Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,439, Asa Holden, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Holden, Asa.
S. 44,439
CONTENTS

11995
New Hampshire
Asa Holden
of Lyndon in the State of N Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Perkins of the Regt commanded by Colonel Little in the Massachusetts line, for the term of One year from 1776 to 1777
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 day of May 1819 and
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of June 1819 and sent to E. Huntley Esq. Reene. N Hampshire
Restored to the Roll on 4 th day of May 1832 and notification sent to Hon. H. Hubbard at the House of Reps Pension commencing on the 10 th of March 1832
Amount due on 4th of September 1832 } $46-73
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820. }
Record Book Vol 1 page 159. B. D. Dyer
Copy of Asa Holden's papers from the H. Hubbard co. J. May 1832 -

Copy of Record of Declaration of Asa Holden for Pension.
Feb. 20. 1832. Ref. to Comm. Rev. Pensions
Mr. Hubbard.

State of New Hampshire Sullivan County ss.
On this twentieth day of January A.D. 1832, personally appeared Isa Holden of Langdon in said County of Sullivan in open Court, the same being a Court of Record in and for said County, proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, making a Jurisdiction unlimited, and keeping a record of its proceedings, aged seventy four years the fifth day of April A.D. 1831, resident in said Langdon, who, being first duly sworn, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war, as follows, that he enlisted at Cambridge in Massachu- setts, into Capt Benjamin Perkins's Com- pany, Col. Little's Regiment, in the Mas- sachusetts line, in 1776, for one year, which time I faithfully served, and was discharged as near as I can re- collect, at Elizabethtown in New Jersey. The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension, is the nineteenth day of May A.D. 1819; the number of pen- sion certificate is 11995. - I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18 th day of March 1818, & that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any way or manner dis- posed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so 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 services of the United States, in the Revolutionary war, passed on the 18 th day of March 1818, and an act of Congress passed May 1, 1820, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust

for me any property or sureties, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. I am a farmer by occupation but am not able to labour, occasioned by a fall about twenty years since. I have no family, having lost my wife since my former application for a pension.
Schedule
  One bed and bedding value 15, —   one Looking glass value 1, 50   one small pot of iron , 50   one small table , 75   17, 75 
The foregoing is all the property I possess except my wearing apparel, which is old and poor.
All the estate both real & personal which I possessed when I made my last declaration, on the 11th day of July 1820, agreeable to a schedule then made out & returned to the War office was seven hundred & sixty five dollars fifteen cents — 765.15
And the amount of debts which I then owed was — 659.88
leaving in my hands after payment — 105.27
which has, years since, been exhausted, and I have been dependent on my son for support, being now, and for many years past, unable to labor.
Asa Holden.
Sullivan- Court of Common Pleas, January Term 1832.
Sworn to and declared on the twentieth day of January, 1832, in open court. Attest,
R. R. French, Clerk.

I Benjamin R. French, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Sullivan in the State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify, that it appears to the satis- faction of the Court that the said Asa Holden did serve in the Revolu- tionary War as stated in the prece- ding declaration, against the com- mon enemy, for the term of one year, under one engagement, on the conti- nental establishment. I do also cer- tify that the foregoing oath and sched- ule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opin- ion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhib- ited in the aforesaid schedule, is seventeen dollars seventy five cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twentieth day of January, 1832.
B. R. French, Clerk.

I Aaron G. Holden of Langdon in the county of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire forty years of age depose and say, that Asa Holden of the same Langdon, who was formerly a pensioner of the United States & stricken from the pension list on the twenty first day of July A.D. 1820, as will appear by the records of the War Department, is my father, who at that time was in possession of a small real estate in Langdon which was under a mortgage for the payment of sum of money at the the value thereof, which he was then ever since has been unable to pay, & was obliged to give up the land for the sum due, & has never owned a foot of land since. The said Asa & Dorcas his wife & my mother were not at the time my father (the said Asa) was stricken from said Roll, able to do manual labour for half their support, neither have they since been, & I have with what they could do, supported them in a small tenement of mine, until about three years since. They were so old and feeble, I dare not trust them to live alone & took them into my own dwelling & family & supported them until the 10th of Nov. 1835, when my mother died & my father Asa Holden of which now lives with me a feeble old man, not worth a cent, except one old bed & bedding & the clothes he wears & those I gave him.
Aaron G. Holden
State of New Hampshire Sullivan -
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Charlestown Feby 1 st 1832.
Then personally appeared Aaron G. Holden signer of the foregoing affidavit & made solemn oath to the truth thereof Before me Frederick A. Sumner Jus. Peace

I am well acquainted with Frederick A. Sumner & know him to be an Judge of Probate for the County of Belknap in the State of New Hampshire and a Justice of the peace for said County and further I am well acquainted with Wilbur Holden and Aaron G. Holden and know them to be men of unimpeachable character for truth. I would give implicit confidence to their statements.
March 10. 1832
Henry Hubbard of The State of Rep.

  One half of 97 acres of Land unimproved with small house & barn 550.00   2 cows 32.00   1 mule scott, the man old 30.00   1 Two year old cow 25.00   1 Pair 3 year old steers 32.50   1 Swine 7.25   12 sheep & 9 lambs 18.00   1 clock & pine case 6.50   1 base drawers cherry 5.00   1 Cherry table 4 feet 2.50   1 do 3 1/2 feet 2.25   1 Pine Chest 1.25   6 Dining Chairs 1.50   4 kitchen chairs 34   1 Light Stand 62   1 Grain shock 88   1 Shovel stone 88   1 Tea kettle 50   1 Small brass dishkettle 75   1 old brass kettle & 5 pails 2.50   2 Dish kettles 75   2 Spiders 0.50   1 Cake kettle 50   1 Iron basin and Skillet 50   1 Toaster iron & Gridiron 91   2 wash tubs 0.91   6 tin pans & 2 milk pails 1.37   1 Tin stove 17   1 Cheese press 1   1 Large iron kettle 22.50   1 Small waggon 50   6 buckets 750.83   3 Canale sticks 22   2 Pewter Platters 6 plates 1.42   2 basins & 12 table plates 63   1 Coffe pot & 3 canisters 42   2 glass bottles 14 - Tea pot 17 31   2 enamel colored mugs 22 - 2 do bowls 14 36   4 cups & saucers 18 - 1 Bacon 24 

   6 silver tea spoons 2.37 6 table spoons - 9 2 40   1 Tureen 6. 1 Salisbury filler 17 23   2 butter boxes 22 5 tin plates 20 42   1 Tin skimmer 6 1 sugar crier 6 12   1 Pair shears & scissors 18   2 cream pots 17 2 pudding bowls 12 29   1 Bellows 12 1 culender & pot hook 17 29   1 Tea set 1.75 9 cups & saucers 38 2 13   1 pr plates 57 25 table plates 100 1 57   1 qt mug 15   1 qt pitcher 20 2 Sugar bowls 15 35   2 qt spt bowl 50 4 table Spoons 18 68   2 Decanters 40 3 qt glasses 45 0 85   2 1/2 pt tumblers 10 1 wine glass & salt cellar 11 21   1 Looking glass 62 1/2 doz knives & forks 15 78   $ 705. 15  

SCHEDULE,
Of the whole estate (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) and income of Asa Holden of Spangdon in the County of Cheshire and State of Newhampshire, Applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of May 1st, 1820.
amount of inventory as annexed - 765. 15 659. 88  $105. 27
I am justly indebted the following sums to the following persons -
  By note to Danforth Keyes -  234 88     Lucy Holden -  60  ✓    Nathl Holden -  200  ✓    Lucy Holden -  20  ✓    Simon Dey -  49     John Brooks -  30  ✓    A. Dean -  60     in acct Newham Angier -  2.50     Dani Anderson -  3.50           659. 88   
Deducting the sums which I owe as above being the amount over & above the sums due me leaves me worth the balance as set down only $105. 27
Asa Holden

Asa Holden
11.995
Not utilized
Real estate
Real estate
$765 15
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
CHESHIRE COUNTY SS.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
ON this 11 th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court
being a court of record for said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, Asa Holden aged sixty three years, resident in Langdon in said county, who being first duly sworn, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:
that he enlisted at Cambridge in Massachussetts into Capt Benjamin Perkins Comp y & Col. Little, Reg t in the Mass. Line in 1778 for one year which time I faithfully served and was discharged as man a. I recd. at Elizabethtown in New Jersey
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 19 th day of May  1819 The number of my pension certificate is 11,995
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so 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 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
I am a farmer by occupation, but am not able to labor occasioned by a fall about eight years since - My family consists of a wife only by name Dorcas aged fifty four years not able to labor has been for many years under the care of a physician considerable part of the time she is subject to the Dropsy
Asa Holden
Sworn to and declared at Charles town in said County, on the 11 th day of July 1820 before
R Vose } Judge of said Court.
I, SALMA HALE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Cheshire, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property in the aforesaid schedule, is 763 dollars and 15 cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 14 day of July
A. D. 1820
S. Hale

His to Putney
May 18, 1903 Mrs. Caroline F. Riverside Ill
44439
Rev INVALID.
File No. 44439
Asa Holden
Rev. Rev. War
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 233
[Arrangement of 1870.]

11.995 R. New Hampshire.
Asa Holden
of Langdon in the state of New Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ditto of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one Year
scribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 of May 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of June 1819 and sent to Eliza Huntley Esq
Reems New Hampshire
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819 $ 28.49 Semi-annual Rec-earning 3 mo 17 days am. $ 28.49
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Application sent to the Secy of War for a pension for Asa Holden of Langdon N.H. July 21. 1820

Riverside Ill - C
Commissioner of Pensions - Sir -
OLD WAR CLAIM MAY 16 1903 FILES.
Will you give me record of service of Asa Holden , a soldier of the Revolution .
I wish to join the S. A. R.
(Daughters of Annual Reunions ) I understand a record of service from Washington is necessary -
Yours Truly
Mrs. Caroline F. Putney Riverside Ill -

Admitted Q 2

I Sylvanus Smith late a Major in the service of the Revolutionary Army of the United States Do Depose and say that on the first day of January Adgust I received a Commission as a Lieut. of Col. Benjamin Perkins Company in the 12 th Regt. in the Mass a Line Com- manded by Col. Moses Little, I was before that time in service, and I enlisted one Asa Holden then of Shirley in Mass a now of Langdon in the State of New Hamp- shire for one year, he joined said Company and contine- ed therein for one full year, & I understood some longer this man did his duty faithfully & to the satisfaction of his Officer, I waited on the Commander in Chief just before the time of these years men, was out, and I have a recollection that this man served out his time fully, he being my Townsman of whom I had a perfect knowledge. Sylvanus Smith
I John Kellogg of Shirley in the State of Massachusetts, Do Depose & say that I served as a Sergeant in the above Company of which Major Smith was Lieut. I well remember Asa Holden, then of Shirley aforesaid, who marched from Shirley with me & joined his Company at Cambridge in Mass a after we had served out the eight months service, I marched with him to New York & knew that he served one full year as stated by Major Smith — When we had completed our year the Commander in Chief addressed us in a manner I can never forget, & requested us to remain

remain with the Army six weeks longer, the said Hol- den & myself, with nearly all the New England forces did upon that the neglect of Genl Washington remain six weeks longer. —
John Kelley
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and nineteen, before me Samuel Dana Chief justice, of the middle Circuit Court of Common Pleas and a justice of the Peace throughout said Common Wealth, personally appeared Major Sylvanus Smith and Capt John Kelley, both well known to me to be respectable Citizens of good credit, entitled to faith and confidence before all tribunals and departments, and wholly disinterested in the application of Asa Holden to be placed on the pension on list, and each for himself, severally made oath that the foregoing Deposition, by them respectively subscribed are just, and true. —
Sam l Dana

Asa Holden of Langdon in the County of Cheshire and State of Hampshire herewith can do make the following declaration upon oath That in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and sixty six in the month of January I enlisted as a private Soldier in the Continental Army in the United States of America at Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts in the Massachusetts line under Lieut Silveras Smith in Capt Benjamin Perkins Company in Col Moses Little Regiment for one year and Marched from thence to the City of New York and from that to Long Island and soon from place to place until my time was out and was honorable dismissed I think at Elizabeth Town in the Jerseys in February 1777 having stayed six weeks longer than I enlisted for by the Request of Genl Washington
Also I further say that by Reason of my Natural Circumstances in life I stand in need of the assistance of my Country for Support
Asa Holden

State of Hampshire
Chesham ss May 19 th 1819 Then before Elisha Huntley a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hampshire personally appeared the within named Asa Holden and made solemn Oath that the within declaration by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and it having been made to appear to my satisfaction that the said Asa Holden did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy in manner as by him is stated in said declaration and also that by reason of his natural circumstances in life he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support all which I hereby certify
To the Hon ble John C Bathurst
Secretary of War
Elisha Huntley
I am of the Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said County
Chesham ss. May 20. 1819
I Salma Hale clerk of the Ju- dicial courts in said County certify that Elisha Huntley is one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in said County that the fore- going is his signature & that no particular impression is used as a Seal by said Court.
S. Hale

State of New Hampshire Sullivan ss.
Court of Common Pleas.
On the twentieth day of January A.D. 1832. Personally appeared Samuel Egerton and John Brooks, both of Langdon in the county of Sullivan aforesaid, in open court, the same being a court of record in and for said county and possessing unlimited jurisdiction, and being duly sworn, do on their oaths declare, that they have for more than twenty years last past been acquainted with Asa Holden of said Langdon, who was formerly a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, who has for many years labor- ed under bodily infirmities occasioned by a fall, and been unable to perform manual labor. We further depose and say that his wife, who deceased more than a year since, was for more than three years before her death sick and unable to perform any labor, and very expensive in her sickness, and that the small property which the said Asa Hol- den possessed ten years since, has, for more than five years past been exhausted in ex- penses of himself and wife; and the said Asa has not any visible property. He now lives with, and is supported by his son, and according to our best knowledge & belief the said Asa Holden is, and has been for many years entirely dependent on his son, Aaron Holden, for his support.
Samuel Egerton
John Brooks
Sullivan, ss. Court of Common Pleas
January Term, 1832.
Sworn to in open court.
Attest,
R. B. French, Clerk.
A true copy Attest
R. B. French Clerk

May 7 1832 This may certify that I am herewith acquainted with John Brooks and Samuel Chester Eddy. They are men of the first respectability and their state- ments should be fully credited. Henry Hubbard
Hon. H. Hubbard H. R.
Restore per: to com. 10 March 1832
Copy of Affidavit Holden's Application for Pension
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