Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1867, Ephraim Holt, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Holt, Ephraim Jerusha
W 1867 B.L.Wt 30775-160-55
CONTENTS

1514
Massachusetts
Ebenezer Holt
of Hubbardston in the State of Mass., who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Burt of the Regt. commanded by Col. Tyler - in the Mass. line for 14 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 46 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Nov. 1832 - and sent to E. Holman
Arrears to 4th of Apr. 1832 $69.93 Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Mo '32 23.31 $93.24
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Leol. Stiles Clerk, Book D Vol. 2 - Page 38
Let to Geo. Folsom, May 4. 1835 Dup Cert. if d May 22 1835 and sent to Geo. Folsom, Worcester, Mass.

180.448
Act March 3.
June 30
ss
Jerusha Root, wid.
Ephraim Root, his
No. 30 1/2 1/2
Very. war
Pens. Act Feb. 2. 1848. chap 75. vol. 1.
July 48 - 340.
10:60 AM June 13/56 B. Root
See
Narratio Woodman
Boston, Mass
Vol H-2-63

340.
Reports
Massachusetts Jerusha Holt widow of Ephraim Holt who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private  Massachusetts Line Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Sept r 48. and sent to G. M. Prentiss Worcester Mass.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1845, Page 75, Vol. 1. July 29 th 1848. B. D.

Middleton March 31st 1849
Mr Bennett Dear Sir I received your letter of the 22 d of March requesting a copy of the certificate of Marriage of Ephraim Slott & Jerusha Henry I therefore send a copy as recorded
Ephraim Slott & Jerusha Henry married twentyfour th day of February Seventeen hundred & ninetyfive
Middleton March 31st 1849
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows February 24. 1795.
Oliver White Town Clerk of Middleton
I Oliver White above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Middleton in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the

Record of said town of Middleton with the exception above named and certified by me
Oliver White Clerk of the Town of Middleton
Essex ss
Sworn and subscribed before me this thirty first day of March A. D. 1849
E. S. Phelps Justice of the Peace.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Essex, ss.
Court of Common Pleas
To all people to whom these presents shall come, I Ebenezer Pillsbury Clerk of the Court aforesaid do certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of record.
E. S. Phelps Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Essex, duly authorized to administer oaths, and that his signature on the paper annexed is genuine
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the seal of said Court, at Salem, in the County of Essex aforesaid, on this thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine
E. Pillsbury CLERK.

APPLICATION OF 180.448. Ingraham wid of Ephraim Holts Revolutionary War
for a 160 acre warrant.
Act of March 3d, 1855.
WARRANT TO BE SENT TO HORATIO WOODMAN, Boston, Mass. AS WITHIN REQUESTED.

State of Massachusetts County of Worcester
On this twentieth day of June , A. D., 185 5 . personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in, and for the said County, Jemima Holt aged eighty six years, a resident of Hubbardston in said County who being duly sworn according to law, declared that she is the widow of Ephraim Holt deceased, who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain
in the Revolutionary  war war with Great Britain, declared by the United States, on the 18th day of June, 1812, that her said husband was drafted at on or about the day of A.D. 18 for the term of and continued in actual service in the said war for the term of and was honorably discharged at on or about the day of A.D. 18 , as will appear by reference to the rolls, that he received no printed or written discharge, and that neither he nor she ever received or applied for, or is entitled to bounty land for any other service, except that she received for the same service, under the act of September 1850, a 40 acre warrant, No.
which she has legally sold and cannot return.  The applicant now receives a Pension from the Government for the same service payable in Boston. The Pension Certificate is numbered and is recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensions under act February 2 nd 1848 Page 75 Vol. 1.
She further states that she was married to the said Ephraim Holt in Middleton on the 24 th day of February 1795 , by Solomon Adams a Clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Jemima Hovey that her husband died at Holden on the third day of June 18 44 , proof of which will be found on file with her previous application, that she is still a widow,— that she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress passed March 3, 1855, and that she prays that the certificate thereof may be sent for her to Horatio Woodman, Boston, Mass.
Attest Daniel Baker
Jemima Holt mark
Subscribed and duly sworn to, the day and year first above written. I certify that she is the identical person above described. I have no interest in the case.
W. D. Merrill Justice of the Peace.

State of Massachusetts County of Worcester.
We David Baker and Sally Baker having been duly sworn, depose and say, that we well knew Ephraim Holt who was a private in the Revolutionary War whose widow now applies for bounty land,—that we knew him for more than thirty years before his death, which occurred at Holden about eleven years ago,—that we know that he died about that time because we attended his funeral, and we know the applicant to be the identical person who now draws a Pension for the same service that we are residents of Hubbardston in said County that we have known his said widow from his death to this time, that she has remained unmarried,—that her declaration was signed and acknowledged by her in our presence,—that she is the identical person she represents herself to be,—and that we are disinterested.
David Baker
Sally T Baker
Subscribed, and duly sworn to before me, this twentieth day of June A.D. 1855.
Wm Bennett } Justice of the Peace.
It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, by the affidavits of David Baker and Sally Baker of the said county and state, who are personally known to me, who are entitled to credit, and who swear that they have no pecuniary interest in the result of the above application; that Jerusha Holt is the widow, remaining unmarried of the late Ephraim Holt who was a private in the Revolutionary War and that the said Ephraim Holt died at Holden on or about the third day of June A.D. 1844.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of June 1855, I have no interest in this case.
Wm Bennett Justice of the Peace.
* "We attended his funeral," or "were in the neighborhood at the time," or some equally good reason.

COMMONWEALTH
MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this 18th day of Oct in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Nathan Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester, now sitting Ephraim Hatt a resident of Hubbardston in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty nine 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 Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That man being sent for from Holden to go to Rhode Island on or about the twenty first day of June seventeen hundred and seventy, since he volunteered a Soldier out of the Waltham Company to which he belonged in said Holden to go to Rhode Island for six months and on the twenty eighth day of said June he marched from Holden to Worcester, where some of the Company to which he afterwards belonged had collected and under Sheffield Weaver , a Sargent, he marched to Mendon in said County, where a few more soldiers joined them, thence marched to Providence. At Providence on the third day after he left Holden, the Company to which he belonged there collected and formed under Lieut. Birt of Harvard in the County of Worcester; Captain Gates of Rutland being sick did not arrive there to command the Company. Thereunder Lieut. Birt he marched with his company to Freetown, staid there about a fortnight and returned to Providence; Capt. John Fish of Oxford in said County of Worcester then took the command of the Company, the Ensign's name he does not recollect. That this Company, Capt. Robbins , Capt. Howe and Capt. Walleridge 's companies belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. Tyler of Marlborough, the Adjutant's name was Smith in Belcher of Bolton in the County of Worcester. Col. Jackson commanded one Regiment and Col. Webb another Regiment of continental troops. There was at Providence also, a Regiment of Rhode Island, a Regiment or part of one of colored men, and the whole commanded by General Gates . That he with his Regiment and other Regiments marched from Providence to Bristol, where they staid a number of days, thence crossed the ferry to Newport, where he remained with his Company till the twenty seventh day of December 1778 at which time he and his Company and Regiment were dismissed. That he again entered the service of the United States as a Soldier on or about the middle of April seventeen hundred and eighty and marched from said Holden to Rutland in said County of Worcester and served under Capt. Whipple of New Braintree and Lieut. Timothy  Reynolds of Rutland, he does not remember the Ensign's name if any belonged to his Company, and there with his Company guarded the Prisoners and stores till some of the last days of December then went forward with him when he was dismissed. That he served at this time eight months, the ordinary pay for the same term of time. None of the Company of Guards were there at this time. That he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no persons who can testify to his services other than except Sally Davis , Samuel  Webb , and Samuel  Sturtevant , whose Depositions are herewith exhibited. That he was born at Holden in said County of Worcester on the third day of December seventeen hundred and sixty two. That the record of his age is at said Holden. That when called into the service aforesaid he lived in said Holden; since the Revolutionary he has lived in said Holden, Berlin in Vermont, then again at said Holden and now lives in said Hubbardston. That he volunteered into the service aforesaid, last time. That Col. Jackson and Col. Webb aforesaid were with continental Regiments at Providence, and at Bristol with Col. Webb 's Regiment, Gen. Gates commanded. That he was at Rhode Island. That he never received a discharge from either of the services aforesaid. That the Rev. Samuel Gay , Col. Belcher of Hitch , and Justice  Elliswood Esq. all of said Hubbardston can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Nathan Paine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Ephraim Hatt

We _____ a Clergyman residing in the _____ and residing in _____ hereby certify that we are well acquainted with _____ who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be _____ years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that  the court, see Depositions annexed who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl. D. D. Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
I Theophilus Wheeler Reg d , Clerk of the Court of Probate for Worcester County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ephraim Holt for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theoph d Wheeler Reg d of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts

No 459.
Jerusha Koolt, Widow of Ephraim, Mass
Act 29 July 1848
Married 1795 Husband died 1811
Adm o 1 yr, 2 mos per p 46. 66 per annum Coun g 4 th March 1848.
G. W. Brewster Worcester, Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County ss.
On this sixth day of April A.D. 1849, personally appeared before the Honorable Judges of the Court of Probate, for and of the County of Worcester aforesaid,
Jemima Holt, a resident of Holden, in the county of Worcester aforesaid aged Seventy-nine years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 29. 1848 entitled "an Act for the Relief of certain surviving widows of Officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army", that she is the widow of Ephraim Holt who was a private in the War of the Revolution, and served as set forth in his Declaration to obtain a Pension under the Act of 7 June 1832 now on file in the War Department, and drew a Pension of forty six dollars and sixty seven cents per annum, under said Act of 7 June 1832.
She further declares that she was married to the said Ephraim Holt on the twenty fourth day of February (1795) in the year seventeen hundred and ninety five; that her husband the aforesaid Ephraim Holt died on the third day of June 1844; — that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January one thousand eight hundred, viz, at the time above stated. Sworn to and subscribed on

the day and year herein before written, in open court,
Before me,
Jonathan in X Holt mark
Mr. Sturtevant,
Judge of Probate,
Attest Geo. M. Prentiss, Martin Boomer

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston April 11 th 1849—
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Thomas Kinnicutt was Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; 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 hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. B. Cushing
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Rev.
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 1867
Jemima Hill Widow Ephraim Hill Rev. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index:—Vol. A , Page 341
[Arrangement of 1870.]

✓ 20.775
S Mearns

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston May 31 st 1849
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation George M. Prentiss was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; 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 hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. B. Clapp
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester County ss.
Be it known that on this twenty sixth day of May, A.D. 1849, before the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for said county of Worcester, personally appeared Doctor David Davis of Holiston, in said county, a respectable and disinterested person, and whom statutes are entitled to credit, and who is personally known to me, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, depose and say that he was well acquainted with Ephraim Holt, who was a citizen of the United States, that he knew said Holt for ten years before his death, and was his attending Physician. That he, the Deponent knew, and was personally acquainted with Jerusha Holt, the Deponent's name in the annexed Declaration, and during the time above mentioned, and knows her to be the Widow of the said Ephraim Holt, and that he said said Jerusha Holt, on the 24 th day of May, cannot, and that she was then living in said Holiston.
Attest. Francis Davis David Davis
Subscribed and sworn to,
Before me, Geo. M. Prentiss, Justice of the Peace.

Ephraim Holt, private, p46:67 per annum To what time last paid? Died 3 rd June 1824, D r to his death B2/3

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, June 27 th 1885.
I Hereby Certify , That at the date of the attestations herunto annexed,
Wm Bennett Jr. was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; 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 herunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss , Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Ephraim Holt , was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Forty-six dollars & sixty-seven cents per annum; was a resident of the County of Worcester , in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and died in Holden, in said County , in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four on the Third day of June ; that he left a widow whose name is Jemima Holt , and who is still living.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Worcester, this Sixth day of April , in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine .
Chas. G. Prentiss , Register.

This Certificate Dup. Cert. issued for #46: 67 Pa annu May 22 1835
7/16/35

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Ephraim Holt of the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Twenty Six dollars and sixty two cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1834, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 5 day of Novbr. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
Secy of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards

Worcester, May 18, 1835.
Jas. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir,
Agreeably to the request contained in your letter of 4 th inst., I have the honor to forward to you the Pension Certificate of Abraham Hole, (of Hubbardston,) for correction.
Please to have the same returned to my address.
I am very Respectfully, Your obed t Serv t . Geo. Tolsom.

I Samuel Fisk of Holden in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts aged Sixty four years last November do testify and say That when I was a Boy I lived with My Father during the Revolutionary War That Mr. Ephraim Hott who now is making Application for a pension under the act of Con- -gress for granting pensions - Then lived with his Father who was our nearest Neigh- bours - That I well recollect in the year 1778 or 1779 the said Hott told me he was enlisted Soldier to go to Rhode Island - That his Pa- rents often spoke of him as being a Sol- -dier in Rhode Island and of hearing from him there during the summer, that I dis- tinctly recollect his returning home late in the fall and after his return I heard him speaking of several things that took place there - That the next year He the said Hott told me he was enlisted Soldier to go to Rutland to guard the British Prisoners who were confined there in the Barracks - That the distance from where we resided to the Barracks was but five miles That during that summer Mr. Hott came home several times to see his Friends & I saw him & he told me at those times of a number of things that took place at the Barracks - That I firmly believe him to have served as a soldier in in the Revolution Six months at Rhode Island and Eight months at Rutland - Holden September 5. 1832 - Samuel Fisk
Worcester S. S. Holden September 5. 1832 Then Personally the above named Samuel Fisk and after being duly cautioned made oath to the truth of above Affidavit.

in every particular - That he signed the same in my presence and I further testify say that I have long been person- ally acquainted with the said Liph That he is a man of truth and credit- able worth.
Samuel Luman justice of the Peace.

James Stratton of Holden in the County of Worcester in the State of Massa- chusetts - Sixty five years of age do testify and say that in the year 1780 I went with my Father to the Barracks in Rutland where Burgoyne's Men were stationed That I there saw Ephraim Hott who is now making application for a Pension under the Act of Congress of the 7 th of June last past - serving as a soldier in the Guard - That at one of the times I saw him standing at the Great Gate or gate of entrance and he would not let My Father pass with his team & load of Lumber until he got a pass from the Officer of the Guard - That I saw him there several times acting as one of the guards during the year 1780 - That I believe he served there in that capacity as aforesaid -
Holden September 5. 1832. James Stratton Worcester S.S. Holden September 5. 1832. Then personally appeared before me Samuel Daman a justice of the Peace - James Stratton who has subscribed the above affidavit and made Oath to that it of the same was true in every particular and I further certify that I am personally and have long been ac- -quainted with S r Stratton and that he is a creditable witness.
Samuel Daman Justice of the Peace -

I, Samuel Gay of Hubbardston in the County of Worcester, Clerk, do testify and say, That I am well acquainted with Ephraim Hott of Hubbardston aforesaid, that I believe him to be of the age of sixty nine years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he now resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that opinion. Also that his character for veracity is good.
Samuel Gay
I, Warner Hinds of his Hubbardston, Esquire, testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Ephraim Hott of said, Hubbardston, that I believe him to be of the age of sixty nine years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he now resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that opinion. Further that his character for veracity is good.
Warner Hinds
I, Justus Ellinwood of Hubbardston aforesaid Esquire, testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Ephraim Hott of said Hubbardston, that I believe him to be of the age of sixty nine years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that opinion. I further testify and say, that his character for veracity is good.
Justus Ellinwood
I, Sarah Davis of Hubbardston in the County of Worcester, wife of Maj. Israel Davis, and sister of Ephraim Hott of said Hubbardston, of the age of sixty seven years past, do testify and say, that my said Brother and I lived together at our Father's in Holden in said County in June seventeen hundred and seventy nine, and on the twenty eighth day of June aforesaid, which I remember on account of the birth of a sister, my said Brother left home as a Soldier to go to Rhode Island into the service of the United States, he having a few days before returned from his company in said Holden and prepared to go, that my Father set out to go with him as far as Worcester, and that he was absent over six months before he returned home with his arms and equipments with which he went away, that I have frequently heard him tell about his being in the service aforesaid, and that he is reputed to have been at this time.
Also I further testify and say, that in April the next year he went as a Soldier from his home in said Holden where we lived aforesaid for Newland, to guard a place called the Prisoners Tree, and was absent from home eight months and returned home with his arms as before. Further more the Defendant saith not.
Attest Samuel Green
Sarah Davis

14 Mo.
Ephraim Hall
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 1000000000. On the twentieth day of August in the year our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. The within named Deponents, Samuel Gay, Warner Hind, Justus Ellinwood, and Sarah Davis, were examined, cautioned, and sworn agreeable to law to the several Depositions to which they severally subscribed; taken at the request of Ephraim Hall of Middleborough in said County, and to be used in his application for a Pension under the Act of Congress of the United States passed June 7. 1832 before the Hon. Nathaniel Paine Esq. Judge of the Probate of wills within and for said County at a Probate Court to be held at Worcester within and for said County on Thursday next after the first Tuesday of September next for the purpose of examining Pensioners claims; or in any other Court of Record within and for said County. The inconvenience and expense of the aforesaid Deponents attending any Court of Record in said County is the cause of taking their Depositions aforesaid. And I further certify, that Sarah Davis, one of said Deponents as well as the others, is a credible person whose character for veracity is good. Samuel Swan, Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the Judicial Courts, held within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that Samuel Swan, Esquire, before whom the foregoing Affidavits of Samuel Gay, Warner Hind, Justus Ellinwood and Sarah Davis, were made and sworn to, and Samuel Daman, Esquire, before whom the annexed Affidavits of Samuel Fish and James Stratton were made and sworn to, are Justices of the Peace, within and for the County of Worcester, and that their signatures thereto appear to me to be in their own proper hand writings.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal, this sixth day of September, A.D. 1832.
Abijah Bigelow, Clk.