Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16604, Samuel Holmes, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Holmes, Samuel Family
N. 16604
CONTENTS

18,062 New York. R
Samuel Holmes
of Portland 6° 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 5 of June 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 of Feb 1821 and sent to Roswell Randall in Portland Village, New York
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1820. 26 mos $ 208- Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar: 1821. 48-
$ 256
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
1 First of May 1820
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the Act of the 10 th April 1838 from 4 th Sept 1836 to the 4 th March 1837. & from 4 th Sept 1837 to 3 rd May 1838, the day of his death. Age notified. 11. April 1839.

No 9506
New York
Reps to agt. by letter 28 July 1845
Pamila Holmes, deceased, widow of Samuel Holmes — who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818, and who died on the 6th: May, 1838 — of Allegany in the State of N. York who was a private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. — commanded by Col: Shepherd in the Maptys — line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Allegany at the rate of 40 — Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 6th day of May, 1838.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th: — day of July, 1845 — and sent to E. W. Andrewy, Warsaw — N. Y. —
Total amount, $ _____
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by W. H. Stewart Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 1 — Page 161

Samuel Holmes Union Papers June 5 th 1818
Samuel Holmes private Colonel Learned's Regt after wards commanded by Colonel Shepard 1775 to 1777
The line must be stated in this declaration -
(it is stated in a Supplementary)
The deposition of two credi- ble & disinterested witnesses likely to be taken as authentic evidence, (on the certification of any officer of the Dept.) to prove the service of plaintiff, is required.
Witness my hand & seal this 5 th day of June

State of New York ss. on this fifth day of June Cortland County ss. A 1818 before me the subseri- ber first judge of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Cortland in the state of New York. personally appears Samuel Holmes aged fifty nine years resident in the town of Cin- cinatus in the county of Cortland who being ly- ing first duly sworn according to law doth on his on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain per- sons engaged in the land and naval service of the Uni- ted States in the revolutionary war that the said Samuel Holmes enlisted about the middle of Decem- ber A 1775 in the town of Middleborough in the state of Massachusetts in the company commonly known by captain Isaac Wood colonel Learned Regiment afterward commanded by Col tho Shepherd and served in the same corps or service of the United States until about the middle of February A 1777 when he was discharged in the state of New Jersey either at Springfield or Chats- ham he does not recollect which that he was in the battles at Brandy Point, Trenton and Princeton and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services
Samuel Holmes Sworn to and declared before me the day and in the year aforesaid John Keep first judge of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Cortland

I John Keer First Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Holmes did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and and from testimony of credible witnesses avowed before me that this is in reduced and indigent circumstances and in need of assistance from his country for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Given under my hand
John Keer First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cortland

Clerks office Cortland County So
I hereby certify that John Keep Esq. Whose Name appears to the within is Now and has been for Eight years previ- ous to this time first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County his acts therefore in that Capacity are to be regarded as such
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed this 16 th day of December 1818.
William Walling Clerk

and Cause pleas Of the term  session of September of the term of September Eighteen hundred and twenty before the judges of the same court held at the court house in the town of Homer in and for the County of Onondaga Witness John Keep Esquire first judge Thomas Ballard Clerk
State of New York Onondaga County ss On this 13 th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record whose proceedings and practice are according to the course and practice of the common law held in and for said County of Onondaga by virtue of several statutes of the State of New York before the judges of the same court to hear try and determine according to law all actions real personal and mixed arising within the said County and also all transitory actions although the same may not have arisen within the said County residing in town of Garrison County of Ulster Samuel Holmes now aged sixty one years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pro supplementary to a declaration made by the said Samuel Holmes before John Keep Esquire first judge of the said court of common pleas in and for the County of Onondaga on the 1 st day of June 1818. which is herunto annexed; in order to obtain the provision made by and the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st  day May 1820 that he the said Samuel Holmes enlisted for the term of about 2 years commencing about the middle of December 1817 and continuing until the middle of February 1820 in the state of Massachusetts in the company of com- manded by Captain Isaac Wood in the regiment commanded by Colonel Leonard of the Massachusetts line of the continental establishment afterwards commanded by Colonel

William Shepherd of the continental establishment and served in the said caps during said term when he was discharged  disbanded in the state of New Jersey at Springfield or Chatham as this deponent does not rightly remember which and that he was in the battles of frog's point Trenton and Princeton and that he has no other evidence in his power at this time except of his said services except two affidavits of Howell Thomas and James Shaw which are hereto annexed and that in this said deponent is the in the same said Samuel Holmes mentioned in those affidavits as one of the Regt. named written divers times all expired about the same time of the said Howell Thomas and James Shaw
And in pursuance of the act of the first May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part of it 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 one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not nor has any person a trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me: nor have I any in common other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Real estate I have none either in Law or equity in possession remainder reversion or expectancy
Personal Property

  1 Shear of old mares 1 of them 12 years the other more-worth $ 31.00   2 Cows 1 of them old 1 young 20.00   1 hog & 3 pigs 5.00   1 Hither & sheep & 2 young & 2 turkeys 14.08   1 old waggon & old harness 10.00   1 old cauldron Rattle 3.00   1 old plow & Weag. 4.00   2 Acres of Corn on the ground about minding 10.00   1 Acre of late oats eat up by the grasshoppers .50   1 Table old. 1 churn. 1 bread tray. 1 loom 3.16   1 fire shovel 1 crane 2 hoes 1 ax 1.87   1 piece of old chain. 3 old barrels 1.00   20 lbs. of pork 20 bushels of wheat in the bundle 8.00   10 Bushels of rye in the bundle 3.00   5 Old chairs, 1 chair. 3 old Chests 2.25   5 earthen plates. 4 bowls. 6 knives & forks old 0.88   3 rulers old glass brake good for nothing .78   1 wash tub 3 buckets 1 milk pail .75   1 Six piece kettle cracked 2.00   1 set cracked 2 small dishes and tea kettle & spider 3.00   10 Cup & saucers 1 tea pot & spoons old all 0.70   2 old cups. 2 seeds, so can burn up all old 2.50   2 old bags. 1 bag all hoe. 2 libbles & gals 1.40 
And in debt more than Sam worth — $127.64
Samuel Holmes
By occupation I am a farmer unable to follow it. subject to the asthma old

and inform my family consists of 4 persons with myself and wife wife by name Pamela aged 50 years very inf- -irm unable to labour much Pamela my eldest child at home aged 20 years health good 2 nd child by name Elias Nelson health good aged 18 years
Given to and declared on this 13 th day of September 1820 before Samuel Holmes
Edward C. Reed } Oliver Nelson } Wdges of bedland line
I Joshua Ballards Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Northumberland do hereby certify that the foregoing schedule of the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total sum in value is $1250 as estimated in the foregoing schedule — In testimony whereof I have here
to subscribed my hand and affixed the Seal of said court this 26 th Sep r 1820
Joshua Ballard
Samuel Holmes Declaration for pension A. D. 1820

State of New York) On this 3 rd day of Jan Albany County ) 1845 personally appeared in Surrogate's Court held at Angelica in the County of Albany aforesaid Jedediah Holmes who having been duly sworn according to law deposes & saith that he is the son of Samuel Holmes & Pennilla Holmes deceased, and makes this declaration in order to procure the benefits of the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838. That the said Pennilla Holmes was a widow of the said Samuel Holmes who was a pensioner of the United States & who died at Amity in said County in the year 1838 - 6 day of May. That the said Samuel Holmes was married to the said Pennilla Holmes whose maiden name was Pennilla Andrews on the 29 th day of January 1792 at Dartmouth Bristol County Massachusetts by one Daniel Hix according to his best recollection, & that the said Pennilla Holmes died on the 22 nd day of January 1843, at Amity N.Y. The said Pennilla Holmes at her death left the following Children, To wit: Jedediah Holmes John Holmes Elias Holmes & Pennilla Belding now a widow That they are the only Children of said Pennilla Holmes living at her death and that each of them are more than twenty one years of age Sworn to & subscribed in } Surrogate's Court the day & year } Jedediah Holmes above written Sam l H. Wilson Surrogate of Albany Co.
State of New York } Albany County } Clerk's Office } J. H. Hudson Clerk of said

County do hereby certify that Samuel C. Wilson before whom the foregoing Affidavit was taken was at the date of the same Surrogate of Allegany County in and for said County and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed thereto is his genuine Signature
Given my hand and the Seal of said County this 3 rd day of June A.D. 1825. — J. J. Smith, Notary Public.

I George Kirby do hereby certify that I am town clerk of the town of Dartmouth in the County of Bristol and state of Massachusetts and that by virtue of my office I have custody of the Records of said town, that I have examined the Records of Marriages which have taken place in said town and that I find a Record of the Marriage of Samuel Holmes to Pamela Andrews which are in the following words, viz
Samuel Holmes & Pamela Andrews both of Dartmouth was married the twenty ninth day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety two by Daniel Hitt Minister of Dartmouth and that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed as follows - 29th of Jan y 1792 in fair legible figures & words
George Kirby Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bristol ss. New Bedford, On this 5 th day of May, A.D. 1845 Personally appeared George Kirby, above named, who is known to me as the Town Clerk of said town of Dartmouth, and made oath that the foregoing certificate by him signed is just and true.
Before me,
Henry H. Chapin, Justice of the Peace.

11962
Received June 10, 1845.
11962 Pisonilla Holmes dec d .
NY.
act 7. July 38 a
h o  died 5 May '38-
admd
12 mo rs
$40. per
6 May '38 the day of her husband's death for that year
To Jedediah - John & Elias Holmes & Pamela Bel- ding only children
E. W. Andrews of Warsaw. NY-

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency George A. Briggs Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth
To all whom it may concern:
Geo. A. Briggs Know Ye, That on the seventeenth day of December eighteen hundred and forty two, Henry M. Chapin was appointed a justice of the Peace and Inferior for the term of seven years for the County of Bristol, in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five, and in the sixty sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
John D. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Map
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16684
Pamela Holmes Widow of Samuel Holmes, Rev. Prof. Harv.
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index:—Vol. a , Page 347
[Arrangement of 1870.]

J. L. Edwards Esq.

Warrenton N.W. June 6 th 1845
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
Enclosed herewith we send the Declarative - of my marriage in the case of the heirs of Samuel & Pernilla  Holmes , to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of 1838 - Samuel Holmes was a pensioner.
Respectfully I am
E. W. Andrews

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office, April 6 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Samuel Holmes, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.York, Agency, at the rate of eight Dollars and  Cents per month  annum , under the law of the 18 th March, 1828, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1836, to the 4 th March, 1837; & from 4 th Sept. 1837, to the 5 th May, 1838, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
William B. Parrish Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Payment to be made at Albany by J. W. Olcott Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of
Albany
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book D - Vol- ume 1 Page 161 by Wm -
Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7 July, 1838, Pamela Holmes, decd. who was the widow of Samuel Holmes, who was a priv. in the Rev: war, was entitled to a pension at the rate of $40 per ann: commencing on the 6 May, 1838, the day of his death; and ending on the March, 1841, she having died in which will be paid upon the production of the proper vouchers to Jedediah, John and Elias Holmes, and Pamela Balding only children of Pamela Holmes, aforesaid.
ms. Jany. 1843
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 26 day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.

I, Foxwell Thomas of Dewsbury in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts - testify and say that Samuel Holmes formerly of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts, now living in the State of New-York - served in the revolutionary army of the United States under the Continental establishment in the Massachusetts line - a private in the company of Capt. Isaac Wood and in the Regiment commanded by Col. William Shepherd - that he the said Samuel Holmes was in the same company with me; and that he served as a private soldier in said Company during the whole of the year A.D. 1776
Foxwell Thomas
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss. March 22 d 1820 - Then Foxwell Thomas personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed - Before me Varney Pearce Just. of the Peace
Thereby certify that I am well acquainted with Foxwell Thomas signer of the above affidavit & that he contains the reputation of a man of integrity & veracity - Varney Pearce Just. of the Peace
Franklin ss
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Franklin do certify that Varney Pierce Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit has been made is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth and the foregoing is his signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid this seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
E. Alvord

State of New York } On the Twelfth day of February 1823, before me Cortland County } Abraham Sher one of the Justices of the
Peace for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Samuel Holmes of the town of Harrison, in said County, aged Sixty four years who being by me first duly sworn says, that he enlisted in January seventeen hundred & seventy six in the Company commanded by Capt. Isaac Wood, Col. Learned's, (afterwards Col. Sheppard's) Regiment, Ebenezer Sprout Major, in the Massachusetts Line, Continental Establishment, and served in the same Corps or service of the United States one full year, that he was intimately acquainted with Lieutenant Roswell Thomas, being Brother-in-law to him, and was personally knowing to his being sick at the time the Army left Roxbury to go to New York, in consequence of which sickness he was left at Roxbury and that he did not join the Army again until the June or July following, that he was with the Army from that time until the time of the retreat from Long Island, which was about the last of August, and that in consequence of being lame with the Rheumatism, he was not able to do duty any more duty during the remainder of the year's service, and this deponent has  has no recollection of his being in the Camp after the retreat from Long Island. That this deponent was constantly on duty during the whole of the year 1776, that he was personally acquainted with Nehemiah Curtis who belonged to the same Company, and who was also constantly with the Army and generally on duty during the year, and this deponent further says that he was personally and intimately acquainted with Isaiah Warburn previously to his joining the Army was knowing to his enlisting in the same Company in January 1776, and that when the Army left Roxbury for New York, which he thinks was in April, the said Warburn was left at Providence in Rhode Island Sick, and that in the month of October in the same year, and only a day or two before the Battle of Frogs Point, which he believes was about the Twentieth of October, William Elms with whom this deponent was also well acquainted before and while he was in the Army, joined the Company aforesaid, as substitute for the said Isaiah

Washburn and completed the service in his stead, - And furthermore this deponent says that he had a much better opportunity of knowing the time when the said William Elms did join the company as a substitute for the said Isaiah Washburn than Lieutenant Thomas could possibly have had as this deponent was at all times during the year in actual service in the same company and for the reasons before stated, the said Lieutenant Thomas was not able to be in active service in the camp but a small portion of the time, And this deponent has no hesitation in saying that he verily believes that the said Nehemiah Curtis had also a much better opportunity of knowing the time the said substitute did join the company than Lieutenant Thomas or any other person situated as he was, could possibly have had - And further this deponent saith not.
and Subscribed
STATE OF NEW-YORK.
CORTLAND COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, ss.
20 long
I Certify, That Abraham Aker Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit of Samuel Holmes was taken, was, on the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Cortland, duly authorised and commissioned as such, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts, in that capacity. I further certify, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Abraham Aker and verily believe the signature to the annexed affidavit aforesaid
to be in his own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said county, this Thirteenth day of February eighteen hundred and
Twenty Three
Sam l Hotten Ritz Jr, Clerk.

Washburn and completed the service in his stead, - And furthermore this deponent says that he had a much better opportunity of knowing the time when the said William Elms did join the company as a substitute for the said Isaiah Washburn than Lieutenant Thomas could possibly have had as this deponent was at all times during the year in actual service in the same company and for the reasons before stated, the said Lieutenant Thomas was not able to be in active service in the camp but a small portion of the time, And this deponent has no hesitation in saying that he verily believes that the said Nehemiah Curtis had also a much better opportunity of knowing the time the said substitute did join the company than Lieutenant Thomas or any other person situated as he was, could possibly have had - And further this deponent saith not.
and subscribed Known before me this 3 Twelfth day of February 1823 } Samuel Holmg Abraham Ather J. Pearce

1032 Samuel Holmes Certified Copy Pension Papers etc. Cortland Co. N.Y.
Roswell Randall Agt
Cortland Village
Admitted
Recd. 27 Nov. 1820.
On,
Proof of Service Required - two Credible Witnesses certified to be such by a magistrate duly authorized same be satisfactory.
Dec. 12. 1820 J. Williams

I James Shaw of New Salem in the county of Franklin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, testify and say that Samuel Holmes formerly of Middleborough in the county of Plymouth & State of Massachusetts, now living in the State of New-York, served in the revolutionary army of the United States under the continental establishment in the Massachusetts line, in the company of Capt Isaac Wood and in the Regiment commanded by Col n William Shepherd, that he the said Samuel Holmes was in the same company with me; and that he served as a private soldier in said company during the whole of the year 1776 —
James Shaw
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss. March 22 d 1820 Then James Shaw personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
Before me — Varney Pearce Justice of the Peace
Thereby certify that I am well acquainted with James Shaw signer of the above affidavit & that I have full confidence in him as being a man of truth & veracity — Varney Pearce Just. of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss
I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Judicial courts held within & for the county of Franklin aforesaid do certify that Varney Pierce Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit has been made, is a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and the foregoing is his signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the county aforesaid this seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
E. Alvord

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Holmes, Samuel GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts (Invalid Corps)
WARRANT NUMBER 13229 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February —, 1790 to Theodorus Fowler, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.