Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8719, Yancy Holeman, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Holeman, Yancy
S. 8719
carded
CONTENTS

State of North Carolina County of Rockingham
Court of Pleas and Quarters Sessions; February term 1833.
On this 23 rd day of February 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Court of Pleas and Quarters Sessions for the aforesaid County now sitting, Yancy Holleman , a resident of the said County and State, aged about ninety two years, but of perfectly sane mind, 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 on the 7 th June 1832, or any other act to which this his claim for pension may be applicable; That he entered the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution with Great Britain, and, to the best of his memory, did serve as follows, viz: That he was born in the County of Amelia, State of Virginia, in the month of March in the year 1760, and when a call was made for Militia from that County, that he was, while a resident of said County, State of Virginia, and at the age 20 years, drafted into the company of Captain Haskin in the 48 th Regiment of Virginia Militia commanded by Colonel (or General) Muhlenberg for the term of six months, on or about the first day of October, in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty (1780) - that he performed several marches throughout the State of Virginia during said term of service, the particulars of which he cannot now remember, on account of old age and consequent loss of memory; - that he continued as a private in said company & Regiment engaged in active service until the fifth (5 th ) day of April in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one (1781) on or about which day he was honorably discharged from said company and Regiment at Smithfield in the state aforesaid by reason of the expiration of the term for which he was drafted, and that said discharge, which was signed by General Muhlenberg, was lost in the burning of his own house in the year 1830 - that, immediately after the passage of the law of 7 th June 1832, he was preparing to apply for its benefits, but having lost his discharge and not being enabled to find out any of his contemporaries and comrades at such a remote period, he did despair of proving his service as above stated; - but, that being so fortunate as to hear of one of his old comrades in said company viz: Mathew Gray of Henry County, State of Virginia, who, he has recently understood, is now living, and is a Revolutionary pensioned for services performed in the same company. - Yancy

many, and who has recently proffered to make an affidavit of his (the applicant's) services, he (the affiant) does now apply for the benefit of the same law of Congress - that having heard of one other soldier of the same company "Thomas Neal" who lived and died some years since in the County of Halifax, State of Virginia, and the two soldiers aforesaid being all that he has been enabled to find out since the passage of said law, he does now affirm that the affidavit of the aforesaid "Matthew Gentry" is the only contemporary evidence which, at this late period, he is able to obtain, the aforesaid Thomas Neal having died before he could obtain his evidence: He furthermore declares that after his discharge from the foregoing term of service, he went to the Cumberland County, State of Virginia, and was there enlisted on the fifth (5 th ) day of June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one (1781) as a private for "Hornet Huzars" who were drafted as a platoon in the company commanded by Capt. Richard Allen in the Regiment of Virginia Militia commanded by Colonel Henry Skipwith for the term of five months which militia were called out by Governor or General Nelson to oppose the invasion of Lord Cornwallis who was then marching from N. Carolina - that he marched towards Petersburg in said State and was stationed in said town and its vicinity for several months - that on the fourth of July 1781 he was engaged in the Battle of "Green Spring" with a detachment of the British Army, and was wounded, at said battle, in the abdomen by a musket ball, the mark of which wound is still visible on his abdomen, and that after a term of four months' service in the said company, he was discharged therefrom at or near Petersburg, on or about the fifth day of October in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one (1781), that his discharge from said company has been long since lost or mislaid - that he resided in Cumberland County until the year 1810 - then in Somerset until the year 1815 - and has been living in the aforesaid County of Rockingham ever since that year - that he has no other documentary proof of his service and that he relinquishes every other claim to a pension, and that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state whatever, and has never before applied for a pension for the reason, that he could not until now hear of a contingency, and had heard that his relations were not entitled to it.
Yancy his Holleman Mark
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
W. B. Gaster, Chairman
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after hearing the statement and the declaration of the applicant, that he was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states - that he is well known to the said Court as an honest, industrious and credible person, that said Court believes him to be ninety two years of age, of sane mind, and his statement entitled to credit: which statement having been examined by said Court is hereby ordered to be entered upon its records.
W. B. Gaster, Chairman

State of North Carolina } County of Rockingham } S.S.
Court of Pleas & quarter Sessions February Term 1852.
On this 28 th day of February Eighteen hundred and fifty two (1852) personally appeared in open court before the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions for the aforesaid County now sitting; Charles Raper, a highly respectable resident of the aforesaid County and State, who being first duly sworn according to law, declares that he has known and been well acquainted with Yancy Holman a revolutionary Soldier now residing in this County formerly a resident of the aforesaid County, in the State of Virginia for 53 years and his general reputation was, that he was a Revolutionary Soldier, and I very likely believe he served as he states in his declaration made sometime this court, also declare I believe him to be 92 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary Soldier, and that I concur in that opinion.
Charles Raper,
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year above mentioned W. B. Wheeler
W. B. Baxter, Chairman
And the said Court do, declare their opinion from the evidence adduced, that the said Yancy Holman was a revolutionary Soldier, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Charles Raper, who made the foregoing affidavit, is a highly respectable and credible person and about 72 years of age and that his statement is entitled to credit.
W. B. Baxter, Chairman
Thos. B. Wheeler Clerk of the county court of the aforesaid County and State do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Yancy Holman for arrears of Pension; and I do further certify that the said Yancy Holman is a resident of our said County & a highly respectable citizen, and that William B. Baxter Chairman of our said Court is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for our said County duly commissioned & qualified as such & that his foregoing signature is genuine & that our court is a court of record my seal is hereunto placed the official seal of the Clerk

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of our said court and subscribed my name This the 9 th day of March 1852
T. B. Wheeler Clerk.

Rev.&1812 Wars Section mmms
February 7, 1927
Mrs. Willie Mae Sewell Grantville, GA.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 8719 it appears that Nancy Holeman was born in March 1760 in Amelia County, Virginia.
While a resident of Amelia County, Virginia he enlisted October 1, 1780, served as a private in Captain Haskins' Virginia Company and was discharged April 5, 1781.
He then moved to Cumberland County, Virginia and enlisted June 5, 1781, served as a private in Captain Richard Allen's Company, Colonel Henry Skipwith's Virginia Regiment, was in the battle of Green Springs, Virginia at which time he received a gun-shot wound in his abdomen, and was discharged October 5, 1781.
In 1810 he moved from Cumberland County to Tennessee and in 1815 to Rockingham County, North Carolina where he was allowed pension on his application executed February 23, 1852.
There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

1927 Feb 7 - H. to M. A. Miller - M. A. Miller - Revell - 1927 1927 Mar 28 - Hist. To Mrs. Kathleen Latimer - 1927
Reborn
8719 INVALID.
File No. 8719
Henry Walman Pris Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1st , Page 177
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Wm Lloyd William P. Langan
James E. Smith esq.
Commissioner of Pensions - Washington
May 18th 1882
Immediate attention

Yancy Holleman Private Va. Militia Revolutionary War. Act of 7 th June 1832.

Yancy Coleman Virginia Militia Hero of the Revolution Act 7. June 1832.

Virginia, Pittsylvania County S c
I William H. Tunstall Clerk of the County Court of Pittsylvania in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Denny Blair whose name appears to the within certificates and to the other two certificates hereto annexed is & was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that his said signatures are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court this 17 th day of March 1852.
Wm. H. Tunstall

Affidavit of Matthew Seay a Revolutionary Soldier & pensioner, taken to accompany the application of Yancy Coleman of Rockingham County, North Carolina, for pension: viz:
This affiant states that his own bodily infirmity will not permit him to go to Court in order to make this affidavit in favor of an old brother soldier, but, that with great effort, he does now come before the nearest Magistrate in order to do so. That he is the identical Matthew Seay who was placed on the Pension Roll of the Virginia Agency in the year 1833 for services in the Rev. Militia in the Revolutionary War, and that he well remembers the services of Yancy Coleman in the same Company with himself — that, in the month of October in the year seventeen hundred and eighty (1780) he (the affiant) having been transferred from the company of Capt. John Crawley in the 218 th Regiment of Virginia Militia to the company of Captain Haskin did there find the said Yancy Coleman as a private of said Company. (Seay)

pany and have been serving some few days therein When he (the affiant) was transferred to said com- -pany - that said Coleman had been drafted in said Company about the first of October in the year aforesaid in the County of Amelie, State a- foresaid, and served in said Company during the whole time the affiant was in said company, excepting the few days that he was discharged before the affiant was - but that the service of said Coleman was at least six months , to the best of his recollection, in said Company - that for the particulars of the service of said Company and its marchings & actions in which said Coleman & the affiant were engaged, he (the affiant) would refer to his own declara- -tion for pension in the year 1833, made when the memory of the him (the affiant) was not impaired by old age & - that he (the affiant) frequently heard from said Coleman subsequently to the Revolution while he was a resident of the County of Cumberland, State aforesaid, and did hear that, many years since, he had emigrated to the State of Tennessee since which time he did not hear from him again until some two months Since

since, and that he was residing in the county of Rockingham in North Carolina - and that he had supposed the said Ganey Holman to have been dead a great many years since from not hearing from him for so many years - He further declares that he has always heard & verily believes that said Holman did afterwards perform another tour of service and that he was wounded in the abdomen in a Battle with the British some where near Petersburg, but as to the particulars of said service and battle the ap- -plicant knows nothing more than that he has heard them from the mouth of said Holman & others, and has frequently seen the mark of the wound on his abdomen while he was a resident of Cum- -land County aforesaid = He further declares that he believes himself and the said Holman to be the only surviving members of the said Company of Virginia Militia and that he verily believes said Holman to be at least ninety two years of age, or about the same age of himself the applicant - that said Holman was a most excellent soldier and was never Nunshur

punished for any Offence while they serve together - and he further declares that in making this, his solemn affirmation of what he remembers concerning the services of said Coleman, he is disinter- ested. Matthew his Scay
Sitgylvania County, } State of Virginia } I hereby cer- tify that the aforesaid Matthew Scay on this 6 th day of March 1852, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace for the said County, and being duly sworn accord- ing to law, did swear that the above statement of his in regard to the services of Young Coleman is correct and true to the best of his recollection. Drury Blair J.P.
And I do further certify that the affiant is a resident of Henry County State aforesaid & is a credible witness. Drury Blair J.P.

County of Pittsylvania, State of Virginia. } 3
I, Drury Blair do hereby certify that I am the identical Justice of the peace before whom an affidavit of Matthew Seay a running Revolutionary soldier in behalf of Fanny Coleman , was made on the 6 th day of March 1852, and (having been informed that it was necessary to do so,) I do hereby certify that said Matthew Seay is very old and infirm & unable to go to the nearest Magistrate in his own county, viz: Henry , who resides some 6 or 7 miles from said Seay , and come about one mile into the county of Pittsylvania, State aforesaid, and in due form, make the affidavit referred to; (see the said Seay residing about 20 miles from Henry Court House & being unable to travel that distance to make his affidavit before Court, on account of extreme old age & badly infirm, did, for safety and convenience to himself, appear before me, though in an adjoining county, and because it was much more convenient than sending for or going to the nearest Magistrate in the county in which he resides. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 16 th March 1852.
Drury Blair J.P. "

Letter of the Hon. Jas. T. Morehead. in regard to character & reputation of applicant.
Commission of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

Washington City March 29 th 1852
Sir
I have been requested by Mr Francis Holleman of Rockingham N.C. to state to the Department of the Interior, what I know of him; My recollection of Mr Holleman, is that I had heard of him before the year 1822, but did not become personally acquainted until that year - I have known the old gentleman since 1822, up to the time I left him, my last interview with him was at August County Court last in Rockingham - He is a very old infirm man, much palsied, with difficulty gets about; health, with a cane & I think for the last few years usually attended by a servant when he goes out; His circumstances in life are easy, he has been a man of business, now retains his intellect in a remarkable degree for one of his age, which I suppose must be on to ninety, years - His character is good for honesty probity & truth none more so, of late years he has become somewhat petulant, the infirmity of age; He has for more than thirty years been regarded as a soldier of the War of the Revolution, the particulars of which I never heard, or if I did, they have escaped me -

From my acquaintance with his general character and from my knowledge of the man, I should place implicit confidence in any statement he might make, I lived in the same county with him to 1831, several years after I came to the bar within a few miles of him, in the year 1831 I moved to Guilford county adjoining, but have spent a large portion of my time in attending courts & at my plantation in Rockingham. I have seen & heard much of the old man since my removal & before! He is now a constituent of mine.
Yours with high regard
J. W. Moorehead
James E. Heath Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

Letter Of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in regard to Applicant.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Senate, W. D.
31 March. 1852.
At the request of a friend of Mr. Yancy Coleman I beg leave to state that I know him well. He is one of my tenants, very old, probably above ninety years of age. He is an honest, moral, and excellent man. I know nothing of his Revolutionary services except what he has told me, but will most cheerfully say that I place the most implicit confidence in whatever he may state in that respect, and would take great pleasure in assisting him if within my power to procure justice for him from the government.
Very Respectfully,
L. A. Burroughs

No 38. 315
Yancey Coleman. N. C.
Act 7 June 1832.
Ad d 6 months, private $20. per An. from 4 March 1831.
Hon W. P. Mangum U. S. Senate,

Senate Chamber 6 th April 1852
3 James E. Heath esq. Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir. I transmit to you the declaration and evidences in behalf of Yancy Coleman praying a pension for Revolutionary services. — Though these papers have been placed in my hands, I do not personally know Mr. Coleman. — The testimonials in respect to his character, toward Mr. Morehead of the Ho. of Reps & Mr. Langdon, I regard as ample, & must be satisfactory. —
I have to ask the favor that you will have the case examined as early as will suit the official convenience of the officer having charge of it; & that if any difficulty shall arise to apprise me of it, before final decision, that I may if practicable, have an opportunity of obviating it.
I am Sir. Your Most Obedient Servant.
Willie P. Mangum.

Brief in the case of Yancey Holman County and State of N. C. act 7 June '32.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Served proved by a pensioner who served in the same Co.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
Hon W. P. Mangum. U. S. Senate,
Kirby Examining Clerk.

77777
March 28, 1927
Mrs. Kathleen G. Latimer Grantville, Georgia
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 8719 it appears that Nancy Holeman was born in March 1760 in Amelia County, Virginia.
While a resident of Amelia County, Virginia he enlisted October 1, 1780, served as a private in Captain Haskins' Virginia Company and was discharged April 5, 1781.
He then moved to Cumberland County, Virginia and enlisted June 5, 1781, served as a private in Captain Richard Allen's Company, Colonel Henry Skipwith's Virginia Regiment, was in the battle of Green Springs, Virginia at which time he received a gun-shot wound in his abdomen, and was discharged October 5, 1781.
In 1810 he moved from Cumberland County, to Tennessee and in 1815 to Rockingham County, North Carolina where he was allowed pension on his application executed February 23, 1852.
There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

Grantville, Ga.
Feb 15-27
Pensions Bureau
Washington, D.C.
I wrote you yesterday and asked for the record of " Yancy Holman " who fought in the Revolutionary War, this man was from Amelia Co. Virginia instead of Georgia
I'll appreciate this information very much, as we are
trying to organize a D.A.R. Chapter here and have to get the record of our Revolutionary Ancestors.
I'll thank you for any an early reply. Mrs. Kathleen Gantt Latimer, Grantville, Ga.

Grantville Ga. Feb. 15-27
Pension Bureau Washington, D.C.
Will you please be so kind as to look up the name of " Yancy Holman " who fought in the Revolutionary War and give me his record? We are trying to organize a D.A.R. Chapter in our town and I am very anxious for this information, and will consider it a favor, if I can get a prompt reply - Thanks.
Mrs. J. A. Latimer Grantville, Ga. I think this man was from Georgia -

Granthille Ga.
Dec. 10, 1926
U. S. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D.C. Dear Sirs -
Will you please write me whether Yancy Holman from Va. fought in Rev. war and did he receive a pension?
Also did George White more who served in Va. Troop H, 1st Va. Cav. from Va. fight in war and did he receive a pension?
I do not know what Co's these men were from, but Yancy Holman moved to Georgia and Geo. White moved to Kingston N.C. Green Co.
Thanking you for any information you will give me in regards to these men -
Respectfully
Mrs Willie Mae Severe