Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5133, Roger Holcomb, Conn. Mass.

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Declaration In order to obtain the Benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of New York
Green County ss On the fourth day of February 1834 personally appeared Before me William Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green and State of New York Roger Holcomb of the Town of Lexington In the County of Green and State of New York aged Seventy Six years old who being first duly sworn au- thorized to say that in his knowledge makes the following declaration In order to obtain the Benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 The said Roger Holcomb says that He Entered the service of the United States In the Revolutionary war under the following Officers and served as He hereafter Named or stated that He Entered the service of the United States at the Town of Canaan In the County of Pittsfield In the State of Connecticut on the first day of Septem- ber In the year 1777 that He volunteered His services In the Company Commanded by Captain Charles Burriel of Canaan went from Canaan to Bennington In the State of Vermont and In that part of the Country untill untill the first day of November after the Capture of Burgoyne was then and there discharged at Bennington aforesaid, then He again Entered the service at the Town of New Marlborough Berkshire County State of Massachusetts on the first day of April In the year 1778 that He Enlisted for the term of three months In the Company Commanded by Captain Sacey Taylor of New Marlborough went to the City of Albany from thence to Cherry Valley and from thence to Cooperstown State of New York was there Stationed to guard against the Indians who were daily committing their depreda- tions on the defenseless Inhabitants and Officers there continued in service untill the first day of August being four months was then and there discharged at Cherry Valley In the State of New York then That He again Entered the service at the Town of New Marlborough aforesaid Enlisted for the time of three months on the on the first day of September 1779 In the Company Commanded By Captain Daniel Taylor, Powell of Great Barrington was The Lieutenant, went to the Northward to the Town of Ben- nington aforesaid where He continued to serve untill the first or second day of December 1779, when He was discharged at Bennington aforesaid In the State of Vermont then That He again Entered the service at the Town of New Marlborough aforesaid on the first or second day of September In the year 1780 volunteered my services for the term of three months In the Company Commanded

By Captain Sheldon of New Malbury went from thence to a place called Stillwaters to the northward of the City of Albany and there continued to do duty in keeping guard in the said Company until the first or second day of December in the same year 1780 and was then and there discharged at Stillwaters aforesaid in the State of New York and he further says that he after these services he volunteered his services in a number of alarms after this in Captain Daniel Jaylors Company went to the northward continued to serve for two or three weeks at a time in these several towers he served one or more months he thinks he should be correct should he say two months he says for certain he faithfully served in the said service for more than thirteen months. And he further says that he never received any written discharge and he further says that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services and that he relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or any other benefit at the present and he further swears that his name is not on any pension roll of the agency of any state and the reason why he has not earlier made this application for a pension is because he intended to try to procure further testimony which he could not procure and this deponent further swears that he is now seventy six years old a poor widower and infirm man that his memory is not good as it once was that he has stated the days and times of enlistment and discharges to a day that such a thing may be that he might be mistaken in a day but verily believes he has stated them correctly to the days mentioned all this is to his best recollection and remembrance it has no doubt of its correctness and that he faithfully served for more than thirteen months in said service believes fourteen.
Sworn and subscribed this twelfth day of February 1834 before me Munson Root one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green State of New York
Roger Holcomb
Certification
We Henry K. Sturges of the Town of Windham in the County of Green State of New York Eldagyonan in Windham and Jessington and John Thompson of the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mr Roger Holcomb

of Saint Gessington who has above subscribed His name and swore to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy six years old and that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion and that we have been well acquainted with him for thirty years past will know that he is well esteemed as a respectable man a man of truth and veracity -
Henry B. Stimson
John Thrown
Sworn and subscribed this Twelfth day of February 1834 before me Judge as aforesaid
Interrogatories of the Judge
Question 1 st Where and in what year were you born and have you any record of your age If so where is it
Answer I was born in the Town of Wallingford in the County of New Haven State of Connecticut I believe in the year 1758 I am now seventy six years old I have no record of my age
Question 2 nd Where were you living when called into the service where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer When first called into service I lived in the Town of Canaan in the County of Litchfield State of Connecticut the other times when I entered the service I lived in the Town of New Mal- berry in the County of Berkshire after the war I moved from that place to the Town of Gessington in the County of Green and State of New York where I have lived something like forty years and where I now live
Question 4 th How were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
Answer The first time I entered the service I volunteered the second time the third time I enlisted the fourth time I volunteered as all the other times I volunteered
Question 5 th State some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served such as Continental and Militia regiments as you

un recollect and the General Circumstances of your Service
Answer I never was acquainted with any particular Officers but my own we were Stationed on the Lines as a Company In all my Fours of Duty Seven Ringers - on the Lines -
Question 6 Did you ever receive any written discharge from the Service and If so by whom
Answer I never received any written discharge when my Term of Service Expired I was Verbally discharged by my Captains
Question 7 th State the names of persons to whom you are acquainted in your own neighbourhood who can testify to your Character for Veracity and their belief of your Services as a Soldier of the Revolution
Answer I am well acquainted with the Reverend Henry B Stimson who has been our Minister a part of the time for many years I have lived something like forty years in the neighbourhood of Judge Buel and Reuben Safford I am likewise well acquainted with William Thompson and Johnson who have as Gang being my Neighbours.
Certificate of the Judge
I The said Judge as aforesaid do declare that my Opinion is after the Investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Soldier of the Revolution or otherwise was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states And I do further certify that it appears to me that the Reverend Henry B Stimson is now a Clergyman in Windham and also in Saratoga also and that John Thompson of the Town of Saratoga who has testified above with him they are both men of respectability truth and veracity And I do further certify that the above applicant is esteemed as a very respectable man a man of truth and veracity And I do further certify that it is my opinion that the said applicant by reason of bodily infirmity cannot attend Court And I do further certify that it is my belief and that of his neighbours where the applicant resides that he served in the revolutionary war

as he states And I do further certify that when I read the above Interrogatories to the said Applicant he was under oath administered by me -
Munson Board judge as aforesaid
State of New York
Green County ss. Ruben Hosford of the Town of Scipio in the County of Green and State of New York on his oath deposes and saith that he is well acquainted with Mr. Roger Hosford the above Applicant. Has lived a neighbour him for more than thirty years. That he is a very respectable old Gentleman a man of truth and veracity and entitled to full credit as a witness.
Sworn and subscribed this twelfth day of February 1834 Before me Munson Board a Judge as aforesaid
Ruben Hosford
State of New York
Green County ss. Ira Johnson of the Town of Scipio in the County of Green and State of New York on his oath deposes and saith that he is well acquainted with Mr. Roger Hosford the above Applicant. Has lived a neighbour to him for more than thirty years past has for many many years past during said time heard him say that he was a soldier of the Revolution for a number of years and has been himself there for many times for more than twenty years past and believes the same to be true and that said Hosford as a man of veracity truth and veracity.
Sworn and subscribed this twelfth day of February 1834 Before me Munson Board Judge as aforesaid
Ira Johnson
The said Judge do hereby certify that all those persons who have above made their affidavits are men of truth and veracity
Munson Board judge as aforesaid

State of New York Greene County ss. } I William V.P. Keermance Clerk of the said County do certify. that Munson Buel Esquire before whom the within declaration, certificate, and affidavits were sworn. was at the date of the same, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, and that his signature to the same is genuine —
Witness my hand & Seal of office this eleventh day of March 1834.
William V.P. Keermance CCR
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Roger Holcomb Esq.
N. York
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Ex. Herford
Lesinger Knight
Green Co
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Roger Holcomb R. 5-133
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Sept. 1. 1777 Nov. 1. 1777 Charles Burrell Conn.   Apr. 1. 1778 4 mos Lacy Taylor Mass.   Sept. 1. 1779 Dec. 1779 Daniel Taylor   Sept. 1 or 2. 1780 Dec. 1780 Sheldon   v 1 mo. at various times Daniel Taylor  
Battles engaged in, _____ Residence of soldier at enlistment, Connaught Litchfield Co. Conn. Date of application for pension, Feb. 12. 1834. His ch. al. Residence at date of application, Lexington, Greene Co. N.Y. Age at date of application, 6 at Wallingford New Haven Co. Conn. in 1758 Remarks: No data as to family
The claim was rejected on the ground of insufficient proof of service as required by the Act of June 7. 1832 under which he applied.
Very respectfully,

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1870.
REJECTED
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P. O.
Roger Holcomb of 729 Portland
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
Jan'y 19. 1912. Hirt to Mrs. C. D. Reed. Letter sent to Record Div. for answer to civil war inquiry.

New York Rodger Holcomb Suspended Let to R. Hosford June
24, 1837-
to Hon. J. Pratt 6- Jan. 1838
same Mar 6. 1838.

30.636 New York
Roger Holcomb Suspended
See let-6 th Oct 1834 to Re Hosford
In letter to sum Dec 2 1834
Let to Hon A Vanderpoel 15 Jan '36 " " R. Hosford Aug 28. 1836 Same Feb. 14. 1837 Let to Hon Z Pratt 9 Oct 1837 " to R. Hosford 8. Nov. '37.
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Roger Holcomb
1777 0. 2.0 Capt Baril Lucy Bunnings 1778 0. 4.0 — " Lucy Taylor Cherry Valley 1779 0. 3.0 " Daniel Taylor Bunnings 1780 0. 3.0 " Children Still Water

Boston October 18 th 1834
Sir, Yours of the 13 th Inst. was received this Morning. We have again examined the rolls & find them to be as we stated in the Certificate sent you. No roll of Capt. Lacey Taylor's Company is found in this Office, and as Mr. Holcomb's name was found on Lt. Eleazer Taylor's Company roll, we thought Mr. H. was mistaken in the name of his Captain. If you wish it (and will return the Certificate you have) we will state in a Certificate that no roll of Capt. Lacey Taylor's Company is found in this Office. The four days found

For Mr ... was an alarm at Binnington. he joined the Company August 17 th and left it the 20 th both days included and was allowed £0 = 7 0 8 0 —
Yours Respectfully Eleazer Homer
Henry White

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Sept th 18 1834.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Roger Holcomb, as a private, is borne on a Pay Roll of Militia Company, commanded by Lieut. Eleazer Taylor, in Col. John Ashley's Regt. where he is allowed from August 17 th to the 20 th 1777, four days. ————— M. ds =4
Roger Holcomb's name is borne on a Pay Roll of Capt. Daniel Taylor's Company, in Lt. Col. John Collier's Regt. where he is allowed from Oct 13 th to the 20 th 1781, for services and travel, twelve days. ————— 12
Roger Holcomb claims for services under Capt. Lacey Taylor, in 1778, under Capt. Daniel Taylor, in 1779; — no evidence of his said services are found in this Office, except those above mentioned. Roger Holcomb claims for services under a Captain Sheldon, in 1780. The roll

of Capt. Ebenezer Sheldon's Company, in Col. Seth Murray's Regt. for three months and sixteen days, in 1780, is found in this Office - but the name of Roger Holcomb is not thereon thereon.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

War Department Pension Office January 15 th 1836
Sir
I have the honor to return you the letter of the Hon. G. W. Gay and to enclose herewith the papers in the cases of Roger Holcomb and David Grayer. The other cases referred to have not been found among the applications from New York under the act of 7 th June 1832. If you are able to state the facts of any applications to this Office by them such facts may furnish the necessary guides for another examination for their papers.
The case of Roger Holcomb has not been admitted because the evidence derived from the Massachusetts records do not show as much as six months service the minimum provision of the Act of 7 th June 1832; and that of David Grayer, because his alleged service is not duly supported and his 1 st alleged term is not deemed military service in the contemplation of the Act.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Ob t Servant J. L. Edwards
Hon. A. Vanderpoel House of Representatives

Washington July 3 d 1838 House of Reps
Sir
Will you please furnish me with a copy of the petition of Roger Holdcomb from the State of New York for a pension - and all other papers relating to the subject on file in your office - As I wish to present them to the House of Reps
I have the honor to be Respectfully your assistant Roderick Pratt
J L - Edwards Esq u

Add d Evidence Roger Holcomb
Osborn Willoughby
Oct 27
John James Edward Lloyd Esq. M.P. Barnes
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Gr. Ct. S. S. York Pennington Heights, October 25 th 1834
Wm Lloyd James S c Edward Esq r Sir
In the return of your last Letter of the twelfth of October instant you mentioned that a Certificate of the Secretary of Massachussetts in relation to the pension of Mr. Roger Holcomb was deficient as it did not state whether there were any rolls of the Company of Captain Fanny Taylor in the event of your Letter I write to these two Gentlemen who are the Secretaries Clerks who have this day sent me the enclosed this is the fourth return going and coming the first Letter with the money was not received the return was they charged two dollars and every Letter Eighteen Cents so that this expense all amounts to something like five dollars already and this a very expensive way for a poor Subsidy Old man that had not one Cent to pay only what his neighbours gave him Hoping he may at last obtain his pension I do hope you will be satisfied some other way than by sending again In this manner these Gentlemen write me that there is no roll of Captain Fanny Taylor Company and perhaps there is none In the other, I have thought proper to enclose the Letter to your Honore which perhaps may be an satisfactory and the same was returned from the Sunday Ministry, should your Honore dispute the veracity of the Old Gentleman I can procure every man above giving within a mile of him who would certify that any man is entitled to a belief of truth and veracity he has been with me a number of times and gives me an correct account as any man can of every one of his campaigns from the first to the last and I do believe he has stated the truth In every particular please to inform me you will and pleasure as soon as may be, before I close I beg leave to mention the case of Mr. Judick Atman he is on a bed of sickness increased by a paralytic affection and has so said for a number of months I have lately wrote to your Honore but have not as yet received his pension he really stands In stead of it there are others that are evidently waiting for your return -
I remain Honoured Sir very respectfully
your aff t Pauline Foster

Honble James S c Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Daly Washington

Islington Heights Fort. Adk. York September 26 th 1834 Wm James S. Edwards Esq. Sir
I have received the certificate from the Secretary of Massachusetts which gives but little account of the services of Mr Roger Holcomb, although Mr Holcomb has in his declaration stated a number of months services in those very companies which he enlisted into for three months at a time, Mr Holcomb is a neighbor to me and a man that I will vouch for as a man of truth and veracity, I on receiving those papers sent to Mr Holcomb to come and visit me for the purpose of making some inquiry of him concerning his services he went on to give me an account of the whole of his services in all these companies in Capt Burrells Company and all the other companies in Capt Sary Taylors Company same Taylors and others and all their different movements throughout the whole of his services as the northward and elsewhere I cannot believe but what Mr Holcomb has served every day as he has stated your Honor will please to inform me your mind on the subject and what must be further done
Very respectfully your self
Richard D. D. D.

Longfellow Heights
October 21
free
Oct 24
Miss Frances S. Edwards Esq.
Miss Frances S. Edwards
Miss
Washington
NY
Roger Holcomb.

Freyington Nights for S. H. York, Oct 21 st 1837.
Hon ble James S t Edwards Esq r Sir
A few days since I wrote a few lines to your Honour respecting the concern of Mr Roger Holcomb's paper application which I enclosed some months since in a letter with the application of Mr David Inayes, by your Honours letter of the 11 th of October of the present month addressed to the Hon ble J. Pratt, I understand that that application had never arrived at your Honourable department, In that letter I requested your Honour to inform me by letter that should Mr Holcomb be obliged to make out a further application whether you would insist on the County Clerk's Certificate that Henry Goslee was a Judge which I expected to have awaited your Honours answer; but having this day received the Certificate of the Clerk in another case, I have taken the liberty of inclosing them without, the Old Gentleman as worthy and as respectable as he is Hasty in money to advance in payment, to the Office, Mr Holcomb and my self went before the Judge Goslee this day and made this application, Had it been thought necessary and Had Mr Holcomb been able to attend to this business I do presume that he could have procured every person in Town to have made a like affidavit as the one encompassing the proving as to his character and belief of his services and the truth of what he had sworn too - I pray your Honours answer to me as soon as may be consistent.
I remain Hon ble Sir Very Respectfully Your O bedt Servt Benson Hostett

Roxie Holcomb

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir - I understand that Roger Holcomb of Lexington, has made application, to the War department for a pension under the act of June 7 th 1837. and that I have been further informed that he has been unfortunate & not able to procure witnesses to prove his services, and that he is compelled to depend on his own testimony to support his claim. I have resided in the neighbourhood & been acquainted with said Roger Holcomb for more than thirty five years past, and do now and have always considered him a man of truth and veracity & is entitled to full credit and belief when under oath & otherwise. I am confident that you may safely rely on his oath & that you need fear no imposition from said Roger Holcomb. It has generally been understood in the neighbourhood that Mr. Holcomb was a soldier of the Revolution, and his character here is beyond reproach.
Lexington January 24. 1837
I am Yours &c
Henry Goslee a Judge of Green Common Pleas

30.63h-
Rodger Holcomb

State of New York Greene County ss
I William H. D. Keermance Clerk of the said County, do certify that Henry Goslee Esq. before whom the annexed documents were sworn to, was at the date of the same, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said documents, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand & Seal of Office this seventh day of March 1837.
William H. D. Keermance Clerk

Green County ss on the Twenty fourth day of February in the year 1837 personally appeared before me Henry Foster one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York Roger Holcomb of the Town of Scipio in the County of Green and State of New York aged Seventy five years old who being first duly sworn according to Law with on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That He the said Roger Holcomb Entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, under the following Officers hereafter named and served as hereinafter stated, that He Entered the aforesaid Service at the Town of Canaan in the County of 1544 Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, on the first day of September in the year 1777, that He volunteered His Service in the Company Commanded by Capt Charles Kurrel of said Canaan, went from Canaan to Bennington in the State of Vermont, and there continued to do duty in said Company until the first day of November after some weeks after Burgoyne was taken and that he was discharged at Bennington aforesaid, that He again Entered the Service on the first day of April in the year 1778, at the Town of New Marlberry in Berkshire County State of Massachusetts, Enlisted for the term of three months in the Company Commanded by Captain Sacy Saylor of New Marlberry went from thence to the City of Albany, from thence to Cherry Valley, and from thence 4- to a place called Cooperstown, then on the frontier to guard against the Indians who were harassing the inhabitants, I was detained there and not discharged, continued to do duty Officers would not discharge us until the first day of August, In the same year 1778, being four months and one month more than I enlisted for, discharged at Cherry Valley, on the first day of August aforesaid, and that He again Entered the same Service, at the Town of New Marlberry aforesaid Enlisted for three months on the first day of September 1779. In the Company Commanded by Captain Daniel Saylor of New Marlberry aforesaid, Rowel of Great Barrington was the Lieutenant, of the Company went to the Northward to the Town of Bennington where they continued to serve until the first or second day of December 1779. When he was discharged at Bennington aforesaid, That He again Entered the same Service at the Town of New Marlberry aforesaid, volunteered for the term of three months, on the first or second day of September in the year 1780 In the Company Commanded by Captain Childers of New Marl

1. being aforesaid went to a place called Stillwaters above Albany and there continued to serve until the first or second day of december in the same year 1780 when he was discharged at Stillwaters aforesaid State of New York; and he again entered the same service at New Malbery aforesaid a number of times. In the Company commanded by Captain Lemuel Taylor for two weeks and more at a time and went to the northward more than once. Further he says that he faithfully served in his Country's service for more than one year and one month being thirteen months and more, and he further swears that he never received any written discharge, and that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to prove his services or who can testify to his services and that he relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he further declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, that he has been at Great Esprince in sending swivel to Boston as his attorney informs him that he the agent of the Secretary or Clerk charged two dollars as he is informed by the Attorney and that the first was never received as he is informed and there a notice letter with two dollars more together with all the postage on all the letters and other great expenses to try to procure witnesses without effect, and he further says that he has been a poor sickly man for some years past, and that he is now seventy seven years of age and that his memory is not what it once was that he has stated the times of enlistment services discharge as particular days he says he may be mistaken in a day but does not think that he is mistaken in any one particular that he has mentioned that he served more than thirteen months faithfully in said service.
Sworn and subscribed this twenty seventh day of February 1837 Before me Henry Goble one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green State of New York

Clergymans Certificate
We Augustus Chapin Clergymen and John Thompson both residents of the Town of Saugerties In the County of Greene and State of New York do hereby State or Certify that we are both well acquainted with Mr Roger Holcomb and have been for some years past, who has above subscribed His Name to the above affidavit or declaration and that we do believe that the said Roger Holcomb is now seventy nine years old, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we do concur in the same opinion and we do further swear that he is considered as a man of truth and integrity of many years standing.
Sworn and Subscribed this twenty fourth day of February 1837 Before me Henry Gorham one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green and State of New York
Augustus Chapin John W Thompson
Interrogatories of the Judge
Question 1. Where and In what year were you born and Have you any record of your age If so where is it?
Answer. I was born In the Town of Wallingford County of New Haven State of Connecticut I believe I was born In the year 1758. I Have no record of my age but my memory I am now seventy seven years old.
Question 2. and 3. Where were you going when Called Into Service where Have you lived since, the revolutionary war and where do you now live Answer when I Entered the Service I lived at Canaan aforesaid also ays lived after that at New Mallory aforesaid during his other Service.
Question 4. How Were you Called into Service were you drafted, did you Enlist did you volunteer or were you a substitute and If a substitute for whom Answer the first time I Entered the Service I volunteered, the second and third time I Enlisted the fourth volunteered and the others by militia being Called out.

Question 5 th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops, where you served such as Continental, and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the General Circumstances of your Service.
Answer I remember a Continental Captain when at Cooperstown by the name of Ballard don't remember the Officers to the Northward but my own.
Question 6 th did you ever receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what was the bearer of it.
Answer I never had any written discharge was always regularly discharged by my Captain verbally.
Question 7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood who can testify to your good Character as to truth and veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution.
Answer I am well acquainted with the Reverend Angus S. Chapin the presbyterian Clergyman in this Village or Town of Grafton, also his Honour Simon Root formerly a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for this County His Honour Henry Gage Esq. now one of the Judges of the said Court also Ruler Joseph Egle Esq. attorney at Law, and Mr John Thompson and almost every other person in this part of the Town having lived here something like forty years, George Man Sell Herse also Ransom Johnson Esq postmaster Grafton Heights.
Certificate of the Judge
I the said Henry Gage Judge as aforesaid do declare that my opinion is after the investigation of this matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as heretofore, for I have lived as a neighbour to the said applicant for more than thirty five years past and during all this time I have always, understood and so has all his neighbours that he was an old Revolutionary Soldier and I do further certify that the applicant is a man of respectability truth and veracity and if any man can be believed under oath or otherwise he may and that the Honourable the Commissioner need not have any fear of imposition from this for I do believe that the said

Commissioner will be perfectly safe in granting His pension on his own oath as though twenty witnesses had sworn to the facts of His Services. and I do further certify that it appears to me and I do know that the Rev Augustus S. Chapin of the Town of Gerington is now a Clergyman in the Presbyterian Church here and that the said John Thompson who at above signed his Name with Him is an Inhabitant of Gerington and that they are both Men of truth and integrity and I do further certify that it is my opinion that the said Applicant by reason of Bodily Infirmary cannot attend Court and I do further certify that when I first the above interrogatories to the said Applicant he was in bed and administered by Me  Henry Glee. a judge  state of New York
as aforesaid Green County ss Ruben Hosford, Ransom Johnson, George Mann, John Thompson, Joel Hosford, on their several oaths depose and say that they have each of them been well acquainted with Mr. Roger Holcomb for many years alway understood that he was an Old Revolutionary Soldier and that He is a man of respectability truth and integrity and that his word or oath may safely be relied on by any man in community can and we do severally swear that we do believe that the Honorable James S. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions need have no fear of imposition from Mr. Roger Holcomb and that he would be perfectly content in granting Him a pension on his own oath as much so as if twenty witnesses had appeared for him that is to say His oath or word here wants no additional testimony to support it and we do believe He is justly entitled to a pension of any man in State.
Ruben Hosford Ransom Johnson George Mann
Sworn and subscribed several this twenty seventh day of February 1837 before me Henry Glee Judge as aforesaid Green County ss I do
Joel Hosford John W. Thompson
The other side

Greene County, I do hereby certify that Reuben Norford, Robinson Johnson, Joel Norford, George Mann & John W. Thompson are men of truth & veracity & that their testimony is entitled to respect. Henry Gault Judge as aforesaid.

Langstone Heights, Fr. C. S. N. York Feb 12 th 1837
Hon ble James S. Edwards, Esq r Sir,
Enclosed I send you the pension proceedings of Mr Roger Holcomb, agreeable to your Honour's Instructions in your letter to me of the 14 th of the present month, Mr Holcomb being willing to give you Honour all the satisfaction that you may require of His respectability, truth and veracity, and will send on twenty more should your Honour require it, but His Honour Henry, Police Governor, has  has sent on to you Honour will be perfectly satisfied with what is now sent on to send him a pension on his own matter, Mr Holcomb has been at great trouble and expense in trying to procure witnesses agreeable to your Honour's directions in Boston and elsewhere, the Examiners in the Secretaries, charge two dollars, the first two dollars, never received, then, enclosed two dollars more when he then sent on his Certificate, that there was no pay roll, there in the case the same sent on to you Honour and on the receipt of the same you Honour wrote a letter to me saying that Mr Holcomb might prove His Services as in other cases. Mr Holcomb has taken all the pains that is possible to obtain witnesses from New Malberry, and else where, and there is not one person giving to be found, that he can prove His Services by, so therefore pray your Honour to give full credit to every word that he has sworn too and send him a pension Certificate as soon as may be consistent as he is a poor feeble Sibley man, is poor and really stands in need of the benefits of His pension, will you Honour make your returns as soon as may be consistent with your Honour's pleasure.
I remain Hon ble Sir
Very respectfully
your O bedt Servt Richard H. Ford

Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 - State of New York Green County ss on the Twenty first day of October 1837 personally appeared before me Henry G. LeEquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green and State of New York, Roger Holcomb a resident of the Town of Pessingtone In the County of Green and State of New York, aged Seventy nine years old, 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 the said Roger Holcomb Entered the Service of the United States In the Revolutionary War, under the following Officers Herein after named and Served as follows, or Hereafter stated, That He Entered the Service of the United States as the Town of Canaan In the County of Pittsfield In the State of Connecticut on the first day of September In the Year 1777. That He Volunteered His Services In the Company Commanded by Captain Charles Burrell of Canaan in the County of Pittsfield aforesaid, Went from Canaan to Bennington In the State of Vermont, and there Continued to do duty In said Company, untill the first day of November In after Burgoyne Was Taken then He Was discharged at the Town of Bennington aforesaid being Two months, And that he again Entered the same Service, on the first day of April in the Year 1778 at the Town of New Malberry In the County of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts, Enlisted for the term of Three months In the Company Commanded by Captain Sacey Taylor of New Malberry aforesaid, Went from the Town of New Malberry to the City of Albany from thence to a place Called Cherry Valley, from thence to a place Called Coopers Town then on the frontiers to guard against the Indians who were murdering the Inhabitants daily at the time my three months Expired the Officers of our Company Would not discharge me or the Troops and they Compelled me and the rest of the Company to stay one month longer and that He Was discharged at Cherry Valley on the first day of August in the same year 1778, That He again Entered the same Service aforesaid at the Town of New Malberry Enlisted Into the Company Commanded by Captain Daniel Taylor of New Malberry aforesaid Enlisted

for the time of three months Enlisted On the first day of September in the year 1779 Powell of Great Barrington was the Lieutenant of the Company, went from New Malberry to the Northward to the Town of Bennington where he continued to Serve untill the first or second day of December In the same year when he was discharged at Bennington aforesaid, That He again Entered the same Service aforesaid at the Town of New Malberry aforesaid Volunteered His Services for the term of three months In the Company Commanded by Captain Childers of New Malberry aforesaid went from the Town of New Malberry aforesaid to a place Called Still Waters above the City of Albany, That He Volunteered and Entered His Service at New Malberry on the first or second day of September in the year 1780 and at that he continued to Serve In the said Company at Still Waters untill the first or second day of December in the same year when He was discharged at Still Waters, And he further Says That He again Entered the same Service a Number of times after this at New Malberry aforesaid for two Weeks or more at a time In Captain Taylors Company and Went to the Northward That he was out at these several times for more than one month, that he served faithfully for more than thirteen months, and he further Says that His name Is Not on any pension roll of the Agency of any State nor did He ever receive any written discharge, and he further Says that he Has no documentary Evidence and that He knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to His Services although he has sought it a great trouble and expense and that he further Relinquishes Every Claim whatever to a pension or annuity Except the present And this deponent further Swears that he Is an Old Man above the age of Seventy Nine and that He Is a Very Weak poor Sickly Man that his Memory Is Not Quite as good as It formerly was but that He Has stated the times of Service Length of Service with His Officers names Correctly that he well knows and he believes Every other Circumstance this Is to the

but of His remembrance and recollection that he claims a pension for one year and one month
Sworn and Subscribed this 21 st day of October 1837 Before me Henry Gwilee a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green and State of New York
Roger Holcomb
Clergymans Certificate
We Augustus Chapin Clergymen of the Town of Swington In the County of Green and State of New York and Ransom Johnson of the same place do hereby certify that we and Each of us are well acquainted with Mr Roger Holcomb of said Swington who has above subscribed His name and Have been well acquainted with him for some years past and we do believe Him to be Seventy nine years old and that He is generally reputed and believed In the neighbourhood where he resides to Have been a Soldier In the Revolution and that we concur In that opinion And we do further certify that the said Roger Holcomb is Esteemed as a man of respectability truth and veracity and that He is a very poor weak silly and feeble man
Sworn and Subscribed this 21 st day of October 1837 Before me Henry Gwilee Judge as aforesaid
Augustus E. Chapin Ransom Johnson
Interrogatories of the Judge
Question 1 st Where and In what year was you born and Have you any record of your age if so Where is it
Answer I believe I was born In the Town of Wallingford In the County of New Haven State of Connecticut and I am now Seventy nine years old believe I was born In the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty eight

Question 2 nd Where Were you Living when Called into Service Where Have you Lived Since the Revolution and Where do you Now Live Answer I Lived during the Revolution in the Town of Canaan, Hampshire County State of Connecticut and in the Town of New Walling in the County of Berkshire
Question 3 rd How were you Called into Service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a Substitute and if a Substitute for Whom
Answer That the first time I Entered the Service under Captain Charles Harnet I volunteered my Service, under Captain Quincy Taylor Enlisted and under Captain Samuel Taylor Enlisted, and under Captain Childs volunteered my Service and also under Capt Samuel Taylor in the East Service.
Question 4 th State some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops Where you Served such Continentals and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the General Circumstances of your Service
Answer In the Year 1777 to the Year 1781 I saw many Officers he saw those that were called General Gates, and Arnold, but did not know their self he saw them when Capt Ballard a Continental Col at Scituate
Question 5 th Did you ever receive any written discharge when the term of your Service Expired for which you was drafted or hired if so by whom
Answer I never did receive any written discharge when any of my terms Expired discharged by my Captain
Question 6 th State the names of persons to Whom you are acquainted and known in your own neighbourhood who can testify to your good Character for truth and veracity and their belief of your Services as a Soldier of the Revolution
Answer I am Well acquainted with the Honore Judge Gales, I am well acquainted with the Honore Monson Esq, also Judge of the County of Green and with Reuben Hooper Esq Attorney at Law in the Town and with Ransom Johnson Esq postmaster at Scituate at night, I have lived in the neighbourhood with all these persons for more than thirty years and I am well acquainted with many others in Town

Certificate of the Judge
I the said Henry Gorlee Judge as aforesaid do declare that my Opinion is 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 I do further Certify that Augustus S. Chapin Clergyman and Ramomb Johnson of the Town of Germantown are both Men of respectability truth and veracity both have signed their names to the above Clergymans Certificate and both of them are Entitled to full Credits as Witness under oath or otherwise, and I do Certify that the said Roger Holcomb the above Applicant is Esteemed as a very respectable man of truth and veracity, And I the said Judge do further Certify, that His Honor James G. Edwards Esquire, may fear no Imposition from the Applicant but that He may as Safety rely upon every word the Applicant Mr. Holcomb has sworn too and many of the most respectable persons had swore to the same Service, And I the said Judge do further Certify that It is my Opinion that the said Applicant by reason of bodily Infirmary cannot attend Court, And I do further Certify that It is my belief, and that of his Neighbours where the Applicant resides that he was a Soldier and Served as such In the Revolutionary War
Henry Gorlee Judge as aforesaid - State of New York
James County ss. Marston Buel, Ruben Hosford, and Ramomb Johnson, of the Town of Germantown In the County of Green and State of New York being first duly sworn according to Law both on their several oaths depose and say that they are well acquainted with Mr. Roger Holcomb the above Applicant and have lived In the neighbourhood with him for more than thirty years well know that he is Highly Esteemed as a man of truth and veracity and we do further say that we do firmly believe that the Honorable the Secretary of War need not fear any Imposition from the above Applicant, and we do believe that the Honorable Secretary aforesaid will be perfectly safe In giving Mr. Holcomb his pension as though many other respectable persons had sworn

to His Services, and we do further say that It has always been understood by us and our neighbours that the said applicant had been a Revolutionary Soldier.
Sworn and Subscribed this
21 st day of October 1837
Before me Henry Goslee
Judge as aforesaid.
Mannion Buel
Reuben Hosford
Ransom Johnson
I do hereby certify that the above witnesses viz Mannion Buel, Reuben Hosford, & Ransom Johnson, who have subscribed to the above affidavit are men of truth & veracity. Oct. 18, 1837
Henry Goslee Judge as aforesaid