Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23262, Jabez Holmes, New York

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New York
Holmes, Jabez
S. 23262
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New York 24.848
Jabez Holmes of Albany Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Darrow of the Regt. commanded by Col. Waterman in the N.Y. Mil. line for 6 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of March 1831, and sent to J. B. Moore Rensselaerville N.Y.
Arrears to the 14th of March, 32 $ 64.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep. 34 10.00 $ 74.00
{ Revolutionary Claim } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by El Brown Clerk
Book E. Vol. 4 Page 111

State of New York Columbia County } ss: On the 25th day of Decr. in 1833 personally appeared before the undersigned a commissioner of courts in and for said County Simon Barnum of Chatham in said County aged 84 years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and in June 1776 he enlisted under Captain George Darrow in Colonel Van Duyck's Regiment and marched to Albany and remained there for some time say about four weeks then moved up to Schenectady Fort Miller, Fort Edward & Kingsbury & Skene'sborough (now Whitehall) by Fort Ann & worked at making roads, barricading. For a part of the time & some time in guarding forts and other Military duty till in November serving five months and that one John Holmes formerly of the same place then called Kings Distill and with whom he was well acquainted before during and since the Revolution and who now resides in P'keepsie in the County of Albany was in and belonged to the same Company and performed the same term of duty and was dismissed at the same time serving five months
Subscribed & sworn this 25th day of Decr 1833. before me Simon Barnum
25th day of Decr 1833. before me
Isaac Pitts Commissioner of Courts
State of New York Columbia County } ss: On the 25th day of December 1833 personally appeared before the undersigned a commissioner of courts in and for said County Isaac Walster of Chatham in said County aged seventy four years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his

oath say that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary army and was in the same company and at the same time as on board in the forgoing affidavit of Simon Beman and served in said company with said Beman and said Isaac Holmes described in said Beman's affidavit and knows that the facts set forth therein are true and that he is informed and believes that said Holmes now resides in Parn in said County of Albany Isaac Webster Subscribed and sworn to the day aforesaid before me 3 rd
Levi Pills Commissioner of Deeds
State of New York
Columbia County ss. I Joseph D. Monell Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Levi Pills before whom the fore- going affidavits of Simon Beman and Isaac Webster purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily and truly believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing I signa- ture
Witness my hand and seal if Given this 30 th day of Dec. 1833
J. D. Monell Clerk

Admitted Private business
Direct all Communica- tions relating to this claim to J. B. Moore Rensselaer Village New York

State of New York } ss On this first day of Albany County } October 1833 personally appeared before me the subscriber a judge of the County Courts of the County of Albany Jabez Holmes a resident of the town of Berne in the County of Albany in the State of New York aged this day 79 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 act of  Longfellow provision made by the act of Longfellow passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
He first entered the said service at the town of New Canaan now in the County of Columbia in the State of New York in the month of June 1770 a volunteer and joined Capt George Darrow's Company of Militia for the term of Five Months and was immediately marched to Albany, then to Fort Edward up the Hudsons river, and from there to Lake George and was there engaged in building a Fort a short time, and was then ordered together with the said Company back to Fort Edward, and was there stationed and kept guard untill late in the summer, and was then marched to Fort Ann and was there engaged in making a road from Fort Edward to Fort Ann, a short time, and was then marched to Skeensborough and staid but a short time, and was then ordered back to Fort Ann with some boats, and then down to Fort Edward, where he staid with the said Company untill the Army arrived, then marched with the Army to Lansing- burgh, where he staid a short time and was then

marched back to Fort Miller and was there stationed and kept guard and assisted in con- =structing a road untill his term of Five Months expired, and was discharged in the month of November 1770 having served at this time Five Months as a Private Soldier, He belonged during this tour, to the forces under the com- =mand of Genl Schuyler, but he does not recollect the name of the Colonel who com- 5 Months, =manded the regiment he was attached to -
He again en- =tered the said Service at New Canaan afore- -said about the first of May 1777 the Militia having been called and he went for his share for the term of one month , and joined Capt Beecher's Company of Militia in Colonel Waterman's regiment, and was immediately marched to Saratoga and was there station- and kept guard untill his term of one month expired, and was dismissed in the month of June 1777 having served as a 1 Month private Soldier one month .
He was in the actual Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War and served as a private soldier in an embodied Corps Six Months and for such Service he claims a pension
He was born in the Town of Plainfield in the State of Connecticut on the first day of October A. D. 1754.
He has a record of his age in his family Bible now in his house
He resided at New Canaan aforesaid when he was called into the said Service -

He first entered the said service as a volunteer, the militia having been called upon to furnish a certain number of men either by drafts or volunteers. He next entered the service and went for a class the militia having been called to furnish a certain number of men.
Capt Van Eps Genl. Schuyler Col. and other officers, whose names he cannot recollect more with the troops where he served, but he cannot remember what continental or militia regiments he served with.
He never received a written discharge, at the expiration of each term of service he was merely dismissed. He has no documentary evidence of his services. He is known to Daniel Fisher, Henry Joslin, Henry Roskranz, Sylvester Ford Esq., Charles Loupoung Jr., John Joslin, Deliverance Smith, Henry Stalker, Reuel Phillips, & others who reside in his present neighbourhood and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
He resides 18 miles from the City of Albany where the courts of record for the County of Albany are held, is very consumptive and has a bad cough, and is wholly unable to travel that distance to attend the court.
He has used every exertion in his power to procure witnesses to prove his services in the Revolutionary War by sending to his former residence and other places where he supposed witnesses could be found and can procure none other than the persons who have been officers
and were in the service of the war.
J. B. Moore Judge of Albany County Court

has not been found - and witnesses to prove his services cannot be has or found. He left Plainfield Connecticut at the age of about six years and went to Canaan aforesaid, where he resided until he was 40 years of age, and then removed to Westerlo Albany County and from there to the town of Bern aforesaid where he has lived for the last three years.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Asminton Subscribed to Jabez Holmes this day and year aforesaid Before me
J. V. B. Moore Judge of Albany County Courts
We David Corwin & Reed Burritt both Clergymen residing in the town of Westerlo in the county of Albany & Stephen S. Tompkins residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jabez Holmes who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 79 years of age; that he is, reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we con- cur in that opinion -
Sworn and Subscribed David Corwin the day and year aforesaid Reed Burritt Before me
J. V. B. Moore pro Stephen, S. Tompkins of Albany County Courts

Albany County ss. And I the said Judge do hereby certify and declare my 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 served as he states. And I do further certify that the said Applicant cannot attend the court by reason of bodily infirmity. And I do also certify that I am well acquainted with Revd David Corrin, Revd Reed Burritt and Stephen S. Tompkins who have signed the preceding Certificate, that the said David Corrin and Reed Burritt are clergymen and both reside in the said town of Westerlo, and that the said Stephen S. Tompkins also resides in Westerlo; that they are all credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid
J. B. Moore Judge of Albany County Court
State of New York } ss Albany County }
Conrad A. Ten Eyck Clerk of the City and County of Albany do hereby certify that Joseph B. Moore before whom the above Declaration of Jabez Holmes and the foregoing Certificate of David Corrin, Reed Burritt, Stephen S. Tompkins were known and who has made the above Certificate is a Judge of the County Court of the County of Albany in the State of New York; and that the signature "J. B. Moore" to the said Declaration and Certificate is his genuine signature - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 16. day of October A.D. 1833.
C. A. Ten Eyck Clerk for Jonas Wickes Deputy
J. B. Moore Judge of Albany County Court

Jabez Holmes
28/92
Be particular to direct Certificate and all communications relating to this claim to "J.B. Moore Rensselaerville N.York" -
I have been put to great trouble & expense by your not observing this direction in other cases - J.B. Moore

State of New York } Ulster County } ss  I, Jabez Holmes residing in the town of Bena in the County State of aforesaid aged 79 years being duly sworn doth on his oath make the following further and additional declaration in order to obtain the benefits of an act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he did serve as a private soldier for the term of six months under two engagements in the Revolutionary War as he has set forth in his declaration hereto annexed, and was not employed in a civil but in a military capacity. That in the spring of the year 1778 orders came to raise a Company of Militia to go to the Northward and join the U.S. Army. That the said Company was to be taken out of the Militia Regiment. That he this declarant together with Simon Beman and Isaac Webster who have made affidavits hereto annexed joined Capt. Davis's Company & Colo. Van Dyck's regiment as he now recollects, in the month of June 1778 and was marched to different places and served in the manner set forth in said declaration, for the term of five months and was then dismissed and returned home and he this declarant foresees most positively that he was not employed in a civil contract to make roads, but was ordered by his officers to perform the duty set forth in his said declaration, that the roads were badly cut up by Continental teams in carrying provisions to the Lakes, and soldiers were occasionally detached to repair them. That in the month of April or about the first of May 1777 the Militia were called and he this declarant had to go as one of the class for the term of one month and joined Capt. Beman's Company Colo. Waterman's regiment and was marched to Saratoga & there kept guard his term of one month and was then dismissed and returned home. That this declarant on his agent can find no one now alive who was with him during the last term of his service, and that it was only on the enquiry of his agent that Simon Beman and Isaac Webster were found to be alive, and their affidavits procured.
Subscribed this day 6 th January 1834 Jabez Holmes and year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four J.B. Moore Judge of Ulster County Court

State of New York } ss. I Conrad A. Ten Eyck Clerk of the Albany County } ss. City and County of Albany do hereby certify that Joseph B. Moore before whom the within affidavit or supplementary declaration of Jabez Holmes was made and known to is a Judge of the County Court of the County of Albany and State aforesaid, and that the signature 'J. B. Moore' to the said affidavit is his genuine signature in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this ninth day of January A. D. 1834.
C. A. Ten Eyck Clk pro Jonas Wickes Defy

Production
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File No. 23262
Jabez Holmes Rev Rev 1822
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 190
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dr Geo Wm Crouch Pension Office
Miss. Bruns Mather for Engraving from the photo Korn York

Dr Geo Wm Crump Pension Office
Mr. Crump
W. Anthony for Col. Crump from Sec. of War & due credit
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Rensselaerville Albany County New York
January 6. 1834
Dr Crossin
Dear Sir
Herewith I return the declaration and papers of James Holmes an applicant for a pension under the act of June 7. 1832. The following are the objections with which they were sent back to me from the Pensions Office
"From the circumstance of the applicant having been employed so much of his time in assisting in the construction or repairing of several Forts, and in making several different roads, it is doubtful whether he was not en= =gaged in a civil capacity, & it is the more doubt= =ful as he cannot give the name of the Colonel. Unless it can be shown that he was called into service by competent authority and served in a military capacity, and can give the name of his Colonel, his claim cannot be allowed"
It is not strange that soldiers were frequently engaged in working at Forts & Roads. But it is strange that the fact should raise a doubt of their being employed in a military capacity. The whole is however explained and substantial proof of the most of the applicants service is herewith sent In relation to the applicant not re= =membering the name of his Colonel I would barely remark, that perhaps the person who raised that as an objection, may on his arriving at

the age of 79 years, he so far deprived of his memory through the interposition of divine Providence, (which I sincerely hope may not be the case) as to forget that he was ever in the Pension office, judging righteous judgment upon the case of a poor unfortunate old man.
I think there can now be no doubt in this case. Please direct Certificate and all communications re- =lating to this case to "H. B. Moore Rensselaer Village New York"
Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servt H. B. Moore