it —
With great respect.
I am Sir,
Your Obt. Servt.
W. Eager

State of Massachusetts
Berkshire County ss. I, Jose Bannister of the town of Williamstown in the County of Berkshire being duly sworn saith that he is personally acquainted with Amos Bolls now of the town of Machias in the County of Puodica-ga and State of New York & was well acquainted with him in the Revolutionary War that he knows that the said Amos Bolls enlisted in the Army of the Revolution in the Year 1776. on or about the first day of January of that Year as a private soldier in the Regiment commanded by Col. Holden & the Company of Capt. Baker, both of whom Christian name, this Deponent has forgotten of the Massachusetts Line of troops & that he continued to serve in the said Regiment & Company as a faithful soldier for the term of one Year. Deponent says that he was himself a soldier in the said Army & in the Massachusetts Line and now draws his pension as such. Deponent says further that he has been at the House of the said Amos Bolls several times within six or seven Years, but and knows the fact well that he is the same Amos Bolls who served in the Regiment & Company as above stated.
Jose Bannister
Subscribed & sworn to before me by Jose Bannister with whom I am well acquainted & know to be the Person described in the above affidavit as residing in Williamstown the 7th day of Decr 1830.
J. D. McCusker Justice of Peace
Berkshire County ss. I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named before whom the foregoing affidavit of Jose Bannister was taken & known to be a true copy for the County of Berkshire duly authorized by the Laws of Massachusetts to administer oaths & to take affidavits. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name & affixed my official seal as Clerk of the Court of Sessions in & for said County of Berkshire the day of November 1830.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Berkshire ss.
I, Chas. Sedgwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County do certify that Jeremiah T. Buttrick Esq. is a magistrate within said County duly authorized to take depositions & affidavits, & that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this 29 th day of December A.D. 1830 Chas. Sedgwick Clerk.