Daniel barcalow (1 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: (Colts Neck, New Jersey 1800
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In den WarenkorbUnbound. Zustand: Good. Six autograph letters belonging to the family of John and Mary Holsart, a total of nine manuscript pages written out on quarto and folio sheets. The collection consists of John Holsart's autograph letter (signed in the text), documenting his service fighting the British and Loyalists in the Revolutionary…War. Undated but likely written circa 1800, it was prepared as a remembrance for his family, or perhaps more likely as documentation in pursuit of a pension or bounty. Written on two sides of a quarto leaf, split at the old folds into six roughly equal sections, and gently and professionally re-stabilized. Also included are four signed autograph letters dating from 1814-36, mailed to the Holsart family by relatives who had emigrated to Western Ohio; and a final 1850 autograph letter written on behalf of Mary regarding Holsart's pension, to New Jersey State Treasurer Samuel Mairs. Among the letters from Ohio, one is partially split at two old folds, two letters have small tears from wax seals with minor loss, else very good overall; the 1850 letter is near fine. John Holsart (1759-1846) was a soldier and "weaver by trade" who lived on his farm about a mile west of Colts Neck in Monmouth County, New Jersey. He married Mary Polhemus (1766-1851) of Upper Freehold township in 1788 and they had three daughters. In the first letter Holsart writes that: "When the Revolution War commenced I joined the Company of Capt. Thomas Hun wherein John Schenck of Pleasant Valley was First Lieut. I think Jacob Tice [was] Second & John Whitlock Ensign, when the British fleet arrived in the Bay of Sandy Hook ". A complete transcription of this detailed account of Holsart's wartime experiences throughout New Jersey is appended below. From the Ohio letters we learn of the death of Holsart's second child Elinor in Ohio in 1826, and that she was the wife of Daniel Barcalow, also originally from Freehold. Included is an 1814 letter by Tobias Vanschoyck, who writes about fellow settlers in Ohio from the Polhemus and Barcalow families; an 1822 letter written by "Ellenor Vannote" to Holsart's daughter Elinor at Colts Neck (before she left for Ohio with Daniel Barcalow); a second 1826 letter by "T[obias] Vanschoyck" in which he conveys "the sad tidings" of the death of Elinor; and a final long fourth letter written by Daniel Barcalow to his in-laws John and Mary, in which he writes about his "little family" and recent events relating to his home, neighbors, and nearby Dutch settlements in Ohio. An important archive documenting the Revolutionary War service of a prominent Colts Neck farmer and weaver, and members of his family who were among the first to emigrate west to Ohio. A detailed list of all six letters, with quoted extracts, is available. [Reference: Beekman, *Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth County* (1901), p.98].
