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Facts and Events
Conflict
Various accounts have George Holman's wife as Jane Rue, others have her as Jane Fisher. Needs additional research.
Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 2, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
Holman, George, born 1761/2 in Kent County, Maryland, where orphaned at early age; moved in 1774 with Uncle Edward Holman & family to Monongahela County, Pennsylvania, thence in 1776 to mouth of Kentucky River, thence to McClenon's Station, thence to Harrodsburg, Kentucky Territory, where he entered service in 1777, captured by Indians in 1781 & held captive for 3 years before escape; resided in Kentucky to 1805, thence in vicinity of Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana where entered service for War of 1812 in company commanded by son Captain William Holman; granted Pension 1832 in Wayne County, Indiana, where granted Bounty Lane Warrant #26265; died 5/24/1859; query letter in file in 1924 from descendant Mrs. O.M. Benson, La Salle, Illinois; query letter in file in 1926 from descendant Miss Avalon Law, Calamus, Iowa; query letter in file states soldier married Jane La Rue, she having later dropped the "La". F-S17496, R1312.
References
- Find A Grave.
George Holman
Birth 11 Feb 1762
Death 5 May 1859 (aged 97)
Burial
Elkhorn Cemetery
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, USA
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15036469/george-holman
- National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970.
Name: George Holman
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1762
Birth Place: Kent, Maryland
Death Date: 1859
Death Place: Wayne, Indiana
SAR Membership: 52225
Role: Ancestor
Application Date: 15 Jul 1932
Spouse: Jane Fisher
Children: Joseph Holman
- History of Wayne County, Indiana: together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens, history of Indiana and the Northwest Territory, embracing accounts of the prehistoric races, aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a brief review of its civil, political and military history (1884). (Chicago : Inter-state Pub., , 1884).
GEORGE HOLMAN was a native of Maryland, and was born Feb 11, 1762. He had been a soldier in General Clark's command, and his capture and long captivity with that of Richard Rue, who was a member of an uncle's family, will be found in early history in this volume. He came first to Wayne County in 1804, and selected his land and returned with others in 1805. He was among the most prominent men of pioneer days, and was active, as well as his son Joseph, in the early political movements of the State. He belongs to the energetic and pushing class of the early settlers, who gave to civilization a home in then wilderness, and lived to reap the reward of his labor.
- The Pension Roll of 1835: Report from the Secretary of War, in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, in Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. (Washington, District of Columbia: Duff Green, 1835).
Name: George Holman
Rank: Private
Age: 69
Birth Year: abt 1762
Pension Enrollment Date: 4 Mar 1831
Residence Place: Wayne, Indiana, USA
Service Description: Kentucky Militia
- Letter Written by Joseph Holman on behalf of his father George Holman.
Richmond Wayne Cty., Indiana March 17th 1856
Dear Sir
George Holman an old Revolutionary pensioner of this County, has applied for his land Warrant, which is refused, for some cause. Please have the matter arranged at the proper department, If there is no law providing for these Revolutionary Soldiers, there should certainly be one passed for their benefit. They have served almost half a lifetime in oppression & hard service where others in all other wars for 14 days upward can get a warrant under circumstances much more favorable.
George Holman in 1771 (then a lad about 19 years old under his Uncle Edward Holman) lived at Boons Station in Kentucky. He and Richard Rue were sent as guard for Evin Hinton in the month of February who was employed as an under Commisary to kill & salt Buffalo meat for Col. Slaughter's army there in Louisville Kentucky, and where marching from one point to the other with a waggon they were all taken prissioner by the Indians. Simon Girty with the party of Indians. They killed Hinton after they arrived at the Indian Town. They sold Rue to the British at Detroit and kept Holman as an Indian. Adopted him in the family of Logan. Rue & Holman being released returned home 3 1/2 years after they were taken . Soon after the Indian troubles began again. When Gen'l. Clark gathered a force & marched to Vincennes and retook that fort, and then marched nothward within the Territory of Illinois untill their provisions gave out. Then Col Barnett's Regiment fired their guns & returned for home After Gen'l. Clark, Col. Todd, and Capt. Morris or Morrison, the latter commander the light horsemen of whom George Holman was one a volunteer, found his own horse & equippage; at the retreat of Col. Barnetts Regiment, a council was held; the result was that they all returned for home each were allowed to make their way home as best they could, without provission. Holman lived alone on parched corn & meat until he arrived at Gen'l. Wells Station in Kentucky.
From the year 1776 he lived in kentucky in a garrison and when he could on a farm untill he was taken prisioner when released in 1784. he sowed occasionally through all the troubles of the country untill all the war was done.
Rue & Holman by settlement was entitled to a town lot in the heart of Louisville as it now is in Kentucky. Their absence as prisioners, and the records being burnt, they lost them.
Their services under Gen'l. Clark entitled them to their shares in Clarks Grant, but owing to their absence as prissioners and thereby a want of knowledge, as to what was going on in reference to the matter they were shut out, equal justice would give them their proportionate share in cash or in the lands of the Government, equal to the present value of their lands now, without their improvements, Neither of them have asked the Government for any special favor. When the law passed allowing them, with other pensioners, they applied & procured a small pittance, say $80 per annum each. They moved from Kentucky in 1805 near Richmond in Wayne Cty, Indiana and then in the War of 1812, they were on the frontier & generally harrasssed, were scouting as spies and marching to the Delaware towns, on White River, under my son Capt William Holman & Col. George Hunt who marched a volunteer company into the Indian Country, and was more than sixty days in that employ at that time, have not received any warrant or any other compensation therefor.
Please so arrange the whole matter, in such manner as that equal justice may be done for te foregoing Revolutionary Soldiers that may they have their proper due, as others; and by so doing you will confer a great favor on the undersigned.
Should it be found necessary to employ an attorney to aid you, owing to your quantity of business do so by paying him out of the proceeds recovered or obtained & pay according to the work done; say pay well We have written to Noland and English
Very Respectfully your friend,
George Holman
Joseph Holman
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