Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3433, Noadiah Holcomb, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Holcomb, Noadiah Fairchild, Fairchilds,
R. 3433
CONTENTS
Affiah Former widow

West-Granby Ct March 23 d 1846
Sir,
Abigail Fairchild who was the widow of Noadiah Holcomb of Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, made application for a pension on account of S r Holcomb's revolutionary service as a sergeant, under the 3 d section of the act of July 4 th 1836. She was actually married to S r Holcomb before the last period of his service, but did not make satisfactory proof to of that fact and her claim was rejected (as is understood) on that account - Said widow died Oct 15 th 1839 without compensation for her S r -husband's service, leaving children who are now living - Can those children under existing laws obtain the bounty from 4 th of March 1836 to 15 th Oct. 1839 the day of her death? The Com te is respectfully referred to the proof accompanying her application, now on file in the office.
In behalf of the children
Very Respectfully Your Ob d Serv t
J. D. Wilcox whom
Please address as above
Hon J. L. Edwards

CLAIM OF
ACT OF
STATE OF Connecticut COUNTY Hartford } ss.
Be it known, That on this 18th
day of November A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty one , before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Sereno Holcomb & Anson N. Holcomb a resident of Granby in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the  they are sons  their  at law of Asaph Fairchild widow of Asaph Holcomb who was an applicant for a pension under the Act of July 4 th 1836 which is suspended that they now make an application for a pension on account of their said Mother for the pension that would be due her under the Act of July 7 1838 and they are informed at the rate of allowed under said act of July 7 1838 Dollars per annum; that they has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that he  they is directly interested as claimants in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my  our Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me.
Calvin W. Phillips J. Peace.
Sereno Holcomb Anson N. Holcomb
I, Calvin W. Phillips Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, do hereby certify that Sereno Holcomb & Anson N. Holcomb who executed the foregoing paper is a  are respectable residents of this County, and are  as I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Calvin W. Phillips J. Peace.
I, Chauncey H. North Clerk of the County Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Calvin W. Phillips before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed is his  his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal this Fifteenth day of March , A. D. 1852.
Chauncey H. North Clerk.

STATE OF Connecticut COUNTY OF Hartford
} ss. Probate District of Granby
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me the judge of said Court of Probate for the district aforesaid X said Court does find that Affiah Fairchild  was an applicant for a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $  under the Act of July 4 1836  per annum and that she died on the 15 th day of October eighteen hundred and thirty nine leaving surviving - Sereno Holcomb Anson H Holcomb and Jonathan Holcomb -
and that Sereno Holcomb & Anson H Holcomb The said Jonathan having died since the said Affiah Fairchild are the only surviving children of the aforesaid. Affiah Fairchild and are also the children of Adah Holcomb and it is further certified that Sereno Holcomb is the sole executor of said Affiah Fairchild duly commissioned qualified sworn
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 12 th day of one thousand eight hundred and fifty 2
March
Isaac C. Holcomb Judge of Probate for Granby District

POWER OF ATTORNEY — Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Severo Holcomb and Asahel N. Holcomb of Granby in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut hereby constitute and appoint George C. Ames of Washington D.C. my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Aspah Fairchild for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to Severo Holcomb as per said Aspah Fairchild to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hands and Seal this 18 th day of November A. D. 1851.
Severo Holcomb Asahel N. Holcomb
Signed and Sealed in the presence of Calvin W. Phelps Daniel H. Morton
STATE OF Connecticut COUNTY OF Hartford } ss. Granby
On this Eighteenth day of November A. D. 1851 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Severo Holcomb & Asahel N. Holcomb and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, } the day and year aforesaid. Calvin W. Phelps
Justice Peace.

4488 X #571
Abigail Farchild formerly the widow of Noadiah Holcomb.
Con.
act 4 July 36 D
3. March 1837
Vol 15 p 30. on in 75. Supt Genl
Bundle 20. No. 7. Capt Case. Witness H. Mespier ger on roll - X
3433
Joshua R. Jewell Granby Con.

State of Connecticut
Hartford County
Probate District of Granby
On the 12 th Day of January 1839. Personally appeared in open court before the court of Probate for the District of Granby, now sitting, Abigail Fairchild a Resident of said Granby, aged Eighty Years, who being first duly sworn according to law, took an oath that she made the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the acts of Congress passed on the 4 th of July 1836. the 3 rd of March 1837. and the 7 th of July 1838. That she was lawfully married to Noadiah Holcomb, then of Simsbury, now Granby, in Hartford County on the 28 th Day of May 1778. by the Rev. Joseph Strong, then the settled clergyman in this Parish, long since dead. That her husband the said Noadiah Holcomb in the year 1775, on the breaking out of the War of the Revolution, enlisted & went into the service of his country, as a Sergeant or Corporal in the State of Massachusetts in Capt. Melun Henry's Company in Col. David Brown's Regt. of the Massachusetts Line, & that he served for a term of eight months as set forth in the deposition of Dea. S. M. Hays. Subscribed — and also in the summer of the year 1776. he again served. Another term of service at New York of not less than three months as set forth in the deposition of Nathaniel Mispinger. Subscribed — That said Noadiah Holcomb died at Granby on the 24 th Day of March 1809. That about five years after his death she was married to Daniel Fairchild of Stockbridge in Berkshire County & State of Massachusetts That said Fairchild died at Stockbridge on the 9 th Day of March 1831. That she is now a Widow by the name of Abigail Fairchild. She has known

a Widow from time 19 th Day of March 1831. I Was a Widow on the 4 th Day of July 1836. — That she Was not Married to the said Naadiah Horvone, by whose Service. She claims a Pension, prior to her leaving the Service, but the marriage took place previous to the first Day of January 1794. With, at the time above stated — The first Service that said Naadiah Horvone Was a Resident of the Town of Tinsley, now Grady, Oregon When he performed the aforesaid Service & that he continued to reside in the Town of Tinsley until his death — That she knows of no Record of marriage with the said Naadiah Horvone, nor does she know of any Record of his death, nor does she believe that there is any such Record — That she has no Documentary Evidence of the Service of the said Naadiah Horvone & knows of no other living Witness by whom the same can be proven but —
What is expected hereunto — his Sworn & Subscribed. Affidavit X Forrester's the Day & Year aforesaid Mark
Thos. Holcomb Arvona Holcomb
Thos. Holcomb Judge
I Joshua D. Droot Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Grady do hereby certify that Thomas Horvone Esq. is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Grady aforesaid, duly appointed, Commissioned, Sworn & that full faith & credit are to be given to his official acts as such — Further that his signature hereunto heretounto when he was in his official capacity I have hereunto set my hand & seal at office this 12 th Day of January 1839 — Joshua D. Droot Clerk

I Joshua D. Scott Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Franklin Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original Proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Official Fairchild for a pension —
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal of Office this 12 th day of January 1839 —
Joshua D. Scott Clerk

We Jonathan Holcomb & Amos N. Holcomb both of Grendly in Hartford County State of Connecticut of Lawfull age Upon Say, That our Son Jonathan Stoadick Holcomb, Died at Grendly, aforesaid on the 24. Day of March 1809. We know of no Parish or other public Records of his Death, but We Well Remember That his Death happen'd on the Day above stated — We further say That our Mother Caffiah, Who is now Caffiah Holcomb is now Living in this Town, and is a Widow, & Was a Widow on the 4. Day of July 1836 —
Jonathan Holcomb Amos N. Holcomb
Hartford County ss Grendly January 10. 1839. Personally appear'd the above named Jonathan Holcomb & Amos N. Holcomb both to me personally known to be the Persons described in and who executed the foregoing Deposition and to me known to be the Persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing Deposition by them subscribed —
Before me Joshua P. Bennett Justice of Peace

REJECTED
3433
P. O.
Stephen Farnchild
Service: Orioniah Holcomb
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

X4488
Rejected
Det. Joshua R. Lawall,
June 10: '39
" J. D. Wilcox, June 9, '40.
To same 10. May 49
G. C. Ames. July 10/52 2
Act 4 July 36
29

I, ROYAL R. HINMAN , Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern,
THAT Joshua R. Jewett Esq. , is
and for more than six months last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certifi- cates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Jewett
in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 17th day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine ,
And I certify that the signature of said hereunto annexed genuine.
Royal R. Hinman
Secretary.

Washington April 5. 1852 James E Beach Esq Sir
I transmit herewith a declaration and Power of Attorney in the Case of Abigail Fairchild formerly widow of Noahiah Holcomb. Who was, an applicant for a pension under the act of 4 July 1836 from Connecticut
Application is now made for the benefits of the act of 7 July 1838, but as it appears from the Certificate of the Court of Probate that Mrs Fairchild was not living at the date of the passage of the joint resolution of 16 August 1842 she acquired no claim under that Resolution. I hope therefore that upon a reexamination of the case evidence of service after marriage will be found sufficient to bring her within the act of 4 July 1836
Very Respectfully Yours obed Servt Geo. C. Dimes

West Greenlay etc Sept 15 th
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Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm ee of Pensions City of Washington
Sept 17 th 48 A. Church M c Adoo Lake 4 th J. D. Miller
ms ms

West Granby Ct Sept 13 th 1848.
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Sir,
I trust you will excuse me in again calling your attention to the case of Mrs. Abigail Fairchild, who applied for a pension (through her agent J. B. Jewett) under the 3 d Section of the act of July 4 th 1836. and was rejected as by letter to said Jewett of June 10 th 1839 upon the ground (as her children are informed) that she failed to prove any service after her marriage, & was therefore deprived the benefits of that act, as she was presumed to have been married after the last period of her husband's service -
But as she was a widow at the time of the passage of the act of June 7 th 1832 & remained such until her decease in 1839, was she precluded from the benefits of the act of July 7 th 1838, because she had been a second time married, & was the widow of another husband who had never been a pensioner? And are not her children, on making application & the necessary proof

entitled to the arrear due their Mother under the act of July 7 th 1838, from the 4 th of March 1836 as that act provides, to the time of her death?
An answer to these enquiries is respectfully solicited, directed to
J. D. Wilcox West-Granby Connecticut

Nov 15 p 30 - on Smo Lenz

Gronly, Con - Jan 17. 1839
Sir,
I herewith Transmit the paper of Affiah Fairchild, an application for a Pension
Any full communications respecting it, please to address to me, in Gronly, Hartford County Con -
Respectfully Your Most Ob t Serv t
Joshua R. Jewett
Hon. J. L. Edwards

N. Mahony

I Natural Mission of Grancy in Hartford County State of Connecticut aged Eighty four years I do hereby That I Will Know No such Person as Sute of Grancy of said D r . - I am Well Knowing that said No such Person as Sute of Grancy in the War of the Revolution as New York in the Summer of 1776. of not less than three months, a part of which time he was in Capt. Pitkin's Company & a part of the time in Capt. Bass' Company -
Hartford County 11 Friday January 5. 1839 — Personally appear'd the above named Nathaniel Messinger to me personally known to be a respectable & credible Witness & made solemn oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed.
As you Mr Joshua R. I wrote further of him

J. M. Hays

I SA Hays of Granby in Hartford County State of Connecticut aged Eighty four years Depose say that I was acquainted with Noahick Holcomb late of Granby aforesaid. I also am well knowing that said Noahick Holcomb, about the first of May 1775, enlisted as a sergeant in said Mahon Henry's company in Col: David Bruns Regt. of the Massachusetts Line That said Noahick Holcomb, enlisted as a sergeant aforesaid & went to Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts then a part of not up than eight months & was discharged at Roxbury the first of January 1776 - I was a soldier with the P. Noahick Holcomb during the term above stated, I enlisted at the same time with him the P. Noahick Holcomb & am personally knowing that he is as above stated.
Seth Hays
Hartford County ss Granby January 5. 1879. Personally appeared the above named Seth Hays, to me personally known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing affidavit, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed.
Before me Joshua D. Smith Justice of Peace

H. Pol -

I Hannah Pool of Granby in Hartford County I have of some time ago right on your desk I say that I was present at the marriage of Noah H. Howell with Abigail Butts, I well remember that the marriage took place on the 28 th day of May 1778. - I was born & brought up in the neighborhood with the 1 st Abigail I have always been acquainted with her - My first husband was a brother of the said Abigail by the name of Joel Butts who has been dead many years - The 1 st Abigail is now the widow of Abigail Fairchild.
Hannah Pool
Hartford County ss Granby January 10. 1839. Personally appeared the above named Hannah Pool, to me personally known to be a reputable & credible witness & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by her Subscribed Before me Deborah D. Root Justice of Peace