Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,698, Darius Holden, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass
Holden, Darius
843698
CONTENTS

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Darius Holden, West Chester Co. N. York, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sheppard of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
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New York
Darius Holden
of West Chester Co in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sheppard of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 of May 1820 and sent to James Cooley Esqr Granville, County of Camden, Mass.
  Arrears to 4th of March 1820. 20 mos 31.30  4.23 168.23    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1820  48     $216.23  
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

State of New York Westchester County ss; On this 4 th day of June 1814 before me Aaron Read one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Westchester personally appeared Darius Holden aged seventy one years resident in Poundridge in the County of Westchester and State of New York who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late Act of Congress entitled An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War; That he the said Darius Holden Enlisted in the Town of Grandville in Massachusetts in the Month of May 1775 for Nine Months in the Company commanded by Lebias Hall in Col. Timothy Danyelson's Regiment in Massachusetts line was stationed in Roxbury near Boston that he continued to serve as a Cook in the service of the United States during the Nine Months That he before he received his discharge Enlisted again while stationed at Roxbury in the same Company under the same Captain & also Col. he thinks the last of Dec r or the 1 st of Jan y 1776 for one year That in the Month of March or April the Regiment then under the Command of Col. Shepard who before was Lieut. Col. was ordered to New York that he was stationed with the Reg t in New York until the British drove them out. That he with some others was detached out of the Reg t & acted as a Carpenter & repair the baggage Waggons at the time the Battle was at the White Plains that he continued to serve as a Cook or in the service of the United States during the Year when he was discharged from service at Peekskill in

The County of West Chester
And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support -
And that he has no other income now in his power of his s t service
Darius Holden
Sworn to and Deponed the day I here affirm before me Aaron Read one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of West Chester
I Aaron Read Judge etc as aforesaid do certify that it appears by my satisfaction that the said Darius Holden did serve in the revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and that he is destitute of property has a family of children and that he is in such reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support - & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken before me. After sending for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress Bridget June 16 th 1878
Aaron Read Judge etc as aforesaid
do certify that Aaron Read is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of
West Chester
Elijah Bradford M c

Darius Holden v
Appletown
Noe sufficiently explicit
evidence of Gm d service on continental establishment is required.
Admitted

State of New York Westchester Co. ss.
Schedule.
On this twenty six day of September 1820, Personally appeared in open court, the same being a court of record, for the county of Westchester - DARIUS Holden aged Seventy three years, residing in Poundridge of said County who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows :- That he the said DARIUS Holden, enlisted in May 1775 for nine months in Capt. Bales Company in Col. Shepherd's Regiment in Massachusetts line in 1776. he enlisted in Roxbury for one year in Capt. Bales Company & Col. Shepherd's Regiment and that he continued to serve in said Corps the nine months & the year when he was discharged at Peekskill, State of New York, that on the 4 th day of June 1818. he presented his original declaration & received his certificate No. 17.275. bearing date the 31 st of May 1820, - And doth he solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18 th day of March 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or in any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the 18 th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contr- -acts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule, hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Signed Darius Holden
Sworn to and declared, on this 26 th day of September 1820 in open court before me Wm. B. B. B.

I, William Regula Clerk of the County of Westchester do hereby certify that the foregoing Deposition and the Schedule thereto annexed are true copies from the Records of the P. Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is not exceeding Nine Dollars - cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the P. Court on this Fifth day of October 1820, Wm. Regula Clerk of the Court for the County of Westchester
Inventory
Real Estate a fixed income of any Description none -
  Personal Estate { 1. Handawre files $1.25   1. Broad ax 1.50   1. Fine cut Saw 1.25   1. adz 1.00   1. 1/2 In auger 62 1/2   1. 1 - In do .25   1. 3/4 In - do 18 3/4   4. old Chisels .50   3. old Gouges .50   3. old Chisels turning 37 1/2   1. Squair & compass 37 1/2   4. old planes 37 1/2   $8.18 3/4 
The applicant is a Carpenter by trade but is in firm to do labour has a wife Elizabeth sixty years of age helpless & supported by the Town of Poundridge
Signed Darius Holden
18 Nov 1820 Darius Holden Esq. Poundridge
Nov 1820 Darius Holden 192 76 May 1820

43698
INVALID.
Recy
File No. 43698
Darius Holden
Rev. Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 232
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Levi Rose's Deposition
Deposition of Levi Rose
[Faint, mirrored cursive text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

I Levi Rose of Granville in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Mass, acknowledged being sixty nine years of age I testify and say that I was a soldier in the Revo- lutionary War in Capt. Libbens "Ball's Com- pany in the Regiment of Col. Burned afterwards, Commanded by Col. William Shepherd, from Jan'y 1776 to Jan'y 1777 part of the time at or near Boston and part of the time and part of the time in the State of New York and I am acquainted with Da- vid Holden then of Granville in said Massachusetts, now residing as I under- stand in Poundridge in the State of New- York, and am knowing to his enlisting into said "Ball's Company in Jan'y 1776 and served as a soldier therein from that time until Jan'y 1777 when he was discharged at Peek- skill in the State of New York upon said having served out the time for which he enlisted - Levi Rose

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden J. 4 th Jan y 1820 Then Personally appeared Levi Rose aforementioned and made Oath to the truth of the Depo- sition by him subscribed. And I do further Certify that the said Levi Rose is a man of Respectability and Credibility and (as far as I am able to judge) a disinterested Witness -
James Cooley Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden Is.
I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth for said Hampden County Certify that James Cooley is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Hampden and that his signa- ture to the foregoing Certificate is his proper hand writing. In testimony whereof hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court this fifth day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred twenty-
John Ingersoll Clerk

Col. Jacob Bots
Deposition

I Jacob Bates of Northampton in the County of Hampshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts being twenty two years of age testify that I was admitted in the Company of Capt. Libbens Ball in the Regt. of Col. Leonard, afterwards commanded by Col. Wm. Shepard, from Jan'y 1776 until Jan'y 1777 in the Company & Regt. in the Revolutionary war, partly near Boston in Massachusetts & partly in the State of New York, and Darius Holden then of Granville in said Massachusetts enlisted in Jan'y 1776 into the Company of said Ball, in the Regt. aforesaid, and continued to serve as a private soldier in said Company and Regt. from Jan'y 1776 aforesaid until Jan'y 1777, when he was discharged at Peekskill in the State of New York, he having fully served out the whole of the year, the time for which he enlisted And further saith not — Dec. 29 th 1819
Jacob Bates
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss Dec. 29 th 1819 Personally appeared Col. Jacob Bates above named, known to me personally to be a highly respectable, credible, & disinterested witness and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is the truth, the whole truth, & nothing but the truth —
Before me Samuel Hinckley Judge of Probate & a Justice of the Peace within the said County.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. I Josiah Dwight Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth do certify that Samuel Hinckley Esq. is a Judge of Probate & Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Hampshire & that his signature to the foregoing Certificate is his proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the seal of said Court this twenty ninth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen
Josiah Dwight

Hon. John C. Calhoun—
Secy of War—
Washington

Hon. J. C. Calhoun,
Secy of War
Inclosed is the Application and evidence necessary to entitle Darius Holden to a Pension Certifi- cate under the Act of Congress of 18 th March 1818 — It is his request that his Certificate may be transmitted to me, or if further testimony is required that notice of the same may be gi- ven to me —
Most Respectfully I am Sir Your most Ob.
James Cooley —
Conville, County of Hampden State of Massachusetts — 2 nd Feb y 1820 —