Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5186, Nicholas Holt, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Holt, Nicholas
R. 5186
CONTENTS

7418
Nicholas Holt
Rejected
Enlisted 9 July 1780 Discharged 10 Dec. "
Served 5 months & 1 day
5186
See letter to Nathan Ellis 1 Apr 1833
Bluehill
Maine
2

BRIEF in the case of  Nicholas Holt  of  Blue Hill  in the State of  Maine  (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? 75 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.     In 1780 9 Lucy '81 10 Dec " Capt Flint Col. Jackson  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Reading Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? no by his own declaration only  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Nicholas Butts Examining Clerk.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
5186
P. O.
Nicholas Holt
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Nicholas Root
Sep - 24. 7418.
Mam-
Blue Hill via Sept 16
Revolutionary Claims
Hon. Lewis Cass.
Our agent in this City Secretary of the Navy.
Washington City.
Nash on Hill Blue Hill Maine

State of Maine } ss. County of Hancock }
On this thirtieth day of August 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the County aforesaid Nicholas Holt of Bluehill in the County of Hancock aforesaid, being a resident therein, aged seventy five 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, that he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1780, with Capt. Flint, and served in Col. Jackson's Regiment of the Continental Line under the following officers, Capt. Silas Pierce, Adjutant Tufts. He left the service on the first of January 1781, after serving nine months. He resided in Rehoboth in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He joined the army at West Point, soon marched into New Jersey - passed the Delaware - In the Fall of the year he was in a detachment which went back into the country about 60 or 70 miles & got about thirty five boats & barges, & were exercised in taking them from wagons & launching them, & then putting them back upon the wagons again. He understood that they were destined for an expedition to Staten Island, but he was ordered back to West Point & was then discharged, which discharge he has lost. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Nicholas Holt
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
J. Wilson Judge of the Court of Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, & served as he states
J. Wilson Judge of the Court of Probate.

I W ilz . Williams Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Hancock aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nicholas Holt for a pension & further that Job Nelson is Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Hancock aforesaid & that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this thirtyth day of August A.D. 1832.
W ilz . Williams Register of the Court of Probate

Power of Attorney Joseph Kobb Maine Revolutionary rolls
Sep 1852
For E. Haskell Pump

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
State of Maine
County of Hancock
Be it known that before me
Charles R. Tilden
Joseph Holt
a Justice of the Peace personally appeared
aged 51 years, who being duly cautioned and
then sworn in due form of law, states that he is the son of Nicholas Holt
who was a Revolutionary Soldier; or Pensioner of the State of Maine
and that he died on the Eighth day of March 1833 and that his mother named
Mary died on the 30 day of November 1831 and that they were
married on the day of in the year 17 and that they were residents of Blue Hill
in the State of Maine and that they resided there sixty years, and that
he resides in Blue Hill and that furthermore He 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 his true and lawful Attorney for him and in
his name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government
Officers his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may
be due him as Son of Nicholas & Mary Holt who died leaving the
same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity he is or may be entitled.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF He has on this twenty eighth day of July 1852,
hereunto signed his name and affixed his seal.
Joseph Holt SEAL
Witness: Andrew Farrar
Witness: Maria Holt
Signed, Sealed, acknowledged and Sworn to before me, on this 20th day of July 1852.
Charles R. Tilden J. P. SEAL
At the same time personally appeared before me Charles R. Tilden a
Justice of the Peace two credible and disinterested witnesses named Andrew Farrar
and Maria Holt 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
Nicholas Holt was a Revolutionary soldier and that Joseph Holt
was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the
Son of the said Revolutionary Soldier.
Andrew Farrar SEAL
Maria Holt SEAL
Sworn to before me the day and year
first above written.
Charles R. Tilden J. P. SEAL
of to wit:
County of
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That 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 County Court,
this day of
one thousand eight hundred and
Clerk.
* If a Widow applies state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."

7418
Nicholas Holt
Martin
acts - 7 Jan 1838

I know all men by these presents. That I Nicholas Holt of the Town of Bluehill in the County of Hancock & State of Maine. do hereby constitute and appoint Nathan Ellis of said town of Bluehill my true & lawfull Attorney. with a power of substitution for me and in my name to receive from the united States the amount of pay due me under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and Soldiers of the Revolution. Approved June 7 th 1832. as a Soldier in Colo. Jackson's Regiment of the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution.
Witness my hand and seal this
tenth day of September in the year 1832 -
Sealed & delivered
in presence of
Nicholas Holt
Before me a Justice of the Peace in the County of Hancock & State of Maine. personally appeared this day Nicholas Holt whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of Attorney and acknowledged the same to be his Act & Deed.
Witness my hand this
tenth day of September in the year 1832 -
Bushrod W. Hinckley Justice of the Peace