Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5158, Josiah Hollister, Conn. New York

SERVICE
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Conn. New York
Hollister, Josiah
R. 5158
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State of New York } Cattaraugus County } ss Extract taken from the Journal of Deacon Josiah Hollister (in his own hand writing) late of the town of Mansfield County of Cattaraugus and State of New York who died at the above place on the fourth day of July 1832.
“I Josiah Hollister was born at Sharon, in Litch- -field County, State of Connecticut March 19 th 1754 (after -mentioning numerous family events he says) In the Memorable year 1775 in which the war began which is called the Revolutionary War I then enlisted as a Soldier in Major Samuel Elmores Company and Col Weinmans Regiment raised by the then Colony now State of Connecticut in the beginning of May and the latter part of May we had marching orders to go to the northward we marched to Dremont the first day, the second to Clink Hill, the third to Greenbush the fourth to Sharps, seven miles above Albany crossed the River at Half Moon and marched to Stillwater, the sixth day we marched to Short Edward and the seventh to Fort George, the eighth day we went on board a kind of Vessel and crossed Lake George on the next morning marched into Tienderoga where we were Saluted by firing a Cannon, here we staid in Garrison about a fortnight and then Major Elmore was ordered to march to Crown Point to take command there which so enraged Benedict Arnold (who had assisted in taking the Fortresses from the British) that he threatened to give up the Sloop and Schooner to the British And accordingly went on board the Sloop with some of his men and sailed down the Lake and in passing Crown Point the Channel was close to land so that he was obliged to hug close to the point where was a Redoubt and a number of Cannon placed. I was then on Centry, one of the Gunners came with his lighted Match and hailed him and demanded where he was bound, he made but little reply, the Gunner ordered him to drop his anchor, he said he would go to the proper anchoring place, he ordered him to let go the anchor immediately or he would blow him through, he then let go anchor and walked the deck for a bout an hour in a great a passion as ever I saw a man. From that time I

ever had a dislike to him so that it was not surprising to me when he turned out to be an infamous traitor. We kept guard here and sent out Scouts till about the first of September." Then follows a relation of one White former Sheriff of Albany who undertook to take one Esay Gilmore with two Indians but instead of their taking Gilmore Lieut. Parmele called his men and took White and the two Indians and carried them to Siconderoga before Genl. Schuyler who shook hands with the Indians but did not offer his hand to White when White said to Schuyler I guess you do not know me, and at the same time offered his hand to the General. when General Schuyler repl- -yed I know you too well, by I you " About the first of Septem- -ber we sailed down the Lake to besiege St Johns, General Mont- -gomery came on with his Army and laid siege to the Fort A division at the same time besieged Chamblee and took it colo Allen at the same time went to besiege Montreal and was taken Prisoner and sent to England We had a long siege of seven and forty days and then the Garrison surrendered as prisoners of War. After the surrender of the Fort a while we were dismissed and closes by saying "Thus after an absence of six months I arrived to the town of my nativity." Again after narrating some things concerning his family, he commences by by saying a few days after the Decla- -ration of Independence was declared, the Militia was called to New York I went in Capt Archelaus Buel's Company of Militia to New York where my duty was not hard as part of the time I had to cook for the Officers and serve as barber and assist the Adjutant in making out the Regimental Returns. Some time in the month of August the British landed a large body of troops on Long Island where they had a bloody battle with the Amer- -icans and a great many were killed on both sides. General Washington finding that his retreat was likely to be cut off he ordered a retreat in the night and brought his Army off unperceived by the enemy. The next day after the retreat we were ordered to Korn's Brook opposite to Newgate where we lay until I was taken sick and sent out of camp with other sick in a Waggon across Kingsbridge." The Journal then continues the

history of his sickness and travels home at which place he arrived
Here again he goes on with a relation of Domestic scenes and says he was married in June 1777 and that there were frequent alarms and one he should have mentioned viz one in April when the Enemy came out as far Danbury Connecticut where were large stores of provisions and burned the towns and stores and most heathenish like burned the house of God the country was generally alarmed and all of us who were friends to our country turned out and had a severe skirmish with them and we lost some brave officers and worthy citizens. In the month of August a party of Hessians and tory's came to Bennington in order to burn the town but the Militia in Vermont and Massachusetts and some from Connecticut under General Stark turned out and took them very soon Burgoyne's army came to Saratoga where he was stopped by the brave General Gates and after some warm engagement surrendered which was the 17 th of October 1777.
I had now so much respite that I could make up my mind and saved enough for my own use and sold enough for my bread
He mentions no more of being called until the fall of 1780 when he mentions being called out in the neighborhood of Ballston in the State of New York (where he had moved the spring before) there being frequent alarms in the vicinity when he with others were often called out, and on the night of the 17 th of October 1780, just after having been called out, the torys with some Indians and Englishmen, in the morning about two hours before day came to his house and burst open his doors and rushed in and obliged him and his wife with two young children to leave the house and would not let them take, but their poorest clothes, and plundered their house and set it in flames before them and would have killed him, had it not been for the entreaties of his wife. He was then taken from his

wife and children with a number of his neighbors and Extract taken from without shoes or stockings took him to the guard house his own words he said "Isaac Stow one of his neighbors attempted to get a way, when an Indian sent his spear into his back then caught it by the handle held him and smote him in the head with his hatchet. They plundered all the valuable clothing burned the houses barns hay stacks and killed hogs and cattle and it was judged they burned two thousand bushels of Wheat. Their commander was one Monroe (who as I since heard died a poor miserable vagabond in Canada) The ground was some freeze and their feet bled they took some cattle with them into the woods and killed them and each man took the beef for three days provisions and marched through a rough country after the three days provisions were gone they marched five days without any provisions and all pinioned, when they stopped at night boiled hemlock boughs and drank the tea. On the eighth day they arrived at Brown Point where they drew one days provisions and were put on board of the Ship Mariah and sailed to St Johns from there were marched to Montreal then through the city to a long Store house where we were kept through the winter suffered much with cold and hunger got the Scurvey - Then June sixteen of us were sent to the General Hospital at the Three Rivers where we were kept until the 17 th of October 1781 when they were taken to an Island in the River Coteau and kept in barracks, had liberty to go about on the Island which contained about fifty acres and well guarded with Tory guards where they were kept until the fall of 1782 when they were set at liberty it being two years from the time he was taken prisoner - From the Island they went to Quebec were put aboard of a large Ship and sailed to Boston, then went by land home.

State of New York
Cattaraugus County ss
Silas McKay
of the town of Mansfield County and State aforesaid and a resident for many years in the immediately neighborhood of Josiah Hotchkiss Deceased and was well acquainted with him and was with him when he died which was on the fourth day of July last past. have often seen the Journal of his life from which the foregoing extracts and declarations are taken and believe them to be correct, also have heard him relate the same that he was believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution. that he was a man of good morals and strict integrity and to have been 78 years of age
Subscribed and sworn this 31 st day of October 1832 before me Israel Day a Judge of Common Pleas
State of New York Cattaraugus County ss
Silas McKay
We the undersigned David M c Clure Moses Leavensworth and Ira Norton have been acquainted for many years with Josiah Hotchkiss Deceased late of the town of Mansfield County and State aforesaid. referred to in the foregoing history of his revolutionary services that we are well acquainted with the hand writing of said Hotchkiss and having examined the original Journal from which the said foregoing extracts are taken do unhesitatingly pronounce it to be his own writing and from the appearance of the book in which it is written believe it to have been done many years since and also that it has always been understood in the neighborhood where he has resided that he was a soldier of the Revolution and we further certify that we believe him to have been 78 years of age and that he died on the fourth day of July last past. and that he was a man of strict integrity and morality and of noted piety.
Sworn and subscribed this 9 th day of November 1832 before me Israel Day a Judge of Cattaraugus County Common Pleas
D. M c Clure David M c Clure Moses Leavensworth Ira Norton

Cattaraugus county } I John T Baldwin a Clergyman residing in the town of Ellicottville county aforesaid hereby certify that I live within four miles of Josiah Holister deceased and have been well acquainted with him for some years that I believe him to have been seventy eight years of age that I attended his burial on the fifth day of July last past that he is reputed and believed in the vicinity where he lived to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion Sworn and subscribed
the 24th day of December } John T. Baldwin is a 1832 I read this as a judge of Cattaraugus county common Pleas court do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after the examination of the journal of the life of Josiah Holister deceased which I know to be his hand writing am of full belief that said Josiah Holister deceased was a soldier of the Revolution and served as stated in the above declaration taken from his journal and further testify that Silas McKay who signed one of the preceding certificate is a resident of Mansfield county of Cattaraugus is a creditable person and that Jos. Nelson, David Nelson, Almon Lavenworth and Silas McKay are all reputable persons and entitled to credit and also John T Baldwin is a reputable Clergyman residing in the town of Ellicottville and county of Cattaraugus
December 24th 1832
I read this as a judge of Cattaraugus Common Pleas court
I Thomas J. Williams Dept. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Josiah Holister deceased for a pension
State of New York } Cattaraugus County } ss. I John W. Staunton, clerk of said

Said county do hereby certify that Israel Day Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the times of taking the said affidavits one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of Office this 12th day of March A.D. 1833.
John W. Staunton, clerk
(Print in my place)
Please make your return to this to Israel Day of Elmwood Catherine County New York

Rev. Pension Claim of Josiah Hollister & others -
Power of Attorney -
Josiah Hollister
625 Market St San Francisco

Suspended claim.
Act of June 7. 1832
Isiah Hollister. dec. (New York)
Power of Atty.
To examine claim.
Col Anderson
Chas. Tucker
Atty. -
Present. -

Power of Attorney.
Know all men by these presents, that I Josiah R. Hollister of Mansfield Cattaraugus County N.Y. said heir of Josiah Hollister who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington City, D. C. My true and lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Josiah Hollister for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of or any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize said Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed: and to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal this 24 th day of September 185 3 .
In presence of Geo. W. Bown C. G. McKay
} Josiah R. Hollister
STATE OF New York COUNTY ss. Cattaraugus County ss.
On this day of September 185 3 , before me a justice of the peace in and for the County and State above mentioned personally appeared Josiah R. Hollister to me known to be the person described who the above instrument and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
C. G. McKay Justice of the peace in & for said County
STATE OF New York } ss. Cattaraugus COUNTY.
On this 24 th day of September 185 3 , before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Josiah R. Hollister a resident of said County, and made oath according to law that he is the identical Josiah R. Hollister who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that he is directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
C. G. McKay J.P.
STATE OF New York } COUNTY OF Cattaraugus
I Ebenezer H. Southwick Clerk of said County & of the courts thereof do hereby certify that C. G. McKay Esquire Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment were made and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. And that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 16 th day of November 185 3 .
Ebenezer H. Southwick Clerk

Rev. War
March 13 th 1912.
Mrs. M. H. White, East 621 Thirty-third Ave., Spokane, Washington..
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the 5 th ultimo and received in this Bureau the 8 th instant, you are advised that in the papers in claim R. File 5158 Rev. War, it is stated that Josiah Hollister was born March 19, 1754 at Sharon, Conn., and enlisted in May 1775 in Major Samuel Elmore's Company, Colonel Hinman's regiment of Connecticut troops and was in the Siege of St. Johns.
A few days after the Declaration of Independence was declared, he went in Captain Archelaus Buel's company to New York and served until he was taken ill; length of time not stated.
In April 1777, he turned out for the burning of Danbury.
In the spring of 1780 he removed to Ballstown, New York, where he was called out October 17, 1780, (no officers stated ), but the next morning before daylight, a body of Tories, Indians, and English, burned and confiscated all of their property, captured him, his wife and two young children, from whom he was separated and marched to Canada with many others; he was imprisoned at Montreal, in the General Hospital at Three Rivers and elsewhere until the fall 1782 when he shipped from Quebec to Boston.
Soldier married in June 1777, name of wife not stated.

Soldier died July 4, 1832, at Mansfield, New York, where his son Josiah R. Hollister applied for the pension which might have been due his father, but the claim was not allowed, for the reason that he failed to file sufficient proof of six months' actual service, required by the Act of June 7, 1832, under which he applied.
You are further advised that the Revolutionary War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to Abner Whitney described by you.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

REJECTED
5108
P. O. _____
Josiah Hollister
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: The printed list of 185-2 gives cause of suspicion as
Re-enlisted: follows: The original journal in which claimant recorded his service, and on which he bases his claim should be sent to the Dept.
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1912 March 13. Writ to War. Dept. White, letter in James Riddle m. 7. 3595 1920 March 19. Writ to War. Dept. H. H. Pierce 1929 June 11. Photo to Mrs. E. H. J. Wiebusch. A. R. V. Fin. Rev. m. 7. 3595 1934 Sept. 29. Writ to War. Dept. H. H. Pierce. letter in David Hollister m. 7. 1409-5.1.5.

New York Rev: 
Josiah Hollister
Suspended
let. Israel May 20 June 1833.
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War Department
Pension of June 1833
Sir -
The claim asserted upon certain extracts of a journal kept by Josiah Holister has been examined & suspended. The journal itself should be transmitted to this office and a formal declaration, in conformity to the regulations, setting forth such terms of service as the journal may be relied upon to establish. It is necessary that the Court certify the day of his death & the name of his widow if he left one, or if not, the name or names of the heir or heirs. His papers are placed on file.
act. 7. June
Israel May esq Ellicottville Cattaraugus Co N.Y.

2005 Franklin Ave.
Waco Tex
Feb. 28 th 1920
Dear Sir
I want a little information to join the Daughters of the Revolution. I wrote the adjutant and he advised me to write you, as he said the records in that office afford no information to family history etc. They have no record of Major Elmore's company. John Hollister had eight sons in the Revolution surely I can find out about one of them. They were John - David -

Preston - Sherman - Jeremiah - Nathaniel - George - and Josiah - I know from the Genealogy of the Hollister family more of Josiah - He enlisted in 1775 - It is said he served under Gen. Washington - He was at the battle of Ticonderoga & Crown Point, at the time Benedict Arnold was there - He is supposed to have been in Maj Samuel Elmore's company - Col. Hiram's regiment raised by the colony of Connecticut. He lived in Conn.
Later he was in Long Island and was in Capt. H. Buell's company as clerk to the adjutant.
His wife was Mehitable Andrews H. and lived in Mansfield N.Y.
His Grand daughter Mrs. Martha Hollister Taylor lives in Manchester N.Y. & he is buried there he died July 4 th 1832
Now if what I have told you can enable you to find anything regarding the Hollisters I will be overwhelmed with joy and will thank you always Yours Sincerely Mrs. Martha Hollister Pierce "over"

It is said that Maj Elmore was ordered to move to Crown Point and take command there -
This engaged Benedict X Arnold in taking so that he threatened to surrender to the British -
It seems to me he would have been under General John Burgoyne as he led 10,000 men or Colonel St Leger as they marched on Crown Point when Arnold was there -
Send Josiah only AW

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September 29, 1934.
Mrs. John W. Greene 205 West Cherry Street Clyde, Ohio.
BA-J/ILL Josiah Hollister R. 5158 David Hollister W. 21409
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request quite a number of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 records.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data, and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such information, it has not been possible to make a series of investigations and reports pertaining to soldiers of those wars for one person or organization.
The records of Josiah Hollister and David Hollister are furnished you herein as found in the respective claims for pension, based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
JOSIAH HOLLISTER-R. 5158.
Josiah Hollister was born March 19, 1754, in Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut; the names of his parents are not shown.
It was stated that he enlisted in May 1775, served in Major Samuel Elmore's company, Colonel Hinman's Connecticut regiment, was on the expedition to Fort Edward, Fort George, Crown Point, Ticonderoga, and in the Siege of St. Johns; just after the Declaration of Independence, he was out in Captain Archelaus Buel's company, went to New York and served until taken ill, length of service not shown; in April, 1777, he turned out when Danbury was burned; in the spring of 1780, he moved to Ballstown, New York, was called out in October 17, no officers named, but before daylight on the following day, was routed by a body of Indians and Tories, all his property was confiscated, marched, without shoes, to Canada, where he was imprisoned at Montreal, in the General Hospital at

Three Rivers, and elsewhere, until the fall of 1782, when he was put on a ship, sent to Boston, thence home.
Josiah Hollister died July 4, 1832, in Mansfield, Cattaraugus County, New York.
The soldier married in June 1777; the name of his wife and place of their marriage are not shown. In October 1780, when his home in Ballstown, New York, was destroyed, he left the house with his wife and two young children, their names not given; he stated that but for the entreaties of his wife, their lives would not have been spared.
In 1853, Josiah R. Hollister, soldier's son, was a resident of Mansfield, Cattaraugus County, New York. He applied then for pension which might have been due on account of the service of his father in the Revolutionary War. The claim was not allowed as proof of service of six months was not furnished as required by the pension law.
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DAVID HOLLISTER-W. 21409.
David Hollister, the son of Nathaniel Hollister, was born October 9, 1758, in Chatham, Hartford County, Connecticut; the name of his mother is not shown.
While a resident of Glastonbury, Connecticut, he was a musician in Captain Elizur Hubbard's Connecticut company, and just after the battle of Lexington, was called out for two weeks. From sometime in June or July 1775, he enlisted and served five months in a company (name of the captain not given) in Colonel Jedediah Huntington's Connecticut regiment; he enlisted in February 1776, and served two months in Captain Jonathan Hale's company, and from June or July following, he served two months in Captain Hubbard's company, Colonel Elizur Talcott's Connecticut regiment; at the time Danbury was burned, he served two months, no officers named; and from sometime in September 1777, he served two months in Captain

Shipman's company, Colonel Cook's regiment and was in both engagements at Stillwater, this service rendered as substitute for his father; During the season 1778-1779, he served five months as a sailor, between Glastonbury, Connecticut, and Long Island. In the spring of 1780, he enlisted and served five months in Captain Eells' Connecticut company, was at Tappan at the time of Andre's treason, and was discharged sometime in November. He served also two months as waiter to Lieutenant Thomas Hollister, no dates given, nor relationship of the soldier to said Thomas Hollister shown. David Hollister stated that his entire service amounted to at least two years, eleven months of which he was a musician, the remainder as private other than that as sailor.
Following the Revolutionary War, the soldier lived in Glastonbury, sometime in Richfield and Exeter, both in Otsego County, New York, and after that in Owego, Tioga County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 19, 1832, at which time he resided in Owego, Tioga County, New York.
David Hollister died July 20, 1836, in Owego, New York.
The soldier married June 6, 1782, in Glastonbury, Connecticut, Hope Cârke, or Clark; the ceremony was performed by a Presbyterian Minister. She was born September 28, 1760, the names of her parents not shown.
Hope Hollister, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed September 12, 1838, at which time she resided in Cortland Village, Cortland County, New York. In the summer of 1843, she resided in Owego, Tioga County, New York, having lived previously in Aurora, Erie County, in that same state. She was still living in Owego, New York, in 1855.
The following data regarding the children of David Hollister and his wife, Hope, are shown:
Mabel born March 29, 1783; married August 8, 1815, Roswell Harding. David born November 26, 1784; married April 1, 1815, Lois Nancy Pharis.

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Alvin born February 8, 1787; married October 5, 1812, Clarasa Abel. Nancy Born January 25, 1789. Hope born September 10, 1791; married March 20, 1814, Asahel Matthews. Parnicia(Pernicia) born July 11, 1793; married January 28, 1818, Samuel Robbins. Julius Worthington born March 4, 1796; married July 23, 1829, Polly Pearl. Harmony born September 14, 1797. Horatio born September 18, 1799. Horris(Horace I) born July 14, 1801; married September 24, 1829, Mary Pearl.
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The following birth is shown also- Edwin H. Brockway, July 2, 1801 (No relationship to the family stated)
In 1838, Julius W. Hollister and his sister, Mabel Harding, were residents of Cortland Village, Cortland County, New York. In 1843, Horace E.(J) Hollister, of Nichols, Tioga County, New York, was with Hope Hollister, soldier's widow. In 1855, Alvin Hollister was a resident of Owego, Tioga County, New York.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Assistant to Administrator.