Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23705, Jonathan Holley, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Holley, Jonathan
S 23705
CONTENTS

24 325 New York Jonathan Kelley
of Oncida in the State of New York who was a Private in the Coys. commanded by Captain Noble  of the  Regt. commanded by Col. Patten in the New York line for 10 months and 20 days
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 33 Dollars 88 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Nov. 1833 and Levitt H. Baker Whitcomb
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 33 $ 71.76 Semi-ant. allowance ending N. 34 17.94 $ 89.70
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by G. Collins Clerk, Book E. Vol. 4. Page 104.

7 Anna M. Talley Application for a Pension 28 201
Direct To "V. C. Baker" Post Master White Plains State of New York

State of New York } On this fourteenth day of June County of Oneida } Eighteen hundred & thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Oneida now sitting Jonathan Holley a resident of the Town of Whitesboro in the County of Oneida and State of New York aged eighty 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 Con- gress passed June 7 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated.
That he was born at Sharon State of Connecticut on the seventh day of March One thousand seven hundred & forty nine, that he resided there until he was about sixteen years old at that place & then removed to Ulster County of New York & resided there about six years & re- moved from there to Richmond State of Massachu- setts & resided there until about thirty years since when he removed to the Town of Whitesboro where he now resides, that he has resided with his son in law in Tuscarora County of Connecticut & State of New York until within a short time past for about ten years, That he has no other record of his age except that which he transcribed into his Bible him- self which he still has, That at the time he entered the service as herein after stated he resided in Richmond aforesaid
That in April 1775 he belonged to Captain David Ropes company of minute men, in which company one Smith was the lieutenant & the ensigns

name he does not recollect, but the orderly ser- jeant's name was Miller, that the com- pany was called out soon after the Battle of Lexington & this deponent with them, that they marched to Charlestown, & was also on the Battle ground at Lexington eight days after the Bat- tle, that he enlisted at Charlestown after he had been there about a week into Captain David Nobles Company in which Joseph Welch was the Lieutenant & Ashley was the Ensign & Miller was the orderly serjeant, in the term of eight months, in Col. Pattersons regiment, the Drum Major's name was Parker & the Fife Major's name was Chittenden, that the regiment was stationed there untill his term of service had expired, his eight months & was discharged at that place & received a written dis- charge, but has lost it long since.
That in the latter part of July or the part of August 1777 he volunteered for the term of two months at Richmond aforesaid in Captain Amos Rothbone's company that the names of the oth- er Officers of the Company he can not recollect that they marched from Richmond directly to Fort Edward, & marched from there to Fort George & then back to Fort Edward & from there to Skene'sborough & marched to different places with a view to arrest the progress of Burgoyne's army, that he was discharged at Stillwater after having served two months & he believes he was discharged about 10 or 12 days before the surrender of Burgoyne, that he was under the command of Generals Lincoln & Schuyler.

les, that he does not remember to what regiment the company to was attached to
That he does not recollect any particular officers that he was acquainted with other than what he has mentioned, & he has given the names of his officers when he could recollect them,
That while he was enlisted as a minute man, he was frequently out on alarms from one to seven days at a time, that on one occasion he went on an alarm as far as Thunderhook to a distance of 25 or 30 miles & was in actual service at this time he believes more than a week
That on one occasion he went on an alarm to New Lebanon & was in service that time he thinks a week
That on account of his old age & the consequent loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than ten months & twenty three days as a private soldier in actual service & for such service he claims a pension
That he was in no regular Battles, that near Fort Edward he was in a skirmish when six out of the 24 men that were engaged were killed,
That he has no documentary evidence of his services, That he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify directly to his service, but his Brothers David Holley & Nathan Holley who reside in Ellisburgh know something about his going into the service, although they were not with him, that he thinks Benjamin Bates of Milton would know something about his service

That he is known to the following persons in his present neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution viz, George Graves, Farmer, Thomas Smith Farmer Joseph Gates, Farmer, Luke Smith Farmer Revd Charles Gibson Methodist Clergyman
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his is not name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state sworn to & subscribed this day of Jonathan Holley for years thereafter Jos B Read Dep Clk of Mercer County
We Charles Gibson, Clergyman residing in the Town of Whitesville Mercer County & Luke Smith of the same place Farmer — — — hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Holley — — — — who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about eighty four years of age that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion Sworn & subscribed this fourteenth day of June 1833 Jos. B. Read Dep Clk of Mercer County Luke Smith Charles Gibson

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogation prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolution- ary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Charles Gibson of Whitestown — — — who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman & — — — a resident in the Town of Whitestown aforesaid & that Luke Smith who has also signed the same is also a resident of the same place & a credible person that their statement is entitled to credit. C. Heywood, first judge
State of New York County of Oneida
I George Brown Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Halley for a pension
In testimony whereof I have set my hand & seal of office this fourteenth day of June A.D. 1883
Geo Brown Clerk W. B. Rea Dy Clerk

David Hollis affidavits -
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]

State of New York } County of Jefferson } S.
David Holly of Ulsterburgh county of Jefferson State aforesaid being duly sworn, deponeth & saith that he resides in Ulsterburgh aforesaid his of the age of eighty two years his a Mother of Jonathan Holly of Whitestown Onondaga County who is an applicant for a pension. That he knows that the said Jonathan was in actual service in the year 1775 in the state of Massachusetts for the term of eight or nine months. That he knows that in the spring of 1775 he stood as a minute man & went away from home in the town of Richmond under Capt Hill. That he the said Jonathan was gone from home for the term of eight or nine months That he understood at the time that he had been to Charlestown & Lexington in said state & brought home a discharge with him which this deponent has seen. This deponent further says that he was acquainted with Capt David Rootes, who was afterwards a General. That he knew Lieut. Ebenezer Smith & Capt David Noble & that said Jonathan enlisted into said Nobles company as he always understood & believed. Said Jonathan lived at his Fathers where this deponent also resided when not

in actual service. This Deponent will recollect when the said Jonathan left home at the time he went to Charlstown & when he returned from service in the revolutionary war. This Deponent also recollects that in the year 1777 being the year in which Burgoyne was taken, he this Deponent was at Stillwater in the state of New York in the service of the United States. That while there his Brother Jonathan came there with Capt Amos Rathbone. That this Deponent went home with before the capture of Burgoyne & left Jonathan Holly at Stillwater in service under the said Rathbone. He was gone from home as much as two or three months. This Deponent further states, that he remembers  all remembers that said Jonathan was frequently out on duty as a Minute Man at different places. And he has no doubt but that the said Jonathan was in actual service at different times for more than two years & certainly more than this Deponent was, whose service was more than nineteen months. He has always had the impression & now believes it to be true - I further recollect not -
David Holly

Subscribed & sworn before me this 10 th day of September 1833 and I also certify that the said David Holly is well known to me & has been for many years past and is a man of truth & veracity & on whose statements full reliance can be placed - Samuel Boyden Justice of the Peace
State of New York
Jefferson County ss
I, P. P. Burchard Clerk of the said County do certify that Samuel Boyden Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn and at the date of the same One of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County. And that I am acquainted with his handwriting and really believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature Witness my hand and the seal of the said County this Sixteenth day of September 1833.
P. P. Burchard Clerk

for a statement of the military history of Jonathan Holley a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Ser. F. 23,705.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 1775 Over a wk. Pri. David Rossiter co. of Minute men Mass.   1775 8 mos. " David Noble Patterson "   July & Aug. 1777 2 " " Amos Rathbone " "   Served at various times on alarms, amounting to over 2 wks.  
The above noted is the only Jonathan Holley of N.Y., found on the Rev. War Pension records.
Battles engaged in, Skirmish near Fort Edward.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Richmond, Mass.
Date of application for pension, June 14, 1833. Cl. al.
Residence at date of application, Whitestown, Oneida Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, B. at Sharon, Conn. Mch. 7, 1749.
Remarks: His father, name not stated, lived at Richmond, Mass. during the Rev. Two brothers of sol., David, who also served in the Rev., and Nathan, lived at Ellisburgh, Jefferson Co., N.Y. in 1833. A son-in-law referred to in 1833, name not stated.
Very respectfully

mer.
Resolution
23705 INVALID.
Feb. 4, 1908. Hist. to N. L. Collins
File No. 23705
Jonathan Holley Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index: Vol. 2 , Page 190
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Maj. John Tabor Probably War 1812 Lived in Vt.
Walter Tabor From Jericho, R.I. 1792 at Danby, Vt or Mt Tabor, Vt died 1806
Ezekiel Jones 4809  act B38 died in 1833 at Whitehall N.Y. Widow Hannah died 1841 Wid.# 21466 mwd.
Jonathan Holley Wife Deborah Ernest N.Y. or Vt
Send to N. J. Collamer Warner Bldg City

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. Lamparter
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Jonathan Holley
Service N.Y.
Additional Service Rev. War
No _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No other claim as above except Inw # 23705 & Rej. 5 & 61 sent for not with others

New York.
for 1775 private 10 months & 23 days
$ 35. \frac{88}{100}

N.Y. Whitesboro Oneida County 22 Sept. 23
Sir
Enclosed I send you the papers in the application of David Jonathan Holley for a pension, since making his application his brother Nathan Holley who he mentions as one of his witnesses has died as will be seen by the annexed letter of the Hon Daniel Wardwell one of the members of Congress from this state & who must be known to the Department. I believe this will be all the testimony he can get unless possibly Benjamin Water may know something about it
Please direct the return to me
Mrs. J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions
"H. C. Baker" "Post Master" "Whitesboro" "State of New York"

Manns Hill Ky Sept 19
Free D Ward no 116
J. E. Baker Esq Whitestown

Mannsville Sept 18 th 1892
John
I send you David Holly's Affidavit duly authenticated. The old man is very feeble & dumb. I examined him myself. We think that his Brother Jonathan was out some longer on service than his declaration now specifies - I notify you that Nathan Holly was dead -
Yours truly D. W. Marshall
J. C. Baker by

Record Division.
Jonathan H. Valley $23705-
February 4, 1908.
Mr. N. L. Collamer,
Warder Building,
Washington, D. C.
Sir: In reply to your personal request of the 20 th ultimo, you are advised that the Revolutionary War pension records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to John Tabor and Water Tabor as described. Very respectfully, Commissioner.