The Secretary for the Department of War, to whom was referred the Petition of Jonathan Holton, with instruction to examine the same and report his opinion thereon, respectfully Reports That Jonathan Holton states that he was a Lieutenant in the late war, and was wounded in the action at Bennington in the year 1777, for which he was placed upon the pension list of New Hampshire. That in the year 1789 he removed to Vermont, and that on the 20^th of March 1792 he was struck off the pension list of New Hampshire by order of the General Court. That arrears of his pension are due from the 29^th of January 1780, to the 20^th of March 1792. That he has made application in pursuance of the law to regulate claims to invalid Pensions, and was informed that his case was not comprehended thereby. He therefore prays Congress to replace him on the pension list, and allow him the arrears from the time he was struck off the list. It would appear by certain certificates and affidavits produced by the Petitioner, that his wound at some times occasions a swelling in his face, and for the time incapacitates him from labour. But it also appears by the evidence of two sworn Physicians of the city of Philadelphia: That according to their opinion they do not find from present appearances, that he is so far disabled as to prevent his obtaining a livelihood by labour. But the depositions which he says he brought from his Physicians may probably prove his occasional indisposition from his wounds and justify a third part of a pension being assigned him. It appears that the Petitioner has been actually and severely wounded while in the public service of which his face bears the honorable evidence, he being considerably disfigured, and that although the wound may not be extremely injurious to him, yet that to withdraw the pension originally assigned him by the State of New Hampshire would partake of a parsimony, not favorable to the national reputation. The subscriber therefore is of opinion, that he ought to be replaced on the pension list at the rate of thirteen dollars and one half of a dollar per month. All which is humbly submitted to the Senate of the United States. H. Knox. Sec^y. of War. War Department 13^th March 1794.