Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13459, Lemuel Holmes, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Holmes, Lemuel
S. 13459
carded
CONTENTS

Connecticut 31,572
Samuel Holmes
Hartford in the State of Ct
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Cook of the ————— commanded
by ————— in the Ct.
time for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Ct
at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of Aug.
1838 and sent to H. C. Merriman Hartford Ct.
Arrears to the 1th of March 1838 $140.00
Pemi=ant. allowance ending 4 Sept.. 10.00
$150.00
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. H. Addis Clerk.
Book C 2 Vol. 3 o Page 20

311,557 Samuel Holmes
Conn -
Don't 6 mo pr $20 pr ann
J.H. Menimias Esq Hartford Conn
Wm. J. Toney H.R.
2 2 2 2 2

I George Abby, of the town of Wethersfield in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, of the age of Seventy six years, being duly cautioned examined and sworn according to law, do testify and say- That I am well acquainted with Lemuel Holmes, who now resides in the western parish of Wethersfield called Kensington. I first got acquainted with Holmes in the year 1781, at West Point in the State of New-York. Holmes and myself were then militia soldiers in the Army of the Revolution, and lodged in the same tent together after my arrival at West Point. I was drafted the first of July 1781 into Captain Aaron Cook's company and marched to West Point. When I arrived there I joined the Captain Cooks company and was put into the same tent with Holmes. I do not know how long Captain Cook had been at West Point when I arrived, but was told at the time, that he had been Captain of a company stationed at the West Point two or three months before my arrival.
I recollect distinctly that immediately after I was put into the tent with Holmes that Holmes himself, and the other soldiers in the tent, said that he, (Holmes) had been there as a soldier about two months before I arrived. While at West Point, Holmes served under Captain Cook, and Lieutenant Charles Sise, the same company into which I was drafted. After I had been there a month or two, our officers, Cook and Sise, went home, and we were then put under the command of Captain Starr of Middletown in this State. Col d Canfield was the commanding officer of our dept. Holmes and myself done duty and tented together until Holmes got discharged which was in the fore part of December 1781.

We served together I should think over five months. After Holmes was discharged and went away, I staid a few days afterwards and then got my discharge and went home. We were both in the militia service at West Point, and our company was composed of drafted men and volunteers, and further the deponent saith not.
George Abby.
State of Connecticut, County of Hartford and town of Wethersfield ss. May 26 th 1838.
Then personally appeared the within named George Abby, signer of the within and foregoing deposition, and after having been duly cautioned to speak the whole truth, and carefully examined, did subscribe the same and make oath before me that the same contains the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
And I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the deponent, George Abby, and that he is a man of truth and veracity, and sustains a fair name and reputation among his neighbors and acquaintances.
Attest-
Franklin H. Merriman Just. of Peace.

I, Reuben Whaples, of Newington Society, in the town of Wethersfield, County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, of the age of Seventy three years, being duly cautioned, examined and sworn according to law, do testify and say - That I have been acquainted with Lemuel Holmes ever since I was a small boy, he lived in the same neighborhood with me. I know that in the year 1782, he enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary War - I do not recollect who the Captain was under whom he enlisted, but should think his name was Cook.
Holmes, when he enlisted, was an apprentice at the shoe making business, and told me at the time that he had got mad with his Master, and enlisted as a soldier to get away from him. I know that Holmes went off in two or three days after he enlisted, and the time he left home was quite the last of or first of June 1782. I did not see Holmes after he left, until three or four days after he had returned back again, which was sometime in the month of December of the same year he went away. I cannot say that Holmes served in the Army. I only know that he enlisted as a soldier - went away in uniform, and returned as above stated, and told me after his return that he had been in service at West Point, and further the deponent saith not -
Reuben Whaples
State of Connecticut, County of Hartford and Town of Wethersfield ss. May 28 th 1838 -
Then personally appeared the within named Reuben Whaples, signer of the within and foregoing deposition, and after having been duly cautioned to speak the whole truth, and carefully examined, did subscribe the same, and make oath before me that the same contains the truth, the whole truth, and nothing

but the truth - And I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the deponent, Reuben Whaples, and that he is a man of truth and veracity, and sustains a fair name and reputation among his neighbors and acquaintances.
Attest = Franklin H. Merriman Just. of Peace.
State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } County Clerk's Office - I Phil. A. Goodwin Clerk of the County Court for the County of Hartford do hereby certify that Franklin H. Merriman Esq. whose name is subscribed to the above certificate was on the date thereof still is an acting Justice of the Peace in Hartford County of Hartford regularly commissioned & qualified as appears of Record in this office - that I am acquainted with his handwriting & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine & that full faith & credit are due to his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this 19th day of June A.D. 1838. Photo A. Goodwin Clk
H

Compt o Office
Hartford Jan 8 1838
On application of Lemuel Holmes of Withersfield for Record evidence of his Service as a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in 1781 I have examined the Books and papers remaining in this Office relating to the Revolut- ionary War - and hereby Certify that I have not found the name of Lemuel Holmes in said Books or papers - and that there is no pay Roll of Col. Aaron Cook or John Cook Company for the Year 1781 to be found in this Office - In Haskell's Receipts Pg 17 I find that in the Year 1781 Col. John Cook, Col. William Starr and Col. Samuel Canfield were in Service at West Point - How long they served at West Point does not appear in the Book - and I hereby Certify that the above is all I have been able to find on the Books of papers in this Office relating to the Service of Lemuel Holmes
Henry Kilborn Compt o

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 named applicant, was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Joab Brace who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in Newington Society in the town of Wethersfield, and that Levi Deming 2 is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit
I, Henry Seymour, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Lemuel Holmes for a pension. and further certify that the words "John or" were added before signing
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 2 d day of June 1838.
attest Henry Seymour Clk

State of Connecticut County of Hartford } ss.
On this 2 d day of June 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, Lemuel Holmes, of Newington Society in the town of Wethersfield, within said Probate District, aged Seventy four 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 7 th 1832.
That he entered into the service of the United States during the War of the Revolution as a militia soldier. That on the 28 th day of May 1781 he enlisted as a private, into Captain John Aaron Cook's Company, of which Company Charles Dine was Lieutenant, and that he marched for West Point in the State of New York, with the Company, on the first day of June, and that the Regt. to which he belonged was under Col o Canfield. That he enlisted in the town of Wethersfield where he was born - where he then resided, and has resided ever since the Revolution. That he was eighteen years of age when he enlisted, and was an apprentice at the Shoemaking business, and owing to some difficulty he had with his master, whose name was Amos Buck, which ended in angry words, he enlisted to get away from him. That he arrived at West Point the 10 th or 12 th of June 1781, and that the Company to which he belonged was composed of drafted men and volunteers. That he knows of no person living, who was in that service with him, excepting George Abby of Wethersfield. That sometime in the month of August or September Captain Cook & Lieut. Dine

went home, and that he was then put under the command of Captain Starr of Middletown in this State.
That he enlisted for three months, but after that term had expired General McDougal refused to let him go home, but said the militia men should be kept in service until he got ready to let them go. That he was kept on duty as a soldier, at, and in the vicinity of West Point, mostly guard duty, until the 12 th day of December 1781, when through the intercession of Captain Starr he received a discharge from Colonel Henry Jackson, and eight days were allowed him to return home. That he tore up his discharge the second day after he left West Point and that he was in service as a soldier the whole period from the time he enlisted until he got his discharge, and claims a pension for Six months and twenty four days service . He hereby relinquish- es 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 whatever.
Lemuel Holmes
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
We, Loab Brace, a clergyman, residing in Newington Society in the town of Wethersfield, and Levi Denning Presiding in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Lemuel Holmes, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution; and that we concur in that opinion.
Loab Brace - Clergyman Levi Denning

Rev. Frank
✓ 13.459
INVALID.
File No. 13.459
Loammi Holmes
Phil. Pa. Mar.
Act: June 7th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 180
[Arrangement of 1870.]

34,557 Samuel Holmes, Con. Let. to Hon. J. Touchey, June 25 th , 1838.

Send Holmes & Geo Ably - both state that they went to W.P. in the sum r of 1781. by draft for 300 l . - that their C o officers left them a leave book & Seal Disc. & they were compelled to stay 5 m th - See Ably's paps. N. 31. 463 add d by the Comm ee upon the Statement of Hon. Mr. Fones

Holmes
Mr. March July 10.
Ct.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm ee of Trustees Washington D.C.
Mr. J. Macey

Washington July 8. 1838
Sir
The reason assigned by Franklin H. Merriman Esq in his letter addressed to me for the delay of Lemuel Holmes to apply for a pension is in the words following viz "The fact is he did not know he could draw a pension short of successive one year service, until I told him. He had done over six months service on board a vessel, which was hired by the U.S. He thought with that service he could make out one year, but found he could not draw, because the captain of the vessel employed him."
The representations of the Merriman are entitled to implicit confidence
Very respectfully
Yours to serv
J. L. Edwards Esq Comm. of Pensions
J. F. Soucey

Mr. E. Lucey
34584
34585-

N o . Rep. Jan 22 d 1838
Sir
I send the papers of Lemuel Holmes an applicant for a pension.
The earliest attention which your convenience will permit will oblige
Very Respectfully
Yours &c Sir.
J. Foucey
J. L. Edwards Esq. Counsel of Pleas.